.png)

NEW RENAISSANCE BOOKSHOP
UPCOMING EVENTS
If you prefer to not register online, you can visit the bookshop or call 503-224-4929 and register over the phone with a credit/debit card.
New Renaissance events are intended for entertainment and personal exploration only and are not a replacement for medical or therapeutic care.

Free In Person Event! Kīrtan with Kana and Narada on Mridanga
Thursday, April 30, 5:30-7PM, Free!
Come gather in singing sacred names and shared devotion. Kīrtan is a joyful, heart opening call and response chanting practice that uplifts the spirit, invites connection within ourselves, with each other and with the divine. All voices welcome, exactly as you are, no experience needed
Based in Portland, Kana Hattori is a devotional singer and kīrtan leader who offers this practice as a path of joy, bliss, devotion and deep emotional honesty from lived experience and deep gratitude.
Kīrtan carried her through some of the most challenging seasons of her life, becoming a source of strength, refuge, trust and renewal.
Now she shares it regularly in community, holding gentle, heart-centered spaces where all voices are welcome.
Rooted in Bhakti, guided by heart, her offerings invite others to connect deeply within themselves, with each other and with the sacred, and to discover the joy, healing that awaken when we sing together, remembering that our own voices are medicine, and that devotion can be both powerful and tender.

Zoom Series! Intuitive Spiritual Remote Viewing 101: Awakening Your Sacred Inner Vision
Jane de Forest, Thursday Evenings from 6:30 - 7:30PM PST
Optional Student Practice Time with Jane from 7:30-8PM PST
Dates: April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4
Series Fee Sliding Scale: $155 to $333
Jane’s class will be recorded & posted (no downloads). Student practice section will be private & not recorded.
This lovely course in an introduction to Intuitive Spiritual Remote Viewing; a beginner-friendly program that teaches the structured skill of remote viewing while blending it with spiritual practices, energy awareness, meditation, creativity, dreams, angelic guidance, and natural intuition.
Jane de Forest will teach you her own professional intuitive system; Intuitive Spiritual Remote Viewing (ISRV) developed over 25 years and inspired by the principles of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) developed by the renown psychic, Ingo Swann for the US Government.
This course adapts this technique with uplifting, heart-centered practices making it accessible for students of all ages. You’ll learn to trust your innate gifts, receive guidance from higher realms, and apply these skills for self-empowerment, healing, foresight, and confident decision-making.
Class 1: History, Foundations of Energy Awareness & Natural Intuition
Discover your energy body and subtle intuitive signals, including gut feelings, hunches, and empathic impressions. Through simple grounding and awareness exercises, you’ll build confidence in your natural abilities and create a strong spiritual foundation. Learn the history of ancient seers, religious oracles and the cultural taboo of hidden knowledge.
Class 2: Meditation & Creative Visualization Practices
Learn calming meditation techniques and creative exercises to quiet the mind and activate your intuitive flow. You’ll use artistic prompts and visualization to open a portal to your awareness and prepare for structured remote viewing sessions.
Class 3: Dreams, Premonitions & Symbolic Guidance
Explore how to interpret your dreams and recognize premonitions as valuable intuitive messages from your higher self. You will learn the fundamentals to the symbolic language of the Universe through omens, symbols & Mother Nature. Practical journaling & doodling tools will help you harness intuitive wisdom for personal insight and future knowing guidance.
Class 4: Angelic Guidance & Spirit Connection
Develop gentle methods to connect with angels, spirit guides, and loved ones in spirit while receiving clear signs and messages. This class emphasizes building a supportive spiritual team of spiritual allies and practicing basic mediumship in a safe, protected & loving way.
Class 5: The Intuitive Essence Protocol – Your Spiritual Remote Viewing Method
Start to learn the essence this beginner-friendly ISRV (Intuitive Spiritual Remote Viewing) Protocol; a fresh spiritual adaptation of that includes the Soul Glyph, Energy Signatures, Form & Flow, with deeper intuitive inquiry, and Mind Chatter management. You’ll practice your intuitive skills with blind targets (hidden subjects) while staying aligned with grounding, intention-setting, and angelic support.
Class 6: Integration & Real-World Empowerment
Bring together all your newly learned techniques through supportive community practice, real-life applications, and personalized action plans. You’ll celebrate your progress, troubleshoot common challenges, and create a practical toolkit for using intuitive spiritual remote viewing ISRV in your daily life, career, and relationships.
Jane de Forest is a gifted Intuitive, Western Sidereal Astrologer, and Shamanic Practitioner. Known for her humor, integrity, and sensitivity. She leaves clients feeling inspired, supported, and truly seen.
Learn more at: Janesinspiration.com

