NAMO Sanctuary

NAMO Sanctuary Holistic art school and Gong School based in Miami
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The cosmos sparks change this week, and it all moves through a single day. On September 10, Venus enters Scorpio, Mercu...
09/06/2026



The cosmos sparks change this week, and it all moves through a single day. On September 10, Venus enters Scorpio, Mercury enters Libra, and Uranus turns retrograde, Together, these movements ask us to relate, review, and rebalance.

At the center of it all is a New Moon in Virgo. Sun and Moon align in the sign of discernment, clearing away what no longer fits so we can meet what does, a fresh start filtered through clarity, simplicity, and what is essential.

Join us this afternoon for Tea & Song Circle and the opening of our tea room. A wonderful mid-way through our Weekend Residency featuring Benny Oyama and Tara Benmeleh - 🍵🪄🪩 🍵

Tuesday, we gather for New Moon Sacred Womb Healing. Reserve your spot, link in bio.

09/04/2026

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu. 🤍

May all beings everywhere be happy and free.

Tomorrow morning, Benny Oyama opens Weekend Residency at NAMO with a session built around this chant, guiding the room through music, mantra, and the nervous system underneath every sound you make. It's an invitation into your own voice as an instrument of presence, expression, and real connection.

Singers and non-singers alike. No experience required, just a willingness to show up and use your voice.

Opening the Voice: Music, Mantra & the Musical Nervous System
Saturday, 9:00am-11:30am · with Benny Oyama

Link in bio to reserve your spot.

See you soon, Singapore 🪐🎶Art of the Gong is October 1 - 4. Let's dive in.
09/03/2026

See you soon, Singapore 🪐🎶

Art of the Gong is October 1 - 4. Let's dive in.

September is bringing three big beginnings (and an opening) to NAMO, and they're arriving back to back.First, Residency ...
09/02/2026

September is bringing three big beginnings (and an opening) to NAMO, and they're arriving back to back.

First, Residency Weekend: three days of voice, tea, and sound with Benny, Tara, and Noelia, running Saturday, September 5 through Labor Day Monday. It opens with Benny Oyama holding space for the voice, moves into a tea with Tara Benmeleh - 🍵🪄🪩 mixed with a song circle, and closes with a Planetary Special Edition alongside Noelia Madiedo 🪐

And Sunday night, we're pulling back the curtain on something new: NAMO's very first tea room opens its doors, right in the middle of this gathering for all to sit and experience.

Then September 11, Phase One of our Art of the Gong Training begins, an eight-month journey with Noelia that goes far beyond technique. You'll learn to hold the gong and hold space, while working through your own inner transformation alongside it.

There is much to come this month and we’d love for you to be a part of it! Check the link in our bio for bookings.

• WEEKLY AT NAMO •
Monday | Planetary Sound Immersion | 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Monday | Sound Sanctuary | 11:11am - 12:12pm
Thursday | The Seven Gates: Weekly Chakra Series | 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Your voice is one of the oldest instruments you carry, and often the one you trust the least.This Saturday, Opening the ...
09/01/2026

Your voice is one of the oldest instruments you carry, and often the one you trust the least.

This Saturday, Opening the Voice with Benny Oyama begins The Residency Weekend, and it starts exactly where most people need it to: at the voice itself. Benny brings together vocal practice, mantra, and rhythm to help you locate what's been held back, release what's been performing instead of speaking, and rebuild a relationship with your own sound that actually feels like yours.

This isn't about singing well. It's about being willing to be heard, imperfect and unguarded, which is its own kind of courage. Whatever you walk in holding, tension in the throat, a story about not being musical, years of staying quiet, this session meets you there and gives you a way through it.

No experience required, open to singers and non-singers alike. This is where the weekend opens, and where you get to start again.

Saturday, September 5th, 9:00-11:30AM. Link in bio.

There are two ways to meet the gong. One is receiving it, the sound moving through you, the practice at the heart of Pla...
08/31/2026

There are two ways to meet the gong. One is receiving it, the sound moving through you, the practice at the heart of Planetary Sound Immersion, Sound Sanctuary, and The Seven Gates. The other is learning to create it yourself, and that's where the Handheld Technique Workshop comes in.

Tomorrow, we get hands-on. Mallet work, striking points, the physical craft of actually holding and playing the gong. It's a different door into the same practice, presence built through the hands this time. Whether you're building toward facilitating one day or just want to understand your favorite instrument from the inside, this is where that starts.

If one-on-one is more your pace, we also offer private sessions, time to slow down and go deeper with the technique on your own.

Only a few spots left for tomorrow. Claim your place for the Handheld Technique Workshop, link in bio.

