Sitar Is For Lovers: A Valentine's Day Retreat

This Valentine’s Day, you’re invited into an evening devoted to presence, intimacy, and the art of slowing down.

Sitar Is For Lovers is a warm, embodied retreat designed for singles, couples, and friends - anyone longing to feel more connected to themselves and to others.

You can come alone, with friends or a romantic partner.

This is a lovingly held space that we will co-create as a community, where we will cultivate deep nervous system relaxation, heart opening through a homemade cacao Love Potion, and sacred connection with self and others.

The evening is co-created by Joyce Guan West, founder of Magic & Medicine (dating coaching, love strategy & conscious matchmaking), and Will Marsh, a professional sitar musician.

Joyce will guide us through a journey of various conscious, embodied practices to explore our individual and relational connection to love.

Will weaves live sitar throughout the night to amplify the potency of the practices. Sitar music is traditionally used to evoke deep emotion, devotion and spiritual connection. He will create a container to close the evening with a spacious, luxurious sitar sound bath.

Together, the practices and music create a field that is soothing, intimate, and deeply human.

Joyce and Will met at a music event and fell in love through their shared passion for music, being of service to others, and connection to the divine.

This evening also marks the soft launch of Magic & Medicine, Joyce's dating coaching, love strategy, and conscious matchmaking company. This is the inaugural signature event produced by Magic & Medicine ❤️ ✨

• An authentic way to connect with love - individually as well as relationally with others
• A space to slow down and arrive fully in your body, spirit and mind
• A guided exploration of presence, connection, and attunement
• A sacred touch experience focused on nervous system reset and attunement
• A live sitar sound bath designed to open the heart and activate deep, loving relaxation (there will be soft, cozy blankets and pillows)
• Time to lounge and connect
• Go on a journey from experiencing a homemade cacao-based love potion

While the experience could feel sensual or tender at moments, the core intention is psychological safety, grounding, and authentic connection.

• Singles who want a Valentine’s Day that feels nourishing rather than performative
• Couples who want to reconnect and drop beneath the noise of daily life
• Friends who want to celebrate love in a deeper, more meaningful way
• Anyone curious about embodied presence, conscious connection, and music as medicine

Come as you are: as friends, lovers, or single.

6:30-645pm: Arrival & Snacks

645pm-715pm: Opening Circle & Love Visualization

7:15pm - 7:35pm: Coming Into Full Presence

7:35pm - 8:05pm: Authentic Relating Connection

8:05pm - 9:15pm: Sacred Touch Practices Accompanied by Sitar

This is an experience of treating your body as a temple and as divine, and calming down the nervous system. While the experience can be sensual, the primary aim is cultivating a sacred, deep psychological safety and nervous system relaxation.

9:15-9:30pm: Break

9:30 - 10pm: Sitar Sound Bath

We’ll end with a dreamy, relaxing 30 minute sitar sound bath

10-10:30pm: Hang out & Lounging Time: to end the evening, we’ll have some time for people to hang out, connect and lounge. The venue has lots of cozy seating, pillows and blankets. If you meet someone cool, you can invite them to keep hanging out, or plan a romantic or friend date for another day! We will have some healthy food delights to help ground you and nourish you as well.

Joyce Guan West is the founder of Magic & Medicine, a dating coach, love strategist, and conscious matchmaker for conscious, embodied humans. By day, Joyce is the founder of Coaching With Empathy, where she works with Silicon Valley leaders and executives as a career coach and executive coach.

Will Marsh is a professional sitar musician whose work draws from the devotional and meditative traditions of Indian classical music. His music is often experienced as grounding, emotional, and subtly transformative. You can learn more at www.willmarshmusic.com.

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