Raas Leela Kirtana
Rooted in the ancient Bhakti Yoga tradition, Raas Leela Kirtana brings together traditional bhajans, sacred mantras, and devotional chants with contemporary musical arrangements. The result is an experience that honors the depth and authenticity of the Kirtan tradition while creating an accessible and welcoming space for modern audiences.
At the heart of Raas Leela Kirtana's offering is participation. Rather than simply presenting a musical performance for an audience to observe, the ensemble invites everyone to become part of the experience through call-and-response chanting, singing, rhythm, meditation, and collective musical expression. The music creates an environment where people can release, connect, celebrate, become still, and experience the heart-opening quality of sacred sound.
$35 Pre Registration $40 at the door
ABOUT Ras Leela
Raas Leela Kirtana is a Los Angeles-based devotional ensemble dedicated to sharing the transformative experience of Kirtan and Sankirtan—the collective singing of sacred names and mantras. Rooted in the Bhakti Yoga tradition, the group brings together traditional bhajans, mantras, and sacred chants with contemporary musical arrangements and an accessible, heart-centered approach.
Their performances are immersive and participatory, inviting audiences to move beyond simply listening and become part of the experience through call-and-response chanting, meditation, devotion, and collective musical expression. Whether someone is deeply familiar with Kirtan or experiencing it for the first time, Raas Leela Kirtana creates a welcoming space for connection, joy, inner stillness, and the transformative power of sacred sound.
The ensemble is led by founder Gopala Bhakta and is based in Los Angeles.
Men’s Breathwork Circle with Ben Mac Brown
This one’s for the Gents.
We talk. We breathe. We rest.
Most of us have never experienced how much we can move in one session of good, strong breathing.
We'll start by seeing what's present — a short conversation, just enough to settle in and name what's alive in the room. Then you'll find a spot to lie down, and we'll breathe.
In this workshop we'll primarily be using an active, rhythmic breath, held by a playlist built to carry you through the arc of the experience.
You might feel a little tingling at first, usually starting in the hands. There's often a wall of resistance somewhere in there too — a point where some part of you wants to stop, explain, or manage what's happening.
I'll ask you to stay with it. And on the other side of that wall is a kind of breaking through.
Some find it psychedelic — color, sensation, a loosening of the usual edges. What's happening, roughly, is that the part of the brain responsible for the narrative self — the inner editor, the one that tells you who you're supposed to be — goes quiet. Not forever. Just long enough for something underneath to surface.
Most of us don't have a practice for this. We're trained to hold pressure, not release it — to carry the stuck and the charged until it finds its own way out. Usually sideways. Usually at the wrong moment. Usually alone.
This isn't about talking it through. It's physiological. The breath finds what's pressurized and gives it somewhere to go.
What follows is fifteen minutes of the deepest rest most of us have felt in a long time. The heart rate slows. Muscles release. The brain, still and quiet, consolidates and integrates the experience. No prior breathwork experience is needed. All you need to do is show up, and lean in.
We talk. We breathe. And we rest.
It's that simple. And if you feel like talking after, we can do that too — over a cup of tea in the garden outside the studio.
$40 Register Below | Limited to 15 Participants
ABOUT BEN
As a breathworker, I meet people in all manner of moments. Moments of transition and moments of resistance. Creative blocks. Emotional blocks. Childhood wounds and those so recent they’re still without a first attempt to scab over.
The container I create is held through the breath, the body, and sound. Through movement, meditation, and years of sitting with people in one-on-one sessions and group spaces.
What matters isn’t the category. It’s the moment. We meet whatever is there. We do it with courage, honesty, and grace.
Whatever comes, we’ll stay with it. My role is to help you access it — to reflect it back to you — and to hold space while you do your magic.
Find out more about Ben HERE.
Rite of Gratitude — Crystal Sound Healing
Join Seshen for an evening of deep nourishment and reconnection through the healing power of sound, vibration, and presence.
As November unfolds and we approach the season of Thanksgiving, we gather to attune to the spirit of gratitude—to collectively recognize and honor the abundance in our lives, while offering our thanks to the land and the natural world that sustain us. Through this shared experience, we create space to slow down, open our senses, and deepen our connection to the gifts of life, both seen and unseen.
Seshen blends the pure tones of clear quartz crystal singing bowls, pyramids, and harp with her voice, composing music in the moment that is attuned to the group's energy and intention.
The evening begins with a guided meditation and gentle toning to ground into the body, soften into the heart space, and cultivate a sense of appreciation for the present moment. This is followed by a 50-minute immersive sound journey, culminating in integration and a final round of toning to help anchor the experience.
In this immersive journey, the vibrations of your body merge with sound, crystal energy, and intention, guiding you toward balance, harmony, and a deeper sense of connection. Together, we create a sacred space to honor the gifts of our lives and celebrate the nourishment that is within and around us, gathering in gratitude and in community.
ABOUT SESHEN
Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner and sound artist specializing in nervous system regulation and deep embodied repatterning. In her private practice, she supports women in exploring early developmental and attachment patterns through a body-centered, integrative approach.
Her sound work extends this therapeutic foundation, woven with her background in music and improvisation. Using crystal instruments, voice, and intuitive composition, she creates immersive sound experiences that support regulation, release, and deeper shifts on both physiological and energetic levels.
