A Journey of The Heart in the Year of the Fire Horse
A Day Long Process Art Retreat in Soquel Ca
March 14, 2026 12:30-5:30
We’ll gather for a day filled with dreaming, visioning, creating, playing. …. calibrating to the energies of the early spring and the year of the Fire Horse.
So many of the core, conditioned repeating patterns that give rise to the unwanted circumstances of our lives and in the greater world, stem from a crisis of creativity. An inability to see a different way forward, in the heart of the tangles.
Meeting one month into the year of the fire horse, we’ll just be getting warmed up and familiar with the new rhythm, pace, quality and flow of the year. A year where brave and bold action leaves a lasting imprint on the foundations that will underly everything we create moving forward.
We will spend time playfully honing our courage, clarity, direction, alignment, will and devotion in ways that feel nourishing and life giving. And that serve our own well being as well as that of the whole.
Coming together in community. Discovering emergent ways to channel the wild energies of these times. Allowing our practice to serve as a seed planted in the shared field of the collective, inspiring more beautiful possibilities for all.
This will be a process oriented, emergent, creative exploration. No artistic experience or skill is needed. Just an open hearted desire to participate.
Rejoice in the emerging spring, in a beautiful home, with nourishing community, as we tune into what is most essential.
Deep, Meditative, Expansive and Celebratory.
Centering you in the seat of yourself. Clearer, more rooted and whole.
Our day will be filled with rich experiential practices Including:
Somatic Explorations
Breath Work and Sound
Journey Work and Visualization
Relational and Communication Games
Self Inquiry and Reflection
Art Process with Mixed Media
Ceremonial Fire
Bring your curiosity & wonder
your purest desires & most heartfelt intent
rejoice in the blessings of the Spring and the new year
Logistics
We will be comfortably held in a Beautiful home in the Soquel Hills, spending time both inside and out, weather permitting.
Sat March 14, 2026
12:30-5:30pm
$250
Included in Price
Practice and Art supplies and materials
All teachings and practices
Some snacks to share
Not Included
Meals
Transportation to and from the venue
If you feel the call to join us
FAQs
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Once registered, you will receive a welcome email. This will come sometime closer to the event date and will include the exact address.
In the meantime:
Parking is in the neighborhood around the house.
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We will be meeting both inside and outside.
-Comfortable layered clothing that you can move in.
-Sun hat, sunglasses, extra coat….
-Something to sit on outside- blanket or folding chair.
-Something to sit on inside- zafu, blanket, cushion.
-Sunscreen
-Water Bottle
-Journal
- A curious and open heart
“Retreats with Gitanjali are always unexpected and surprising, exquisite and profound. Life changing.”
— A.H.- LMFT and repeated retreat participant.
We can’t wait to share in the Magic with you!
A bit about me…
Hi, I’m Gitanjali. I consider myself a master energy healer, mystic, teacher, writer, mother, and I am the founder of Syntara System, a deeply integrative, evolutionary energy healing and awareness modality. I consider myself a midwife for the consciousness that is being birthed on the planet at this time.
I spent decades studying and training with healers and masters from some of the world’s richest spiritual traditions and most cutting-edge healing models.
A life long learner, I’m always finding new teachers, teachings and experiences, deepening in my own personal practice and integration. Synthesizing, alchemizing and creating. Dancing with all that is. Weaving beauty, strand by strand, with the piece of the tapestry of creation that is mine.
I am passionate about cultivating community and building resonant relationships as we grow on this journey together.
I have spent the past 25 years in practice, both as a practitioner and teacher: facilitating individual sessions, group retreats, workshops, professional trainings, virtual courses, ceremonies, women’s groups and as a consultant for system level change across industries.
It is my great joy, and deepest hearts devotion, to share this work and these words with all of you.
“Gitanjali holds a space that I’ve never experienced before. It’s hard to put into words…Loving, Nurturing, Accepting…. Delicious. And I’m completely surprised by the caliber of the teachings and practices.”
— E.C. Owner and Director of a Spiritual Retreat Center & past retreat participant.