Manu and Reko are honored to be presenting this workshop alongside Ocian Ward, as we team up to bring you this dynamic breathwork experience.
This event, over the span of 4 hours will explore through various phases, the dynamic polarity between self and other. We invite each participant to come with a partner of your choosing, whether intimate, friend, or family.
****PLEASE BRING A PARTNER FOR THIS EVENT!***
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We will be exploring the balance and exchange through various forms of opposing forces - masculine and feminine, expression and witness, give and receive - through group and partner exercises before we dive into the breathwork portion of the event.
To begin we will enter the space together, sit together and listen together. What is alive in us will be allowed to move, emerge, and be expressed as we make our way towards the pinnacle of the event, the breath. The event is structured to gradually open up to deeper layers of emotions, stories, and deeply held beliefs, for a natural release through breathing.
Each facilitator is trained in various styles of breathwork, with different teachers. Together we are bringing our own skills that come from a common foundational understanding of how breath can be used to activate the nervous system, allowing for the safe and gentle release of stored energy/trauma. Breathwork is a deep journey of conscious, connected, and rhythmic breathing that activates deeply held emotions and trauma, allowing them to awaken and emerge into completion. It is conducted lying down, on a mat, in a space that is contained for a safe and supported release.
Breathwork is used widely for many therapeutic and psychedelic experiences. The activation of the body's sympathetic nervous system through continuous breathing through the mouth, in a safe container, is an incredible way to allow for the emergence and release of stored trauma which often has with it old stories about who we are and how we fit into the world. Releasing this trauma and by association, these stories, we can transform how we move through the world. Breathwork can be a very empowering experience. The facilitators are there to support the participants in their process and experience of release. However, due to the sensitive nature of this energy, and the group setting, we ask that each participant reach out if they are unsure if it is right for them.
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Facilitator Bios:
Ocian Ward
Ocian is an established sound practitioner, offering to audiences all across Canada, the United States and beyond. Since 2010, she has been weaving together deeply transformative and profound healing spaces. She hosts and co-creates circles, ceremony and journeys, with the intention of creating resilient, self aware individuals and empowered communities through experiencing the ‘Art of the Muses’: Music & Sound. By combining this fundamental building block of life (sound) with Usui Reiki (masters level), Massage & Touch Therapy and most recently The Alchemists Path: Celtic Shamanism, Wildwood Priestess Training and Numa Somatics Breathwork, Ocian facilitates deep and profound experiential journeys for participants to safely explore the inner world and all it contains. These sessions can include instruments such as: Crystal Bowls, Crystal Lyre, Chimes, Rattles & Feathers, Steel & Medicine Drum, her latest the Sansula and Triple Drone Flute and most specially her etheric and powerful vocal harmonics. These sessions are deeply relaxing and rejuvenating, bringing people into deep states of cathartic release. Many participants have reports of incredible physical, mental, emotional and spiritual shifts after their sessions. Manu Manu has trained in Clarity Breathwork in a 6-month stay along with yoga & silent retreats, sweat lodges, 10+ day juice fasts, medicine ceremonies, and dance workshops in Pachamama, Costa Rica, an intentional Osho community. His training in Calligraphy Qi-Gong took place in Australia in January 2017 with its founder, Master Yang, who was born and raised in a Shaolin temple and has 50+ years of experience practicing eastern energy and martial arts. Manu brings a gentle and playful demeanor which help to create a relaxed sense of safety that is integral to the therapeutic process. He is currently running 2 weekly men's groups that focus on building and strengthening relationships between men that help uncovering shadows, face them and provide the support to move through them. He is presently studying Massage Therapy and building on his existing foundation of awareness and knowledge of the human body. Reko Reko has studied in Bio-Dynamic Breathwork Trauma Release System (BBTRS). BBTRS is a complete system of trauma release that centers around deep, connected breathing, and combines movement, bodywork, bio-energetics, somatic experiencing and other therapeutic techniques to support the release of trauma through complete expression. His awareness and understanding of emotional, behavioral and physical patterns of tension has grown out of practice in the therapeutic arts, including Breathwork, Fasting, and Bio-Energetics. He brings together a potent and comprehensive healing practice. Reko runs a weekly men's group and is currently enrolled in the Massage Therapy program to learn even more about the physical and energetic aspects of the human body. --------------------------------------------- There is limited space and everyone must register in advance. We will NOT have enough mats for everyone so please bring something thicker than a yoga mat to lie on while you breathe. Tickets are $111 - $155 each. They can be purchased through the link above. Don't hesitate as we will likely be sold out in advance of the event. Please reach out if you have any questions: reko@vitalbydesign.org We acknowledge that this event will take place on the unceded Coast Salish territories*. We acknowledge and respect the first peoples who have shepherded for many generations, the land on which we live. It is also understood that acknowledging land does little if anything to rectify the injustices and history of oppression. This is not meant to be justice, it is a small gesture of awareness. *The term Coast Salish is used to encompass a number of Indigenous peoples, including Esquimalt, Hul’qumi’num, Klahoose, Lekwungen (Songhees), MALAXEt, Musqueam, OStlq’emeylem, Pentlatch, Scia’new (Beecher Bay), Sliammon, Shishalh, Skxwú7mesh-with Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, Straits, Tsleil-Waututh, T’Sou-ke, SÁNEĆ (Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum), and Xwemalhkwu.