Her work is informed by over 15 years of somatic practice, a Master’s degree in music and improvisation, and a lifelong connection to nature and Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
Website:
Full Moon Dance | An Embodied Movement Ritual with Seshen
Join Seshen for a 90-minute intentional gathering of embodied free-form movement, presence, and transformation under the Full Moon.
We gather in community to honor the land, the natural world, our ancestors, and all Life.
Through movement, music, and stillness, we open to the wisdom of the body, the freedom of authentic expression, and the transformative power of dancing alone and together.
Seshen weaves music from across cultures and eras, bringing together diverse genres, rhythms, textures, and atmospheres into a dynamically curated journey. The musical landscape moves between grounding and introspection, expansiveness and release, supporting a rich and evolving movement experience.
The journey is informed by Soul Motion, a relational movement practice rooted in embodied awareness and authentic expression.
The evening unfolds in three parts:
Arrival — Grounding & Embodiment
Gentle music and somatic invitations guide you into the body, breath, and present moment.
The Movement Voyage — Free-Form Dance Journey
A 50-minute continuous dance journey through evolving musical landscapes. There is no choreography—only the freedom to follow your own impulses, explore, and move in connection with yourself and others.
Integration — Closing Circle
We gather in stillness to integrate the experience and honor the space we've created together.
All bodies are welcome. No prior dance experience is needed. Bring comfortable clothing, curiosity, and an open heart.
$30 Register Online
ABOUT SESHEN
Seshen is a certified Soul Motion teacher with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops and events internationally. Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner, sound, and movement artist specializing in nervous system repatterning and embodied integration. She is dedicated to creating safe, inclusive, and transformative spaces where individuals can rediscover the joy of free movement and deep community connection.
To explore more:
Listen to curated playlists and dance journeys
Heart Light Kirtan & Cacao
Heart Light Kirtan & Cacao
“Keep singing. It uncovers the love.”
~ KRISHNA DAS
JOIN JULIA BERKELEY AND SUJAN FOR A HEART OPENING AFTERNOON OF SACRED CHANTING, SOULFUL COMMUNITY, AND CACAO
Gather in soulful community for a delicious afternoon journey to awaken the bliss and love that live within your own heart.
Ceremonial cacao has long been used to support heart-opening and connection to joy. From this open-hearted space, we’ll move into the sacred practice of kirtan, where mantra, music, and our collective voices carry us deeper into devotion and connection with the Divine.
WHAT IS KIRTAN?
An ancient form of musical meditation (call and response chanting) where Sanskrit mantras blend with soul stirring melodies to quiet the mind and awaken the heart.
Each Kirtan session is a sonic journey into calm, joy, and a felt sense of oneness with all that is. Come and experience the magic of this simple practice for yourself!
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Uplifting chanting with live music
Ceremonial cacao (optional)
A space to reconnect with your inner light
All levels welcome, no musical experience needed
Come as you are, leave feeling brighter!
$27 Preregistration / $30 at the door
ABOUT YOUR GUIDES
Julia Berkeley is a singer songwriter, kirtan artist, and E-RYT 500 yoga teacher with over 28 years of experience in the transformative arts. Her contagious love for kirtan opens hearts and brings you home to inner love through melodies that range from uplifting to deeply peaceful.
www.juliaberkeley.com
Sujan brings Nepal’s rich kirtan tradition through rhythmic mastery and heartfelt devotion. His drumming is more than rhythm. It becomes a pulse that helps quiet the mind and awaken the heart, drawing on a deep family tradition of sacred music.
Sanctuary Retreat
A Sunday Immersion in Rest, Alignment and Renewal
What if you could step away from the noise of everyday life without leaving Ojai?
Come as you are and give yourself a slow, spacious Sunday afternoon. Sanctuary Retreat is four hours set aside just for you: to breathe a little deeper, soften a little more, and come home to yourself.
Together we'll move through embodied movement, meditation, and a closing sound bath, with gentle breathwork, Human Design, guided reflection, and brainspotting woven in along the way. Each practice flows into the next, helping you settle into your body, explore what makes you uniquely you, and let go of what you no longer need to carry.
There's plenty of unhurried time to journal and rest, and a cozy break with nourishing gluten-free, dairy-free, and meat-free snacks. Before you head home, you'll receive a Move Sanctuary original journal and a crystal as our gift to you.
Seshen, Dani & Jessie will guide you with care throughout the afternoon. Whether this is your first time or you've been practicing for years, you're so welcome here.
We hope you leave feeling lighter, more spacious inside, and clearer about what you want to welcome into your life.
Just 16 spots, so we can keep it intimate. Scan to save yours. We'd love to have you.
Use code RETREAT for $200 price…
$222 otherwise
Samhain Fire and Cedar 7-Generations Healing Ritual
Samhain holds a time and place on the wheel of the year where the veils between worlds are thin. The “living” and the “dead” walk more closely. The earthly realm and the Faye visit each other with sass and delight, with tricks and with treats. And with Samhain situated inside the season of Scorpio, our external default ego / adaptive and conscious self is just a breath - or a tear - away from our shadowy, younger, fearful, often hidden parts
So we gather together and go it together, instead of alone.
Ritual 1: Seven Generations Cedar Ceremony
For this ceremony, we will be working with our own inner heart, the sacred fires, and our plant allies Cedar and Cypress. With the support of thinly veiled evening, our collective intention, and shamanic drumming, we will step back seven generations together. As we return to the fire, we will pick up any of the wounds and pains and traumas that our ancestors could not transmute that we are available with our supports now to transmute on their behalf. We will then also step seven generations forward where we are the ancestors.
