Rise Up with H'ART/You Are A Powerful Divine Being - 23 Inspiring Interviews

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You Are A Powerful Divine Being - 23 Inspiring Interviews

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Imagine being immersed in deeply inspiring wisdom and ideas over two weeks, listening to fascinating interviews while you make tea, commute, cook/eat dinner….so much ancient and expansive knowledge that you literally go through an activation.

A remembrance is stirred within. A shift in how you see yourself, the world, your purpose and power.

Truly everything is possible, and this convergence will offer many simple, practical and seemingly miraculous tools you can immediately apply to your life.

This interview series includes 20+ incredible speakers who will uplift and empower all of you visionary changemakers, healers, leaders and creatives!

The intention of this event is give people far and wide, access to meaningful knowledge and practical tools to heal, build resiliency, and tap into the magic of divine Source energy.

Why? So we all can collectively wield this energy to heal, amplify our gifts and purpose in the world, and rise up with heart to co-create a way of living where all can thrive.

As a global society with so many generations of colonization, racism, patriarchy, (all the -isms) we have become deeply sick with false internalized beliefs and disconnection from earthly, embodied and spiritual wisdoms all our ancestors once knew.

This kind of spiritual empowerment is needed to re-learn and reclaim the truth and power of our spiritual existence.

We’re going to go deep, get radically real, dance our prayers, and channel our collective energy for much-needed healing and transformation.

I have no doubt that the combination of jaw-dropping spiritual concepts combined with a radical social justice lens, powerfully sharing and integration spaces, and cathartic, prayerful dance, will be deeply healing, empowering, and life-changing for those who participate.

Contents

Introduction & Welcome

Convergence Welcome Video.mp4

Catherine Liggett - "Shadow Work as Radical Love"

CATHERINE LIGGETT

She/her

Shadow Work Teacher and Mentor

Catherine Liggett is a shadow work teacher and mentor. Her teachings and practices are a tapestry of depth psychology, inner child healing, trauma repair, ancient wisdom, and social justice. Catherine is a popular teacher on the Insight Timer app and the creator of the Tender Revolution podcast. She lives with her daughter and husband in Seattle (Duwamish land).

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Catherine Liggett - Shadow Work as Radical Love.mp4

Nilima Bhat - "The Importance of Balancing Shakti Energy in the Body and in the World"

NILIMA BHAT

She/Her

Autor, Dancer, Yoga Teacher

Founder of Shakti Leadership

Nilima Bhat is a leader in the fields of Personal Mastery, Leadership, Gender Equality and Wellbeing. Coauthor of two books, Shakti Leadership and My Cancer Is Me, she is the Founder of the global Shakti Fellowship Program for changemakers.

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Nilima Bhat -The Importance of Balancing Shakti Energy in the Body and in the World.mp4

Darin Leong - "How Gatherings can Inspire Global Change"

DARIN LEONG

He/Him

Founder of the Imagine Music and Arts Festival

“Darin Leong is the Founder of the Imagine Music and Arts Festival and the Imagine Convergence. With 27 years of production experience, he has produced large stages at Burningman, Lightning in a Bottle and many other festivals and events. He is dedicated to the art of gathering and celebration to reinforce community bond and facilitate beautiful experiences.”

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Darin Leong -How Gatherings Can Inspire Global Change.mp4

Scott Sterling aka Drumspyder - "Drumming as a Spiritual and Trance Practice: Celtic and Heathen Inspired Music"

SCOTT STERLING aka Drumspyder

He/Him

Musician

“For over a decade, Scott Sterling has been weaving rhythm, melody, and line as Drumspyder, exploring the Heathen and Celtic old ways in vital contemporary expressions.

He brings a deep love of rhythm to his distinctive style of percussion-driven dance music.  An expert percussionist specializing in tamborines and framedrums, he weaves together intricate hand percussion and bass-heavy production into finely sculpted grooves, equally inspirational to the dance floor and the on-stage performer. Drawing inspiration from the Folk, Medieval, and Renaissance music of the British Islands and Europe, his music is a unique alchemy of musical  traditions, energetic tribal rhythms, and pagan atmosphere.

As a  visual artist, he is developing an intricate and elegant style of painting, ink drawing and vector design. He is inspired by Celtic Insular, Viking and Medieval Gothic styles, and brings them into the present age to illuminate themes of the Heathen and Celtic spiritual traditions.”

