Balancing 4 Life—a restorative wellness center in Pleasantville—is hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on December 20, 2022, to prepare participants for the new year. The event, which will include a sound bath, guided meditation and a tarot card pull, will be led by owner Anne Bentzen, along with sound healer Lisa Pearl-Edwards and medium and clairaudient Zee Mendez.

“The winter solstice, held on the shortest day of the year, celebrates the return of the light—the sun,” says Bentzen. “It is a time of honoring the potentials for a new future. Setting intentions for the coming year and allowing old, limiting patterns of the past to dissolve. It frees us to focus on the infinite potentials of the coming year.”

During the event, participants will have the opportunity to journal new intentions for 2023. Mendez will provide a tarot card pull for each participant prior to a sound bath with a guided meditation. During the meditation, Bentzen states that “powerful winter solstice energies will assist the group in consciously creating a new timeline for 2023 to realizing more joy and gratitude as they leave behind old, limiting behaviors and patterns.