This is one of host Angela’s favorite rituals that was handed down with a blessing for us to do here in the Ojai Valley from a powerful Goddess living in the woods in Massachusetts, Lady Tiana. I am delighted and honored to dance this dance of magic and to share it with you all.
Ritual 2: Lay to Rest. A Burial with Roses
Once the fire ceremony and healing is complete, we will return indoors. With the support of our stone friends and roses, we will take some meditative time to consider what in our living world is ready to be released to spirit world. Maybe it is an old inner story about yourself. Maybe it is an old idiom, a judgment, a criticism. Maybe it is an outer relationship with a person, a business, a place. We will then lay these newly dead to rest. And we will adorn the grave lovingly and respectfully with roses.
The intention for the rituals this year is letting down, letting go, blessing up, and healing…in circle.
These rituals are an offering of release and relief to our selves, and of healing, love, and integration for self, community, 7 previous generations, and 7 generations to come.
Please bring:
Layers of clothing for comfort! We will be outside for the fire ceremony where it will be newly dark. So dress for comfort!
An earth offering for the faye (flower, acorn, stone, etc
An energy, story, etc that you would like to lay to rest.
This will be a closed, cleansed, and sacred ceremony. So plan to be on time and stay until the end to support the integrity of the container. And plan to leave your phones (and cameras) in your bag as we strongly request no photography inside ritual space.
$35 Pre Registration $40 at the door
ABOUT Angela Taylor
Angela is a certified EMDR practitioner, certified yoga instructor, and PhD psychotherapist with Life/Art therapy training from the Tamalpa Institute. Her yoga classes weave together anatomically and energetically aligned postures with trauma-informed movement, somatic awareness, and deep reverence for the body as a sacred, wise being. In Angela’s yoga classes, you will move with intention so you can feel the depth – physically, emotionally, energetically – of the postures and stillness. You are likely to leave surprised by what your body knows, and perhaps surprisingly sore. Angela is also the creator of The Sacred Life and founder of The Witch Way – a six-month program in sacred, intentional living. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, on MTV and the Discovery Channel, and she consulted on the New York Times bestseller The Life You Want. She is based in Ojai, CA.
Full Moon Dance | An Embodied Movement Journey with Seshen
Join Seshen for a 90-minute intentional container of embodied movement, presence, and free-form dance under the energy of the Full Moon.
This is a space to reconnect with your body as a living expression of awareness—moving with earth, breath, heart, and the relational field of life itself.
We will journey through movement, music, and stillness, allowing what is present within to move into form, expression, and release.
Seshen holds space through intuitive multi-genre music, weaving rhythms and textures that support a wide arc of experience—from stillness and grounding to expansiveness and release. The journey is informed by Soul Motion, a relational movement practice rooted in embodied awareness and authentic expression.
The evening unfolds in three parts:
Arrival (Grounding & Embodiment)
Gentle music and somatic invitations guide you into the body, helping you arrive fully into space, sensation, and presence. Simple prompts support ease, grounding, and inner listening.
The Movement Voyage (Free-Form Dance Journey)
A 50-minute continuous movement journey unfolds through evolving music landscapes, inviting you to move freely in connection with yourself, the space, and others. There is no choreography—only presence, impulse, and exploration.
Integration (Closing Circle)
We close in a grounded circle to rest, integrate, and honor the shared space we have created together.
All bodies are welcome. No prior dance experience is needed—just bring comfortable clothing, curiosity, and an open heart.
$30 Register Online
ABOUT SESHEN
Seshen is a certified Soul Motion teacher with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops and events internationally. Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner, sound, and movement artist specializing in nervous system repatterning and embodied integration. She is dedicated to creating safe, inclusive, and transformative spaces where individuals can rediscover the joy of free movement and deep community connection.
To explore more:
Listen to curated playlists and dance journeys
Men’s Breathwork Circle with Ben Mac Brown
This one’s for the Gents.
We talk. We breathe. We rest.
Most of us have never experienced how much we can move in one session of good, strong breathing.
We'll start by seeing what's present — a short conversation, just enough to settle in and name what's alive in the room. Then you'll find a spot to lie down, and we'll breathe.
In this workshop we'll primarily be using an active, rhythmic breath, held by a playlist built to carry you through the arc of the experience.
You might feel a little tingling at first, usually starting in the hands. There's often a wall of resistance somewhere in there too — a point where some part of you wants to stop, explain, or manage what's happening.
I'll ask you to stay with it. And on the other side of that wall is a kind of breaking through.
Some find it psychedelic — color, sensation, a loosening of the usual edges. What's happening, roughly, is that the part of the brain responsible for the narrative self — the inner editor, the one that tells you who you're supposed to be — goes quiet. Not forever. Just long enough for something underneath to surface.
Most of us don't have a practice for this. We're trained to hold pressure, not release it — to carry the stuck and the charged until it finds its own way out. Usually sideways. Usually at the wrong moment. Usually alone.
This isn't about talking it through. It's physiological. The breath finds what's pressurized and gives it somewhere to go.
What follows is fifteen minutes of the deepest rest most of us have felt in a long time. The heart rate slows. Muscles release. The brain, still and quiet, consolidates and integrates the experience. No prior breathwork experience is needed. All you need to do is show up, and lean in.
We talk. We breathe. And we rest.
