FACILITATED BY: Nia Witherspoon

EXCHANGE: $222 or BIPOC rate of $111* + limited scholarships available*

*Please email Nia at nia.witherspoon@gmail.com regarding scholarships availability

REGISTER: All 4 Sessions

Series will meet on 5/5, 6/2, 7/7, 8/4 from 7-9pm EST

Join Nia in these guided journaling and creative writing sessions, where we dig deep into the subconscious + ancestral soul-stories to help you release traumatic blockages and connect with your authentic voice.

This series, inspired by the Bantu-Kongo cosmogram, explores the four portals of the human life cycle: Birth, Vitality, Death, and Regeneration. Each of the four sessions explores one of these portals deeply, and participants will leave the series with a personal incantation supporting their movement through each of these stages in life, whenever they arise. Series-members have the opportunity to be buoyed by accountability partnership with course-mates throughout the process so that these created incantations become living guides, alive far beyond the page as we create writing that activates, calls upon, and honors the the higher self, the ancestral, and the divine realm of the unseen.   

We will look at prayer, spell, incantation, and mystic poetry as inspiration to create our own works of soul-lead writing, and we will close each session with a sharing circle of the highest order! We move with curiosity and humility, we welcome surprise, and we humble ourselves to what the ancestors want to share as we align ourselves with what it means to become the vessel.

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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Nia Witherspoon is a creative spirit, ancestral writer, grounded nomad, songstress, space-holder, and devoteé of Amadlozi (divine ancestors), Divine Feminine Energy, and Mother Earth. She is a creativity and self-love doula, vision-tender, energy worker, ritual-performance artist, and student of the Divine Creator as they manifest in all forms to create more space for Love. They work with deep listening, sound, water, breath, dreams, writing, and intuitive guidance to support themselves and others in dropping into our most authentic selves, and connecting with inherent worth + divinity. They have formal training in yoga, meditation + mantra; spiritual herbalism, birthwork, and am immersed in continual initiatory study and practice in the Ubungoma path (Bantu-Zulu song, prayer, ritual, and shamanism). She has studied with a number of teachers across traditions for over a decade including Ifa dreamwork and sacred song, curanderismo, and indigenous psychotherapy.