FACILITATED BY: Aki Hirata Baker, Fumiha Tanaka & Nami Soga
EXCHANGE: $45-75 Online or $65-95 In-Person Sliding Scale
In-person at Kamau Studio in Brooklyn or Online via Zoom
Sunday, Oct. 8th, from 1-5pm EST
In honor of the Fall Eclipse season, three Japanese Witches of MINKA come together once again. To prepare for the Eclipses and impending season of the Dark, we will spend time together to ground and center ourselves.
Eclipse season is known to be a dragon’s portal where the thinning of the veil between tangible and intangible worlds can be experienced. The two eclipses coming up in October can be quite cathartic, but they hold powerful potential for us to release our old karma to change our fate. This is a time to listen, trust and surrender to the Universe doing their magic. Yet we are the artists of our own lives, and it’s a great time to strengthen our inner vision. Spirits are connecting and working with us even more through this time, so let us be prepared.
In this mini-retreat, we will be taking stock of what we have experienced and learned from big changes we’ve been through as we had 6 planets in retrograde this Summer. Whether you paid attention to it or not, we all have learned tremendously through this experience. We gather to root down what we have gained, and release what is no longer aligned to our truth.
We are living in the time of CHANGE - and the Universe is encouraging us to endeavor into each of our Cosmic Journey. This Journey can be said to be a path of our Spiritual purpose, instead of ones based upon our survival mechanism which has ruled our lives for as long as we can remember. The time to surrender is upon us - and we will meet our guides from the invisible realm and plant for this season to grow strong roots.
This mini-retreat will include:
Astrological forecast for fall Solar & Lunar eclipse
Work with seasonal medical plants to connect with the land we are on
Gentle Movement with throat center activation
Breathwork
Drum Journey
Sound Bath
Grounding & Sharing
Optional work with plant medicine microdose
What to bring (Concrete floor - be sure to bring something to be comfortable):
Water bottle
Comfortable clothing
Things to add to the collective altar (you will take these items back with you)
Eye mask, yoga mat, blanket, other items needed for breathwork
Journal & pen (or whatever else you want to use to write)
Nourishing food, beverage or snack to share with your community
Aki Hirata Baker is attuned to various energetic healing frequencies including Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, IET, and 13th Octave LaHoChi. She is also a master teacher of Usui Reiki, co-channeller of Earth Evolution Reiki symbols, and the founder of MINKA Brooklyn. She is a moondancer, and trained under numerous teachers of ancient traditions, including Hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation (Integral Yoga Institute), Ayurvedic Nutrition (Naina Marballi), Art of Energy Healing (Suzy Mezoly), MedicineWay (Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman), Toltec Healing Practice (Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl), Curanderismo (Rita Navarete Prez and Tonia Gonzalez) and more.
Nami Soga is a yoga teacher, and certified Reiki master, trained both in the US and Japan. She graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2019 and is currently offering individual healing sessions as a New York State licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist incorporating many different healing modalities she has been studying for over a decade. In 2021, she has completed an Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner training and incorporates hypnosis and guided meditation in her sessions also.
Fumiha Tanaka was born and raised in Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her experience growing up as a minority away from her ancestral home has allowed her to understand what it feels like to long for home and connection with our ancestors, and brought her to work with trauma and empowerment of herself and others on different levels. She is a practioner of Usui Reiki and Earth Evolution Reiki, trained in Breathwork, IET (Integrated Energy Therapy), and Medical Intuition, and herbalism for which she utilizes healing modalities from different indigenous traditions and weaves them into her work with plants.
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What Is Sliding Scale?
We provide all of our community offerings and some private sessions by sliding scale. We believe everyone is entitled to heal their wounds so they can thrive; we also believe that the wellness and healing practitioners deserve to make a living wage. In order to make this possible, we ask you to pay as much as you can, so those who might not be able to pay as much can still receive their healing session - this is the idea behind 'paying it forward'. We are all in this together, and we choose to do our best to take care of one another.
Thank you in advance!