AN Expansive New Year’s CeremonY & Celebration designed to Facilitate YOUR full expression.
About This Event:
The Flying Sage is excited to invite you to Emergence; our second ecstatic New Year’s ceremony. We’re calling on anyone who wishes to celebrate the New Year in an expansive and intentional way. Prepare for an incredibly activated dance floor, breathwork ceremony and sound bath that will emerge us into 2024 together in a powerful & connected way.
This is one of the largest event offerings we put on with The Flying Sage and last year’s ceremony was nothing short of magical. This event is perfect for anyone who wants to celebrate their New Year’s in an intentional and connected with other conscious minded people who love to dance, express and celebrate.
Location:
This event will be hosted at a beautiful venue located downtown. Exact location sent out to ticket holders.
Additional Information:
This event will be alcohol free and our team will create a strong, sacred and safe container to facilitate the emergence of your truest expressions. For the Ecstatic Dance stage, we will maintain a silent and phone-free dancefloor for the first portion of the night so that those dancing can truly drop in with one another through movement. After midnight, we will open up the space for more celebration and socializing - this means more relaxed rules for the dance floor. Throughout the entire night, dedicated spaces will be available for those that desire to be internal or to chat with others.
We are looking for volunteers for this event. If you are interested in volunteering please apply here.
Schedule:
6:00 ~ Doors Open
7:00 - 7:15 ~ Welcoming Circle & Intros (Michael Oliver)
7:15 - 8:15 ~ Guided Breathwork (Damian Kai Norman)
8:30 - 9:00pm ~ Intention Circle
9:15 - 11:50pm ~ Semi Guided Ecstatic Dance (Tara Achkar + Vern Petty)
11:50 - 12:10am ~ New Year’s Portal
12:10 - 1:30am ~ Second Dance Set (DJ Passio)
1:30-2:10 ~ Sound Bath Portal 🔮 (Masa & Eda from Quantum Care)
2:10 - 2:30am ~ Closing Circle and Farewells
Throughout the evening, there will also be art display courtesy of Samantha Merritt from The Glow Craft and hand massages courtesy of Beata. Stay tuned for more offerings to be added as well.
About Our Sponsors:
Moment Mushrooms:
Moment Mushrooms is a values driven wellness brand focused on the transformative power of psilocybin mushrooms. They believe mushrooms can be used as an intentional tool to support inner growth and mental health. They offer microdoses, chocolate and dried mushrooms all in 100% plastic free packaging.
Dose Osmosis:
Osmosis is founded on the transformative potential of psychedelics in promoting healing and wellness. They believe in nurturing not just the body, but the mind and spirit as well. Existing to serve both individuals and community, osmosis offers a spectrum of reliable products derived from high-quality ingredients, formulated by experts on trauma and wellness, designed to cater to your unique intention. Osmosis is on a mission to help you heal, awaken to your greatest potential, and support you in unlocking your best possible self.
Wize Tea:
Just like life, it takes guts and hard work to choose balance. Wize Iced Teas nail that perfect balance of refreshing flavour, caffeine and sweetness. Wize creates such a smooth taste by upcycling antioxidant-rich and lightly caffeinated coffee leaves, which doubles the farmers' revenues in their 9-month off season.The sweetest part? By handcrafting their premium teas on their own farms with custom techniques, they don't need fake sweeteners or loads of sugar. With everything you want and nothing you don't, Wize is boldly balanced.
About Your Facilitators:
Damian Kai Norman
As a certified counsellor specializing in trauma and somatic therapy, a 2x certified breathwork facilitator, a psychedelic integration counsellor, a certified ICF accredited coach, and a holistic movement practitioner with a professional dance background; Damian Kai Norman values community, freedom, and physical-emotional embodiment. He loves facilitating group work and wellness retreats, creating safe containers for authentic vulnerable conversations, befriending our nervous system, and cultivating our capacity to feel fearlessly.
Norman has over 10 years of experience facilitating, including internationally across Canada, Europe, and South America. Norman is a student at heart and is currently in the second year Somatic Experiencing International training and completed the Embody Lab Somatic Attachment Therapy program. Norman has completed levels 1, 2a, 2b, & 3 of Robin Clement’s Breathwave Facilitator training, co-facilitates with Robin in level 1 and 2 trainings, and co-facilitated the first Clinical Breathwork program in North America. Norman is a certified Level 1 Craniosacral Therapist, a certified yoga instructor, a Level 3 graduate of the Movement Flow program, and completed four years of professional dance training at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and York University. Norman brings Breathwork, Psycoheducation Cirlces, and Embodiment Workshops to TheraPsil, Qi Integrated Health, corporate & wellness companies, retreats, festivals, and trainings.
