We heal through connection, like the strands of a spider web—interwoven and powerful. This workshop invites women to bring consciousness to their wombs, uncover dormant stories, and share, breathe, write, and rest together. You may uncover grief, love, life etc…
The experience includes an opening circle, somatic exercises, an 11-minute breathwork practice, reflective writing with prompts, guided relaxation, and a closing circle.
All you need is an open mind and heart.
Alison Bio:
Alison Sinatra has spent over 25 years helping people reconnect with their bodies and cultivate balance through movement and mindfulness. She began her journey as a senior teacher at Kula Yoga Project in Tribeca, where she also served on the faculty for teacher training programs and led retreats worldwide.
For over two decades, Alison has called the Hudson Valley home, offering group classes and creating healing spaces, particularly for women. As a medicine woman, she integrates wisdom from North and South American indigenous traditions into her work, blending ancient teachings with intuitive approaches to healing.
Currently, Alison leads Sacred Sisterhood, a nine-month program guiding women through diverse healing modalities and spiritual practices alongside guest facilitators. She is also trained in Dr. Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry, an approach rooted in understanding addiction and trauma. In her private sessions, she combines somatic dialogue, breathwork, spiritual guidance, and yoga. In addition, Alison designs rites of passage rituals, honoring life’s transitions with care and intention.
Alana bio:
Alana is a devoted guide and sacred space holder in the world of psychedelic healing, blending ancient practices with an intuitive approach. Her journey into psychedelics began in 2015, leading her through profound inner landscapes that redefined her life’s purpose. Following the sale of her successful marketing and public relations business to Vice Media in 2016, Alana dedicated herself to guiding others on their paths of healing and self-discovery.
In 2020, she co-founded a community that has since welcomed nearly 1,000 individuals into monthly gatherings and private sessions, fostering a compassionate, intentional approach to psychedelics. Alana leads sacred women’s circles, guiding women to reconnect with their divine feminine energy and inner wisdom. As a practitioner of sacred sexuality, she honors the integration of body and spirit, working to create spaces for women to reclaim their sacred magic.
A mother of three daughters and a Vipassana practitioner, Alana brings a grounded, meditative presence to her work, centered on cultivating self-esteem and inner peace. You can connect with her on Instagram at @underground.mama, where she shares insights on safe psychedelic practices and sacred women’s work.
Embark on a transformative journey that invites you to reconnect with your inner peace and unlock a deeper sense of well-being to start 2025!
Join Primavera Salvá for a RECONNECT JOURNEY, an immersive experience featuring sound healing, breathwork, and meditation designed to harmonize your mind, body, and soul.
Through Breathwork, you’ll learn to harness the power of your breath to reduce stress, enhance focus, and cultivate a profound sense of presence. Along
Through Sound Healing, you’ll be enveloped in resonant tones that help release tension, clear energy blockages, and promote deep relaxation. Combined with guided breathwork, you’ll learn to harness the power of your breath to reduce stress, enhance focus, and cultivate a profound sense of presence.
Meditation will ground the experience, allowing you to integrate the benefits of sound healing and breathwork while nurturing clarity and mindfulness.
Whether you’re seeking emotional balance, improved sleep, or a renewed connection to your inner self, this journey is designed to leave you feeling refreshed, centered, and empowered. No prior experience is necessary—just bring an open heart and a willingness to explore. Join us and rediscover the harmony within.
This event offers a unique opportunity to pause, reflect, and recharge.
All are welcome to join our monthly healing cacao ceremony. Using shamanic and yogic techniques, we will use the medicine of cacao, sound, meditation, and more, for healing and self-reflection.
The cacao spirit is a powerful teacher who can assist us in:
-opening the heart
-letting go of old stories
-clearing stagnant energy
-connecting to Mother Earth
-increasing creativity
-feeling lighter
-accessing intuition and inner guidance
We will sit in a traditional circle and drink ceremonial strength cacao at the beginning of the ceremony.
Please do not eat 2 hours before the ceremony, and feel free to bring water and/or a journal and pen. No experience necessary!
