This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

This 90-minute class will begin with calming breathwork before moving into gentle, invitational movement. The second half of class will foster deep rest and nervous system regulation as you sink into supported restorative shapes surrounded by a gentle sound bath of Crystal Tones® singing bowls, chimes and other percussion. This class is adaptive and inclusive - Sarah offers MANY options for new and seasoned yoga practitioners. We have blankets, mats, blocks and bolsters in the studio space, but feel free to bring your own for added comfort!

Sarah is a member of Yoga Alliance and is also a certified trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher.

These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

Come gather in a circle of women for a moon ceremony. Kaycee Joy is thrilled to bring this offering to the community once a month. These ceremonies invite sisters to circle up and work with the moon cycles, astrology, ritual, archetypes, soul journeys, goddess traditions and so much more. Each session will be tailored around a new theme to work with throughout the month. You’ll be immersed in the divine feminine spirit, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be tended to. These ceremonies are for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities.

This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

In this ceremony, you will enter into a non-ordinary state assisted by ceremonial cacao and breathwork. By entering this state of being, you will be guided through a process to melt away the congestion in your physical, mental, and energetic body. You will be immersed in a sound bath filled with the gong, crystal singing bowls, guitar and vocals to enter a deep state of relaxation and ease.

This container will be held by Vitalist Institute founders, Leah Grace + Micah Mclaughlin and supported by Vitalist lead teachers, Kaycee Joy + Ryan DeLuca

Experience a journey back to your essential self while creating new pathways of ease and vitality in your body and life!

No experience is necessary, just a willingness and curiosity is all that is required. 

This is our most popular event and sells out quickly. Secure your space early to avoid the waitlist!

This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

Join Micah McLaughlin and Matu Kurzava as they lead our community in heart songs! We will gather to share and celebrate songs of devotion from all around the world. These songs of love and healing are intended to connect us to our own hearts, to each other, to mother earth and to the Great Mystery. Those joining are invited to bring any instruments they might play as well as songs they feel inspired to share (or just bring your voices and your presence). 

Come sing from your heart…dancing and improvisation are welcome too!

$10 cash donation. No registration necessary. Ages 4+.

NEW TIME!! 6:30 - 8:30pm

This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

This 90-minute class will begin with calming breathwork before moving into gentle, invitational movement. The second half of class will foster deep rest and nervous system regulation as you sink into supported restorative shapes surrounded by a gentle sound bath of Crystal Tones® singing bowls, chimes and other percussion. This class is adaptive and inclusive - Sarah offers MANY options for new and seasoned yoga practitioners. We have blankets, mats, blocks and bolsters in the studio space, but feel free to bring your own for added comfort!

Sarah is a member of Yoga Alliance and is also a certified trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher.

These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

Come gather in a circle of women for a moon ceremony. Kaycee Joy is thrilled to bring this offering to the community once a month. These ceremonies invite sisters to circle up and work with the moon cycles, astrology, ritual, archetypes, soul journeys, goddess traditions and so much more. Each session will be tailored around a new theme to work with throughout the month. You’ll be immersed in the divine feminine spirit, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be tended to. These ceremonies are for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities.

This series is designed for those who are completely new to embodiment, as well as those looking to expand and deepen their current practice. Kaycee Joy and Ryan DeLuca will explore the core principles of embodiment and provide practical tools and exercises to help you connect more deeply with your body and mind, cultivating a deep understanding of your human experience.

Bioenergetics and breathwork offers a multitude of benefits. It can lead to reduced stress and anxiety by releasing pent-up emotions and tension. Embodiment also enhances creativity by breaking through mental and physical blocks, allowing individuals to access their most authentic self. Bioenergetics helps individuals become more attuned to their thoughts, feelings, and sensations through increased self-awareness. This practice produces a greater sense of vitality and aliveness by fostering a deeper connection with the body.

Our heart is believed to be the seat of our intuition, the place in our body where we can connect to who we truly are. This brand new event at Vitalist Institute invites you to enjoy a cup of ceremonial cacao that has been hand-crafted by Vitalist lead teacher, Ryan DeLuca. Ryan will guide you through a gentle breath and embodiment practice to quiet your mind and relax your nervous system. The session will move into a guided meditation of your heart space, inviting you to connect deeper to yourself and your life.

This heart-centered class will recur on the third Friday of each month. 

Women’s Breathwork Ceremony

A space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul

Join Leah Grace, Kaycee Joy and Sarah Simon for a beautiful evening of sisterhood, cacao, breathwork & sound. The invitation for this ceremony is to arrive with the intention of connecting to a part, trait or quality within our being that you can nurture into its fullest form of expression. Perhaps you’d like to express yourself more authentically? Or embrace more lovingly your ever-changing physical form? Or maybe to find some space to reparent yourself with the sweet, tender care that you didn’t receive from a caregiver? You’ll be immersed in a feminine container, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be nurtured.  

This ceremony is for anyone who identifies as a woman and non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities.

Join Micah McLaughlin and Matu Kurzava as they lead our community in heart songs! We will gather to share and celebrate songs of devotion from all around the world. These songs of love and healing are intended to connect us to our own hearts, to each other, to mother earth and to the Great Mystery. Those joining are invited to bring any instruments they might play as well as songs they feel inspired to share (or just bring your voices and your presence). 

