About this Event
The Fly High Retreat is a day experience for folks to get grounded, grow community, and be free to explore their future story.
Led by local teaching artists, healers, and a guest presenter, we curate a creative and nourishing space for participants to engage as they will to offer an accessible day retreat experience. All materials provided.
Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee, and Teas provided by Nourish w/ Naeemah + d'griot cafe
Featured Facilitators: (bios listed below)
: guest presenter founder of Ujima Life Services
: host + greo-wurk facilitator
: musician + open mic facilitator
: artist + collective art engagement
Tickets:
- Early Bird: $125 (through 11/15)
- Standard: $150
- VIP Tickets: $250 includes early access to the event, d’griot hand printed bag of wellness + locally made art items, and a mimosa or virgin cocktale.
- Request for Community Funded Tickets - not gauranteed, yet will look into funding for folks that cant afford it. If you are interested in donating to the Community Funded Tickets. contact [email protected]
- If interested in paying via cashapp or cash prior to event please email [email protected]
More about Cynthia.
Cynthia Byron is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Health Coach, Certified Therapeutic Horticulture Facilitator, and founder of Ujima Life Services. Her holistic approach centers the connections among emotional well-being, everyday habits, creativity, nature, and community, with a particular focus on Black adults navigating life’s transitions. Through counseling, coaching, and community gatherings, Cynthia creates welcoming spaces for people to pause, reconnect with themselves, and explore what comes next with intention and possibility.
More about Naeemah.
Naeemah is a Philadelphia based certified holistic health coach with a passion for sustainable health. She is the chef at d'griot cafe. Naeemah is one of the founders of a monthly plant based Sunday Supper Club. She is a certified yoga teacher as well as a substitute teacher with the School District of Philadelphia. She loves being able to share her passion for food and life with people.
More about blew
Inspired by her afro-indigenous lineage, blew kind creates transformational experiences where folks can connect deeper within themselves and each other toward their highest self. She offers moments of pause, conversation, and discovery where we can experience daily magic, while being open to heal individually and collectively. blew studied theatre at University of the Arts and is a lifetime student of African dance, diasporic storytelling, and living communally with the earth and each other. Her current projects she facilitates are d’griot café + gallery, BeWell 101 workshops, and greo-wurk sessions; connecting folks to their past, present, and future stories
about d'griot cafe
d'griot (“duh-gree-o”) is a folk holistic wellness cafe, gallery, and herb shoppe that amplifies more light in the 'hood; offering transformational moments to be seen, dream, and cultivate resilient community wellness.
vision:
Named in honor of African storytellers and urban slang, d’griot cafe is a healing experience of story; stories of our ancestors, the magic in the present, and our intent for the future.
We support folks on their holistic journey of the mind, body, and spirit. We offer natural medicinal products, nutrient food and beverage, gallery, creative events, coaching, retreats, and a space to inspire the whole family.
We gather around the values of black, brown, local, and sustainable.
We are intentional about creating authentic beautiful spaces to share stories, activate our creativity, educate one another, map toward our goals, and support one another to see the beauty in ourselves to fly.
We are building spaces across Philadelphia that need access to community wellness cultivation as well as outside the city on land to offer rest, retreat, and re-connection.
Contact us if you have any questions -- [email protected]
Follow us @dgriot.philly
Space is available to rent your event! see website for details
Event venue & nearby stays
d'griot gallery, 51 Maplewood Mall, Philadelphia, United States
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