Inner Healer Summit
Inner Healer Summit
Ahimki Center for Wholeness Presents
Experience the Summit.
On your own time.
The Inner Healer Summit 2026 On-Demand Experience brings the mainstage gathering and available workshop breakout and Healing Path recordings to you, with immediate access after purchase.
We are grateful to every attendee, online guest, speaker, sponsor, partner, volunteer, and team member who brought the experience to life. Now you can return to it, or discover it for the first time, with immediate access after purchase.
A day of healing, connection, and possibility.
The inaugural Inner Healer Summit brought together powerful voices, restorative practices, music, movement, nourishing food, and a community ready to awaken the healer within.
Every conversation, shared practice, helping hand, and open heart helped transform a vision into an experience we will carry forward.
Watch the Inner Healer Summit Experience
A glimpse of what’s waiting for you.
See how this one-day gathering brings together wellness, music, cultural healing, and evidence-based practices to help you reconnect, restore, and awaken your inner healer.
Watch the preview, then reserve your spot for September 26, 2026 at UUCA/SLCA in Atlanta.
What makes this summit unique
The Inner Healer Summit is a one-day immersive Atlanta conference offering wellness, mental, physical, and emotional health, music, and cultural healing, grounded in evidence-based approaches to well-being, music as medicine, and energy-based modalities that support the body’s natural healing.
Inspired by Ahimki’s meaning, the song of life flowing through every organ and gland, the summit blends light, sound, and energy-based practices with inclusive, practical teaching so you can reconnect with your innate capacity to heal.
Our approach
- Evidence-based practices and tools you can apply in daily life.
- Mind-body training to calm the system and build habits that last.
- Multicultural and interfaith welcome with strong representation goals.
- Actionable learning so you leave with tools you will actually use.
Who it’s for
- Seekers, caregivers, clinicians, and faith leaders.
- Artists, creatives, educators, and community builders.
- Anyone ready to reduce stress and cultivate resilient well-being.
What you will experience
Designed as both an experiential and educational gathering, this wellness summit will offer keynote talks, interactive panels, restorative practices, and music by award-winning artists, all curated to support stress management, mental health, hormone balance, ancestral healing, and whole-person (mind, body, spirit) well-being.
Across one full day, you will experience hands-on sessions, live music, and practical tools focusing on key areas, with expert keynotes, panels, and interactive experiences designed to provide insight you can take home.
Calm the System
Approaches and experiences that support nervous system balance.
Restore Energy
Resources and supports that renew physical, mental, and spiritual vitality.
Rewire the Mind
Methods & strategies to build focus, resilience, and cognitive flexibility.
Music as Medicine
Healing performances and sounds that move the soul to bliss.
Integrate for Life
Practical habits + advanced, evidence-based care.
Access and Choice
Optional recordings for select sessions and a livestream option are planned, so more people can access the experience.
Healers, teachers, and wellness leaders
Meet the featured voices guiding this one-day experience of evidence-based wellness, cultural healing, music, movement, and community connection.
Speaker Applications Are Now Closed
Thank you for the extraordinary interest in presenting at the 2026 Inner Healer Summit. Our speaker application period has ended, and we are grateful to everyone who submitted an offering. Interested in a future speaking opportunity? Join our speaker interest list to be notified when applications open for the next Inner Healer Summit.
Schedule
A day designed to awaken, restore, and reconnect.
Saturday, September 26 · Program: 9 AM–3:30 PM Eastern
Registration and check-in begin at 8:30 AM.
Join us in Atlanta or online for keynote teachings, interactive healing experiences, movement, music, meaningful conversation, and practical tools you can carry into everyday life. Lunch is included with in-person admission.
See more of how the day will unfold
Explore the day’s keynotes, main-stage conversations, restorative transitions, music, movement, and two opportunities to choose a healing path. This expanded preview shows the rhythm of the summit while leaving detailed timing and room information for registered attendees.
Morning Program
Begin grounded, experience powerful featured teachings, and choose an interactive healing path.
