About The Heyokah Wellness Group
Meditation for Everyone
The aim of The Heyokah is to provide mental wellness resources for everyone and to explore ways to integrate mindfulness practices and personalized meditation guidance into everyday life. It is about finding comfort in the uncomfortable and helping individuals discover their authentic selves.
What is a heyoka?
A Heyoka is a sacred figure in certain Native American traditions, often described as a sacred clown or contrary. The Heyokah uses humor, paradox, and unexpected behavior to provoke insight, shift perspectives, and awaken others to deeper truths. By doing things backwards or unconventionally, the Heyokah invites people to question what they think they know—and discover something new.
At The Heyokah, we draw inspiration from this archetype—not to imitate or appropriate, but to honor the spirit of transformation, creativity, and healing that the Heyokah represents. Our retreats are designed to disrupt routine thinking, stir the imagination, and offer you a new lens on your creative journey, incorporating mental wellness resources and mindfulness practices to enhance your experience.
Whether you're stuck in a creative block or simply seeking clarity, The Heyokah invites you to step outside the ordinary and into a space where play, insight, and growth meet, along with personalized meditation guidance tailored to your needs.
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Alvin Santos
Tailored Experiences
Each meditation session at The Heyokah is designed to fit your unique needs, incorporating various mindfulness practices. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, we offer personalized meditation guidance as part of our mental wellness resources to enhance your meditation journey.
About Me
I started The Heyokah because I needed it myself. After years in digital advertising, juggling deadlines and caffeine, something shifted within me. It wasn’t dramatic, just a quiet realization that I had been neglecting the part of me that craved real space—offscreen, offline, away from numbers, jargon, and the relentless pressure of deliverables.
Having led meditation groups for years, cooked in restaurants, bartended, managed nightclubs, and even guarded paintings in a museum, I’ve gathered a wide range of experiences. I’ve penned poems that may never see the light of day and helped design onboarding programs for corporate teams. While these endeavors don’t fit into a neat category, they have all contributed to creating this sanctuary.
The Heyokah isn’t just a wellness brand; it's a hub for mental wellness resources and a retreat from doing. It's a place to engage in mindfulness practices and to listen in a different way. I host retreats because some people need quiet to write, others seek a space to cry in the woods, and some simply want to rediscover how to breathe.
You don’t need to be a writer or a creative to find value here; you just need to be human and open to personalized meditation guidance.
