Ceremonies to deepen your spiritual practice with yin yoga, sound healing, and cacao.
Yin Yoga, Soundhealing Cacao Ceremonies: journeys of self-discovery and inner peace for those that want to dive deeper.
I often collaborate with yoga teachers, together we create a safe space of deep relaxation and connection.
After drinking ceremonial cacao You'll be guided through gentle and restorative yin yoga poses while being bathed in the soothing vibrations of sound healing.
Yin yoga sound healing Ceremonies: to Nourish Body & Soul
Are you seeking a space to pause, reconnect, and recharge? A ceremony can offer just that—a deeply nourishing experience for body, mind, and spirit.
Whether you're feeling the need for rest, clarity, inspiration, or simply a moment of peace, these gatherings are designed to support your journey inward.
Through stillness, sound, intention, and movement, you may experience benefits like emotional release, energetic balance, deep relaxation, heightened presence, and a renewed sense of trust in yourself and life. If your heart is curious or your soul feels the call—this might be the moment to say yes to a little ceremony.
In the past decade, I have co-created several dozen special gatherings with a wide variety of yoga teachers, facilitators, energy workers, and sound healers.
These ceremonies have taken place across countless international yoga studios, retreats, festivals, my own studio spaces, and at clients' homes.
The ceremonies are often aligned with the natural cycles of the moon—the Full Moon amplifying energy and vibrancy, while the New Moon draws us inward for deep introspection.
A unique odyssey that will leave you enchanted, tranquil and at peace.
Experiences That Take You Deeper
Each ceremony is a unique alchemy of sound, movement, breath, and intention, deeply influenced by the teacher I collaborate with. Whether it’s Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Partner Yoga, or Breathwork, the common thread remains:
Cacao Ceremony – Drinking a specially prepared heart-opening cacao elixir that enhances emotional depth and receptivity.
Sound Healing – Immersing in the frequencies of singing bowls, gongs, and various world instruments, guiding the body into deep relaxation and energetic realignment.
Energy Work – Aligning and balancing the chakra system to support physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Depending on the gathering, we sometimes incorporate a light dose of plant medicine, such as Psilocybin or Blue Lotus, for those seeking a deeper, expanded experience.
This is always optional and approached with respect and intention.
Ceremonial elements
Sacred Cacao Elixir
Sound Healing Instruments
Breathwork & Intention Setting
Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, or Partner Yoga
7-Chakra System Alignment
A sprinkle of Stardust
No yoga or meditation skills are needed
If You don't feel like doing the yoga postures you can also just lay down on a mat and surrender to total relaxation.
The Intention: Balance, Restore & Reconnect
Our gatherings are fluid, ever-evolving experiences tailored to the energy of the moment and the facilitators involved.
Whether vibrant and expansive or inward and meditative, the purpose remains the same: to reconnect with yourself, release what no longer serves, and find harmony within.
The Magic of Yin Yoga & Sound Healing
Sound healing is a fundamental part of these ceremonies, working on a cellular level to release tension, clear energetic stagnation, and realign the subtle body.
The vibrations from singing bowls and other instruments create a profound meditative state, bringing clarity and tranquility.
With the opening effects of Yin Yoga, the body becomes more receptive to the healing vibrations of sound.
As you settle into each pose, the singing bowls work to release deeply stored blockages and restore balance.
While the yoga teacher guides you through Yin Yoga postures, I move through the space, placing the bowls upon the body at each chakra, enhancing energy flow and deep relaxation.
I play the bowls in different ways, creating varied resonances, tones, and vibrations. Even if I place them on someone else, their healing sound ripples through the entire space, fostering a shared meditative state and collective healing.
Raw Cacao: The Food of the Gods
Our ceremonies include a heart-opening cacao elixir, sourced from various ceremonial cacao suppliers in Amsterdam, all of whom maintain direct connections with the farmers, ensuring ethical sourcing and high-quality ingredients.
This Fairtrade, organic, raw cacao enhances focus, elevates mood, and fosters deep emotional connection.
Working with cacao can be an opportunity to create personal transformation, stronger trust, deeper surrender, and a more profound connection to the Spirit.
The recipe remains a ceremonial secret, but all ingredients are vegan, organic, and ethically sourced.
If cacao isn’t suitable for you, I'll offer an alternative tea infusion for a gentle, heart-opening experience.
How the journey of ceremonies came about
Since 2007, I have embarked on countless journeys—both outward into the world and inward into the depths of my own being.
As an International Mountain Leader, I have led over 100 adventurous hiking and cycling tours and expeditions across a diverse range of countries, guiding others through breathtaking landscapes and transformative experiences.
During one of my many trips, in 2011, I came across the Himalayas. A cycling expedition brought me from Lhasa, Tibet, to Kathmandu, Nepal. There, I fell in love with its inhabitants. As the saying goes, “I came for the mountains, and I returned for its people.”
(That's me and my bike at The Mt Everest North Basecamp in Tibet at 5150m of altitude)
For over a decade, I was traveling almost continuously, visiting a dozen countries annually. Being continuously on the move, everywhere I went I was the guest.
(As a friend told me one day, "dude you need to take some holiday from traveling" )
So when I lived in Kathmandu, I enjoyed having a place I could call home, and naturally, I took that opportunity built a little community around me.
So I often hosted potluck gatherings. During one of those gatherings in my home, I had a sound-healing guru visiting me and he introduced me to sound healing through singing bowls. And I was instantly hooked!
Despite their considerable weight and fragility, a singing bowl has always accompanied me on my journeys ever since. And I enjoyed taking people on little sound journeys wherever I went.
In 2015, Nepal was struck by a series of massive earthquakes, and I felt compelled to help.
As at that time, I was traveling in Europe, I reached out to yoga studios, and together, we hosted Yin Yoga Sound Healing classes on donation, raising funds for relief efforts in Nepal.
Countless co-creations with yoga studios across Europe followed.
During my time in Amsterdam, I co-ran a pop-up yoga studio with Adrienne and later had the unique opportunity to reside in a large loft space in a former nightclub.
In that vibrant environment, I regularly hosted bi-weekly ceremonies aligned with the Full Moon and New Moon, creating space for a strong and soulful community to gather around us.
In summertime I hosted countless ceremonies at festivals.
Since moving to Ede, with less space available and a more dispersed community, the rhythm of these ceremonies has shifted.
They now take place on request, by invitation, or as collaborations with other studios and facilitators.
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Ceremonies with Michalis
If you own a studio or have a community and would like to co-create a ceremony together
I am very open to collaborations.
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