Start: 6:30PM  |  Tickets: $10  |   Ages: ALL

Take Talks is a panel interview and networking series in Chicago that's goal is to encourage you to take your career back into your own hands and discover actionable steps you can use in your film career. We interview and learn from successful filmmakers in Chicago who have been creating your favorite films, web series, and shorts. This series is a wonderful opportunity for networking in a relaxed environment and meeting other like-minded individuals.

Join us for an in-depth discussion on Content Creation and Production!
You have an idea you're excited about, but now what? How do you actually go about creating it? We're going into a deep dive on how to take a film or web series from idea to completed project.

How many people do you need on your crew? What does each crew member do? What do you do about budget (or NO budget)? We'll be working with three Chicago filmmaking experts to unlock the mystery behind creating your own content so that you can leave this event with actionable next steps for your project. Featuring a guided panel discussion, an open forum Q+A where you can ask whatever questions you have, and a no pressure networking environment where you can meet like-minded people who are also looking to create independent content in Chicago.


This month's Take Talks panelists:
Ricardo Gamboa (Creator of web series "Brujos")
Michael Glover Smith (Writer and Director of "Mercury in Retrograde" and upcoming feature "Rendezvous in Chicago")
Grace Hahn (Producer of feature film "Princess Cyd")

Tickets: $10 to $58 | Ages: 8+ | Happy Hour: 5-7, Re-opens late night

Doors will close right on 8:00pm so the experience can start. There will be no entry permitted inside after 8:00pm so please arrive early to secure your spot.

:: Description ::

Come together as one, to the 3rd Curating Mindfulness + Sound Journey Experience. Help us lift the spirit of our planet with the love in our hearts, starting with the city of Chicago. The HAPPINESS experience is a experiential mindful evening curated by - sound healers, meditation guides, energy architects, music performers and artists.

:: Our Philanthropic Cause ::

We ask to please offer a LOVE DONATION at the door to donate back to our philanthropic mission on the day. This event benefits Greenheart Foundation's Camp Greenheart program.

:: MINDFUL TALK :: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Become inspired as our panel talks live on the Mindfulness Movement and how their journeys began on the path to what they are doing today.

:: MEDITATION + SOUND JOURNEY EXPERIENCE :: 8:00pm- 9:15 pm

Lead by: Vanessa Palmer | Sarah Palmer | Jade Lyons | Chad Soderholm & Special Guests

:: CLOSING HAPPINESS EXPERIENCE :: 9:15pm - 9:30pm

Chill & rejuvenate post experience.

:: SHAMANIC AFTER PARTY EXPERIENCE :: 9:30pm - Midnight

A special combo ticket needs to be purchased to attend the after party. Only a LIMITED amount of these tickets will be released for this intimate experience.

The light in the space dims. The black lights emerge and the shamanic experience & mindful dance party awakens. An experience to tantalise all your senses. A blindfolded chocolate lounge, glow in the dark body art & make up, mindful walking labyrinth, henna design artist and a bevy of unique mindful experiences will flow on till midnight.

** REMINDERS**

Please bring your own Yoga Mat, Meditation Prop or Blanket to fold and sit on. We are not providing any props and the floor is concrete. Also please remember to wear or bring socks as no shoes are permitted in the meditation area. Cell phones must be completley turned off during the experience.

Mindful Lounge

Pre and Post meditation experience we will open the Mindful Lounge where you can relax, sample some amazing juices, Kombucha, products and connect with some of our brand partners, wellness, yoga, meditation and sound therapists. Learn about some of the studios and wellness brands around Chicagoland. There will be pop up boutiques selling yoga and meditation apparel, books and holistic products.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Please send all questions to - curatingmindfulness@gmail.com

Co-Facilitated by Simon Jay & Neale Baldyga. We are blessed to bring you this experience:

Featuring the ॐOm Vibration Frequency, which stimulates the Heart and 4th Chakra-Anahata, this journey through the Vibrations and the senses combines: Sound Healing Therapy, Brain Entrainment, Aromatherapy, ASMR, and Reiki to create a safe and intention based environment for mind space exploration, energy release, and channeling of inspiration.