About the Facilitators:
Sarah Eve Cardell is a culinary shaman, making magic in the kitchen and healing from the heart. As an international chef, certified yoga teacher, and shamanic facilitator, she offers practical tools to lead a happy and healthy life. While in the kitchen, her style of cuisine reflects the passion for merging wellness and global exploration. Sarah Eve is honored to study under the late shaman Ipupiara as well as Sri Dharma Mittra, whom she completed the 200 and 500-hour yoga training. She completed a Kundalini Yoga TT in 2018. Other inspirational mentors include Dona Leova, Gurudev Singh, and the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Through holistic nourishment or in private sessions, workshops, and retreats, her peaceful and joyful demeanor allows for facilitating a safe space in which you can heal you!
Jarrod Byrne Mayer is a KRI certified Kundalini teacher who specializes in the application of the sound current. He is a certified Sound Therapist with a concentration with gong, tuning forks, and singing bowls. He believes sound is medicine and that it can bring us into greater union with our spirit. www.BrooklynHealingArts.com
Please register early as space is limited.
10% discount for SOUK All-In Members
Please do not eat 2 hours before the ceremony to let the cacao goddess have her full effect.
10% discount for SOUK All-In Members
Monthly KIRTAN with Dayal Gauranga & Friends
Workshop Teacher:
Dayal Gauranga
Workshop Location:
12 West 27 St., 2nd Floor New York City
Workshop Date:
Saturday, February 1 2025Saturday, May 17 2025
Workshop Time (EST):
See links below
Workshop Price:
$15
**This is a monthly event. Please see below for dates.**
Join us for a beautiful evening of kirtan, which is a call-and-response process where we chant the names of the divine, connecting ourselves to a higher spiritual power. We sing in kirtan with a common purpose of uplifting our consciousness via sacred sound and we share wisdom and stories from the yoga tradition that inspire us and give insight on how to navigate the challenges and circumstances that inevitably come in life. It doesn’t matter your background or level of experience. All that is required is an open heart and enthusiasm to connect to something beyond the material. All are welcome.
Dayal Gauranga has been on a spiritual journey leading kirtans and teaching spiritual wisdom for more than 20 years. At 18 years old, he became a monk and dedicated himself to a life of inner study, reflection, and service. One year later he made his first trip to India and has since traveled back numerous times throughout the subcontinent, as well as to countries and communities around the world to learn, discover and share the richness of spiritual tradition that he has received. After 10 years of monastic life, he transitioned out of the monastery, met his wife Rasika, got married, and currently lives in Brooklyn with their dog Jiva. Dayal is the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Conscious Earth Institute, a spiritually based counseling, education, and training organization to help individuals heal from inner wounds in order to live life from a place of true Self.
One of the core premises of Buddhism is the truth of impermanence. Everything that is brought about by causes and conditions – like the weather – including ourselves, everybody we’ve ever known or will ever know, our family, our friends, our colleagues, our enemies, our house, our car, our neighborhood, our city, state, country, continent, planet, solar system, universe, multiverse our thoughts, our moods etc. are all subject to impermanence – and will gradually or suddenly – like the weather – disappear or transform into something else.
If that’s true; then why do we so desperately cling to our current likes, dislikes, opinions, preferences, and repetitive and at times negative and counterproductive habitual patterns of behavior that have often long outlived their usefulness? How did we get so stuck?
Mindfulness meditation practice can help us see the weather more clearly – that our states of mind, our emotions, our lives are like the weather and that we can allow the weather to come and go, and liberate us from the gooey, stuck quality of repetitive, reactive and possibly counterproductive patterns of thought and behavior, always waiting for that predictable sunny day – and help us appreciate the unlimited spontaneous potential of this body and mind – and this precious, if impermanent, human life.
David Nichtern (Founder & CEO Dharma Moon) is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970.
David is the author of the critically acclaimed books Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world via his Dharma Moon platform.
He is also a highly regarded composer, producer and guitarist. David has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, he wrote the classic hit song “Midnight at the Oasis” and composed the score for Christopher Guest’s film “The Big Picture”. In recent years he has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy nominated kirtan singer Krishna Das.
Get ready for a complete Jivamukti Yoga Experience taught by the One & Only, Sharon Gannon, co-founder of the Jivamukti Yoga Method.
Sharon lives and breathes the method so to have the opportunity to study with her is the occasion to receive all that Jivamukti Yoga has to offer in one serving.
