Sanctuary Studio
A monthly announcement of gatherings, workshops, classes and more...
Upcoming Events...
March 8th from 630-8pm
$25
with Marianne Mitchell & Eric Lindstrom

Reserve your space at marianne@appalachianpriestess.com

Please arrive early, around 615p, to set up your cozy spot


Marianne will lead the Breathwork session and guide the technique and some of the things you may experience with active breathing. She has been guiding breathwork groups and sessions since 2010 and holds an embodied, trauma-informed, knowledgeable and deeply experienced space for a transformational Soul Journey.

Eric will lead the Sound portion & support you through the depths of sound with gongs, bowls, drums, flutes and more to relax, release and let go of anything that is not serving you & restore a newfound peace within! Eric is a sound healer and multi-instrumentalist musician with over 3 decades of experience in performance and now healing sessions and teaching.

They will work together to weave sonic vibrations through and around you and the space to support in amplifying your soul's intentions for healing, wholeness, remembrance and more.

Bring a yoga mat, we have blankets, bolsters and eye pillows.

Suggestions: Please don’t eat for a few hours before our journey and no mind-altering substances day-of, please!

Please arrive early, it will start on time. No late admissions. Space is limited, please RSVP to marianne@appalachianpriestess.com to hold your spot.

ADDITIONAL INFO:
Breathwork is a powerful technique for exploration, discovery, healing, and personal growth. Working with the breath enables you to take better care of yourself and release beliefs and patterns that no longer serve you. Most people leave breathwork sessions feeling clearer, calmer, more content and relaxed. You’ll breathe to a curated playlist to enhance the experience and help focus your intention before dropping into a live sound experience.

Sound Healing uses vibration as a healing mechanism to realign the mind, body and soul. It clears out the energy fields, removes past trauma, and alleviates ailments, pressures and stresses associated with every day life.

A Sound Meditation relaxes the body, clears the subconscious, aligns the energy field, removes past trauma, calms the mind, and activates your body's natural healing ability. The Soundbath includes different sound healing instruments, from gongs to crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, drums, and more to create a sound healing experience that will vibrate and activate every cell in your body to restore, realign and rejuvenate you.
Restorative Yoga and Meditation every Monday night!

Relax and restore your body, mind and spirit with this soothing yoga practice.

Deep, passive stretching using props to fully support your body allows for a gentle release of underlying tension. Advance registration is appreciated. Space is limited. Props provided.

For more information or to register, please contact cyndy.kirkland@gmail.com.
Cash, check or Venmo (@Cyndy-Kirkland) only.

$15/class.
Buy an 8 class pass for $96 and save ($12/class).
Energy Medicine Groups

Women's Circle - March 29th from 5-8p

Energy Exchange: $50
Theme: Emergence    

*pls note new rate - also reach out if financial considerations are needed ~ scholarship/donations spaces are always available*
    
Emergence is a potent and important aspect in the journey of Becoming. As we celebrate Spring, we will investigate the energy of Awakening, Initiation, Renewal and more. In particular, we will lean into the Intelligence of Emergence to guide our process of Revelation. As we leave the Winter Cave and re-Emerge, we will catch in Consciousness more of what is seeking to reveal as our life during this phase of the Creative Process. 
 
This Circle, we initiate Spring energy into our lives, bodies and being. During our mystic circle wisdom sharing, we'll investigate what is seeking to emerge as our lives. What intentions, seeds, visions, Yes's are rising forth to be nourished by the Light of Spring. What is ready to be Initiated? What is revealing from the Unseen to the Seen? 

 In the Expanded vortex, activated by alchemical, shamanic-use-of breathwork, we'll work in the timeless to experience an igniting of hearts desires, vitalizing of our YES and a potent portal of release. 

The space is limited to hold a deep, intimate container - please rsvp to hold your spot.

Marianne has been holding monthly Medicine Circle space for the Divine Feminine to Remember since 2010. She has been offering private and group sessions in addition to ceremony, online offerings and more for over 13 years. More information can be found at www.appalachianpriestess.com or reach out with inquiries at marianne@appalachianpriestess.com
Eric Lindstrom, Certified Sound Healer, is back to offer his popular Group Sound Meditation Project! With vibrant groups in Canton and Asheville, we are excited to welcome this amazing hour of deep sound healing and nourishing vibrations in Black Mountain!

Join us on March 19th from 630-730pm...feel free to arrive after 615pm to settle in and set up your relaxing space before the music starts at 630p.

Suggested Donation is $15 ~

Please RSVP to marianne@appalachianpriestess.com to hold your spot! Drop-ins are also welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat ~ Bolsters, eye pillows and blankets are available.
Personal Sessions with Shannon WIllis, M. ED 

Shannon is a ritual healing practitioner, ceremonialist, facilitator and founder of Red Earth Healing which aims to create a new folk culture of relating with the unseen world through the convergence of animistic and shamanic principles. Her ancestors hail from the British Isles, France, and Cherokee and Kaskaskia/Ilini nations. She is committed to collective healing, through holding grounded, empathic, heart-centered ritual space which supports presence, trust, and community rooted in the ancient ways of healing as service to the Earth.
If you'd like to schedule a session for a personal ritual to support invoking the rights of Spring or need some mentoring and direction, I'd love to be of support. Using divination and inner source work we will drop into non-ordinary reality and connect with your helping spirits for clarity, wisdom and sourcing of your sovereignty. Find out more about my offerings here: My Approach

