Unwind with the soothing power of crystal healing bowls, guided breathwork, yin yoga and yoga nidra, designed to balance your nervous system and promote deep relaxation. Offered by Andrea Clark, co-founder of Nectar Retreat and Mist Thermal, these transformative sound bath sessions incorporate Solfeggio frequencies and other healing tones to promote sound healing, while also guiding you through breathwork that builds resilience and reduces stress.

Each two-hour session includes:

• A welcoming herbal tea to soothe.

• Guided breathwork exercises designed to build inner resilience and prepare you for rest.

• Yoga nidra, also known as yogic sleep, helps individuals reach a deep state of relaxation while remaining conscious. These are paired with 2-3 yin yoga postures for restorative, somatic release to support calm in your body and encourage better sleep.

• 30+ minutes of sound healing using crystal bowls to help ease tension and encourage relaxation.

• Time for gentle integration, ensuring that you leave feeling grounded, and ready for a peaceful night.

Whether you're a Bowen Island local or a visitor exploring what to do on Bowen Island, these sessions offer a perfect opportunity for self-care and relaxation. 

What to bring:

• Comfortable layers, including warm socks, as the Dome may feel cooler in the evening.

• A journal for reflections during the integration period.

Our 'Sunday Sounds To Heal' sessions prioritize accessibility by recognizing and addressing financial disparities affecting racialized, disabled, and marginalized communities. We welcome individuals who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, 2SLGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, or single parents to book with us, without requiring proof of financial hardship.

This event is hosted in-person at Nectar Yoga, if you are interested in attending our virtual Spring Equinox gathering, CLICK HERE

Event Overview

The Spring Equinox is a sacred day of equal light and dark, it is hinge point that ushers us into the season of light. An energetic doorway can be opened on this day, offering curiosity, clarity, and new beginnings.

Led by Nectar Creatrix, Andrea, we’ll gather together in Nectar’s sacred geodesic dome to share our voices and intentions. Themes of seeding creativity, opening to more flow in our daily lives, renewal, and release will be discussed.

After our opening circle, Andrea will guide the group through a 60-minute Slow Flow, all-levels yoga class. A crystal bowl sound bath will follow to close this offering.

Crystal bowls offer binaural beats which propel the brain into brainwave states of deep relaxation, such as beta waves or even meditative or trance-like brainwave states in theta waves*

We look forward to sharing this beautiful evening with our community.

Items to bring:

Journal

Pen

One Community Altar Item
This could be a plant or a crystal that reflects the season to you (Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Citrine), eggs, intentions, images

What’s Included:

• An introduction and group introduction

• A seasonally curated yoga practice

• A 30-minute crystal bowl sound bath

• Closing gratitude circle

About Sound Baths

Just as a typical bath involves a person immersing themselves in the medium of water, a sound bath attempts to envelop a person in the medium of sound. In most cases, the bath involves singing bowls, which are instruments made out of metal or crystal that create a resonant tone (much like a bell) when a practitioner strikes them.

Sound baths convey an immersive sound that fills the entire room and the bodies within the space, transmitting sound waves throughout the entire body, including memories and sensations stored in the cells. The resonance activates both theta, alpha, and gamma brain waves, states that are associated with relaxation, the letting go of mental and physical stress, and emotions relating to wellbeing and compassion.

Other Resources

* Le Scouarnec RP, Poirier RM, Owens JE, Gauthier J, Taylor AG, Foresman PA. Use of binaural beat tapes for treatment of anxiety: A pilot study of tape preference and outcomes. Altern Ther Health Med. 2001. January; 7(1), 58–63. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Parking + Facilities

• Parking is very limited so please come early + carpool if possible.

• Please use the washroom before you arrive on premise, as washroom facilities are not available for event attendees.

Investment

In-person offering : $35
Limited spaces available

*Payments are non-refundable + non-transferable

About The Teacher

Andrea received her extensive yoga teaching training in Kerala, India, where the program was rigorous and encompassed the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Andrea believes that all of us have the power to change our lives now, not tomorrow. It is from this rooted truth that she shares the yoga practice, knowing that we are all immortal souls wanting to live from a place of peace, happiness, and love. Yoga shows the way.

Andrea’s teaching style is an infusion of mindful alignment and intentional breath. She has had the opportunity to teach internationally and share her knowledge with people from all walks of life. From India to the Caribbean to Greece to Morocco, her international students have opened her heart and expanded her teaching to depths beyond her imagination.

This event is hosted online via Zoom.com, if you are interested in attending our in-person Spring Equinox gathering, CLICK HERE

Event Overview

The Spring Equinox is a sacred day of equal light and dark; it is a hinge point that ushers us into the season of light. An energetic doorway can be opened on this day, offering curiosity, clarity, and new beginnings.

Led by Nectar Creatrix, Andrea, we’ll gather together to share our voices and intentions. Themes of seeding creativity, opening to more flow in our daily lives, renewal, and release will be discussed.

We’ll gather together to reflect and realign as we move into this new season. Themes of seeding creativity, opening to more flow in our daily lives, renewal, and release will be discussed.

We will write out our intentions, which will be planted along with flower seeds. We will nurture our intentions (and seeds) with water and energy and watch as they bloom in late Spring/early summer.

A seasonal altar will be created with plants that represent the season, crystals, eggs, and intentions.

We will join in conscious breath, fire magic, and a simple all-levels movement practice that you can repeat through the Spring season.

After our gathering, you will need a pot, soil and seeds (of your choice) to physically plant along with your written intentions.  

