Occupy Your Heart

I’m so excited to be collaborating with IDHA and on a class that kicks off their 2024 training series this Sunday 1/14.

I’ve admired IDHA’s work for awhile and meeting and co-creating with Selin on this offering has been wonderful. I can’t wait to share what we’ve developed with you.

The class will be recorded if you can’t attend live.
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Facilitated by and , “Uprooting the Lie of Separation: Trauma-Sensitive Survival Strategies” will focus on the role that colonialism has played in creating widespread and chronic disconnection, exploring helpful and non-helpful survival strategies from a trauma-informed nervous system lens. This includes honoring the wisdom of dissociation, which can help people cope with the weight of a world in crisis. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom traditions of the African diaspora and body-based deep liberation practices, faculty will contextualize human disconnection on several levels, unearthing our inherent interconnectedness as a way to open up more choice, possibility, and healing. Participants will learn strategies for uncovering physical and emotional pain in order to gain access to parts of the self that previously were inaccessible, gain new perspectives, and usher in radical transformation.

Visit bit.ly/topographies-class1 or the link in bio to register. The participatory and practice oriented class runs from 12-3 pm EST. 2.75 CE credits are available at the general or supporter rate, ASL + captioning will be provided, and the session will be recorded and shared after for those who are unable to join us live.

You can also visit bit.ly/idha-topographies to register in the entire 8-part series for savings of 30%

Swipe through for more information about the class content, objectives, and our faculty. Image descriptions in the comments.

Join us Saturday 1/13 @ 12pm ET for a free event, Love Like a Forest: Animist Skills for Nurturing Resilient Communities in a Time of Disconnection.

Link in bio to register. If you register you will get the recording whether or not you can attend live.

As always, we’re going to have a good time together, share immediately useful teachings grounded in real life animist experience and also share some info about our upcoming course, Energy Body Mastery.

We will explore:
* 5 essential principles that allow us to create and sustain truly regenerative relationships

* The fundamental skills necessary to embody those principles in our every day life

* Stories of epic failures and surprising successes in building community in my own life that taught me what it means to truly co-create with humans and spirit in these times

* A useful tool for remembering to apply animist principles amidst the chaos of every day life

We must remember the skills of being in sustainable, diverse, intimate community if we are to survive as a species.

We can do this together.

You are an essential part of finding the way to a new future.

I hope you’ll join us!

Hey Loves!

I'm having a party with the Last Mask Center to celebrate the launch of my first book, Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma.

For those of us in the US, this will be on the eve of the presidential inauguration.

I would love to gather with you on that night and engage in liberatory practices to dream into the future we are wanting to cocreate in this time of transition.

One of the reasons I wrote Deep Liberation was because I don't think we can afford to continue making slightly better versions of a culture that has fundamentally failed us.

Nor do I believe we can wait for our culture to improve before we start actively practicing and living in the more just, loving and free world we dream of.

With this book I'm sharing some of the foundational tools I believe can help us weave greater wholeness within ourselves and our culture even from within broken systems, so we can write new stories and possibilities of how to be in the world with our lives.

As part of this celebration we will be engaging in a shared liberatory practice to dream into the new future we are wanting to create in this time of transition.

I hope you'll join us!

Hey Loves!

I'm having a party with the Last Mask Center to celebrate the launch of my first book, Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma.

For those of us in the US, this will be on the eve of the presidential inauguration.

I would love to gather with you that night and dream into the new future we are wanting to manifest together in this time of transition.

One of the reasons I wrote Deep Liberation was because I don't think we can afford to continue making slightly better versions of a culture that has fundamentally failed us.

Nor do I believe we can wait for our culture to improve before we start actively practicing and living in the more just, loving and free world we dream of.

With this book I'm sharing some of the foundational tools I believe can help us weave greater wholeness within ourselves and our culture even from within broken systems, so we can write new stories and possibilities of how to be in the world with our lives.

I hope you'll join us!

Link in bio.

Hey Beloveds, I wrote a book.

The link is in my bio to pre-order.

