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Ceremonial Sound Journey

$303 / $412

for Workshop Guests

$430 / $665

for Day Pass Visitors

90 minutes

One or Two People

Location

You will meet your practitioner outside the bookstore 10 minutes early to be guided to the location for your session.

This session opens with a three-card tarot reading to illuminate current themes and awaken your own intuitive knowing. From there, you’ll be guided through a sound healing journey featuring ethereal crystal harp, bowls, wooden flutes, hide drum, rattles, and a ceremonial array of sounds. This session invites you through different unique states of consciousness, shifting your perspective and connecting you to the wisdom of the earth.

This session is available for prenatal guests, couples and friends.

This session supports:

  • Ritual container for self-reflection
  • Journeying to deep places within
  • Releasing tension
  • Energetic reset

Practitioners

Micha Merrick

Micha believes the key to health and happiness lies in discovering ourselves as free and natural beings. She teaches herbalism, meditation and ritual as a heartfelt communion with our living ecosystem. Micha is an Esalen experiential faculty member and botanical altar artist. As a birth doula and practitioner of embodied herbal practices, her clients find sanctuary and grounding in connection with the earth. She has studied with WatPo Royal Medical School, Bumi Sehat Natural Birth Center, Kripalu School of Yoga and personal mentorship with traditional midwives, botanical healers and folk herbalists in Bali, Thailand, Vermont, and California.