Come celebrate the winter solstice with a sound bath and Cacao ceremony led by Malka. Cacao is a heart medicine with its intoxicating and rich flavors, its remedy is heart-opening and truth-speaking. We honor and are reverent to the traditions of cacao ceremonies and the ancestors who carried this medicine as we rise up to meet it, offer up our prayers and intentions, and then listen to its wisdom. The sound healing provided will be a combination of crystal bowl, sound healing harps, drum, harmonium and guitar. Blankets and pillows are provided to lounge around in community allowing the power of the cacao, winter solstice, and sound healing to release what isn't serving anymore and call in your manifestations. Let us mark this powerful time as many of our ancestors have from ancient times together, in community. May this ceremony not only liberate and elevate us but also all beings everywhere.
Malka has been practicing yoga since she was 20 years old. While studying at UC Santa Cruz, she stumbled into an Iyengar yoga studio and fell in love with the practice. She later found her love growing for heated vinyasa yoga when she was working at the Yoga Tree in San Francisco as a massage therapist. It was there that she received her 200 hr YTT certificate. Her intention was to deepen her practice but a couple years later, she ended up landing a job in Thailand at a wellness center. This is where Malka found herself as a teacher and after many years of practice at this point, she could feel the teaching pouring out of her. She then went to New York city to pursue her 500 hr YTT with Dharma Mittra. With a commitment to the practice, Malka continues to gain knowledge and the practice continues to evolve her into new understandings. For Malka, teaching yoga is a joy and an honor. She loves holding space for deep transformation. Her classes consist of pranayama, meditation, wisdom from the yoga texts, a vigorous flow, and she always ends her class chanting mantras on her harmonium. Malka believes that being embodied is the biggest tool when dealing with social change. If we can connect to even just a spark of liberation within, we can spread that feeling out into the world and together we can make change in this world. Malka’s first experience with Grandmother medicine was in 2012 in Puerto Rico. After spending some time with the Yawanawa tribe in Brazil and doing her own plant diet in Peru with the Shipibo tribe, Malka was given the blessing to be a keeper and giver of the medicine. Currently, Malka’s study and journey as a Priestess of the Ifa tradition of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria is intensive and therefore to not mix traditions too much, Malka doesnt serve the medicine often. However, when the time arrives, Malka is extremely grateful to be in communion with Grandmother wisdom which has played a pivotal role in her own transformation, healing and connection to her ancestors. The wisdom of this medicine is in its essence love, humility and grace.