Tara Sanctuary

09/04/2025

WISDOM WOMEN’S TEMPLE
Sanctuary in Topanga

Sunday, Sept 7th
10am-12:30pm

Celebrate the full moon with me and art therapist Bang Han Kim on September 7th at Tara Sanctuary in Topanga. A gentle, empowering workshop for women in perimenopause and menopause, blending art therapy, somatic practices, and natural ways to support hormonal health. Move, create, and reconnect with your body and wisdom.

Meal will be served after the gathering.

$66
Venmo info on last slide

09/03/2025

We’re gathering for a special Full Moon Circle for women in perimenopause and menopause on September 7 at Tara Sanctuary. Together with art therapist Bang Han Kim, we’ll explore creative expression, gentle somatic practices, and holistic tools to support this powerful life transition. ✨

Message me if you’d like to join, and I’ll share the details.

04/09/2025

The traditional Tibetan Chö ceremony combines sacred song, ritual instruments, and chanting to purify the five elements which compose the body and mind. It is an approach for clearing the deeper causes of illness believed to be psychological and karmic.

It can be used to resolve stubborn obstacles, either energetic or ancestral, that are difficult to access or unresponsive to other therapies. While resolving these influences, it improves health and generates refreshed spiritual consciousness.

Traditionally, Chö rituals have been offered to achieve numerous purposes:

• severing attachments which hinder our ability to perceive clearly and live freely
• clearing obstacles that impede spiritual progress
• pacifying afflictive emotions
• balancing the five elements that dictate health in the body
• practicing generosity and compassion
• harmonizing land spirits
• supplicating beneficent deities for blessings

While Chö is a Vajrayana Buddhist ritual, you need not be Buddhist to attend, nor will you have to chant in Tibetan. It is helpful to set an intention to direct the focus of the ceremony but otherwise nothing is required of guests but to relax and receive. After participating, most feel light, uplifted and refreshed.

The Chö is offered online and in-person at and performed by Paige Hetherington. Address is sent upon registration.

If you are coming to the sanctuary, please bring a mat/cushion to lie or sit on and arrive a few minutes early to get comfortable. You are welcome to stay after for tea and socializing. If you are attending online, this event is listed in Standard Pacific Time (2:00-3:30pm). Please adjust according to where you are.

If you are unable to attend the live event but would like to be included, please give your birthdate information on the registration form along with any donation you are making. Please note, no recording of the event will be shared.

Register: Paige-Hetherington.com/events

03/03/2025

Pause. Breathe. Feel.

Your body speaks in whispers—tight shoulders, a clenched jaw, the weight of an unspoken thought. It holds stories, tensions, memories waiting to be heard. But we move too fast. We drown it out with noise, with screens, with the next thing on the list.

What if, just for a moment, you listened?
Not to the world. Not to the rush. But to yourself.

Acupuncture is not just about needles. It’s a conversation. A way to remind your body: I hear you. I’m here.

When was the last time you really checked in?

09/13/2024

Greetings Topanga and Los Angeles friends,

Join us for a transformative Breema bodywork workshop at Tara Sanctuary, for all levels on Sunday, October 6. Breema is a bodywork system and teaching based on the unifying principles which govern the body and all life. Its natural movement sequences are profoundly relaxing and energizing. They foster physical vitality and harmony between the body, mind and emotions, for the practitioner as well as the recipient.

Breema is done fully clothed on a padded floor, using stretches with a balance of gentleness and firmness, nurturing holds, quality touch based on the principle of non-judgement, and a variety of playful, rhythmic movements. It is beneficial for anyone who wishes to bring more balance and harmony into their life.
You may come solo or with a friend, and we will be rotating partners throughout the session when practicing a series. All levels of experience welcome.

There are two sessions, 10am-1pm, and 2pm-5pm, with the option to attend one for $60 or both sessions for $100. Optional picnic lunch on the land together.

Space for 10 participants. DM to register.

Led by certified Breema Instructor, Keter Benchimol, and support of Azita Moellef, L.Ac., and Natalie Wilson, FNP-BC.

To learn more about Breema, visit: www.Breema.com

08/28/2024

09/11/2023

Clinic day at Tara Sanctuary in Topanga Cyn. is on September 15th.

We will be having experts practitioners in the field of structural health coming from out of country to offer treatments to those suffering with musculoskeletal pain, scoliosis.. or those interested in improving their posture and being in alignment.

Please see link for this rare opportunity and spread the word to those who may be interested 🙏 https://www.tingjinhealing.com/event-details/tai-chi-treatment-clinic

07/10/2023

Acupuncture points stimulate the central nervous system. This, in turn, releases chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. These biochemical changes stimulate the body's natural healing abilities and promote physical and emotional well-being.

06/26/2023

By treating areas of the body affected by , acupuncture can help release the emotional pain that is being held in the body's tissues, helping you to process the feelings and memories, let them go, and move on.