Registration & Check-In
Arrive, receive your summit materials, settle in, and prepare for the day’s opening experience.
Arrival Into Wholeness
Arrival Experience
Enter the Sanctuary through ambient music and grounding as the room prepares for the opening program.
Remembering Why We’re Here
John Stringer · Opening Invocation
John opens the summit by centering the room in shared intention and welcoming each guest into the day’s experience.
Awaken Your Inner Healer Activation
Dr. Mark Armstrong · Guided Activation
A guided opening experience designed to awaken awareness, establish shared intention, and prepare the whole person for the day ahead.
You Are Welcome Here: A Musical Keynote
John Stringer · Musical Keynote
Through live music, personal insight, and collective participation, John invites attendees to reconnect with belonging, presence, and their innate capacity to heal.
A Tribute to Dr. Mark Armstrong and Ahimki
Legacy Moment
A brief video tribute and live acknowledgment honoring Dr. Mark and Ahimki’s enduring healing legacy.
Soul Constellation: Healing the Family Line
Dr. Mark Armstrong · Opening Keynote
Explore how awareness and healing can help interrupt patterns carried across generations and create new possibilities for wholeness.
Integration Break
Restorative Pause
Time to hydrate, reset, and connect before choosing a morning healing path.
Choose Your Healing Path: Morning Sessions
Select one of three simultaneous, participatory experiences designed to move insight into practice.
Transition Reset
Return & Reset
Guests return to the main program and settle into the next featured teaching.
Energy Body & the Healing Power of Qigong: Beyond the Physical
Dr. Stephen Tates · Featured Keynote
Experience an integrative teaching that brings together breath, healing sounds, movement, energy awareness, and the deeper wisdom of Qigong.
Afternoon Program
Nourish the body, return to the main stage, choose another healing path, and integrate the day together.
Nourishment, Connection & Community
Lunch included for in-person guests
Enjoy a nourishing meal, connect with fellow attendees, and explore summit resources before returning for the afternoon program.
Movement, Sound & Coherence Reset
Afternoon Re-Entry
Frank Malloy and Safi Abena Camara guide a brief embodied reset before the afternoon’s featured sessions.
Our Joints Are Listening: The Energy–Inflammation–Movement Connection
Dr. Serena Satcher · Featured Keynote
We will bridge energy and suppressed emotions with the body, exploring fascia, inflammation, lymphatics, nervous-system regulation, metabolic health, movement science, and how to begin addressing these connections.
The Soul Instinct: From Inner Knowing to Impact
Beatrice Dixon · Moderated by Michelle Falconer
A candid fireside chat exploring personal wellness, leadership, lived experience, and creating meaningful change.
Transition to Breakout Sessions
Choose Your Path
Time to move, reset, and enter your selected afternoon healing experience.
Choose Your Healing Path: Afternoon Sessions
Select a second interactive experience and deepen the day through embodied practice, breathwork, or an expert panel conversation.
Summit Survey & Return to the Sanctuary
Closing Transition
Guests reflect on the day and gather again for the final main-stage program.
Healing From Within: Mind, Body, Spirit & Soul
James Bernard Ma’at-Kynes, Sandy Rodgers, and Stephan Mitchell · Moderated by Dr. Mark Armstrong
A main-stage roundtable bringing together multiple perspectives on resilience, healing, connection, and lasting well-being.
Music as Medicine Closing Experience
Music, reflection, and shared blessing
Complete the summit through a restorative musical offering, collective reflection, and one final step for carrying the experience forward.
One Breath, One Blessing, One Next Step
Summit Close
A final shared blessing and invitation to carry the summit experience forward.
This expanded program preview is designed to help you experience the flow of the day. Programming, presenters, and session order are subject to change. Registered attendees will receive the complete Digital Schedule with detailed times, room assignments, and additional event information.
Experience the full day with us.
Choose in-person access in Atlanta or join live online for a day of credible teaching, practical healing experiences, music, and meaningful connection.
Experience the Inner Healer Summit, wherever you are.
