Sunrise Fiyah Ceremony
By Kristopher Kleva @moderndaycircus
A new morning ritual of Dance, Burn and Rise at Good Medicine Collective
The Sunrise Fiyah Ceremony — a transformational wellness ritual blending hydrotherapy, fire art therapy, music, and dance.
At the break of dawn on Friday, June 13 at starting roughly at 5am something sacred stirs at 231 York Street in Portland, Maine.
As light breaks over the Eastern horizon, a circle of creatives, visionaries, and soul-driven entrepreneurs will gather for a first-of-its-kind offering.
Hosted by Yakusugi Studios at Good Medicine Collective, this event is not just a wellness workshop. It’s a call to emergence. A soulful reset. A place to leave behind what no longer serves you — and rise with the day reborn.
Why Fire at Sunrise?
In my work through Yakusugi Studios, Cinnamon will often use fire as a metaphor and a method for personal transformation. Like the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban, which preserves wood through intentional burning, our inner flame has the power to protect, transform, and reveal.
This philosophy underpins my work on my personal wellness — where my stress is reframed as signal, my burnout became the dust, and learned to alchemize fear into innovation.
Sunrise, as a liminal moment, invites this same potential. It is the edge between night and day, shadow and clarity.
In this space, we harness both elements: fire and water. Heat and cold. Movement and stillness.
