About this Event
Ceremony, plants, and dance is something all ancient traditions have understood. We dance to remember.
We open with a cacao ceremony, rooted in ancestral wisdom and the living lineage of the Maya and Sapara Nation. Cacao softens us, offering us a return home to the heart
From that place we move. Through Movement medicine, breathwork, and sound we travel through the five elements as a lived experience, a few hours that compress what usually takes days. A shortcut out of the head and into the body. Into freedom, lightness, and the kind of healing and connection that doesn’t need to be explained.
Your body already knows the way.
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Bio
Florencia Fridman is the Co-founder of Cacao Laboratory, Vice President of the Naku Foundation and founder of Florecer Community. She has studied with the Maya Tz'utujil and Kaqchikel elders in Guatemala and the Sapara Nation in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
She has facilitated ceremonial cacao gatherings at the United Nations, Google, Spotify, and across the world. She bridges the worlds between ancient traditions and the modern world. Her work is marked by reverence and an inspirational ability to hold space for transformation.
Tolga is a somatic facilitator, certified yoga teacher, life coach, sound healer, and certified Movement Medicine teacher with over 15 years of yoga and meditation practice and 7 years of deep teacher training within the Movement Medicine lineage, a dedicated path of study, practice, and transmission rooted in the David Mooney lineage. His classes are trauma-informed and IFS-informed, grounded in a daily Vipassana practice.
Facing burnout while working as a senior executive at Google, where he spent a decade leading global wellness programs, facilitating weekly somatic sessions, and producing large-scale mental health and wellness conferences, movement, meditation, and inner work became not just a practice but a lifeline.
Since leaving Google, Tolga has served as Chief Business Officer at Ready (alongside bestselling author Yung Pueblo), Director at Belong Center, a sister NGO to Daybreaker, and is currently a resident facilitator at TheLifeCo A’ila Resort in the Caribbean, leading weekly somatic movement and dance journey sessions at one of the world’s leading integrative wellness retreats.
His work sits at the intersection of embodiment, contemplative practice, and conscious community, shaped by the tension between high performance and inner truth, and dedicated to helping others find their way back to themselves.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
GOSPEL, 281 Lafayette Street, New York, United States
USD 55.20