This 3-hour master class will be filled with old school Jivamukti gems including meditation, chanting, spiritual teachings, hands-on assists, a curated music selection and an āsana practice that draws on classic Jivamukti Yoga sequences that have withstood the test of time, such as Blossoming Lotus and Balancing Compass to name a few.
Expect to practice bird poses (flying crow, peacock, peacock’s feather, king pigeon) threaded seamlessly and delightfully, without taking yourself too seriously. As Sharon would say: “If we expect to fly, we must first take ourselves lightly.”
Sharon’s deep sense of purpose will inspire you. Her life of devotion to the liberation of all living beings will activate you. Just one practice with her has the potential to transform you. You will leave class feeling strong and fearless, with your heart full of joy and compassion for all.
At 4pm, class will be followed by a Q&A around Sharon’s latest books, ‘Eternity is Happening Now – Essays and Stories’, AND a book signing of any of Sharon’s books.
Requirements for class:
1. Come as you are!
2. You must purchase the 2 volumes of ‘Eternity is Happening Now; so that we can have a fruitful discussion with the author: ·
You can buy a hard copy of each volume on amazon.com
Or, a digital copy of volume one on blurb.com here & volume two here
Of course, Sharon will only be able to sign the hard copy;)
3. Bring your mala beads for japa meditation. If you do not have beads, we will have some for sale in the studio.
**NO REFUNDS for cancelations less than 12 hours prior to class and no shows. NO EXCEPTIONS**
Maya Yoga with Nicki Doane
Workshop Teacher:
Nicki Doane
Workshop Location:
12 west 27th street 2nd Floor
Workshop Date:
Friday, April 25 2025Sunday, April 27 2025
Workshop Price:
$40-$117
Maya Yoga combines asana, pranayama, philosophy, and poetry into a strong yet accessible workshop style experience.
Devotion to yoga and the desire to share with and give back to the world are what motivate the teaching of Maya Yoga with Nicki Doane. Yoga is spirit in action, and as Nicki teaches, she inspires people to find a place of spirit inside them, recognizing the profound connection between the self and spirit. The teachings of Maya Yoga are motivated by a sincere devotion to the practice and a strong desire to share this powerful and transformative experience.
Maya is a Sanskrit word that means “illusion”, so Maya Yoga is never what you think it’s going to be. Inspired by Nicki’s unique offering, weaving the philosophy of yoga into the asana practice while keeping the tone light and reminding students to not take themselves too seriously. You never know exactly what is going to happen, or what you might learn along the way.
Maya Yoga is a time tested practice that respects and honors both the body and the mind, cultivating a quality of seamless union and helping us lead more productive and full lives. Nicki will offer the deep psychological teachings of yogic philosophy though the asana practice. There will be attention placed on how to do the postures safely with clear alignment directions while observing how the mind reacts to them. Investigating how we are spiritual beings having a human experience, not the other way around. It is comforting to know that we are all in this together as human beings and that we are not alone. There is a feeling of coming home, a remembering that we are more similar than we are different.
Maya Yoga Vinyasa Fusion Flow
This is a strong dynamic yoga class that incorporates all aspects of Maya Yoga including asana, pranayama, chanting, meditation, prayer, and deep relaxation, to leave you feeling recharged and inspired about your practice. Nicki likes to start the class slowly with poses that support the parasympathetic nervous system and then move slowly into seated chanting and pranayama. From there we will wake the body from the ground up, starting at the feet and moving through the legs, trunk, arms, and head. Sun salutations will be practiced to build internal heat and establish the harmonious flow of breath and movement known as “Vinyasa”.
Standing poses are linked with the sun salutations to create the dynamic flow that is both detoxifying and rejuvenating. What happens from there is organic and may include backbends, forward bends, arm balances, inversions or hip openers depending on the students and the energy of the day. The end of the class will bring you back to yourself and leave you feeling more centered and grounded, especially after a long savasana with Nicki reading poetry to you.
What is Yoga? If we look at the literal meaning of the Sanskrit word, it means to yoke or to bring together. Real yoga is about calming the mind with all its fluctuations and agitations.
