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MANDALA!A Song Vigil to Welcome in the New Year
with Julie Jaffray Kouyate & TatiAnah Thunberg
Sunday, January 11, 2026
from 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
@ A2 Yoga
2030 Commerce Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
REGISTER HERE:
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https://www.spiritmoves.us/mandala
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꩜ After the rush of the holidays, come slow your pace and settle into sacred circle, arriving more fully into the new year and the winter season of 2026. A new year often stirs fresh commitments to live in deeper alignment with what matters. New energy asks for clearing, for purification, for a moment of honest listening. We offer space to sit with this turning—time to sense what new vitality you may be ready to invest in the year ahead. Through a ceremony of creativity, song, and movement, we’ll gather around a living mandala we build together—an offering of beauty, intention, and contemplation.
꩜ Mandalas are ephemeral works of art, shaped from shells, candles, flowers, and stones. Each material we place will reflect the vision and prayer we’re crafting for this living piece of art. As we weave the design together, we will lead simple songs that we will sing as one—our voices rising as the mandala comes alive beneath our hands. When it is complete, we’ll sit in contemplative stillness around it, then rise to move—circling and dancing in communion with the beauty we’ve created.
꩜ Our songs will honor the arc of the season—celebrating winter’s invitation to retreat, reflect, and make space for what is newly forming. Together we will sing these fresh prayers and intentions into being, letting them thread through the mandala and into the year to come. As our vigil draws to a close, we’ll gently unweave the mandala and surrender to rest, leaning into the deep quiet of this season.
꩜ In honoring this passage into winter 2026, and sensing the horizon of what is new and alive for the year ahead, we gather in communion with ourselves, the elements, and the unfolding of our lives.
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REGISTRATION DETAILS:
꩜ No prior singing experience needed
꩜ Registration is limited to 25 folks.
꩜ Green Bottle Sliding Scale: $30-$60
꩜ Nonrefundable. If you are unable to come, you may gift or sell your ticket.
꩜ Full Playshop Attendees Only: in order to hold the container with integrity, no late arrivals or early departures, please.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH:
꩜ This event is indoors. Please come healthy. You are welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level. If a viral exposure is reported to us directly after the event, we will notify all participants by email..
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ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:
꩜ Julie Kouyate (she/hers) is the founder of Kouyate Healing Arts LLC, where she weaves touch, sound, drumming, breath, dance and song into her healing sessions, ceremonies, classes and retreats. Devoted teacher, facilitator, singer, song catcher, intuitive bodyworker, somatic experiencing practitioner, Bodymind and Sacred Living coach and dance teacher, she welcomes you to join us in exploring the power of voice.
https://kouyatehealingartsllc.com/
꩜ TatiAnah Thunberg, LMSW (she/hers) is the founder of Spirit Moves LLC, where contemporary somatic therapies meet ancient wisdom traditions in service to coming home to embodied presence and conscious relationship. Event producer, experiential facilitator, song leader and vocal improv artist, she draws from over three decades of experience leading expressive and healing arts classes, groups, programs, playshops, and retreats that awaken the body, soften the armor of protection, and invite connection and creativity to reemerge. Her work draws from a rich tapestry of influences, all centered in the spontaneous intelligence of play.
www.spiritmoves.us/sing-together
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A2 Yoga, 2030 Commerce Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4402, United States
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