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Reiki Practitioner (RMT)✨🌀
Tarot Reader 🌞🌝🌊
Artist, poet, musician 💗

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Today, our little chaat house that could turns 17 🌹🙏

Seventeen years of the most incredible people - gathering, cooking, laughing, eating, sweating, scheming, feeding, figuring it out, and somehow convincing this beautiful, magical, weird little town to keep a place for Indian street food in their heart.

Making it this far does not happen alone. It happens only with a crew, past and present, who have poured their talent, energy, sweat, humor, and heart into these walls.

It also doesn’t happen without Asheville. Our home. The community that has supported this scrappy chaotic and magical restaurant through all the highs, lows, weirdness, change, and everything in between. We genuinely would not be here without any of you ❤️

And this anniversary feels extra special because we’re sharing the week with another pretty enormous milestone: the launch of our owner & chef @meherwanirani’s first-ever cookbook. 📚 A book that, in its own way….tells the story we’ve been living here for 17 years.

Join us today, Asheville. Get in on the love, the chai, and all of the delicious chaats you know and crave 💥
Love you forever & always.

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What's your stress level from 0-10?
That's what we asked at our last De-Stress Sanctuary for the Spring Equinox event in March 2026.
At the beginning of the 2-hour online session, the average stress was 5.58.
At the end, it was 3.09.
That's a 45% reduction.
We offered guided meditation and a live guitar soundscape with Lance Craig, a gentle movement session with Erica Leib, and a channeled Earth reading by Indigenous healer Brenda Poitra.
And the feedback we got after the event was overall positive.
Yes, we had to refine some things, like the sound and better designed breakout groups.
People requested more events like the De-Stress Sanctuary.
So Erica and I reached out to coaches, healers, guides, teachers, and therapists that I've learned from.
16 facilitators.
4 days.
1 people.
That's happening this weekend.
During Pride Month, during Juneteenth, during International Day of Yoga, during Father's Day, during Men's Health Awareness Month, and during the Summer Soulstice.
Wow.
Join us.
Don't miss out.
The internet was supposed to connect us. It wasn't supposed to be just about content.
The point of content is to connect.
Connection is alive. And it happens live.
Let yourself go from despair to dreaming.
Practice Hope As A Skill with us.
Or as Mariame Kaba said, "Hope is a discipline."
And Hope is For Ourselves.
Your dreams needs a garden to grow in.
We're offering buy one get one free for all tickets.
We also have 5/10 free tickets left.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
summersoulstice.community

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Feeling tossed around by the currents of life lately? Time to find your ballast.

Join us for Clarity and Ballast with Tarot for Uncertain Times with intuitive guide Matt Shepard. This isn’t just a static reading. It’s a heartfelt group conversation powered by Matt’s unique blend of intuition, channeling, and clairvoyance.

We will be diving into tarot and oracle cards to discover how to navigate these unpredictable times with deep self-care. Research shows that engaging with symbolic archetypes is an incredible tool for anxiety relief, helping us externalize worries and tap into our subconscious wisdom.

Come get the perspective shift you’ve been looking for.

Flash Sale: Double the insight! Tickets are currently BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE so you can bring a friend.

Link in bio to lock in your BOGO deal!

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You'll never be free if you're waiting on the world to change. Freedom happens when you choose with your power, rewrite your own narrative, and start designing your healing. That is exactly why we are building this space.

From Friday, June 19th to Monday, June 22nd, the Summer Soulstice: Exhausted to Energized virtual summit is opening its doors. This fully immersive, 4-day online experience is co-designed to help you shift out of survival mode and step into radical reclamation. Attend from anywhere, whenever you can, and keep these resources for life.

The goal isn't to escape to an isolated monastery. While retreats have value, we have to live, work, and love in the real world. This summit equips you with practical tools to reduce mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering right where you are. Whether you prefer to dance, share stories, or use herbs—none of it is wrong, and all of it is here.

We are here to help you navigate life so you can feel deeply connected to purpose, joy, community, and hope. As activist Mariame Kaba reminds us, Hope is a discipline. It is a skill we practice daily, not a passive feeling we wait for.

