About This Event: Huachuma Breathwork
The Flying Sage is excited to be partnering with Soulful Somatic to bring you a new reoccurring breathwork offering pairing conscious connected breathing with a light microdose of Huachuma (San Pedro). This will be a bi-weekly offering to start and will be hosted in Yaletown at Mandala. This will be an immersive and powerful experience that will bring you closer to yourself through the magic of breath.
What is Huachuma (San Pedro)?
Huachuma, also known as San Pedro, is a psychoactive cactus native to the Andes Mountains in South America. It has been used for centuries by indigenous peoples in the region for its psychoactive and shamanic properties. Huachuma contains mescaline, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound, and is traditionally consumed in ceremonial rituals to facilitate spiritual insights, emotional healing, and personal growth. It is revered for its ability to induce altered states of consciousness, leading to vivid visual experiences and profound introspection, making it a powerful tool for self-discovery, healing, and connecting with the spiritual world.
Where Is It Sourced?
We are grateful to Dose Osmosis for sponsoring these events. Their Osmosis San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi) powder is sourced from a group of families that work in community to grow and harvest this medicine. These families plant these medicines on a small and medium scale as they are far and few from their environment. For this reason, the products they offer are grown in gardens, in small plots. They are organically grown with care near their natural regions. This also reduces wild harvesting, supporting the natural reserves of this sacred plant, something of utmost importance to us.
For the above mentioned reasons Dose Osmosis consciously offers the medicine to ensure the continuity processes and to preserve the natural balance of the cactus.
For more information about the product, please visit their website here.
About Your Facilitator: 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.
What To Bring:
Warm layers
Comfortable blanket if you would like
Meaningful item for the altar
Register
These events are open to the public and tickets are $60.00. If you are a Sage or Wizard Member, tickets are FREE. Tickets can be found here. Please note that we do have limited spots each week so make sure to get your tickets fast.
If you are not a member yet with The Flying Sage and would like to access these events and more for free, you can learn more about our membership here.
Cancellation Policy:
Please understand that there are limited spots for these events and so we only accept cancellations 48 hours in advance from the start date. This means that if you cancel within 48 hours, we will not be able to issue you a refund. Please reach out to us directly via email at hello@theflyingsage.ca to cancel.
Please note that there may be photography or video at this event.
