Upcoming Events
Community Health Statement
We trust everyone is taking care of their health and thinking about the wellbeing of the community. Please do not come to an in-person event if you are feeling sick. Masking is optional.
A note about our donation-based events
We want these spaces to be accessible for everyone.
We also honor the time and gifts of our
song leaders, space holders, ritual leaders, and host space.
We tithe a portion of our profits to sister orgs and reparations.
Give as you are able.
or Venmo @Sophia-Rising-STL
Yule Ball and Sophia Rising’s 4th Birthday!
Friday, December 19th
7:00-10:00 pm
RSVP below for location
7:00-8:00pm Gather, snacks, socialize
8:00-8:30pm Ritual, Prayer and Song around the fire
8:30-10:00pm Solstice revelry / Dance party!
Join the community of Sophia Rising as we celebrate our 4th birthday and the winter solstice with our annual Yule Ball! We honor our ever-evolving community and the many ways that Sophia shows up in our lives with her wisdom, guidance, or even trickster energy! We mark this turn in the wheel of the year, resting in the embrace of the dark goddess, gathering around the fire to share story, food and drink, and dancing furiously together through these challenging times.
Please bring a drink or appetizer to share. Costumes or festive clothing are encouraged! (i.e. elaborate crowns or hair pieces, capes, gowns, or light up sweaters…whatever makes you happy)!
Galhalla: a women’s dance weekend event!
A cosmic celebration of femmes and themmes.
(and a he-free space)
February 20-22, 2026
Galhalla Contra Dance is here to celebrate fems & thems and bask in a curated space for non-men to enjoy community, connection and movement.
It’s heavenly. It’s glorious. It’s GALHALLA
(*click the picture to see a short video about it)
www.shedances.org
youTube link here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jWtbw5RUj3o
Reoccurring Events
New Moon Prayer & Share
Each new moon let us gather together in the dark embrace of the Divine Mother to reflect on the past cycle’s highs and lows, share the prayers of our heart, open to the support below, above, and around us, and strengthen the root systems that connect us across distance. All are welcome!
We gather online via Zoom at 6pm Pacific / 7pm Mountain / 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern. This gathering is facilitated by priestess Jennifer RoseMary.
Schedule for 2025:
February 27th
March 29th
April 27th
May 26th
June 25th
July 24th
August 22nd
September 21st
October 22nd
November 19th
House of Figs – Dinner Church
Come and be fed.
House of Figs is a progressive Christian community that gathers around a meal in song, silence, and spiritual conversation to repair hurts, share joys, and work together to queer the Church and build networks of care.
Join us every Sunday evening for a return to the ancient practice of house church: a simple (vegetarian) meal shared among friends, neighbors, and strangers as we live into our unbelief, our questions, and our belovedness. We gather at Sophia Rising – 3022 Cherokee St. 63118.
Doors open at 6pm; dinner will be served at 6:15pm.
Dorothy Day House Church
Dorothy Day House Church meets weekly on Sundays at 4:00pm. The location rotates and details can be found on the Google Calendar at the top of this page, or email: dorothydayhousechurch@gmail.com for more information.
All are welcome, no exceptions!
Omnia Divina
An Experience of the Living God in Beauty, Truth, and Goodness
Omnia Divina, a form of contemplative prayer rooted in the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, is a pathway to encountering the Living God through the Beauty, Truth, and Goodness inherent in the world around us. If you are new or established in contemplative prayer practices, Omnia Divina will assist you in building and strengthening your contemplative “muscles” through prayer in unexpected places.
Omnia Divina meets the 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm. Location may vary. Check the calendar above for location. Omnia Divina will be facilitated by Rev. Suzanne Schloemann and Rev. Frank Krebs.
Other Offerings from the Members of Sophia Rising
Healing Earth Circles
Jenn is excited to facilitate more regular gatherings of healing earth circles this year! Healing Earth Circles are gatherings to help us re-member ourselves into the body of life through song, spoken word, silence, and sharing. The Circles move around, inviting us to connect with the wisdom of the more than human world all around the St. Louis area.
If you would like to be on an email list that is just for alerts and updates about when/where we will gather next, please add your information here.
You can also join the Facebook group for updates and future information as well.
Past Events
Deepening Into Dark:
A Restorative Soul Care Practice for the Season
Sunday, Dec. 7th 6-8pm
The darkness of December calls to us. As the earth in our hemisphere turns inward, we are invited to do the same. During this time of year when the outer culture gets busy, this 2-hour practice is a chance to carve out sacred, slow time for yourself and to ground in the gifts of the season. Through gentle movement, restorative meditation, and self-reflection, we will nurture the body, quiet the mind, and listen to the heart’s still, small voice. Come receive the gifts of sacred dark and anchor your deepest intentions for the season.
Please bring a blanket, journal, and pen.
Accessibility: This class involves floor-based movement as well as standing movement. There are two medium sets of stairs to get into the studio.
