A POWERFUL AFTERNOON COMBINING CACAO CEREMONY, SOUND BATH, LAUGHTER YOGA, SOMATIC MOVEMENT, MEDITATION, BREATHWORK, AND SO MUCH MORE!
Open to all genders.
When: Sunday 8th November 2026
Time: 12 – 5pm
Early Bird Price: £55
Where: Tara Yoga Centre. 25-31 Ironmonger Row.
An immersive healing and embodiment experience bringing together somatic movement, breathwork, voice activation and sound healing. Guided by Anita, Sabio and Emilia, this event provides a space to reconnect with your body, release stress and restore balance from within.
Noon – 1pm: Somatic Movement:
Taught by Anita Makwana
Introduction, Meditation, Somatic free dance work
and gentle movements to release trauma and blockages held in the body and mind.
Stretches for release.
1.15-3.15pm- Voice Activation, Laughter Yoga, Sound Bath.
Taught by Sabio Janiak
A unique creative psycho sensory transformative experience that creates mental, physical and emotional balance. Sabio will lead voice activation, laughter yoga and a restorative sound bath experience, creating space for emotional release, joy and energetic balance. Incorporates psycho sensory techniques, neuroscience, live improvised music, breath-work, vagus nerve activation, laughter yoga and integrative and relaxing sound bath. The combination of these elements helps regulate our nervous system and restore us to our natural state of harmony – something we all long for deep inside.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
-Therapeutic Improvised live music
-Unlocking meridians systems
-Laugher Session
-Synchronising hemispheres
-Nada Yoga(Yoga of Sound )
-Facia stimulation
-Breathwork
-Opening the voice
-Relaxation
-Sound bath
3.30pm-5pm – Cacao Ceremony and Breathwork.
Taught by Emilia
Emilia, breathwork facilitator and meditation guide will take you on a transformational somatic breathwork journey focused on nervous system regulation, emotional release and a deeper connection to yourself. This experience is designed to help participants release stress reconnect inwardly and leave feeling lighter, grounded and empowered.
Anita Makwana is a Transformational Life Coach specialising in self-development, health and wellness. Her commitment to transforming the lives of people to reach their best selves and helping them reach their fullest potential has been an area of focus for over a decade. She looks at the system of the body as a whole from a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual perspective and combines these to create healthy solutions.
Sabio Janiak, Founder of Mastering Harmony Centre, Psycho Sensory Clinic and Be Well Music.
Multidisciplinary holistic mental health practitioner, Certificated Pedagogy and Psychology Educator(PGCE ), polymath, Havening Techniques Practitioner, end–of–life doula, trauma therapist, artist, multi–instrumentalist, and transformative coach.
Sabio has been helping individuals and groups restore an original balanced state of wellness, inner peace, joy and harmony to their everyday lives since 2005. Having travelled and worked in over 85 countries, Sabio has gained knowledge and experience delivering performances, workshops, lectures, and retreats worldwide.
Emilia is a breathwork facilitator, meditation teacher and healer passionate about helping people reconnect with themselves through somatic release, mindfulness and inner healing practices.
Preview of our last retreat.
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO?
Physical postures, movement, and breath with spiritual and meditative elements. Breath, posture, ritual, and consciousness practices. Using movement, breath, rhythm, dance, stillness, and meditation.
Key elements:
- Rhythm = nervous system regulation
- Drums = heart + brain entrainment
- Repetition = trance induction
- Movement = spirit channeling
- Grounding = earth connection
Healing through motion
- Ritual
- Spirit
- Breath
- Motion
- Consciousness
- Energy
- Alignment
- Healing
- Transcendence
1. Rhythm entrains the brain
When you hear steady drums or repetitive rhythm:
- Brainwaves synchronize (entrainment)
- Beta (thinking) ↓
- Alpha & Theta ↑ (meditative, trance states)
- The default mode network quiets (less ego chatter)
This is the same neurological state reached in:
- Deep meditation
- Breathwork
- Psychedelic states
- Flow states
2. Repetition rewires the nervous system
Repeated movement + rhythm:
- Lowers cortisol
- Regulates the vagus nerve
- Improves emotional processing
- Creates safety through predictability
This is why:
- Sacred dance heals trauma
- People cry, shake, or release emotion
- The body “remembers” before the mind understands
3. Breath + movement = state change
Coordinated breath and motion:
- Oxygenates the brain
- Shifts blood flow
- Activates parasympathetic response
- Opens access to subconscious material
4. Trance is not dissociation
Important distinction:
- Dissociation = escape
- Trance = deep presence
Trance states are:
- Grounded
- Somatic
- Communal
- Time-limited
- Spiritually contained
The person is more in the body, not less.
5. Community regulates the experience
Unlike solo meditation:
- The group provides nervous system safety
- Rhythm synchronizes multiple bodies
- Collective breath stabilizes trance