Turiya's

Turiya is an ancient Sanskrit word that means “the fourth way.” Turiya signifies pure consciousness, coming to rest in a peaceful, blissful state.

A definition we have found and love is “the voice that calls us home.” Turiya's is an inspirational gift shop located in the Sugarhouse neighborhood of Salt Lake City. We offer meaningful gifts and products that uplift the spirit, teach and train or simply celebrate life's occasions. People come to rest and restore in the tranquil surroundings. Many come to work with Healer/Teacher Kristen Dalzen. You can reach Kristen @ 801-661-3896. You can also reach Teacher/Consultant, Jan Jacobsen @ 801-792-5512

10/10/2026

THE LIBRA NEW MOON

We tend to think of the Moon as belonging to the night. Yet during a New Moon, it travels through the daytime sky, keeping close company with the Sun.

On October 10 at 9:50 a.m. Mountain Time, the Moon reaches its new phase. Its illuminated side faces away from Earth, leaving it nearly invisible.

There is something magical about this celestial disappearing act. The Moon remains entirely present. Only our relationship to its light has changed.

In Western astrology, this New Moon falls in Libra, the only zodiac sign represented by an inanimate object: a pair of scales.

A scale is sensitive to the smallest change in weight. Something that looks perfectly balanced may depend on an arrangement we haven’t thought to question.

This particular Moon has an intriguing astrological backdrop. Venus, Libra’s ruling planet, is retrograde in Scorpio and forms a square with Mars in Leo on the same day.

In astrological tradition, this aspect speaks to the tension between what we desire and what we accommodate for the sake of harmony. With Venus retrograde, familiar relationships and our understanding of what we value may take on new meaning.

For those who enjoy marking a lunar cycle with a little ritual, a candle reflected in a shallow bowl of water might be enough. Shift your position and the reflection changes, though the flame remains exactly where it was.

A lovely reminder of how much our experience of something depends upon where we stand in relation to it.

Over the following evenings, a slender crescent will gradually return to the western sky after sunset.

The Moon will seem to have returned, though it never really left.

And after thousands of years of watching this transformation, there is still something extraordinary about it.

Blessed New Moon to our beloved community.

10/09/2026

WALKING IN GRATITUDE

A Three-Part Feldenkrais Series with Carol Lessinger

Walking is one of the most familiar ways we move through the world. But how often do we truly pay attention to it?

We’re delighted to welcome Carol Lessinger back to Turiya’s for Walking in Gratitude, a three-part series exploring the relationship between movement, awareness, and the remarkable intelligence of the human body.

Through gentle Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, we’ll explore how the feet, knees, hips, and torso work together. By slowing down and bringing curiosity to familiar movements, we can discover new possibilities for balance, coordination, and greater ease in the way we walk.

There is no pushing or striving here. The practice invites us to move comfortably, listen more closely to our bodies, and discover what becomes possible through awareness.

Perhaps gratitude begins with something as simple as appreciating the bodies that carry us through each day.

WALKING IN GRATITUDE
With Carol Lessinger

Wednesdays | 6:00–7:30 PM
October 28, November 4 & November 11
Investment $120

Please text or email us to register.
www.turiyas.com

10/05/2026

CRYSTALS, COFFEE & COMMUNITY

A Third Saturday Gathering at Turiya’s

October 17
11 AM–12 PM RITUAL
GALLERY OPEN UNTIL 4 PM

At certain thresholds of the year, people have gathered around a shared place and decided what deserved to be remembered, thanked, protected, or carried forward.

Across many cultures, seasonal offerings were made from what was available and meaningful. The gesture was communal as much as spiritual: wisdom was shared, stories traveled, and each person contributed something to a larger act of devotion.

There is something moving in that old human instinct.

To make a place for what matters.

To gather around it together.

During our gathering, we’ll explore that impulse through the creation of an ancestral flower mandala.

This ritual invites us to give form to gratitude, remembrance, prayer, devotion, and our relationship with the natural world.

You do not need to bring an object or prepare anything in advance. Simply bring yourself and, if you wish, an intention.

Together, we’ll create a collective offering for the Earth, for humanity, and for whatever each of us hopes might be tended more carefully in these complicated times.

Coffee and tea will be served.

After our hour together, the Gallery will remain open so you can wander, explore the stones and objects, and stay with the conversation a little longer.

Come exactly as you are.

That is more than enough. ✨

10/02/2026

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A GOOD RELATIVE?

A forest makes visible something we have become remarkably skilled at forgetting: existence is relational.

Water, root, fungus, animal, decay, and soil are continually entering into one another’s existence. Even death is gathered back into the conditions from which life continues.

Human beings belong to this same order, though much of modern life has taught us to imagine otherwise.

We know how to name what the natural world gives us: food, medicine, water, shelter, beauty. The harder question is what it means to receive these things and remain in right relationship with their source.

