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Roots & Resonance Summer Series
August 30
10:30 am - 12:30 PM
Discovery park
Roots & Resonance workshops are a guided, immersive, co-created experience — drawing from Indigenous wisdom traditions to help you move out of the Western mindset into an expanded sense of connection: to self, to community, to body, and to the living world around you.
Each circle is semi-structured and ceremonial. Facilitators hold a trauma-informed space with nervous-system tending woven throughout, so you can arrive exactly as you are. No prior experience needed. All are welcome here—regardless of age, gender, culture, background, disability, or identity. We open by grounding ourselves in Indigenous wisdom traditions — teachings, Song, altar tending, and ways of knowing that have held communities across time and across cultures.
❋ 1. Storytelling & Cultural Teachings Movement, voice, breath, and the senses invite you out of your thinking mind and into your body. Incense offerings accompany us throughout.
❋ 2. Multi-Sensory Embodiment Practices❋ 3. Reflective Journaling & SharingSpace to turn inward, then come together in small or full group sharing — held with care and compassion.
We close with meaningful rituals you can carry into daily life — movement, witnessing, earth tending, & gratitude practice — and group sharing to harvest and anchor what we've made together.
❋ 4. Closing Ritual & IntegrationWorkshop details
Logistics
$65 per workshop
You can attend a single workshop or the whole series. June 21, July 26, August 30th. One Sunday a month from 10:30 AM-12:30ish
Location: Discovery Park Seattle, WA
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Journal if you want
Any items that connect you to your ancestors, energies, or inner chil that you want to call in (i.e., a special stone, gem, trinket, or cloth.)
Water bottle
Seating comforts (blankets, pads, backjack, or camp chair if you have sccessabiltiy needs)
Wear comfortable clothing
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What better way to kick off the Summer Solstice than to spend 90 minutes learning new and ancient ways to connect with Nature?
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Ancestors are not limited to our human kin; they beyond into ancestors of the elements, such as the moon or ocean, as well as animals & plants 🌱
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Ancestors are not limited to our human kin; they beyond into ancestors of the elements, such as the moon or ocean, as well as animals & plants 🌱 We are deepening inner child healing with connection to nature, and ancestors.
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The School for the Great Turning & the Work that Reconnects Facilitator training
Eternal Song 12-part film series Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Mental Health, Wellness, and Healing: Leroy Little Bear
Therapy Is Not Neutral: A Decolonial Invitation to Remember, Relearn, and Resist Dr. Jennifer Mullan
Facilitators
danielle Gonzales
Danielle Gonzales, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and multicultural woman on her own journey of reconnecting with her indigenous Mesoamerican and Swedish roots. Her approach weaves trauma-informed care, attachment-based lens with somatic practice, deep ecology, earth-based indigenous wisdom, and ancestral reconnection. She creates space for women to tend their inner child, grieve in community, tend the wound of cultural separation in the western world, and reconnect to themselves and their inherent medicine for healing - through community connection, song, movement, rooting into nature/unseen world, culture reclamation, and trusting intuition and other ways of knowing. Learn more about Danielle.
Tending the Nest 
niharika jani
Niharika Jani is a neurodiversity-informed Reiki practitioner, wellness coach and storyteller integrating neuroscience-backed practices, applied psychology, Bhakti Yoga and Vedic studies. Her work focuses on helping individuals navigate sensory overwhelm, burnout, and emotional dysregulation through body-based and cognitive practices that are both practical and deeply grounding.
She has a passion for community building through workshops and healing sessions currently being offered at multiple Yoga studios in Seattle (Bhakti Studio, Datza Studios). Learn more about Niharkia.
Mystic Monkey Wellness Land acknowledgment
I would like to acknowledge that these workshops are taking place on the traditional land of the First People of Seattle, past and present. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, Muckleshoot, and Snoqualmie tribes, who have stewarded this region since time immemorial.
“We sacrificed our land to make the City of Seattle a beautiful reality. We are still waiting for our justice.”
- Cecile Hansen, Chairwoman of Duwamish Tribe
