Workshops and Events
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS:
Sunday Yoga and Gong Bath
February 2nd & 16th, 10-11:30 am
Please join me for a series of Sunday morning yoga classes with a Paiste gong bath savasana.
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Enjoy a restorative, engaging, and strengthening yoga class in the comfort of my home studio in Guelph. We will start with grounding breath work to tonify the lungs, then move into deep stretching for flexibility. We will gradually develop more engaging postures to empower and strengthen our bodies. The class will end with a beautiful, relaxing extended savasana accompanied by 2 exquisite Paiste Gongs. This practice is suitable for people with some previous yoga experience.
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Please bring a yoga mat and dress comfortably. Please refrain from wearing perfume.
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Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Maximum 4 participants
​Cost: $30 per class (preregister) email/etransfer: breathetrue@gmail.com
Conscious Dance Facilitator Training
Saturday, Feb. 22nd, 3-6 pm
Saturday, March 22nd, 3-6 p
Saturday April 12th, 3-6 pm
Are you interested in becoming a Conscious Dance Facilitator?
I am offering a comprehensive training/course designed to give you the experience required to confidently and skillfully do just that!
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Over my 25 years of guiding participants through this deep and transformative movement practice, I now realize that it is time to offer my expertise in this area to others. Recently, many participants have inquired about how to get trained in this area (and how to create excellent, musical playlists). These skills have taken me years to hone and I am ready to share them with you so that more people can become competent leaders/facilitators and share this amazing practice with others.
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The main goal of the training is to offer participants enough theoretical and experiential information to run events in their communities. Together we will explore how to create, promote, facilitate, arrange music playlists, and skillfully hold space for others. We will examine how creative movement and free-style dance can express various themes, feelings, and physical expressions. The training will occur in person, over three months (once a month) on Saturday afternoons from 3-6 pm at Guelph Youth Dance Studio (you must commit to attending all 3 days).
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I will guide each participant through the process of being the facilitator. I will offer extra advice (between weeks 2 and 3) to help you create a poster, write-up and Spotify playlist for your event. All these materials will be shared amongst course participants so that each person can get constructive feedback and has lots of material to move forward with. ​​​​
Friday Evening Sound Bath
February 14th, 7:30-9 pm
​Come and wind down after your busy week. Lie down, get comfortable, and receive healing vibrations. I will cover you with cotton blankets and support your body with pillows, bolsters, and eye coverings. For one whole, glorious hour, I will bathe you in the most exquisite, vibrational sounds created by drums, rainsticks, rattles, dulcimer, hand pan, Planetary Paiste gongs, crystal singing bowls, shruti box, vocables, chimes, tuning forks and more.
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Be prepared to drop deeply into an altered state of consciousness (theta brain state) where deep restoration and healing can occur.
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I have comfy mattresses, blankets, pillows, etc. so there is no need to bring anything. Wear comfortable clothes and please avoid wearing perfume.
Arrive by 7:20 p.m.​
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Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Maximum 6 participants.
Cost: $50 (preregister)
email/etransfer: breathetrue@gmail.com
Conscious Dance Facilitator Training
Continued...
​Week 1: Saturday, Feb. 22nd, 3-6 pm
What is Conscious Dance?
How can this practice help people to be more expressed, confident, emotionally regulated, and physically strong?
Movement Theory: concepts of direction, weight, speed & flow.
What are the sections/themes that define the arc of this dance practice from the beginning to the middle, to the end? Let's discuss and practice moving to them with music.
Creating and presenting mini-movement phrases that illustrate these thematic sections.
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Week 2: Saturday, March 22nd, 3-6 pm
How do the unique sections of the Conscious Dance flow/structure translate to themes and life? How do they reflect and express human emotions and experiences?
Exploration of these themes through music, movement and spoken word.
Mini presentations to deepen our understanding and to practice being both the witness and the witnessed (observer and mover).
