WEDNESDAY: “Zendo Stero: Music Mindfulness Journey” with Leonardo Canneto
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Interactive Workshop: “Zendo Stero: Music Mindfulness Journey”
Description: Zendo Stereo offers a psychedelic listening experience where we gather in community, lie down, and close our eyes, using wireless headphones and sub bass speakers to enjoy a seamless 1-hour journey of carefully selected music and sound with simple prompts to deepen your mindfulness practice. This experience helps reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost creativity. You will be guided with simple prompts for a powerful musical journey, helping calm your nervous system, create space for self-reflection, and reconnect with your inner self.
Mats, pillows, and blankets are provided.
When: Wednesday, June 17, 2026 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm (Journey 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 $40 tickets to this event. (Discounted from $60)
Note: We will NOT be filming this event.
Note: Mats, pillows, and blankets are provided.
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FACILITATOR BIO
Facilitator: Leonardo Canneto, Zendo Stereo Founder
Leonardo Canneto is a musical innovator who blends mindfulness with sonic experiences. Originally from Argentina, he began his musical career in New York City at 18, recording albums, producing music, and touring as a multi-instrumentalist before settling in Los Angeles.
In 2018, he founded Zendo Stereo: Music Mindfulness, a groundbreaking concept combining live musical performances with guided meditation. The project has attracted over 35,000 hours of streamed sets 1 hour sets online, and sold-out crowds across the United States.
Leonardo collaborates with mental health clinics, wellness practicioners + technologies, and was invited to speak at MIT Santa Barbara on “Music, Mindfulness and Altered States”. Initiated into Vedic Meditation in 2007, he continues to pioneer the intersection of music, consciousness, and healing, drawing from Eastern philosophy and psychedelic medicine traditions. |
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WED., JUNE 24 – “The Powers of Narrative: Stories and The Psychedelic Renaissance” with Lindsay Kent
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Topic: “The Powers of Narrative: Stories and The Psychedelic Renaissance”
Description: Stories are how we make sense of the world. And right now, the stories we tell about psychedelics may matter just as much as the science. The psychedelic renaissance is expanding fast: into medicine, media, wellness, policy, and pop culture. But beneath the science and the headlines lies something deeper. This is also a storytelling revolution.
Filmmaker, author, and psychedelic historian Lindsay Kent (aka The Hallucinarrator) joins District216 to explore how narratives shape the way society understands altered states: what we fear, what we romanticize, what we commercialize, and what we integrate.
Lindsay will share clips and excerpts from her work as she unpacks:
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Why stories are often more persuasive than data
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How narrative builds bridges between psychedelic subculture and mainstream audiences
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The ethical responsibility of creators in a rapidly growing movement
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How fiction, comedy, and film can communicate inner experience without preaching
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Why the “war on consciousness” is ultimately a war over perception and meaning
When: Wednesday, June 24, 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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RECAP: “The Forgotten Sacrament: What Christian Rasmussen Taught Us About Amanita Muscaria”
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The topic was Amanita muscaria, the red-and-white spotted mushroom most people recognize from fairy tales and video games. But what Christian had to share went far deeper than pop culture iconography. This was a conversation about history, healing, and one of the most misunderstood fungal allies in human existence.
When the Mushroom Speaks, You Listen. Christian didn’t open with data. He opened with an experience. He described the moment Amanita muscaria first found him, not the other way around, and what happened when he chose to listen. There was an exchange of information, he said, the kind that doesn’t come from a book or a protocol. It was intuitive, direct, and deeply personal.
That intuition led him to work with Amanita in a way that helped bring his own GABA and glutamate systems back into balance after years of struggling with benzo and opioid dependency. These are neurotransmitter systems that get profoundly dysregulated through long-term use of those substances, and conventional medicine doesn’t have great answers for restoring them. Christian found his way through a fungus that most of the internet will tell you to avoid.
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Volunteer with Decriminalize Nature Santa Barbara
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PARTNER NEWS: Psychedelics Design Awards
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Submissions Are Open for the Psychedelics Design Awards 2026
Psychedelics Design is thrilled to announce that the Psychedelics Design Awards 2026 — the second edition of the world’s first design competition in the psychedelic space — are officially open for submissions.
Whether you’re a designer, artist, researcher, musician, storyteller, or community builder, there’s a category for your work. Nine award categories celebrate the full breadth of creativity in this emerging field:
Winners and finalists will be announced in October and again celebrated at the Psychedelics Design Online Conference, 6–7 November 2026 — a two?day gathering exploring the theme “Creative Biome.” Confirmed speakers include neuroscientist Robin Carhart?Harris, PhD (UCSF) and Zoe Wilder in exclusive conversation with Rick Doblin, PhD.
Scholarships available. Apply now: www.psychedelics.design/awards
Submissions Open: 1 February – 1 July 2026.
OUR COMMUNITY RECEIVES 20% OFF ENTRY!
Use the code: DISTRICT216
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“ADDICTION & PSYCHEDELICS”
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June at District216 is four solid weeks of exploration, from leading with intuition to an ancient mushroom with a wild human history, a music mindfulness journey, and the stories shaping the psychedelic renaissance. Whatever draws you in, there’s a seat with your name on it. Full lineup at district216.com/events. ??
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