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Get ready for an unforgettable evening of liberation, healing, and celebration under the stars at ABQ CSL’s multifaith campus. This dynamic healing dance event, designed for community connection and collective liberation, invites you to move your body and soul to the rhythm of freedom.  The dance floor will be alive with energy, allowing you to move to music from many genres and traditions, igniting your higher self and clearing the way for transformation. Alongside the beats, the Herbal Healing Space awaits you—a sanctuary for revolutionary rest, where you can receive herbal teas, tinctures, oils, and the comforting touch of energy healers and bodyworkers. Our licensed spiritual practitioners will be present and available throughout the spaces offering prayer and support to anyone in need, wearing their stoles so you can easily identify them. This event is an opportunity to honor yourself, your ancestors, and the Earth through the power of dance, community, and healing. Snacks will be available to nourish you throughout the evening. Come, release what no longer serves you, and be filled up with love and inspiration in this sacred, liberating space!

 

Running the headphone dance party is World Music DJ Cliff Berrien!

He is a drummer, dj and performer who has dedicated 45 years to studying, performing and teaching the rhythms and music of the African Diaspora and many other global and folk music traditions. His work utilizes traditional and contemporary sacred and inspirational music from the world's spiritual, secular, and wisdom traditions to promote collective joy, liberation andl healing.

Headphones are provided! They’ll allow you to choose from 3 different programs of music at the event. The music will make musical-mycelial connections of our struggles here, with struggles for liberation of kin around the planet, so come prepared to move to music from many genres and traditions!

 

Collaborative Dj'ing the headphone dance party is Sound Musician Jesse Kalapa!

As a  2nd generation percussionist, Jesse Kalapa, has been a life long  explorer of the healing benefits & transformational power of drumming, music, and sound. He has played with kirtan groups and offered soundscape at ceremonies, in yoga studios, and on retreats for over 20 years. Kalapa Offers coaching and inner process work through movement and sound to help people align with their true self and get the results they need on the physical plane. He works with folks one on one and, in small groups, collaborating in affirmative intuitive musical prayer sessions. 

I have been waiting for this moment to collaborate with folks like Cliff, Atava and Amani on an experience of celebration and dancing for revelation - dancing to get the shit moving and activate the higher self!!! Why now? Liberation from the voices in my head informed by media and  healing from past self imprisonment so I can care for myself, my family, and commuinty. Liberation and healing now  to strenthen our bonds!

 

Leading the Herbal Healing Space: A Sanctuary for Earth-Tended Liberation is Atava Garcia Swiecicki. 

She is the author of The Curanderx Toolkit:  Reclaiming Ancestral Herbal Medicine and Rituals for Healing. Atava studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas and traditional knowledge keepers.  She currently works as a clinical herbalist, teacher, and medicine maker. She was the founder and steward of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine in Huchiun/Oakland for over 20 years.  

Her website is: www.ancestralapothecary.com and she can be found on IG: @curanderxtoolkit.

The Herbal Healing Space is a sanctuary, a place where we can be held in the care of plants as we practice revolutionary rest.   It is a space to be present with ourselves and tend to whatever emotions or energies may arise during the dancing.  Energy workers will also be present to offer healing touch.  We invite you to visit the Herbal Healing Space to commune with plant relatives, tend to the soil of your being and to experience liberatory Earth-based healing.

 

Pop Up Prayer Support will be provided by ABQ CSL Practitioners throughout the event. 

 

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