It's that simple. And if you feel like talking after, we can do that too — over a cup of tea in the garden outside the studio.
$40 Register Below | Limited to 15 Participants
ABOUT BEN
As a breathworker, I meet people in all manner of moments. Moments of transition and moments of resistance. Creative blocks. Emotional blocks. Childhood wounds and those so recent they’re still without a first attempt to scab over.
The container I create is held through the breath, the body, and sound. Through movement, meditation, and years of sitting with people in one-on-one sessions and group spaces.
What matters isn’t the category. It’s the moment. We meet whatever is there. We do it with courage, honesty, and grace.
Whatever comes, we’ll stay with it. My role is to help you access it — to reflect it back to you — and to hold space while you do your magic.
Find out more about Ben HERE.
Goddess Celebration (Navaratri) | Renaissance of the Goddess Culture
The power of Divine Mother is an inner process linked to the shakta traditions of India. The renaissance of the Goddess Culture is an outer process taking place throughout the world as part of a collective shift in human consciousness. Let us explore inner practices that can bring our yoga sadhana into higher awareness through the Vedanta, Jnana, Bhakti and Raja yoga systems.
Mas Vidal guides us through a thoughtful discussion about the Renaissance of Goddess Culture. You will learn how we can expand the Goddess into our daily lives through Ayurveda and natural living practices, herbal superfoods, astrology, sleep and management of the sexual creative force. Learn the art of being in your power that is your natural state rather than trying to find it. It's an inner experience, where nothing changes on the outside, you change!
This 4 hour experience includes:
~ Puja Ceremony led by Manuj Dutt (4pm)
~ Closing bhajan (kirtana)
~ Prasadam (5:15)
~ Jyotish Insights talk
~ Lecture: Renaissance of Goddess Culture (6-7pm)
~ Shakti Meditation & Earth Prayer: (7:30pm)
$50 Register Online
ABOUT Mas
Director and founder of Dancing Shiva School, Ph.D candidate (Integral Ayurveda), and Practitioner of Ayurveda, Mas has become an influential global teacher, speaker, and author of Ayurveda, Yoga culture, and Vedantic philosophy. His diverse background includes Vedantic mysticism, detoxification and rejuvenation , Integral yoga, dietetics, ecology, herbs, and Superfoods, which he integrates into a dynamic synthesis that has led him to become an innovative voice in integral Ayurveda, Yoga, and integrative medicine.
To explore more:
Dancing Shiva
Awakening Receptivity: The Power of Yin — Crystal Sound Healing
Join Seshen for an evening of deep nourishment and reconnection through the healing power of sound, vibration, and presence.
This October, we explore the awakening of receptivity—to attune to the power of yin within us. As autumn deepens and the earth moves toward harvest, we are invited to soften, yield, and open ourselves to receive what truly nourishes us, allowing it to become creative life force from which our own unique gifts can ripen.
Seshen blends the pure tones of clear quartz crystal singing bowls, pyramids, and harp with her voice, composing music in the moment that is attuned to the group's energy and intention.
The evening begins with a guided meditation and gentle toning to ground into the body and soften into the heart space, creating space for openness and inner listening. This is followed by a 50-minute immersive sound journey, culminating in integration and a final round of toning to help anchor the experience.
We connect with the sacral center—the energetic center of feeling, intuition, and creative flow—making space for what is ready to be received, nourished, and brought into being.
In this immersive journey, the vibrations of your body merge with sound, crystal energy, and intention, guiding you toward balance, harmony, and a deeper sense of connection to the abundant flow of life within and around you.
ABOUT SESHEN
Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner and sound artist specializing in nervous system regulation and deep embodied repatterning. In her private practice, she supports women in exploring early developmental and attachment patterns through a body-centered, integrative approach.
Her sound work extends this therapeutic foundation, woven with her background in music and improvisation. Using crystal instruments, voice, and intuitive composition, she creates immersive sound experiences that support regulation, release, and deeper shifts on both physiological and energetic levels.
Her work is informed by over 15 years of somatic practice, a Master’s degree in music and improvisation, and a lifelong connection to nature and Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
Website:
Soul-Nourishing Kirtan with Jordan Loder
Night of Inner Peace, Healing, and Community Connection with Jordan Loder
"A true Bhakti yogi — his kirtan transmits unconditional love & devotion and delivers us to an ecstatic experience of the Great Universal Spirit."
~ GuruGanesha, Founder, Spirit Voyage Music
JOIN JORDAN LODER Night of Inner Peace, Healing, and Community Connection
Jordan Loder is a touring bhakti artist who has devoted his life to spreading the joy of inner peace through the power of music.
After nearly a decade on the road supporting beloved artists Snatam Kaur, Deva Premal & Miten, Ajeet, Simrit, & Adam Bauer, he now carries that living tradition forward.
His unique kirtan is known for its tender, authentic, and introspective quality, igniting an experience of profound healing and a genuine sense of community connection. Although we dig all the way down to the bottom of our hearts, we never take ourselves too seriously, and the entire event unfolds with an effortless lightness of being, and a childlike spirit of wonder.
He travels with professional sound, ambient lighting, and projected lyrics so every voice in the room can join in. Upcoming dates include the US, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico City, Europe, and Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas.
Don’t miss this special opportunity to open your heart and reconnect — through music and community.
