A Summer Solstice Celebration - Movement, Mindfulness & Music

On June 21st, from 1 PM to 7 PM, we are celebrating the arrival of the Summer Solstice on the grounds of our beautiful 20 acre nature sanctuary and nature preserve with a day full of
Mindfulness, Movement, Meditation, and Music!

Invite a friend and enjoy a smorgasbord of flavors and activities providing a perfect series of practices to pause your mind, awaken your body, and soothe your soul, including:

• Butterfly Yoga Movement with Adriana Moreno-Zarate
• Yoga Nidra Movement
• A Mindful Meander & Nature-Based Immersion Walk in our Mindful Pocket Park with Chief Experience Officer and Certified Mindfulness Instructor Suzanne Jewell
• A Lite Bite Break to Share in Community
• A Concluding Celebration of Sound and Sacred Chanting with Shakti Kirtan

On this special, celebratory day you will experience the many benefits of how to P.A.W.S. (Pay Attention with Your Senses) and take your seat with all who attend to offer care, compassion, lovingkindness and a dedication to the land, water, air, fire and beings with whom we are all intertwined in the Great Web of Life.

Learn more about the day's teachers and performances below. We hope to see you there!

Chief Experience Officer, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, Founder of the Mindful Pocket Park @Patch, certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center/Sounds True training, Executive Resilience Coach and Forest Therapy guide.

A former global TV executive and marketing communications expert, Jewell experienced burnout and C-PTSD firsthand, choosing as her healing path putting her “tush on a cush”. A climate refugee due to flooding during Covid brought her to the Open Awareness Buddhist Center, where she took Vows of Refuge, staying for 18 months and deepening her lived dedication to the path of liberation; circumambulation practice (kora walking around the stupas) and supporting the lama was part of daily life. She most loved the daily kayak paddles in the Little River, recording “Pockets of Peace” floating meditations to “invite others to float in the boat” with her.

Jewell teaches Mindful Leadership, Transformation, Communication and Focus practices through workshops and retreats for eMerge Americas, Babson College’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, Miami Dade College’s Idea Center, MDC Foundation, Philanthropy Miami, Radical Partners, TD Bank, Chapman Partnership, and Levan Center for Innovation/NSU.

Adriana Moreno-Zarate is a certified mindful educator. She teaches the MBSR Mindfulness Stress Reduction and the Mindful Self Compassion MSC as well as Trauma informed Mindfulness. She has been practicing and guiding Yoga and Meditation for the past two decades at The University of Miami.

She teaches Mindfulness to the teachers of Miami Dade. She studies and researches the effectiveness of mindfulness practices as tools to interrupt automatic addictive behaviors and reduce stress.

Two years ago she was invited to the Patch of Heaven and has been discovering and nurturing her connection with nature ever since. She loves teaching, and meeting lovely people at Patch where she is also a Mindful Nature Guide.

Kirtan SKY Miami is a group of bhaktas of the Divine Values School who bring chanting to a higher level. Through our live performances we share our devotion using Bhajans to spread joy to those in search of expressing their devotion to the divine. Our Guru Mataji Shaktiananda inspires us to live a spiritual life to reach our true potential through singing and the practice of Shiva Kriya Yoga.

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