**Navratri Celebration Ceremony**

~Meditation ~ Durga Initiation Journey ~Drumming & Ecstatic Dance

~Yoga Nidra ~Sound Healing ~Journaling

Come join Abneet, Anju and Ami in ceremony as we celebrate the end of the Navratri: a 9 day Indian festival that honours the 9 goddess incarnations of DURGA– the earth warrior goddess from which all other goddesses come forth.

If you are seeking a space to understand ROOT POWER better and your divine feminine source code (also known as SHAKTI) we invite you into this space to journey into the underworld together– deep into the roots of the earth. Here we uncover your innate grounding energy and how Durga shows up for you.

Who is DURGA? She is the earth warrior goddess stemming from Hindu tantric mythology. Her name literally translates to “fortress”. She is one we call upon when we want to end a pattern, start a project or assert heart-based boundaries. When she is seen riding into battle – she comes laughing and leaned back on her tiger– her laughter is a roar that rocks the lands.

As we live in a culture that favors people- pleasing and folks not being in their embodied boundaries– these goddess archetypes and mythology can act as a beautiful doorway to reclaim our inherent birthright to take up space and be powerful. To establish our boundaries, and also feel safe to speak up and create new realities that heal broken systems of oppression of capitalism, patriarchy and colonization.

This is perfect for the person who has been feeling anxious, all “up in my head” energy, and wants to FEEL somatically how to hold deeper, grounded and expansive energy in the body, while still being receptive and in their feminine. This is also for she who has been feeling a rumbling of awakening in her belly and ready to anchor in her divine feminine as we build the New Earth– one based on the intelligence of the heart and respect for Earth, and the cycles and rhythms of Nature.

Journey:

✨Grounding meditation with Ami and Sitar by Anju Bedi

🔥Durga initiation journey with Abneet: Drumming, Song + Guided visual meditation

💃🏽Ecstatic dance led by Abneet

🧘‍♀️Yoga Nidra with Ami

🎼Sound Healing with Ami

📝Journaling, Integration and Sharing circle

When: Friday, 14th October 2022

Time: 7:00- 9:30pm

Where: 1109 Commercial Dr, Vancouver BC

Exchange: $77*

(*etransfer to nirvanamiwellness@gmail.com to avoid fee)

What to bring?

✨Yoga mat (Please let us know in advance if you need one)

✨Writing supplies (pen/pencil), journal, paper

✨Comfortable clothing to move in

✨Eye pillow or cover to place on your eyelids

✨Light blanket, socks or a sweater to keep cozy

✨Small cushion or a yoga block to rest your head or hips (optional)

About the Facilitators:

Abneet Sandhar (Abneet Sandhar Wellness)

Abneet Kaur Sandhar is a trained classical Indian Tantra yoga guide, receiving her 300hr teacher training with Master yoga lineage holder: Maitreyi Yogacharini from the Arkaya foundation in 2019. She is also a Feminine Embodiment Coach receiving Woman's Temple facilitation training with Awakening Women in 2017. In 2021, she was awarded for her community leadership and facilitation by the Visioneers Network.

Abneet is OBSESSED with guiding women back to their inner healing capability and reclaiming inner power. She knows that the healing of the world takes place as the Sacred Feminine is brought back into balance. She specifically works 1:1 with feminine visionaries, leaders and artists to help them embody a profound sense of rootedness and radiance that up-levels every aspect of her life. Women who have completed 12 week journeys with Abneet as their spiritual embodiment guide, have learned how to establish healthy boundaries, re-awaken pleasure, re-sensitive their bodies, open their hearts to healthy loving relationships, and create flourishing feminine-led businesses.

A former burlesque model, nude art model and life-long sacred arts dancer, she encourages women in her practice to enter their bodies more fully in order to show up more deeply in every aspect of their lives; in intimate relating, communication, money and sex. After years of studying spiritual self- healing techniques, meditation, classical tantric yoga and dance, she brings you "The Nourished Woman"-- a safe space for women of all walks of life to come together in community to celebrate and express their most honest raw selves.

The time for feminine leadership on the Earth is rising, and women can support each other in these times, as we also steadily and gently do our own inner-self work and care.

Abneet currently offers international Nourished Woman Goddess retreats, the acclaimed 8 week group Initiation Journey: Awakening Shakti that begins a second time this year on Nov 8 , 2022 in South Surrey, and private, virtual 1:1 feminine embodiment mentorship spanning 3 months.

Contact her at on Instagram @abneetsandharwellness or www.abneetsandhar.com

Ami (NirvanAmi Yoga & Wellness)

Ami Bajwa (Nirvanami Yoga & Wellness) is a yoga, meditation and wellness practitioner on a mission to help provide relaxation and rest to her students. She teaches Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra & Restorative practices along with slow flow/hatha yoga and Pranayama (breathing exercises) that help activate the parasympathetic nervous system. She always leads and ends her class with guided/sound meditation and poetry - practicing all 8 limbs of yoga (vs only the Asanas).

She is a sound ceremonialist and combines crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, chimes and other music instruments to lead her clients into a deep state of relaxation. She is also a Reiki master. Her practice is exactly like a bowl of Indian curry - with an explosion of different physical, emotional, mental and spiritual practices that have helped her in her own healing journey. All bodies, ages are welcome to her classes, and you do not have to be “fit” to join her classes. She aims to nourish her students with compassion, metta loving kindness and her positive energy.

You can reach her at www.nirvanami.com or @nirvanami.yoga.wellness on IG/FB

We look forward to seeing you all there! Sending much love to you all!

We would like to acknowledge that this event takes place on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) peoples.