🕯 The Lighthouse: A Sanctuary for Wild Times
A gathering & guided ceremony for sensitive hearts
There is so much noise, division and grief moving through the world right now. So many of us are watching our hearts either break open or harden in defense.
Sometimes both in the same breath.
The Lighthouse is our invitation into a soft place to land.
A space to lay down the weight of what you’ve been holding and to return to your inner light. Not to escape the world, but to remember how we can fully meet it.
This is not about sticking our heads in the sand.
It’s about tending your flame, so that when we return to the causes and communities that call us, we do so from strength, clarity, and love.
In foggy times, we need our lighthouses:
the healers, the space holders, the activists, the sensitive ones, the givers.
This is a gathering moment for you.

The Details:
Date: February 11th
Time: 5:30pm-7pm PST
Cost: FREE. This is a complimentary offer to our community
Location: Zoom (link will be sent upon registration), a replay will be sent to those who can’t join us live
🌀 Why We’re Hosting This & Why Now
Why We're Hosting This
The us-vs-them mentality is fracturing more than just political landscapes—it’s reaching into our communities, our friendships, even our own sense of self.
We’re offering this space as an act of inner repair. A soft rebellion. A return to compassion, clarity, and embodied presence.If your heart has felt tight, tender, numb, or overextended lately, this is for you.
& Why Now
Because there’s a push and a pull.
A push to keep showing up, to offer your art, your care, your voice, your rage or your love.
And a simultaneous pull inward: to shut down, shut off, or simply… shut up.
Maybe you, too, have been feeling both?
The world is loud and heavy right now. And while outrage has its place, we know this:
Hardening our hearts is not the way through.
We’ve watched tender-hearted people grow calloused.
We’ve seen healers burn out.
We’ve felt the slow drip of despair seep into the very places we once felt most alive.
Here is our invitation to you:
You’re allowed to set it down.
You’re allowed to look away for a moment and tend to your light.
To rest.
To gather yourself.
To remember your softness, your joy, your place at the table of the lightbearers.
This is your invitation to return to connection and vitality.

What to Expect
🧭 What to Expect
This is a guided ceremony and gathering, held over Zoom.
We’ll move through:
Breathwork + group energy attunement with Yonatan & Jaime Elkayam
A creative writing process guided by Linda Black to alchemize what’s stirring in your heart
Gentle reflection and soft landing to carry your light forward
What to Bring
A candle
A journal + pen
Water or tea
A cozy, quiet space where you can drop in without distraction

🧡 This is for you if:
You feel sensitive to the state of the world and don’t know what to do with it all
You’ve noticed your heart closing or going numb
You crave spaces that honor your depth without demanding performance
You want to reconnect to your clarity, softness, and inner strength
You are a lighthouse—someone who holds, gives, leads, or heals—and need a moment to replenish your own light
🚫 This is not for you if:
You’re looking for a space to debate or analyze current events
You want a political or activist strategy session (those are crucial, but this just isn’t that)
You’re unable to show up with kindness and care for the collective container
RSVP
Date: February 11th
Time: 5:30pm-7pm PST
Cost: FREE. This is a complimentary offer to our community
Location: Zoom (link will be sent upon registration), a replay will be sent to those who can't join us live
Jaime & Yonatan Elkayam
Jaime is a guide & healer, whose work lives at the intersection of mysticism & embodiment. She holds space for deep inner repair and personal reclamation, inviting people back into the sacredness of their sensitivity.
Yonatan is a musician, somatic facilitator, and energy worker whose approach is rooted in deep listening, to the body, the unseen, and the song between them. He brings a grounded, devotional energy to the spaces he holds, helping others attune to their own inner wisdom and power.
Together, Jaime and Yonatan are the cofounders of Word of Mouth Integrative Wellness.

Linda Black
Linda Black is a dreamer, a storyteller, and writing coach. Her Dream Story Workshop and other creative writing workshops draw on the belief that sharing our stories can be profoundly healing, for ourselves and our communities.
