Pop Up Sound Journey
with Ruby Koa

March 7 (Friday)
at 6:30 pm

Class length
90 minutes

Location
IN PERSON-Presence Studio

Just after the First Quarter Moon in Gemini, this is a potent time for growth, communication, and aligning with your intentions. The energy of this phase supports clarity, action, and reflection. This event begins with a few gentle grounding practices to help you release tension and create openness. As the soothing sounds of Tibetan and crystal singing bowls fill the space, you’ll be guided into a deep state of relaxation through Yoga Nidra, a brief but powerful practice to prepare you for deeper relaxation and to set an intention for the sound journey. Earth, Moon, and third chakra gongs will clear blockages, calm the mind, and restore balance to your body and spirit.
Various kinds of chimes, a rain stick and ocean drum will be used to gently bring you out of the experience. There will be time given at the end to continue to relax or to write down any insights or inspirations.
Whether you’re looking for clarity, healing, or simply a peaceful escape, this immersive experience will leave you feeling refreshed, aligned, and centered.
There will also most likely be at least one intuitive energy workers there to support you in releasing and grounding. The event concludes with tea, sweets, snacks, and community.

Gong Bath Meditation Benefits:
Promotes relaxation and stress relief
Restores vibrational balance and mind-body harmony
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
With: Ruby Koa
When: Friday, March 7, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Where: Presence Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave. (across from Inspire Studio)
Investment:💫 Early Bird Rate until 3/6: *$35
💫 Day of event or at the door: $40 
A few sliding scale spots are also available as well as a few work exchange positions for set up and take down. Text Ruby if you're interested at 360-447-8778.
*Payment Note: The credit card fee of around $1.25 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 [email protected] to find me on Zelle, or to contact me to arrange payment by check or cash.
Just put in the comments 3/7 Event, and once I receive your payment, I will register you manually.

What to Bring: The sound journey is usually experienced lying down on your back or a similar comfortable position. Some blankets, bolsters, and lovely silk eye pillows with optional lavender aromatherapy essential oils will be available to use. We'll probably be lying down for over an hour, on a hardwood floor, and we turn off the heat during the sound bath since it's so loud, so please dress in layers and bring whatever you need to be warm and comfortable.

🌀 Yoga, Pilates mat, or reclining camping ("anti gravity") chair if lying on the floor is difficult for you (optional thick blanket for extra padding)
🌀 Blanket and pillow for added comfort
🌀 Journal and pen for reflection
🌀 Water bottle to stay hydrated
Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to settle in.
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 & the Practicioners:

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. Saralee Sky, MA, Reiki Master and Cathy Herford, Reiki Master Teacher are the facilitators during classes and events. Saralee can be contacted at: [email protected] Cathy can be reached at: [email protected] or 360-689-5654.