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The Vortex Bay Area, 619 1st Street, Benicia, CA (2026)

02/26/2026

Affirmation Candle Making
Workshop
🗓 Saturday, 2/28
⏰ 3:00–4:30 PM
💫 Energetic Exchange: $70 (includes all supplies)
🔗 Link to register in bio

Join Charlene of Trove Fragrances for a mindful, hands-on candle making experience rooted in intention and creativity.

You’ll explore the art of fragrance blending, crafting your own custom scent from a beautifully curated selection of fragrance oils. Then, you’ll be guided step-by-step through the candle-making process, infusing your creation with a personal affirmation to anchor your intention.

All materials are provided.
Each guest will leave with an 8oz hand-poured soy candle made with care — and meaning. 🕯✨

02/17/2026

RESCHEDULED — Let’s Celebrate the Lunar New Year (just fashionably late 😉)

Sound Journey
Tuesday, 2/24
6:00–7:30 PM
Energetic Exchange: $45
(or 1 session from your monthly membership)

Step into this 90-minute immersive Sound Journey designed to help you:

✨ Release what no longer serves you
✨ Set bold, clear intentions for the year ahead
✨ Align with the rhythm of the lunar cycle
✨ Reconnect with your inner stillness

We’ll begin with gentle grounding and intentional reflection — consciously closing one chapter and opening another. From there, you’ll settle into a deeply restorative sound immersion featuring crystal singing bowls, chimes, and other vibrational instruments that calm the nervous system and create spaciousness for clarity, insight, and renewal.

Let’s welcome the new year — and the First Quarter Moon — in community, resonance, and intention.

Your next chapter is calling. 🌙✨

02/17/2026

Ecstatic Dance Journey
Thursday, 2/19
7:00-8:30 PM
Energetic Exchange: $25
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3Ot35KQ

Ecstatic Dance Journey is a sacred, free-form movement experience where you’re invited to move exactly as you are—no choreography, no judgment, no expectations.

Guided by intentional music and collective energy, this journey becomes a space for release, renewal, joy, and deep embodied presence.

Let the mind soften.
Let the body lead.
Let movement become meditation.

Come home to yourself on the dance floor!

02/11/2026

✨Tarot as a Living Practice✨
Thursday, 2/12
At The Vortex (619 1st Street)
Energetic Exchange: $40

We are so excited to bring you February’s session of Tarot as a Living Practice at The Vortex Bay Area! 💫

This month, we’re diving deep into The Lovers — a card that goes way beyond romance.

Think:
💞 sacred choice
💞 alignment of values
💞 devotion to self, truth, and connection
💞 where desire meets integrity

Together, we’ll explore The Lovers as a living, breathing archetype — not just something you pull from the deck, but something you embody in your daily life. Expect reflection, insight, and practical magic you can actually work with.

✨ Whether you’re new to tarot or have been walking with the cards for years, this practice meets you exactly where you are.

Come curious. Come open. Come ready to choose yourself.

01/30/2026

Grateful for our community.
One of our local mamas .schwartz initiated this peace walk on Sunday, February 1st, 6pm, earlier this week.

To witness our community welcoming this movement with open arms and rallying together, fills our hearts with hope ♥️

Please join us Sunday, February 1st, 6pm at the Gazebo on First St + Military.

We will walk down First St to the water, with our candles (battery operated preferred for multiple reasons), in the energy of Peace + Unity.

Share with your friends, family, neighbors and beyond.

We love you ❤️‍🔥

01/20/2026

Ecstatic Dance Journey
Thursday, 1/22
7:00-8:30 PM
Energetic Exchange: $25
Tickets: https://get.mndbdy.ly/zyHdNWwQ5Zb

Ecstatic Dance Journey is a sacred, free-form movement experience where participants are invited to move exactly as they are—no steps, no judgment, no expectations. Guided by music and intention, the dance becomes a space for release, awakening, joy, and deep presence—where movement becomes meditation and the body leads the way home.

01/07/2026

🃏Tarot as a Living Practice with Heidi Lechner
Thursdays, January 8 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM | $40
✨link in bio

Tarot is more than a deck of cards—it’s a relationship. In these monthly classes, we’ll explore Tarot as a personal compass, a soulful language, and a living system that reflects your inner world with honesty and grace. Whether you’re brand new or have been reading for years, you’ll learn to trust your intuition, deepen your interpretations, and work with Tarot as a practical, spiritual tool for everyday life. Together, we move beyond memorization and into embodied wisdom—using Tarot to support clarity, self-trust, healing, and conscious choice-making.
    •    January 8 — The Fool: Beginning again. Trust, curiosity, and stepping into the unknown with an open heart. Focus intention-setting, fresh starts, and cultivating faith in the journey ahead.
    •    February 12 — The Lovers: Choice, values, and alignment. Explore relationships—both with others and ourselves—and how to make decisions rooted in authenticity and heart-centered truth.
    •    March 12 — The Magician: Personal power, manifestation, & creative agency. Learn to work consciously with your tools, voice, and focus to bring ideas into form and take aligned action.

01/02/2026

🌕FIRST FULL MOON OF 2026
Saturday, January 3
5:00–6:30 PM
619 1st Street
Energetic Exchange: $45

Ready to release like you mean it?

This Full Moon Ceremony is designed to help you let go—gently, powerfully, and in community—as part of your Sacred Start to 2026. No experience needed. Just bring yourself!

