Want to feel group energy and support with developing or maintaining a daily meditation practice?
Reyna Collective is
a meditation accountability group
for cultivating community care.
We all grow together.
Personal Care
Show up for yourself
Get grounded. Cultivate healthy boundaries. Tap into creativity and intuition. Nourish your nervous system through regular meditation.
Group care
Show up for each other
Expand your heart's capacity for compassion and connection by sharing your gratitudes and loving-kindness with the Reyna community on WhatsApp.
community care
Show up for your community
Use your mental and emotional fortitude to show up for your community and the planet. Decolonize. Disrupt. Divest.
Fluid
Accountability
We encourage each other, through our check-ins, to sit for meditation daily. We also allow for fluidity - the ebb and flow, just like the rhythms of mother nature.Our meditation practice is not at the patriarchal, capitalist pace of constant productivity and busyness.
How it works
Meditate
Meditate on your own at a convenient time for you for (at least) 3 minutes
Check In
Check in to our WhatsApp thread with 3 gratitudes and 3 loving-kindness blessings (people or beings, beloved or neutral, to whom you want to send extra love)
Receive
The super powers of presence, peace, and the ability to process and respond instead of reacting to big feelings. A happier nervous system, healthier communication and relationships. Stronger intuition and creativity.
Meditate for at least 3 minutes and then check in to our private WhatsApp thread with 3 gratitudes and 3 loving-kindness blessings.
Reyna Collective is for you if...
you've ever struggled to maintain a consistent meditation practice despite having experienced the benefits.
you have ever felt limited by rigid styles of practice which demand that you meditation at a specific time of day, in a particular way, every day.
you're not inspired by meditation styles that encourage you to eradicate emotions or meditate to be "more productive".
you'd like to feel group energy and community support around your practice.
you would like to deepen your intuition and connection to the lunar phases, plants and earth-based spirituality.
you have a desire to engage in activism and community care beyond your meditation cushion.
Join Reyna Collective
Access to our WhatsApp thread for daily check-ins
Meditation and ritual library on substack and soundcloud
Connection with the Reyna community through occasional live gatherings
free
Reyna is an homage to my motherline
Reyna is an homage to my motherline. My maternal grandmother, Eleanor Granger, was born and raised in Belize, and her maiden name was Reyes.
Combining the word for King (Rey) and Queen (Reina) in Spanish, "Reyna" is symbolic of embodiment and harmonization of the healthy, mature, empowered and trustworthy REGAL energies within each of us.
Meet Nicole
The founder of Reyna Collective
About Nicole
Nicole Benisch is the founder of Light Spirit Essentials. Offering a grounded approach to holistic well-being and spirituality, incorporating mediation, sound healing, reiki and aromatherapy. A balanced blend of spirit & science with a heaping dash of hilaritas.
Think of me, not as your teacher or or leader, but rather your humble host, holding the door open for you as you enter the meditation space, and saying a prayer of protection.
I’ve been studying spirituality and holistic well-being for more than three decades, and in that time I’ve had some truly magical experiences with meditation. I dabbled in many different Buddhist and Yogic styles, and despite having directly experienced the benefits of meditating regularly, I still struggled to cultivate a consistent practice. I would meditate daily for maximum 6 weeks and then eventually fall off. I wondered if meditation just wasn't a good fit for me? And explored a plethora of other mind/body/spirit wellness practices instead.In late 2016, after a long hiatus, I started meditating again. Instead of following a particular style, I let my intuition guide me, and something started to click. Big magic started to unfold, and yet, I still couldn't stick with my practice.When I began my practice again during quarantine times, August of 2020, it became clear to me that group energy and support was the missing link.So, I invited a group of women to join me in a daily sit with a gratitude + loving-kindness check in, and we’ve been holding space for each other ever since. To say the benefits of consistent meditation have been profound is the understatement of a lifetime. I feel more grounded, adaptable, and settled. I am able to self-soothe (most of the time) when activated. I also feel a stronger connection to my intuition and creativity.I have firm and healthy boundaries, and I communicate them with kindness and compassion. As someone who has had lifelong issues with anger and a history of high conflict relationships, this transformation is particularly impactful.Meditating in community also helped me with processing grief after a period of significant loss from 2018-2020.We have work to do - off of our meditation cushions and yoga mats. The foundation of any spiritual or magical practice is meditation, and Reyna Collective is meditation accountability for those who want to show up - for the planet, their families, and their communities.As Bell Hooks so aptly put it - "Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion".Come experience the magic. I'll be holding the door open for you, whenever you're ready.
Upcoming events
Alchemia Sound
11/28 Deep Listening: Sound + Acupressure w/ Masha Aguirre10/29 West Side Yoga PVD10/6 Sacred Sound w/ Malerie Day9/24 Sayles Hall Brown Universitymore info here
Celtic Seasons
Join us for occasional live gatherings
Imbolc - Feb 3
Spring Equinox March 20
Beltane May 5
Summer Solstice June 21
Lughnasadh August 7
Autumn Equniox Sept 23
Samhain Nov 7
Winter Solstice Dec 21
