🌊 Ocean of Light: WhaleBreathing & Reiki Journey - November Theme: The Depths of Gratitude

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🌊✨ OCEAN OF LIGHT: WhaleBreathing & Reiki Journey ✨🌊

November Theme: The Depths of Gratitude

Honoring What Sustains Us

Beneath the waves of everyday life, there is always something to be grateful for. 💙

As November invites us into a season of reflection and gratitude, we invite you to slow down, turn inward, and reconnect with the people, experiences, and quiet sources of strength that have carried you through the year.

Join Mary Rondenet of Blooming Rose Healing and Tina & Dan Santana of The Agape House for a restorative evening combining WhaleBreathing and Reiki.

This month's journey, The Depths of Gratitude , is an invitation to move beyond the busyness of everyday life and discover the appreciation, peace, and inner nourishment waiting beneath the surface.

And if gratitude feels difficult right now? That's okay, too. This isn't about forcing positivity or pretending everything is wonderful. It's about creating space to recognize what supports you, even during life's more challenging seasons.

🐋 What Is WhaleBreathing?

If you've never experienced WhaleBreathing before, you might be wondering what it actually involves!

WhaleBreathing is a guided, meditative breathwork experience inspired by the gentle rhythms, presence, and symbolism of whales.

Facilitated by Mary Rondenet, this experience invites you to slow your breathing, quiet the mental chatter, and turn your attention inward.

Through intentional breathing, guided imagery, and mindful awareness, WhaleBreathing creates an opportunity to:

🌊 Release tension and stress — Step away from the demands of everyday life and allow your body and mind to settle.

💙 Reconnect with yourself — Create space to notice your emotions, needs, and inner wisdom.

✨ Cultivate emotional balance — Explore feelings with greater awareness, compassion, and acceptance.

🐋 Experience deeper relaxation — Allow gentle, intentional breathing to support a sense of calm and presence.

No experience with breathwork or meditation is necessary. Simply come as you are, breathe at your own comfortable pace, and allow yourself to receive.

🤍 Reiki: Rest, Restore & Receive

As Mary guides the WhaleBreathing experience, Tina and Dan Santana will offer individual Reiki to participants throughout the gathering.

Reiki is a gentle, Japanese energy-based practice traditionally used to encourage relaxation, balance, and overall well-being.

While you rest comfortably, Tina and Dan will move throughout the room, offering Reiki individually to support your experience of stillness and restoration.

Together, WhaleBreathing and Reiki create a peaceful environment for slowing down, reflecting, and reconnecting with yourself.

✨ November's Journey: The Depths of Gratitude

This month, we'll explore four intentions:

🌊 REFLECT — Honor the experiences and lessons that have shaped your journey.

🪷 APPRECIATE — Recognize the people, moments, and inner strengths that sustain you.

💛 RECEIVE — Open yourself to rest, support, and the goodness already present in your life.

🌀 RESTORE — Reconnect with a sense of peace, balance, and appreciation for where you are today.

You don't need to arrive feeling grateful, peaceful, or even particularly relaxed.

Just bring yourself. We'll create the space for the rest. 💙

📅 Event Details

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

🕖 7:00 PM

📍 The Journey's Path

946 N. Neltnor Boulevard, Suite 210

West Chicago, IL 60185

💙 Investment: $48 per person

🌊 A Gentle Invitation

As the year begins drawing toward its close, give yourself permission to pause.

To honor how far you've come.

To appreciate what has sustained you.

And to remember that even beneath life's changing currents, there is something within you worth celebrating.

Beneath the surface, your soul remembers. 💙