$30 Preregistration Recommended
USE CODE Corazon for 20% discount
Where to learn more about Jordan
Heart Awakening: A Ceremonial Cacao & Breathwork Immersion
Feel lighter, more open, and deeply connected to your truth.
The Heart Awakening Journey is a guided, in-person experience designed to help you gently open, release, and reconnect with yourself.
Through ceremonial cacao and guided breathwork, you’ll be supported in moving stagnant energy, releasing emotional blocks, and returning to your inner wisdom.
We’ll begin by grounding into the space, connecting with one another, and setting personal intentions before moving into a cacao ritual.
Together, we’ll prepare ceremonial cacao and honor this beautiful plant medicine. As we sip, you’ll be guided into presence and invited to open your heart. Through prayer, intention, music, and gentle movement, we’ll honor the spirit of cacao and create space for deeper connection.
This is a space to connect with yourself, the group, and the spirit of cacao; inviting openness, clarity, and receptivity.
From there, we’ll transition into a guided breathwork journey: three rounds of conscious breathing designed to help you release heavy emotions, gain clarity, and reconnect with your inner wisdom.
You’ll leave feeling lighter, open-hearted, and deeply connected; to yourself, your truth, and the community around you.
This is an intimate and supportive space for anyone on a spiritual path who feels called to slow down, soften, and return to themselves. Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register in advance.
$45 Register Online below | Limited Capacity to Allow for Intimate Setting
10 Max Participants
ABOUT Carolina
Carolina Nella is a certified Breathwork and Cacao Facilitator, trained in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, and Peru. She has been practicing breathwork for over five years after falling in love with its ability to unlock deep emotional healing and spiritual connection.
Her love for breathwork led her to an immersive “Transformational Breathwork & Sacred Space Holding” training in Guatemala, where she learned not only to guide conscious breathwork journeys but also to create grounded, nurturing spaces for deep inner work.
Her time in Guatemala deeply influenced her approach, weaving in earth-honoring rituals, cacao ceremony, and the ancestral wisdom of the land.
Her connection to ceremonial cacao began in 2024 during a visit to a cacao forest in Guatemala, where she first experienced its heart-opening medicine and its ability to cultivate presence, emotional openness, and deeper connection. This experience inspired her to continue studying cacao through both a three-month virtual training and an eight-day immersive training in the cacao forests of Peru, deepening both her personal relationship with the medicine and her approach to facilitating cacao circles in a grounded, respectful, and intentional way.
Today, she weaves breathwork and cacao into embodied experiences that support people in softening into the body, reconnecting with inner truth, and returning to a felt sense of presence.
Harvest Moon Dance | An Embodied Movement Journey with Seshen
Join Seshen for a 90-minute intentional container of embodied movement, presence, and free-form dance under the energy of the Full Moon.
This is a space to reconnect with your body as a living expression of awareness—moving with earth, breath, heart, and the relational field of life itself.
We will journey through movement, music, and stillness, allowing what is present within to move into form, expression, and release.
Seshen holds space through intuitive multi-genre music, weaving rhythms and textures that support a wide arc of experience—from stillness and grounding to expansiveness and release. The journey is informed by Soul Motion, a relational movement practice rooted in embodied awareness and authentic expression.
The evening unfolds in three parts:
Arrival (Grounding & Embodiment)
Gentle music and somatic invitations guide you into the body, helping you arrive fully into space, sensation, and presence. Simple prompts support ease, grounding, and inner listening.
The Movement Voyage (Free-Form Dance Journey)
A 50-minute continuous movement journey unfolds through evolving music landscapes, inviting you to move freely in connection with yourself, the space, and others. There is no choreography—only presence, impulse, and exploration.
Integration (Closing Circle)
We close in a grounded circle to rest, integrate, and honor the shared space we have created together.
All bodies are welcome. No prior dance experience is needed—just bring comfortable clothing, curiosity, and an open heart.
$30 Register Online
ABOUT SESHEN
Seshen is a certified Soul Motion teacher with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops and events internationally. Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner, sound, and movement artist specializing in nervous system repatterning and embodied integration. She is dedicated to creating safe, inclusive, and transformative spaces where individuals can rediscover the joy of free movement and deep community connection.
To explore more:
Listen to curated playlists and dance journeys
Men’s Breathwork Circle with Ben Mac Brown
This one’s for the Gents.
We talk. We breathe. We rest.
Most of us have never experienced how much we can move in one session of good, strong breathing.
We'll start by seeing what's present — a short conversation, just enough to settle in and name what's alive in the room. Then you'll find a spot to lie down, and we'll breathe.
In this workshop we'll primarily be using an active, rhythmic breath, held by a playlist built to carry you through the arc of the experience.
You might feel a little tingling at first, usually starting in the hands. There's often a wall of resistance somewhere in there too — a point where some part of you wants to stop, explain, or manage what's happening.
I'll ask you to stay with it. And on the other side of that wall is a kind of breaking through.
Some find it psychedelic — color, sensation, a loosening of the usual edges. What's happening, roughly, is that the part of the brain responsible for the narrative self — the inner editor, the one that tells you who you're supposed to be — goes quiet. Not forever. Just long enough for something underneath to surface.
Most of us don't have a practice for this. We're trained to hold pressure, not release it — to carry the stuck and the charged until it finds its own way out. Usually sideways. Usually at the wrong moment. Usually alone.
This isn't about talking it through. It's physiological. The breath finds what's pressurized and gives it somewhere to go.
