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Beltane Ritual Gathering

  • Gemini Rising 560 South Main Street Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 United States (map)
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May 1st, or May Day, has a long history in worker's rights movements as well having very ancient roots in pagan traditions as a halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. Join us as we gather to honor resistance, fortify resilience and share resonance with a Beltane ritual. Sliding scale $15-25 per person. 

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Earlier Event: November 1
Day of the Dead Ritual
Later Event: June 15
Latinx Healing from Colonialism at Allied Media Conference
Decolonizing our Hearts, Minds and Movements... day one of this powerful week and I’m blown away by the beauty and brilliance of Indigenous, Black and POC folk gathered here to do this work. Held with skill and grace by Michael Yellow Bird, Sherri Mitchell, Leah Penniman, Sachem HawkStorm, Neftali Duran, David Ragland and Stephanie Morningstar. Dreaming a new world for the next seven generations ❤️✨🙏🏽 #decolonize #decoloniality #collectiveliberation #healingtrauma #ancestralwisdom
Have been moved with gratitude this week for the work of Toni Morrison, and the outpouring of reverence for her upon her passing. Of the quotes and images in my feed this week these were the ones that spoke straight to my heart, and have been helping me get over myself and just Do The Dang Thing, imperfectly. Writing doesn’t come easily to me, but I’ve had the voices of my ancestors whispering in my ear (ok, shouting at times) for a few years now to tell their and my stories. To share what I’ve learned for myself and through the honor of holding space for others about healing from trauma, both individual and intergenerational. There is no individualist solution or remedy, my friends. The work is and must be collective, cultural, embodied and radical by which I mean GO TO THE ROOTS and dismantle the systems of oppression that bind us. Thankful for the work and inspiration from Beloved Toni Morrison and other ancestral scribes (looking at you, Gloria Anzaldúa), and ever so humbly aspire to create work that is worthy of your influence. #tonimorrison #ancestralhealing #giveupthethingsthatweighyoudown
Not a day goes by in my practice without a client sharing that their health is adversely affected by the need to overwork, by exhaustion, by feeling under-resourced. My ideal treatment plan would include reducing work hours, building in more rest, shifting the nervous system into ventral vagus parasympathetic mode, aka social engagement, aka “rest and digest.” Capitalism is directly opposed to these practices except for the privileged few. Another reason why community-care is radical resistance! #communitycare #sequelaeofcapitalism #sideeffectsofcapitalism #nothealthyforlivingbeings
Grateful for my fellow intersectional anti-oppression politicized therapists and healers at @empowermenta2 and @healingbychoice ✨✊🏽✨✊🏽✨✊🏽
And that’s why I do what I do 🙌🏾 Posted @withrepost • @comadre.wellness 🧬 DNA SHIFT TIME 🧬 #polyvagaltheory #ancestralhealing #traumahealing #traumarecovery #collectiveliberation #nospiritualbypassing #shapechange
“Pleasure is the point. Feeling good is not frivolous, it is freedom. We can gift it to each other in a million ways: with authentic presence, abundant care, and honesty; with boundaries that keep us from overextending; with slower kisses; with foot massages in the evening; with baby hugs and elder hugs; with delicious food; with supported solitude and listening to our bodies, our shameless desire, and coordinated longing. Find the pleasure path for your life and follow it. Let it reverberate healing back into your ancestors’ wounds. Let it open you up and remind you that you are already whole. Let it shape a future where feeling good is the normal, primary experience of all beings.” adrienne maree brown #pleasureactivism #queermagickcollective #waterblessing #autonomicregulation #resilience #communitycare #anishinaabeaki #huronriver
It is no sign of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society • @radicalwellbeingcenter If the last 24 hours have been hard for you, know that YOU are not broken. Please do not pathologize your appropriate response to violence, white supremacy, and oppression. Our emotions are valid, and give us information about the world around us. The world around us is a problem. If you are having high anxiety and panic, consider limiting the news today and identifying a place, real or imagined, where you feel safe. Go to this place physically or in meditation and feel yourself supported and protected. If you cannot find a place, is there a person? Is a person in your safe place and can you reach out to them? Sometimes it’s OK to stay in bed and pull the covers over your head until you have physiologically and emotionally more latitude to deal with the external world. If you do not have the privilege of taking care of yourself today in this way, please carry with you all of the love and protection that those of us who understand what you’re going through because we are going through it too are sending to you. Carry it with you in the world, surround yourself in a bubble and fill that bubble with all of our care and love. Name the feelings that you’re having, and bring compassion and love to all of your valid feelings, and all of your feelings are valid feelings. If you feel drawn to write, writing is a great way to process and clarify for yourself. Either by writing out rage and anger or by writing to yourself with love and support and understanding. Write intentions for the world. Do a ritual, bind evil that needs to be bound. Encourage the changes in society that would allow for all people to be respected and safe. 🖤 #support #yourfeelingsarevalid #fuckwhitesupremacy #guncontrolnow #shapeourworld #communitycare #askyourfriendsforhelp #radicaltherapy. ID: writing says: symptoms of anxiety and depression such as fear, panic attacks, isolating, tearfulness, numbness, irritability, anger and sleep difficulties are normal responses to white supremacist mass murders. Your response is not a problem with you, it’s a problem with the world.
I appreciate this analogy. I also think of white supremacy in terms of chronic and persistent viruses which are also so pervasive, and overwhelm immune systems and link to chronic health challenges. Viral replication, hijacking the cell's own substance and technology/brilliance to be reproduced generation after generation. These microorganisms, Candida/mold/fungi, viruses, spirochetes, microbes that we co-habitate with on the planet and seem to do the most harm when our collective 'terrain' is out of balance. I contemplate how we can be in relationship of interconnection with the micro-kin of the planet without waging war, which can backfire as in the case of antibiotic-resistance and destroying our own gut microbiomes through excessive antimicrobials in agriculture, livestock, medicine. Shifting inner and collective ecology as Susan Raffo describes, is beyond the work of the individual but requires changing the environment: 'We are not free until we are all free'
“What if?” Turning worries into spells ✨🙌🏾 Posted @withrepost • @blackmentalwellness #SelfCareSunday: We love this reminder to interrupt negative thinking patterns and to replace them with positive thoughts! #BlackMentalWellness #MinorityMentalHealthMonth #Therapy
“To disappear into Méxicanism is not enough. To disappear into Latinidad is even less of who we are. To disappear into Anglo America, our colonization is complete. We were not supposed to remember.” ❤️ Native Country of the Heart, GORGEOUS memoir from Cherríe Moraga. The audiobook is read by the author and was a precious gift to hear her voice telling these stories that speak to my heart and my own indigenous xicana roots. Mis antepasados leaning in through me to hear her words we’ve all been longing to hear as we heal and restore the memory of our origins. We were not supposed to remember. And yet, we remember, we remember, we remember. #yosoyindigena #macehualli #nativecountryoftheheart #notlatinx #notmestizo #indigenous #ancestralhealing