Be transported with the sacred sounds of the flute, bells, singing bowls, handpan, drums, and Gong as you journey through tones, frequencies, and live sound healing. This immersive and meditative journey is designed to clear the energetic and physical body while bringing harmony to the system. Be transported through this transient trans-formative auditory and vibrational trip that can facilitate a cleansing, clearing, calming and energizing effect.

The powerful Gong serves as a facilitator to break up emotional, physiological and spiritual blockages. Featuring the “Atlantis Gong”, it carries deep full bodied sounds that can conjure up emotional depth, creating sensations with deep body effects followed by sweet harmonic overtones that echoes through the nervous system like waves. This ringing feels like gentle vibration washing through your body. The Atlantis gong vibrates healing frequency that stimulates: Emotional Balance, Clear Energetic Blockages, and Heighten Intuitive Connection. Be immersed in this tantalizing sound bath, wash away negative blockages, transform through the intensity and be reborn through the Journey.

Bring any sacred items that you would like to. Comfortable things are always a good thing (blankets, pillows, comfy clothes, etc). Prepare to journey!

There is a capacity for this event. Please buy your ticket ahead of time if you are interested. Tickets will be $35 at the door.

Start: 7PM   |   Cost: FREE   |   4-Part Series (1st of 4 sessions)

IS THIS FOR YOU?

IF YOU ARE A LIVING, OPEN-MINDED PERSON, THEN YES.

The purpose of this series is to create a dialogue around contemporary relationships and the power of self revelation through sexual freedom and exploration. A short open discussion led by internationally recognized speakers, activists, authors, directors, etc... leads to group discussion and social gathering.

COUP/3 GOALS celebrates individuals who are single, monogamous, non-monogamous, polyamorous, queer, non-binary, or who don't give af about a label.

Evening Overview
7pm Doors open, libations and bites
7:30pm Discussion with special guests
8:50pm Close discussion, Q&A
9:10pm Mingle, engage, or depart
9:45pm Event closes

REUNION is an art gallery, event space and project incubator located in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Event/cultural producer Kristen Kaza and brand strategist/ cultural producer Elijah McKinnon assumed management of the space in 2016, with a mission to provide a collaborative and grounding environment for queer, people of color and femme-identified individuals in creative roles.

For details regarding desk space, event rentals, or collaborations, contact wearethereunion@gmail.com

 Tickets: $30 adv / $35 door | All Ages | Bring: blankets, pillows, comfy clothes, etc.

About the event

Co-Facilitated by Simon Jay & Neale Baldyga. We are blessed to bring you this experience:

Featuring the ॐOm Vibration Frequency, which stimulates the Heart and 4th Chakra-Anahata, this journey through the Vibrations and the senses combines: Sound Healing Therapy, Brain Entrainment, Aromatherapy, ASMR, and Reiki to create a safe and intention based environment for mind space exploration, energy release, and channeling of inspiration. 

Be transported with the sacred sounds of the flute, bells, singing bowls, handpan, drums, and Gong as you journey through tones, frequencies, and live sound healing. This immersive and meditative journey is designed to clear the energetic and physical body while bringing harmony to the system. Be transported through this transient trans-formative auditory and vibrational trip that can facilitate a cleansing, clearing, calming and energizing effect. 

The powerful Gong serves as a facilitator to break up emotional, physiological and spiritual blockages. Featuring the “Atlantis Gong”, it carries deep full bodied sounds that can conjure up emotional depth, creating sensations with deep body effects followed by sweet harmonic overtones that echoes through the nervous system like waves. This ringing feels like gentle vibration washing through your body. The Atlantis gong vibrates healing frequency that stimulates: Emotional Balance, Clear Energetic Blockages, and Heighten Intuitive Connection. Be immersed in this tantalizing sound bath, wash away negative blockages, transform through the intensity and be reborn through the Journey.