In Person Event! Wake N Shake: Harmonic Meditation, Ecstatic Movement, Art, & Community
Sydan Aguacielos and Jillian Brown, Friday, May 1, 5:30-7:30PM,
Tickets $15-$40
(Community Support Ticket available for those on a limited income)
Need a way to “Wake up”? Holding onto extra pain, trauma, addictions, anxiety, and other stressors holding you down? Come to Wake ‘N Shake! Jillian and Syd combine harmonic meditation, ecstatic movement, creative arts and community in one permissive space to allow you to move energy through your body in whatever way speaks to you! We begin with a sound healing meditation, where we invite you to use your voices and droning instruments (we have shruti boxes and drums to share, but feel free to bring your own!) to tune ourselves through the chakras. The rest of the event opens up to ecstatic movement, art and social time where you are encouraged to flow! We provide the art supplies, but you are welcome to bring your own if you have projects you’re working on. We love to run a “You do you, boo-boo!” operation, with the solid rule of respect others and the space.
Space and supplies are limited and this event has the potential to fill up.
About Sydän Aguacielos
Sydän is a Reiki certified Sound Healing Facilitator who has chosen to focus on the heart chakra. The heart is the first organ to develop as we become human and the heart chakra is the loving and healing bridge between the upper and lower main chakras. It is her belief and understanding that once we deeply connect to ourselves and each other through working with and developing this space, the healing energy that is created will reverberate throughout our communities and ultimately create a better life experience for all inhabitants of earth. It starts with knowing and loving ourselves.

In Person Event! The Art of Pain Alchemy: Three Strategies to Transform Suffering
Rae~Ven, Saturday, May 2, 11:30-1:30PM, Sliding Scale $35-$60
The Art of Pain Alchemy workshop brings in a new relationship to the core of pain through the self healing systems that are within you. It awakens and empowers the inner alchemist, with tools to retrieve your power within the pain, while expanding capacity for presence. allowing energy versus depletion and taking deeper slower breaths without a trigger.
Learn about:
-
What pain alchemy is and why.
-
What pain cycles are and three ways of becoming stuck.
-
Three strategies to start now to begin transformation.
There will be plenty of meditation space, breathwork/pracitices, somatic check-ins, question prompts throughout the workshop, as this is all about your inner journey. There will also be guided meditations, blessings and medicine prayers, throughout. From the chakra system, astral and ancestral realms to the nervous system, lymph, and cardiovascular, to the subtle realms of your heart, the workshop will bring awareness to the core elements of pain, and all that it is connected to.
This workshop is designed to support individuals experiencing emotional and mental challenges such as trauma and overwhelm, as well as physical chronic pain. Please note that this workshop is not a substitute for professional medical or psychological care, diagnosis, or treatment.
Rae~Ven is a shamanic soul midwife, subtle energy alchemist, Ayurveda yoga specialist, devoted to guiding others home to wholeness by helping to uncover and transform emotional and energetic roots of chronic pain, trauma, and overwhelm by gently awakening self-healing systems and restoring elemental truth. www.heartfeltwholeself.com

In Person & Online! Bring Love, Peace, and Harmony to the world! with Terry McGill
Saturday, May 2, 3:30-5:00pm, FREE
Co-hosted by Noelia Hernandez, Paula Dodge and Terry McGill.
You are warmly invited to an uplifting gathering inspired by the Love Peace Harmony Foundation. Founded by Dr and Master Zhi Gang Sha to uplift humanity through the power of love, peace, and harmony, the foundation supports people around the world to experience a simple yet profound time of personal and collective well-being. All are welcome.
As we gather in this welcoming New Renaissance space we’ll learn how the Foundation was started, and you’ll be invited to connect to the meaning of the song. You can sing the Love Peace Harmony song with others, or sit quietly in the peaceful atmosphere. Some join with their voices, others silently. There's usually a guided meditation.
The words of the song are simple:
I love my heart and soul
I love all humanity
Join hearts and soul together
Love Peace and Harmony
Love Peace and Harmony
During our time together, you may experience:
● a calm, nurturing space to rest, reflect, and reconnect
● the joy of joining others in a shared field of goodwill
● offering love, peace, and harmony to humanity
● a gentle way to support your own heart, mind, and spirit
However you participate, your presence is a valued part of the group energy. We are also online with others who join from around the world, so each gathering melds with a wide field of like-minded people. Come as you are, and be part of this simple, heartfelt contribution to a more loving, peaceful, and harmonious world.
If you wish to join Online, please use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fhaiq1BHS5uad1lDfzB2_A#/registration

