Bike Ravinia is an ongoing community program of Helping Children of Abuse NFP. It consists of a group bicycle ride for children and adults starting at the WTTW Channel 11 WFMT Channel 98.7 studio on Chicago’s northwest side, winding through city and suburban neighborhoods and scenic bicycle paths to the Ravinia Festival, where everyone can find inspiration by classical music programs.  The accomplishment of bicycling under one’s own power offers a child realized manifestations of their inner-strength, autonomy and freedom.  Exposure to the classical music provides a vast landscape where a child’s imagination is free to explore feelings facilitated by an already written score for a movie as it unfolds in their minds of very personal stories within three-dimensional space.  Music helps us work through complexity; comprehend abstract concepts and experience emotions where words fail us.  Empowered by identification with the passion and emotion inherent in the composer's piece, we no longer experience ourselves as alone, isolated or different.  This understanding encourages us to communicate our situation more skillfully on a path toward independence from violence, co-dependence and abuse. Through positive practice we create opportunity for contribution to the cultivation of the human spirit.