Adnan Shamsi aka Love
Forest Bathing: A Walking Meditation
Thursday 8/24 @ 2:00 - 2:45pm
Utopian Tea Ceremony
Tea House
Friday 8/25 @ 5:00 - 5:45pm
Saturday 8/26 @ 5:00 - 5:45pm
Presenter bio
Adnan Shamsi, aka LOVE, is founder of Fyrefly Yoga Collective, Naked Feet Events, and co-founder of EcstaticDance Jersey and co-creator of the annual RainbowMoon Festival in Hopewell New Jersey - focused on music, dance, arts and yoga. LOVE has been curating events including yoga, dance and spaces for sharing vulnerabilities for nearly ten years as a certified DBSA group facilitator and has been using these skills to create brave spaces fostering bravery within EcstaticDanceJersey events - which have been cultivated many times since the beginning of the pandemic at various gatherings and venues - including at 10PRL in Long Branch NJ, Seraphi in Philadelphia PA, Dance Medicine Philly events in PA, Princeton Integral Yoga Community Center in Princeton NJ, the annual RainbowMoon Fest in Hopewell NJ, and other events such as the festivals Beardfest, Anahata’s Purpose, FractalFest and more! LOVE shares the ideas of learning, sharing and connecting with one another - engaging in self work to improve oneself and optimize mental and physical health, causing no harm, avoiding spiritual bypass by walking through discomfort towards catharsis and evolutionary growth. Love’s passions are music, dance, mental health, emotional fitness and physical wellness for students of all ages - having taught aerial and yoga to kids and teens, yoga and fitness to teens, adults and seniors (as old as 90), and guided meditation to and for all ages. Adnan has held space for participants in mens circles, LGBTQIA+ circles and within the ecstatic dance communities as well. He is the happy neurodivergent father of his adult son with autism, with degrees in Economics, Business & Finance, from Rutgers University, and Thunderbird School of Global Management, a unit of Arizona State University.
Utopian Tea Ceremony
Utopian Tea Ceremony: This experience provides experiential immersion into meditation and ceremony through mindful tasting awareness of the chosen drink, with the slow inhales of the aromas, the warm feelings of the heat oozing beyond the cup into the palms and fingers and finally the hot liquid upon the tongue - tasting the essence of the drink - cacao or chai. The carefully crafted experience is accompanied and followed by possible soft vocalizations. These experiences have been provided many times since the beginning of the pandemic at various gatherings."
Forest Bathing: A Walking Meditation
This begins with a guided meditation and breath guidance to ease everyone into their bodies, being, connect to source and connection to the earth. Then we move into a gentle yoga flow~ lots of stretching and simple Asana postures. I big theme I speak to during is based on metaphysical teachings. Last I guide everyone to lay down in resting pose as I play instruments over and around everyone. I play, drums, tongue drum, rattles, rain sticks, numerous crystal singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, flute, 4 elemental Koshi chimes.