“When we are children, our loved ones bid us off into the dream world with songs and stories. And that’s what we did together on a full moon bonfire at the beach that began by watching the blood red moon rising from the horizon. I shared songs in Yoruba, Taino, Spanish, French, and English to honor my ancestors. I told stories shared with me by my teachers from indigenous traditions around the world, and so did all the glowing souls who came to seed our collective dream. We drank herbal tea for clarity, drank honey made by bees from the Everglades for abundant sweetness, and ate chocolate made by a chocolatier in Miami using cacao beans from farms owned by women in Guatemala for opening our hearts. We offered our dreams to the rainbow fire so it may carry them off to the spirit world.”

“We built a counterclockwise 25 ft x 25 ft 7-Circuit Seed Labyrinth made of sticks, rope, and flowers at the beach and held a sacred shamanic drum journeying ceremony at sunset. Dream. Ritual. Play date. Ancient Pathfinding Ceremony. The seed to build a labyrinth was planted with a prophecy given to me by an elder about walking a labyrinth on the full moon to make a wish. From there it snowballed into a research obsession following the work of Lauren Artress with the Chartres Labyrinth, making my own shamanic drum to develop my inner-eye journeying, and finally the desire to host a gathering to share the wisdom of labyrinth meditation in helping us navigate our paths. Labyrinths have a single path that meanders toward the center. Walking that journey to your own center and back out into the world offers a mirror of the lessons you need to learn right now to let go and let be.”

“Look in the mirror to see who has lived through you. How do you tend to your ancestors? This was a space for us to learn together, and do the work. Through art therapy we are guided to create a family tree from living memory, world history, and the tree of life in exponential cosmic time. Do you feel your ancestors pulsing in your blood? Come take a walk with them to hear their guidance, and dance them alive in your body. Your talents and traumas are the ancestral prayers you carry forward into who you are meant to become. Clarity is knowing your power. We are working with sacred raw cacao medicine to open the heart to the bliss of loving awareness. This ceremonial cacao paste was handmade with lots of love by me in collaboration with a fellow Cuban sister for Cacao Ethika in Costa Rica. The energy of this container led to a spontaneous carnaval parade in search of union, a deep guided meditation taking us back to ancient humans and the beginning of the universe, and singing and dancing in collective effervescence.”

“Integritea Planting: a Tea Ceremony, Integration Circle, and Tree Planting” hosted at Earth n’ Us Farm. Initiations and Rites of Passage are parts of the path. We need support to integrate them, and create empowering stories for how we plan to show up in the world with a critical awareness of history. If you have sat with plant medicine, lost a loved one, returned from life-changing travels, or entered a new life stage, this is an offering for you. It is an honor to walk our truth. Integrity is key to fulfillment. You are invited to join this creative arts therapy workshop to bridge the alignment of your values with your actions. Come receive tools to process transformative experiences. This is a space held for you to integrate spiritual lessons into the material world to align with your purpose in service of the bigger picture.”