Starts: 7:30M  |  Ends: 9:30pm |  Tickets: $30 adv & $35 door

Description

Cacao is a powerful, gentle facilitator for a heart opening experience. Not to mention its delicious, nourishing, and therapeutic too! We will be using this sacred plant as a catalyst for tapping into our undivided creative expression through movement, breathwork, and cellular cleansing with sound therapy.

We will be balancing male and female energies that allow you to receive inspiration (feminine energy) and to act on it (masculine energy) Cacao assists you in connecting the left and right parts of your brain for a harmonious balance in mind, body, spirit.

Chicago Oneness Center

Chicago Oneness Center - a studio of movement and growth. We practice yoga, traditional Thai bodywork, Shiatsu and more. 

Chicago Oneness Center is a place for every soul striving to express themselves through movement of body or mind. Everyone is welcome.

Limited Spots Available!

Starts: 7PM  |  Tickets: $40  |  Ages: All

Gongs, drums, chimes and more in a Salt Room! Spend the evening with Andre, the Gong Guru, in our salt room for a special sound and salt healing sure to make your evening vibratory, healing and relaxing! Andre will perform with the gongs which provide powerful sound vibrations to penetrate the body and have been shown to stimulate the nervous system and produce healing frequencies. Most experience a pretty trippy meditation to boot. The Salt Room will also provide halotherapy with its famous negative ionic charge for even more healing and relaxing. Bring a date for what's sure to be an amazing night.

The evening will feature an immersion into the healing sounds of a gong, Himalayan brass bowls and crystal singing bowls. The featured instrument, a 38” Earth gong is tuned to the frequency of the earth and the human body. Sound immersion is designed to cleanse the energetic system through sound vibration and provide an enhanced state of relaxation and visualization. The tonal experience dates back thousands of years in Tibet, Nepal and India and has been brought to the West as a spiritual tradition that brings cleansing, healing and restoration.

The singing bowls used in sound healing ceremonies are played to signal the beginning and end of the silent meditation cycles. The bowls resonate with pure tones that promote restoration. Chuck uses principles of Eastern Energy Healing, sacred instrumentation and harmonic tones to immerse participants in various alpha/theta/beta states, creating physical and emotional well-being. He trained under sound-healer Danielle Dvorak and is inspired by sound-healing pioneer Richard Rudis.

Ticket: $23  | Member: $18 | Save $3 when you book online!

| Work/Study students FREE |

Members are those students enrolled in Ahimsa auto pay membership.

Doors: 5:00PM  |  Free Event

Ayurveda translates to the science of life in Sanskrit. Its roots are intimately intertwined with its' sister science, Yoga. The two sciences have been practiced for over 5,000 years in India. Ayurveda & Yoga are two faces of the same coin. Ayurveda is an elementally based science that serves as a guide to allow us to gain a deeper understanding of our individual makeup. It does so by honing in on the inherent elemental qualities that govern all of creation. By making lifestyle choices that are aligned with our elemental make up, we remember our true nature as spirit, and from there we are able to create the most optimal environment for self-healing to take place within the body.

Mónica is 200hr Ayurvedic Hatha Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Health Counselor. She currently practices Ayurvedic Medicine at Hamsa Ayurveda & Yoga Center and teaches at various yoga studios in Chicago. Mónica is a classically trained dancer, fire and flow artist and loves infusing principles from different trainings in her classes. As a dancer Mónica finds movement to be a medicine of sorts that serves as a portal to awakening the innate healer within all of us. Her Ayurvedic training has taught her to view the world through the lens of its inherent elemental quality. The inner transformation and connectivity that can be experienced through surrendering to the practice of Yoga and tapping into the remembrance of Ayurveda, is one Mónica wishes to share with all.
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:: Together we will unearth all of the following ::


•Ayurveda 101 and the sacred connection to it’s sister science, Yoga
(Brief movement sequence to explore what is discussed)

•Exploring the elements as the building blocks of creation

•Understanding individual mind-body types by honing in on inherent elemental qualities of ones makeup

