A One-Day Immersion in Sonic Healing, Expression & Embodied Truth w/Matthew Kocel & Johanne Ascoli
Step into a sacred container of healing, creativity, and embodiment. This one-day retreat is an invitation to come home to your voice, move blocked energy, and awaken your innate vitality through breath, sound, and movement.
Breathwork & Sound Healing with Matthew Kocel
Internationally acclaimed throat singer and sonic alchemist Matthew Kocel will guide you through:
- The Warrior Breath – a profoundly energizing transpersonal practice done lying down, designed to alkalize the body, clear energetic blockages, and generate a deep, inner vibration
- Transformational Sound Journey – experience the primal, otherworldly frequencies of Matthew’s voice in a healing sonic transmission that touches every cell of your being
- Vocal Activation – learn to access the power of your own voice through overtone chant and throat resonance; release vocal inhibition and awaken the sacred instrument within.
� Expressive Arts & Embodied Movement with Johanne Ascoli
Johanne Ascoli , a gifted expressive arts therapist and ecstatic dance guide, will lead:
- Expressive Arts Journey – explore the story of your voice using image, writing, and gentle movement
- Ecstatic Dance Journey – drop into your body, dance your story, sound your truth, and let your voice be fully felt, expressed, and celebrated. Her intuitive and soul-centered facilitation style supports gentle transformation, authentic expression, and deep reconnection to the Earth and your inner truth.
� This retreat is for you if you’re ready to:
-Reclaim your voice and speak your truth
-Release stored emotional or energetic blocks
-Awaken your creativity and inner healer
-Feel grounded, expansive, and deeply alive
� No prior experience necessary.
� Please bring a journal, water bottle, and yoga mat. �BRING YOUR LUNCH. Refrigerators are available on site. There are no stores or restaurants nearby.
Arts supplies will be provided
Tickets $185 + GST
� Prepaid registration required – Space is limited to 20 participants � Held at the serene Abundance Community Farm, nestled in the countryside just 90 minutes from Vancouver
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Matthew Kocel is an internationally renowned throat singer/sonic alchemist with over 40 years in career as a performer, recording artist and multi-disciplinary healing arts practitioner.
Affectionately known as the “Cosmic Throat Singer,” Matthew is a man on a mission to bring coherence and healing to his fellow humans. He has released 3 albums, toured around the globe, and his music is featured in Dr Joe Dispenza’s guided meditations and retreats.
https://MatthewKocel.com
Johanne Ascoli is a French Canadian expressive arts therapist, ecstatic dance facilitator, and soul-centered healing guide. After nearly two decades in public service, she followed a deep calling to help others reconnect with their authentic voice, creativity, and inner wisdom.
Her work blends expressive arts, somatic therapy, movement, and ritual to create safe, embodied spaces for transformation. With training in trauma-informed facilitation, polyvagal theory, and Somatic EMDR, Johanne gently guides participants into deeper alignment with their vitality, intuition, and truth.
https://expressyourheart.com
What is Expressive Arts/Expressive Arts Therapy?
More information can be found on this blog post:
https://expressyourheart.com/2022/04/what-is-expressive-arts-and-expressive-arts-therapy/
About Abundance Community Farm
Abundance Community Farm (ACF) was created as a social experiment in growing food and community that is in harmony with nature and facilitates our personal, collective, and environmental healing. It is an exciting experiment in community agriculture that bridges the farm and the city, offering creative solutions to food security and social well-being. In this experiment, 100 city dwellers come together every weekend of the season to grow local organic food and co-create land-based community.
ACF aims to foster, experiment with, and model new ways of relating to self, community and the land. It believes that healing and reframing these relationships are the essential seeds needed to address the challenges of our times.
Located 1.5 hours east of Vancouver, Abundance Community Farm rests beside the mighty Fraser river, nestled in a valley of mountains overseen by the magnificent Mount Cheam. The farm is located on the unceded territory of the Cheam, Seabird Island, Skwah, and Kwaw kwa-a-pilt First Nations, close to the town now known as Agassiz, BC. (
https://www.abundancecommunity.farm/ )
A typical community farm weekend begins Saturday at 10am with an Opening Circle followed by working together in the vegetable garden, food forest and medicinal herb garden. The evening consists of a potluck dinner and a member-led activity that can include things like arts & crafts, yoga, storytelling around the fire, a hike up the mountain, a dip in the river, playing music and dancing in the barn.
Members and guests (that includes participants to this 1-day workshop!) who opt for the full day activities are welcome (encouraged!) to stay overnight in our first-come, first-served barn accommodations or use our grassy tent space. BYO bedding.
-If you want to partake of the full day Farm experience Saturday, Aug 16 and stay for our Full Day Immersion on Sunday, Aug 17, email
YWJ1bmRhbmNlY29tbXVuaXR5ZmFybSB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t and ask to visit. The cost (added to the Sunday Immersion) is by donation, and you will go home with some fresh, organic produce.
Also check out other Arts events in Agassiz, Music events in Agassiz, Workshops in Agassiz.