When: December 7th / 6-8pm
Where: Blue Sky Yoga / 3525 Watson Rd.
Cost: $22/$33/$44 / reach out for scholarship options if cost-prohibitive
REGISTER HERE (you have to scroll to December to see my workshop)
“Sometimes, I feel how that infinite darkness
calls to the darkness inside me as if to say,
remember, remember where you come from,
remember what you are.
And the darkness
inside me sings back.”
-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Autumn Equinox Community Ritual
September 22, 2025
6:30 – 8:00pm
Tower Grove Park – Cypress Cathedral
(next to the Gurney Picnic Site)
Join the Sophia Rising community to mark the autumn equinox,
celebrating the shifting seasons, the balance of light and dark, honoring all that has grown and been harvested in this most recent season of life as we look forward to the next.
We will gather within the sacred circle of cypress elders next to the Gurney Picnic Site in Tower Grove Park to share in song and prayer with time to listen for the wisdom of the more than human world in this season of harvest and balance. You are invited to bring a local food in harvest to share if you are able, and bring your own blanket or chair to sit on for comfort.
It’s Litha.
Solstice.
Midsommar.
The longest day.
Let’s party about it!
Join Sophia Rising for our annual Summer Solstice gathering!
Enjoy one another’s company around the fire. We’ll have a few songs, and Pastrix Lo Ziv will lead us in a brief ritual of moonshine & marshmallows. (Non-alcoholic drinks, too! Don’t worry.)
If you can, bring a snack! But, don’t worry too hard about it. We’ll definitely have a little something for you.
As the address is a private residence, please see the calendar for location.
Plenty of street parking available.
At the 2005 conclave, women gathered in front of the Vatican and sent up pink smoke.
It’s conclave again. Let’s have a party about it.
Join Sophia Rising for a movie night!
Popcorn, some tasty drinks, and enjoy one another’s company while we watch the 1 hour documentary film: Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, and honor the Roman Catholic Woman Priest movement.
If you can, bring a snack! But, don’t worry, we’ll definitely have popcorn for you.
See the calendar page for address!
Plenty of street parking available.
Gather around the fire and bathe your heart in the warmth of song.
Pastrix Lo Ziv welcomes you into a magical moment in time that we will create together.
Come connect in community and connect with your own voice.
Bring a water bottle and/or travel mug to enjoy drinks outside!
Check the online calendar for location.
Street parallel parking plentiful & available.
house of figs will observe Lent by addressing money—how we spend it, what we feel about it, what Jesus and the Law and Prophets have to say about it. As oligarchic billionaires move our country ever closer to Christo-facism, it’s time to honestly and prayerfully address money and its place in our lives and spirits. Deep breaths.
Dinner Church meets at 6pm on Sundays at 3022 Cherokee Street
Check our IG for information and updates.
Celebrate the Spring Equinox in community with humans and trees!
Sing in Spring
When: Friday, March 21st
Where: The Orchard on Virginia, 3001 Virginia Ave., 63118
6PM Potluck, bring a dish or drink to share
7PM Sing in Spring, ritual and community singing
We will gather around the fire to share food, simple ritual, and song facilitated by Lizzie Salsich and Jess Gazzola.
Book friends! Let’s get together and chat, in real life!
Do you know about TRR25? The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual event that occurs during the last days of March.
And TRR25 is coming up!
https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/
But WHAT do I do to prepare?
You have 3 options:
1. Just come to meet & connect with cool people & talk about books, leaning into the theme of the Trans Rights Readathon.
2. Bring a book to talk about.
3. Bring a queer book, preferably in the theme of TRR, to SWAP / SHARE with with others.
**All swappers needs to arrive by 11am at the latest**
house of figs and New Seeds (a modern monastery) offer a contemplative service for Ash Wednesday on March 5 at 7pm at
house of figs (3022 Cherokee St).
Strong Like Flowers, Playful Like Toads
Saturday August 3rd & Sunday August 4th
3 Modules | 2 Days | Drop In & Out | Come for All 3
Led by Kara Bender and Kelly Feder
St Louis Weekend In-Person Offering for White & White-Passing Folks
What might be possible in our racial justice work if we had a hundred embodied strategies at our fingertips, ready to surprise each other with playfulness?
The anti-racism movement’s large-scale approach to change is to learn a foundation of definitions and terms, identify what is inequitable, and make critical policy and programmatic changes. But then people show up and we, as white folks, haven’t shifted HOW we as white folks show up – energetically, spiritually, within our white body’s nervous systems. Then we wonder why culture hasn’t shifted alongside the bylaws and vision statement updates. We can find ourselves frustrated at “messing up” again and again and not showing up how we dreamed we could.
Using simple, accessible, guided body-based lessons, participants will have the opportunity to tune into habits of mind, body, and socialized ideas of how to “be” and cultivate a myriad of options where they previously hadn’t perceived any.
Let’s let our bodies be our guides! More details HERE.
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