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Scott Sterling (Drumpspyder) - Drumming as a spiritual and trance practice celtic and heathen inspired music.mp4

Toni Bergins - "JourneyDance to Feel Deeply, Release and Expand into our Soul Radiance"

TONI BERGINS

She/they

Creator of JourneyDance and The Embodied Transformations Method, long-time Transformational Movement Workshop Facilitator

creative catalyst, creative alchemist

Toni Bergins, MEd, is an artistic alchemist, passionate catalyst and the creator of JourneyDance™ and the Embodied Transformations Method coaching program.

For over 25 years, Toni has helped thousands of people break out of their boxes, transform their angst into art, turn their vulnerability into strength, and move into new stories through embodied practice and emotional empowerment.

A leader in transformational movement, she has trained over 1000 JourneyDance™ Teachers internationally and has presented workshops and trainings at centers and festivals including Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Wanderlust, LoveLight and more. 

She leads Online Programs & Teacher Trainings and has a private embodiment practice. She has been in books and podcasts, has a popular JourneyDance™ DVD and an inspired clothing line. Her debut album, Never Too Late, was released in 2019 and is recording a 2nd acoustic album. In 2020 she wrote and produced a comic one-person-show, The Therapy Show.

Toni’s humor, wild expressiveness and authenticity make JourneyDance™ accessible to all.

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Toni Bergins -Journeydance to feel deeply, release and expand into our soul radiance.mp4

Halcyon Styn - "Love Ambassadorship as Selfish Service"

HALCYON

He/Him

Love Ambassador

Lifestyle artist

“John Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for over 20 years through his “Hug Nation” YouTube channel and Facebook Live broadcasts. He is the author of “Love More. Fear less. Float more. Steer less.” and “Protagonist.” His stories have been viewed online over 40 million times.

He is the co-founder of the Pink Heart Burning Man camp and the homeless outreach organization “1st Saturdays.” His current passion is daily Zoom Gratitude Circles and “The Pink Path,” a coaching program that helps people live authentic and radically self-expressed lives.”

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Halcyon - Love Ambassadorship as Selfish Service.mp4

Shariff Abdullah - "A Secret to Creating a World that Works for All"

SHARIFF ABDULLAH

He/Him

Founder and Executive Director of the Commonway Institute

DR. SHARIFF ABDULLAH is a consultant, author and advocate for mindfulness, inclusivity and societal transformation. Shariff’s meta-vision and mission are simple: we can create a world that works for all living beings.

Dr. Abdullah is the author of Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times, and the award-winning book, Creating A World That Works for All. Shariff is the Founder and Director of the Commonway Institute, in Portland, Oregon. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Law, a former practicing attorney, and a national leader in defining leadership methods for personal and collective transformation and resilience, methods for creating dialogue and understanding across diverse constituencies, strategies for identifying and changing dysfunctional systems and structures, and tools for cultivating sustainable social, environmental, and community action.

Shariff has traveled to over 120 distinct cultures, spanning 45 countries, on every habitable continent. He uses his experiences as a lawyer, an activist, a world traveler, and a student of many wisdom traditions as he explores the role of spirit, intellect, imagination, stories, strategies, and structures for creating change and reimagining the future. Shariff consults with individuals, government agencies, businesses, and social service organizations working on the leading edge of change.

An inspirational speaker with a prophetic message, Shariff has been a sought-after presenter for Consciousness and Human Potential organizations, churches, and other religious and spiritual groups, as well as several international forums.

As an author, Shariff has written several paradigm-shifting books, including The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times; the award-winning Creating a World That Works for All; Seven Seeds for a New Society; Practicing Inclusivity; Practicing Wisdom; Practicing the 12 Steps of Inclusivity, and The Chronicles of the Upheavals and its sequel, The Chronicles of the Awakening.

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Shariff Abdullah -A Secret to Creating a World that Works for All.mp4

Lynn Fraser - "Trauma Healing and the Power of Presence"

LYNN FRASER

She/They

Founder and Facilitator of 

the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma

“Lynn Fraser brings the depth of twenty-four years of experience teaching meditation. She specializes in holding a safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups, classes and private sessions. Lynn lives near family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia Canada.

She is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition; a Certified Facilitator of the Kiloby Inquiries, a somatic mindfulness method of healing; and the founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.

Lynn (she/they) is a cis-gender lesbian, gender non-conforming, large-bodied, able-bodied, white, middle-class, mother of one and grandmother of three, elder (69 years old), social justice activist, meditator of 29 years, meditation and yoga teacher, and trauma survivor with significantly healed PTSD and CPTSD.”