What follows is fifteen minutes of the deepest rest most of us have felt in a long time. The heart rate slows. Muscles release. The brain, still and quiet, consolidates and integrates the experience. No prior breathwork experience is needed. All you need to do is show up, and lean in.
We talk. We breathe. And we rest.
It's that simple. And if you feel like talking after, we can do that too — over a cup of tea in the garden outside the studio.
$40 Register Below | Limited to 15 Participants
ABOUT BEN
As a breathworker, I meet people in all manner of moments. Moments of transition and moments of resistance. Creative blocks. Emotional blocks. Childhood wounds and those so recent they’re still without a first attempt to scab over.
The container I create is held through the breath, the body, and sound. Through movement, meditation, and years of sitting with people in one-on-one sessions and group spaces.
What matters isn’t the category. It’s the moment. We meet whatever is there. We do it with courage, honesty, and grace.
Whatever comes, we’ll stay with it. My role is to help you access it — to reflect it back to you — and to hold space while you do your magic.
Find out more about Ben HERE.
Fall Equinox Sound Ritual—Bridging the Light and the Dark
Join Seshen for an intentional celebration of the Fall Equinox with a ritual, guided meditation and sound bath.
The intention for this evening is to weave together light and dark, yin and yang, and the worlds of spirit and matter within us—bringing them into harmony and equilibrium as we preparing our body, mind, and energy for the seasonal transition.
The evening begins with a ritual involving simple movement and visualization, followed by a short guided meditation and the sound bath.
Seshen blends the pure tones of clear quartz crystal singing bowls, pyramids, and harp with her voice. The music is composed in the moment, tuned to the group’s energy. This allows the sound to alchemize both the collective and individual energetic needs, restoring balance and fostering a deeper sense of calm and connection.
This special season, where light and dark have the same length, has been celebrated in various cultures for centuries. Celebrate this seasonal portal of the year and embrace the transition with the healing power of sound and community connection.
ABOUT SESHEN
Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner and sound artist specializing in nervous system regulation and deep embodied repatterning. In her private practice, she supports women in exploring early developmental and attachment patterns through a body-centered, integrative approach.
Her sound work extends this therapeutic foundation, woven with her background in music and improvisation. Using crystal instruments, voice, and intuitive composition, she creates immersive sound experiences that support regulation, release, and deeper shifts on both physiological and energetic levels.
Her work is informed by over 15 years of somatic practice, a Master’s degree in music and improvisation, and a lifelong connection to nature and Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
Website:
Soulful Food & Connection | Community Potluck
Join us for our Sunday Community Potluck! We're opening our backyard as a gathering space to nurture community, connection, and belonging.
This month, we'll also enjoy live music from Sonic Crossroads…
To help us care for the Earth and reduce waste, we invite you to:
• Bring a favorite dish made with organic ingredients, if possible.
• Bring your own plate, bowl, cup, and cutlery.
A few gentle requests:
• Please leave dogs at home for this gathering.
• This is an alcohol-free event to support a more present and connected experience.
RSVP Below
FREE EVENT
Nidra Nights with Julia
Yoga nidra is guided meditation that releases stress held at a cellular level. You don't have to do anything except listen. Your nervous system does the rest.
One hour of yoga nidra can feel like four hours of sleep.
What to expect:
You lie down, fully supported
Julia guides you through body-based relaxation
Your system shifts into deep rest
Tension releases naturally
You emerge restored
Who this is for: Anyone exhausted, overwhelmed, or carrying stress in their body. No experience needed. Just bring yourself and something cozy.
Come as you are. Leave renewed.
$24 | Class Cards Welcome
ABOUT JULIA
Julia Berkeley is a singer songwriter, kirtan artist, and RYT 500 yoga teacher with over 28 years of experience in the transformative arts. Her contagious love for kirtan opens hearts and brings you home to inner love through melodies that range from uplifting to deeply peaceful.
You can find more of Julia’s music at www.juliaberkeley.com
Heart Light Kirtan & Chai with Julia & Sujan
Heart Light Kirtan & Chai with Julia & Sujan
“Keep singing. It uncovers the love.”
~ KRISHNA DAS
JOIN JULIA BERKELEY AND SUJAN FOR A HEART OPENING KIRTAN, SOULFUL COMMUNITY, AND DELICIOUS CHAI.
WHAT IS KIRTAN?
An ancient form of musical meditation (call and response chanting) where Sanskrit mantras blend with soul stirring melodies to quiet the mind and awaken the heart.
Each Kirtan session is a sonic journey into calm, joy, and a felt sense of oneness with all that is. Come and experience the magic of this simple practice for yourself!
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Elevating chanting with live music
Heart-warming chai and community connection
A space to reconnect with your inner light
All levels welcome, no musical experience needed
Come as you are, leave feeling brighter!
$27 Preregistration / $30 at the door
ABOUT YOUR GUIDES
Julia Berkeley is a singer songwriter, kirtan artist, and E-RYT 500 yoga teacher with over 28 years of experience in the transformative arts. Her contagious love for kirtan opens hearts and brings you home to inner love through melodies that range from uplifting to deeply peaceful.
www.juliaberkeley.com
Sujan brings Nepal’s rich kirtan tradition through rhythmic mastery and heartfelt devotion. His drumming is more than rhythm. It becomes a pulse that helps quiet the mind and awaken the heart, drawing on a deep family tradition of sacred music.
