Sitar is For Lovers: Spring Equinox Awakening Ritual

Winter is over! Awaken the body, mind and spirit through a journey of guided connection and sacred touch practices, contact improv jam, and ending with a divine sitar bath. We'll enliven ourselves in a co-created experience.

Sitar Is For Lovers: Spring Equinox Awakening Ritual is a warm, embodied retreat designed for singles, couples, and friends - anyone longing to awaken, celebrate winter transitioning into spring, and 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 go on an individual and collective journey of awakening the body, mind and spirit, and come into 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 energetic and movement practices to awaken as we come out of hibernation and deep rest, and celebrate the first day of Spring. 

Will will weave live sitar, especially traditional springtime musical ragas played during this season, 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 contact improv jam to sitar, and end with an enlivening 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 is a signature event offered by  Magic & Medicine, Joyce's dating coaching, love strategy, and conscious matchmaking company. Magic & Medicine produces regular connection events. ❤️ ✨

Sitar Is For Lovers is a monthly co-creation between Joyce and Will, powered by our love and devotion for each other. It’s a heart-centered, embodied co-creation and expression of the interplay between dance, movement, sacred touch, and the power and medicine of sound. This one-of-a-kind experience is the only collaboration we know of in the world which features the interplay between sitar and conscious movement practices.

What This Evening Is

• An authentic way to connect with love - individually as well as relationally with others
• A space to feel the arrival of Spring, 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, as well as channeling the four elements (earth, water, fire, air)
• A contact improv dance lesson and dance jam to embody Spring
• 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
• Spring Awakening rose chai experience accompanied by Spring ragas played on the sitar

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

• Singles who want to celebrate Spring in a way that feels nourishing rather than performative
• Couples who want to connect and drop in beyond the noise of daily life
• Friends who want to celebrate Spring Equinox 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 & Spring Energetic Practices

7:15pm - 7:30pm: Qi Gong Practice

7:30pm - 8:00pm: 4 Elements Sacred Touch Practices Accompanied by Sitar

8:00pm - 8:15pm: Contact Improv Lesson

8:15pm - 8:55pm: Contact Improv Jam Accompanied by Sitar

8:55pm - 9:10pm: Sitar Sound Bath

9:10pm - 9:30pm: 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.

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.

Here's a preview of Will playing the sitar, so you have an idea of what to expect and anticipate!

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. You can connect with her at www.linkedin.com/in/joyceguanwest.

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

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