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Lynn Fraser - Trauma Healing and the Power of Presence.mp4

Crystal Arreola - "Decolonizing & Healing Our Bloodlines Through The Power of Cacao"

CRYSTAL ARREOLA

She/Her

Cacao Priestess & Mentor

Crystal works with the spirit of cacao on a daily basis and has dedicated the last 4 years of her life to researching and studying the ancient future Mayan & Aztec connections to cacao while living in the Maya highlands of Chiapas, México, the birthplace and origin of the plant medicine and potent superfood. She loved cacao from this region so much, that she launched a Mexican ceremonial cacao brand called Ancient Roots Cacao.

In her research, she discovered how cacao was purposely negatively impacted and appropriated by the Spanish during colonization and the devastating effects this had on the indigenous peoples and their sacred lands. We can see the effects of this still today throughout Latin America. She began healing herself & her Hispanic bloodlines through ritual work with cacao and believes that anyone can too, regardless of their ethnic origins. Her mission as a rose priestess in this lifetime is to decolonize, weave and integrate the medicine of cacao into the lifestyles of our modern-day world.

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Crystal Arreola -Decolonizing & Healing our Bloodlines Through the Power of Cacao.mp4

Elliot Rasenick - "Death of a Festival: A path of ecological restoration, resilient systems, & land-based trauma healing"

ELLIOT RASENICK

He/Him

Founder Beloved Emergence

Elliot has been a leading figure in transformational events in the Pacific Northwest for nearly twenty years. His roots were in the wild and raw, but very different worlds, of underground dance music and bhakti yoga. In the early 2000s, he saw an opportunity to bring these seemingly disparate communities together, celebrating the common thread between them – ecstatic experience and expression.

Thus Beloved Presents and Beloved Festival were born in 2008 as an outgrowth of Elliot’s early work facilitating art, music, ritual, and celebration in Portland, Oregon. Beloved events weave sacred art & music, somatic experience, experiential learning, and ritual to cultivate vulnerability, belonging, and liberation. The events and the community they have spawned synthesize pedagogical and mythopoetic knowing and weave devotion, psychedelic experience, deep interpersonal connection, and ecstatic playfulness while seeking to nurture safer spaces as a canvas for authentic expression, connection, and self-exploration.

Through the throes and shutdowns of the pandemic, Elliot laid Beloved Festival to rest and dedicated his focus to Beloved Emergence. He founded a non-profit and raised funds to purchase Bells Mountain, 700 acres in Southwest Washington. Sitting at the intersection of ecological restoration, resilient systems, regenerative agriculture, and land-based trauma healing, Beloved Emergence is devoted to place-sourced interdisciplinary learning and events to heal the Land and all those who care for the Land. Then and now, Beloved’s objective is to model a new culture that understands the depth of our connection with each other, to the planet, and with the divine.

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Eliott Rasenick -Death of a Festival a Path of Ecological Restoration, Resilient Systems & Land-based Trauma Healing.mp4

Snow Raven - "NEOshamanism: Ancient Arctic Siberian Wisdom to Awaken Inner Teacher and Healer"

SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

She/Her

Founder/Musician of OLOXNeoshamanic portal to a decentralized Humanity, Earth and Consciousness

Snow Raven - (Suor) is indigenous Sakha from Arctic Siberia, creator of Arctic Beatbox and NEOshamanic healing ceremonies, founder and musician of OLOX, the NEOshamanic Portal to a Decentralized Humanity, Earth and Consciousness.

Snow Raven was a participant of America’s Got Talent 2020, headlined Lightning in the Bottle, Lucidity Festival, RelaxPansion, OmRising, Beloved and played multiple shows at Burning Man. SNOW RAVEN also took part in Bioneers ECOconference, the international forum Arctic Circle-2015 in Iceland and in the French-American Arctic expedition Pax Arctica (DeLong Islands) sponsored by the Prince Monaco Foundation. In 2018, SNOW RAVEN was an expert for Stereofuture Russian Music Awards and was endorsed by the Bose company in Russia.

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Snow Raven - Neoshamanism Ancient Arctic Siberian Wisdom to Awaken Inner Teacher and Healer.mp4

Janelle Leonard - "Norse Mysticism and the Modern Day Völva"

JANELLE LEONARD

She/her

Völva, Priestess & Bodywork Practitioner

https://janelleleonard.com

I am a Mystic. I generate frequency using energy for the purpose of transformation. I am dedicated to this work because I believe we all have the right to return to our Authentic Self.

