Sound Bath: Journey of the Heart

Coming just a few days after the Aquarius Full Moon, we are entering the waning lunar phase. This is a potent time for integration, unwinding, and letting go. It is also a beautiful opportunity to connect deeply with the energy of your heart.

This immersive evening begins with a few gentle 4th chakra and grounding practices to help you release the week's tension, create openness, and activate your heart center. Then, you’ll be guided into a deep state of relaxation through a heart-focused Yoga Nidra. This brief but powerful practice will prepare your mind and body to surrender fully to the sound journey and set an intention for your evening.

As you rest, Ruby will weave a nurturing soundscape using multiple singing bowls tuned to the heart chakra, including her particularly powerful 22-inch F quartz crystal bowl. The harmonious vibrations of these bowls, alongside Earth, Moon, and third chakra gongs, will help release emotional blockages, calm the mind, and restore balance to your body and spirit. Various chimes, a rain stick, and an ocean drum will be used to gently bring you out of the experience, helping you reconnect with the wisdom of your heart.

Whether you’re attending Saturday’s daylong retreat and want a gentle, heart-opening prelude, or you’re simply looking for a peaceful Friday night escape, this immersive experience will leave you feeling refreshed, aligned, and centered with your deepest intentions.

Rachel Buckley will also be there practicing Reiki to support you in releasing and grounding, and to offer individual support if needed. There will be time given at the end to reflect or write down any insights, and the event concludes with tea, sweets, snacks, and community.

Gong & Sound Bath Meditation Benefits:

• Promotes relaxation and stress relief

• Restores vibrational balance and mind-body harmony

• Nurtures self-love and heart-centered awareness

• Stimulates immune system and glandular functioning

• Encourages the movement of life force energy

• Clears habitual negative thought patterns

• Supports deep spontaneous meditation

• Improves concentration, creativity and will-power

• Advances spiritual exploration and self-discovery

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With: Ruby Koa

When: Friday, July 31st, 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Where: Red Cedar Zen Community, aka the San-Jui Buddhist Temple, 2509 Cedarwood Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA

Pricing: Early Bird Rate until 7/23: *$30, Regular Rate until 7/30: $35, Day of event or at the door: $40

Auto-pay members receive 20% off, get discount code from Ruby or pay via Venmo. A couple of sliding scale spots are still available. Text Ruby at 360-447-8778 if you're interested.

Attending Saturday's August 1st retreat? You get $10 off this Friday night sound bath! Use the promo code in your confirmation email, or text Ruby at 360-447-8778 for the code.

*Payment Note: The credit card fee of around $1.30 will be included in your total.To avoid the fee (if there are still spots available), you can send your payment via Venmo and include your name and email and/or phone number, my handle is @ruby-koa (Last 4 digits of my phone number are 8556 and just please don’t press the "purchases" button as I get a fee). Or you can use the email inspirestudiobham@gmail.com to find me on Zelle, or to contact me to arrange payment by check or cash.Just put in the comments "7/31 Event," and once I receive your payment, I will register you manually.

What to Bring: This sound bath will primarily be experienced lying down in a relaxed, comfortable position. Thick square and round meditation cushions, some blankets, and silk eye pillows (with optional lavender aromatherapy) will be available to use, but you may want to bring some of your own items for extra comfort. Having something under your head and knees, and a warm covering is key for the most relaxing experience.  

• A yoga mat, Pilates mat, or reclining camping chair (Anti-gravity chairs work well if lying on the floor is difficult)  

• A blanket and/or pillow for warmth and support

• A journal and pen, in case you feel inspired to reflect afterward

• A water bottle to stay hydrated

  
  

Cancellation/refund policy: If you can’t attend the event, please get in touch. Refunds are usually only given when the cancellation is made 24 hours before the event starts as space is limited and we’d like time to contact anyone on the waiting list. However, you are always welcome to give your ticket to someone else or if you contact Ruby as soon as you can, you can let her know what future event or class you’d like to be registered in with your credit.

More on Yoga Nidra: Yoga Nidra is a guided yogic sleep that allows for relaxation and enhanced healing, opens us to our inner guidance, and helps to integrate change by accessing the subconscious. Yoga nidra is a tool for initiating deep change In the root causes of physical, emotional and psychological imbalances as a result of stress. Yoga Nidra brings about a supported lucid dream state by the enhancement of the alpha wave state in the brain, a super-conscious frequency in the mind that releases tension, gives rise to enhanced vision and heightened awareness which then allows us to be more present in our lives. Recently, this practice has been put under the umbrella of the term coined by Andrew Huberman, NSDR or Non-Sleep Deep Rest.  

About Ruby Koa: Ruby, founder of Inspire Studio has been teaching yoga in Bellingham since 2009 and has been working with sound healing instruments since 2013. She offers a variety of classes including various forms of Vinyasa Flow, Gentle Flow, Yin, Restorative, and Kundalini Yoga. Ruby’s aim is to cultivate a sense of community and she loves working with the divine feminine as well as the medium of sound healing. She has crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, a third chakra Chau, first chakra grotto sonora, and a second chakra Planetary Moon Gong. In addition to her Kundalini Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga 200 hr. She has also completed a level 1 & advanced gong training in Seattle and is now a 500 hour RYT with specific certifications for teaching yin, restorative yoga, and more.  

About Reiki: Reiki is a wonderful way to restore one’s life-force energy. It is an ancient healing art and means “Universal Energy” in Japanese. It is believed to enhance the body’s ability to heal itself and offers increasing wellbeing and resilience. Participants will receive restorative energy and support with grounding themselves and releasing blocked energy channels during the sound healing segment of the event.