Sound Healing / Restorative Aerial Yoga Benefit for the Kua’ana Project with Bryan Jordan & Robin Shepard
November 29, 2024, @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm HST
About Kua’ana Project.
Kua’ana is the Hawaiian term for older sibling. In the ‘ohana (family) structure, kua’ana take responsibility for caring for the kaina (younger sibling) and guide them as they pursue their goals. Through the Kua’ana Project, peers of the transgender community kōkua (assist) other transpersons using their own personal experiences. Whether it be to search for jobs, legally change their names, or access stable housing, the Kua’ana Project staff are able to support and encourage kaina with compassion and understanding.
A few of the Ku’ana Project’s services include:
-Name change applications
-Gender affirming treatment referrals
-Family transgender education
-One-on-one peer counseling
-Transition guidance and esteem building
Friday, November 29, 2024
7:30-9:00 pm HST
Pricing tiers: $25 – $45 – $65
100% of the ticket sales will be donated to Kua’ana Project
Welcome to our monthly Benefit Sound Bath series! With your participation, this series seeks to support more harmony locally and peace globally. We start by filling you with serenity and healing that you can spread throughout your ‘ohana (extended family) and community. At the same time we seek to spread awareness and help to nonprofit organizations throughout Hawai’i to continue their amazing work.
This month, we are happy to sponsor HHHRC’s Kua’ana Project 100% of the ticket sales will be donated to this organization.
About this event
This Gentle Yoga/Sound Healing event is designed to help bring a little peace, and comfort into your life as well as others’.
Move into the first half of the session with Robin Shepard guiding a gentle yoga routine set to the crystal singing bowls to encourage relaxation and prepare you for a deeper meditation.
Throughout the entire session Bryan Jordan will immerse you in a musical sound journey with the crystal singing bowls. Bryan’s heartfelt approach to sound healing incorporates his training in classical music to create a beautiful, flowing soundscape. Every session becomes a brand new composition, designed to help you reach deeper, and deeper states of relaxation, and meditation. This music will guide you on a journey where deep healing, and rest can occur. His goal is for you to leave the session feeling rejuvenated, restored, and peaceful.
Brian and Robin freely contribute their time to bring wellbeing to you and also to the beneficiaries of this particular session.
We have developed a sliding scale donation system for this event. For those of you who can afford to pay on the higher end of the scale, your donation helps to support those who cannot. If you cannot pay the higher end suggested, consider what is authentically sustainable for you, and donate that amount. We are excited to see you all at the event!
Thank you for supporting Kua’ana Project!
Pricing Tiers
We have developed a tiered payment system for this event. For those of you who can afford to pay on the higher end of the scale, your payment helps to support those who cannot. This is one way to leverage our privilege and stand for equity for everyone. If you cannot pay the higher end suggested, consider what is authentically sustainable for you, and pay that. We are excited to see you all at the event! Mahalo for supporting the HHHRC’s Kua’ana Project!
$65 | Supporter Rate (support others as well as yourself)
$45 | Sustainer Rate (pays for you)
$25 | Community Rate (discounted)
If none of the above pricing options are within your means, please contact us at info@stillandmovingcenter.com for more options.
Bryan Jordan
Bryan believes that when we all live from our authentic selves, we have the power to change our community and the world. After studying classical music at the University of Montana, he moved to O’ahu to pursue massage therapy, sound and other healing arts. Bryan has a passion for the transformative power of sound, music, nature and art, and has been using crystal singing bowls to create healing music for over 15 years. His goal is to help as many people as possible create a life of well-being, purpose and joy, by offering live sound healing events, and creating meditative music for YouTube and Insight Timer. You can reach him directly at bryan@sacredbreathhealing.com & https://www.youtube.com/bryanjordanmusic
Robin Shepard
Yoga E-RYT200/ RTY500, RCYT, YACEP
Originally a native of the Pacific Northwest, Robin spent the last 13 years traveling, raising her family, and acquiring knowledge and skills living in such places as Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Ho Chi Minh City. Though she will never stop wandering, she now considers Honolulu home. She feels lucky to have been a part of the vibrant yoga culture of Vietnam where she completed her foundational yoga teacher trainings with Suzanne Vian of Yoga Vietnam and her 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training in the FluidUs Method with Carlos Tao. Additionally, Robin is a registered Children’s Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, and has training in Pre-Natal and Post-Natal yoga.
Accordingly, Robin enjoys teaching both the young and the young-at-heart. As a life-long learner, she is fascinated by recent scientific discoveries around fascia and functional movement and their implications for the practice of yoga. This curiosity has fueled exploration and experimentation to create a style of movement that is playful and dynamic, with practical benefit for everyone from absolute beginners to more advanced practitioners. She is always looking for ways to deliver a more personal experience, with respectful irreverence and fun. She links functional movement skills, breath mechanics, and novel approaches to traditional poses to increase somatic awareness, mobility, and build an organic mind/body connection.
As a long time practitioner, Robin has personally experienced the difference that a regular yoga practice can make in a person’s life. She sees yoga as a doorway, progressing from movement into meditation, awareness, understanding, and finally acceptance of ourselves and others. She considers yoga a powerful and essential practice to help navigate our modern world.
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