Here’s a tiny excerpt for you:

“We can’t rely on individual experts, politicians, or gurus to address the cultural stories and beliefs that have brought our current world to its logical conclusion. Our culture has failed us. No hero savior is coming to rescue us. No one person has all of the medicine we need to create the new world we’re moving toward.

Now is the time for each of us to begin doing the work personally within ourselves and collectively in community to shape the stories for the world our grandchildren will be born into.
Now is the time to learn to rely on each other.
I put my trust in you.
I put my trust in us.”

Wishing you a Happy New Year in which we are each deeply supported in meeting the needs of our time with our unique medicine.

Let this be the year of sustainable love and the transformation and freedom that comes with it.

Energy Body Mastery: Restoring Your Life’s Balance and Vitality starts tomorrow! (link in comments)

One of the many things I love about this course is getting to share some of the most effective tools I’ve learned to come into a healthier relationship with our external environment, the people in our lives and the deep ecology within our own bodies and spirits.

The core of the course involves developing the essential structures we need to come into healthy, nourishing intimate relationship with ourselves and with the world.

Whether you are brand new to your healing path or spirituality, a seasoned practitioner and/or in the midst of integrating deep healing work-- I highly recommend Energy Body Mastery to you.

Many spiritual traditions taught today leap over the essential steps to creating and maintaining a healthy energy body which is the foundation for all other practices. We then wind up getting less of a return for all the good work we are doing than we should be when it comes to total transformation of our lives and support of our health and well being.

For me personally, these practices have been essential to transform my relationship with myself, be able to live in a place like New York City without feeling overwhelmed by other’s energy and emotions, maintain a full healing practice and also cultivate deeply rewarding intimate relationships.

You can click the link in the comments for more information.

We still have some spots open for the Ancestral Lineage Repair Intensive at MINKA in Brooklyn Taya Shere and I are offering December 6-8th.

This workshop will guide you through a powerful process of:
🔦assessing the current state of your ancestral lines
☔️creating strong healthy boundaries between you and problematic ancestral energies
🔮connecting intimately with an ancestral guide
🏥working with that guide to effect healing on behalf of your lineage
🎁moving towards receiving the full blessing of your ancestral lines and releasing the burdens
🗝gaining the tools to continue the healing process after you leave the workshop

This work has been deeply impactful in my life and it always amazes me how quickly when working in a group together over the course of a weekend we can have life changing experiences with our ancestors.

I would love to see you there!

Link in comments.

Just had an inspiring conversation with Christina Pratt for Why Shamanism Now on Ancestral Healing and Activism.

We talk about:
-my experience working with male ancestors who committed gendered violence and r**e
-why it can be harmful to bring an ethic of disposability to ancestral healing (or our communities)
-how focusing solely on oneness and love can sometimes be a dangerous bypass
-the necessity of heartbreak for our collective healing

On WhyShamanismNow.com, iTunes and link in bio.

I had a great conversation with Nick of for the incredible !

I got to talk for the first time about how ancestral healing improved my love life among a lot of other topics.

Check it out here: http://queerhealingjourneys.com/langston-kahn/

So excited to share that I will be part the upcoming free Ancestral Healing Summit April 8-12.

I'll be speaking alongside inspiring practitioners and educators like Christina Pratt, Daniel Foor, Pavini Moray, Tamira Cousett, don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Sandra Ingerman, Gregg Braden and others about the power of ancestral healing and deep connection with our people.

In my presentation I speak to Ancestral Healing as one way of increasing our resilience and ability to resist systems of structural oppression, especially for (but not limited to) peoples of the African Diaspora.

Others will be sharing:
--A life-changing process to heal your ancestral karma

--How connecting with all sides of your ancestral lines helps you feel more rooted and whole (and how this includes you if you were adopted!)

--How you can transform intergenerational burdens into ancestral blessings

--Celtic, Jewish, Japanese, LGBTQ, African Diaspora, Hindu, Native American, and many more perspectives
How to grieve and metabolize generational pain — so you can stop repeating the same cycles over and over

--Exactly how epigenetics shows that you are more than your DNA

RSVP at no charge here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ahs19a18857/a18857