Past Events
Cacao and Sound Healing Ceremony
Facilitated by Shaman Micah Sheiner and Sarah Carter
Align your energy, body, and mind with simple toning and intention setting, and relax in the resonance of bowls, gongs, drums, flutes, and more. Open your heart with gentle Cacao medicine, and experience a healing sharing circle guided by sacred owl medicine.
Micah Sheiner is a vibrational artist/healer. He travels extensively to learn from musical, spiritual, & healing traditions around the world. With inspiration from India, he has dedicated much of his path to the yoga of sound. In Nepal he has trained in Himalayan sound healing with singing bowls, gongs, & bells. In Europe he has apprenticed in gong playing, gong yoga, & Starhenge World Peace Bell Gardens with Don Conreaux.
He is currently studying Traditional Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang & other senior Tibetan doctors - gradually integrating external therapies, herbal medicine, mantra & spiritual healing into his sound healing practice.
Micah received a Master’s degree in Education from UCLA. He explores and teaches sound through bowls, gongs, voice, didgeridoo, strings, & percussion instruments. He weaves these into resonant soundscapes for healing, meditation, yoga, & journeying. Micah conducts sound baths, workshops, individual sessions, & performances in California and internationally.
Jessica Hundley Workshop
Jessica Hundley is a writer, journalist, and filmmaker who delves into narrative art, music, counterculture, magic, and psychedelia. She is the author of Taschen Book’s coveted series The Library of Esoterica: Tarot, Witchcraft, Astrology, and Plant Magick.
This full moon ritual connects every aspect of Jessica Hundley’s work. By meditating on duality and embracing the value of opposition, we learn to accept and explore the darker aspects of ourselves with reverence and curiosity.
She also gives participants a tarot card reading, as well as free copy of her book.
Writer
Hundley has published over a dozen books in the last decade, an acclaimed biography on country rock icon Gram Parsons for DaCapo, a book on music and meditation with the director David Lynch, and an overview of photographs from longtime Michael Jackson photographer Todd Gray and extensive overview of the photography of Dennis Hopper from Taschen Publications,
In her 20+ career as an arts, film and culture journalist, she has interviewed countless iconic actors, directors and musicians or publications such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, NY Times, Mojo and many others. As an editor, Hundley has served as masthead editor for men’s magazine Complex, music mag The Fader, and the UK magazine Dazed and Confused. She has contributed essays on music and culture to several books as well as penning liner notes for numerous record labels.
Creative Director
As a lead Creative Director for various high-profile artists and brands, Hundley's recent work includes overseeing staging, visuals and overall concepting for John Legend's 2021 Bigger Love Tour and Legend’s 2022-23 Las Vegas residency. Hundley continues to work collaboratively with John Legend and his team as a Creative Director and Producer, overseeing the recent launch of Legend's LOVED01 skin care line, as well as album art, limited edition book and album packaging and commercial projects. Hundley also served as co-creative director alongside Darren Romanelli on the DomeRX an immersive art experience at the 2022 FORMAT Festival. Other recent copywriting and creative directing work includes drink brand GHIA and an expansive campaign for Corona/Mexico alongside the team at CAA/Observatory. Hundley also spearheaded the restoration and re-release of Dennis Hopper’s lost 1970 classic, The Last Movie. Working alongside The Hopper Art Trust, Hundley is currently overseeing the film’s worldwide distro and accompanying experiential campaign, as well as soundtrack release.
Filmmaker
As a filmmaker, Hundley has served as director and producer on numerous music videos & commercials. Her documentary short on Latino fans of The Smiths, "Viva Morrissey" screened at the Edinburgh and SXSW film festivals. Hundley also directed and produced, "Such Hawks, Such Hounds", a feature-length music documentary on the American hard rock underground.
Yoga in the Garden
Our Monday Yoga in the Garden practice with Sat Siri is a revelation. A time typically overwhelmed by the hustle of the week to come was reframed by prioritizing softness and flow, allowing for alignment with the heart as opposed to the ego.
To create the space for deep nourishment and enlightenment at the risk of falling behind in our day to day… to surrender our ideas of what has to happen on a Monday morning… and instead breathe together, cry, laugh, and dance in spite of the stress of having to get all these “necessary things” done… was nothing short of life changing.
By letting go of everything but the present, we honored the moment, and respected that the week ahead could be entirely new. Knowing we had done the real work… trusting that yesterday’s pains have been integrated and alchemized… we were able to move forward with more of ourselves to offer.
This commitment to Monday Morning Yoga in the Garden and to the space for revelation and integration continues to be a reset and a reminder to trust the need to soften and bend the linear course of life… to recognize the genius in the natural design… and the cycles in our lives. When we witness each other become the most authentic and effortless version of ourselves, we help each other to grow, creating a collective field rich with soul and reflective of a garden blossoming into full expression.
