workshops, Intensives, circles & CEREMONIES
upcoming events
exploring ways to connect to yourself within the container of community.
Community Tea Ceremony
A shared ceremonial space to sit with Tea, in stillness, in presence, and in community.
Light Sound Bath played at end before integration.
Summer 2026: Saturdays in Ojai
May 30 @ 1pm - 2:30pm
June 27 @ 10am - 11:30am
July 25 @ 11am - 12:30pm
If you feel called to sit in this space, join us!
Sliding Scale: $36 - $66
candle light Sound Bath
An immersive sound experience — inviting the body into rest, regulation, & subtle attunement.
No current dates. Sound Baths in Ojai, CA returning in May, June, and July 2026.
If your body is asking for this, you can join the waitlist below.
private offerings
Private Tea Ceremony
Come sit Cha Dao,
The Way of Tea.
1 Hour 30 minutes (+) // 1-6 people
You can sit with Tea and admire Her alone, or expand the experience —This is a silent meditation, or a sober journey, held by ambient music and your curiosity. Time for Integration is included.
No experience needed, just a willingness to listen.
Timing depends on elements that are interwoven. Each ceremony is a private container, tailored to the humans present, allowing for a more intimate and responsive experience.
See “Upcoming Events” for Public Community Tea Offerings.
Private Ketamine Circle
This is a small, private experience for 2-4 people who already know each other and want to come together in a shared healing process. It can mirror individual medicine sessions, or be structured as a more immersive, retreat-like experience. What this Work Centers
This work is relational. It focuses on how you meet yourself and each other in real time, especially in moments of intensity, vulnerability, and change. Psychedelic Medicine is used as a supportive adjunct, creating space for new insight, softening defenses, and allowing different ways of relating.The Orientation
Community is not just the setting, it is part of the medicine. Like a blooming flower, we work with the natural movement between contraction and expansion, learning how to stay present through both. This includes how you track your experience, how you stay connected to others, and how you move with what arises rather than overriding it. How the Space is Held
This work draws from relational attunement, somatic awareness, and elemental frameworks as ways of tracking and responding to what is present so you can stay in relationship with the process as it unfolds.Structure
Each experience is tailored to your group. There is typically a blend of individual journey space, shared integration and facilitated relational work. Please inquire for more information.Typically Includes:
Full Nest Set-Up: mat/blanket/pillow/eye-shade/headphones/music
Both Medical and Psychological Assessments & Clearance
Online “Meet and Greet”
In-Person Intention Setting Circle
Medicine Session (one-time event, or a series)
In-Person Integration Circle
1:1 time with Cat to support deeper integration
Snacks and (light) Food provided around Medicine Journeys
Can Include (As Desired):
Full-Length Sound Bath and interwoven Sound Healing
Using Shamanic Practices to Deepen the Journey
IFS/Parts Work Healing Circle, Breakout time for Dyads
Somatic Embodiment Exercises and Movement Practices
Art, Creative Expression, Metaphor & Storytelling
Time tending to Grief along the road to Transformation
Working with Archetypes through Oracle Cards and Tarot
Space for Journaling, Prompts, and Contemplation
Tea Ceremony in the Way of Tea/Cha Dao Zen Practice
Presence & Intimacy Building Experiential Partner-BASED Intensive
This is an experiential workshop for two people that want to invest more deeply in their relationship.
The focus is on strengthening your ability to tune into one another,
expanding presence, attunement, and understanding in real time. This work is relational, direct, and experiential — what happens between you becomes the material we work with.
This can also be held in community as a small group container (4, 6, 8, or 10 people.) Each participant is paired with a dedicated practice partner. Examples of Dyads: Friends, Siblings, Parent/Child, Romantic Partners, Business Partners.half-day or FULL DAY workshop
entering Sacred Circles
Circles designate a shared sacred space. You can find them in most cultures as they are rich in symbolism and lend well to ceremony.
They can reflect the seasons of life—the constant renewal of cycles and shifts from light to dark as the moon and sun move in rhythm. Time can become subjective in a circle and offer rich transformation to all that gather.
When entering a circle, the space is first purified through smudging or mental and energetic clearing. As you step in, you are invited to arrive with attention, reverence and intention — to notice your impact on the space, and to take responsibility for your presence within it.
The circle can consist simply of the bodies gathered, or be formalized with objects such as candles or stones.
It is a container — what happens within it matters.
Support and protection are called in by honoring the wisdom of those who came before. Sometimes setting the stage involves calling in the Ancestors, the directions and elements — starting with the East and the element of Air, which ushers in change.
You are not just witnessing the space — you are participating in it.
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