WEDNESDAY: “Ceremony vs. Recreation” Conscious Connections Conversation

Topic: “Ceremony vs. Recreation”

When: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 from 5pm to 9pm (Conversation at 6:30pm)

Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)

Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.

Guests Welcome to purchase $15 tickets to The District House evenings.

Format: Networking & Roundtable Conversation. We will be discussing as a group in an open format in the room.

Note: We will not be filming this week’s conversation. Refreshments provided.

CONSCIOUS CONNECTIONS TOPIC

Topic: “Ceremony vs. Recreation”

Step into a space designed for thoughtful conversation, genuine curiosity, and real connection. The District House brings together a diverse community of people interested in exploring consciousness, creativity, wellness, and the human experience—without pressure, performance, or pretense.

Conversations are shaped by lived experience, emerging research, and open inquiry, allowing for reflection, listening, and honest exchange. Rather than aiming for conclusions, the evening invites curiosity, nuance, and multiple perspectives to coexist in the room.

Beyond the dialogue, The District House is about community. Enjoy refreshments, meet fellow attendees, and build relationships that often continue beyond the evening itself. What emerges is a shared sense of presence and connection—created not by the topic alone, but by the people who gather and the care taken to hold the space.

RECAP: “The Power of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy: A Night That Blended Medicine and Ceremony with Dr. Michael Hofrath & Dr. Elyas Parsa”

This evening with Dr. Michael Hofrath and Dr. Elyas Parsa we didn’t merely learn about the medicine. Hannah Jo led the interview that followed, and what unfolded was a layered conversation: part neuroscience lecture, part ceremony, part honest talk about what it actually feels like to let your nervous system finally exhale.

Michael and Elyas presented together, walking the crowd through their group model for ketamine-assisted therapy: how sessions are structured, what preparation and integration actually look like, and why the “assisted” part of the name is doing more work than people assume. But what made the presentation land wasn’t the slides. It was the way these two practitioners hold fundamentally different, and fundamentally complementary, languages for the same medicine.

Elyas brings the clinical weight: fifteen years across county hospitals, emergency rooms, street medicine, and residency training, plus a precise medical vocabulary for what ketamine is actually doing in the brain, the synaptogenesis, the loosened grip of old neural patterns, the biological window that opens for something new to take root. Michael brings something harder to put on a slide: two decades in somatic science, shamanic tradition, and depth psychology, and a fluent way of speaking about ancestors, culture, and inner work that treats the therapy room as sacred space, not just clinical space.

WED., AUG 19 – “Shamanic Astrology” with Abhay Oyun of Siberian Shamanism

Topic: “Shamanic Astrology”

Description: Shamanic astrology is not fortune-telling or prediction — it is a living practice of direct connection with planetary spirits, rooted in the ancient wisdom of Siberian shamanism. In this immersive talk and experiential session, Shaman Abhay Oyun will guide participants into states of consciousness where the voices of the planets become accessible, offering practical tools for understanding and working with planetary influences affecting your health, relationships, business, and daily life. Drawing from more than 35 years of ceremony, healing work, and travel across the world, Abhay brings this once-secret lineage knowledge into a modern, accessible language — one designed for real encounter rather than abstract theory. Come ready to experience shamanic astrology not as something you learn about, but as something you feel.

When: Wednesday, August 19, 2026 from 5pm to 9pm (Speaker at 6:30pm)

Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)

Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.

Guests Welcome to purchase $25 tickets to The District House evenings.

Note: We will be filming the speaker for the District216 Change Your Lens Series. Refreshments provided.

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