In Store Event! Fairy Hair with Jess
Sunday, May 3, 1-4PM
Join us for a magical experience with Jess as she brings a touch of sparkle to your hair! Jess will be at the bookshop to weave her enchanting fairy hair sparkle strands into your locks. These delicate strands are tied to individual hair strands, creating a beautiful, sparkling effect that lasts for weeks.
No Appointment needed, just pop in!

Postponed! Check back for new date!
In Person Event! Modern Day Mastery for Women: You Are Not Broken. You Are Powerful.
Susan Glavin, Sunday, May 3, 3:30-5PM, Book signing to Follow, $30 Ticket Includes Signed Copy of Modern Day Mastery for Women
What if you do not need to be fixed at all?
You are not bad, you are not broken, and there is nothing to fix. The power, clarity, and wisdom you’ve been seeking are already within you. Join author Susan Glavin for an uplifting in-person bookstore event based on her book Modern Day Mastery for Women. Susan will explore how women often give their power away through outside demands, old patterns, and unconscious ways of losing touch with themselves, and how to claim that power in the present moment.
This event is designed to awaken deep self-awareness and inspire women to step more fully into their own clarity, focus, and inner authority. Attendees will leave encouraged to continue the journey through the book with a dear friend, partner, or even by starting their own guided circle.
Susan Glavin is an author, speaker, and women’s empowerment leader who has been guiding transformational experiences and sacred circles for nearly two decades. She is the author of Modern Day Mastery for Women and The F-It Manifesto: A Woman’s Kick-Ass Guide to Liberation (Men Too).

Zoom Series of Bach Flower Remedy Workshops
Presented by Rio Hibler, Enroll in the full four-class series for $99, or attend an individual class for $29 (Select at Check Out)
Developed by a medical doctor as a drug-free, naturopathic way for patients to heal themselves, Bach Flower Remedies have been helping people achieve better emotional balance for 100 years. Choosing the right remedy gives us a healthier perspective on life, making day-to-day difficulties easier. Each 1.5–2-hour workshop covers 5–6 Bach Flower Remedies commonly used within that topic. These workshops will help you discover more about yourself as well as which remedies are right for you.
Sunday, May 3, 3:30p-5:00pm: "New Directions in Life with the Bach Flower Remedies"
Bach Flower Remedies can help reignite your passion, define your deepest desires, and refresh your perspectives on turning dreams into realities. If you’re questioning a new life path, worrying you don’t have what it takes to reach a goal, or just feeling stuck and unfocused, this workshop will introduce you to some Bach Flower Remedies that can help you overcome these stagnant states and bring more flow, joy, commitment and fulfillment to your life choices.
Sunday, May 10, 3:30p-5:00pm: "Bach Flower Remedies for Sensitivity"
Being a sensitive person is difficult with all the overwhelming input life throws at us. But, at the same time, we can’t digest life fully without releasing self-protective barriers. This workshop will cover Bach Flower Remedies that can help us to more easily integrate stimuli and experiences without negative compensations or protections, and enjoy life more in the process.
Sunday, May 17, 3:30p-5:00pm: "Releasing Strain and Tension with Bach Flower Remedies"
Doesn’t it always seem that those who can relax and let things flow get the best results? Bach Flower Remedies can help us to achieve our ideals and goals without pushing, resisting, or controlling. This workshop will introduce you to several essences Dr. Bach found that allow us to express our authentic selves and meet our needs without unnecessary striving and tension.
Sunday, May 24, 3:30p-5:00pm: "Bach Flower Remedies for Despondency and Depression"
Feelings of dejection, despair, anguish, and futility are occasionally a natural part of our human experience but, if these feelings become chronic, they debilitate us and undermine our ability to function. This workshop will cover some key Bach Flower Remedies that specifically address these negative states, and can help us gently redirect feelings of helplessness and hopelessness into healthier states of renewed happiness and purpose.