How to arrange a music playlist for a Conscious Dance Event.
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Week 3: Saturday, April 12th, 3-6 pm
Leadership Practice: create an opening circle for participants, explain what conscious dance is to your group, answer questions that may arise, deal with emotional circumstances that may arise with participants, closing the circle for the event.
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Logistics: creating a write-up & Canva poster, advertising your event, renting studio space, preparing your studio space, liability insurance and waivers, hiring helpers, and intellectual property of your music playlists. Brainstorming ideas, questions, and next steps.
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When: Saturdays, Feb. 22nd, March 22nd, April 12th, 2025. 3-6 pm (you must attend all three dates).
Where: Guelph Youth Dance Studio B: 42 Quebec St. Guelph, On.
Cost: $250 (early bird special $225 before February 8th). transfer: breathetrue@gmail.com
Guelph Conscious Dance
Saturday, Feb. 15th, 7:30-9 pm
Conscious dance leads participants on a movement journey of physical and emotional transformation. Through breath, sweat, and expression, participants experience themselves as pure powerful energy.
Conscious dance is not about learning steps, it’s about allowing what is invisible within us (emotions, sensations, images, impulses) to be expressed through our unique movement and style. It activates the imagination and utilizes diverse music to create an ecstatic celebration of the human spirit.
The music will follow an arc, beginning with slower, grounding music, building up to faster dance beats intended to invite release, and then transitioning back down to prayerful music. There is no right or wrong way to move. It is best to show up and "be moved."
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Check out this YouTube video of me explaining conscious dance.
Arrive between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. The dance will start at 7:30 and end at 9 p.m.
Where: 42 Quebec Street, 3rd floor, Guelph, On.
Cost: $20 cash at the door or e-transfer: breathetrue@gmail.com​​
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Shaluha-Ka
On-Going
Shaluha-Ka is both a healing technique and a meditation practice based on the ancient Kabbalah Tree of Life. It was taught to me by Chaty Secaira, founder of Las Pyramides Meditation Centre in San Marcos, Guatemala. I have embellished this healing modality to include sacred cacao, intention setting with animal spirit guides, auric cleansing of the 4 elements in the body, and sound healing.
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Kabbalah, an ancient mystical tradition rooted in Judaism, offers a profound lens through which to perceive the universe and the human experience. The Tree of Life is a symbolic diagram representing the divine structure of creation (the language of the branches) and the interconnectedness of all existence.
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In this 1.5-hour private session, I will guide you through a series of beautiful, insightful practices designed to help you relax, clear your energy field, and gain personal clarity.
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Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com​​
Private Tailored Yoga Class
On-Going
Tell me what kind of yoga class you want and any physical needs you might have and I will design a class just for you! I will teach it to you, provide a PDF copy and be available for questions and clarifications. Private tailored yoga classes can be delivered in person or via Google Meet. Both options greatly further and deepen your yoga practice and understanding.
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Private tailored classes are approximately 2 hours long.
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Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com
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"Barbra tailored my very own personal yoga flow, she was very helpful with making sure the yoga poses and breathing techniques were done properly to avoid any injuries. Thank you for opening up your space, I greatly appreciated it."
Monique Young
Private Sound Healing
On-Going
Sound healing penetrates a person's mind, emotions, and body to help bring them to states of deep relaxation. If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, depression, or grief, this modality can help you to release and restore. Sound healing is also a wonderful way to simply treat yourself to a beautiful experience where you are bathed in drones, musical instruments, vocal toning, and vibrational frequencies that are known for their restorative qualities.
I offer several different thematic sound healing sessions. All are beautiful, deep, and extremely relaxing. Typically, a session takes 1.5 hours and the person leaves feeling rested and restored.
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Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com
"Barbara (Eva) has delivered her sound healing sessions at a number of my meditation retreats. She has a refined intuitive ability to know what soundings have the greatest healing effect on participants. I highly recommend her sessions." Russell Scott.