Creative Heart Yoga

08/06/2021

Join me outside!

Morning yoga with Sara🌻🌞

Pre-registration is required. Reserve your spot by calling (860) 995 - 9488 or emailing nlangless@toivocenter.org

Join us for a gentle yoga class held at .cultural.corner community garden space at 75 Sterling St. in Hartford.🌸🙌🏼🦋🌿🌼🌞

We can't wait to gather and feel the presence of community again.

Since we haven't seen you in a while, we're asking that you take a moment to review our guidelines below. They will be in place for all of our outdoor events this season so we feel as safe and comfortable as possible.

💫We ask that everyone wear a mask while arriving, as you check in, and anytime you are not at your mat. Once on your mat, you may remove your mask. Please remain mindful to stay distanced between each person or group of people around you once your mask has been removed.
💫In order to keep this event safe for all, please do not come if you have been around someone who is sick or if you have been feeling sick in any way.
💫Please bring anything you might need to support yourself in participating in the event such as water, a yoga mat, and any props.

05/01/2021

This weekend!

Join Sara from 6:30-7:30pm on Saturday, January 9th for a Sound Healing Journey on Zoom.

Rest & Digest is a sound healing experience that blends simple guided visualization practices with the gentle sounds of sacred instruments. This offering is a time and space to digest your life’s experiences. Practice gaining an awareness of what the stress response feels like in your body and learn how to stimulate the rest & digest response. When rest & digest is activated, healing and regeneration occur. The body performs activities like digesting, detoxifying, eliminating, and building immunity.

Sound healing is so much more than an auditory experience. Sounds act as a focal point for the mind to rest on, allowing us to enter into deep states of relaxation and meditation. These states of consciousness provide an opportunity to release deeply rooted tensions and emotional blocks. Silence has been found to be relaxing and therapeutic, restoring equilibrium and reducing brain wave frequency while lowering blood pressure, heart and respiratory rates.

Visit www.toivocenter.org for all zoom information.

04/11/2020

Join Sara from 2:30-3:30pm on Saturday November 14th for a Sound Healing Journey in-person at the Toivo Studio.

Sound & Silence is a sound healing experience that blends simple guided visualization practices with the gentle sounds of sacred instruments and periods of silence. This fusion of sound and silence can create an opportunity for you to explore your unique sense of connection, balance and harmony in the mind, body and soul.

Sound healing is so much more than an auditory experience. The sounds act as a focal point for the mind to rest on, allowing us to enter into deep states of relaxation and meditation. These states of consciousness provide an opportunity to release deeply rooted tensions and emotional blocks.

Silence has been found to be relaxing and therapeutic, restoring equilibrium and reducing brain wave frequency while lowering blood pressure, heart and respiratory rates.

Please be prepared to bring your mask, water, and any props needed to lay or sit comfortably including yoga mat, pillow and blankets.

Space is limited. You must call or email to reserve your spot.
Phone: (860)296-2338 Email: info@toivocenter.org

07/09/2020

I Am🌀I Am🌀I Am

Nature reminds me that I am creation itself.🧚🏻🌱

🐝🦋🦗🐿🦨🌞⛈🌛🌻🌿

Restorative yoga and sound on zoom Tuesday the 8th with 💓 message me for details.

@ Mount Misery

04/09/2020

Don’t forget to get outside today🧚🏻💚🌱

21/08/2020

Join me and Jess tomorrow 8/21 at 10am on the Tovio FB page for a livestream yoga class from KettleTown State Park! This park is such a gem!

This is the first class of a series presented by Toivo, the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

14/07/2020

Join me from 6-7PM on Saturday July 25th for a live Sound Healing on the Toivo page.

RISE UP is a sound healing experience that explores simple breath work, a writing practice, toning and guided meditation that is supported by the sounds of sacred instruments. This offering provides an opportunity for you to reflect on where you have been and where it is you would like to go as an individual and as a part of the collective. This is a space to feel into your own personal power to transform and to rise up into your most authentic self. We need you now more than ever! You have something beautiful to share with the world.

Sound healing is so much more than an auditory experience.​ The sounds act as a focal point for the mind to rest on, allowing us to enter into deep states of relaxation and meditation. These states of consciousness provide an opportunity to release deeply rooted tensions and emotional blocks. ​​Many people emerge from the experience feeling lighter, balanced and rejuvenated.

All you need to do is find a comfortable space, grab a pen and some paper and tune into the Toivo FB page. Using headphones may provide a deeper experience.

Message me with any questions!🤗

Check out for more holistic healing & stress management offerings💓
@ Hartford, Connecticut

29/06/2020

Steve and I would like to invite you to join us tomorrow evening for our restorative yoga and sound experience. 🧘‍♀️🎸

Where🏠: ZOOM (message me for details)

When⏰: From 6:30-7PM we will take time to check in with one another (this is my favorite part!✨) and shake off any excess energy before asking ourselves to settle down into stillness AKA Steve Jam dance party💃🏻
From 7-8:30PM we will settle into simple breath work, gentle movements and long held restorative postures.
Come to one part or both💓

✊Classes are donation based. 100% of proceeds for the month of June will go towards Kamora’s Cultural Corner of Hartford.

Kamora’s Cultural Corner provides both a metaphoric and physical space to learn to use the gifts and privileges of our unique and shared identities. Approaching cultural humility through a Black Q***r and Afrocentric perspective we create and navigate Brave Spaces with the intention of building and supporting organic community connections.🌞

https://kamorasculturalcorner.com/

23/06/2020

I had the privilege of laying myself on the beach. It seemed like forever since I had my body against the earth. As I laid there I sank into a feeling space and started deeply listening. The vibration is fierce, unrelenting and if I’m honest the sheer power of it scared me a little. It felt different than all the times before. I felt the need to drop heavier as if to embrace Mother Earth and to remind myself that power does not fit into my labels of good or bad. It is often the moments of extreme contraction that hold the most potential. I spoke to her with my heart knowing that we are one in the same. I repeated the Ho'oponopono practice of reconciliation and forgiveness taught to me by loving teachers and Zacciah Blackburn.
I love you, I’m sorry, forgive me, thank you.
She rumbled in response -
Brothers and Sisters RISE UP!
Can you feel that you are CREATION itself?
Can you feel how SUPPORTED you truly are?
Can you feel that there is more than ENOUGH for everyone?
It is time to look HONESTLY!
Hold your FEARS with STRENGTH and COMPASSION.
SURRENDER completely.

CHANGE IS NOW!
I LOVE you, I LOVE you, I LOVE you.

My friends tonight and every Tuesday in June I am offering a donation based restorative yoga class on zoom. From 6:30-7PM we connect, Share and Shake out the excess energy to Steve’s rockin’ guitar before asking ourselves to settle. From 7-8:30PM we sink into our Restorative yoga flow. Come to one or both! Message me for zoom info💓

100% of proceeds for the month of June will go towards Kamora’s Cultural Corner of Hartford.
https://kamorasculturalcorner.com/

Kamora’s Cultural Corner provides both a metaphoric and physical space to learn to use the gifts and privileges of our unique and shared identities. Approaching cultural humility through a Black Q***r and Afrocentric perspective we create and navigate Brave Spaces with the intention of building and supporting organic community connections.

Donations can be made via Venmo or Paypal.me/SaraBalkun