Ritual and Remembrance

We are living in challenging times, struggling to learn lessons through economic instability, political unrest, climate change, and various forms of systematic violence. However, this moment is also inviting us back to an authentic indigeneity. We are being asked to remember how to be in relationship with the land, our ancestors, and our broken heartedness—as well as how to be in gentle healing relationships with others.

Join Black Buddhist Southern Queen, Lama Rod Owens, for a retreat that explores both personal and collective liberation through somatic-based mindfulness practices, grief work, chanting, and prayer.  

In this program, we will explore:

• Themes of spiritual abolition, liberatory care, grieving as care work, and what it means to be a love-centered agent of liberation
• Meditation and gentle practices to guide us back to our bodies
• Ways to ally with the land while calling our ancestors into healing collaboration
• The wisdom of Tantric Buddhism, African spirituality, the Black Prophetic tradition, American Indigenous traditions, and sacred herbalism
• Tending our broken hearts while calling in joy to hold the labor 

Our liberation is bound to our relationship with the earth, which is always pointing us to true awakening. However, because of the trauma induced by systems of violence, we experience disassociation not just from our bodies but also from the earth. Ancestor practice and veneration are important in our work of spiritual and political liberation by helping us remember that we descend from beings that existed before systems of violence indoctrinated us, and we have the capacity to return to those ways of being. Please join us for this heart-centered experience.