🫶 Meet Leah & Sharon before Sunday's journey

Our next Soul Care Sunday is just around the corner on October 19, and this month’s theme, Attune & Awaken, feels very alive for me.

I realized I’d been living in my head for weeks. Thinking, producing, analyzing, scrolling. My attention constantly pointed outward. The elevens between my eyebrows were sizzling. My body just background noise.

Maybe you know that feeling too. Being just a walking head going through the motions. You’re doing so much but not really here.

I’m grateful for the practices that bring me home — movement, sound, and breath. They return me back into my body, my own experience, the present moment…where the mind softens and life begins to hum again.

That’s why Soul Care Sunday and the Balm community mean so much to me. They’re rituals to rest and reconnect…together.

This month, two incredible women join me in holding that space for you. Allow me to introduce you to Leah Tellez and Sharon Black.

✨ We begin our journey by arriving in the body.

Leah pairs somatic awareness and spiritual knowledge with intentional movement to reconnect to your inner rhythm and sensations. As one of my teachers, Leah helped me move through deep emotional blocks and come to terms with aspects of myself that I was overriding. The stuff that I couldn’t shift through thinking and talking. When Leah guides, you’ll notice how her presence invites both grounding and expansion. A chance to listen, feel, and trust your body again.

What is somatic movement? It’s less about performing a movement and more about being moved. It’s less about how it looks and all about how it feels.

You can expect to feel and move gently with deep intention and focus while weaving together your mental, emotional, and physical worlds. Through these intentional connections, you make space to merge your energies into harmony.

〰️ One Move

On October 19 Leah will lead a flow of movements to help you arrive in your body and open up to receive. Follow Leah’s heart-opening move:

✨ Once grounded through movement, we open the next doorway…the voice.

I’ll guide a simple vocal toning practice where the voice is an instrument for presence, healing, and resonance.

What is vocal toning? Instead of singing a melody, you make long, steady sounds like humming, or softly sounding a vowel, or the word love. The vibration of your voice in your face, head, and body, helps release tension, slow the mind, and open your breath. You don’t need to be a singer.

When we tone together as a group, our voices blend and harmonize, that shared resonance helps everyone feel more grounded and connected. One participant described it beautifully: “I saw and felt the room change colour.”

🌸 One Poem

✨ As the sound fades, the breath takes over…our bridge between expression, stillness, and fresh activation.

I experienced a breathwork session facilitated by Sharon back in May and it was life-shifting for me. Her guidance creates a safe space for you to let go, to surrender to what you’re ready for, to be fully in your body, and to remember what it feels like to trust life moving through you.

What is a conscious connected breathwork journey? It’s different than what you may have seen taught by Wim Hof.

On October 19, you’ll be guided into a practice of active, continuous breathing…gentle, circular, and without pause between inhale and exhale…supported by music, a playlist thoughtfully curated by Sharon.

As you settle into the rhythm, the breath begins to bypass the thinking mind and connects you directly with your body’s intelligence.

While everyone’s breathwork experience is unique, people often describe it as:

• a natural release of tension or emotion they didn’t realize they were holding

• inner spaciousness or clarity

• tingling sensations or waves of energy

• deep calm and emotional lightness afterward

• like a psychedelic trip without the substance and side effects

🎶 One Song

Sharon writes: “I’m feeling nudged toward this song. I love that it reminds that we chose to be here, right now. That all is well even if we are conditioned to not believe that.”

🫶 An Invitation

If you’re craving a reset, this morning is for you. Come as you are, leave more you…whole mind-body-soul.

✨ Soul Care Sunday: Attune & Awaken
🗓️ Sunday October 19, 10:15am-12:15pm
🫶 Move with Leah Tellez, Voice with Karen Choi, and Breathe with Sharon Black
📍 Society Clubhouse at 967 College St, Toronto
🎟️ Register here 

☕ Tea and journaling materials will be provided. Wear comfy layers, bring a mat/blanket/pillow, avoid a heavy meal beforehand, and leave a little quiet time after to integrate or plan to lunch with a friend to reflect on the experience. Eye masks will be available for purchase.

💛 All are welcome. No experience needed. This is a beautiful introduction if you’ve been curious or something to explore with a friend or partner.

On this Thanksgiving weekend, I scrolled through the names of all 127 of you who subscribe to this newsletter and come to our gatherings. Thank you for being part of this unfolding community of care, compassion, and creativity.

With gratitude,
😍 Karen

P.S. Most people find out about Soul Care Sunday through a trusted friend. If you know someone who would thrive from this unplugged community experience, your invitation might be exactly what they need! And I appreciate you helping to spread the word.

P.S.S. Close your eyes, take a slow breath right now, and feel things settle. A small rehearsal for what’s to come. You’re already tuning in.

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