The Play Portal: Movement & Breathwork Gathering
The Play Portal: Movement & Breathwork Gathering
Step into The Play Portal — a space to reconnect with your inner child through movement, imagination, and breath.
This workshop is an invitation to remember that play is a spiritual practice. We’ll explore curiosity, silliness, and embodied joy as ways to soften the nervous system and open the heart.
꩜ PART 1: PLAYFUL MOVEMENT
We’ll begin by shaking loose the day and landing in the body through playful movement — a blend of dancing, stretching, shaking, and imaginative expression. Think: animal-like moves, child-like wonder, moments of laughter and release.
This is your permission slip to take up space, be weird, and move in ways that feel alive. Together we’ll explore how joy and spontaneity can be tools for emotional healing, and how curiosity can guide us home to ourselves.
꩜ PART 2: REIKI-INFUSED BREATHWORK JOURNEY
After we’ve opened the body, we’ll lie down and journey inward through a reiki-infused breathwork practice — a soft, playful approach to release and renewal.
Guided by Mina’s voice and soundscape of airy, whimsical music, your breath becomes the bridge between body and imagination. Gentle rhythmic breathing invites sensations of tingling, warmth, and expansion as stuck energy begins to move.
This isn’t about “doing it right” — it’s about letting yourself explore with playful curiosity. Reiki energy blankets the room and flows to wherever you need it most, offering subtle energetic adjustments and emotional balancing.
꩜ INTEGRATION & STILLNESS
After the breathwork, we’ll drop into a rest to ground and integrate the energy. Reiki will continue to flow through the room and provide an extra oomph of love.
Expect to leave feeling light, open, and softly reconnected — to your body, your playfulness, and the quiet magic within you.
꩜ WHAT TO BRING
Wear cozy, movable clothes. Bring a water bottle, chapstick. Extra layers are recommended (breathwork can make you cool down). Tea and nourishing snacks will be available for purchase in the café.
꩜ EXPECT:
giggles, tingles, and gentle emotional release
spontaneous joy + a touch of magic
deeper self-connection through breath, movement, and imagination
Guided By: Mina Bahadori and Tessa Rae Sol
Mina (she/her), founder of Sweetie Pie Angel Club, is an Iranian-American Breathwork Facilitator, Reiki Master, artist, emotional influencer, and vibe curator based between Bushwick and the online sphere. A Los Angeles native turned Brooklyn creative, she’s been facilitating healing spaces since 2016.
Mina’s work is queer-inclusive, collaborative, and playful. She sees clients privately (online and in Bushwick), teaches Reiki-infused Breathwork, and leads Reiki trainings. Sweetie Pie Angel Club isn’t just about healing, but also about expression and connection. Mina curates breathwork community hangs with her partner, teams up with other multi-disclipinary artists, as well as teaches regularly at both Maha Rose and Reforesters Laboratory.
Clients describe Mina as genuine, warm, funny, and able to hold big space without rigidity. She believes spirituality doesn’t have to be dogmatic — it can be soft, experimental, intuitive, and fluid.
Tessa Rae Butler is a space holder, event creator, and creative A&R living in NYC. Her passion for bringing people together has lead her to creating Playful Movement and monthly community gatherings in Brooklyn. Playful Movement is a workshop created with the intention to reconnect with your inner child, move your body and have fun in a judgement-free space. The monthly community gatherings, now held at Daya Yoga Bushwick, always include journaling and sharing to inspire conscious conversation around various themes and topics each month, plus shared experiences like breathwork, meditation, sound, etc. Tessa also works as a Creative A&R manager at Kobalt Music Publishing. With over 9 years of event leading experience, it is her passion and joy to create meaningful experiences and events for people to connect, learn and find joy.
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