In Black Mountain
10am-5pm, March 16th, 2020
or as always by phone or zoom worldwide.
Please reach out to book here
You can also be in touch for more info at shannon@redearthhealing.org
Red Earth Healing Monthly Offerings
with Shannon Willis


Ancestral Medicine Healing Circle - March 15th at 5:30pm

This monthly ritual aims to support participants to continue to work safely and directly with family elevated ancestors in an effort to provide assistance to the troubled dead who may be having a significant influence in our lives. Our time together includes direct visioning/journeywork with the ancestors, forgiveness practices, song, prayer, heart-centered group dialogue, and other inclusive types of ritual.

Space is limited to 15. Please RSVP, to hold your seat.

For more information contact Shannon at shannon@redearthhealing.org or
(706) 612-3816


The Alchemy of Becoming
OSTARA (SPRING EQUINOX) IMMERSION
MARCH 14th, 2020
10am-5pm


Equinoxes are about the constant balance of life’s seeming dualities,  and as such, we embark on the serpentine journey from death into life in the Spring and life into death in Autumn. The exchange of light and dark, yin and yang, masculine and feminine energies follows the rhythms of the Earth as we become a pathfinder of the wisdom of our life.

Offering of $150
Space is limited to 12

More details and registration here:  OSTARA

Join Bloom Post for monthly Cacao Medicine Ceremony
and Tobacco Healing Ceremony

Tobacco Healing Ceremony - March 8th from 12pm - 3pm
Cacao Ceremony - March 15th from 12pm - 4pm

Upcoming Dates
Tobacco Healing Ceremony - April 5
Cacao Ceremony - April 12

Follow this link for in-depth info and to register:

I am very excited to begin sharing these monthly offerings in the beautiful Sanctuary Studio! All are welcome to join us for heart-opening Cacao Ceremony, to shamanic journey, connect in community and come together for healing and clarity.

I'll also be offering monthly ceremonies with the sacred medicine of Singada, tobacco tea.

More details and information can be found on my website,  www.BloomPost.com
March Offerings from Move. Nourish. Heal.
Local Village - Family Nourishment and Care
Theme: Soups
March 11, 2020
1:00-3:00pm
$10 for kitchen use and $5 childcare

Each month we will inspire our menu from a different culinary theme. We'll prep and cook food that will be shared amongst the group to be enjoyed at home throughout the week.
Childcare will be provided on site with activities designed to foster a culture of generosity and cooperation.

For each gathering, we ask that participants bring ingredients to make a dish within the theme of the event. At the end of our time together, we will all leave with a variety of foods to enjoy. Contact Elisha Lee @ 828-424-8084

For more information:

Family Workout
March 11, 2020
4:00-5:00 pm
$10
1 free kid under 12 with adult!

Bring the kids and let’s workout together!
This class offers cardio kickboxing encouraging strengthening and flexibility exercises in a fun and energetic environment.

Contact Elisha Lee @ 828-424-8084

For more information:
Spiritual Roundtable
March 11, 2020
5:15-7:15pm
Donations Appreciated

Open to peaceful and open communicators whom would like to share stories and beliefs on topics such as, peace, joy, serenity, hope, death, birth, each gathering a different dialogue. Come with curiosity and an open mind.
Contact Elisha Lee @ 828-424-8084

For more information:
Sound Bath
March 11, 2020 
7:30-8:30 pm
$10

Enjoy the healing sounds and vibrations of crystal singing bowls, drums and chimes while you relax and unwind from your day. 
Contact Will Harris @ 336-324-9255

For more information:
Yoga for Kids: ages 3-7

A six week yoga series that moves through each chakra.

We will explore yoga through:

Fun yoga adventures, yoga poses, mantra, breath work, games and more! 

Please register your child by February 17th to ensure a spot. 
Limit is 10 children.

Session dates:
*Thursday’s: 4-4:45
*March 5- April 9
*$54 session

Please Contact :
Jaime ⭐️

Jaime has been teaching kids yoga for over 15 years. She has taught children's yoga in New York, Puerto Rico, Mexico & Costa Rica.

She now travels to preschools all over this area & is excited to share the magic of yoga here in Black Mountain. 
Saturday Studies: Coming home to yourself and the plants
A powerful six-month journey embodying the Wise Woman Tradition through cultivating self-love & relationships with wild plants

Six Saturdays, March through September 
First session: March 28

Learn to embody self-love the Wise Woman Way! In this healing, intimate circle of sisters honoring women and the Earth, we embrace the culture of the Wise Woman Tradition. Together, we reclaim sacred relationships with ourselves, the plants, and our sisters. 
See  www.sewisewomen.com  for registration and contact info
Ongoing Classes
Back Care Yoga®
A slow moving, detail-oriented, therapeutic class designed for people looking for lasting help with acute and chronic back pain. The work is also preventative. Yoga postures with simple breathwork and mindfulness are combined with corrective exercises to restore biological function to our feet, hips, and spine. By moving in a wide variety of ways, and by moving in ways we can translate into daily life, we discover how to live better in our bodies. 

Details & Registration: https://www.ambodywork.com
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