The Healing Feast – October 2025 at Central United Methodist Church – Lansing, MI

The Healing Feast offers food and community for healing connections with self, others, the earth, and the sacred. Singer/songwriter and sacred space facilitator Sari Brown created this monthly series to share nurturing, globally-inspired food that is mindful of the earth, along with deep conversations, uplifting music, and embodied practices of aliveness. This month’s Healing Feast is back at home base in the heart of Michigan’s capitol at Lansing Central UMC, and the theme is Being on Divine Time, about decolonizing and healing our relationship to time and experiencing time as expansive, abundant, and life-giving. The dialogue questions will be: –and how do you feel about that? What needs healing in your relationship to time? How often do you “take your time” and how can you take more of the time you need to be fully alive?

Featured facilitator: Courtney Miller, Anishnabe medicine person, Certified Biofield tuning practitioner, medical massage therapist, personal trainer, activist, water protector and pow-wow dancer. Courtney will share a biofield tuning session blended with her indigenous healing practices and wisdom for a special and rare group healing experience with profound benefits for physical, mental, and spiritual health.

HEALTH DISCLAIMER: This treatment is not recommended for people in the following situations: pregnancy, current cancer and radiation, pacemakers, epilepsy, concussion in the last 6 months.

CHILDCARE: We are working on setting up childcare for the younger ones to allow parents to participate more fully in the healing session part of the evening. Please let me us know if you would be interested in this option by emailing thehealingfeastofconnection@gmail.com

Menu: Tacos de huevos, a comfort food from the motherland of Mexico with hardboiled eggs, green salsa, red rice, and a vegan bean taco option, and Three Sisters Soup, using the traditional Native American blend of corn, black beans, and squash for a nutritionally harmonious and delicious dish.

Tickets: Sliding scale tickets are available in advance or at the event as long as supplies last. Ticket prices are a few dollars more the day of the event. Through the generosity of participants, free tickets are available for people who have financial limitations and/or who feel they can best contribute to this event in other, non-monetary ways. (Contact us at thehealingfeastofconnection@gmail.com if you want to volunteer!) All types of tickets are now available to reserve directly on the EventBrite page.

Times: Registration, drinks, and mingling begins at 5 PM, dinner at 5:30 PM, participatory creative experience & dialogue 6:15-8:15 PM.

Location: 215 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing

Benefit:10% of all proceeds will be donated to Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden, a non-profit focused on youth development through gardening & programs from roots to mouth, and a vibrant fixture of Courtney’s home of Traverse City.