Preparation, Guidance, and Integration for ritual space holding, ceremony and initiatory containers through Decolonial Animist Somatic practices.
This is an emergent space that honours life and death as a creative lifelong practice. A space that is calling in human and non-human life forms open to dancing with the depths of our shadows, our light and the spectrum of colours, patterns, textures and sounds waiting to be seen, heard, touched, felt, sensed and expressed through our work, art, and play.
We believe in order for us to co-create new worlds, new cultures, new dreams; we must be willing to surrender to the power that exists in all. When we say the word surrender we don't mean cognitively accept things as they are but to somatically embrace the multidimensional truths that exist in our moment to moment bodies.
We recognize that this path of facing the truth of wholeness and interconnection is not something all of us want, need or are ready for in this lifetime. For those who are open, our intention with this work here and as we move through the world is to support us in re-membering each other through the generations; as we allow the illusions of desire reveal themselves. No matter where you are and who you perceive yourself to be, you are life and death embodied.
This work is for those who are willing and open to unlearning, unschooling, dreaming and co-weaving life/death from a place of fluidity with the universal erotic life force that flows through all that exists. For those of us on the margins, in the cracks, disrupting in quiet or loud ways, breaking molds, beating to the rhythms of the earth, death, and rebirth, we call on you to step forward and co-create life with us.
In the current modern, colonial, cisheteropatriarchal, capitalistic world we have created, the fear of erotic death is greatest. What we're currently living through and within this moment is a death and rebirth of stories we have experienced time and time again. As we navigate our many paths, we offer you practices that live in relationship with the ideas, philosophies, and embodied Indigenous wisdoms of ancestral re-memberance, somatic awareness, mindfulness, intergenerational trauma/resilience, addiction, mental health, decolonization, anti-racism and anti-oppression.
We invite you to enter this space of work, art, and play with humility, respect, playfulness, curiosity, courage and deep reverence and gratitude for all that will unfold on your path as you dive into deeper intimacy with yourself, your ancestors and great spirit that moves through all.
We also want to make it very clear that our time together is sacred for us and whether our time together ends here with these words or we continue forward in relationship, we love, honour, respect and give gratitude for the time you have offered us on your medicine journey.
With Presence and Gratitude Always
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Makonga (Bwiti meaning for Grandmother)
I’m a queer Indigenous mestiza latina who comes from a lineage of medicine weavers, creatives, resilient life and death bridge builders. I am a bodyworker, space holder, mystic, and ritual ceremonialist who facilitates and teaches holistic leadership, somatic awareness, ancestral re-memberance, and creative liberation through an animist, Indigenous, anti-oppressive lens.
