Spring Mindful Communication Online Series Emotional Self Care | SAT March 21, 1-4pm Asking for what you want | SAT April 7th, 1-4pm Learning to navigate through our emotions daily is not an easy task. Many of us early on aren’t taught mindful and compassionate communication skills and struggle with articulating and expressing ourselves fully and honestly.  Mindful communication provides the tools necessary to increase our awareness of not only how we speak and communicate with others, but most importantly the way in which we speak to ourselves. Join us in this Spring series and improve your ability for compassionate and authentic connection with yourself and others as well as tools to navigate the emotional body with more awareness and understanding. Emotional Self Care – Saturday, March 21 1-4pm Emotional Self Care is an important part of our overall wellness and health and plays a huge role in replenishing our emotional bandwidth. It can increase our self confidence, peace of mind, and how we wish to show up in the world. It encourages our inner strength by increasing our ability to set boundaries, articulate our emotions, ask for what we need,  show up authentically, and strengthen our decision making skills. Learn How to: Set healthy boundaries Manage our own emotional response  Be able to stay connected to ourselves during conflict  Stay authentic to our own values in difficult situations Identify and take care of our own needs  Reduce overall stress Asking for What you Want – Saturday, April 11 12-3pm Do you ever make a request and find it challenging to hear someone say no? Do you avoid being honest because of the fear of rejection only to end up feeling regretful or resentful later? Asking for what you want can be a vulnerable experience. In this workshop, learn skills to make clear requests of others and increase the likelihood of getting your requests met, while maintaining connection and mutual respect and understanding.  Learn How to:  Hear and express saying ‘NO’ Create healthy boundaries  Be with vulnerability  Make requests vs. demands  Show up honestly in friendships, romantic partnerships,and family Exchange: $45/per class $120/ All 3 classes SIGN UP HERE These classes are based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg and deepen our ability to: + Connect to self + others + Articulate feelings and thoughts with clarity and purpose + Resolve inner conflicts + Make peace with ourselves + Acknowledge triggers and move through them + Forgive + Resolve negativity/resentment + Create healthy boundaries for ourselves + Listen with compassion What to expect : – Interactive partner and group work – Sacred Space & Confidential learning environment – Understand your own feelings and needs as well as tuning into others’ – Listen more attentively to others with compassion and empathy What is Mindful Communication? Mindful Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication, compassionate communication or NVC) is a communication method that promotes heart based connection and deep listening. The form is simple, yet powerfully transformative. At its heart,

Optimal Self Series 5 week course on the optimization of self Starts: Tuesday April 2nd 2020 through April 30th 2020 7:00 – 9:00 pm 4/2 – Week one – Jocelyn : Circle + the basics Jocelyn Fee Miller gained most of her hands on Massage Therapy experience in Southern California, with a background in the Mt. Shasta area. Practicing Massage Therapy since 2009 and offering Yoga Instruction since 2010, Jocelyn is pleased to welcome her newest project–Panacea Holistic Institute located at Sacred Roots! It was a dream, even then, to offer an Education Branch for Holistic Professionals. In 2018, Jocelyn founded Panacea Holistic Institute with the assistance of all her mentors and teachers! Panacea, Long Beach’s Holistic Career College neighbors Dharma’s Yoga studio and Bluff Yogalution. The flagship school program provides a 7 month training in Bodywork + Healing Arts. Including a progressive list of modalities including sound meditation, green business practices, emotional intelligence integration and so much more.  The school has a variety of teacher’s who teach their specialties. Most recently Jocelyn has been producing a public radio show called Morning Intentions as a volunteer with KLBP Long Beach Public Radio 99.1 scheduled to air on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7-8 am. Jocelyn also has a secret musical project:  Jane Free! With a mission to bring suicide + mental health awareness into environments not traditionally associated with the healing arts. 4/9 – week two – Yve + Armando: nourish + move Yve Hart is a Heart-Mind Life Coach, Advanced Theta Healer/Instructor, Medical Intuitive, Energy Healer, Writer, Speaker, and she is an artist, truth-seeker, student of the mystery of life. Believer in the power of our inner guidance, an alchemist, and community builder.  She’s deeply committed to peeling away the emotional, mental, and physical layers that keep me and all of us separated from our most authentic expressions of self. Shes dedicated to lead those who understand the value of cleansing on all levels: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. After suffering a traumatic leg injury in 1996 that kept him sidelined at the Olympics, The Hart Method training approach was created. Armando Hart‘s road to recovery brought him a deeper connection to himself that created a synergistic relationship between his body, movement, and life. As a coach, trainer, author, speaker, and mentor, Armando’s passionate about reminding others of their innate ability to move their lives forward efficiently and powerfully by grounding into their bodies with the essence of the 8 maxims of The Hart Method- Ground, Gravity, Integrity, Joy, Harmony, Freedom, Action, and Now. Armando believes that we can incorporate powerful change by moving our body with a deeper sense of freedom and joy. He believes that we have developed a disconnection between mind and body due to the beliefs around success within society. He believes that this belief has resulted in us moving away from ourselves and our essence. His goal is to help individuals remember the power of truly being in our bodies. As a coach and trainer, he has mentored the