Built around your autonomy, you get to customize your journey across 16 deeply intentional sessions. Pick and choose exactly what aligns with your energy, schedule, and healing needs.

Stop outsourcing your wellness to a broken system. Stop believing that you're broken. Stop giving away your power. Reclaim your autonomy, write your own protocol, and practice the discipline of hope with us.

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sometimes in life, you know a magical thing is unfolding in real time.

I started working with a career coach (hey @sarahwagonercoaching!) in January because I wanted to be super purposeful about where I spent my creative energy this year. she asked: "if you could assemble a panel of amazing women to talk to as a moderator, who would be on it?" I hemmed and hawed and said I'd never moderated a panel and she said just name people already! The first name I spoke was @chaipanimom's, a woman I've admired and grown to truly love.

smash cut to Monday night, where I sat right next to Molly and helped lob some questions at a panel of geniuses (Avengers, assemble!!) who could've talked for hours and never stopped riveting the room they were in.

the @chaipani team is an incredibly special one. they are loose and funny and joyous and not taking themselves too seriously while also holding what they do with such reverence that it feels like holy work. as a patron, I've always felt the steady undercurrent of their staff's shared purpose and mission (mastery in servitude!!), but getting a peek behind the curtain, both in the pages of Molly's fantastic book Service Ready (out now!) and IRL on Monday cemented it for me. these people are the real deal...as good as they come.

I was so fortunate to sit with Molly and Meherwan and what was then an empty room back in 2024, doing a first look of the new Chai Pani space for @gardenandgun. The closing line of the article I wrote quoted a giant mural, Chai Pani Zindabad, which Meherwan loosely translated for me as "Chai Pani Forever."

Because I am corny if nothing else, I recorded a voice memo for myself in my car leaving that interview saying that the kind of passion, kindness, excellence, and warmth I was getting from those two was exactly what I was looking for in this job. How incredibly lucky I feel to have gotten the opportunity to go back to the well on Monday to support a woman whose life, influence, and work are a blueprint for female excellence...a good neighbor, a good leader, and, it just has to be said, a knockout. I hope you'll read and relish this amazing book. all of it, gratefully, tearfully, zindabad. ❤️🐅

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The hospitality community is truly one like no other, y’all ❤️‍🔥 Today, our co-founder & Chai Pani mom extraordinaire, Molly Irani, releases her first book - Service Ready: A Story of Love, Restaurants, and The Power of Hospitality out into the world!!

Last night we got to celebrate its debut, our story, & even more so - stories of the incredible folks in our community…
Dinner was crafted by the masterful @dawes.matthew of @thebullandbeggar, @keeppushingchef of @montgomeryskyfarm, and our very own @nicholasrbarr of Chai Pani. Weaving their own tales and ode to Asheville into dishes from the night like a rabbit & pistachio pâté en croûte, guinea hen roulade, & lamb biryani boudin (!!!!) 🥹

Thank you to all of you who joined us last night. Thank you to the magnetic @mcmscott for being our voice of joy for the night. Thank you to our superhero Chai Pani team for bringing the magic to life. Thank you to our entire Asheville community, none of this could happen without you ❤️🐅 OK LOVE YOU

📸: @mollymil 💛

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We love you Molly!!! 🥰
Thank you for sharing your love with this world! Thank you for writing this beautiful love story about the practicality of love, humanity, kindness, and grace. Love is the superpower!

You are an inspiration, a Sauna Sister, a Truth Parader, a Rebel Mermaid who is getting up on stage to tell others love is possible for all of us! We’re equally important! We all matter!

Thank you Dear Lord Vet, or anyone else up there, for having me be able at see you, the writer, artist, dancer be brave and share on your stage with your whole heart. We cry because we need to hear what you have to say, now more than ever.

Your Elephant Sisters, your beautiful family, beloved husband, tribe and the whole world are cheering you on!!!!

To the hell yes Rebel Mermaid life we all need you to live!!! It makes everything better and a lot more fun!!!

