SOund & Movement Sanctuary
A Home for Healing ~ Connect...Express...Play...Dance...Breathe...Move...Heal
What is Sound & Movement Sanctuary?
An initiative created by Devaki Anne-Marie Thomas, in October 2020. Sound & Movement Sanctuary offers....
~ Movement/Music Therapy, one-to-one & group sessions HERE
~ Kirtan: Sound&Voice Meditation HERE
~ Go Fund Me Campaign to record a Live Kirtan Album in London HERE
~ Live Music for Dance HERE
~ Live Music Performance/Recording group, STUNFLOWER HERE
SMS aims to create a trusting creative environment where individuals can explore and gain a deeper understanding of their emotions and thoughts through moving their body and using sounds in hopes of healing past and present traumas. Sessions offered all feature therapeutic approaches using methods of somatic awareness, attunement, empathic movement and mirroring learned in Devaki's 3 years’ training in a Masters in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University of London.
Join us for a healing journey, Sat 8 Feb & Sun 9 Feb 2025
in Whitehorse, yukon
Songs for Healing is a 1-day wellness retreat featuring wellness workshops, live music, vegetarian dinner & a sound-bath to end nestled in a stunning setting, a private venue in the Mary Lake subdivision in Whitehorse, Yukon Canada. After a sold-out event this October we continue with 2 consecutive retreat's with the same healing goodness and a few added treats. This event will raise our voices, awareness and funds for the ongoing opioid crisis with proceeds going to Blood Ties Charity*. Thomas & Devaki, formerly of world beat band Samsara (Okanagan BC circa 1998-2012) are visiting from London UK with their new band Stunflower and will offer Ashtanga Yoga, Somatic Meditation and Kirtan Sound & Voice meditation as well as play a feature set of healing songs. Local to Whitehorse music legend, drummer extraordinaire, Lonnie Powell will guide participants through a sonic and rhythm exploration to tantalise the mind body & spirit. A beautiful vegetarian Indian dinner will be shared together in a communal setting. To end our day together another legendary local, Dave Haddock, will facilitate a soothing releasing Gong & Sound Bath.
Saturday 8 February & Sunday 9 February (Same Day Repeated):
1pm ~ Opening Ceremony
1.15-2.15 ~ Somatic Meditation/Movement Medicine w Devaki
2.30-3.30 ~ Intro to Ashtanga Yoga w Thomas
3.45-4.45 ~ Kirtan: Sound & Voice Meditation w Thomas & Devaki
5-6.30 ~ Rhythm & Soul Music w Lonnie Powell
6.30 -7.30 ~ Vegetarian Dinner
7.30-8.30pm ~ Healing Music w Stunflower
8.45-9.45pm ~ Soothing Sound Bath w Dave Haddock
Movement is Medicine....
