FACILITATED BY: Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman & Laura Chung
EXCHANGE: $15-35 Sliding Scale Donation
This space is open for beings of Asian descent. If you and your family identify as East, South, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and/or Pacific Islander, this circle is held for you regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, and religious or spiritual belief. The intention for this monthly gathering is for us to heal through various practices and modalities that are offered by diverse Asian facilitators. Being ‘Asian’ is not a monolith experience; we gather in this complexity to be fully seen, heard and transform our wounds into our gifts.
In order for this healing to take place, we ask all participants to agree to honor and respect the identity each person brings to add to our learning and collective healing experience.
You Are Your Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams - Transmuting your victim story to one of a Co-Creator with Laura Chung
Laura Chung will share her story of how healing ancestral trauma was the key to understanding the process of manifestation. She wrote her book, How to Manifest to guide people towards transmuting their victim stories, to not only one of survival but of a co-creator. What holds us back from manifesting our true desires is our conditioned beliefs and our ancestors’ being colonized which led to our disembodiment. Her approach to manifestation is a response to the “love and light” rhetoric that is prevalent in New Age spiritual spaces.
In each class, you are invited to join Aki and guest facilitators to explore the ancestral realm for our individual and collective healing.
Everything offered in this class is an invitation and suggestion—and each participant can choose how they want to engage in this space as long as the safety of the online space is not compromised for the members of the learning community.
Each gathering includes a brief check-in, during which all participants are asked to be present on screen for the creation of a sacred community container, and a sharing circle to witness and be witnessed. Furthermore, depending on the facilitators and the need of the space, you may experience an activation of the energetic healing in the space, pulling of an oracle card as part of the intention setting for the community (you can choose to pull your own card to create a focus, or you can choose not to include any of this in your experience), storytelling or reframing, meditation and visualization exercise, as well as embodiment/somatic exercise.
This session is best experienced in:
Comfortable and safe physical space when accessible
Clothing that is not binding when possible
Participants may want to have:
Glass of water/herbal infusion or non-caffeinated tea etc.
Snack or food for nourishment
Any tool you utilize for healing and grounding
Journal & writing utensil
Yoga mat, blanket or meditation cushion
This is a MINKA x Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Partnership Offering—Created to Bring Efforts of Equity, Diversity, and Decolonizing Work to All.
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Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman is an immigrant from the mother (is)land of Japan. She is the Founder of MINKA brooklyn, and it is her desire to be the co-creator of a harmonious future with as many people as possible through this platform. She believes individual healing leads to social healing & change towards equity and peace; and practice of spirituality must always include the process of decolonization within each individual.
She is attuned to various energetic healing frequencies including Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, IET, and 13th Octave LaHoChi. She is also a master teacher of Usui Reiki, co-channeller of Earth Evolution Reiki symbols, and the founder of MINKA Brooklyn. She is a moondancer, and trained under numerous teachers of ancient traditions, including Hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation (Integral Yoga Institute), Ayurvedic Nutrition (Naina Marballi), Art of Energy Healing (Suzy Mezoly), MedicineWay (Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman), Toltec Healing Practice (Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl), Curanderismo (Rita Navarete Prez and Tonia Gonzalez) and more.
Laura Chung is a Reiki master, astrologer, and the host of two podcasts, Awaken and Align and The Werk. She has her Masters of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Laura is the author of How To Manifest published by Union Square & Co. She is an activist and trauma-informed healer who uses her various media platforms to share spiritual wisdom and decolonial education toward collective healing and liberation. She co-hosts an astrology show, The Millennial Mystics, and has over 130,000+ followers across her various social media platforms. As a multi-disciplinary healer, Laura helps people to transcend their past and transform their current situations; breaking generational cycles and harmful patterns. Her intention is to help people manifest the life of their dreams.
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Paying it Forward
We provide most of our community offerings and private sessions by sliding scale. This is based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ which enables more people to access healing and wellness. This works when people pay as much as they can for our offerings to help others who may be less fortunate be able to gain access, too. We believe everyone is entitled to heal and thrive, and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage. We are all in this together and choose to do our best to take care of one another.
Thank you for being part of the MINKA community!