Come sing from your heart…dancing and improvisation are welcome too!

$10 cash donation. No registration necessary. Ages 4+.

NEW TIME!! 6:30 - 8:30pm

This 90-minute class will begin with calming breathwork before moving into gentle, invitational movement. The second half of class will foster deep rest and nervous system regulation as you sink into supported restorative shapes surrounded by a gentle sound bath of Crystal Tones® singing bowls, chimes and other percussion. This class is adaptive and inclusive - Sarah offers MANY options for new and seasoned yoga practitioners. We have blankets, mats, blocks and bolsters in the studio space, but feel free to bring your own for added comfort!

Sarah is a member of Yoga Alliance and is also a certified trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher.

Our heart is believed to be the seat of our intuition, the place in our body where we can connect to who we truly are. This brand new event at Vitalist Institute invites you to enjoy a cup of ceremonial cacao that has been hand-crafted by Vitalist lead teacher, Ryan DeLuca. Ryan will guide you through a gentle breath and embodiment practice to quiet your mind and relax your nervous system. The session will move into a guided meditation of your heart space, inviting you to connect deeper to yourself and your life.

This heart-centered class will recur on the third Friday of each month. 

These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

Come gather in a circle of women for a moon ceremony. Kaycee Joy is thrilled to bring this offering to the community once a month. These ceremonies invite sisters to circle up and work with the moon cycles, astrology, ritual, archetypes, soul journeys, goddess traditions and so much more. Each session will be tailored around a new theme to work with throughout the month. You’ll be immersed in the divine feminine spirit, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be tended to. These ceremonies are for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities.

Join us for something new and unique at Vitalist institute….. We’re pleased to announce our inaugural holiday gift market held in our Eastown studio space. In collaboration with Beemo Textiles, we’ll be hosting 18 local artisans - many from our vitalist community - who will be selling their creations. Shop for modestly priced gifts and support local makers of textiles, pottery, jewelry, tea, art prints, apothecary and much, much more! We’ll be selling fresh handcrafted cacao to enjoy while you shop and we will even have a gift wrapping station! Mark your calendars for December 14th, 11:00am-5:00pm! Free Admission.

In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels, or disks of spinning energy, correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs throughout your body..

To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open and balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra. With new practices and awareness, we can learn to draw upon the wisdom that lives within our body and is emanating from these wheels of energy. 

Unfortunately, most of us have lost our connection to these flowing wheels of energy. Through social conditioning and trauma we all have taken on habitual ways in which we block and armor ourselves. This chronic tension prevents the free flowing energy from moving through our body. These strategies that formed in childhood helped us find belonging and safety, but now keep us small and stuck. These fixed ways of seeing the world, constricting our energy flow, and minimizing our potential are at the root of much of the human suffering that we experience. 

Join the Vitalist Institute lead teachers, Ryan DeLuca and Kaycee Joy, in this embodiment series aimed at opening and balancing your entire chakra system. Through bioenergetics and embodied breathwork, this 6-week series will teach participants how to work through chronic bands of tension in the body in order to get back to the state of ease, flow, and energetic harmony. 

In this ceremony, you will enter into a non-ordinary state assisted by ceremonial cacao and breathwork. By entering this state of being, you will be guided through a process to melt away the congestion in your physical, mental, and energetic body. You will be immersed in a sound bath filled with the gong, crystal singing bowls, guitar and vocals to enter a deep state of relaxation and ease.

This container will be held by Vitalist Institute founders, Leah Grace + Micah Mclaughlin and supported by Vitalist lead teachers, Kaycee Joy + Ryan DeLuca

Experience a journey back to your essential self while creating new pathways of ease and vitality in your body and life!

No experience is necessary, just a willingness and curiosity is all that is required. 

This is our most popular event and sells out quickly. Secure your space early to avoid the waitlist!

In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels, or disks of spinning energy, correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs throughout your body..

To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open and balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra. With new practices and awareness, we can learn to draw upon the wisdom that lives within our body and is emanating from these wheels of energy. 

Unfortunately, most of us have lost our connection to these flowing wheels of energy. Through social conditioning and trauma we all have taken on habitual ways in which we block and armor ourselves. This chronic tension prevents the free flowing energy from moving through our body. These strategies that formed in childhood helped us find belonging and safety, but now keep us small and stuck. These fixed ways of seeing the world, constricting our energy flow, and minimizing our potential are at the root of much of the human suffering that we experience. 

Join the Vitalist Institute lead teachers, Ryan DeLuca and Kaycee Joy, in this embodiment series aimed at opening and balancing your entire chakra system. Through bioenergetics and embodied breathwork, this 6-week series will teach participants how to work through chronic bands of tension in the body in order to get back to the state of ease, flow, and energetic harmony. 

Join Micah McLaughlin and Matu Kurzava as they lead our community in heart songs! We will gather to share and celebrate songs of devotion from all around the world. These songs of love and healing are intended to connect us to our own hearts, to each other, to mother earth and to the Great Mystery. Those joining are invited to bring any instruments they might play as well as songs they feel inspired to share (or just bring your voices and your presence). 

