Upcoming Events
Summer Launch and NliveN's 2nd Birthday Party!
Kick off the summer season with our first “Saturday Joy Run” of the month! We will gather for connection, then walk or run for 1-1.5 hours (you may go for a shorter or longer time, if you wish!). Then, wish The NliveN Movement a happy second birthday, honor those who have contributed to the past two years of meaningful and mindful movement that matters, and cast vision for what you want this next year to be full of! Plus, did we mention there will be cake??
FALL 2026 calendar
Sat., Sept. 5, 8am
Fall Kickoff! Joy Run + Farmer’s Market!
Corner of Natural Bridges Dr. & Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz
Fire up your fall with a long run or walk through harvest-ready farmland and down the new Santa Cruz bike path! Then, visit the Farmer’s Market with the NliveN community for some post-run nourishment.
Tues., Sept. 8, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Core Values
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
“Hills and Drills” Workout
Sat., Sept. 12, 8am
Switch Saturday Joy Run!
Switch Bakery, 1016 Cedar St., Santa Cruz
Join our friends with the Switch Bistro Runners for a morning run or walk before returning to the bakery for delicious gluten-free food and drinks!
Tues., Sept. 15, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Learning and Studenthood
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
Running Form Clinic + Chutes and Ladders Workout
Thurs., Sept. 17, 6pm
Trail Adventure
Pogonip Open Space, Spring Street Trailhead
Thurs., Sept. 24, 6pm
Trail Adventure
The Forest of Nisene Marks, Aptos
Sat., Sept. 19, 8am
Saturday Joy Run: Learning Scavenger Hunt Wilder Ranch State Park
Embrace the wonder of being a student by playing our Learning Scavenger Hunt game as you run or walk through Wilder Ranch State Park and along the new rail trail - and win prizes if you complete the challenge!
Tues., Sept. 22, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Balance
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
Super Loops Workout
Sat., Sept. 26, 8:00am
Saturday Joy Run + Post-Run Yoga Aptos Village County Park
Enjoy a long run or walk through the majestic Forest of Nisene Marks, and then wind down with an all-levels, all-bodies, trauma-informed yoga under the redwoods (optional)!
Tues., Sept. 29, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Abundance and Community
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
400m Repeats + Strength Training
Thurs., Oct. 1, 6pm
Trail Adventure
Upper Wilder Ranch State Park Santa Cruz
Sat., Oct. 3, 8:00am
Community Day! Run and Volunteer with Esperanza Community Farms Watsonville
FREE! Join us for a run or walk through beautiful agricultural spaces before volunteering at Esperanza Community Farms and learning about how they are creating social, economic, and environmental justice for the community.
Tues., Oct. 5, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Change
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
Fast-and-Float 400s!
Thurs., Oct. 7, 6pm
Thursday Thrive: Grub Run
Betty Burgers, 505 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz
Join us for a FREE Grub Run - like a Pub Run but better because FOOD! Meet at Betty Burgers, head out for a 3-mile run or walk, and come back to Betty’s for food, friends, and a great way to pre-Friday!
Sat., Oct. 10, 8am - TBD
Tues. Oct. 13, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Feeling and Processing
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
400m Repeats
Tues. Oct. 20, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Trying and Falling
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
Yasso 800s
No Thursday Thrive Event, Oct. 15!
Thurs., Oct. 22, 6pm
Thursday Thrive: Grub Run 1000 41st Ave., Santa Cruz
Join us for a FREE Grub Run - like a Pub Run but better because FOOD! Meet at Betty Burgers, head out for a 3-mile run or walk, and come back to Betty’s for food, friends, and a great way to pre-Friday!
Sat., Oct. 17, 8am
Fall Retreat: Carry On - Storying the Miles We Run Elkhorn Slough, Moss Landing
A day to move, process, create, connect, adventure, and carry on! Join us for a full-day retreat to explore the stories around us, the stories we carry, and the stories we’re running.
We’ll start the morning with a trail run or hike through Elkhorn Slough, then experience an interactive creative workshop on story mapping to learn how storying our lives and running helps us gain greater clarity, self-understanding, agency, and boundaries as runners and humans. Finally, we’ll enjoy lunch together and then go on a kayaking adventure through the slough!
Tues., Oct. 27, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Glow Night Games!
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
Wear your brightest neon clothes - we’ll bring the glowsticks and pumpkins! Get ready to sweat, laugh, and glow with movement/running games designed to get your heart pumping and train your running and your joy!
Tues., Nov. 3, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Ancestors
Harbor High School Track, Santa Cruz
Ladder Cutdown
Tues., Nov. 10, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Releasing
Harbor High School Track, Santa Cruz
Broken Mile workout
Tues., Nov. 17, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Ending Well
Harbor High School Track, Santa Cruz
Mile Repeats
Sat., Nov. 21, 8am
Naked Wrist 5K Prediction Race Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, West Cliff Dr.
It’s a 5K the NliveN way! Guess how long it will take you to complete a 5K at any pace, effort, or movement style you choose - but without using your watch to help you! The three participants who finish closest to their estimated times win!
Thurs., Sept. 10, 6pm
Trail Adventure
Henry Cowell State Park
Thurs., Oct. 29, 6pm
Thursday Thrive: Spooky Night Run! 41st Ave & Portola Dr.
Let’s go for a spooky night run or walk to see the infamous Skeleton House on East Cliff Drive and get in the Halloween spirit!
Thurs., Nov. 5, 6pm
Thursday Thrive: Grub Run Betty Burgers, 505 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz
No Thursday Thrive Event, Nov. 12!
Thurs., Nov. 19, 7:45pm
Thursday Thrive: Trivia Night Woodstock Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz
Tues., Nov. 24, 6pm
Dig Deep Night: Gratitude
Harbor High School Track, Santa Cruz
400m Repeat Game
Sat., Oct. 24, 8am
Joy Run + Post-Run Pie Seacliff State Beach, Aptos
Run or walk to the rhythm of the waves at Seacliff State Beach, and then celebrate with some post-run pie at Venus Pie Trap!
Sat., Oct. 31, 8am
Halloween Costume Run + Scavenger Hunt Switch Bakery, 1016 Cedar St., Santa Cruz
Join The NliveN Movement and Switch Bakery for the annual Halloween Costume Run and Scavenger Hunt to find the weirdest, creepiest, and kookiest sights Santa Cruz has to offer! Prizes will be given for best costume and for scavenger hunt winners!
Sat., Nov. 7, 8am
Saturday Joy Run Henry Cowell State Park, Felton
Sat., Nov. 14, 8am - TBD!