#rebelmermaid #mollyirani

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March reader schedule // email danny.calamusandhoney.com to book in advance // walk ins welcome
#tarot #tarotreadings #witchcraft #folkmagic #divination

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I don’t know if you know this, but in the world of broke, unsuccessful bands that not many people care about- there’s this PHENOMENON… whenever we attempt to record a live show, SOME kind of jinxy failure of equipment or communication or people ALWAYS happens somehow- & it never gets recorded. It’s Freaky!
I didn’t think Live albums were a thing anymore- but recently, a lot of people have been asking for a Live Floating Action album (this is true, i’m not doing that thing where bands possibly stretch the truth ‘so many people asked for this’😂).
Then we played at Eulogy 12/20/25, didn’t even ask or try for a recording, but the great sound engineer Jess Fox @storiesofastranger recorded the show, sent me the tracks, i mixed it onto cassette-
& now we have a Live album! Out today, streaming everywhere. Big thanks to Kyle @airloom.music for mastering it & getting it a’streaming! 🌸

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February reader schedule!
There’s a few changes with some of our readers so be sure to swipe through.
As always, walk ins welcome but if you’d like to book in advance please email:
danny.calamusandhoney@gmail.com
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#tarot #tarotreadings #divination #folkmagic #witchcraft

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📣 Golden Folk returns to the Grey Eagle this coming Wednesday, January 21st!

It's tough out there these days y'all. With the new year comes new challenges, and a lot of really brutal stuff happening in the world. In times like these it's more important than ever to gather with friends and strangers and participate in community. Come join us, get out of your own head, enjoy some tender tunes, and make a new friend or two. We are looking forward to catching up with some old favorite songwriters and introducing you to some of your new favorites on Wednesday!

We have also been fortunate enough to get on a regular schedule at the Grey Eagle this year, so you can look forward to catching us the third Wednesday of every month (besides April). See you soon!

Here are the artists from last month's Holiday Special in the order they performed and the people who made the evening possible. Give them all a follow!
@madelineatthemoment @jacksongrimmmusic
@mirabelleskipworth
@thereigningsound @thehyposband
@realyoungmister
@beccaleighmusic
@pressonrecords @drdogmusic @thehyposband
📸: @sallygrayphotography
🔊: @noahbrackett0
🎤: @lukelukem @eclaywhite
🎨: @macmacmitchell
❤️: @jonathangraymusic
🏠: @thegreyeagle
☂️: @friendshipvalleyprod @outtherestudioswnc
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#asheville #greyeagle #goldenfolk #goldenfolks #ashevillemusic #ashevillefolk #folkmusic #expression #original #makethings #magic #communitysupported #vibes #avl #avltoday #avlmusic #local #smallbusiness #winter #newyear #holiday #funtimes #goofs #friendship #2025

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We'll keep this one brief! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a happy new year from your friends @goldenfolk.avl. The holidays can be tough sometimes, but you can't go wrong gathering in a room with warm people and sharing some great songs.

📣 and don't forget! Golden Folk returns to @thegreyeagle Wednesday, January 21st for our first show of 2026!

Here are the artists from this month's Holiday Special in the order they performed and the people who made the evening possible. Give them all a follow!
@madelineatthemoment @jacksongrimmmusic
@mirabelleskipworth
@thereigningsound @thehyposband
@realyoungmister
@beccaleighmusic
@pressonrecords @drdogmusic @thehyposband
📸: @sallygrayphotography
🔊: @noahbrackett0
🎤: @lukelukem @eclaywhite
🎨: @macmacmitchell
❤️: @jonathangraymusic
🏠: @thegreyeagle
☂️: @friendshipvalleyprod @outtherestudioswnc
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#asheville #greyeagle #goldenfolk #goldenfolks #ashevillemusic #ashevillefolk #folkmusic #expression #original #makethings #magic #communitysupported #vibes #avl #avltoday #avlmusic #local #smallbusiness #winter #christmas #holiday #funtimes #goofs #friendship #2025

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