Mindful Knitting

Mindful Knitting Circle: Connecting to Ourselves, Each Other, and the Earth through Craft
Wednesday 6:30 – 8:00 PM
October 22, November 19
$25 suggested donation
with Sarah Manion

Join us as we explore the intersection of mindfulness and craft. Perhaps you already experience certain physical, mental or emotional benefits from knitting? Maybe knitting is a calming practice – or perhaps you’d like it to be? In this gathering, you will experience different ways that our knitting can support our mindfulness, connection and greater overall wellbeing through a simple guided mindful knitting practice followed by sharing. Through this gathering, you will not only walk away with ideas about how to incorporate mindfulness into your own knitting, you will also have a unique opportunity to experience what it feels like to practice and connect through knitting in community. Please bring any yarn and any needles you have.

You will best enjoy this gathering if you possess the basic knitting skills of cast-on, knit stitch, purl stitch, and casting off. No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required. Tea will be served.

Sarah Manion (she/her, dharma name True Light of Courage) believes in joy as a spiritual pursuit. Sarah is a fiber artist, spiritual ecologist, and Cape Cod native. She has worked globally on the back end of sustainable and ethical fashion production and supply chains on behalf of leading American brands. For many years, she was based in Africa where she worked directly with artisan cooperatives and textile producers including the management of a handbag production facility in Rwanda on behalf of Kate Spade’s On Purpose program. Working side-by-side with global artisans showed her how making things with our hands embodies our innate sense of being interwoven with the world. She is a student of countless teachers including Thích Nhat Hanh, Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Abram, Mary Oliver, the Brewster flats, adrienne maree brown, Kate Fletcher, Dr. Larry Ward, her grandmother and aunt (both master knitters), her dog Lari, and all alpacas everywhere. She is an ordained member of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and holds an M.A. in Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recently she served as the Executive Director of the mindfulness nonprofit Calmer Choice. Currently she is the founder and director of The Interwoven Institute. She lives on the ancestral lands of the Wampanoag (Cape Cod, Massachusetts, US) with her partner, her spinning wheel, and all her yarn.

The Interwoven Institute is a Cape-based nonprofit organization (status pending) dedicated to reviving our connection to ourselves, each other, and the earth through craft-based practice, exploration, and research. We believe that making things with our hands from the world around us is a pathway towards crafting connection, weaving wholeness, and mending misunderstanding. We offer programs, practices, retreats and slow craft travel experiences to the Cape Cod community and beyond.