The Vortex Bay Area

The Vortex Bay Area A studio space for the collective fostering accessibility & celebrating inclusivity + diversity through healing, connection, & wellness.

06/10/2026

☀️✨ The Vortex Solstice Faire ✨☀️

Saturday, June 27th | 12 PM – 6 PM
Donation-Based Entry

Come celebrate the longest days of the year with us in a gathering of light, beauty, and community.

Wander through a marketplace of magical wares, handcrafted treasures, herbal creations, art, and offerings from local makers. Bring home the magic with you.

Receive a mini session with an astrologer, tarot reader, energy practitioner, or healer.

Connect with kindred spirits, sip something refreshing, and enjoy community experiences woven throughout the day.

This is an afternoon to slow down, gather together, and honor the season of abundance.

Bring your friends.
Bring your family.
Bring your curiosity.

Let's celebrate the Solstice together. 🌻✨

THE VORTEX SOLSTICE FAIRE ☀️Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 12 PM–6 PMThe Vortex • 619 First Street, Benicia The sun is high, ...
06/08/2026

THE VORTEX SOLSTICE FAIRE ☀️
Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 12 PM–6 PM
The Vortex • 619 First Street, Benicia

The sun is high, the days are long, and magic is in bloom!

Join us at The Vortex for an afternoon of local artisans, healing experiences, mystical curiosities, and community connection as we celebrate the abundance of the Summer Solstice.

🌿 THE MARKET
Browse handcrafted treasures, apothecary goods, crystals, art, jewelry, and intentional gifts.

🔮 THE SANCTUARY
Receive an intuitive reading, experience energy healing, bodywork, astrology, Reiki, and other heart-centered offerings.

Whether you're seeking inspiration, connection, or simply a beautiful way to spend a summer day, you'll find something waiting for you here.

Come wander. Discover. Delight.

Donation-based entry.

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06/02/2026

✨ We are officially flowing with Kangen Water! 💧✨

So excited to share the unboxing of our newest addition at The Vortex Bay Area!

Kangen Water is alkaline, antioxidant-rich water created through an ionization process designed to help support hydration and overall wellness. Many people love it for its smooth taste and use it as part of their daily self-care and healthy living routines.

We’re excited to explore all the ways this beautiful technology can support our community’s journey of wellness, vitality, and conscious living.

Have you tried Kangen Water before? We’d love to hear about your experience! 💙💧✨

Come try it out during our open studio hours! (If the sign is out, we're open!)

05/12/2026

Energetic Integrity —
showing up with the same devotion for one soul as you would for 101.

Not measuring your presence by the size of the room.

Not withholding your magic because the crowd is smaller than expected.

Because the work is still sacred.
The transformation is still real.
And the person who showed up deserves the full frequency of your care, presence, and power.

True leadership is holding the same energy whether the room is overflowing or it’s one woman sitting across from you ready to be seen.

That’s energetic integrity.
That’s embodiment.
That’s trusting the medicine anyway.

NOURISH — A Mother's Day Immersion 🌹You've been giving all year.You've held the home, the family, the friendships, the f...
04/30/2026

NOURISH — A Mother's Day Immersion 🌹
You've been giving all year.
You've held the home, the family, the friendships, the feelings.
You've been everyone's soft place to land.
This is the one day YOU get to land.

NOURISH is a sacred one-day immersion for women — designed to move you from depletion to deep nourishment.
Not a workshop. Not a class.
A full ceremonial container held by three women who know exactly what you're carrying and exactly how to help you set it down.
The day before Mother's Day.
For you. Just you.

💫 YOUR CURATED SPOT INCLUDES:
✦ A signature gift to support and anchor your experience
✦ Tea, Cacao and nourishing bites
✦ A guided movement meditation getting you into your body and out of your head
✦ Kundalini Activation Process to support your energetic, emotional and spiritual body
✦ Sound Frequency Journey to support your overall experience

🎁 TICKETS
General — $150
Full day experience + curated spot with gifts (including 5ml oil roller)
VIP — $200
Everything in General
+ 10ml oil roller
+ triple goddess moon crystal bracelet
+ Magic Hour loose leaf tea pouch
+ post-event integration support

⚡️ EARLY BIRD BONUSES
First 3 to register receive a private 1:1 session with one of the facilitators.

Spots 4–10 receive a free ticket to a future event at The Vortex.

