The Portal - Utica

The Portal - Utica A multidimensional space for wellness, strategy, and community—founded by Chelan Vanno. It’s also home to Holistic CNY.

We offer classes, private sessions, consulting, curated events, and memberships.

12/10/2025

There’s a difference between wishing for a vision
and organizing your energy around bringing it to life.

The Portal didn’t appear overnight.

It’s the result of steady momentum, aligned choices, and following the energy where it kept pointing.

This is what it looks like when you move with intention and let the work speak for itself.

If you feel it, you’re meant to.
If you’re curious, come closer.

12/08/2025

Here’s what’s happening inside The Portal:

✨ 12/9 - Men’s Circle — a powerful, growing community space

✨ 12/12 - Burlesque Showcase — heat, artistry, and empowerment

✨ 12/15 - Moon Medicine — our 2026 lunar journey + kickoff

✨ 12/18 - UNDONE — somatic unraveling + nervous system reset

✨ 12/20 - Holistic CNY Yule Celebration — community + ceremony

✨ 12/29 - Gong & Gather — monthly sound immersion experiences

✨ 1/17 - Portal Unplugged — intimate live music nights

✨ Private sessions, workshops, and the Residency launch

✨ Strategic Immersions for leaders, teams, and organizations

This space is holding more than ever — strategy, art, healing, leadership, community, and a whole lot of expansion.

If you’re feeling the pull to be here… consider this your invitation.

Explore all our offerings at: theportalutica.com

Tuesday, The Vessel becomes a strategy studio.This quiet room will hold a leadership team whose work shapes far more tha...
12/07/2025

Tuesday, The Vessel becomes a strategy studio.

This quiet room will hold a leadership team whose work shapes far more than their own organization.

They’re the kind of clients who don’t come to talk about vision — they come ready to rethink assumptions, expand possibility, and make decisions that ripple through their entire ecosystem.

We’ll start here: grounded, present, and open.

From the first breath to the first marker on the board, we’ll be dissolving friction, elevating perspective, and aligning long-term direction with the energy required to execute it.

Strategic Immersions at The Portal aren’t meetings.

They’re recalibrations — for leaders who know their next level requires both clarity and coherence.

The work begins in the room.
The impact moves far beyond it.










The Portal was built so leaders, creatives, and visionaries can think clearer, create bigger, and actually feel differen...
12/07/2025

The Portal was built so leaders, creatives, and visionaries can think clearer, create bigger, and actually feel different while doing their work.

And that’s exactly why Residency exists.

Residency gives you a monthly rhythm inside this environment —a place where strategy lands faster, clarity comes easier, and your nervous system finally stops fighting your growth.

If you’re craving consistency, community, and a space that actually supports who you’re becoming, Residency is now accepting applications.

Step into the ecosystem.
Step into the next version of you.

Apply at: theportalutica.com/residency

Residency at The Portal is officially open.A curated six-month container for creators, practitioners, and emerging leade...
12/06/2025

Residency at The Portal is officially open.

A curated six-month container for creators, practitioners, and emerging leaders who don’t just need space — they need structure, support, and someone in their corner.

If you’ve been building something quietly…
If you’ve been craving clarity and accountability…
If your work is bigger than what you’ve been holding alone…

Residency is your next season.

Ten people.
Six months.
One field of alignment, grounding, strategy, and creation.

Applications are open now.
The first cohort begins in February.
Link in bio to explore the details and apply.

12/06/2025

Apply for Residency at The Portal: a transformational 6-month program blending strategy, somatic support, creative space, and community for your next-level work.

We’re entering a moment where people want more than inspiration.They want a place where the vision is honored and the ex...
12/06/2025

We’re entering a moment where people want more than inspiration.

They want a place where the vision is honored and the ex*****on is supported.

Where creativity and strategy aren’t separate.

Where manifesting and movement aren’t opposites.

Where we can dismantle old patterns while building what’s next.

Residency at The Portal is a six-month container for people building their lives, ideas, and identities in real time.

It’s part sanctuary, part think tank, part creative studio, part leadership lab.

It’s where clarity, intuition, structure, and somatics all intersect.

It’s a new category — not wellness, not business, not coaching, not coworking — something entirely its own.

If you’ve been craving a container that finally matches the way you create… this is it.

Ten seats.
February start.
Applications open now.

Learn more at: theportalutica.com/residency

Apply for Residency at The Portal: a transformational 6-month program blending strategy, somatic support, creative space, and community for your next-level work.

12/05/2025

Our winter lineup is intentionally wide — because real community isn’t one-note.

We’re holding space for men to deepen, women to reclaim, artists to express, and community to gather.

From Men’s Circle to Burlesque, from Moon Medicine to UNDONE to the Holistic CNY Yule Celebration.

This is what a progressive, inclusive, modern Utica looks like.

Explore everything that’s coming up at:
theportalutica.com/attend

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412 Main Street
Downtown Utica, NY
13501

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Chelan Vanno, founder of Infinite Illumination Yoga, is a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. She received her certification from the Kundalini Research Institute in 2018 and has studied with some of the most renowned instructors in the country. Her lead teacher was Kartar Khalsa, who has received many honors, including being named as the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Association’s Teacher of the Year in 2014. She received additional instruction in sound and mantra from internationally known recording artist Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa, and training in posture and alignment from Siri Sat Kaur, founder of Kundalini Yatras Inc.

As a mother and business professional, Chelan was in search of a way to find balance and peace in her life. In an attempt to overcome some personal struggles, she attended a wellness retreat in 2017 that featured Kundalini Yoga. The experience had a profound impact and inspired her to dive deep into its practices and spiritual principles. The transformational shifts this evoked, led to an undeniable need to share the benefits of Kundalini Yoga with others.

She now finds fulfillment and joy in enlightening her own students on these ancient practices, sharing techniques that can be used in everyday life to release stress, find emotional balance and awaken intuition. Her classes, which consist of breathing techniques, physical practices and mantra meditation, are aimed at building physical vitality and expanding consciousness.