In Person Event! Exploring the Seven Realms Psychedelic Integration Toolbox
Ashley Collins and Erik Blender, Thursday, May 7, 6-7:30PM, Sliding Scale $10-$20
Join Ashley Collins and Erik Blender for an engaging and interactive presentation on using the Seven Realms card deck, tinctures, and educational posters to support individuals and groups after a psychedelic journey.
Integration is the bridge between a psychedelic experience and lasting, embodied change. It’s how we make meaning of the emotions, insights, and breakthroughs that arise—pausing to ask: What does this mean for me? How do I carry this forward into my daily life? Without integration, even powerful moments can fade or feel fragmented over time.
Through guided examples from the deck, we’ll walk participants through deeper reflection and practical action steps for meaningful growth. There will be plenty of time for questions and shared dialogue.
Ashley Collins and Erik Blender are the creators of Seven Realms, a psychedelic integration system designed to support people after a journey or peak experience. With years of experience as educators, trainers, and presenters—and as licensed psilocybin facilitators in Oregon—they are committed to fostering safe, meaningful integration through practical, tangible tools.
Learn more at sevenrealms.org

In Person Event! Temples of Sound: Interactive Sound Immersion
Sydän Aquacielos & Temples of Sound Guest Player
Friday, May 8, 6:30-7:45PM, Tickets Sliding Scale: $20-$35
Temples of Sound is a living sound practice where bodies, voices, and presence become temples. Each participant contributes to a shared field of resonance, weaving breath, tone, rhythm, and drone into a collective space of clarity, connection, and coherence.
Our bodies are living instruments, carrying memory, vibration, and power. The spaces we gather in become temples themselves, shaped by the care and attention we bring to ourselves and one another. Our mission is to empower sovereignty — supporting people in reconnecting with themselves, each other, and life in ways that allow all beings to thrive.
These events are interactive and participatory. Instruments are shared, and you’re invited to sing or play with us — or simply be and hold presence. There is no right way. Choose your own adventure.
Our Interactive Sound Immersion is an alternative to the passive sound bath. Steady drone tones create a vibrational foundation, and your voice is invited. Singing with the drones drops participants into meditation rapidly and directly, engaging the body at a cellular level. No singing experience is needed — you cannot get it wrong. Authentic presence is the harmony.
We work with 14 crystal singing bowls, harmonium, shruti boxes, shamanic drums, breathwork to open and somatic movement at close to integrate and seal the temples.
This is community-building as healing. We come together in mutual support, honoring each person’s individual process while strengthening the collective field.
Wear comfortable clothes and bring whatever you need to be relaxed for the experience - blanket, pillow, eye mask, etc. We provide yoga mats but you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
About Sydän Aguacielos
Sydän is a Reiki certified Sound Healing Facilitator who has chosen to focus on the heart chakra. The heart is the first organ to develop as we become human and the heart chakra is the loving and healing bridge between the upper and lower main chakras. It is her belief and understanding that once we deeply connect to ourselves and each other through working with and developing this space, the healing energy that is created will reverberate throughout our communities and ultimately create a better life experience for all inhabitants of earth. It starts with knowing and loving ourselves.
.jpg)
In Person Event! Metaphysical Fair
Saturday, May 9, 1-5PM, Free!
The Metaphysical Fair is a monthly gathering designed to empower, inspire, uplift, and foster meaningful community connection. Held on the second Saturday of each month, the event features a variety of healing practitioners offering their services for a small fee.
We begin with an opening circle that includes brief introductions and a guided meditation, and close with a circle of gratitude and appreciation. The time in between is open and unstructured—perfect for exploring, connecting, and receiving individual readings.
While many attendees join us through word of mouth, newcomers are always warmly welcome.
If you’re interested in participating as a practitioner or vendor, please contact Gabi Schoening at gabi@doortothelight.com
.

In Person Event! Permission to Pause: A Soundbath Session
Moira Ryan, Friday, May 15, 5:30-6:30PM, Sliding Scale $15-$25
Join Rumore Forte Soundbaths for a deeply relaxing spring soundbath experience designed to quiet the mind and release physical tension. Drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, this session will transport you to peaceful forest clearings and serene mountain lakes through the healing power of sound.
Moira, trained at LA’s acclaimed Soundbath Center, creates a sanctuary of sound using a handcrafted 36” German gong, crystal singing bowls, Koshi chimes, and a coast drum. Simply lie back comfortably as waves of therapeutic sound wash over you, guiding you into a restorative state between wakefulness and sleep.
Participants often experience a quieter mind, deep physical relaxation, enhanced clarity, and improved sleep following the session. No prior experience necessary — just come as you are and let the sounds of summer guide you to a place of natural calm and restoration.
Perfect for anyone seeking stress relief, creative inspiration, or simply a peaceful hour away from daily demands. Please bring comfy clothes, a pillow, a blanket, and an open mind. Yoga mats will be provided but feel free to bring your own if you prefer.
Rumore Forte Soundbaths is Moira Ryan, LPC, a certified sound healing practitioner trained at LA's acclaimed Soundbath Center. Combining vibrational medicine with trauma-informed care, Moira creates transformative sonic experiences that facilitate release and renewal. Her intuitive approach guides participants to profound states of relaxation and awareness.

