MANGATA: Unbound

SUN, SEPT. 19 | 3-6:00 PM CST

How exactly would it feel to let it all go? To release any negative energy and joyfully be together? Come find out!

Our third annual MANGATA gathering, Unbound, will fall just before the full moon in mid-September and will be conveniently held at a pavilion in Edwin Warner Park, a beloved greenspace in Nashville that offers healing and rejuvenation to so many on a regular basis.

Please plan to join us. It is sure to be a magical gathering once again.

Soulful Sessions Lineup

REFLECTION

Award-winning author and MANGATA Founder Varina Willse will open our gathering with prompts to help us explore what has been holding us back and how it might feel to be truly unbound.

CHAKRA

Shamanic healer and Founder of Elemental Sanctuary Molly Upchurch will help us recenter into our essence by guiding us in the art of contemplating each of the seven main energetic centers within ourselves and noticing opportunities to realign with our truth.

ART

Multimedia artist and luminary Brooke Noel Morgan will lead us in a collaborative art meditation where we will create alongside one another, accessing the intricacies of the soul and sharing on a path of discovery.

TEA

Renowned tea expert Sarah Scarbrough of Tea Huntress will guide us on a full-sensory creative and educational exercise to learn about teas and participate in blending our own custom formulation using rare, clean and vibrant ingredients.

OIL

Clinical Aromatherapist and Founder of The Oil Jar, Blaire Morriss will welcome us to an essential oil blending and anointing bar where we will each create a scent that captures our unique experience of what it means to be unbound.

YOGA

Yoga master Molly Upchurch will send us off with a heart-led flow that is designed to open, expand, and empower, renewing passion for the gift of breath and acknowledging life's full spectrum of experience.

Soul Feed Takeaways

Expect to experience openness, connection, and joy. Plus, each woman will leave with renewed intention, a buoyed spirit, and more.

Event Partners

MANGATA gatherings are created, co-curated, and made possible by some incredible women.

Varina Willse

Varina is a native Nashvillian who—after launching her career in New York and attending graduate school at Oxford University—returned to her hometown to help others tell their story. Before MANGATA, in 2018, Varina launched Ponder Effect, a mindfulness platform and open source journal featuring weekly questions as a way to inspire intentional living through communal reflection.

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Circa Creative Studios is a women-owned, full-service branding and marketing team committed to community, collaboration, and creativity. Since 2015, with studios in Nashville, Tennessee, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Greenville, South Carolina, and NYC, they focus on intentional design, creative impact, and making more of what matters for each other, their clients, and their cities.

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MANGATA Council Members

The MANGATA Council is an ever-growing group of like-minded, professional women who share a passion for stoking the soul. Each year, this group comes together with friends new and old to explore, discover, ponder, and grow.

Varina Willse | Ponder Effect

Laura Deleot | Circa Creative Studios

Brooke Noel Morgan | The Abode

Blaire Morriss | The Oil Jar

Molly Upchurch | Elemental Sanctuary

Lauren Palmer | Bloomsbury Farms

Sarah Scarborough | Tea Huntress