Community Stretch: Building Immunity in the Community

Community Stretch

Building Immunity in the Community: Ancestral Remedies for Modern Times

This is how we expand as a Community... how we stretch into our higher Selves and occupy more of our own terriitory and bodies.... This is how we stretch to heal our cells. Through the ancestral techniques of somatic yoga, sound alchemy, and Community divination and affirmation, we will honor our bodies as extensions of earth and sky... as ecosystem.

Community Stretch is a part of a series developed and supported through the Self as Universe Residencies with A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute. Self as Universe Residencies were conceptualized in response to ongoing conversations with the inspirational poet Sunni Patterson, Co-founder of Breath Is Lyfe.

*** This Community Stretch session is also Day 4 of the Annual Algeirs Ancestor Festival. For more information about the festival, please visit Breathislyfe.org

Art, as a practice of restoration, is both the call and the response.
It is mirror making and the mirror itself; reflecting the inner experience of an outward expanded consciousness of Climate and Environment.
Here is where the door is open to explore the wonder of Self and Ecosystem… of Self AS ecosystem…Forging paths through changing landscapes and changing times.
A call for us all to recognize ourselves in Earth’s eyes, and envision a planet of partnership. One that is steeped in principles and practices that center cultural and community values; honoring one another and the land in which we live.

~ Sunni Patterson