New Moon Ancestral Connection Circle
Nov
1
6:00 PM18:00

New Moon Ancestral Connection Circle

Join Tamira Cousett and Nora Dennis for another ancestral and ecological self study circle. This season is one for celebrating and deepening ancestral connections. Our circle will include invocation and grounding, followed by a movement practice and conscious ecological connection. We will collectively honor the ancestors and deepen connection with them, creating a communal altar to honor them. Please wear warm clothes suitable for sitting around the fire. Bring a dish to share (yay post-ceremony potluck), a chair for sitting outside, and a symbol or photo of your ancestor(s). Suggested donation $20-50, nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you wish to pay more than $20 you can add a donation to your order.

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Jul
15
to Sep 3

Peer Outdoor Education for Mental Health (P.O.E.M)

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Peer Outdoor Education for Mental Health (POEM) is a peer support specialist training program that will take place at Jubilee Healing Farm during the 2024-2025 academic year for community college, undergraduate or graduate students who identify as Black, have lived experience of mental illness or substance abuse, and have a passion for supporting others in their healing journey. Individuals taking a gap year are also welcome. The program offers state certification as a peer support specialist combined with Jubilee training in transformative justice, herbalism, mindfulness, yoga, music therapy and ancestral healing.

POEM aims to train and support a generation of Black community healers to address the disparity in mental health that is causing Black students to leave their education at a higher rate than other groups. POEM seeks to create communities healing, to change lives, and to change the world.

Learn more about the P.O.E.M Faculty here.

Apply here.

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Mar
24
1:00 PM13:00

Monthly Ancestral Healing & The Ecological Self Study Circles

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.

For those interested in a communal healing experience in nature, we warmly invite you to join our Ancestral Healing and Ecological Self study circle. We will weave an immersive community healing space through ceremony and ritual grounded in our shared ecological and ancestral experience. We will gather monthly for an hour and a half on a small farm in Hillsborough, NC, for these events. Our space will center on the experiences of those who identify as gender-expansive, non-binary, and/or women. The space and experience are designed for those who seek a communal, non-clinical, and ecological model of healing. Donate what you can – all proceeds will support a healing retreat planned for 2024.

Time: 1-2:30pm EST
Dates: March 24, 2024

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Mar
22
to Mar 24

Ancestral Healing and The Ecological Self

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We are in the process of rescheduling our event for 2024! Stay tuned! Watch our update below.

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Nora Dennis and I are joining to offer a three-day retreat for femme-identified, BIPOC individuals seeking a new lens on healing. As humans we are each carrying an ancestral and ecological story that plays out in our day-to-day choices and actions. Without awareness of these stories, our actions and choices can repeat and ingrain maladaptive habits, rituals and behaviors. Together, we will shine light onto the history that each of us carries. Through movement, breathwork, creative expression and more classical didactics, Tamira and Nora will weave an immersive experience of grounded liberation for participants.

Activities will include:

  • Daily movement practice

  • Guided ancestral connection practices

  • Ecological self-study

  • Creative integration through visual arts

  • Nutritious meals (daily lunch served)

  • Hearty snacks and teas (daily)

  • Deep rest

The Setting:

The workshop will take place at the beautiful Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, an Earth Sanctuary and Learning Community dedicated to Healing the Human-Earth Relationship, founded in 2005. The non-profit educational farm and learning center reside on 28 acres in the Piedmont Valley of North Carolina, eight miles west of Chapel Hill, on what is—to the best of our knowledge—ancestral lands of the Occaneechi-Saponi, Eno, Tutelo, Tuscarora, Sissipihaw, Shakori, Saura, and Catawba.

Meet the Facilitators:

Nora Dennis MD

Nora is a physician double board-certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine. Her approach to mental health care integrates psychopharmacology, somatic interventions, psychotherapy, nutrition, and mindfulness. She is the founder of Jubilee Healing Farm, a permaculture practitioner, a yogini with many years of teaching experience and a lifelong seeker.

