keep dreaming

The dreams we carry connect us to our ancestors across space and time.

Our dreams are rooted in our lineages.

Many hands and many hearts hold them.

We are dreaming on behalf of our lineages.

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rituals

Our most potent rituals emerge in the ebb and flow of daily life. They carry the ase of a slow drip, like drops of water carving stone. They are easily dismissed and hard to interrupt when we fail to pay attention.

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choreographies of ancestral connection and desire

may our practices of embodied presence become choreographies of ancestral connection and desire.

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co-create maps of healing

trust yourself

trust your ancestors

trust your kinfolk

trust your ecology

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Elder Wisdom Spring Equinox Divination

🪶In our Elder Wisdom ritual, I always draw a card that offers medicine to orient us toward liberation in our field of practice. This time, I pulled to the "Harvest" card; it was much-needed Earth medicine in Pisces season.

🪶This is the ancestral wisdom that came through: Although it may seem hard to believe, we are living in a season of harvest. As we face empires of domination, harm, and oppressive systems, we are harvesting the fruits of generational movements toward collective liberation. Our tools of resistance and the fractals of healed realities we exist within are part of the harvest, as are the new tools blooming in the imaginations and hearts of those inspired to root themselves within lineages of love and liberation.

🪶Pulsing rhythms and echoes of call and response between grief and grace, joy and heartbreak, and life and death punctuate the harvest season. Our participation in this harvest enables our collective survival in what ancestor Lorde calls "the mouth of the dragon." To that end, each of us is responsible for giving back every drop of nourishment we receive from the harvest and then some to ensure future kin will be nourished.

🪶Tend the soil by engaging the world and one another with love, especially when you have every reason not to.

🪶May your words be cool water for the seeds of liberation. May the garden spade of your actions uproot what is invasive to your soul's soil. May old thought patterns become compost, and may the light of your spirit shine like the sun coaxing emergent and generative realities out of their protective seed coats of dreaming and into the mystery of being. May your life be the most prolific seed of liberation you cast.

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Seeding Dreams: An Equinox Ritual

On the heels of the Spring Equinox, Nora and I invite you to join us for our ancestral and ecological self-study circle. This month, we will explore dreaming as liberatory praxis. We will gather at Jubilee Healing Farm, press our bodies against the Earth, and dream and vision alongside her. We will close our time together with a seed-casting ritual, offering up our visions and dreams of liberated realities and futures directly to the body of the Earth.

We hope you will join us.

liberation requires us to choose ourselves and one another

What the ancestors keep saying

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Collective liberation requires us to choose one another on this side of the veil and beyond.

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In liberated realities, the care, love, and belonging we extend to ourselves and one another cannot be conditional.

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On our best days and our worst days, the work of liberation is the practice of choosing to love ourselves and one another.

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you have the tools

You were born with everything you need to be in connection with your ancestral ecosystems and unseen kin.

🐚Our bodies are portals and altars of connection.

🐚Our breath supports us with grounding in our bodies.

🐚Presence supports us with connecting to our agency.

🐚Cultivating a practice of engaging the breath, body, and presence supports us with honing our intuitive pathways of perception.

Tap in and practice.

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@sacredgriefshaunajanz and I welcome you to join our field of practice. Learn more bit.ly/elderwisdom

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we will not grieve in isolation

Allowing ourselves to be companioned in our grief by our ancestors and unseen kin is a practice of vulnerability and deep intimacy.

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May we all feel safe enough to practice sharing our grief with our ancestors and our unseen elders.

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May we be led by the collective choreographies of our grieving toward generative lifeways and rituals that articulate our love of life and the insistence that our grieving be held in deep ecology.

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On March 12th, Elder Wisdom, a two-hour ritual container intended to support us in connecting with our ancestral ecosystems, unseen kin, and elder wisdom fields, opens. This ritual of connecting with our ancestors and unseen elders in times of deep suffering and grief is a love offering to our nervous systems, our hearts, the earth, and all of our kin-folk displaced and suffering at the hands of oppressive systems.

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In these times, we choose community and connection. In these times, we refuse to allow ourselves to grieve in isolation.

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Register at https://bit.ly/elderwisdom

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[quotes on tan and brown background with striated white lines reads: Allowing ourselves to be companioned in our grief by our ancestors and unseen kin is a practice of vulnerability and deep intimacy. May we all feel safe enough to practice sharing our grief with our ancestors and our unseen elders.

May we be led by the collective choreographies of our grieving toward generative lifeways and rituals that articulate our love of life and the insistence that our grieving be held in deep ecology.]

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all praises

All Praises

Praise impossible things

Praise to hot ice

Praise to flying fish

Whole numbers

Praise impossible things.

Praise all creation

Praise the presence among us

Of the unfenced Is.

-Lucille Clifton

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Praise for the gift of your life.

Praise to the signs you continue to send us one year later that you are still deeply connected to us as you settle into the ancestral realm.

We miss you 🕊️

#love

seed, soil and collective memory

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Thank you @sistahseeds for these beautiful seeds and their stories. I feel so blessed to archive these seeds and their stories in the land we steward.

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Archiving culture and stories through seeds and land is part of our collective liberation work.

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@millionexperiments season 2 episode 18 shares the work of @vivien.sansour, the founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library, which seeks to preserve and promote heritage and threatened seed varieties, traditional Palestinian farming practices, and the cultural stories and the identities associated with them.

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Listen to this episode and add the podcast to your rotation. I believe the podcast is sun-setting, but there are 2 seasons of wisdom for you to engage.

