Chakra Meditation Journey
Wednesday, January 25, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET – Wednesday, March 15, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Please join Sasha Pierce for an 8-week online Chakra Meditation Journey workshop. Each week we will slow down and deeply feel into our chakras to integrate feelings, sensations, emotions and to come back to present-moment awareness. We will focus on a different chakra and intentions each week as we build from the ground up, from our root chakra to our crown chakra. Daily meditation practice will be encouraged as we go through this journey.
Yoga mat, meditation cushion, blankets, water bottle, journal and any objects that support your practice are welcome.
Investment: $200 EARLY BIRD until January 16. $240 – $320 sliding scale investment. Please send an e-transfer to sasha@sashapierce.ca or use PayPal or Stripe to enroll.
Location: Zoom
Return to Ritual Aries New Moon Workshop
Facilitated by Lana Lontos and Sasha Pierce
March 21, time tba
Please join Lana Lontos and Sasha Pierce for Return to Ritual Aries New Moon Workshop. This workshop is a deep dive into what it means to be in ritual together, open up to new ways of knowing and intention setting. This is a dedicated practice period where you are encouraged to be comfortable and share as much of yourself as you choose.
Yoga mat, meditation cushion, blankets, water bottle, journal and any objects that support your practice are welcome.
Investment: $100 EARLY BIRD until tba. $125 – $150 sliding scale investment. No one will be turned away for lack of funds and a payment plan is available if requested. Please send an e-transfer to sasha@sashapierce.ca or use PayPal or Stripe to enroll.
Location: West Queen West Studio, Toronto
We look forward to seeing you in circle!
Lana and Sasha
About Lana
I combine teachings from the Zen tradition, movement practices, and Gestalt therapy to support individuals into a deeper exploration of themselves and their environments. My teachings are self-compassionate and trauma informed. I take an open, honest and relational approach to therapy.
Lana Lontos is a therapist with 20 years of training in mindfulness and yoga. She is a Concordia University graduate and a Gestalt Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who has dedicated over ten years to studying how to work with trauma, anxiety, and addictions.
Since 2011 her workshop series: “Sustainable Shifts: Awareness of Moods and Habits” has been a place of continued support for clients interested in the challenges of sustainability and internal understanding.
www.lanalontos.com
www.bigtreemind.com
About Sasha
As a young child, Sasha Pierce had a deep knowing that there was something wrong with the way we live on our planet. Sasha went into the arts so that she could deeply listen to her intuition and she has been blessed as an international visual artist. Sasha also chose to embark on a healing journey due to the trauma of being sensitive in a culture that is disconnected. Shamanic healing, reiki, yoga, breathing and meditation have been important modalities on Sasha’s healing path. She completed a one-year shamanic healing program and is currently enrolled in a two-year advanced apprenticeship in shamanic healing with Daniel Leonard, Medicine Circle. She completed Komyo Reiki Shoden, Komyo Reiki Chuden, Komyo Reiki Okuden and Komyo Reiki Shinpiden (Reiki Master/Teacher) with Paul Lara, Qi Belly. She also completed a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with YuMee Chung and Nicki Poole, Octopus Garden. Sasha continues on her healing journey and feels called to help others on theirs.
Why Ritual/ Why Now? by Lana Lontos
As many of you know intuitively, our world has been going through a massive change in consciousness and awareness of self and the other. More and more people are finding themselves confronted with undealt aspects of their own psyche but also with our relationship to the planet and to our own knowing.
We are transitioning from known into the unknown. Traditionally, rituals are performed in time of transition and change. An example of that might be from adolescent to adult. This process has been described as a dissolution of the old ways and coming into a new identity.
Our workshop will focus on the healing, guiding practices that will bring us into now through embodiment and intention setting. At the height of ritual you are connected to the now. There has to be a physiological practice (not just dialogue). What rituals do is they destabilize our normal way of looking at things and open us up into another way of knowing. We hope to share these practices with you for many new moon circles to come.
We hope you can join us for this community practice period where you are encouraged to bring your most comfortable, curiosity and open self. We will be guiding you through meditation, gentle breathing practices, and journeying.
*Please note that shamanic healing is not a replacement for medical health practices or psychotherapy.