Workshops and Events
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS:
Sunday Yoga and Gong Bath
May 4th & 18th, 10-11:30 am
Please join me for a series of Sunday morning yoga classes with a Paiste gong bath savasana.
Enjoy a restorative, engaging, and strengthening yoga class in the comfort of my home studio in Guelph. We will start with grounding breath work to tonify the lungs, then move into deep stretching for flexibility. We will gradually develop more engaging postures to empower and strengthen our bodies. The class will end with a beautiful, relaxing extended savasana accompanied by 2 exquisite Paiste Gongs. This practice is suitable for people with some previous yoga experience.
Please bring a yoga mat and dress comfortably. Please refrain from wearing perfume.
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Maximum 4 participants
Cost: $30 per class (preregister) breathetrue@gmail.com
Sound Practitioner's Training
Friday, May 9th-Sunday, May 11th
This weekend course is for anyone interested in learning more about the theory and benefits of sound healing and how to design and orchestrate a sound healing experience for others. I will supply all the musical instruments, mattresses, blankets, pillows, bolsters, etc. To start each day, participants will experience a deep, relaxing sound journey.
On Friday evening, we will meet each other and experience a beautiful, relaxing sound bath.
On Saturday, we will delve into theory:
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What is Sound Healing?
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Nada Yoga & Chanting AUM
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Concepts such as vibration, frequency, resonance, entrainment
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528 Hz Music & Solfeggio Scale
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Sound Healing & Brain Wave States
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What is Cymatics?
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The Science of Sound (how sound promotes healing in the body)
On Sunday, we will delve into practising:
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How to Plan a Sound Journey
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Which Musical Instruments to Use
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Creating a Thematic Soundscape
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Setting Intentions with Clients
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Giving a Sound Bath and Receiving Feedback
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Holding a Safe Space for Participants
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The Best Musical Instruments: What & Where to Buy
When: Friday, May 9th, 7-9 pm,
Sat. & Sun. May, 10th-11th, 10 am- 5 pm
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Maximum 5 participants
Cost: $350 (includes HST)
Friday Evening Sound Bath
May, 16th, 7:30-9 pm
Come and wind down after your busy week. Lie down, get comfortable, and receive healing vibrations. I will cover you with cotton blankets and support your body with pillows, bolsters, and eye coverings. For one whole, glorious hour, I will bathe you in the most exquisite, vibrational sounds created by drums, rainsticks, rattles, dulcimer, hand pan, Planetary Paiste gongs, crystal singing bowls, shruti box, vocables, chimes, tuning forks and more.
Be prepared to drop deeply into an altered state of consciousness (theta brain state) where deep restoration and healing can occur.
I have comfy mattresses, blankets, pillows, etc, so there is no need to bring anything.
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Maximum 6 participants.
Cost: $50 (preregister)
Big Heart Dance Camp
June 17th-22nd, 2025
I will be leading a conscious dance event and chakra yoga class at this amazing, outdoor summer event.
At Big Heart Dance Camp (BH), we create a space of ease, playfulness, beauty, freedom and full self-expression. As the spirited land nurtures us, grounds us and connects us to our natural rhythms, we strive for peace and joy by being together creatively and consciously. During the week, adults 18+ years only, we are approximately 55 campers and on the weekend, all ages family camp,
about 95.
Bunk in a cabin or dorm or pitch a tent. Unicamp is located at 638159 Prince of Wales Rd., in Mulmur, Ontario, which is about 1.5 hours North of Toronto.
To experience embodying your full creative self in a safe, supportive and playful environment. Join us in growing our creative, conscious community as we blossom into our second decade! Keep browsing around to learn more, or if you know that being nourished by nature, good food and movement is what you need, have a look!
Guelph Conscious Dance
Saturday, May 17th, 7:30-9 pm
Conscious Dance leads participants on a movement journey of physical and emotional transformation. Through breath, sweat, and expression, participants experience themselves as pure, powerful energy.
