December 20 - 22, 2026

Winter Solstice Portal

A shared passage through the Solstice Portal with three practitioners and three complementary experiences.

Solstice: a turning point and opportunity.

The Winter Solstice marks a turning point in the natural cycle: the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of Earth’s tilt back toward the sun. It offers an invitation to pause, listen, and consciously make space within ourselves for a new cycle.

This year, PranaBeing brings together three practitioners and three complementary experiences to create a shared passage through the Solstice Portal.

Across three days, we'll gather in community to listen, move, breathe, reflect, rest, and renew. Through sound, embodied practice, and integration, we'll release what has run its course, reconnect with our innate vitality, and plant seeds of intention for the cycle ahead.

Each gathering offers a distinct experience and can be attended individually. You are also welcome to join us for two or all three gatherings and experience the full passage together.

The Three Gatherings

candles and singing bowls set for ceremony
December 20- Opening the Portal

Winter Solstice Sound Journey

Alice Smyth | Salida Sound Journeys

Gift yourself two hours of presence in preparation for the longest night of the year…the turning point when the days begins to lengthen again. 

An invitation to receive, slow down, honor the light within and create a clearing in order to plant seeds of intention for the future.

We will begin with some gentle qigong to create space in our minds and hearts and gradually transition into a lying down sound journey to help you return to your center and leave you feeling nourished and grounded.


December 21 - Winter Solstice Practice

The Light Returns: Solstice Practice

Priti Chanda Klco | PranaBeing

Gift yourself two hours of presence in preparation for the longest night of the year…the turning point when the days begins to lengthen again. 

An invitation to receive, slow down, honor the light within and create a clearing in order to plant seeds of intention for the future.

We will begin with some gentle qigong to create space in our minds and hearts and gradually transition into a lying down sound journey to help you return to your center and leave you feeling nourished and grounded.


The Rhythm of Each Gathering

Each week follows a simple, spacious rhythm.

Arrive & Settle

Choose a flower from the Lotus Wei Sacred Collection and arrive in the space.

Learn

We'll explore the practice for the week—its traditional context, how it is practiced, potential benefits, and important considerations and contraindications.

You'll learn both simple versions for home and everyday application and the fuller practices we'll experience together.

Experience

You'll be guided into the practice with hands-on assistance. Everyone will have the opportunity to receive.

Rest & Receive

We'll allow time for the body to settle and integrate through guided meditation and/or sound healing.

Complementary practices will be tailored to each session, supporting an embodied experience of what you're learning.

Reflect

You'll have quiet time for reflection and noticing your own experience.

Share

Discussion, questions, and conversation will be welcome at various times throughout each session to help you cement your knowing.

Close

We'll clean up together and close the space.

There is no need to rush from one thing to the next.

The rhythm itself is part of the practice.

  • "One who regularly receives sneha is endowed with strong digestion, a clear and well-functioning system, freshly nourished tissues, strength and vitality, resilient senses, graceful aging, and a long life.”

    Ācārya Vāgbhaṭa, Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam, Sūtrasthāna 16.46

Meet Your Guides

Erin McIntire

Priti Chanda Klco, IAYT and AWC, and Erin McIntire, LMT have more than 30 years combined experience with movement and body-based therapies and have both been benefitting from the personal practice of oleation for decades.

Together, they bring extensive experience with hands-on care, Ayurveda, and the lived practice of recovery and longevity within vibrant and demanding lives.


Come learn from their experience, receive their guidance and care, and explore the practices for yourself.

Why practice together?

Desert Milkweed - Safety

Pear Blossom - Belonging

Bee Orchid - Interconnectedness

We may know that rest would help.

We may know that recovery matters.

We may know that slowing down would be good for us.

And still, it can be surprisingly difficult to create space for these things on our own.

Most of us don't need another reminder that self-care is important.

We need time, structure, and other people to help us actually do it.

We know how to commit to the things we consider important.

We make time for work. Training. Study, practice. Family.

Love Season asks you to bring that same commitment to recovery.