Come sing from your heart…dancing and improvisation are welcome too!

$10 cash donation. No registration necessary. Ages 4+.

NEW TIME!! 6:30 - 8:30pm

In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels, or disks of spinning energy, correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs throughout your body..

To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open and balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra. With new practices and awareness, we can learn to draw upon the wisdom that lives within our body and is emanating from these wheels of energy. 

Unfortunately, most of us have lost our connection to these flowing wheels of energy. Through social conditioning and trauma we all have taken on habitual ways in which we block and armor ourselves. This chronic tension prevents the free flowing energy from moving through our body. These strategies that formed in childhood helped us find belonging and safety, but now keep us small and stuck. These fixed ways of seeing the world, constricting our energy flow, and minimizing our potential are at the root of much of the human suffering that we experience. 

Join the Vitalist Institute lead teachers, Ryan DeLuca and Kaycee Joy, in this embodiment series aimed at opening and balancing your entire chakra system. Through bioenergetics and embodied breathwork, this 6-week series will teach participants how to work through chronic bands of tension in the body in order to get back to the state of ease, flow, and energetic harmony. 

This 90-minute class will begin with calming breathwork before moving into gentle, invitational movement. The second half of class will foster deep rest and nervous system regulation as you sink into supported restorative shapes surrounded by a gentle sound bath of Crystal Tones® singing bowls, chimes and other percussion. This class is adaptive and inclusive - Sarah offers MANY options for new and seasoned yoga practitioners. We have blankets, mats, blocks and bolsters in the studio space, but feel free to bring your own for added comfort!

Sarah is a member of Yoga Alliance and is also a certified trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher.

These monthly moon ceremonies provide space for the sacred feminine to emerge from the deepest parts of our body & soul.

Come gather in a circle of women for a moon ceremony. Kaycee Joy is thrilled to bring this offering to the community once a month. These ceremonies invite sisters to circle up and work with the moon cycles, astrology, ritual, archetypes, soul journeys, goddess traditions and so much more. Each session will be tailored around a new theme to work with throughout the month. You’ll be immersed in the divine feminine spirit, free to explore all of your parts that are asking to be tended to. These ceremonies are for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities.

In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels, or disks of spinning energy, correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs throughout your body..

To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open and balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra. With new practices and awareness, we can learn to draw upon the wisdom that lives within our body and is emanating from these wheels of energy. 

Unfortunately, most of us have lost our connection to these flowing wheels of energy. Through social conditioning and trauma we all have taken on habitual ways in which we block and armor ourselves. This chronic tension prevents the free flowing energy from moving through our body. These strategies that formed in childhood helped us find belonging and safety, but now keep us small and stuck. These fixed ways of seeing the world, constricting our energy flow, and minimizing our potential are at the root of much of the human suffering that we experience. 

Join the Vitalist Institute lead teachers, Ryan DeLuca and Kaycee Joy, in this embodiment series aimed at opening and balancing your entire chakra system. Through bioenergetics and embodied breathwork, this 6-week series will teach participants how to work through chronic bands of tension in the body in order to get back to the state of ease, flow, and energetic harmony. 

SING WITH YOUR FULL VOICE!

Matia welcomes men and women to join her on a journey of exploring the voice. Together you’ll will integrate tools to strengthen your confidence in song. Matia will teach you how to understand vocal harmony. You will practice exercises to disarm vocal blocks and practice activating your diaphragm to establish a deep and resonant tone. You will learn devotional songs, chants, call and response song AND enjoy ceremonial cacao.

This event will be held at our offsite ceremony space in Sparta, MI. The address will be shared upon registration.

Our heart is believed to be the seat of our intuition, the place in our body where we can connect to who we truly are. This brand new event at Vitalist Institute invites you to enjoy a cup of ceremonial cacao that has been hand-crafted by Vitalist lead teacher, Ryan DeLuca. Ryan will guide you through a gentle breath and embodiment practice to quiet your mind and relax your nervous system. The session will move into a guided meditation of your heart space, inviting you to connect deeper to yourself and your life.

This heart-centered class will recur on the third Friday of each month. 

In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels, or disks of spinning energy, correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs throughout your body..

To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open and balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra. With new practices and awareness, we can learn to draw upon the wisdom that lives within our body and is emanating from these wheels of energy. 

Unfortunately, most of us have lost our connection to these flowing wheels of energy. Through social conditioning and trauma we all have taken on habitual ways in which we block and armor ourselves. This chronic tension prevents the free flowing energy from moving through our body. These strategies that formed in childhood helped us find belonging and safety, but now keep us small and stuck. These fixed ways of seeing the world, constricting our energy flow, and minimizing our potential are at the root of much of the human suffering that we experience. 

Join the Vitalist Institute lead teachers, Ryan DeLuca and Kaycee Joy, in this embodiment series aimed at opening and balancing your entire chakra system. Through bioenergetics and embodied breathwork, this 6-week series will teach participants how to work through chronic bands of tension in the body in order to get back to the state of ease, flow, and energetic harmony.