Summer Solstice is here! Come Celebrate with us!
On June 25th, from 8AM to 3PM, we are celebrating the arrival of the Summer Solstice on the grounds of our beautiful 20 acre nature sanctuary and nature preserve with a day full of Mindfulness, Movement, Meditation, and Music!
Enjoy a day of community and connection with Nature🌳
Invite a friend and enjoy a smorgasbord of flavors and activities providing a perfect series of practices to pause your mind, awaken your body, and soothe your soul, including:
A Healthy, Lite Bite Breakfast/Lunch & Homegrown fresh-brewed Cacao Tea
Ancient Yoga Movement with Anamargret Sánchez of Legion Park Yoga
A Celebration of Sound and Sacred Chanting with Shakti Kirtan
A Mindful Meander & Nature-Based Immersion Walk in our Mindful Pocket Park with Chief Experience Officer and Certified Mindfulness Instructor Suzanne Jewell
A Celebratory, Communal Lunch Among New Friends and Old
And a Concluding Ecodharma Talk & Discussion with Our Teachers
On this special, celebratory day you will experience the many benefits of how to P.A.W.S. (Pay Attention with Your Senses) and take your seat with all who attend to offer care, compassion, lovingkindness and a dedication to the land, water, air, fire and beings with whom we are all intertwined in the Great Web of Life.
Learn more about the day's teachers and performances below. We hope to see you there!
The Teachers:
Shakti Kirtan - Musical Guests
“Mantras are modulations of Light Pulses within the Divine Consciousness in its various activities.”
— SRI MATAJI SHAKTIANANDA
Kirtan SKY Miami is a group of bhaktas of the Divine Values School who bring chanting to a higher level. Through our live performances we share our devotion using Bhajans to spread joy to those in search of expressing their devotion to the divine. Our Guru Mataji Shaktiananda inspires us to live a spiritual life to reach our true potential through singing and the practice of Shiva Kriya Yoga.
Anamargret Sanchez
Highly sought-after yoga teacher Anamargret Sanchez, founder of the 14-year “beneath the oak trees” Legion Park Community Yoga class brings her decades of dedication as a student and teacher of the yoga tradition, to Patch of Heaven Sanctuary’s growing roster of Guest Teachers for our nature-based, Earth-focused wellness immersion experiences.
Trained through the Himalayan Institute whose spiritual director, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, she considers the home of her Tantric yoga lineage, Anamarget offers community youth support through Educate Tomorrow, funded by The Children’s Trust is a dedicated contributor to the Yoga International online yoga program and is a certified Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga Trainer.
For the past 14 years over 100 people gather weekly under the oaks during the Legion Park Farmers Market on Miami’s Upper Eastside to connect, breathe and remember their light.
Suzanne Jewell
Chief Experience Officer, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, Founder of the Mindful Pocket Park @Patch, certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center/Sounds True training, Executive Resilience Coach and Forest Therapy guide.
A former global TV executive and marketing communications expert, Jewell experienced burnout and C-PTSD firsthand, choosing as her healing path putting her “tush on a cush”. A climate refugee due to flooding during Covid brought her to the Open Awareness Buddhist Center, where she took Vows of Refuge, staying for 18 months and deepening her lived dedication to the path of liberation; circumambulation practice (kora walking around the stupas) and supporting the lama was part of daily life. She most loved the daily kayak paddles in the Little River, recording “Pockets of Peace” floating meditations to “invite others to float in the boat” with her.
Jewell teaches Mindful Leadership, Transformation, Communication and Focus practices through workshops and retreats for eMerge Americas, Babson College’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, Miami Dade College’s Idea Center, MDC Foundation, Philanthropy Miami, Radical Partners, TD Bank, Chapman Partnership, and Levan Center for Innovation/NSU.
She leads Patch of Heaven Sanctuary’s brand new Mindful Nature Guide training for activating the Mindful Pocket Park and is launching the Mindful Nature Institute in 2024.