For 90 minutes each week, you don't have to organize your own self-care.

You simply arrive. Learn. Receive. Give. Rest. Reflect. Connect.

And you're doing it alongside other people who have made the same commitment.

Care becomes something we practice together.

Love Season is for you if…

  • You've spent years asking a lot of your body through work, training, movement, adventure, or simply the demands of life.

  • You want to remain active and engaged as you grow older—and recognize that longevity requires recovery as well as effort.

  • You understand discipline, but haven't necessarily applied that discipline to caring for yourself.

  • You're curious about Ayurveda but don't know much about it.

  • You're curious about traditional practices but prefer to experience something for yourself rather than simply being told what to believe.

  • You're drawn to hands-on, experiential learning.

  • You've experienced enough of life to know that the body doesn't always respond to being pushed harder.

  • You're interested in practical ways to support recovery, restoration, resilience, and physical vitality.

  • You want to deepen your capacity to both give and receive care.

  • You spend much of your life caring for other people and recognize that you need care, too.

  • You want self-care to feel nourishing rather than like another obligation.

  • You value community and know that showing up alongside others helps you follow through.

  • You're curious about practices that invite warmth, softness, slowness, sensory nourishment, and deep rest.

  • You're curious about making recovery and replenishment a more intentional part of your life.

No previous experience with Ayurveda or oleation practices is necessary. Both experienced practitioners and those new to these practices are welcome.

Love Season is for those who want to explore a different way of supporting physical vitality and longevity by tending to what we already have.

This isn't about optimizing yourself. It isn't another health protocol to add to your list. It isn't about becoming better at self-care.

It's about learning to notice what supports you—and developing practices you can return to when your body needs them.

Ayurvedic practices are often gentle and subtle.

They don't necessarily announce themselves with immediate, dramatic effects. They invite us to work with qualities—warmth, softness, lubrication, steadiness, rest—and to notice how the body responds over time.

Sometimes the shift is gradual, unfolding like the rhythms of nature: a flower blooming, grass ripening to seed, morning dew settling on the Earth.

The changes may be imperceptible; then suddenly, we realize something has shifted—we feel different. We’ve come to a totally new place in our lives without even realizing it, simply by following a path with openness and sincerity.

The practice is learning to notice.

Registration Details

Love Season

A Journey into Recovery & Nourishment Through Connection

Six weekly gatherings
90 minutes each
September 16 – October 21
Wednesdays • 5:30–7:00 PM at PranaBeing • Salida, Colorado

Love Season Commitment — $540

Experience the full six-week journey. This is the recommended way to experience Love Season, allowing the practices to build upon one another and creating a consistent rhythm of nourishment throughout the season.

$90 per gathering when you commit to all six.

Single Session — $125

Individual sessions are available when space allows for those who cannot commit to the full six-week journey.

Space is intentionally limited so there is room for individualized guidance, partner practices, and a meaningful experience of community.

Yarrow - Vitality

Make Love Season Real.

Love Season is an in-person experience, but fully utilizing the opportunity of the season doesn't have to end when you leave the studio.

During this time, PrānaBeing is also offering an Autumn Passage online—with recipes, seasonal guidance, deep rest and other supportive home practices designed to help you attune to the transition into fall.

The two offerings are intentionally complementary:

Love Season gives you a place to gather, receive and give.

The Autumn Passage gives you ways to extend that seasonal attention into your everyday life and continue to learn and practice with a wider online community.

Love Season participants will have the opportunity to add the online Seasonal Passage at a special participant rate.

EXPLORE THE AUTUMN PASSAGE.

Come Receive. Come Give. Come Home to Yourself.

Your body has carried you through a lot.

Love Season is a chance to give something back.

A practice of recovery.

A practice of care.

A practice of giving and receiving.

Autumn asks something different of us.

A little less outward striving.

A little more grounding.

A little more warmth.

A little more care.

Love Season is an invitation to explore what it means to care for the body you've asked so much of—and to discover how much easier care can become when we give and receive it together.

Join us for Love Season.