FACILITATED BY Nia Witherspoon
EXCHANGE: $25-$45 Sliding Scale
Online via Zoom
Monday, Apr.24th, 7pm-9pm EST
In The Dream Chamber, we will honor and expand our dream lives in sacred community as a way to bring our dreams into the world. Dreams offer the opportunity for profound self-knowledge, spirit communion, and ancestral communication, and they respond generously to our working with them in waking life. Using modalities from song and sound healing to plant medicine, breathwork and meditation, we will create a saf(er) container for activating, sharing and interpreting our dreams. We will be inspired by texts from leaders in dream-work from Makhosi Himi and Credo Mutwa from the Ubungoma community to Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a contemporary author and curandera. And we will build a consistent community around dreaming that can ultimately support deeper work.
I'm Nia Ostrow Witherspoon, aka Indigo Ori, a creative spirit, a grounded nomad, a lover of life, a space-holder, a Black Feminist Devotée, and an advocate of Black Queer liberation and indigenous sovereignty. I am a daughter, grand-daughter, god-mother, and fashionable auntie with people from Philadelphia and NYC by way of South Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Russia, and Turkey. I am a student of the Creator, Olodumaré, Makhosi/Makhlu, and all their many manifestations of divinity teachings, from Yoruba orishas to Bantu cosmograms to Zulu prayer and song to Kundalini yoga. I come from a long line of healers, prophets, midwives, musicians, dancers, church founders, and intellectuals. I work with sound, breath, dreams, writing, intuitive guidance/vision/prophecy, and the prevailing frequency of love to support myself and others in dropping into our most authentic selves, and connecting with our inherent worth, inherent divinity, inherent stardust. In my work as an artist, vocalist, and composer, I create ritualistic theatre and performance spaces to help us move through inter-generational trauma, experience beauty, and connect with our audacity of surviving. I am also a published author writing on Black liberation via art practice, African aesthetics and spirituality, and whatever else wants to move through me that defies category.
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What Is Sliding Scale?
We offer all of our community offerings and some private sessions by sliding scale.
We believe everyone is entitled to heal their wounds so they can thrive; we also believe that wellness and healing practitioners deserve to make a living wage. In order to make this possible, we ask you to pay as much as you can, so those who might not be able to pay as much can still receive their healing session - this is the idea behind 'paying it forward'. We are all in this together, and we choose to do our best to take care of one another. Thank you in advance!