He is a Community Leader with The Flying Sage, a leader in conscious men’s work through the Expansive Man and the Arka Brotherhood, has completed levels 1 & 2 of the Conscious Relationship Training (CRT), completed The Power of Awareness meditation training, and was one of the first graduates of Toad School psychedelic training. Lastly, he is a graduate of the Rhodes College Professional Counselling Program. Norman has an intimate relationship with trauma and continues to learn through lived experience how to compassionately relate to his own chronic pain through working with the nervous system. Norman is here to do the work with you and attune to your personal journey. With a calm grounded presence and an uplifting encouraging spirit, Norman invites you to connect with your body and build a relationship of trust, curiosity and compassion… Creating a loving partnership with yourself.
Tara Achkar (Ecstatic Dance)
Tara is a dedicated DJ and Ecstatic Dance Facilitator, a seasoned Traditional Hatha Yoga Teacher, an adept Mental Fitness Coach, and a skilled Integrative Nutrition Coach. Drawing from a comprehensive background in mind-body practices, Tara provides guided movement meditation sessions designed to facilitate a profound connection with the wisdom of your body, allowing you to release the constraints of the mind.
Vern Petty (Ecstatic Dance)
Vern is a man exploring the ways we can empower each other to step into our greatness and use it to serve the world. He is focused on cultivating a culture of love through communities. Co-creating the microcosmes of healing, connection, and expression that will ripple out into the world.
He serves as a facilitator through holding space as an event host, masculine embodiment coach, breathworker, and counselor. He is the co-founder of Synergy Ecstatic Dance, Founder of Expansive Man Brotherhood, and a host within the team of Enliven Wellness Festival.
Lately his journey has taken him to exploring the range of expression we can meet through surrender to sound. His style of music flows through many genres of music across the world but will consistently bring a crowd to the edges of peaks. Embracing all the facets and emotions of being human.
Gabriel Largaespada (DJ Passio)
Passio, aka, Gabriel Largaespada, is a Nicaraguan born DJ with a deep passion for songs that make people dance uncontrollably. His style ranges from lush percussive filled tunes to Latin/Afro inspired rhythms. His belief is that music has the power to bring out the most authentic aspects of ourselves to the surface.
Quantum Care Team (Eda & Masa)
Quantum Care Coaching is dedicated to revolutionizing perspectives on Holistic Health, Physical Movement, and Meaningful Growth.
Led by Eda Ertan & Masa Kateb, Quantum Care blends ancient practices with modern sciences, offering a tool that unlocks an accessible path to conscious, meaningful, and sustainable healthy living.
Eda’s extensive background in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Healthy Aging, coupled with her passion for holistic health, enriches Quantum Care's approach, weaving together diverse disciplines such as Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sound Therapy, Martial Arts, and Sufism for a balanced life on all levels.
Eda is the Executive Director of Brock House Society, serves at the BC Association of Hospice Palliative Care, and is a trauma-informed grief therapist.
Masa is an activist and storyteller from the most ancient capital city on Earth, Damascus, Syria.
She coaches on leadership and growth, and presents the gift of her hands through assisting with Meridian Acupressure Massage. Masa strives to advance Quantum Care's holistic practice, which continues to be transformative to her own active-healing and growth journey on the shores of the Salish Sea.
Masa is the Marketing & Communications Manager with Still Moon Arts Society, and lives a life of voluntary service to a higher purpose, with a great hope in our collective consciousness.
Abneet Sandar
Abneet is a second generation Punjabi- Canadian woman, reclaiming roots and healing gifts from her lineage. She is the CEO of The Nourished Woman, and creator of the 8 week award winning woman's tantra course: AWAKENING SHAKTI. The Nourished Woman is global platform created in 2017 helping women in high impact professions to heal from trauma + burnout and reclaim pleasure, rest + radiance as a birthright.
Darren Uretsky
Darren is a Level 2 certified Sound Alchemist (Singing Bowls and Tuning Forks) guided and mentored in the therapeutic and ceremonial use of sacred sound from many ancient instruments and cultures from across the world. Darren believes the medicine of the future is vibrational sound and resonance and that we need to feel to connect and heal. He would like to invite all to come experience the same life-changing effects that the synergy of the sacred sound current, movement, and meditation can have for them and is honored to be able to hold and / or co-hold safe supportive spaces to help searching souls remember that they possess the power to heal themselves within them.
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