 

Tamira Cousett

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritual facilitator specializing in supporting folks with remembering the authentic pathways of ancestral connections. Her practices are rooted in ecosystems of Love and Black liberation theologies and informed by her initiations into Afro-Brazilian earth-honoring traditions and West African Ifa Òrìṣà tradition. She enjoys co-weaving communal containers of curiosity, connection, homecoming, and life-affirming rituals with folks and their ancestral ecosystems of care.

Cost:

The pricing model is based on a sliding scale approach.

Actual cost - $300 - You have access to reliable income and/or own property/mortage and/or are in a personal home and/or have personal savings on investments. You are able ot pay for 'wants' and spend little time worried about securing necessities in your life such as food, housing and transportation.

Reduced cost - $225 - You have access to income that allows you to meet your basic needs. You may have som eexpendable income and may have access to resources from family or partners to request support from. You may need to budget or cut back in some areas to make this offering happen but it won't cause any long term harmful impact on your life.

Sponsored cost - $150 - Your access to resources and income is limited and meeting your basic needs is stressful and inconsistent. Paying at any of the higher tiers would have a harmful impact on you.

Cost does not cover transportation and additional meals. We do have a couple of onsite housing options available at no additional charge! Rooms are offered on a first come first serve basis. Once these rooms are filled, folks will need to cover their own lodging.

*Credit and thanks to Shauna Janz for the sliding scale model.

Learn more about sliding scales here

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Mar
15
to Jul 30

Elder Wisdom: Rooting in Lineages of Liberation

Elder Wisdom - Rooting in Lineages of Liberation is an intimate and immersive small group ritual healing and practice program rooted in liberatory frameworks and guided by the wisdom, support and insight that emerges from our embodied presence, inner resource, relational group field, and elder guidance within our ancestral lineages and spiritual ecologies.

We honor the lineages and people, living and ancestral, that inform our ritual and practice within this Elder Wisdom offering through their art, sacred text, teachings, contributions and inspired guidance. Although too many to name here, we celebrate and give thanks to bell hooks, Harriet Tubman, Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mariame Kaba, Cole Arthur Riley, adrienne maree brown and emergent strategy voices who spark deep remembering and resonance within us.

Applications are open, and we start March 15th, 2024.

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Mar
12
7:00 PM19:00

Elder Wisdom: Connecting with our Ancestral Ecosystems to Embody Love and Liberation

4:00PM-6:00PM PST

Elder Wisdom Collage by Tamira Cousett

Join ancestral mediums and ritual facilitators Shauna Janz and Tamira Cousett as they co-weave a portal of connection with the ancestral ecosystems that nourish and sustain our lives. Our journey together will be shaped by ritual invocation, song, embodied presence practices and ancestral wisdom teachings and a ritual to connect with your Elder wisdom field, uplifting our capacity as humans to be in relationships rooted in reciprocity with our unseen kin. 

Together we will explore the language of Ancestors and the liberatory values that support connection with the vast bodies of Elder Ancestral ecosystems that nourish us. We will explore the innate pathways of embodied connection we are all born with and why this is integral to our individual and collective well-being and liberation. 

During our time together, we will invite you into self-reflective and experiential practices. There will be space for large group discussion; however, there will be no small group breakouts. A recording will be made available for two weeks following our gathering.

Please use an active email address when registering. The zoom link for the workshop will be sent to the email address you provide.

Folks who attended the previous 2 hr Elder Wisdom offering may attend this event at no charge. Instructions for completing your registration will be sent via email!

Details

Date: Tuesday March 12th, 2023

Time: 7pm-9pm EST//4pm-6pm PST

Cost: $65 (sliding scale tiers listed below)

Location: Zoom (Please use an active email address when registering. The zoom link for the workshop will be sent to the email address you provide.

