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Please join us for a deeply immersive sound experience unlike any other — a four-hour, half-day retreat designed to gently unfold you into story, sound, elemental connection, movement, and deep restoration.When: Sat June 13, 2026 from 3pm - 7pm
Where: Emerald Temple - 6223 Sharon Hollow Rd, Manchester, MI 48158
Cost: $250 (sliding scale/scholarship spots available)
Facilitators: Julie Barron, Julie Kouyate with Special Guest Mady Kouyate
Join us for a 4-hour half day sound-centered retreat including:
-immersive sound journey with special guest Griot Mady Kouyate
-plant medicine
-guided imagery with music (GIM)
-rhythmic somatic release
-bonfire
-snacks
A Sound-Centered Journey Into Deep Listening
This retreat is a gently held, mostly silent immersion into vibration, plant allies, somatic release, and sacred rest. Together, we create a space where the outside noise softens and healing sound becomes the primary sensory experience — allowing the nervous system to recalibrate and restore.
You are welcome to lie down, meditate, journal, or simply receive. There is no requirement to “have an experience.” This space honors whatever naturally arises. Held in a beautiful temple setting surrounded by nature, this immersive retreat weaves together heart-opening plants, rhythmic release, guided imagery with music (GIM), crystal bowl and multi-instrumental sound bath, and sacred silence.
The Flow of the Afternoon
🌿 Plant Allies & Intention
We begin by welcoming supportive plant allies to aid our unfolding. Participants will be invited to mindfully connect with kanna, kava, or other gentle plant/fungi preparations — with an emphasis on inner awareness, attunement, and personal choice.
You are always welcome to ingest or not ingest; participation at every step is optional.
This experience is open to both the plant-curious and those with established relationships. There is no expectation to “go deep.” Gentleness and self-trust lead the way.
📖Guided Imagery With Music (Story Time)
We begin to snuggle into our nests of rest that you will create and listen to a meaningful story about learning to deeply connect with nature through patience, silence, and awareness. As busy adults we sometimes struggle to easily fall into rest, this story is designed to help your brain slow down and your body relax. The slower pace of the story, soft voices, and calm scenes can help calm racing thoughts, reduce anxiety, and guide you away from the fast pace busyness of life.
🥁 Rhythmic Somatic Release
Now that we have become settled and more connected to our own sense of self without the noise, we focus and move stagnant energy out of the body! Through drum, percussion, breath, and body-based expression, we ignite a full-body release. Breathing, stomping, tapping, shaking, singing, and audible exhaling help clear stagnant energy and open the body as a receptive channel.
Using the vibration of rhythm and drum, we release pent-up energy so that when we lie down, we can receive more fully.
🎶 Immersive Sound and The 21-string kora (West African harp) of Griot Mady Kouyate
This phase of the experience will begin to resonate — slow, melodic, ancient, true. Its melodies and tones can feel like a remembrance in the DNA, a sacred familiarity you’ve always known.
From there, the journey expands. We weave elemental soundscapes through crystal bowls, chimes, drum, gong, voice, and layered instrumentation. Drones, tonal vibration, song and the actual sensory experience of hearing the elements create an enveloping field that invites multidimensional awareness, deep relaxation, and self-insight.
Together, we tone into a closing Ohm — sealing the experience into the body — and finally, into silence.
🔥 Fireside Community Integration
Afterward, we gather by the bonfire for luscious snacks and beverages. We listen, reflect, perhaps sing together — or simply sit in a shared presence. Community integration is gentle, organic, and unstructured.
This Journey May Support:
• Nervous-system regulation and deep rest�• Relief from stress and mental busyness�• Connection to body, breath, and heart�• Community ritual and shared presence�• Deep listening and self-inquiry
Important Notes
• Participation is always optional. You are your own best teacher.
• Kanna, kava, and other botanicals are not appropriate for everyone. We do not offer medical or psychological consultation. Please consult your healthcare provider if you are unsure.
• This is not an educational workshop on herbalism or the nervous system. You are responsible for researching the plants beforehand.
• Bring a water bottle, eye mask, and anything that supports your comfort. Yoga mats and blankets are provided; feel free to bring your own.
• If you are sensitive to sound or concerned about sensory overload, please bring earplugs or noise-canceling headphones and choose a resting spot farther from the instruments.
Come exactly as you are.�Rest. Release. Remember.
Beautiful temple setting surrounded by nature
Click here to learn more about Kanna: https://www.gaiaherbs.com/blogs/seeds-of-knowledge/what-is-kanna?srsltid=AfmBOor4x22LtreGzUrSP89BNCEs7sWkwYBjOGbflK07i34s_XIOxuoG
Click here to learn more about Kava: https://ntbg.org/database/plants/detail/piper-methysticum
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Emerald Temple Healing Center, 6223 Sharon Hollow Rd.,Manchester, Michigan, United States
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