Home Where the Heart Is! Calling in an Open Heart, Joy & Freedom

Sat Nov 29 2025 at 03:30 am to 06:30 am UTC+13:00

Mount Maunganui Community Hall | Tauranga

Home Where the Heart Is! Calling in an Open Heart, Joy & Freedom
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💞 About the Event
An afternoon of reconnection, release & renewal:
An opportunity to gather in community, crafting, sharing stories, healing as our ancestors once did.
This is your invitation to come home to yourself, to open your heart, & call in unconditional love, joy, & freedom for the festive season.
Together, we’ll share in cacao, movement, creativity, & laughter, crafting your own medicine leaf rattle (chakapa) to support the clearing of the year that’s been:
to carry you with lightness & unconditional-love into the season ahead.
A space to connect to your heart-to-heart;
with yourself, with others, and with the spirit of the season.
To drop the noise, the expectations, to simply be,
authentic, expressive, & free.

🌺 What’s Included
Cacao opening ceremony
All materials to craft your chakapa (leaf rattle/instrument)
Guided movement meditation
Chakradance transformation dance
Space to integrate your experience into an art form mandala peace to use for further introspection at home
(all materials provided)
Heart Chakra support handout PDF
Sharing circle and grounding meditation

🌺Your Experience:
You’ll experience dance as medicine, that movement has no judgement when you allow the body to flow, & specific resonate music is where the magic is explored.
You will experience that knowledge through creativity is an expression of our hidden desires.
You’ll create your own handcrafted tool/shamans rattle;
a physical reminder of your creativity, meets movement with energy, to create joy & ease when life gets sticky.
You will experience how art can shift your energy, restore flow, & bring you back into connection with your heart’s wisdom.
You will experience creative empowerment

🌺At the end of the workshop, you’ll feel:
Lighter, more grounded, & open-hearted
Connected to your intuition & creative flow
Empowered with tools at hand to navigate the festive season & beyond with grace, flow & peace of mind
Reconnected with self & like-minded souls in sacred ceremony
🌺Investment:
$99 per person — includes cacao, materials, facilitation, chakradance & art experience
Festive Special: Bring a friend — 2 for $155 only ($77.50 each)
Reserve your spot with a $40 non-refundable deposit
🌺Bonus Offer:
The first two bookings receive a free private 1:1 healing with Shona (valued at $149).
🌺Who is it For:
This gathering is for those feeling the weight of the year & longing to release, reconnect, realign - to self.
If you are feeling over re-active, a little explosive & likely to project onto others.
If you desire something to support you with compassion & not comparison; to self, or others.
This is for you if your are truly desiring the joy without the noise & stress of holiday expectations.
If you’re ready to move away from fatigue, stress, and emotional overload and call in lightness, clarity, and open-hearted connection then this experience is for you.
No dance experience is needed. Just bring your beautiful self, an open heart, & a willingness to create, move, release, express & receive.
🌺What to Bring:
Water bottle
Comfortable clothing for ease of movement that you are not needing to readjust all the time.
Eye Mask (for deepening more into your body & out of the mind)
A yoga mat for comfort (but not required)
An open mind and heart
Anything specific you desire to add to your chakapa handle, (NO glue will be provided).

Facilitated by Shona Bassett
Frequency movement facilitator and space holder.
Shona weaves cacao, creativity, movement, art, and energy work to help others shift from heaviness to heart, creating sacred spaces for creativity, healing, joy, and deep reconnection.
Book early to secure your spot and your festive bonus healing.
Payment plan available on request.
Reserve your place: DM for payment option and/or plains
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mount Maunganui Community Hall, 8 Bain St, Mount Maunganui 3116, New Zealand, Tauranga

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