Who is this for

We warmly invite folks of diverse ancestries, faith-based and cultural traditions, and lived experiences. This ritual space is a queer-celebrating and liberatory offering inviting folks to deepen their relationships with their ancestors and the inherent wisdom that resides in their ancestral ecosystem, in ways that are relevant to their identity and ways of being and knowing.

Meet the Ritual Facilitators

Shauna is the founder of Sacred Grief offering online programs and training in the skills of grieving, ritual, embodied presence, and ancestral re-connection. Her ancestors are northern European from the lands of Scots Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Nordic cultures. On her father’s side, her people are recent refugee-settlers by way of Poland and Ukraine, and on her mother’s side, her people are early colonial-settlers to Turtle Island.  She currently resides on the unceded lands of the K'omoks and Pentatch First Nations, on Vancouver Island Pacific West Coast of Canada.

 

Tamira is a student and medium of ancestral and earth-honoring wisdoms and ritual facilitator. She is the kin of folk from the lands of West Africa by way of Alabama, Ohio, and Indiana and also from the Irish and British Isles. She grew up primarily in Atlanta in a loving Muslim home run by powerful women. She is now embedded in the southern lands of the Catawaba & Eno peoples with her feathered and human kinfolk.

Our Values and Approach

Image by Tamira Cousett

Shauna Janz is a queer ritualist and intuitive who brings experience from over 20 years of contemplative practice, 15 years of guiding trauma-informed grief support, group healing and mentoring, and 8 years of facilitating ritual space and ancestral connection. Her approaches to embodied animist and spirit relations combine with cultural study within feminist, queer, anti-oppressive and decolonial praxis, bridging spiritual/ritual reclamation in service to creating more loving and liberated ways of being, here and now. She has found home and eldership within ancestral Old European cultural revival practices, specifically in the Old Norse oracular mediumship tradition of Seidr and ritual animism.

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritualist with almost a decade of ritual and mediumship experience. Her approach to ancestral connection practice is rooted in the ecosystems of Love, Womanist and Queer Black liberation theologies. Her initiations into Afro-Brazilian earth-honoring traditions and studies of West African and Black Southern spiritualist traditions ground her ritual approach. She enjoys co-weaving communal containers of curiosity, connection, homecoming, and life-affirming rituals with folks and their ancestral ecosystems of care.

Sliding Scale Tiers

Price points for this offering are held on the sliding scale model with four tiers of pricing available. Each tier is listed below. If you would like support with assessing where you fall on the sliding scale model, please visit this Financial Access page.

  • You have access to wealth, can pay for this offering without much financial consideration, and have the ability to pay a little extra to directly support someone else who needs financial access options to participate.

  • You have access to reliable income, and/or own property/mortgage, and/or are in a double-income home, and/or have personal savings/investments. You are able to pay for ‘wants’ and spend little time worried about securing necessities in your life, such as housing, food, transportation.

  • You have access to income that allows you to meet your basic needs, you may have some expendable income, and/or have access to resources through family/partners to request support from. You may need to budget or cut back in some other areas to make this offering happen, but it won't cause any long-term harmful impact on your life.**(limited slots available) goes here

  • Your access to resources and income stability is limited, and meeting your basic needs is stressful and inconsistent. Paying at any of the higher tiers would have a harmful impact on you.**(limited slots available)

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Dec
19
6:00 PM18:00

Longing as Light: A Winter Solstice Ritual

Tis the season to be still and to feel…

As we deepen into the dark stillness of Earth in this sacred season, we may experience both gratitude and hope as well as brokenheartedness, which illuminates our deepest longings and lights the path before us.
In sacred space held by song, we will create a space of stillness where longing can be felt and welcomed as our luminous guide.  Through ritually sharing the light of our longings, we will collectively honor and feed the deep heart of love that beckons us home to a more liberated world and our true place of belonging.  

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Sep
22
7:00 PM19:00

An Autumn Equinox Ritual: Communion with The Ancestral Waters

Beautiful dark skinned black woman with long braids. Profile image of her facing an orange moon against a deep blue textured backdrop with white swirls that look like streams of water. Crystals surround her shoulders.

