FACILITATED BY: Aki Hirata Baker, Nami Soga & Fumiha Tanaka
EXCHANGE: $399 *Accommodation Optional
This is a MINKA x Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Partnership Offering—Created to Bring Efforts of Equity, Diversity, and Decolonizing Work to All.
*See rideshare opportunity at end of post.
Come and join the Three Japanese Witches of MINKA to prepare your body, mind, heart & spirit for 2024!
So many of us have experienced major shifts like no other during 2023. With major lessons come major growth—so let us count our blessings and celebrate each of our accomplishments, while creating a space to heal the wounds and grief from experiencing big changes internally or externally. We heal in community, and in nature, and we will co-create a sacred container for deeply nourishing time together. This will lead to the full celebration of our present selves, seeing everything as a meaningful part of our growth plan in order for us to fully embody our experiences being supported by all the elements seen and unseen.
Numerologically, 2023 was a year of the no.7. Within the Tarot mystical tradition, the 7 is represented by the Chariot and the Tower cards symbolizing our collective energy for trailblazing and sudden and quick change of things that no longer serve us. 2024 is a year of the no.8, a year of the Strength and Star cards. In this retreat, we are healing our nervous system from the numerous changes we have gone through, so we can prepare to align ourselves with our true Strength and the bright shining Star within.
This Retreat will Include:
Day 1
5:15 pm: Meet in front of the cafeteria
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Dinner together
7:00 pm - 8 pm: Opening Ceremony
8 pm - 9:30 pm: Plant talk + Breathwork
Day 2
7:30am - 9 am: Silent breakfast on our own
9 am - 11 am: Yoga
10 am - 11:30am: Astro & Tarot talk for 2024
11:30am - 1 pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Connecting with element of winter
3 pm - 6 pm: Rose Blessing Ceremony
6 pm - 7 pm: Dinner
8 pm - 9 pm: Restorative sound/Yoga
Day 3
7:30am - 9 am: Silent Breakfast on our own
9:30am - 12:30 pm: Closing Ceremony (Meditation. Releasing of water and Sharing Circle)
12:30pm - 1:30 pm: Community Lunch
We encourage all the participants to join the opening and closing ceremony in order for us to keep each other safe within this sacred container.
Please bring:
Notebook/journal with writing utensils
Eye mask
Items to add to our collective altar (you will take these items back with you)
Small vial of water from where you live
Anything that you need to feel comfortable & safe in a new environment for healing
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.
**The MINKA Brooklyn and Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health partnership was created to bring in embodied equity and decolonization for all to elevate their personal and professional wellness practices. This is an active demonstration of the co-creation of a liberated future without competition and perfectionism to support the ability to show up in this work wholly. We are utilizing this opportunity to bring the wisdom of historically and currently marginalized communities to the forefront. Thank you for joining us on this journey as we boldly step into this work together.
***View RIDESHARE coordination here to:
List your info if you have an extra space in your vehicle of if you need a ride to Kripalu. The ride share is not moderated by MINKA, and this is a space for you to communicate with one another. Thank you for being a willing participants of community care!