the creation of a pop up Gathering & Retreat Space

Hey and welcome, I am happy that you are here.

My name is Emma Ericsson, I am from Sweden, Halmstad, soon to be 32 years old. I am currently in Guatemala living and flowing through a beautiful journey that is teaching me the importance of life. Here we are living close to Mother Nature, we give thanks and praise for all of her elements and all that she provides for us. We also cherish and care for each other in such nourishing ways. We are prioritizing the time to take care of ourselves, our bodies, our hearts and souls. We sing and we dance and we love. It might sound cheesy, but we are living all as one, in togetherness and community. My health and happiness is your health and happiness, and vice versa.

I was living at a farm, The Mystical Yoga Farm, for almost 3 months. A very transformative time and I learned a lot about living in community. Of taking care of each other and the land that we walk upon. It all comes so naturally and feels so familiar, because it's how we always been living. We have just gotten a bit distracted along the way. So what I want to do is to bring some of this back to Sweden. I want to create a pop up Gathering Space where we come together, move our bodies, sing and share our voices, gather again around the fire and let the creativity flow.

My vision for this Gathering Space is to create a place where we all can come together for healing, expansion and exploration. This space is for connection and to share what is residing within. It's about coming together through different healing modalities such as dance, movement, yoga, breath-work, TRE, reiki, qigong. As well as coming together around the fire, in a circle as we always done, to share our voices through singing, spoken words, conversations and simply sharing from our hearts. This is a safe space where we all can explore new ways of connection and sharing our truth. This might be new for us in this realm we are in right now, but once you dip your toe into it, you will notice that it all will feel so familiar. Because we have always done this. This Gathering Space will just remind us of who we are, where we come from and what is actually most important in life — living from our hearts and from joy, taking care of our bodies, softening our thinking minds and open up for expansion and growth.

My vision for this place is to be close to nature, as she holds so much healing already for us. Connecting with and being with her elements, honoring and thanking her for all the lessons and blessings she brings.

I want to have classes and sessions every week, some are paired with nourishing food. Every month I want to create some bigger offerings, such as days retreat or events with some kind of movement, dinner and sharing/singing circle. I would love to create a Midsummer Gathering. I am aslo dreaming about two/three festvals days towards the end of the summer, with ecstatic dance, yoga, different workshops, food, singing and playing music — all the fun stuff.

This Gathering Space will be a place of re-remembrance of ourselves, of opening up to healing through various practices, explore new ways of moving our bodies, using our voices and connecting to each other. A place of togetherness, sharing in safety over nourishing food and around the fire and celebrating the joy of being alive!

I feel very passionate about this and I am hearing such a calling of creating this space. Especially back in my hometown Halmstad. To invite the people of my hometown into this togetherness, where we can co-create a space of healing and expansion.

How a week might look like;

Monday — every other week breath-work session

Tuesday — yoga + breakfast 8.00

Wednesday — intuitive flow 17.30

Thursday — nourishing yin 17.30

Friday — yoga + breakfast 8.00 , every other Friday evening cacao ceremony and singing / sharing circle

Saturday — every other Saturday an event such as movement + dinner + singing circle

Sunday — cacao + morning flow 8.30, evening qigong / explorative movement 17.00

By donating to me and to this fundraiser you will help me make this a reality. The money would help me pay for all of the costs that it takes to build up a space like this. Such as paying for the stretch tent and the wooden floor I am planning to have as the yoga shala. It will help me with buying yoga mats, blocks, blankets and bolsters for the classes. As well as interior beauty, so that I can make this space really cosy, calming and inspiring. There is so much beauty here in Guatemala, wonderful tapestries, jewelry and clothes. I would love to be able to bring that home and have a little shop. So you donation could help me with that as well. It will also help me with rent costs, and that will help me feel so much more security going into this. Instead of worrying about costs, I can focus on the creation of this space and what I would like to share.

I am in such gratitude for you, taking the time to read through this and considering donating to this dream of mine. I welcome all the abundance and the smallest contribution is making a difference. I am excited to create my dream and can't do it without you. So thank you so much for your help and donation.

Love, Emma

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