Digital Art by Tamira Cousett

Join ritualists, Carolyn and Tamira as we co-weave a portal of connection and remembrance with the Ancestral Waters that sustain life and hold the mysteries of ancestral wisdom.

We invite you to join us for a communal ritual to celebrate the fall equinox. Our ritual will center communion and connection with the ancient element of water as a portal to reviving the blessing of our ancestors for ourselves and our times!  

Like our ancestors' wisdom, water cannot be created or destroyed. Thus, every water molecule on Earth has existed for billions of years, serving as the life-blood of all who have come before us and connecting us all to the ecosystems of creation. It is a multi-dimensional being and shapeshifter, a co-creator and sustainer of life, and a keeper of ancestral memories and mysteries.

During our ritual gathering, we will collectively attune to this field of living memory to bring forward a harvest of blessings via song/orin, story, and a water blessing ritual. 

Ritually, you will be invited to commune with the ase of the ancestral waters that live in you and bless/charge water with the memories and medicines these ancestral waters are inspiring in you at this time.

We pray that our ritual will nourish our souls and the soul of the world!

With and devotion,

Tamira and Carolyn

“The element. Daily, ordinary, enduring. Extraordinary, shiftful,expansive. A word for that one is thirsty for. Desire. What can quench. What can be swum and what cannot be swum. The Atlantic. Middle Passages. The distance between this and that. That which cannot be held for long in bare hands but can be carried. The sky, the river, the rain. Knowing and unknowing. Ancestral. Elder, our singular and plural and going on.”
— Aracelis Girmay

Details

Date and Time: September 22nd 7:00pm-9:00pm EST//6:00-8:00pm CST.

Location: Zoom

Cost: $13-$34 (sliding scale)

Registration

Meet Tamira & Carolyn

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritualist. She specializes in supporting folks with remembering their authentic pathways of ancestral connections. Her practices are rooted in the ecosystems of Love, Womanist and Queer Black liberation theologies.

Carolyn Griffeth serves widely as soul guide, dream worker, intuitive ceremonialist, and sacred-culture facilitator.  Within  Earthkeeper Wisdom School and Inpower Institute , she serves as a spiritual minister and visionary tender of emergent, Earth and Soul-centric spiritual communities–her great passion!

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Jun
20
7:30 PM19:30

A Summer Solstice Ritual~Nourished by Fire: crafting lives that bring us fully alive

Digital Art by Tamira Cousett

Come join us around the communal fire for a ritual of claiming lives that bring us fully alive!

Join ritualists, Carolyn and Tamira as we co-weave a portal of nourishment held by the Spirit of Fire. We will invite the medicines of Fire to support us as we root in our lived experiences of nourished aliveness, and listen anew for those experiences and ways of being that enliven and nourish our souls.

Swimming outdoors and sitting around the fire with friends comes to mind…

Ritually, you will be invited to release what no longer serves your soul and welcome in support for that which does. Our releasing and welcoming ritual will be held as an offering towards the re-souling of the world as we witness and attend to our own souls longings.

We pray that our ritual will nourish our souls and the soul of the world!

With and devotion,

Tamira and Carolyn

Details

Date and Time: June 20th 7:30pm-9:30pm EST//6:30-8:30pm CST.

Location: Zoom

Cost: $13-$34 (sliding scale)

Registration

Meet Tamira & Carolyn

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritualist. She specializes in supporting folks with remembering their authentic pathways of ancestral connections. Her practices are rooted in the ecosystems of Love, Womanist and Queer Black liberation theologies.

Carolyn Griffeth serves widely as soul guide, dream worker, intuitive ceremonialist, and sacred-culture facilitator.  Within  Earthkeeper Wisdom School and Inpower Institute , she serves as a spiritual minister and visionary tender of emergent, Earth and Soul-centric spiritual communities–her great passion!

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