SMFT Level 1 ( 16 hours)  || March 27-29, 2020 Friday 10-4:30 pm     Saturday 10 -4:30 pm Sunday 12-4 pm   A three day immersion for future Sound Meditation Facilitators with our Resident Expert Practitioner & Southern California gem, Lynda Arnold aka DivaSonic.  Are you ready to deepen your relationship with Sound as a Therapeutic Modality + offer service to your community?  Learn the art and emerging science of Sound Meditation with master facilitator, professional musician and educator Lynda Arnold at Sacred Roots in Long Beach, CA. We welcome anyone who would like to learn about incorporating sound + meditation into their holistic healing practice, yoga class, classroom, personal practice and also embark on the process of what doing a sound meditation is all about. “Lynda is a sound meditation superstar!  I am so grateful to her for sharing all of the incredible information for my first sound meditation certification education experience. She is an incredible musician and singer and provided me with some valuable tools to start on my own sound meditation journey. If you want to learn from the best, take her course you won’t regret it! “ – Biba, ecstatic student 2019 Who is this course for ? This course is for holistic healing practitioners of all kinds, yoga teachers, music teachers and classroom teachers, avid meditators, nurses, doctors and anyone who wishes to go deeper into the mysticism and potential of using sound to shift consciousness.   We will cover: The practice of Deep Listening Sound Healing concepts, background, history and emerging science including a brief intro into the physics of sound Common instruments used and why Basic musicianship and music theory Using the voice as a healing tool to lead toning, mantra and release breath exercises Instrument Practice Lab and Group Play Sessions How to Setup a welcoming and peaceful Space Building your own set-up, practice and flow Meet your Instructor: Lynda Arnold is a certified Sound Meditation Facilitator, Vocalist & Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer and seasoned Performer on a life long mission to build healthy communities through the power of sound and music. She offers sound healing workshops, private sound baths, singing for wellness sessions and performs in Los Angeles and has appeared numerous festivals and conferences around the country. Her intention is to provide a gateway for people to reduce stress, transform consciousness and heal through sound and meditation. She received a 200 hour Certificate in ‘Sound, Voice and Music Healing’ at the California Institute of Integral Studies with Silvia Nakkach in San Francisco in 2010, has multiple music degrees and over 25 years of music education and performing experience. Recent performance, production and sound healing projects include:  Recording and performing with the Desert Dwellers, Lucent Dossier’s ‘Human Initiation Project’, Virtual Reality content projects and Immersive Wellness events with the Visual Reality Meditation Collective (LA), Conscious bending 432Hz electronic music/sound meditation project Solar Theory with Torkom Ji, and directing an all woman ensemble of sound meditation facilitators and musicians called Sonic Devas.  In

Panacea Holistic Institute is now accepting applications for the Bodywork & Healing Arts Program shaped after Sacred Roots signature practices. This 7 month long program will offer 555 hours of training beginning in March 2020 Night School Classes are held Monday – Wednesday with 9 weekend immersions – check out the schedule below… For more information, call or text our Admissions office at 442.444.2515 and visit our website at PanaceaHolisticInstitute.org.  

Friday, April 3rd, and every First Friday find Rufus Fuller, LAc offering a donation based Acupuncture Clinic from 1-5 pm. Walk Ins Welcome!

Every second Friday of the month from 7:30- 8:30 During this one hour sound bath you will be guided with fellow travelers through a deep full body guided meditation, followed by a sound journey of sacred instruments to unity. Zosha’s array of Tibetan and Crystal quartz singing bowls, gongs, didgeridoo, handpan, native flute, bells, chimes and other unique instruments captivate the mind and body. Her speciality for creating a safe and peaceful environment fosters self healing and growth by encouraging vulnerability and connectivity. *** Since a young age, Zosha has been drawn to traditional and modern medicine. Like many, she too searched for healing from childhood traumas. After finding much relief through sound healing and various holistic modalities she came to fully understand the mind-body connection and just how powerful it is. Her hope is to spread compassion and love to all people around the world and inspire others to do the same. Her life mission is to serve others and help them reach their best self through generosity, dedication, and the healing power of sound.