Items to bring:

Journal

Pen

Coloured pencils

Altar decoration: Plants, Crystals that reflect the season to you (Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Citrine), eggs, intentions, images

A Candle

A warm blanket

Investment

$25

*Payments are non-refundable + non-transferable

1-day before our offering you will receive a link to our Live Zoom. You will also receive a list of items to bring to the session.

If you cannot attend the event at the time of live streaming, a recording will be sent to your within 24 hours.

About The Teacher

Andrea received her extensive yoga teaching training in Kerala, India, where the program was rigorous and encompassed the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Andrea believes that all of us have the power to change our lives now, not tomorrow. It is from this rooted truth that she shares the yoga practice, knowing that we are all immortal souls wanting to live from a place of peace, happiness, and love. Yoga shows the way.

Andrea’s teaching style is an infusion of mindful alignment and intentional breath. She has had the opportunity to teach internationally and share her knowledge with people from all walks of life. From India to the Caribbean to Greece to Morocco, her international students have opened her heart and expanded her teaching to depths beyond her imagination.

*This live-streamed event will be at 6pm (PST)

If you cannot join in at the exact time, the session will be recorded, and the link to download the recording will be sent to you after the event.

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At the turn of each year, a simple, yet effective practice to engage in is to take stock of the past twelve months, and look forward with clarity and purpose.

Our online gathering will hold space for inner reflection and creativity, with a focus on powerful journal prompts to gain perspective and tap into our intuitive wisdom. Each writing exercise during our time together is designed to consciously and constructively reflect on 2022, and to resource us to co-creating our lives in 2023.

This powerful writing session will amplify your deepest desires for the year ahead. We will focus on self reflection, relationships, mind, body, spirit, work, play and how we want to feel!

Included in this virtual gathering:

• An introduction and group check-in

• A short guided meditation

• A deep dive journalling session with prompting questions

Upon enrolment, you will receive a list of items to have available and a live-stream Zoom link to join the session.

Note: Tickets are non-refundable.

About The Teacher

Andrea received her extensive yoga teaching training in Kerala, India, where the program was rigorous and encompassed the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Andrea believes that all of us have the power to change our lives now, not tomorrow. It is from this rooted truth that she shares the yoga practice, knowing that we are all immortal souls wanting to live from a place of peace, happiness, and love. Yoga shows the way.

Andrea’s teaching style is an infusion of mindful alignment and intentional breath. She has had the opportunity to teach internationally and share her knowledge with people from all walks of life. From India to the Caribbean to Greece to Morocco, her international students have opened her heart and expanded her teaching to depths beyond her imagination.

We are pleased to host this sacred, in-person offering in our yoga-dome led by Nectar Yoga Retreat creatrix, Andrea Clark on the evening of December 21, 2022, where we will (re)kindle the inner soul flame as we honour the dark and move back into the light.

Event Overview

We are transitioning towards Winter, the coldest season that has the shortest daylight hours, before the days begin to emerge back warmth and to the light returning.

During our time together, we will kindle the inner soul flame as we honour the dark and move back into the light. Using our voices, our bodies, our breath, and our collective + individual intentions, be invited to carve a clear path forward toward the illumination of Spring.

The inherent shifts that are happening all around us are becoming more visible each day, and if we become more attuned, we can also hear an echoing of the seasonal rhythms occurring within us. As we approach the Winter, it’s this season when the veil between our realm and the spiritual realm is thinnest and connection to the unseen is most tangible. And it is on the Solstice, this notable time of the year when we can consciously turn towards the light, engaging in graceful practices that can help us to embrace Winter in an embodied way.

What’s Included:

• An introduction and group introduction

• A seasonally curated 75-minute Yin Yoga practice

• Seasonal wisdom offered for this Yin session

• A 30-minute crystal bowl sound bath

• Closing gratitude circle

About Yin Yoga

In Yin practices, we stretch the connective tissue that is centralized at the joints. Yin yoga practice supports flexibility and opening in areas that are often perceived as non-malleable; particularly the hips, pelvis and lower spine. It also allows an opportunity to exercise deep breathwork practices that stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system (associated with rest and digest functions). When you gently stretch connective tissues by holding a supported pose for a long time, the body will respond by making them both stronger and more limber. This helps maintain a healthy range of motion, healthy mobility and comfort in the body, nurturing the whole– physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

About Sound Baths

Just as a typical bath involves a person immersing themselves in the medium of water, a sound bath attempts to envelop a person in the medium of sound. In most cases, the bath involves singing bowls, which are instruments made out of metal or crystal that create a resonant tone (much like a bell) when a practitioner strikes them.

Sound baths convey an immersive sound that fills the entire room and the bodies within the space, transmitting sound waves throughout the entire body, including memories and sensations stored in the cells. The resonance activates both theta, alpha, and gamma brain waves, states that are associated with relaxation, the letting go of mental and physical stress, and emotions relating to wellbeing and compassion.

Parking + Facilities

• Parking is very limited so please come early + carpool if possible.

• Please use the washroom before you arrive on premise, as washroom facilities are not available for event attendees.

Investment

$35

*Payments are non-refundable + non-transferable

About The Teacher

Andrea received her extensive yoga teaching training in Kerala, India, where the program was rigorous and encompassed the physical, emotional, and spiritual. Andrea believes that all of us have the power to change our lives now, not tomorrow. It is from this rooted truth that she shares the yoga practice, knowing that we are all immortal souls wanting to live from a place of peace, happiness, and love. Yoga shows the way.

Andrea’s teaching style is an infusion of mindful alignment and intentional breath. She has had the opportunity to teach internationally and share her knowledge with people from all walks of life. From India to the Caribbean to Greece to Morocco, her international students have opened her heart and expanded her teaching to depths beyond her imagination.