I have more than 20 years of experience working as a licensed massage therapist and energy healer. My intention with the work that I do has always been to help my clients cultivate even more vitality and wellness within their bodies and a relationship to their nervous system. This desire led me to Light + Sound Healing, Quantum Healing work, Shamanic Medicine, and on the physical plane, CranioSacral Release Therapy and SOMA Neuromuscular Integration®.

Sound Healer. Trained Opera Singer & Violist. Völva. Norse Shamanism Seiðr Practitioner. Tibetan Buddhist. Reiki Master. Quantum Healer. SOMA Neuromuscular Integration® & CranioSacral Practitioner.

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Janelle Leonard -Norse Mysticism and the Modern Day Völva.mp4

Aramis Hamer - "How Art can help You Heal and Reclaim Your True Radiance"

ARAMIS HAMER

She/Her

Artist

Aramis O. Hamer is a visual artist and muralist living in Seattle, WA. Her subject matter is inspired by spirituality, music, nature, divine femininity, and the complexities throughout the Black culture. From a very young age, she always loved to create, but at the age of fifteen, she discovered her love for acrylic paints. With the supportive art community in the Pacific Northwest, Aramis has been able to exhibit her colorful creations at many different exhibitions in the greater Seattle area- including the Paramount Theater, Martyr Sauce Gallery, Climate Pledge Arena, and more.

In 2019, she was awarded the Cornish College of Arts Neddy Award in the painting category. As a self-taught artist, Aramis lets the pull of her imagination be her guide. Her adventure is just beginning, and she invites others to join her on this journey.

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AO Hamer -How art can help you heal and reclaim your true radiance.mp4

Dr. Emmett Miller - "The Power of Guided Imagery: How to Use Stress for Personal & Global Transformation"

DR. EMMETT MILLER

He/him

Physician, Healer, Life/Spiritual Coach

Emmett Miller, MD, acclaimed as one of the fathers of Holistic and Mind/Body Medicine, is a mind-body physician, psychotherapist, visionary, musician, healer, coach, spirit/life coach, and master storyteller. Dr. Miller invented the use of meditation and guided imagery tapes as adjuncts to medical, psychological, and spiritual practice, published the first deep relaxation/guided imagery recordings (1970), and created the now popular field of Mind-Body Medicine.

He was awarded his MD by The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has served as lecturer and preceptor at Stanford University, the University of California, and other universities and medical schools. In 1977, he co-founded and served as medical director of the Cancer Support and Education Center (Menlo Park), the world's first cancer support group and professional training center. His self-healing CDs continue to be the gold standard worldwide.

Dr. Miller introduced the concept of personal and global transformation through rescripting the unconscious mind and rewiring the brain (Software for the Mind) for individual and global healing (1980). His many publications include his expansive library of audio and video programs, his free multimedia website, and his monthly free Zoom webinar (DrMiller.com/LifeMeditations).

His presentations, like his individual consultations for coaching or therapy, are inspirational and highly experiential, using deep relaxation and inner imagery to evoke healing energy and peak performance. His recent movie, Live Life (Amazon Prime), his illuminating website (DrMiller.com), and his vast collection of Self-Healing audios, videos, and books offer his legacy to professionals and non-professionals.

Dr. Miller also shares his talents and experience at the community level, employing advanced techniques to foster authentic conversation (literally – turning together) to evoke planetwide awakening, healing, and Love. The experience of entering the present moment through his guided imagery meditations is an unforgettable and often life-transforming event. Listen, and you will understand; the power is Now.

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Emmett Miller -The Power of Guided Imagery How to use Stress for Personal & Global Transformation.mp4

Ting Ting Guan - "Energetic Alchemy through Movement: An Empowering Story of Dancing Oneself Whole"

TING TING GUAN

She/Her

Founder of GuanJing Method

Movement Specialist

Founder of GuanJing Method, Ting Ting was born in China, and has dedicated her life to exploring the healing benefits of movement and imagination.

She has spent over a decade in the wellness industry, and firmly believes we are all capable of repairing the mind, body, and spirit through cultivating life force energy. Her journey in holistic healing began through the gateway of Yoga, and has since adopted her own organic movements known as GuanJing Method which utilizes spiraling circular shapes to renew vitality. Ting Tings book "GuanJIng Method- Easy to Learn Meditative Movements to Optimize Health & Vitality" will be released the beginning of October. She currently offers online courses and classes as well as hosts retreats throughout the world.

