Name: Lunar Renewal: Qigong & Cacao Ceremony
Start: 2026-02-18T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-18T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Inner Haven Art Gallery - Spiritual & Creative Development Center

A potent New Moon and Lunar New Year gathering to shed the final skin of the Snake and awaken the fire of what’s next. Through Qigong, Ceremonial Cacao, and sacred ceremony, we align with the turning of the lunar year and the visions calling us forward.
Join Christina Hladnik & Patti Fasen at your Inner Haven February 18th. This evening marks a powerful energetic threshold as we complete the final shedding of the Year of the Snake (2025) and consciously step into the rising momentum of the Fire Horse (2026). Aligned with a New Moon in Aquarius, a Solar Eclipse, and the Lunar New Year, this gathering offers a rare opportunity for deep release, renewal, and visionary embodiment.

What to Expect:
We begin by opening sacred space, followed by a Qigong practice led by Patti, supporting the body in releasing stagnant energy, shedding old patterns, and restoring flow. Through gentle yet potent movement, the nervous system softens, creating space for clarity and forward motion.
From there, Christina Hladnik will guide a heart-opening cacao ceremony, accompanied by drumming and meditation aligned with the themes of renewal, vision, and aligned action. Cacao supports a shift from the busyness of the mind into embodied heart wisdom, allowing insight to arise organically.
We close the evening in circle, sharing and voicing the insights, visions, and felt truths gathered through the experience, anchoring them through spoken intention and collective presence.
This is a ceremonial pause between cycles, a space to release what no longer serves, embody what is emerging, and step forward with clarity as the lunar year turns.

SPACE IS LIMITED-Pre-Registration is Required
When: Wednesday February 18th
Time: 6:30PM–9:00PM (doors open at 6:00PM
Energy Exchange: $44 (no one will be turned away for inability to pay)
Location: Inner Haven, Grayslake IL
Tickets: https://www.my-innerhaven.com/event-details/lunar-renewal-qigong-cacao-ceremony

For A Comfortable Experience:
-Please bring a yoga mat for the qigong portion of the evening
-Please bring item for altar if you wish
-Please dress comfortably (we suggest layers)
-Please bring water
*You DO NOT have to consume cacao to partake in this event*
Meet Your Facilitators:
Patti Fasen is a Qi Gong Instructor, energy healer and folk medicine practitioner walking an earth-honoring path. Guided by intuition and spirit she works with the living energies of the land, plants, stones and unseen realms to support balance and healing. She crafts her own stone and flower vibrational essences, listening to the teachings of each ally and honoring their unique medicine as they offer restoration, protection and alignment.
Rooted in ancestral wisdom and deep relationship with nature she holds healing as a sacred remembering of wholeness. Through Qi Gong, energy work and earth-based practices, she creates space for transformation, grounding and reconnection to one's original essence. She walks this path with humility and gratitude serving as a bridge between worlds and supporting others as they reclaim their vitality, inner wisdom and spiritual sovereignty.
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Christina Hladnik is a spiritual mentor and embodiment guide who supports individuals in integrating their awakening into their lived, human experience. Her work is grounded, relational, and nervous-system-aware, bridging spirituality with real life, emotional honesty, and self-responsibility. Rather than offering fixes or bypassing, Christina walks alongside those who are ready to embody their truth with consistency, depth, and care.
Through private mentorship, healing work, and intimate containers, she supports clients in reconnecting with their inner world, befriending their shadow, and honoring the fullness of being human, not as something to transcend, but as something sacred. Christina’s work is shaped by her own lived experience, devotion to inner child integration, and years of holding space for others through profound inner shifts. She works with a very limited number of clients at a time to preserve depth, integrity, and presence.