Full Moon Dance | An Embodied Movement Journey with Seshen
Join Seshen for a 90-minute intentional container of embodied movement, presence, and free-form dance under the energy of the Full Moon.
This is a space to reconnect with your body as a living expression of awareness—moving with earth, breath, heart, and the relational field of life itself.
We will journey through movement, music, and stillness, allowing what is present within to move into form, expression, and release.
Seshen holds space through intuitive multi-genre music, weaving rhythms and textures that support a wide arc of experience—from stillness and grounding to expansiveness and release. The journey is informed by Soul Motion, a relational movement practice rooted in embodied awareness and authentic expression.
The evening unfolds in three parts:
Arrival (Grounding & Embodiment)
Gentle music and somatic invitations guide you into the body, helping you arrive fully into space, sensation, and presence. Simple prompts support ease, grounding, and inner listening.
The Movement Voyage (Free-Form Dance Journey)
A 50-minute continuous movement journey unfolds through evolving music landscapes, inviting you to move freely in connection with yourself, the space, and others. There is no choreography—only presence, impulse, and exploration.
Integration (Closing Circle)
We close in a grounded circle to rest, integrate, and honor the shared space we have created together.
All bodies are welcome. No prior dance experience is needed—just bring comfortable clothing, curiosity, and an open heart.
$30 Register Online
ABOUT SESHEN
Seshen is a certified Soul Motion teacher with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops and events internationally. Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner, sound, and movement artist specializing in nervous system repatterning and embodied integration. She is dedicated to creating safe, inclusive, and transformative spaces where individuals can rediscover the joy of free movement and deep community connection.
To explore more:
Listen to curated playlists and dance journeys
Guided Meditation and Collective Reiki
Join Lexi Bordeaux, an Ojai local Reiki Master Teacher for a night of receiving, releasing, and healing in community.
Wear your comfiest clothes, bring your emotional support water bottle and journal to reflect on your time in this sacred container. Mats, blankets, eye masks and bolsters will be provided to ensure your utmost comfort.
$40
ABOUT LEXI
Lexi has been serving her community since 2019 and is deeply committed to the expansive, but gentle ways that Reiki has allowed her and so many others to heal. While typically hosting her Collective Unwind’s online, she is bringing the group reiki sessions IRL in hopes of grounding, nourishing and receiving together.
Crystal Sound Healing —Throat Chakra Attunement
Join Seshen for an evening of deep nourishment and reconnection through the healing power of sound, vibration, and presence.
This August, we nourish the Throat Chakra, opening the channel for truth, creativity, and heartfelt communication.
Seshen blends the pure tones of clear quartz crystal singing bowls, pyramids, and harp with her voice, composing music in the moment that is attuned to the group's energy and intention.
The evening begins with a guided meditation and gentle toning to ground into the body and soften into the heart space, creating space for openness and inner listening. This is followed by a 50-minute immersive sound journey, culminating in integration and a final round of toning to help anchor the experience.
In this sacred space, the vibrations of your body merge with sound, crystal energy, and intention, guiding you toward balance, calm, and clarity while gently opening the channel for authentic expression, allowing your truth to be shared with presence, compassion, and ease.
ABOUT SESHEN
Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner and sound artist specializing in nervous system regulation and deep embodied repatterning. In her private practice, she supports women in exploring early developmental and attachment patterns through a body-centered, integrative approach.
Her sound work extends this therapeutic foundation, woven with her background in music and improvisation. Using crystal instruments, voice, and intuitive composition, she creates immersive sound experiences that support regulation, release, and deeper shifts on both physiological and energetic levels.
Her work is informed by over 15 years of somatic practice, a Master’s degree in music and improvisation, and a lifelong connection to nature and Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
Website:
Heart Awakening | Breathwork and Cacao Journey with Carolina
Feel lighter, more open, and deeply connected to your truth.
The Heart Awakening Journey is a guided, in-person experience designed to help you gently open, release, and reconnect with yourself.
Through ceremonial cacao and guided breathwork, you’ll be supported in moving stagnant energy, releasing emotional blocks, and returning to your inner wisdom.
We’ll begin by grounding into the space, connecting with one another, and setting personal intentions before moving into a cacao ritual.
Together, we’ll prepare ceremonial cacao and honor this beautiful plant medicine. As we sip, you’ll be guided into presence and invited to open your heart. Through prayer, intention, music, and gentle movement, we’ll honor the spirit of cacao and create space for deeper connection.
This is a space to connect with yourself, the group, and the spirit of cacao; inviting openness, clarity, and receptivity.
From there, we’ll transition into a guided breathwork journey: three rounds of conscious breathing designed to help you release heavy emotions, gain clarity, and reconnect with your inner wisdom.
You’ll leave feeling lighter, open-hearted, and deeply connected; to yourself, your truth, and the community around you.
This is an intimate and supportive space for anyone on a spiritual path who feels called to slow down, soften, and return to themselves. Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register in advance.
$45 Register Online below | Limited Capacity to Allow for Intimate Setting
10 Max Participants
ABOUT Carolina
Carolina Nella is a certified Breathwork and Cacao Facilitator, trained in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, and Peru. She has been practicing breathwork for over five years after falling in love with its ability to unlock deep emotional healing and spiritual connection.
Her love for breathwork led her to an immersive “Transformational Breathwork & Sacred Space Holding” training in Guatemala, where she learned not only to guide conscious breathwork journeys but also to create grounded, nurturing spaces for deep inner work.