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Ting Ting Guan -Energetic Alchemy Through Movement An Empowering Story Of Dancing Oneself Whole.mp4

Betsy Polatin - "Finding Support and Suspension: Wisdom from a Breathing and Movement Specialist"

BETSY POLATIN

She/her

Master Lecturer

Breathing and Movement Specialist

An internationally recognized breathing/movement specialist and best-selling author of HUMANUAL, Betsy Polatin, MFA, SEP, has been teaching for more than forty years and is currently a master lecturer at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

Her background includes forty-five years of movement education and performance, as well as training in the Alexander Technique, music, dance, yoga, meditation, trauma resolution, and the broader healing arts. Her work is greatly influenced by the teachings of Spiritual and Meditation Masters.

Betsy leads international trainings where she presents her unique and revolutionary fusion of ideas: scientific knowledge combined with ancient wisdom and intuitive human creativity. Teaching experience includes Touch and Movement in Trauma Therapy for PESI, Kripalu, The Embodiment Conference, Psychotherapy Networker, Performing Arts Medicine Association, U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy, Science and Nonduality Conferences, and International Trauma and Yoga Conferences in the US and abroad.

Since 2016, she has been co-teaching ongoing traveling workshops, themed “Trauma and the Performing Artist” and “Trauma in the Public Eye,” with Peter A. Levine, PhD. She teaches Returning to Ourselves, the Wisdom of Trauma, with Dr. Gabor Maté.

Betsy is the author of HUMANUAL, an Epic Journey to your Expanded Self and The Actor’s Secret. As a well-known educator, she has published numerous articles in the Huffington Post. She maintains a private practice online internationally.

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Lou Reed - "The Expansive Power of Energy Medicine: Everything is Possible"

LOU REED

She/her

Maori Energy Shaman

Founder Energy Medicine Institute

Creator of the EMI Trainings

Co-Founder Energy Business Institute

Co-Founder Tribal News Inc

Lou Reed’s life was filled with challenges, initiations, violence, betrayal and pain. Lou’s healing journey saw her transform her wounded stories into Sacred Medicine, which she shaped into a reproducible, scientific, step-by-step method for transforming all dimensions of your being. Energy Medicine Institute (EMI) was born and offers global, online internationally accredited energy training.

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Lou Reed -The Expansive Power of Energy Medicine Everything is Possible.mp4

Dr. Charles Flores - "Soul Recovery and Returning to our Full Potential: Addiction as a Societal Issue"

DR CHARLES FLORES

He/him

CEO Vital Puma Integral Recovery

Dr. Flores is a California licensed and nationally certified psychotherapist. He is also a state and internationally certified advanced drug and alcohol counselor who has practiced in multiple settings in the field of co-occurring disorders for 25 years. He has directed several multi-million dollar substance abuse and mental health treatment programs in the Bay Area.

Originally hailing from the South Bronx, Dr. Flores obtained his MS in Counseling Psychology at Fordham University and gained additional training and certifications in Family Counseling in Iona College, the Ackerman Institute, Gestalt Associates, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, Sophia University, and his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Integral Studies in multicultural, humanistic, and spiritual psychology.

Dr. Flores serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals, where he serves on the Executive, Finance, and Chair of the Legislative Committee, which promotes excellence in the delivery of services focused on substance use and its associated problems by providing the highest level of advocacy, competence, and ethics among programs and professionals. In that role, he provides training for SUD providers for his district in the Bay Area. He also serves as the Chair of the CCAPP Education Board, which provides education and technical assistance regarding addiction, treatment, recovery, and associated problems.

Dr. Flores is also a professor of Chemical Dependency Studies at California State University, East Bay, and has taught psychology at John F. Kennedy University and several other universities for the past 15 years. He is the Psychedelics and Addictions Fellow for the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research and is listed in Chacruna Institute of Psychedelic Plant Medicine‘s People of Color Making a Difference in Psychedelic Healing. He is also a strong advocate for sexual and gender diversity as natural expressions of the human experience and is a proud member of Bay Area Open Minds and The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

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Dr Charles Flores -Soul Recovery and Returning to Our Full Potential Addiction As a Societal Issue.mp4

Mary Anderson - "The Healing Powers of Ecstatic/Free-Form Dance"

MARY ANDERSON

She/Her

Founder of Ecstatic Dance Seattle

Mary Anderson started Ecstatic Dance Seattle in 2001. She was attending a seven-day meditation intensive in California and on the last day she heard a voice say: “You are moving back to Seattle to start a healing dance.” It’s not the first time Mary has been divinely guided by spirit so she listened and everything lined up perfectly.