•Defining the primordial cause of ALL dis-ease with emphasis on the importance of proper sensory use

•Healing through the 5 senses for each mind-body type
(Sight, sound, taste, touch & smell)

•Exploring daily practices to cultivate long lasting balance and a more harmonious lifestyle in tune with ones elemental make up

PLEASE RSVP as space is very limited

Arrive: 6-6:30PM  |  To: 9:30PM  |  Cost: $40 (includes supplies and food)

Join Misty Soderholm as she guides you on a journey inward in order to create a beautiful piece of art through connecting to your heart and spirit. This paint party will include a guided meditation and breath-work at the beginning, conscious music all evening, abstract painting, healthy snacks, and closing sharing circle to end. Connect with other like-minded individuals and create an expression of your spirit's energy on canvas. This adult party is open to all and requires no experience in meditation or painting. $40 per person includes all supplies and food.

Start: 2PM |  Tickets: $135  |   All Ages

About the event

Sound Healing and Vibrational Therapy is one of the fastest growing therapeutic holistic treatment in the world. Hosted by Dameon Keller and Simon Jay, this full day intensive certification will teach fundamentals of vibrational frequencies, Solar Spectrum Sound Therapy, and application and how to use a variety of instruments as tools for sound healing.

The use of intended frequency range from: altering state of consciousness, increase productivity, assist and speed healing rate, align energetic centers in the body, neutralize the brain, stimulate healing in the body, create a much needed sense of relaxation and assist in releasing past trauma. Sound Frequency and vibrations are now also being used to pinpoint and obliterate cancer, break up and remove toxins in the body, anti-gravity suspension, and advance nerve and cellular regeneration.

:: The Certification Course will include ::

- A lesson with an EEG systems and observe the effects of brainwave entrainment - the power of matter over mind and mind over matter. 

- A lesson in low-frequency Vibro-Acoustic Therapy System, and will teach you all aspects of proper tuning fork therapy. 

- A Comprehensive course in Cymatics and cymatic software, as well as a physical system with a theramin as a tone generator. We will also include a frequency reader to observe the effects of vibration on matter. 

- A crash course in how include and use the following instruments in your healing session: Drums, Rattles, Singing Bowl, Didgiridoo, Tingshas, Flute, Ocean Drum and Gong. So Bring your Instruments!

- You will learn how to buy and make your own instruments for sound therapy, and much more.

:: What You Get ::

- You get a USB drive of pdfs, videos, and programs, including the complete online class videos, a variety of music CDs for meditation, sound healing, and enjoyment, Dameon Keller’s books (author of “Sounds Good”), as well as charts for utilizing Scientific Pitch, the Law of Octaves, the Solar Spectrum, and the Law of Sympathetic Vibratory Physics. 

- Also included are software programs for creating brainwave entrainment tracks, sub-harmonic frequencies, and creating your own sound therapy tracks. 

:: What You'll Need (Optional) ::

- You are encouraged to bring any of your sound healing instruments and tools.

- You are welcome to bring your own notebook and journal to take notes, It will be a long day, so you are welcome to also bring snacks.

The Sacred Sound Meditation will introduce participants to tones, frequencies, and live sound healing designed to clear the energetic and physical body while bringing harmony to the system. The meditation will include some guided visualization and a blend of world instruments chosen for their effect on the mind, body, and spirit. These instruments include: Brass and Crystal Singing Bowls, Shakers, Chimes, Didgeridoo, and more.

Neale Baldyga and Janie Crick, will lead the group through this meditative journey. As above, so below. As within, so without. Using an integrative approach of traditional instruments, aromatherapy, bodywork adjustments, and chakra/aura cleansing, the duo truly provides the sensory experience allowing for participants to heal in whichever way honors their journey. 

There will be some mats for your comfort. Please bring any other items (blankets, pillows, etc,) you believe will help your experience. There will be time after the meditation for sharing and questions.

What you'll gain from this experience:

Energy Balance
Body Harmony
Stress Relief
Heightened Productivity
Heightened Awareness