If you are attending in person, please bring a mat to lie on and arrive a few minutes early to get comfortable.
If you are coming from out of town, please find more information about staying at the Harmony Hotelhere. Making a long weekend (or week) of it and attending the Bardo Ceremony on 9/20 is recommended!
Harmony offers a wide variety of treatments (bodywork, breathwork, craniosacral, acupuncture), yoga, meditation and surfing. This unique and inspiring hotel is set on a thoughtfully designed property integrated with its environment and supportive of local community. There will be no structured activity beyond the two evening ceremonies leaving you plenty of time for a “hard reset for modern life”.
As I am being hosted as an artist in residence, Chö ceremonies will be part of Harmony’s robust community engagement initiative. Open to all and free of charge.
Harmony Healing Centre
Nosara, Costa Rica
In-person only
6:30-8:00pm CT
The traditional Tibetan Chö ceremony combines sacred song, ritual instruments, and chanting to purify the five elements which compose the body and mind. It is an approach for clearing the deeper causes of imbalance believed to be psychological and karmic.
It can be used to resolve stubborn obstacles, either energetic or ancestral, that are difficult to access or unresponsive to other therapies. While resolving these influences, it improves health and generates refreshed spiritual consciousness.
Traditionally, Chö rituals have been offered to achieve numerous purposes:
• severing attachments which hinder our ability to perceive clearly and live freely
• clearing obstacles that impede spiritual progress
• pacifying afflictive emotions
• balancing the five elements that dictate health in the body
• practicing generosity and compassion
• harmonizing land spirits
• supplicating beneficent deities for blessings
While Chö is a Vajrayana Buddhist ritual, you need not be Buddhist to attend, nor will you have to chant in Tibetan. It is helpful to set an intention to direct the focus of the ceremony but otherwise nothing is required of guests but to relax and receive. After participating, most feel light, uplifted and refreshed.