📅 Saturday, May 9, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
📍 The Vortex · 619 1st Street, Benicia, CA
👥 Limited to 18 women

🔗 Register now — link in bio
(or DM us the word NOURISH and we'll send you the link)

Hosted by Emma Manchester · BrandiBette Smead · Domino Alicia Martinez

04/13/2026

It was such a joy to welcome 1 Benicia High School teacher, 9 students, and 4 dedicated aides, to The Vortex today for a class created just for them.

They explored and played with guiro frogs, Tibetan bowls, tuning forks, ocean drums, chimes, and even a wah-wah tube, each sound bringing curiosity, laughter, and connection.

After the play, everyone settled into a sound journey… a moment to pause, rest, and reset their busy minds.

We loved having you with us and would be honored to welcome you back anytime. 💫




Energy Mapping Somatic MeditationTODAY, March 5 @ 7PM | 90 minutesDrop into your body's subtle intelligence and learn to...
03/05/2026

Energy Mapping Somatic Meditation
TODAY, March 5 @ 7PM | 90 minutes

Drop into your body's subtle intelligence and learn to feel energy as it moves through you — not as theory, but as lived sensation.

This guided experience takes you through the seven-chakra system as a living map: grounding into the root, flowing through the sacral, igniting the solar plexus, opening the heart, clearing the throat, awakening the third eye, and connecting through the crown.

What Happens in This Session

Learn to sense what's actually happening in your field — warmth, tingling, emotion, stillness, or flow.

Move through each energy center with embodied cues, breath work, and somatic awareness.

Golden column visualization, white-light body sweep, and energetic boundary strengthening.

Map your inner landscape through felt experience, not analysis.

Close with clarity, coherence, and a deeper sense of self-awareness.

This Workshop Is For You If…
You're curious about chakra work and want to experience it through your body, not just your mind.

You're ready to develop your ability to sense, regulate, and trust your own energy field.

You want a practice that's grounded, accessible, and rooted in direct experience.

No performance. No pressure. Just you, your breath, and the map you already carry inside.

Because in this practice, you are the map.

02/17/2026

RESCHEDULED — Let’s Celebrate the Lunar New Year (just fashionably late 😉)

Sound Journey
Tuesday, 2/24
6:00–7:30 PM
Energetic Exchange: $45
(or 1 session from your monthly membership)

Step into this 90-minute immersive Sound Journey designed to help you:

✨ Release what no longer serves you
✨ Set bold, clear intentions for the year ahead
✨ Align with the rhythm of the lunar cycle
✨ Reconnect with your inner stillness

We’ll begin with gentle grounding and intentional reflection — consciously closing one chapter and opening another. From there, you’ll settle into a deeply restorative sound immersion featuring crystal singing bowls, chimes, and other vibrational instruments that calm the nervous system and create spaciousness for clarity, insight, and renewal.

Let’s welcome the new year — and the First Quarter Moon — in community, resonance, and intention.

Your next chapter is calling. 🌙✨

02/17/2026

Ecstatic Dance Journey
Thursday, 2/19
7:00-8:30 PM
Energetic Exchange: $25
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3Ot35KQ

Ecstatic Dance Journey is a sacred, free-form movement experience where you’re invited to move exactly as you are—no choreography, no judgment, no expectations.

Guided by intentional music and collective energy, this journey becomes a space for release, renewal, joy, and deep embodied presence.

Let the mind soften.
Let the body lead.
Let movement become meditation.

Come home to yourself on the dance floor!




02/11/2026

✨Tarot as a Living Practice✨
Thursday, 2/12
At The Vortex (619 1st Street)
Energetic Exchange: $40

We are so excited to bring you February’s session of Tarot as a Living Practice at The Vortex Bay Area! 💫

This month, we’re diving deep into The Lovers — a card that goes way beyond romance.

Think:
💞 sacred choice
💞 alignment of values
💞 devotion to self, truth, and connection
💞 where desire meets integrity

Together, we’ll explore The Lovers as a living, breathing archetype — not just something you pull from the deck, but something you embody in your daily life. Expect reflection, insight, and practical magic you can actually work with.

✨ Whether you’re new to tarot or have been walking with the cards for years, this practice meets you exactly where you are.

Come curious. Come open. Come ready to choose yourself.

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619 1st Street
Benicia, CA
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