Ecstatic Dance Seattle has been a thriving dance community for almost 21 years.

Mary also hosts healing retreats on her 6-acre flower farm in Port Orchard, Washington, encompassing sound healing, breathwork, shamanic journeys, ecstatic dance, yoga, talking stick circles, art workshops and creating floral mandalas.

Mary’s Native American (Kootenai-Salish) Grandmother set her on her spiritual journey when Mary was 19 and passed down her psychic medium gifts as well (stay tuned for her book: “Ghosts, Guides and Grandmother”).

When Mary isn’t on the dance floor she is outside planting seeds (literally and figuratively!) in her garden, walking in the forest, or laughing with her lovely daughter.

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Mary Anderson -The Healing Powers of Ecstatic Free Form Dance.mp4

Paul Chiyokten Wagner - "Indigenous Wisdom as our Guide to Co-Creating a Healthy World"

PAUL CHIYOKTEN WAGNER

He/Him

Saanich First Nations wisdom keeper and advocate

Founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea

Nationally recognized Native American Flutist

Paul Chiyoken Wagner is a member of WSANIC’ (Saanich) First Nations and has been speaking out on social and environmental issues since he was a boy at City hall meetings working to keep toxic fluoride out of drinking water. A Coast Salish Storyteller and award-winning Native American flutist he is a strong advocate of ancient ways and teachings of the circle of life as well as the return of our elder women to guide our societies into life.

In 2013 Chiyokten assisted with Idle No More rallies and actions here in Seattle as well as speaking at them. In 2015 he was honored to speak alongside Jill Stein at the Cop21 Climate Talks in Paris with the Salmon is Life Coalition.

After participating in the “Seattle to Standing Rock Canoe Journey” in Late August 2016 he started the campaign “Winter Shelter For Standing Rock” where he and volunteers built Tarpees (teepee-like winter shelters) for Indigenous Water Protector families (with elders), to date 88 of these 8-12 person arctic shelters with custom wood stove heaters have been built for occupations and gifted to various points of resistance in the US and abroad and are still being gifted today.

After returning to Seattle Chiyokten formed Protectors of the Salish Sea, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to ending the era of fossil fuel in our Salish Sea and beyond through direct divestment actions. Protectors of the Salish Sea has worked with numerous climate justice organizations, they helped occupy 2nd Avenue (in downtown Seattle) with 4 Tarpees to shut down Chase Bank. Protectors have occupied the Capitol 3 times. 3 years ago POSS occupied Olympia State Capitol with 4 Tarpees for 4 days and in September 2019 walked 46 miles and occupied the Olympia state capitol demanding that Gov. Jay Inslee Declare Climate Emergency honor the treaties by halting all fossil fuel expansion projects and occupied again on March 10th, 2020.

Chiyokten has organized numerous Salish Sea Prayer walks and rallies, and co-authored the Tokitae/ Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary Proclamation which has begun the process of recognizing our Salish Sea as Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary to save our Wild Salmon and Orcas from extinction.

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Tada Hozumi - "Japanese Spirituality for the Modern Age: Body, Land, Culture, and the Internet"

TADA HOZUMI

They/Them

Mystical Researcher

Tada Hozumi, descending from the world's longest continuous and documented lineage of shamans, is a philosopher, artist, and spirit worker of Japanese ancestry living in the diaspora, mostly in Vancouver BC Canada.

Tada is most well-known for innovating 'cultural somatics', an open-source framework for collective healing that theorized cultures were in fact bodies with nervous systems made up of complex networks of human relationships.

Currently, Tada is working on extending this framework into a larger project that looks at how we may spiritually navigate the present times that are pressurized by the forces of economical and ecological collapse and singularity. Particularly, they are interested in accessing their ancestral wisdoms around both land-based spirituality and techno-animism, seeing the need for there to facilitate spiritual alchemy between URL algorithms and land-based spirits.

