SOHA: Sanctuary of Healing Arts

09/29/2025

SoHA Presents "Live Kirtan From the Heart" with Madhurai Sumhara

Sat., October 4, 2025
5:30 Potluck Dinner
7pm Kirtan - Interactive Devotional Chanting and Dance. $15 suggested donation. No one turned away.

SoHA: Sanctuary of Healing Arts
23321 Alsea Highway
Philomath, OR 97370
www.SoHA.center
Questions?
Text David Campbell
707-373-9966

Madhurai Sumhara is a kirtan musician based in Mount Shasta, CA.
Kirtan is an ancient, participatory form of devotional chanting and call-and-response singing, rooted in the Indian yoga tradition, that uses music, mantras, and shared voices to foster community, connect with the divine, and induce states of joy, peace, and spiritual elevation. Participants, regardless of musical or spiritual background, sing together, creating a collective energy and a profound, healing, and transformative experience.
Madhurai understands that the frequency of joy is medicine for this world, and thus she brings kirtan in a way that is both deeply sincere, as well as very lively and fun to dance to. Believing deeply in the power of these mantras to radically heal and transform people, Madhurai is enthusiastic to help these mantras spread to those who will benefit from hearing and chanting them.
With her partner William Morgan playing drums, as well special guest artist David Campbell on trumpet, Madhurai and her band are able to bring a bright and inspiring energy to the kirtan. Their intention in sharing kirtan is to bring a taste of that bhav (divine mood) and shakti (creative power) as people sing and dance themselves into bliss!

09/20/2025

SoHA has formally ended its association with Ven. Lama Karma Rinpoche following a review process under our community safety standards. This decision reflects our commitment to maintaining a safe and respectful environment for all participants.

09/12/2025

This weekend at SoHA is volunteer weekend. It's a very simple but sweet gathering and you're invited!

Friday 9/12/25 7-8:30pm
SoHA field trip! We will be meeting up at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis at 2945 NW Circle Blvd, Corvallis, OR 97330 Room 7. Join us for breath work and devotional singing meditation. Dhara Rose will lead a Hanuman Chelsea and SoHA musician Rainbow White will share Sanskrit mantras to our hearts delight! No singing experience required. Donations accepted to support traveling artists that contribute to the Unitarian Universalist Kirtan Program. This is not a SoHA produced event and it's not located at SoHA, but a bunch of the SoHA family is meeting up at this event tonight so come join us!

Saturday 9/13/25
1-5pm Apple picking & pressing at SoHA. Check-in at the brick house. Bring a container if you'd like to take home juice.

5:30-6:45 Potluck at the SoHA Community Kitchen. Bring a dish to share or $20.

7-9pm Meditative Sound Bath w/ David Campbell, B'ee and friends. In the SoHA Temple under the blacklight dragon mural. Bring a pillow, comfy pajamas, and a blanket. $20 donation requested, but not expected. This is a closed container event. Please arrive on time and try to stay the entire session.

9-11pm Music sharing at a sacred campfire at SoHA Harmony Hall


Sunday 9/14/25

10:30-noon Music, Movement & Meditation Workshop in the SoHA Temple - David Campbell, Amir Künzler & friends. This is a closed container workshop. Please arrive on time and try to stay the entire session.

Noon-1pm Potluck at the SoHA Community Kitchen. Bring a dish to share or $20.

1-5pm Apple picking & pressing. Check-in at the brick house. Bring a container if you'd like to take home juice.

08/22/2025

Come dance to the music of SoHA Rd. next weekend at SoHA!

08/15/2025

SoHA volunteer weekend has started and it's already a rad party. Come pick apples and berries with us this weekend! The food and music are world class (event is free for volunteers).

06/18/2025

This weekend live at SoHA. "SoHA Rd." Afro-cuban jazz / salsa dance band. Featuring Cary Powell (Flute), David Campbell (trumpet), Gary Matsuura (Sax), Ed Propst (Trombone), Dr. John King (piano), Niels Miller (Bass), Jeannette Kangas (Percussion / Drum Set), Nate Wright (Percussion / Congas), Dr. John Calloway (Timbales / Music Director), Kavita Kat Macmillan (vocal), Dr. Debbie Domanski (vocal), Molly Rush (vocal), B'ee (Sound Engineer). Plus Salsa Lessons with Rumbanana, Sound Bath with David Campbell, movement and meditation workshop with Amir Kunzler, embodied movement workshop with Elora, quiet songs with B'ee (In Gowan Ring), musical prayers with Kavita Kat Macmillan, blessings with Ven. Lama Karma Namgyel Rinpoche, and art exhibition / demonstration with the King of Bhutan's temple building artisan group.

05/13/2025

Beautiful event happening this weekend at SoHA. I hope you can join us for one of the concerts or come all weekend.

04/12/2025

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04/11/2025

The volunteer weekend planned at soha this weekend (April 11-13) has been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused to anyone. See you at the next one!

03/21/2025

wood stove is lit. theater is warm. dress rehearsal was sweet. Head on over for a great show and dinner at SoHA TONIGHT!

02/19/2025

Such a beautiful theater at SoHA. Thank you for the countless beings for bringing this dream into reality.

02/11/2025

Only 3 more days till Ritmo de Amor: Rhythms of Love. A weekend of music, movement, and connection celebrating the rhythms that unite us; featuring the all star 17 piece Afro Cuban Jazz Dance Band “SoHA Rd.”

Today's artist profile features our Cuban dance instructor Jaime Eskeldson from Rumbanana

Want to come learn dancing with Jaime? Reserve your space now at www.SoHA.center

Jaime has been sharing her passion for Cuban salsa for nearly a decade, teaching and dancing for over 15 years. Her Cuban salsa journey began in 2009 with Rumbanana, where she was a student and then joined the performance team the following year. She teaches beginner Cuban salsa in Rumbanana's community classes and co-teaches the Cuban Salsa PAC classes at OSU with her husband Mike. Jaime's expertise extends beyond local classes; she and her husband have taught workshops across the country and occasionally she leads workshops focused on body movement. When she's not dancing, Jaime enjoys spending time with her three-year-old son, hiking in the forest, baking, and practicing yoga.

Jaime's website is https://www.rumbanana.org

Join the party and learn this vibrant, social dance. Cuban salsa classes with Rumbanana are the ultimate way to let loose.