Notes From the Practice
Reflections from certified practitioners and longtime customers.
Brenda Faulk
Taos, NM
Verified Practitioner
“Hagatha personally adjusted my butthole at the Solstice retreat. I am still finding bruises and I'm grateful for every single one.”
— Certified Practitioner, Class of 2023
Chad Gullet
Sedona, AZ
Verified Practitioner
“Pendant Pouch SPF saved my honeymoon.”
Capt. Rourke Vallis
Big Sur, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I was a skeptic until I felt the warmth on my butthole myself. My doctor is asking questions and I will not be answering them.”
Dr. Moira Petrescu
Boulder, CO
“From a clinical standpoint, I cannot endorse the practice. From a personal standpoint, I have been doing it for eighteen months.”
Caldwell Briggs
Ojai, CA
Verified Practitioner
“The Sacred Spreader arrived in two days. The shipping was elegant. The instructions were unsettling.”
Eleanor Whittaker
Asheville, NC
Verified Practitioner
“I did not expect a wellness practice to change the way I move through the world. Three months in, I understand things about light and openness that I cannot put into words.”
— Daily practitioner since 2022
Margaux Sanderling
Topanga, CA
Verified Practitioner
“Sunseat gave me back something I did not know I had lost. The morning ritual is now the most important part of my day.”
Hattie Bronwyn
Joshua Tree, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I point my butthole at the sun every morning and my relationship with the sun has never been more intimate. My relationship with my neighbors has never been more complicated.”
Simone Archer
Tulum, Mexico
Verified Practitioner
“There is a stillness that arrives after the first twenty minutes of solar reception. I have chased that stillness my entire life and I have finally found where it lives.”
— Solstice retreat alumna
Fenella Ostrom
Mendocino, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I came for the SPF and stayed for the transformation. The Sunseat community is unlike anything I have encountered in twenty-two years of wellness travel.”
Linda Morrissey
Hudson, NY
Verified Practitioner
“My therapist says I seem more grounded. My acupuncturist says my energy is traveling along unfamiliar pathways. I told them both about Sunseat. Neither responded.”
Margot Finch
Bend, OR
“The first morning I went outside before sunrise and waited, robe open, cushion placed, I wept. I did not know why. I still do not know why. I go back every morning.”
Asher Bloom
Ojai, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I bought the Starter Collection for my sister as a birthday gift. She has not spoken to me directly since, but she did renew her Solstice membership, so I consider it a success.”
Elise Tanaka
Big Sur, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I went eleven minutes over on my first session. My butthole was not ready. The Post-Bloom Recovery Balm was applied four times over the following two days. I have pre-ordered six more jars.”
Rosalind Keck
Sedona, AZ
Verified Practitioner
“The Moonbeam Mirror changed everything. I had been practicing for eight months with no way to verify my butthole was aligned with the sun. I now realize it was not. Not even close. Eight months.”
— Certified Practitioner, Class of 2024
Patricia Hollowell
Topanga, CA
Verified Practitioner
“The Sacred Gap Robe is the only piece of clothing I own that truly understands what I am trying to do. The ventilation panel is engineered with intention. The silk moves with the wind in a way that feels deliberate.”
Tony Mazetti
Sedona, AZ
Verified Practitioner
“I will be honest: I did not understand what the Pendant Pouch was for until I read the fine print. Once I understood, I ordered two. The coverage is comprehensive and I am grateful someone thought to make this.”
Warren Duvall
Joshua Tree, CA
Verified Practitioner
“I was hesitant to purchase something so specifically designed. Three sunny sessions later, I understand why it exists and I feel the Sunseat team has considered every practitioner's circumstances with genuine care.”
Adelaide Muncy
Boulder, CO
Verified Practitioner
“After my first full session of sunning my butthole, I felt my root point realign for the first time in eleven years. My energy practitioner confirmed that something had shifted. She did not say what.”
— Solstice retreat alumna
Theodora Lindquist
Taos, NM
Verified Practitioner
“I felt the resonance on the second morning. A warmth that began at the threshold and traveled upward through the spine. My kundalini practitioner described it as a direct solar activation. We were both very moved.”
Nina Cabrera
Tulum, Mexico
Verified Practitioner
“The cleft has been the site of blocked energy in my body for as long as I can remember. Sunseat was the first practice that addressed it directly, earnestly, and without embarrassment.”
Rev. Thomasina Oakes
Asheville, NC
Verified Practitioner
“From a theological standpoint, I find solar reception of the root point to be a deeply scriptural act. I have begun incorporating the Threshold Smudge Bundle into Sunday preparation. The congregation has questions.”
— Certified Practitioner, Class of 2024
Tamsin Kerrigan
Big Sur, CA
Verified Practitioner
“At the spring intensive, Hagatha observed my posture for approximately four seconds before physically repositioning me. I did not consent to being repositioned. I did not object either. The alignment I achieved that morning has not left me.”
Orson Pepperdine
Ojai, CA
Verified Practitioner
“Hagatha's teaching method is hands-on in a way the brochure does not fully prepare you for. The hands-on portion lasted forty seconds and involved my butthole directly. I thought about it every day for a month. My threshold has been correctly oriented ever since.”
— Solstice retreat alumna
Priscilla Voss-Bingham
Hudson, NY
Verified Practitioner
“I never knew what I was missing. Thirty-seven years of life and no one had ever suggested that my butthole might want to feel the sun. I am embarrassed it took me this long.”
Beauregard Holt
Mendocino, CA
“There is a part of the body that modern wellness culture has consistently overlooked. That part is the butthole. Sunseat named it, pointed it at the sun, and let the light do its work. I wept on the first morning.”