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co-create authentic maps of healing

I hope your healing journey brings you into deeper relationship with yourself, your ancestors, and every layer of ecology that supports your life.

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Remember, we don’t have to do any of this alone.

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permission granted

A reminder:

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You do not need permission to build relationships with your ancestors.

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You may need support, but never permission.

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Spells of permission are woven into the architecture of your body and the interiority of your being.

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Trusting those spells is your choice.

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practice practice practice

Life is a field of practice.

Practice connecting with your ancestral ecosystems in ways that feel authentic for you.

Practice allowing those pathways of connection to evolve alongside you.

Practice trusting the inspired rituals and medicines they awaken in you.

Practice Practice Practice

PracticePractice Practice

Practice Practice Practice

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Our intuition connects us to ancestral wisdom

Our intuitive wisdom co-exists in relationship with the wisdom of our ancestors and all of our relations.

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These bodies of knowledge are not separate; they are intimately entangled, interdependent, decentralized fields of wisdom feeding and informing one another.

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Collectively, they weave expansive tapestries of wisdom across generations, relations, species, and time. We call these collective tapestries our elder wisdom fields.

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Next month @sacredgriefshaunajanz and I will offer two ritual containers for exploring our Elder Wisdom fields. See links in B10.

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Intro to Elder Wisdom on March 12th (2-hour ritual container)

💻 via Zoom

💲Sliding Scale options/free for returning folks always

🙋🏾‍♀️ Learn more visit my L1nktree/B10

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For a deeper dive consider

Elder Wisdom: Rooting in Lineages of Liberation on March 15 (5-month ritual container)

💻 Live Monthly Teaching Call

⭕️ Live Monthly Practice Circle

🧘🏽‍♀️ Monthly Integration - self-paced resources, invitations, and inspired content

🔺 Optional Triad Practice groups

💲 Sliding scale option and payment plans

🙋🏾‍♀️ Learn more visit my L1nktree/B10

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Ancestors are ecological beings

Building loving and generative connections with our ancestral ecosystems requires us to be in our agency.

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We don’t have to abandon ourselves to be loved by our ancestors.

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Thank you, bell hooks, for teaching us that pursuing relationships truly rooted in love requires us to exercise our agency and self-determination.

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our ancestors are ecological beings

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Like us, our ancestors are relational beings. They exist in ecosystems of interdependence.

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We can work with them and all of these ecosystems to build new worlds together.

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Pisces Season

🪼Pisces Season🪼

Have you ever known a poem that feels like homecoming for your spirit everytime you read it?

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Thank you ancestor Lucille Clifton for water sign woman.

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the woman who feels everything

sits in her new house

waiting for someone to come

who knows how to carry water

without spilling, who knows

why the desert is sprinkled

with salt, why tomorrow

is such a long and ominous word.

they say to the feel things woman

that little she dreams is possible,

that there is only so much

joy to go around, only so much

water. there are no questions

for this, no arguments. she has

to forget to remember the edge

of the sea, they say, to forget

how to swim to the edge, she has

to forget how to feel. the woman

who feels everything sits in her

new house retaining the secret

the desert knew when it walked

up from the ocean, the desert,

so beautiful in her eyes;

water will come again

if you can wait for it.

she feels what the desert feels.

📷Me

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a reminder to trust the ancestral wisdom inside of you

We do not have to rely on institutions or intermediaries to validate the ancestral wisdom that lives in us. Reclaim and trust this wisdom. It is part of your ancestral inheritance.

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Who benefits when we distrust this wisdom?

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Let’s practice exploring and reclaiming this wisdom together using liberatory frameworks. There are two containers of practice opening soon.

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Intro to Elder Wisdom on March 12th (2-hour ritual container)

💻 via Zoom

💲Sliding Scale options/free for returning folks

🙋🏾‍♀️ Learn more visit my L1nktree/B10

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For a deeper dive consider Elder Wisdom: Rooting in Lineages of Liberation on March 15 (5-month ritual container)

💻 Live Monthly Teaching Call

⭕️ Live Monthly Practice Circle

🧘🏽‍♀️ Monthly Integration - self-paced resources, invitations, and inspired content

🔺 Optional Triad Practice groups

💲 Sliding scale option and payment plans

🙋🏾‍♀️ Learn more visit my L1nktree/B10

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Elder Wisdom: Rooting in Lineages of Liberation a 5 Month Deep Dive

Ancestral work, including connection, healing, veneration, and repair, is not rooted in theoretical praxis. Every day, moment to moment, breath to breath, there are ongoing invitations to cultivate the hands-on and embodied skills required to tend our ancestral relations. These invitations emerge in the daily rhythms of daily life, how we relate to ourselves, one another, and the world at large.
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Often, some of the most challenging aspects of engaging in our ancestral work are slowing down to perceive the invitations unfolding before us and trusting the embodied ancestral wisdom that lives in us.
These challenges exist by design to sustain systems of domination and oppression. And we are conditioned to take individual responsibility for the deficits they attempt to create in our relationships.
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We can develop the relational skills to meet these challenges; the blueprints for these skills live in our bodies. Let’s gather, slow down, and invoke and explore the wisdom of our ancestors rooted in lineages of liberation through kaleidoscopes of curiosity and radical imagination.
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Details about this deep dive:

🗓️ 5 months, starts March 15th, 2024
💻 Monthly Teaching Call
⭕️ Monthly Practice Circle
🧘🏽‍♀️ Monthly Integration - self-paced resources, invitations, and inspired content
🔺 Optional Triad Practice groups
🙋🏾‍♀️ Learn more visit my L1nktree/B10
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