🌿 Join Us for a Soulful Evening of Sacred Songs, Community, and Music! 🌿
✨ Experience the magic of music and connection at The Grateful Den as we gather for an unforgettable evening of Kirtan, Medicine Music, and heartfelt community. Let your voice soar, your heart open, and your spirit be uplifted in a safe and welcoming space.
🎶 Why Attend?
🌟 Connect & Heal:
Feel the power of music’s transformative energy with the soulful Madison Ryley. Immerse yourself in sacred chants that open the heart, soothe the soul, and elevate the spirit.
🌿 Uplifting Song Circle:
Join Rufus Glassco for a heart-opening song circle, featuring inspiring songs that deepen your connection with yourself, others, and Mother Earth.
🥁 Rhythms that Ground & Inspire:
Experience the mesmerizing beats of Mark Mazur, one of Toronto's top percussionists from the National Ballet Orchestra. His masterful tabla rhythms will transport you into a meditative, healing sound journey.
📅 Date & Time:
Friday, May 23, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
📍 Location:
The Grateful Den
390 Dupont St., Suite 201
Toronto, ON M5R 1V9
🎟 Investment:
- Early Bird (5 available): $35 (ends May 4th at 11:45 PM)
- Advance (25 available): $40
- At the Door (if available): $45
🎫 Tickets:
💫 Want to Lend a Hand?
If funds are a concern, we offer a 50% off volunteer ticket for someone able to assist with setup and takedown. Email
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🎶 Secure Your Spot:
E-transfer payments can be sent to
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💖 Don’t Miss This Magical Experience!
Bring your voice, your heart, and your friends for a deeply nourishing evening of sacred sound, connection, and joy. Let’s sing, heal, and celebrate life together!
🌟 🌿 🥁 Our Facilitators
🌟 Madison Ryley
Madison has a passion for bringing people together in the name of healing with their own voices. Vibration is the key to unlocking profound physical healing, and connecting to your voice in this way helps to deepen your connection to your truest, most authentic self.
After studying to be an opera singer and receiving a Masters of Music, she quickly realized this was not her path. Instead of shying away from her operatic past, she took the strong foundation and understanding of the voice, and blended it with her passion for yoga, breathwork, and meditation to create her business “Yogapella, Holistic Voice Coaching & Yoga for Singers” in which she hosts workshops, retreats and events across Toronto and in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala, where she lived for just under 3 years. Madison has completed many Yoga Teacher Trainings across Canada and India, and has studied various types of meditation (vipassana, mindfulness, yoga nidra, transcendental) as well as having extensive knowledge of the breath and various forms of breath work that she includes in her workshops (wim hof, diaphragmatic, ekadasi kriya, pranayam, rebirthing, holotropic & more).
In her workshop or retreat setting, we will be exploring how mindful meditation, movement, gentle breathing practices, and toning exploration can help unlock blocked energies in the body, and transmute past traumas into sound. We will release the sound from an embodied and safe space, leaving us feeling lighter, more connected and calm.
Madison is so excited to be sharing this work with the world, where together we will explore what it means to activate and heal with your own voice!
Connect with Madison here!�www.yogapella.com
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🌿 Rufus Glassco
Rufus is a trilingual Drum Circle Facilitator who specializes in drumming for health and wellness. He is also a Sound Healing Practitioner, a Community Choir Leader, and a Shamanic and plant medicine coach. He helps both individuals and large groups to relax, and come into greater resonance and harmony. Rufus puts his experience as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumental percussionist to use in the soundscapes he weaves together using a variety of sound healing instruments (quartz crystal bowls, didgeridoo, tuning forks, handpan, shruti box, native drone flute, ocean drum, tongue drum, gathering drum, frame drum, kalimba, chimes, tingshas, and voice). He creates a multi-layered sonic journey that transports sound bathers to a deeply relaxing place. He also uses his 30 year passion for yoga, tantric energy work and Qigong to help people to relax, heal and come into balance using breathwork, vocal toning, mantra chanting and positive affirmations.
Connect with Rufus here!
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🥁 Mark Mazur
Mark Mazur, Master Percussionist, was living in Munich, performing with the Bavarian State Opera, and the Munich Philharmonic, yet always felt that in his music there was still "something missing". At that time he was head-hunted by Malaysia's national oil company to start their new Philharmonic Orchestra, where he discovered their aboriginals have Witch Doctors who rely on drumming for trance induction, healing, and raising consciousness. In this magical realm of rhythm, Mark found that "something missing".
Mark left the orchestra, bought a motorcycle, and embarked on a journey into drumming, rhythm and consciousness. He learned the drumming of Shamans, Witch Doctors, and Channellers from Indian, Arabic and S.E. Asian cultures, witnessing and participating in the miraculous.
Mark is a percussionist with the National Ballet Orchestra. He studied at the prestigious Hochschule fur Muzik in Munich where he performed with The Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Opera. Then he learned how to play music by sitting with an Indian tabla master by the riverside in Malaysia, although originally going there as a founding member of the Malaysian Philharmonic.
Connect with Mark here!
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👨🏽⚕️ “You may ask: ‘What kind of music can heal man? Is it singing, or playing, or something in the way of dance?’ Singing is the most powerful, for singing is living. It is prana, it is life itself, it is voice.” - Hazrat Inayat Khan
😍🚶🙏 Come and play and sing with us to open your heart, so we can all connect more fully with our authentic voices, and each other. Sacred singing helps bring our mind, body and Spirit together in unison to experience our full aliveness.
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