This question sits close to the heart of Pachamama Alliance, an organization Turiya’s is honored to support.

Its beginnings reach back to 1995, when Achuar leaders of the Amazon invited allies from the modern world into partnership to help protect their lands and culture. That invitation carried a larger question with it: what happens when we stop imagining ourselves as separate from the living systems that sustain us?

Pachamama Alliance speaks of sacred reciprocity.

Relationship creates responsibility.

To receive from the Earth is also to become implicated in its future.

Perhaps that is a fitting place to enter October: with a little more attention to the terms of our belonging.

To notice what sustains us.

And to ask what our presence gives back.

09/30/2026

FAREWELL TO SEPTEMBER / A LOOK TOWARD OCTOBER

Fall has begun to find its way into the gallery.

September has been teaching us the language of transition.

The light has shifted. Evenings arrive differently. Gardens are offering their last abundance, and the trees have begun their ancient work of letting go.

And beneath it all, another season is gathering.

This October, we want to spend some time with the old knowing—the wisdom that existed long before life became so hurried and separated.

We’ll turn toward ancestry, not only as the people whose lives made ours possible, but as the gestures, instincts, rituals, and ways of tending that have traveled quietly through generations.

And we’ll look to the natural world as one of our oldest teachers.

To roots and stone.
To lunar rhythm.
To harvest and darkness.
To the old human instinct to gather, remember, make meaning, and prepare together for what comes next.

October’s stones will take us into deep time—one born from volcanic fire, another carrying within it the memory of ancient trees.

We’ll sit with the New and Full Moons, explore the older roots of Halloween and Samhain, and return again and again to the questions of belonging, reciprocity, ritual, and community.

And on the third Saturday of October, we’ll open the gallery for something special.

We’re keeping a little mystery around that one for now.

Just know that October 17 will be worth marking on your calendar. More soon.

Perhaps October is not asking us to add anything at all, but to come closer to what is already here.

The season has its own intelligence. So do the old stories, the body, the land, and the lives that came before ours. Much of what we call remembering may simply be learning how to hear them again.

09/22/2026

Somewhere above us today, the Sun crosses an invisible line—and the season turns.

There is something beautiful about autumn arriving this way: through a celestial crossing most of us will never see.

Above us: astronomy.
Around us: a season changing.
Within us: the evidence of everything that has grown since summer began.

For those who once lived entirely by the rhythms of planting and harvest, this moment in the year was never abstract.

What had ripened needed gathering.
What had been gathered needed preserving.
And what the earth had offered could not be taken for granted.

Harvest was labor, certainly.
But it was also relationship.

What the earth gave mattered.
What humans did with the gift mattered too.

In many contemporary Pagan traditions, the Autumn Equinox is observed as Mabon—a celebration of harvest, gratitude, and the exchange between receiving and giving.

At Turiya’s, we pair this turning point with Citrine.

Golden and warm, it looks almost as though it has kept a little sunlight inside itself for the darker months ahead. In contemporary crystal traditions, Citrine is associated with creativity, joy, confidence, and abundance.

But perhaps abundance is worth reconsidering.

Not:
What else can I gather?

But:

Can I recognize when enough has already arrived?

Tonight, place something seasonal on your table.

An apple. A branch. Herbs from the garden. A stone.

Add Citrine if you have it. Light a candle.

Name what has grown in your life since summer began—something you created, something you survived, something that flourished unexpectedly, something you finally learned how to receive.

Then choose one thing to give.

Give food.
Give attention.
Give gratitude.
Give something beautiful.

Because harvest was never meant to end at the edge of one’s own table.

The old rituals of the changing seasons remind us that receiving and offering belong to the same cycle.

Tonight, notice what has been given to you.

And let something pass through your hands in return.

09/18/2026

Some gatherings begin with conversation.

Tomorrow’s begins with a drumbeat.

Saturday morning, Turiya’s opens for our monthly third-Saturday gathering.

At 10:30 AM, Nels Anderson of Drum Utah will guide us through a community drumming circle.

For an hour, we simply sit around the drums and see what unfolds.

There is something beautiful about making sound together, especially in a world that so rarely permits us to slow down and find a rhythm with one another.

COMMUNITY DRUMMING CIRCLE
Saturday, September 19
10:30–11:30 AM
$20 | Open to the public

And when the circle ends, the Gallery will remain open.

Come in, look around, ask questions, or stay and visit for a while.

Our third Saturdays are becoming a small monthly ritual of their own. A chance to spend time together and experience the Gallery in a different way.

We would love to have you with us.

09/16/2026

Something changes when human beings begin moving in time with one another.

A rhythm begins.
Breath settles.
Separate bodies become part of something shared.

Long before we had language for why this happens, we were already gathering this way.

Work songs carried people through long days.
Lullabies joined voice to breath.
Ceremonial dances gathered many feet inside one pattern.
Drums, chant, and song gave people a way to feel themselves as part of something larger.

