REST IN MANTRA

Come and join us in experiencing the melodious vibes of a Mantra Ceremony, take yourself on a journey to free your mind of negative thoughts and feelings and access your true inner voice. Using the activations of mantra in a group setting you will feel the intense vibrations of healing and joy emanate throughout. Release your attachments and be free.

Follow along with the simple mantras which will be explained at the start of the session. The session's aim is to Rest in Mantra, we will create a safe and warm container for you to be held and feel the release and power of activating your heart and soul.

This experience is brought to you by Gunar, a spiritual teacher and founder of Wings to Awakening. Along with the musical facilitator Tommy Antonio, a singer, songwriter who brings a playful approach to group singing. He aims to expand the experience of mantra singing with a focus on a group experience, where each individual can contribute to a greater musical whole. Joining in on the facilitation is Katariina, a singer-songwriter and sound bath facilitator who will be guiding you to sing mantra with her angelic voice and to express yourself from the heart. 

To read more about our facilitators please scroll down to the end of the page.

More info about the experience:

A Mantra Ceremony is a safe, open-hearted space for us to sit together and express gratitude and honour to our being. Using guidance from Tommy and Gunar you will experience a musically fulfilling journey through Rest in Mantra that will take you inwards towards self-healing. The Ceremony is a mindful, spiritual experience, a time for reflection, pause, and renewal.

The event will be guided in a very easy way so that everyone has an opportunity to feel, share and express. The experience can bring up emotions and Satori (comprehension, understanding, insight, deep experience of one’s nature), which we welcome and invite everyone to contribute to holding sacred space for each other with support.

You will be guided by the facilitators, to use your instrument, to trust your voice, you will feel the power of joining in union with members of the community and hearing the resonance of voices, without focusing on how you sound, but feeling into the energetic resonance of the mantra, and the combined creation of sound vibration.

There will be 3-4 mantras that we will sing, after each mantra we will hold a moment of silence to allow everyone to integrate and feel the true power of mantra in the community. You may feel elated, or still and calm, feel into it whatever rises in you. We will explore and lean into these feelings you will be held and supported by Katariina, Gunar and Tommy to dive deep into that which comes up.

In the break between each mantra there will be light refreshments and teas available. The event will last 3-4 hours and will end with a closing circle where you are invited to share your experience.

Please respect everyone’s individual experience, some may experience this very intensely others may feel it more subtly, please take a minute with us all to tune into that energy.

You do not have to be a professional singer to join, everyone has the capability to access the power of their voice.

There is no pressure on performance or being perfect, we welcome all voices to settle in and join this community in a space of healing.

What to bring:

• Shawl
• Musical instrument (optional)
• Flowers or plants to decorate the space
• Candle (any colour)
• Snacks to share (preferably homemade)

Practice is purely donation-based (there is a suggested donation of £24-35) and is open to all. We kindly ask you to register so that we can predict the total number of participants and make part or full donation depending on your possibilities. If you wish to submit a donation at the event (cash) or after the event, the opportunity will be provided.

Together the sacred space, containment of healing and transformation by Gunar, the musical guidance by Tommy, and all of your participation we are charging our energy to a healing vibration for the land which we sit on and further out to the community and city which is a needed relief in these challenging times we are seeing in the world today. Get ready to relax and rejuvenate at REST IN MANTRA, a soul-soothing event filled with calming energy, serene and sacred mantras, to nourish your souls before the solstice and end of the year.

About the Facilitators:

Gunar, a spiritual teacher, holistic therapist, family constellations and healing process facilitator, and founder of Wings to Awakening.  Teacher by heart and with a great passion for sharing. More than 10 years on the spiritual path in different Buddhism, psychology, esoteric and holistic schools in Japan, Nepal, Thailand and Europe.

Tommy Antonio is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose output spans choral music, jazz, alt-pop, soundtracks, and theatre. He was a founding member and assistant director of the UK's foremost contemporary choir London Vocal Project. The choir's multiple performances with world renowned jazz vocalist and improviser Bobby McFerrin sparked his deep dive into the world of improvised group singing leading to workshops and explorations in the UK and beyond with groups large and small.

Elsewhere, Tommy's music has been heard on multiple award winning short films, West End Stages, and jazz clubs dives across the globe. He is currently adapting one of Roald Dahl's best loved classics into a musical, and releasing music as a solo artist and with his alt-pop duo Shaker Neon.

Katariina Vaura is a singer-songwriter alumna of the Academy of Contemporary Music and a sound bath facilitator. She creates unique sound baths with different acoustic instruments, self produced digital soundscapes and voice and melody tones weaved in with her soulful and angelic voice.

She is passionate about harnessing the power of sound as a healing and self-discovery modality and believes exploring our singing voice can bring us closer to our authentic selves.

She is an advocate of transformation through personal development, creation, somatic practices, dance and cultivating deep, meaningful and joyful connections.