Under the Water and in the Dark *Open to BIPOC only, and a liberated space for Queer and Trans peoples.

*Open to BIPOC only, and a liberated space for Queer and Trans peoples.

Darkness is the womb from which our seeds are nourished into being. It is the metaphor and reality of creation becoming alive in the fertile hold of the unknown. This workshop will engage with the spaces in the body where our Divine assignments are stuck and will move to provide skills in locating, identifying, and surrendering that which is waiting for release.

This will be a highly interactive movement and writing-based workshop that begins with a discussion on plants to support spiritual connection then move to movement meditation and ancestor work, to conclude with participants receiving individual prompts to release their stuck.

Materials List:

Other

Space for movement, comfortable clothing

Pen/pencil for writing and notebook (preferably new)

*you will be asked to write, not type

Blender or mortar and pestle

Plants/Herbs

Any of the following in dried form:

rosemary

mugwort

cedar

About Ni’Ja Whitson:

Ni’Ja Whitson (CA/NYC) is a Black Queer Nonbinary Trans award-winning multidisciplinary artist, wound, root, and word worker referred to as “majestic” by The New York Times. Whitson engages transdisciplinarity through an innovative critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual that converge in creative practice and spiritual warriorship.

They are a sought-after masterclass facilitator, circle-keeper, speaker, presenter, and conversationalist whose offerings have been shared among notable institutions and arts organizations: Wesleyan University, Princeton University, Cornell University, LAX Festival, Movement Research, 2020 keynote of the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance conference.

Whitson is the creator of the Sacred Somatic©, body-based healing practices derived from Yorùbá/Ifá diasporic forms, movement study, and Indigenous healing modalities.