What we’re about
Ready to emerge from the post-pandemic blues and cultivate your inner peace and joy? This group is starting up again with a renewed focus on a broad exploration of how to boost holistic well-being:
· Relaxation & Stress Release
· Healthy Relationships
· Community
· Movement
· Therapy
· Self-improvement / Personal growth
· Fun & laughter
· Nutrition
Let's gather and study and practice the tried and true ways to beat depression, anxiety, loneliness, and despair, and support each other in becoming sustainably happier, healthier humans!
If you have suggestions for meetups and/or venues, please reach out!
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Fall Equinox Global Gong PujaWild Hearts Wellness, Portland, OR$30.00
A Ritual of Sound for Balance, Healing & Collective Peace
The Fall Equinox is a time of sacred balance—between light and dark, inner and outer, release and renewal. To honor this turning point, we’ll gather in resonance with thousands of others around the globe in a collective Gong Puja—a planetary wave of sound and intention.
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Please note that an RSVP through this Meetup event will not secure your spot! You must register and purchase a ticket at: https://forms.gle/WtsCz4w2WQBuYGmi8.
(Please RSVP to this event and invite your friends for visibility, though!)
*******************Guided by the deep, ancient tones of the gong, we’ll create a ceremonial space for healing, inner peace, and planetary harmony. Through guided meditation and a long-form sound immersion, you’ll be invited to:
- Sink into deep rest and recalibration
- Align with the rhythm of the Earth
- Send ripples of healing through your own life and into the collective fieldLast year’s Global Gong Puja united over 1,000 gong players across 83+ countries, and this year’s wave will be even more powerful. Together, we co-create a field of global coherence and compassion.
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Saturday, September 20th, 2025
Doors open at 7:15pm
(Please arrive between 7:15-7:20pm so we can begin promptly at 7:30pm)
Event: 7:30-8:45pm (Doors may be locked after 7:30pm)Sliding Scale $30-50
(Please register and get your ticket at: https://forms.gle/WtsCz4w2WQBuYGmi8)Wild Hearts Wellness
4230 NE Fremont St. Portland, ORCapacity: Limited to 25 participants
*Please Note: This venue is on the second floor, up a flight of stairs. There is no elevator available.-------------------------
Please invite your friends to this and/or the Facebook event!
www.facebook.com/gong.lover
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A brief opening circle for grounding and intention-setting, a deeply immersive gong sound bath to support release, recalibration, and emergence, followed by gentle chimes for integration at the end.Unlike other sound healing events, this immersion may involve loud, intense, and powerful gong-playing, at times, to clear stuck energy and allow for emotional release. Gongs create a unique, deeply-moving experience that can drop listeners into spontaneous meditative states (theta) where we have access to creative thinking and deep relaxation and tension release. They also help to clear energetic blocks and re-attune to higher vibrations. Gongs can also bring up big emotions, which can sometimes feel activating and create feelings of anxiety and overwhelm. Participants are encouraged to come prepared to allow for these feelings to come up and to release. Earplugs will be provided for anyone who might be sensitive to the sound.
No experience with sound healing necessary—all are welcome.
This is a non-dogmatic, heart-centered space where you are free to show up just as you are. Let your body rest. Let your heart open. Let the sound carry your prayer.
We can’t wait to share this powerful night with you.
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You may wish to bring:
- A yoga mat, extra padding, a pillow, a blanket (some are provided)
- Anything else that will help you be comfortable sitting and lying down on wood floors
- An eye mask
- A face mask (not mandated)
- A water bottle
- Grounding tools
- A journal to note down your reflections
- There will also be an altar if you wish to bring a photo or an item that symbolizes the intentions you'd like to focus on.
(Some yoga mats, pillows, cushions, and blankets will be available to borrow, but there may not be enough for everyone).
----------------------------------Phoenyx Bio:
Founder and Soundscape Navigator at "For the Love of Gong," Phoenyx is a free-spirited creator, event-organizer, coach, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, speaker, consultant, and gong-lover — passionately inspired by expanded states of consciousness, alchemy, healthy empowerment, mind-hacking, trauma-healing, entheogenic exploration and harm-reduction, natural wellness, and community-building. She completed the Advanced Gong Sound Healing Certification Training through the International Gong Yoga Association in July 2022, under Gong Master Yogi Mehtab Benton, and has two magnificent gongs: a 32" traditional bronze Chinese Chau gong; and a 24" Paiste Brilliant Symphonic gong, made of silver, nickel, and bronze. She is the founder of Phoenyx Enterprising, SPARX, phoenyxfx, For the Love of Gong, Bit Consultants, and Liberating Love; author of The Tripper's Guide to an Awesome Ride; and event organizer for Happier Portland, Portland Sound Baths, Authentic Portland, Relationship Anarchy Portland, Portland Bitcoin, and LoveHub Meetup groups. A perpetual student, Phoenyx is always exploring further education to learn how to share the gongs in more therapeutic ways.