Most of our suffering and fears as human beings is between our ears, right in the middle of our consciousness. Of course there is also plenty of suffering and pain that we experience in our physical and emotional bodies as well. The poses of yoga are great because they not only lengthen and strengthen the muscles in our body but they offer us key insights into the workings of our minds. The poses reveal what is already there. It is a beautiful mystery how the poses become keys that unlock deep hidden parts of ourselves, parts that we have kept locked way and that we repress. It is the dark areas of our consciousness that have so much to teach us about ourselves. Maya Yoga teaches a way of practicing yoga that is as much about aligning the physical body as it is about learning how to love yourself more everyday. This class will use asana and pranayama to examine the mind body connection more deeply. The focus will be on the group of poses known as Inversions – the upside down poses. Through an intelligent sequence of poses we will practice Handstands at the wall whether you are a pro already or a complete novice. Forearm balance will be done at the wall as well and headstand and shoulderstand will be introduced and shared as well. We will complete the class with the most restful pose, Viparita karani, legs up against the wall. This class will be taught in a supportive compassionate environment with the focus on the process of yoga and not necessarily on the final pose.
Two of the foundational pillars of a consistent yoga practice are Shraddha – Faith , and Virya – Courage. The only way these can be established is through steady consistent personal practice. What happens on the mat in yoga should actually not stay on the mat but should follow us out the door and into our lives where we need it most. Yoga is a life support system and the poses are transformational tools that can touch us deeply both at a soul level and as a practical means of keeping our bodies fit and healthy. We need yoga in these hectic stressful lives that we lead. This class will be a combination of both active and restorative asana. We will be more active in the first half of the class to open the body and mind and to get the breath flowing and the heart beating and establish Faith in the efficacy of the practice. Nicki will teach an engaged asana class that includes standing poses and hip openers, pranayama, and some backbends and twists. The second half of the class will be more reflective in nature and slower.
Restorative and supported poses will take you from the active side of the practice into the calming quieting side of yoga. Courage is having the strength to listen and speak from the heart and these softer poses will give you the opportunity to get in touch with what you’re feeling on the inside. Slowly you just may find what you’re looking for.
Nicki Doane is a master yoga teacher living on Maui in Hawaii. She is known for her authenticity in teaching yoga and for her ability to break down the asanas in a way that makes them accessible to everyone. Nicki has been immersed in the sacred teachings of yoga since 1989 and has traveled to India countless times since then to study with the masters there, including Sri K Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and HS Arun. She has a way of using humor to make people feel at ease in the practice and can make the most basic fundamental postures feel profound. She is a teacher’s teacher and truly has a deep love for the practice of yoga. Nicki runs the Maya Yoga Studio on Maui and also travels internationally to teach as well. Nicki is a master at making yoga accessible to everyone.
*Cancellations can be made up to 12 hours before a workshop – no refunds after!
Inside Flow Master class w/ Julia Flow and Grow
Workshop Teacher:
Julia Meyer
Workshop Location:
12 West 27th Street, 2nd Fl, NY, NY
Workshop Date:
Saturday, May 3 2025Sunday, May 4 2025
Workshop Price:
$45
About Inside Flow: In Inside Flow you are singing a song with your body. We move with the music and embody the energy of the song. A yoga sequence choreographed in perfect harmony with a specific song to help you to experience a flow-like state of mind without any resistance.
Gentle and soulful – Surrender to the music, connecting body, mind and heart. Explore how the serene music makes you feel and express it with your practice.
Uplifting and powerful – There ́s nothing more connecting and inspiring than flowing and feeling together.
Let’s move to uplifting beats to feel joyful and empowered as we move as one.
About Julia: Julia is an Inside Flow Senior Teacher, an internationally known yoga teacher and part of the leading personalities in the Inside Flow yoga scene. With countless hours of Inside Flow training, hundreds of hours experience teaching Inside Flow she is spending her time teaching Inside Flow and Inside Yoga full time! As a multifaceted trained yoga teacher, personal trainer and professional dancer,
Julia is an expert in well-being and soulful existence. Focusing on body mind and soul she supports people in immersing themselves in
their very personal flow state. Her love for music and graceful movements represent her unique style of teaching.
Creative and harmonious flows, combined with energetic impulses that will give you space to look beneath the surface and connect to your feelings – to strengthen the connection to yourself. Julia leads teacher trainings, workshops and retreats.
*Not valid for livestream, Frequency Breathwork, workshops, or special classes/events
** To be purchased in person. No refunds or price adjustments for prior purchases.
*** Valid only for NY-NJ residents
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