Return to the conversations, music, and healing practices that made the inaugural gathering meaningful, or experience them for the first time.
Your recording-access email is sent after successful checkout so you can begin watching right away.
The On-Demand Experience
Watch the mainstage gathering and available Zoom recordings from workshop breakouts and Healing Paths from the inaugural summit.
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Venue
and Travel
Inner Healer Summit will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta (UUCA)/Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta (SLCA) in Atlanta, Georgia. The venue offers a welcoming setting for main-stage programming, interactive sessions, live music, restorative experiences, and community connection.
UCCA/SLCA
2650 North Druid Hills Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
Travel Tips
Fly into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Rideshare and MARTA available
Plan extra travel time for Atlanta traffic
Accessibility
Tell us your mobility, auditory, visual, or sensory needs during registration.
Lodging
Nearby hotel options can be reviewed here. Additional hotel recommendations or room block details will be shared if available.
Partners
Thank You to Our Sponsors & Partners
Their support helps expand access, strengthen community, and bring the Inner Healer Summit experience to life.
With Gratitude
Sponsors
Organizations helping make the Inner Healer Summit experience accessible, welcoming, and memorable.
Expanding Access
Student Access Sponsors
Helping students and emerging leaders take part in a day devoted to healing, growth, and possibility.
Black Men Smile
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With Appreciation
Promotional Partners
Helping share the summit with communities across Atlanta and beyond.
Join the Community
Partner With Us
There are several meaningful ways to help shape and support the Inner Healer Summit.
Support the Inaugural Summit
Sponsorship
Sponsor the inaugural Inner Healer Summit and reach a values-aligned, multicultural audience. Activate on-site, receive digital and stage recognition, and support scholarships and community access.
Build visibility while helping make a transformative wellness experience more accessible.
Request Sponsor KitShare Your Work
Apply to Speak/Facilitate 2027
We welcome applications for next year from keynote speakers, workshop leaders, and panelists who can share evidence-based practices and inspiring stories. Help create a multicultural, heart-centered event in 2027.
Serve the Experience
Want to Volunteer?
Complete the short form, and our team will follow up as roles are confirmed.
Questions, answered.
Everything you need to prepare for the Inner Healer Summit in Atlanta or online.
What are my registration options?
Online in-person registration is $111 through Thursday, September 24 at 10 AM Eastern. After online sales close, in-person registration will be $120 at the door on September 26.
Livestream Access is $84 and remains available online.
Online in-person registration has ended. In-person registration will be available for $120 at the door on September 26.
Livestream Access remains available online for $84.
When and where is the summit?
The Inner Healer Summit takes place Saturday, September 26, 2026. Registration and check-in begin at 8:30 AM, and the program runs from 9 AM to 3:30 PM Eastern.
UUCA/SLCA
2650 North Druid Hills Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
What does Livestream Access include?
The $84 Livestream Access option includes the live main-stage program via Zoom, along with recordings of the main-stage and breakout sessions for post-event viewing. Access instructions will be sent to the email address used during registration.
Can I watch sessions I miss?
Yes. Session recordings are included with Livestream Access. In-person guests may add On-Demand Session Access to their online order for $27.50 before online in-person registration closes.
Session recordings are included with Livestream Access. The optional in-person recording add-on is no longer available through online checkout.
Can you recommend a hotel for out-of-town guests?
Nearby hotel and rental options can be reviewed through this hotel search.
What if I have to cancel?
Purchases are non-refundable. Registration options are transferable and may be credited toward a future Ahimki Center for Wholeness or Healing Arts Management event if your plans change after purchase.
Are the sessions faith-specific?
No. The summit is multicultural and interfaith. All are welcome.
What should I bring?
Bring a refillable water bottle, a journal, comfortable layered clothing, comfortable shoes, and an open heart. Some sessions include breath, movement, sound, or gentle activity.
© 2026 Inner Healer Summit • Atlanta, GA • September 26, 2026
Presented by Ahimki Center for Wholeness • Produced by Healing Arts Management