In Person Event! Refuge for the Weary Empath Workshop with Dave Markowitz
Saturday, May 16, 11:30-2PM, Sliding Scale $30-$65
Imagine opening to Spirit's gentle guidance and connecting safely and deeply with fellow empaths, sensitives, and intuitives. This in-person workshop, inspired by the book, Refuge for the Weary Empath, invites you to experience profound benefits together.
What You'll Receive
-
Heart-centered connection with kindred souls who truly understand your sensitivity
-
Guided practices to cultivate inner calm and energetic clarity
-
Spirit-led insights revealing your unique empathic purpose
-
Practical tools for daily renewal—clear boundaries, energy release, sacred centering
-
Group healing field amplifying everyone's peace and possibility
-
Experience These Transformative Benefits
-
Feel lighter and more present in your body and relationships
-
Access unshakeable inner refuge accessible anytime
-
Deepen authentic connection with self, others, and Spirit
-
Discover your sacred role in personal and collective healing
-
Leave with lasting energy tools and new empath friends
This is your warm invitation to gather, share, heal, and grow together in sacred community.
Want to talk first? Free consultations with Dave can be scheduled at DaveMarkowitz.com
Join us and step into your empowered empath life.
Dave Markowitz is a 2x best-selling author and intuitive healing practitioner with almost thirty years of experience backing up his findings. His self-published book, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers was on Amazon’s Top 20 list for 41 consecutive months. Dave is a faculty member of The Shift Network, the world’s largest transformational education, media, and events company and community of 3.2 million seekers. His work has been endorsed by energy intuitive, channeler, and bestselling author Lee Harris; former CEO of HeartMath Bruce Cryer; CEO of The Shift Network Stephen Dinan; multi-award-winning producer, composer, and author Barry Goldstein; award-winning author Dr. Deborah Zucker; author Amaya Gayle Gregory; and many more.
Dave’s work guides clients and workshop attendees gently and compassionately in alignment with what their body-mind-Spirit triune needs—and does so at the causal level for increased awareness, long-lasting symptom relief, an expansion in intuitive guidance and spiritual growth, and a clearer vision of who they really are.
Working with Dave reminds us that we are never alone, and that there is always hope for healing.
.jpg)
Free In Person Event! Power of Authenticity: Find Your Own Superpowers, Purpose, & Path to Success
Dr. Michelle Chappel, Saturday, May 16, 3:30-5PM, Free! Booksigning to Follow!
If you’re feeling stressed, stuck, or lost, you’re not alone. Most of us suffer from “Suppressed Superpower Syndrome.” You came into the world with a unique purpose and special gifts to fulfill it. But to fit in with others, you buried your extraordinary talents, forgetting who you truly are. Losing access to your whole self means losing your power.
Join psychologist-turned-rock star Dr. Michelle Chappel for a fun, free event inspired by her new book, The Power of Authenticity, a proven step-by-step path to help you take your power back. In her work, Dr. Chappel takes you on a transformational journey to help you recover your natural strengths and flourish in meaningful vocations and passion projects that make you feel happy and whole. This revolutionary approach combines psychological research, motivational music, and Jungian shadow work to stimulate both sides of your brain and reveal your hidden superpowers.
During this event and in her book, Dr. Chappel will guide you to:
• Discover your special (sometimes hidden) superpowers
• Develop your creative potential
• Use your unique strengths to find your path in life
• Create a dream job by merging talents in mash-up professions
• Follow your calling to meaningful work
• Overcome burnout and reinvent yourself through passion projects
• Reduce anxiety and depression and boost well-being in today’s turbulent world
• Find communities that support your true self
• Develop hope and resilience and take action to build a better future
Dr. Michelle Chappel is a Princeton PhD psychologist, world-acclaimed musician, leading career coach, and top business consultant for companies such as Google and Intel. She specializes in showing people how to reclaim their hidden superpowers and succeed in life and work as their full, authentic selves. After discovering she could sing and write songs, she left a career as an award-winning psychology professor to become a rock star with over a million fans and followers. As the CEO of Creativity Rock Star Coaching and Consulting, she has helped thousands of people find their purpose, claim their power, and live the life they were born to lead. Her songs have topped overseas and U.S. college radio charts, and aired on ABC, HBO, Encore, and Showtime. Her music and work have been featured in The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Psychology Today, Science of Mind, WorldNews.com, and Change.org. She is the author of The Power of Authenticity.

