Breakfast
Grounding & Sacred Tea
Family Constellations Session: Releasing Individual Patterns and Ancestral Burdens
Lunch
Guided Hike & Land Connection
Self-guided freedom practice
Dinner
Song Circle: Heart Opening Breath Practice & Medicine Songs
Culture Share: Poems, Stories, and Songs of Release
Breakfast
Grounding & Check in
Family Constellations Session: Reclaiming Our Relationships to Our Bodies, Ancestral Lines, the Divine, and Abundance
Lunch
Sacred Tea & Self-guided Reclaim Practice
Sound Healing Session: Improvising Our Way to Wholeness and Vibrant Connection
Dinner
Bonfire, storytelling and medicine songs
Breakfast & Sacred Tea
Time for Check Out
Closing Ceremony: Reclaiming the Feminine Across Genders
Departure
Dinner & Sacred Cacao
Opening Circle
Blessings with local elders and watershed leaders, altar building, medicine songs, and calling ourselves into circle
Facilitate a culture of generative communication, appreciation, and transformation;
Build democratic movements to shift systems of power;
Invite people of diverse persuasions to engage through their own wisdom;
Nurture the creative capacity of organizations, change makers, and politicized healers;
Integrate ecological and holistic practices that are accessible to people of all means; and
Hold space for sanctuary, contemplation and healing as foundational to social transformation
Ana and nisha feel deep alignment with The Watershed Center core commitments which are:
The Watershed Center cultivates right relationship with the Schaghticoke people, the historic, present day, and future stewards of the land and its radical neighbors, who include Rock Steady Farm, Wildseed Healing Village, Linke Fligl Chicken Farm, and the Brooklyn Zen Center’s Ancestral Heart Monastery.
Like all apocalypses, the pandemics of COVID and racial violence awakened a deeper desire in us to live differently. The long standing colonization of people and planet have revealed what is killing us, stifling our life force, denying access to our healing and well being, and keeping us complicit in our own subjugation.
As Women and Non-binary People of Color, we know in our bones that there is another way.
Our ancestral lineages hold blueprints for:
how to love ourselves;
how to connect with the Earth in ways that nourish our mind, body, and spirit;
how to find joy through play;
how to sing our soul’s medicine songs;
how to compost dis-ease and find its antidote;
how to birth what must be brought into the world for our individual and collective freedom.
Ana and nisha are creating a retreat where you get to dream what a liberatory, joyful, open future looks, tastes, sounds, smells, and feels like. A space where you purge, shed, and release what holds you back, keeps you small, enforces self aggression, and drains your life force. A space where you attune to ancestral wisdom and deepen practices of your blood and spiritual lineages. A space where you declare sacred commitments in the presence of spiritual kin. A space where you rebirth the you your ancestors dreamed of and the Earth needs now.
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I am the daughter of immigrant, mixed-race, healers with roots in the Dominican Republic and Colombia. My parents came to the United States pursuing the American Dream of freedom and success, only to give birth to me, a daughter who also told the story of America’s unkept promise. It was through the retrieval of ancestral wisdom in this colonial journey, that I became conscious of my role, to harvest and cultivate the conditions for the Wild Dreams Coaching Program, a space for black, indigenous and immigrant women of color to explore and define freedom for themselves and their communities. The work of decolonizing coaching methods, integration with family constellations and retrieval of ceremonial practices has allowed me to grow a deeper relationship with the land, herbalism, community members and elders. As a result, my ability to listen, speak, write, and accompany others in our collective and emerging liberatory process continues to grow stronger and evolve.
I am a queer femme artist, healing justice facilitator, liberatory coach, mama, the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, and a settler reckoning with what it means to be in the right relationship with the indigenous people of Turtle Island. I find joy, strength, solace and power in writing, songwriting, listening, and co-creating healing and liberatory spaces. I integrate somatic practice, Parts Work, song medicine, and attunement to Spirit in my work. My proudest accomplishments are raising a creative, strong-willed, and loving child, composing an emerging people’s song collection, and co-founding the Circle of Elders, an abolitionist experiment rooted in transformative justice principles which seeks to keep people and communities whole.
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