A ceremony for connecting with and honoring our ancestry
All in Ancestry
Gratitude for the RENAISSANCE
Chrome on the altar for the last night of #Renaissance 🪩🐝🪩🐝🪩🐝🪩🐝
RENAISSANCE World Tour Review
She started the concert singing “I Love You” and then proved it for nearly three heart pounding, scream & tear inducing hours of sonic and visual EXCELLENCE, the likes of which have never been seen until Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour!!!!
Free to Express My Version of Blackness at Refuge Outdoor Festival 2023
This year’s Refuge Outdoor Festival was incredible and I’m truly looking forward to next year’s gathering! It was the diversity medicine I needed and I met people I’ll definitely be spending time with between retreats.
I grew up in a Black family surrounded by mostly White people and Christian culture (I know, how did I end up like this?!). It made it harder to access some of the deepest parts of who I am and it’s a privilege to have so much more space to do so now.
I'll be at Refuge Festival!
I'm so excited to not only attend, after years of fangirling from the sidelines, but hold a Breathwork Ceremony at this BIPOC centered weekend camping event this August 18-20. We'll be reconnecting with nature and celebrating just 40 minutes east of Seattle in the Cascade Mountain foothills.
Reconexión Ceremony Recap
Ceremony is home and I got to go home again this past Sunday at Reconexión. This particular offering by beloved and powerful woman of spirit Maria Muñoz @marialightowl was the first of, I suspect, many to come but it felt familiar. It was warm, everyone belonged, there was no pressure yet we were so held, there was respect and curiosity, it felt fertile.
Happy Mother's Day, You Are Queens
They don’t tell you this when the people you love die but…
I'm heading to Ghana/ Afrochella in 2023!
AfroFuture (formerly called Afrochella) is a music, arts and culture festival that celebrates the inspirational influences from the African Diaspora. The festival seeks to highlight and unite people under a banner of African and Black pride and educate on the intriguing contributions from the African continent and the culture it continues to spark beyond it’s beautiful shores.
The Story of The Two Wolves: Native American Wisdom
I first heard this beautiful wisdom in a sacred medicine ceremony. It’s like all the deepest wisdoms: it’s almost haunting in its simplicity and precision. This parable is most often attributed to Cherokee origins and the indigenous people of America.
Wishing Us True Freedom on Juneteenth
No one can be shackled and captive that still has control of their mind, my Uncle knows this. On this Juneteenth I wish hope, bright future, freedom energy and joy to all African American people. All we are called to do in this chapter is LIVE in joy, with pride and with hope and faith that things are and will continue to get better for us!!
Juneteenth Meditation & Breathwork Ceremony
Join me for a special edition of our weekly BIPOC Weekend Meditation! In honor of Juneteenth we will enjoy an introduction into a more “active meditation”, using our breath to become more conscious, connected and clear.
Happy Loving Day!!!
I’m the Black half of an interracial couple and I have a LOT of feels about it.
Maybe other Black folks in interracial partnerships can understand this but somewhere, deep inside, I experience feelings of guilt because my partner is White….
A Vipassana Retreat for Black Folks!
A Ten Day Silent Meditation Retreat Centering People of the African Diaspora. Online Registration Opens on May 15
How To Dancewalk
I started Dancewalking in 2009 as a self-dare. I dared myself to show no restraint, to let my body move when my favorite songs came on during my park walks in San Diego. Nobody told me to dare myself so why would I inflict what seemed like a cruel sorority hazing game on myself?
Resmaa Menakem of 'My Grandmother's Hands' on Unhealed Trauma
But it isn’t culture. It’s a traumatic retention that has lost its context over time…
Land Acknowledgement to the Coast Salish Tribes
Today I offer deep gratitude and acknowledge the land of the Coast Salish tribes, including the Duwamish and Muckleshoot tribes, who’s ancestral lands I live on, work on, hold ceremony, am held by, cultivate, enjoy and today call Burien. Ajo & Ase
Moon Reading: New Moon in Virgo
Happy New Moon in Virgo! This down-to-Earth sign couldn’t come at a better time, we can all certainly use a surge of grounding, can-do energy. The combination of planetary alignments and retrogrades above our head promises passion and prowess in planning our futures, heads up! Shift the gaze from misery to hope and your compass will return.
Yoruba Words: Salutations
Yoruba words (one of the principal languages of Nigeria) are rich, full of nuance and have many different variations.
A Memorial Day Spent in Remembrance
This here goddess was raised in a military family so YEA I have some mixed feelings when it comes to Memorial Day. I’m one part free spirit and one part “a loudspeaker bugle reveillere was my alarm clock”. The duality is certainly becoming more apparent as I age into what I can only assume will be the beloved but weird “Old Healing Lady on the Edge of Town.”
Happy Birthday Bob Marley
Happy Birthday to Dear Teacher & Visionary Robert Nesta Marley. Listening to the music and lessons of Bob Marley & The Wailers today.