In Person Event! Systemic Family Constellation Circle: A Space for Healing-Centered Humans
Community for Personal, Ancestral, and Collective Healing
Veronica Bañuelos, Sunday, May 17, 2:30-5:30PM
Please arrive early. To maintain a cohesive and safe container, late arrivals will not be admitted.
Representative Ticket Sliding Scale: $25-$50 (See below for more information on what it means to participate as a representative.)
Seeker Ticket Sliding Scale: $185 - $250 (See below for more information on what it means to participate as a seeker.)
Due to the nature of this work, the event requires a minimum of 7 participants to proceed. If this number isn't met, all participants will be notified in advance and refunded.
We know meaningful change begins within. This gathering introduces Systemic Constellations, a powerful method for revealing the hidden dynamics shaping our lives, relationships, leadership, and organizations. Together, we enter a shared field to make visible inherited loyalties, ancestral entanglements, and systemic forces that quietly influence how we belong, relate, and lead. Through guided grounding, a collective constellation, and selected individual constellations, participants will witness and engage in a process that brings insight, movement, and possibility. Whether you participate as a “seeker” or as a representative, the experience often creates unexpected clarity and shift. This work is especially meaningful for those navigating complex family or organizational dynamics, or anyone curious about healing at the intersection of personal and systemic change. No prior experience is necessary.
More information on what it means to participate as a seeker or a representative:
The seeker brings a personal challenge or question to the circle, seeking clarity or resolution around issues like family dynamics, relationships, or career. If you choose to participate as a seeker, Veronica will contact you before the event with further details and an intake process. For this session, there is space for three seekers.
A representative is chosen to stand in for a family member, ancestor, or concept within the constellation. They embody the energy and emotions of that role, often experiencing physical sensations or feelings that reveal hidden dynamics in the seeker’s system. By doing so, they provide insights that support the seeker’s healing process without directly engaging in the personal history or challenge of the seeker. Representatives often report gaining personal insights, emotional release, and a deeper understanding of their own family dynamics or unresolved issues even though the process is not directly addressing their specific situation.
Please note that this experience is not a substitute for professional counseling or psychiatric health care.
Veronica Bañuelos is a Chicana organizational development consultant, spiritual director, and systemic constellations facilitator. She supports leaders, organizations, and communities in navigating conflict and transformation through an approach that integrates systems thinking, trauma-informed practice, and ancestral healing.

In Person Event! Gong Meditation with Wayne Marto
Choose:
Session 1: Thursday, October 1, 5-6:30PM, Sliding Scale $30-$45
Session 2: Thursday, October 1, 7-8:30PM, Sliding Scale $30-$45
Join us on a transformative journey of healing and deep relaxation, as we bathe every cell of the body in therapeutic sound and vibration. The Gong acoustically elevates us, creating a deep spontaneous meditative state that restores harmony and vitality to the mind, body and soul, leaving you feeling tuned, refreshed and at the height of physical and emotional wellbeing.
The 90-minute event includes a brief discussion on the healing attributes of Planet Gongs, a 62- minute Gong Meditation, followed by sweets and community.
The Gong Meditation is best experienced lying down on your back or a similar comfortable position. Wear comfortable clothes and bring whatever you need to be relaxed for the meditation - blanket, pillow, eye mask, etc. We provide yoga mats but you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
Benefits of Gong Meditation:
Promotes relaxation and stress relief
Restores vibrational balance and mind-body harmony
Stimulates immune system and glandular functioning
Encourages the movement of life force energy
Supports deep spontaneous meditation
Improves creativity and will-power
Advances spiritual exploration and self-realization
Wayne is a life-long musician who has studied the gong extensively under Gong Master Mehtab Benton. His authentic style of playing, infused with passion and intention, promotes deep relaxation and transformation. Wayne is the Founder-Director of Beneficial Sound, a 501(c)3 public charity committed to bringing wellness to the mind, body and soul through sound and vibration. He has a degree in Psychology, is a Certified Gong Practitioner and Yoga Instructor and is a member of the American Sound Healers Association.