Her time in Guatemala deeply influenced her approach, weaving in earth-honoring rituals, cacao ceremony, and the ancestral wisdom of the land.
Her connection to ceremonial cacao began in 2024 during a visit to a cacao forest in Guatemala, where she first experienced its heart-opening medicine and its ability to cultivate presence, emotional openness, and deeper connection. This experience inspired her to continue studying cacao through both a three-month virtual training and an eight-day immersive training in the cacao forests of Peru, deepening both her personal relationship with the medicine and her approach to facilitating cacao circles in a grounded, respectful, and intentional way.
Today, she weaves breathwork and cacao into embodied experiences that support people in softening into the body, reconnecting with inner truth, and returning to a felt sense of presence.
Lion's Gate Activation: Heart Centered Manifestation
Join us on August 8th for a special community gathering in honor of the Lion's Gate, a symbolic annual alignment that peaks during Leo season on 8/8. Associated with heart-centered awareness, personal empowerment, and intentional creation, this time invites us to release what no longer serves us and align with what we are ready to embody.
Facilitated by Seshen, this experience weaves together meditation, toning, crystal sound ritual, and collective presence as we explore the connection between the heart and solar plexus—cultivating clarity, courage, and alignment as we move toward our intentions with greater purpose and ease.
This experience includes:
• Energetic attunement & intention setting
• Embodied awareness
• Guided meditation
• Toning & sound ritual
• Closing circle
All are welcome!
$25
ABOUT SESHEN
Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner and sound artist specializing in nervous system regulation and deep embodied repatterning. In her private practice, she supports women in exploring early developmental and attachment patterns through a body-centered, integrative approach.
Her sound work extends this therapeutic foundation, woven with her background in music and improvisation. Using crystal instruments, voice, and intuitive composition, she creates immersive sound experiences that support regulation, release, and deeper shifts on both physiological and energetic levels.
Her work is informed by over 15 years of somatic practice, a Master’s degree in music and improvisation, and a lifelong connection to nature and Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
Website:
Harmonic Reset: Sound Journey with David Kennet
Join David Kennet for an immersive evening designed to recalibrate the nervous system and awaken the deep intelligence of sound within. This Harmonic Reset is a sound meditation intended to carry you beyond thought and into the architecture of your own healing.
Through a live soundscape blending overtones, sacred intervals, and intentional frequencies, David creates a field of deep coherence. In this space, what has been stored such as grief, tension, or memory may rise, not to overwhelm, but to be heard, held, and harmonized. Silence then follows as a gentle integration, allowing the body and spirit to reset.
You will emerge renewed, centered, spacious, and attuned to a deeper harmony within.
This event has limited capacity and is expected to sell out - reserve your spot now!
$45
ABOUT DAVID
David Kennet is a New York City based musician, voice coach, registered holistic allergist and certified massage therapist.
Throughout his childhood David suffered from severe, life-threatening chronic asthma. However, shortly after he began singing regularly in his early 20’s, his asthma all but completely healed. At age 21 David made his debut at New York City’s Lincoln Center with the internationally acclaimed a cappella group the Star-Scape Singers. He has performed and offered workshops across Europe, Russia, the Middle East, China and South America. David has been featured on MTV’s "The Hills" and NBC's "The Today Show." He shares over 25 years experience utilizing the “open voice” and is a protege of the late Canadian metaphysician Kenneth G. Mills. David also studied with sound healers Tom Kenyon, Jonathan Goldman and is a member of the Sound Healers Association.
David has lectured on the practical application of sound therapy at the University of Santa Barbara California, Antioch University, Bastyr University, and has offered sound meditations for the U.S. Air Force and for the Four Seasons Hotels in the Maldives.
Full Moon Dance | An Embodied Movement Journey with Seshen
Join Seshen for a 90-minute intentional container of embodied movement, presence, and free-form dance under the energy of the Full Moon.
This is a space to reconnect with your body as a living expression of awareness—moving with earth, breath, heart, and the relational field of life itself.
We will journey through movement, music, and stillness, allowing what is present within to move into form, expression, and release.
Seshen holds space through intuitive multi-genre music, weaving rhythms and textures that support a wide arc of experience—from stillness and grounding to expansiveness and release. The journey is informed by Soul Motion, a relational movement practice rooted in embodied awareness and authentic expression.
The evening unfolds in three parts:
Arrival (Grounding & Embodiment)
Gentle music and somatic invitations guide you into the body, helping you arrive fully into space, sensation, and presence. Simple prompts support ease, grounding, and inner listening.
The Movement Voyage (Free-Form Dance Journey)
A 50-minute continuous movement journey unfolds through evolving music landscapes, inviting you to move freely in connection with yourself, the space, and others. There is no choreography—only presence, impulse, and exploration.
Integration (Closing Circle)
We close in a grounded circle to rest, integrate, and honor the shared space we have created together.
All bodies are welcome. No prior dance experience is needed—just bring comfortable clothing, curiosity, and an open heart.
ABOUT SESHEN
Seshen is a certified Soul Motion teacher with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops and events internationally. Based in Ojai and originally from Japan, Seshen is a somatic practitioner, sound, and movement artist specializing in nervous system repatterning and embodied integration. She is dedicated to creating safe, inclusive, and transformative spaces where individuals can rediscover the joy of free movement and deep community connection.
To explore more:
Listen to curated playlists and dance journeys