FACILITATED BY: Aki Hirata Baker, Fumiha Tanaka & Nami Soga
EXCHANGE: $55-$95 Sliding Scale
Join Aki, Fumiha and Nami for the spring edition healing circle. This will be the last in-person offering with Aki until 2025 as she prepares for a year of ancestral spiritual work in her native country of Japan.
3 is a number that represents the principle of expansion, growth and abundance. It is ruled by the energy of Jupiter, and Jupiter plays a key role in the spring as we prepare for the spring equinox and the first eclipses of the year. One of the biggest astrological events of 2024 is Jupiter Uranus conjunction that only happens once in every 13 years. It’s happening this year on April 20th, and it’s time for us to start preparing for this rare expansive opportunity of SPRING 2024.
A plant guide we invite here for this event is dandelion, Taraxacum Officinale. We will meet this resilient plant with a strong life force, the energy of spring, and dive into the breathwork to let the medicine of dandelion to expand and transform what we have contemplated all winter into the clear action from our true center.
We will conclude this ceremony with the sound and drum journey into the realm of the trees to energetically connect with the wood element of the season in traditional Chinese Medicine, rooting down to the idea of ‘who I am”.
This mini-retreat will include:
Astrological forecast for the spring: spring equinox, solar & lunar eclipse, Jupiter Uranus conjunction
Meeting with the medicine of dandelion and spring energy
Gentle movement with solar plexus activation
Breathwork
Sound & drum journey
Grounding & sharing
Optional work with plant medicine microdose (please email soulflowermedicine@protonmail.com for access and information prior to the session)
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
Note about Breathwork:
Breath is the conduit of life and consciousness. Many cultures utilized breath as a way to heal and to connect with the deeper understanding Self. During this gathering, you will be guided to use the breath for release and cleansing to prepare the fertile soil within.
For those who are pregnant, or have conditions such as epilepsy, glaucoma, high blood pressure without medication, or cardiovascular conditions will be guided to work with relaxing slow breath while working with the energy of release within the collective. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to Fumiha at fmtishere@gmail.com
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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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