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Niema Lightseed - "Art As Embodied Liberation Practice"

NIEMA LIGHTSEED

she/her

Niema Lightseed (she/her) belongs to poetry, to painting, to music, to the soil of art. To the tall trees and still-wild rivers, to the dandelion, lavender, mycelium, and salmon. To the wisdom of the healing body and the relationship between touch, movement, and wellbeing. To the brilliance of her womanist ancestors and to a liberated, creative, and interconnected future.

Niema is a Black, fat, queer, cis-woman originally from the lands of the Neshnabé people in what is now called Chicago, Illinois. Since 2013 Niema has been a grateful guest in the lands of the Chinook, Multnomah, and Kalapuya people in so-called Portland, Oregon.

Her offerings are distilled from an irrepressible inquiry into the marrow of life. She wants to meet the rock that becomes the paint that flows from brush, literally and metaphorically in all we create. Niema is a lifelong student of liberation in an ever-deepening process of learning how to transform internalized white supremacist heteropatriarchal oppression, dismantle capitalism, and serve our collective evolution towards a restored and regenerative world, guided by creativity and radical imagination.

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Erika Merz - "Reclaiming Spiritual Empowerment: Tools to Embody Your True Radiance"

ERIKA MERZ

she/her

Energy Worker, Prayerful Dancer, Visionary Artist, Facilitator, Prison Abolitionist

Erika Merz, (she/her), is born, raised and currently rooted on unceded Duwamish and Coast Salish lands, aka Seattle. The core of her work, Rise Up with H’ART, focuses on reclaiming spiritual empowerment through energy work, dance and visionary art infused with a radical, racial justice and decolonial lens and the vision to awaken collective, heart-centered action for healing and radical culture change. 

Her work is inspired by the way she experiences divine energy (especially when dancing!) and by movements for social change. She carries strong intentions to empower people, to remember our divinity, the wisdom and purpose of our lives, and to awaken collective, heart-centered action for healing and radical culture change.

Erika is a spiritual empowerment guide, avid ecstatic “energy” dancer, prayerful sorceress, visionary artist, facilitator and prison abolitionist who loves deep conversations and spontaneous prayer. 

Erika is a white, cis, mostly straight, woman, second generation German Jewish on my mom’s side, mixed European ancestry on my father’s side, who carries lots of privilege and a passion to re-humanize and re-spiritualize our society. Erika welcome's you to reach out and connect, she’d love to hear from you!

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Erika Merz - "Deep Dive Dance Ceremony & Workshop"

ERIKA MERZ

she/her

Energy Worker, Prayerful Dancer, Visionary Artist, Facilitator, Prison Abolitionist

ABOUT THIS UNIQUE AND INSPIRING EVENT!

It is time to reclaim the power of dance to channel divine energy to amplify your and prayers for the world. 

This DEEP DIVE DANCE event has the potential to be life-changing. This combination of practices can help us energetically transform our lives on many levels.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE OR PHYSICAL ABILITY NECESSARY! 

This offering is applicable for people with none - to - tons of experience in the realms of dance, energy work and meditation and for folks of any/all abilities (i.e. full-body movement is not required!)

Participants will be guided on ways to connect with the divine, Source energy through various practices including visualization, energy work, and free-form movement/dance. 

Think of this event as similar to an ecstatic dance journey with an hour of non-stop music, with the added components of guided practices to offer powerful tools and concepts to weave into your dance as you choose.

This is for you if you:

- Enjoy DANCING

- Believe in the power of ENERGY

- Are down to “DIVE DEEP”

- Are committed to your journey of healing and expansion

- Want to offer prayers of transformation to the world

Does any of this resonate? Dancing is when I feel most spiritually empowered, it’s amazing the freedom and healing that’s possible! 

Past participants have marveled at how uplifting and nourishing these guided dance events have been, reminding them of the expansive truth of who they truly are, and the powerful, transformative energy they always have access to. 

You will be reminded of how expansive and powerful you are as a divine being, interconnected with all the energetic "magic" of the cosmos! Don´t we all need some support to embody this truth?! And it's going to feel good and be fun, the best kinds of healing.

Over the years I have found that combining dance with these practices of energy work, visualization and intention can be so powerful! This combination can help you amplify your ability to heal, transform, expand and pray through dance. 

Who knows, you may even drop into a powerful trance-like state you have never experienced before!

This is a special offering to expand us powerfully into the true state of love that is much-needed medicine for our lives and for the world.

Blessings,

-Erika

Deep Dive Dance Ceremony & Workshop -Online Convergence.mp4