New Year's Party + Gong Puja

Come dance, eat and celebrate the NEW YEAR! Meditate together into 2023 and experience a full

traditional 7 hour and 45 minute Gong Puja starting at the stroke of midnight. Wake together to a

catered New Year’s Day breakfast while we discuss our powerful shared experience and revel in the

bliss of the New Year. Join us for a deeply profound and unique New Years’ experience.

A Gong Puja (“poo-ja”) is a devotional ritual which honors and allows space for participants to heal in

mind, body and spirit. The Gong is the object and instrument which facilitates self-healing. A Gong

Puja lasts 7 1⁄2 hours (or ten 45-minute Gong Sound Baths) plus opening and closing meditations.

Some will sleep. Others stay awake in a state of neutrality which is called Turiya. Those who sleep

will have up to five 90-minute dream cycles. In each 90-minute cycle, participants will descend

though deeper and deeper stages of NREM sleep followed by an ascension and a Gamma Spike of

REM sleep. That's when lucid dreaming and out of body experiences happen. As each 90-minute

cycle progresses the Gamma Spike duration increases, resulting in longer awesome dreams that

make no sense, but you wish would never end!

The Gong Puja promotes a deep sense of peace and well-being, strengthening of the nervous

system, balancing of the chakras and increased energy and vitality. Being immersed in the sound

vibrations of the gong is incredibly relaxing, rejuvenating and creates an opportunity to repair,

rebuild, unlock and unblock, expand and free a person from mental/emotional and/or physical

issues. During the Puja, as participants meditate and/or sleep – they sense that they are “awake

within a dream.”

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Schedule

9pm-11pm: Party, Eat, Dance, Love- Enjoy an offering of sweet and salty foods and non-alcoholic drinks provided.

11pm: Start setting up your belongings for mediation and the Puja. Please bring cots, air mattresses, blankets, pillows, whatever you need to be comfortable for the evening!

11:40pm- Guided Meditation into the New Year.

Midnight: Gong Puja commences!

7:45am: Gong Puja closes.

8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast and Satsang