There is a beautiful paradox here:

Belonging does not require sameness.

In music, every sound does not need to be identical to belong to the composition.

Perhaps community asks something similar of us.

To bring our own sound.
To listen for one another.
To find the place where our individual rhythms can meet.

That feels particularly meaningful now.

We have more ways to reach one another than ever before, and yet so many of us are still longing for something much older:

Presence.
Being seen.
Shared experience.
The warmth of gathering in the same place, at the same time.

This Saturday, September 19, Turiya’s Gallery offers a place for exactly that.

Community Drumming Circle
with Nels Anderson of Drum Utah
10:30–11:30 AM | $20 | Open to the public

No musical experience is necessary.
No pre-registration required. Just show up.

The Gallery will remain open afterward for our monthly third-Saturday Gallery Day.

Come for the rhythm.
Stay to explore.

Spend a little time among the stones, books, art, and people who find their way here.

We would love to have you among us.

09/11/2026

A Gathering for Autumn-

If autumn could set a table, who would we invite?

Demeter might arrive first, carrying wheat in both hands.

In ancient Greek tradition, she is the goddess of agriculture and cultivated earth—a reminder that harvest begins long before anything is gathered.

There is soil to tend.
Seed to trust.
Weather beyond our control.
Time that cannot be hurried.

From there, the table widens.

Inari Ōkami, honored in Shinto tradition and closely associated with rice, agriculture and prosperity, brings another kind of nourishment: the humble grain that became sustenance, livelihood and offering.

Different land. Different tradition.
The same ancient reverence for that which feeds a life.

Pomona arrives from Roman tradition, guardian of orchards and fruit trees, carrying the sweetness of what has been given its full time to ripen.

Apples. Pears. Figs.

Fruit heavy on the branch.
The abundance of readiness.

And Lakshmi brings another expression of wealth entirely.

Revered in Hindu tradition as the goddess of prosperity, beauty, good fortune and abundance, her presence asks us to widen our understanding of harvest.

What if abundance is not only what we accumulate, but what we have learned to recognize?

A table shared.
A home that shelters us.
A friendship that has become nourishment.
Beauty encountered freely.
Enough in our own hands that some of it can be offered away.

And then, as autumn does, the light deepens.

At the far end of the table waits Inanna, the ancient Sumerian goddess whose mythology carries her through seven gates on her descent into the underworld.

At each gate, something is relinquished.

Piece by piece, she leaves behind what cannot accompany her farther.

Her presence belongs at the autumn table too.

Because harvest is not only the art of gathering.

It is also the wisdom of knowing what has completed its season.

These sacred figures come from distinct traditions, separated by geography, history and belief. We do not gather them here as versions of one another, but as different voices within an ancient human conversation about nourishment, cultivation, ripening, prosperity, gratitude, descent and return.

As the Autumn Equinox approaches, imagine a table of your own.

What has ripened enough to be gathered?

What has sustained you?

Where is there already more beauty or abundance than you have remembered to notice?

What is ready to be shared?

And what has become heavier to carry than to release?

Autumn holds both movements:

the hands that gather,
and the hands that open.

May we know when it is time for each.

09/07/2026

Perhaps the first instrument was the human body: hands clapping, feet meeting earth, breath becoming sound.

Somewhere, deep in human history, stretched hide, hollowed wood, and human hands found one another.

The drum.

Across continents and cultures, drums have accompanied ceremony, celebration, mourning, prayer, dance, storytelling, and gathering. The traditions are distinct, shaped by place and people, yet the impulse appears again and again: to make rhythm in the presence of others.

Rhythm reaches us before language does. We begin life surrounded by pulse — heartbeat, breath, the rise and fall of the body, the steady repetition of movement. Before we have words for the world, we already know cadence and return.

There is something quietly mysterious about what happens when rhythm becomes shared. Attention shifts. Listening deepens. We begin to sense one another differently, held for a time within the same pattern of sound.

Modern research into group drumming and participatory music-making has begun to explore the relationship between shared rhythm, stress, emotional well-being, and social connection — giving contemporary language to something human beings have practiced for a very long time.

We have gathered around drums to mark passages, to grieve and celebrate, to pray, to tell stories, to dance, to remember, and sometimes simply to be together.

September 19, we invite you to experience this ancient and enduring practice at Turiya’s Gallery during a Community Drumming Circle facilitated by Nels Anderson of Drum Utah.

10:30–11:30 AM
$20 | Open to the public

No musical experience is needed. Come as you are.

After the circle, the Gallery will remain open for wandering, conversation, and time among the stones, books, artwork, and sacred objects.

Come for the rhythm. Stay awhile. Notice what draws you closer.

Address

1569 S 1100 E
Salt Lake City, UT
84105

Telephone

+18015317823

Website

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