Events This Month | August 2026
August Events Reel | Recurring Events Blog
New month, new opportunities to heal, grow, and glow. At Firefly Hollow, we believe wellness isn’t a destination—it’s a practice. To help you stay inspired on your journey, we’ve put together an incredible roster of experts and healers for our upcoming workshops. Explore the full schedule below and claim your space in the circle.
Try Something New:
24th Annual New Visions Holistic Expo
The New Visions Holistic Expo stands as a unique and inspiring gathering that continually attracts a diverse and passionate group of individuals, united in their quest for health and harmony.
Somatic Mindfulness – Poise (Open to LMTs and the public)
NCBTMB Approved || CE Course – 16 credit hours
Fernando Rojas || NCBTMB Provider #311
Friday, August 21, 2026 | 9am-5pm EST – Saturday, August 22, 2026 | 9am-5pm EST
*Deadline to sign up: July 21*Late registration may be accepted if spots remain available.
👉Watch an interview with Fernando here!
Somatic Mindfulness workshops transform your massage practice through the art of attuned touch. By bridging somatics with bodywork, these workshops invite both practitioner and client into a deeper conversation with the body’s inherent wisdom. Learn to work with natural ease and flowing precision, allowing tissues to reveal their own path to change while protecting your own body’s resources. Through mindful presence and refined listening skills, discover how to create the conditions for lasting therapeutic change.
This approach naturally cultivates practitioner sustainability and wellbeing, supporting both career longevity and continued growth in your practice. In Poise, gentle, attentive touch invites the spine and back to reveal their natural wisdom and grace. Our hands follow the rivers of tissue that flow beside and support the spine, allowing each layer to find its most elegant expression.
What you’ll learn:
- learn to work with natural ease and flowing precision, allowing tissues to reveal their own path to change while protecting your own body’s resources
- discover how to create the conditions for lasting therapeutic change through mindful presence and refined listening skills
- gentle, attentive touch
About the Instructor:
Somatic Mindfulness by Fernando Rojas MSME/T, LMT, PhD, is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider and is also sponsored by NCBTMB to teach New York licensed massage therapists continuing education that is accepted by the state of New York for license renewal.
It is recognized as an application of Switzerland’s Trager Therapy principles to complement massage therapy and bodywork. In Switzerland, Trager Therapy is an official method of Complementary Therapy.
Fernando is a 2023 inductee at the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame; and is recognized as a Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist by The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
Registration:
$384/Person if paying with credit card
$369/Person if paying cash or check
If paying Cash or Check, please call us @ 717-814-9136 to receive this discount (and inform reception upon class arrival for a free gift essential oil of the month).
Registration for classes must be completed by sign up deadline.
Continuing Education Cancellation Policy
If you cancel your enrollment OR If a class is canceled by an instructor the cost will be credited to your account for future use or refunded by check, minus any credit card fees.
Refunds will not be given for no-shows or cancellations made less than 24 hours before the class.
Somatic Mindfulness – E X P A N S I O N (Open to LMTs and the public)
NCBTMB Approved || CE Course – 16 credit hours
Fernando Rojas || NCBTMB Provider #311
Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 9am-5pm EST – Monday, August 24, 2026 | 9am-5pm EST
*Deadline to sign up: July 23* Late registration may be accepted if spots remain available.
👉Watch an interview with Fernando here!
Recover from burnout. Rediscover how to work sustainably. Rekindle the love for your practice and purpose. Reinforce your techniques with somatic touch in your next session.
Physical and emotional burnout and injury are prevalent among massage therapists. Somatic Mindfulness bridges somatics and bodywork, teaching self-care as a professional skill, making the therapist’s own wellbeing the method for creating the conditions for healing, intuitive insight, and clarity of purpose.
Through Attuned Touch, each workshop invites discovery rather than direction, allowing the body to remember how it already knows to heal.
In EXPANSION our responsive hands invite the breath to return to its natural fullness and flow, allowing the torso, back, arms, and shoulders to remember their capacity for strength and openness.
What you’ll learn:
- how to work sustainably
- somatic touch techniques
- techniques for the therapist’s hands to invite the breath to return to its natural fullness and flow, allowing the torso, back, arms, and shoulders to remember their capacity for strength and openness
About the Instructor:
Somatic Mindfulness by Fernando Rojas MSME/T, LMT, PhD, is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider and is also sponsored by NCBTMB to teach New York licensed massage therapists continuing education that is accepted by the state of New York for license renewal.
It is recognized as an application of Switzerland’s Trager Therapy principles to complement massage therapy and bodywork. In Switzerland, Trager Therapy is an official method of Complementary Therapy.
Fernando is a 2023 inductee at the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame; and is recognized as a Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist by The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
Registration:
$405/Person if paying with credit card
$389/Person if paying cash or check
If paying Cash or Check, please call us @ 717-814-9136 to receive this discount (and inform reception upon class arrival for a free gift essential oil of the month).
Registration must be completed by sign up deadline.
Continuing Education Cancellation Policy
If you cancel your enrollment OR If a class is canceled by an instructor the cost will be credited to your account for future use or refunded by check, minus any credit card fees.
Refunds will not be given for no-shows or cancellations made less than 24 hours before the class.
Don’t Forget About Our Recurring Events
You can see what else is happening this month – weekly yoga classes, Daughters of the Hollow, Conscious Connections Club, Mighty Network livestreams (Astro Weather, Tarot Thursdays, Yoga Connections, Divine Human Design, Wellness Wednesday) in our “Recurring Events” blog here or directly on our events page here. We hope to see you here this month!
About Firefly Hollow
Firefly Hollow is a holistic wellness center offering professional massage therapy in York, PA, along with yoga, continuing education classes for massage therapists, and community-based workshops focused on nervous system regulation and embodied well-being.