✨ How the evening will flow:
• Arrival + Grounding — settle your nervous system and drop into the moment
• Guided meditation: connect with the Full Moon and your inner landscape
• Release ritual: burn what you’re ready to release from 2025 (yes, literally 🔥)
• SoulFlow: a closed-eye movement meditation to integrate, release, and embody what’s next

This isn’t about doing it “right.”
It’s about listening, moving, releasing, and letting your body lead the way home.

🌕 Release not just the last lunar cycle—but all thirteen we’ve traveled through together in 2025.

✨ Registration required
✨ Space is limited

Join us under the Moon.
She’s ready.
Are you? 😉

Come empty.
Leave clear.
2026 is waiting. 💫

01/02/2026

Oh hello, January 1, 2026!

Fresh calendar. Clean slate. Main-character energy.

Today isn’t about resolutions that ghost you by February.
It’s about a Sacred Start—a small, intentional practice that anchors your nervous system, your spirit, and your day before the world gets loud.

This walk in downtown Benicia is your visual reminder:
Life keeps moving. Water flows. Breath returns. You don’t have to rush to be worthy of a good beginning.

What is a Sacred Start?
It’s the first few moments of your day that belong only to you.

No scrolling. No reacting. No shoulds.
Just presence, intention, and a gentle “I’m here.”

A Sacred Start might look like:
• A quiet walk with your breath
• Lighting a candle and setting an intention
• Pulling a single tarot or oracle card
• A few moments of sound, prayer, journaling, or stillness
• Hand on heart, feet on the ground, saying “today, I choose…”

The magic of why it matters:
✨ Regulates your nervous system before stress hijacks it
✨ Grounds your energy so you’re responding, not reacting
✨ Creates clarity and emotional resilience
✨ Strengthens intuition and self-trust
✨ Sets the frequency for your entire day

Tiny ritual. Massive ripple.
You don’t need more discipline.
You need devotion—to yourself, to your life, to how you want to feel moving through this year.
Let this be the year you start your days like they matter.
Because you do.
And how you begin… echoes.
Save this for tomorrow morning.
Share it with someone who’s ready for a softer, more powerful start.
And tell us—what’s your Sacred Start going to be?!

We’re honored to support you on your journey. Tag us so we can witness it, celebrate it, and walk alongside you every step of the way.
Your BECOMING is sacred—and we want to see it shine!

12/24/2025

PRE-NYE Silent Disco
with The Vortex
At St. Paul’s Parish Hall
120 East J Street |
Benicia, CA 94510
5:00-7:00 PM
🪩Tickets: $55/ each | $100/ pair
*Families welcome! Youth (under 18 years) are $25 each. See below for pricing details.

Join us for a Pre-New Year’s Eve Silent Disco in downtown Benicia—raising both funds and spirits for this beloved historic church.

We’re dancing through the decades with curated playlists spanning the last 50 years of music!

Dress to impress in your favorite era:
70s • 80s • 90s
• 2000s • 2010s • 2020s
Bonus points for bold choices and unapologetic sparkle!

Light refreshments will be available, and we highly encourage continuing the celebration along First Street afterward to support local spots for nourishment and spirits.

Come dance, celebrate, and send the year off in true Vortex style.

🎉Headphones on.
🎉Hearts open.
🎉Let’s go

Drop into the beats, move your body, and immerse yourself in a shared, high-vibe community experience—each dancer in their own sonic universe, all connected on the dance floor.

*Family pricing (Youth = anyone under 18)
Please add the adults and youth prices and choose the correct amount for your group when purchasing tickets!

1 adult + 1 youth = $80 ticket
1 adult + 2 youth = $100 ticket
1 adult + 3 youth = $125 ticket
2 adults + 2 youth = $150 ticket
2 adults + 3 youth = $175 ticket
2 adults + 4 youth = $200 ticket

12/23/2025

PRE-NYE Silent Disco
with The Vortex
At St. Paul’s Episcopal Church — Parish Hall
120 East J Street |
Benicia, CA 94510
5:00-7:00 PM
🪩Tickets: $55/ each | $100/ pair
*Families welcome! Youth (under 18 years) are $25 each. See below for explanation.

Join us for a Pre-New Year’s Eve Silent Disco in downtown Benicia—raising both funds and spirits for this beloved historic church.

We’re dancing through the decades with curated playlists spanning the last 50 years:
✨25 years before 2000
✨25 years after!

Dress to impress in your favorite era:
70s • 80s • 90s
• 2000s • 2010s • 2020s
Bonus points for bold choices and unapologetic sparkle!

Light refreshments will be available, and we highly encourage continuing the celebration along First Street afterward to support local spots for nourishment and spirits.

Come dance, celebrate, and send the year off in true Vortex style.

🎉Headphones on.
🎉Hearts open.
🎉Let’s go

Drop into the beats, move your body, and immerse yourself in a shared, high-vibe community experience—each dancer in their own sonic universe, all connected on the dance floor.

*Family pricing (Youth = anyone under 18)
Please add the adults and youth prices and choose the correct amount for your group when purchasing tickets!

1 adult + 1 youth = $80 ticket
1 adult + 2 youth = $100 ticket
1 adult + 3 youth = $125 ticket
2 adults + 2 youth = $150 ticket
2 adults + 3 youth = $175 ticket
2 adults + 4 youth = $200 ticket

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