About this Event
Dreaming and Resting As Resistance: A BIPOC Affinty Space
Through our liberation and empowerment workshop series, we will discover and embody strategies from the Rest is Resistance Nap Ministry framework to restore, nurture, soothe, and enhance our wellbeing. To counter the toil of everyday white supremacy, we will use our mind, body, and spirit to strengthen our personal and collective power as a path to liberation. We will expand our collective consciousness to higher levels of vibrations and joy!
This one month BIPOC cohort journey will focus on recognizing our bodies, hearts and minds as sites of liberation while using rest as a portal to imagine and create a life sustaining existence. Through artistic expression, collective divine sleep and dream rituals including crystal sound bath healing and self-reflection, together we will center joy and resistance to transform systems of oppression in ourselves and our everyday life.
Participants will also gain exclusive access to
- 24 lesson AntiRacist and Black Triumph Curriculum
- DC Black history and relevance to present day with current events
- Cultural pride and history
- Ongoing AntiRacist Table Online Community Membership
- Tools for Self and Community Advocacy including AntiRacist Table Ebook Accountability Resources
Sliding Scale Fee
Free Dream through Barriers Scholarship
$10 Liberation Seeker
Space is limited. A waitlist will be started once capacity is met.
Bios
Kirsten Ivey-Colson (she/her) JD has an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the George Washington University Law School and an undergraduate degree in African American Studies and English from the University of Virginia. She is the great-great-granddaughter of enslaved African Americans and the mother of a college student. Kirsten is committed to creating a just and compassionate world. She is a lover of Black history and values our stories. As the co-founder of the AntiRacist Table, she has lead workshops, book clubs, created curriculum, and helped educate and raise awareness. She is also a meditation practitioner and a student of nonviolent communication.
Simone Hudson (she/her) Completed Acupuncture school in 2011. She has practiced in community and private settings throughout Maryland and has a focus and passion in helping patients realize how powerful their body is and how brilliantly capable it is in healing itself. Guiding individuals to become more attuned to their inner “qi”, experiencing somatic healing awareness practices that centered on rest to help allow the body to open and rest in order to hold a greater capacity to heal and thrive is central to her work.
Lynn Turner (she/her) is a native Washingtonian (Piscataway Land), wife, and mother of two children and the proud descendant of enslaved people. Lynn is the co-founder of the AntiRacist Table and has been a culturally responsive early childhood educator, teacher trainer and leader in the movement of Waldorf Education in Northern America for over fourteen years. Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts from Sweet Briar College, an MAT in Early Childhood Education from Washington Trinity University and received her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate in 2017. Lynn creates and facilitates biography, liberation and belonging workshops with individuals and institutions in Waldorf and mainstream communities to support the renewal of social life in our times of disconnect. She serves as a member of the Trust for Learning and is the co-authored Nurturing All Children in Nature, Lynn is a wife and mother of two teenagers. She loves cooking, traveling, gardening, brewing up plant medicines in her alchemy kitchen, centering joy and rest for her and others collective wellbeing.
Bri Alexander is a certified Sound & Energy Healing practitioner. Through various modalities including breathwork, sound healing, vibrational therapy, meditation, mindfulness, Reiki, aromatherapy, and somatic movement, Bri Alexander Wellness promotes harmony for mind, body & spirit.
The AntiRacist Table https://theantiracisttable.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road Northwest, Washington, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 13.26