Thank you to all who participated in the 2025 Winter Solstice Meditation & Labyrinth Walk. It was a wonderful experience to share this beautiful solstice eve with you all. Make sure to join in on our New Year’s Day meditation Zoom and make 2026 your best year yet! 

This 2-part online (Zoom) and/or in-person Bodhi Yoga™ Meditation Event will help you use this potent Winter Solstice to release the energy of the past year and begin the new year with purpose and renewal.

The 2025 Winter Solstice will be very important 
to help you navigate the New Year 2026 well!
 

Part 1 Friday, December 19, 6-7:30 pm, Zoom: Clearing the Energy of 2025.  

Each year’s Winter Solstice is unique, divinely designed to help you release the energy of that year perfectly.  In this Zoom, Syl will guide you through this 2025 year’s specific Winter Solstice and help you discern the best way to clear the past year when you meditate on your own or join in person for the fully lit Winter Solstice Labyrinth walk in one of the most potent and beautiful labyrinths on earth!

Part 2: Saturday, Dec 20th, 6-8:30 pm, In-person: Lighted Winter Solstice Walking Meditation at Syl’s Labyrinth.

PLEASE NOTE! THIS YEAR, OUR WINTER SOLSTICE WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20TH (AS THE ACTUAL SOLSTICE OCCURS AT 8:03 am SUNDAY MORNING).

Cost: $25 per person
(Includes both parts, access to the recordings, and Winter Solstice Meditation archives for 11 months.)

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Near or far, join us in this Bodhi Yoga™ Winter Solstice Meditation Event

Why does the Winter Solstice carry such potent energy?

“Solstice” means “Sun stands still”:  A day when the daylight is the shortest, like annual midnight for releasing the energy of the past year and making space for something brand new!

Anyone can benefit from a release of the energy of the past year to prepare for an incredible 2026.

The better you are at releasing the energy of this past year, the more those skills you’ve already developed will come to the surface and help you prosper during the new year.

If you are too busy to join live, that’s okay. The recordings are available to you any time over the next 11 months to watch as many times as you like. 

Those who are local are invited to attend Part 2 in person for the inspiring lighted Winter Solstice Walking Meditation at Syl’s Labyrinth.

There will be a fundamental level of conscious awareness needed to fully release this year’s energy.  Come find out from Syl why this year’s Winter Solstice is key to navigating the IMPORTANT next year, 2026, well!

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Also included in your tuition: two very special streaming online classes to take you step-by-step through the energetic gift of Winter Solstice annual releasing. 
When you enroll above, you will also be able to click on and view the two classes below:

Class 1. OM RELEASING MEDITATION: A great class for beginners, or to help you prepare for the full Merkaba. Syl leads you though a seated meditation using beautiful rounds of “OM” chanting. As you chant, you’ll hear the voices of our New Year’s Day Meditation group, for a sacred release of the old self, guided by YOU NOW, as you release any heavy energy from this year.
Class 2. FULL MERKABA MEDITATION: The Merkaba comes from ancient Hebrew. Mer = Light, Ka = Spirit, Ba = Body-reality. This beautiful Solstice Meditation will help YOU welcome more LIGHT into your being, to carry you well into the New Year. Syl guides you with step-by-step breath instruction, lovely visuals-sound for a 35min meditation that can be done seated, or lying down.

(if you have already enrolled, just click on the play button-images above, enter the username and password you set up and begin using these wonderful classes that will support you shifting and moving forward.)

Lighted Winter Solstice Walking Meditation at Syl's Labyrinth

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happens when you walk a labyrinth?

Walking a labyrinth is a walking meditation that quiets the mind, reduces stress, and encourages self-reflection. A labyrinth is a path that is a metaphor for life. It is a sacred space set aside to set all the stories you’ve been telling yourself down and open up.

Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has one path, so you can’t get lost, providing a focused, calming experience for spiritual connection, creativity, clear-seeing direction, and inner peace.

 

The labyrinth path itself acts as a symbolic journey with three stages:

Releasing, Connecting, and Clarity.

Stage one: Releasing
 
The minute you step onto the path, everything becomes significant. Your journey into the center naturally helps you observe and let go of the need to know everything in advance, and shed the worries, old, repetitive thought patterns, and outcome-based expectations you were probably not aware you were holding.
 
Stage Two: Connecting
 
Once you reach the center of the labyrinth, you don’t need to make anything happen. It is simply a sacred space to just be open and receptive to whatever comes into your heart. This is the point at which most people feel supported, centered, and connected.
 
Because the labyrinth walk connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain, it’s easier to hear messages and feel a sense of illumination when you are in the center of such a beautiful path.
 
In the center of this labyrinth, if you clap your hands, you can feel the vortex of energy around you as the sound of your clap echoes right back into your ears.  This phenomenon is unique to this sacred labyrinth.  This is a powerful metaphor for the energy that is active when you stand at the center of this sacred space.
 
Step three: Clarity
 
As you begin to wind your way back out through the labyrinth, you naturally integrate more connected awareness into life. As you follow the same path back, your awareness is profoundly different, as you integrate the experience and carry a renewed sense of peace and clarity into your life. 
 
The key takeaways for walking a labyrinth:
 
This ancient configuration of a path that resolves the straight-and-narrow vs. one-eternal-round nature of God/Source/Universal awareness paradox is felt through both physical and energy bodies as you walk the sacred path. The path itself is benevolent, nonjudgmental, and guided, leading to inner calm and full chakra alignment, integrated mind-body-spirit awareness, and a dedicated space for prayer, meditation, or simple mindfulness.
 
During the walk:
  • Quiets the Mind: The repetitive, focused act of walking helps quiet internal noise, making it easier to meditate or pray.
  • Stress Relief: It’s a powerful tool for relaxation and finding balance, integrating body, mind, and spirit.
  • Emotional Release: The path can help process emotions, allowing you to release burdens (purgation) and open up to new understanding (illumination). 
  • Spiritual/Personal Journey: It serves as a metaphor for life’s path, allowing for deep personal reflection, problem-solving, or connecting with one’s center.

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 The winter solstice is the year’s longest night and the celebration of the return of light. It’s one of the most potent times to walk a labyrinth. These evenings are a treasured Bodhi Yoga tradition that we look forward to every year in this beautiful space.

“Each of us sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of our heart, and that depends upon how much we have polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more,
and more unseen forms become manifest.”

—Rumi