This Week at NAMO:
Monday | Planetary Sound Immersion | 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Tuesday | Handheld Gong Workshop | 6PM - 8PM
Thursday | The Seven Gates: Weekly Chakra Series | 7:30PM - 8:30PM

Virgo season fully arrives this week, Mercury joins the Sun on Tuesday and sharpens everything into precision and care. ...
08/30/2026

Virgo season fully arrives this week, Mercury joins the Sun on Tuesday and sharpens everything into precision and care. Mars is still in Cancer too, so devotion and discipline get to move together instead of against each other, a good week to refine and tend to whatever's needed it.

Jupiter and Saturn are finally working in agreement, expansion and structure building something real together. Venus turns inward on the 31st, and old questions about who and what deserves your energy start to resurface.

Then Mars meets Saturn on September 1st, the drive to move forward running into whatever's been standing still. That friction isn't a reason to pull back, it's where transformation happens, and it's not work the thinking mind can do alone. Sound moves what logic can't.

If that's the energy you're standing in, The Residency Weekend arrives September 5th to 7th, three days of voice, tea, and sound, closing with our tea room's opening night. Link in bio.

This September, over Labor Day weekend, NAMO is opening its doors for something we've never done before.The Residency We...
08/29/2026

This September, over Labor Day weekend, NAMO is opening its doors for something we've never done before.

The Residency Weekend at NAMO brings multiple facilitators together for three days built around voice, connection, and ceremony, closing with the official opening of our brand new tea room. Four sessions, four ways into the same practice, coming back into your own voice, your own body, and your own presence, alongside a community doing the same work beside you.

Join a single session, or move through the full arc, each one stands on its own, and each one deepens the others.

Swipe through for the full lineup.

Opening the Voice, with Benny Oyama · Saturday, September 5 · 9:00-11:30 AM · $111

The weekend opens here. Benny brings together vocal practice, mantra, and rhythm to help you locate, release, and rebuild your relationship with your own voice. This is the entry point, accessible, immersive, and open to singers and non-singers alike, no experience required.

Tea & Song Circle, with Tara Benmeleh - 🍵🪄🪩 & Benny Oyama · Sunday, September 6 · 6:00-8:00 PM · $122

An intimate evening of tea, song, and connection, and the official opening night of NAMO's brand new tea room. Tara and Benny hold a living circle of medicine songs, percussion, and meditation, an invitation into the simple, sacred work of making music together.

The Embodied Voice, with Benny Oyama · Monday, September 7 · 9:30-11:00 AM · $88

A playful, embodied return to the natural voice. Benny leads practical exercises, improvisation, and deep listening, an invitation to move past inhibition and into a more honest, more expressive relationship with your own sound.

Planetary Special Edition, with Noelia Madiedo & Benny Oyama · Monday, September 7 · 7:30 PM · $55

The weekend closes in sound. NAMO’s planetary gongs meet Benny's voice, guitar, and harmonium for a collaborative immersion built for resonance, stillness, and deep listening, a full-circle close after three days of finding your voice, this is where you get to receive.

Reserve your spot for any session, or the full weekend at the link in our bio.

Meet Benny Oyama - aka Benny Oyama 🎶He's a musician, teaching artist, and troubadour who treats music as a practice, not...
08/28/2026

Meet Benny Oyama - aka Benny Oyama 🎶

He's a musician, teaching artist, and troubadour who treats music as a practice, not a performance, drawing on Brazilian music, American folk traditions, Buddhist devotional music, and song traditions carried across cultures. He's also the creator of the Sacred Musician Incubator, a mentorship community for musicians and facilitators building music as a lifelong, contemplative path.

In just a few days, Benny is coming to NAMO for a full weekend, and he's not coming alone.

Introducing The Opening Residency: three days of voice, tea, and sound, September 5 through 7, and the official opening of NAMO's brand new tea room.

Here's the full lineup:

Saturday morning, Benny opens the voice through mantra, rhythm, and medicine music.

Sunday evening, Benny is joined by Tara and Valentina for a Tea & Song Circle, the first night our tea room opens its doors.

Monday morning, Benny returns for a playful, embodied exploration of authentic expression.

And Monday night, Benny and Noelia close the weekend together, planetary gongs meeting voice, guitar, and harmonium for a Planetary Special Edition.

Four facilitators. Four ways into the same practice. One brand new room.

Spots are limited and this weekend won't repeat.

A closer look at what fills our sound collection, quartz crystal bowls alongside the other tools we reach for in ceremon...
08/27/2026

A closer look at what fills our sound collection, quartz crystal bowls alongside the other tools we reach for in ceremony and in class.

Each bowl here is cut from pure quartz and tuned to its own note, the same way a piano key or a guitar string is tuned, so the tone stays clean and consistent every time it's played. Line this many up together and you start to see how many different voices live inside one practice.

You don't need a full sound bath to experience that. You need a few quiet minutes and a bowl of your own.

TONIGHT: Planetary Sound Immersion, 7:30–8:30pm guided by Markus 🪐 Come feel the range live before you decide what belongs at home.

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250 NW 24th Street
Miami, FL
33127

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 10am
Wednesday 9am - 10am

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