Conscious Dance is not about learning steps, it’s about allowing what is invisible within us (emotions, sensations, images, impulses) to be expressed through our unique movement and style. It activates the imagination and utilizes diverse music to create an ecstatic celebration of the human spirit.
The music will follow an arc, beginning with slower, grounding music, building up to faster dance beats intended to invite release, and then transitioning back to prayerful music. There is no right or wrong way to move. It is best to show up and "be moved."
Check out this YouTube video of me explaining Conscious Dance.
Time: 7:30-9 pm (arrive by 7:15 pm)
Where: 42 Quebec Street, 3rd floor, Guelph, ON.
Cost: $20 cash at the door or e-transfer: breathetrue@gmail.com
Conscious Dance Facilitator Training
Next Date: TBA
I am offering a comprehensive 4-day training/course designed to give you the experience required to confidently and skillfully become a Conscious Dance Facilitator.
Over my 25 years of guiding participants through this deep and transformative movement practice, I realize that it is time to offer my expertise to others. I am eager to share my skills with you so that more people can become competent leaders/facilitators and share this amazing practice with others.
The main goal of the training is for you to learn the theoretical and experiential information to run events in your communities. Together, we will explore how to create, promote, facilitate, arrange music playlists, and skillfully hold space for others. We will examine how creative movement and free-style dance can express various themes, feelings, and physical expressions. The training will occur in person, over several months (once a month) on Saturday afternoons from 3-6:30 pm at Guelph Youth Dance Studio (you must commit to attending all 4 days).
I will guide each participant through the process of being the facilitator. I will offer extra advice to help you create a poster, write-up and Spotify playlist for your event. All these materials will be shared amongst course participants so that each person can get constructive feedback and have lots of material to move forward with.
Cost: $300 (includes HST)
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Shaluha-Ka
On-Going
Shaluha-Ka is both a healing technique and a meditation practice based on the ancient Kabbalah Tree of Life. It was taught to me by Chaty Secaira, founder of Las Pyramides Meditation Centre in San Marcos, Guatemala. I have embellished this healing modality to include sacred cacao, intention setting with animal spirit guides, auric cleansing of the 4 elements in the body, and sound healing.
Kabbalah, an ancient mystical tradition rooted in Judaism, offers a profound lens through which to perceive the universe and the human experience. The Tree of Life is a symbolic diagram representing the divine structure of creation (the language of the branches) and the interconnectedness of all existence.
In this 1.5-hour private session, I will guide you through a series of beautiful, insightful practices designed to help you relax, clear your energy field, and gain personal clarity.
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com
Private Tailored Yoga Class
On-Going
Tell me what kind of yoga class you want and any physical needs you might have and I will design a class just for you! I will teach it to you, provide a PDF copy and be available for questions and clarifications. Private tailored yoga classes can be delivered in person or via Google Meet. Both options greatly further and deepen your yoga practice and understanding.
Private tailored classes are approximately 2 hours long.
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com
"Barbra tailored my very own personal yoga flow, she was very helpful with making sure the yoga poses and breathing techniques were done properly to avoid any injuries. Thank you for opening up your space, I greatly appreciated it."
Monique Young
Private Sound Healing
On-Going
Sound healing penetrates a person's mind, emotions, and body to help bring them to states of deep relaxation. If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, depression, or grief, this modality can help you to release and restore. Sound healing is also a wonderful way to simply treat yourself to a beautiful experience where you are bathed in drones, musical instruments, vocal toning, and vibrational frequencies that are known for their restorative qualities.
I offer several different thematic sound healing sessions. All are beautiful, deep, and extremely relaxing. Typically, a session takes 1.5 hours and the person leaves feeling rested and restored.
Where: My home studio in Guelph, ON.
Cost: $120 breathetrue@gmail.com
"Barbara (Eva) has delivered her sound healing sessions at a number of my meditation retreats. She has a refined intuitive ability to know what soundings have the greatest healing effect on participants. I highly recommend her sessions." Russell Scott.