What brilliance resides in the quiet wisdom of your own heart? Breathe, and remember your light in this season of sacred darkness.

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ILLUMINATE THE POWER OF YOUR HEART

A 40-day Practice of Vishoka & Mantra Meditation this Winter Season

Live online each FRIDAY, December 20-January 31, 10am PST

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Illuminate the Power of Your Heart is a donation-based 40-day course of practice and study with Vishoka & Mantra Meditation, two ancient technologies that build greater heart-brain coherence, inner resilience and an experience of our own self-lit light.

Beginning on the eve of the Winter Solstice, join us in community for a dedicated 40-day journey with the mantras of Sri Sukta, ancient verses sung for centuries to invoke inner and outer prosperity. This course will also incorporate the essentials of Vishoka Meditation, a precision-driven methodology that cultivates joy and tranquility from within.

The power of doing this work in community is essential. Together we will establish daily practices that strengthen our resilience and inner clarity. With the support and accountability of a dedicated group, we'll stay committed to our practice, lifting each other up and creating a nurturing space for growth and transformation.

Whether you are new to mantra practice or have prior experience with these ancient verses, this 40-day dedication will deepen your connection to the self-revealing power of sacred sound. Through the resonance of these sacred syllables - vibrations that have awakened hearts for generations – we'll enter states of deeper meditation and luminous presence.

What to expect in this 40-day Practice:

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Daily Mantra & Meditation

Whether you're new to meditative chanting or have been working with sacred sound for many years, this 40-day practice provides a container for you to experience the timeless and transformative power of two ancient technologies – vishoka and mantra meditation. Actively build the habit of awareness and protection of your own self-lit light to carry you through the winter season.

Contemplative Practices

Daily contemplation and self-inquiry prompts will keep you accountable, engaged and on track throughout the 40-day challenge. Strengthen your relationship to source as these self-revealing practices awaken your intuitive power and capacity to know your truest essence and most heartfelt desires.

Exploration of Self-Worth & Self-Love

Explore the connection between self-love and worthiness, moving beyond material wealth to discover the richness of your inner value. This practice will nurture your sense of inherent wholeness, helping you recognize the shine that is YOU. Learn to cultivate deep self-love and understand how your intrinsic worth shapes your experience of life.

Weekly Lively Calls with a Thriving Community

Join an amazing community of seekers on our weekly live calls, where you'll find accountability, connection, and shared growth. These interactive sessions will support your journey, providing a space for reflection and mutual encouragement.

Spiritual Activism as a Force of Change

Awaken your capacity for transformative change by nurturing your inner light as a source of spiritual activism. This practice empowers you to create meaningful impact by first illuminating your own consciousness as a transformational spark for collective healing and social renewal. Learn how daily spiritual cultivation becomes a powerful form of responsive, compassionate engagement with the world.

LIVE ONLINE EACH FRIDAY, 10AM PST

DECEMBER 20 – JANUARY 31

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FAQs:

  • 📅 Start & End Date: December 20 - January 31, 2024
    🕒 Duration: 40 Days (Day 1 on the winter solstice of Dec. 21)
    💻 Format: Virtual via Zoom, recordings and resources accessible anytime
    💰 Contribution: Donation-based

  • 7 LIVE SESSIONS: Each week we gather online in to chant, learn and connect with ample opportunity for additional questions and support. Through shared practice and experience we will deepen our individual and collective understanding.

    DAILY CONTEMPLATION & SELF-INQUIRY PROMPTS: Receive inspiration to your inbox throughout the practice to help you stay accountable and inspired.

    ADDITIONAL LEARNING TOOLS: All sessions will be recorded and made available through our online class portal. Additional learning tools – audio recordings, video tutorials (think sesame street), pdf printouts, flashcards for memorization – will also be made available throughout the duration of the course.

    ONLINE CLASSROOM & WHATSAPP COMMUNITY: Our online platform connects you to all of our course resources, recordings, and a community willing to support.

    GIVING BACK: 10% of profits from this donation-based course will be directed to the Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community in Monroe, Maine to provide Native Wabanaki Peoples a place to gain traditional and cultural land-based teaching

  • FRIDAYS, 10:00AM PST / 12:00P CST / 1:00P EST

    *All sessions approx. 60-min and hosted LIVE online with Steph

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  • This is a donation-based course with 10% of proceeds directed to the Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community in Monroe, Maine to provide Native Wabanaki Peoples a place to gain traditional and cultural land-based teachings. This organization is near and dear to my heart and my maternal lineage and led by Sherri Mitchell, whose book – at the top of my must-read list: Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change inspires my work in the world.

Listen to our guiding mantras

Want to hear what we’ll be chanting? Our 40-day practice to illuminate the power of the heart centers around two ancient songs – Sri Sukta to awaken nature’s forces of peace, joy, beauty and abundance and Agni Sukta to invoke the sacred fire.

Joyful Words from Past Participants

  • Sue C., E-RYT 200

    “Before beginning my studies with Stephanie, I wasn’t even aware there was a reality of the Divine Feminine. I love mantra, and am in awe of the mysterious way it is creating a sense of ‘enoughness’ in me that I’ve only hoped for over many years. The depth of knowledge, the language, and perfect word choice that Stephanie somehow always seems to find opens me. I begin to melt into who I truly am. I feel such gratitude to have somehow been guided to this ongoing course and to Stephanie as a teacher.”

  • Sarah H., RN, E-RYT 500

    “Stephanie’s mantra courses are powerful offerings, beautifully presented! I can feel Stephanie's dharmic alignment pulsing through; authentic and with integrity. When shadow comes up on the seeker's path, as we know it will, there is no doubt the fire and the mantra and will transform it.”

  • Barbara S., RN, E-RYT 500

    “Mantra tends to and strengthens my connection to the highest source of wisdom that is deeply embedded in my being. Thank you, Stephanie, for creating this container of support that focuses on illuminating the power of my soul and spirit. I feel blessed to have Stephanie as a guide and teacher in my life!”

“We live in a vibratory universe. We create, sustain, and amplify the frequencies we hold and feed..."

— Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset

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Meet Steph

Greetings! My name is Stephanie Chee Barea, founder of The Rangeley Hideaway, Her Festival, and mela.yoga. I am a multicultural spiritual guide and lifelong educator with over 24 years of experience teaching embodied healing practices and creating brave spaces for transformation. I work with conscious professionals and visionaries to strengthen and upskill their capacity to tap into internal wisdom, establish space, create flow, and make decisions with greater clarity and ease.

I have a B.A. in Biology from Columbia University and am both a practitioner and teacher of the science and philosophy of Tantric Hatha Yoga in the Sri Vidya tradition – a 5,000 year-old oral tradition of the Himalayan Sages. Always learning, I continue to study with my mentors: Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Jean Mazzei, Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, and always – the Natural World.

The mantras I hold express the language of Nature – sacred streams of timeless wisdom that first emerged from the Himalayan Mountains. 

I published my first mantra album, Igniting Protection, in 2019, and I’ve also been featured on Thrive Global, Omnes.live, The Cosmic Business Podcast, The Himalayan Institute, and Down East Magazine. My 1000+ hours of formal training certifications include EYRT-5oo, YCEP, Yoga Sutras, Vishoka Meditation, and Relational Life Therapy.

My highest aspiration? To know and be in concert with the intelligent power of my heart. A such, I choose to live my life as if it were a grand ritual – weaving the sacred and mundane into a truly rich experience of beauty, creativity and joy.✨

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