Moon Wall Hanging: Gibbous-Crescent
Call in the energy of the moon and grounding in the cycles of change. Waxing Gibbous Moon opens up expression, growth, and creativity, while Waning Gibbous opens up inspiration and service. The moon is the powerful manifestor of cycles and transitions. [Source of image and text: Soma Ayurveda + Integrative Wellness]
The Art Gallery of Mississauga is hosting a workshop to guide participants:
"...on an energetic journey of time travel, meditative creation process, and opportunities for intentional connection to ancestors and ancestral lands through the process of designing a sacred healing object."
Here is the announcement on AGM's current main page:
Contemplative Design: Speaking to Ancestors through Sacred Object Creation | Thursday, May 10, 5:30 - 8:30 PM | Glass Pavilion | REGISTRATIONAnd here (also posted below) is a more complete biography of the two "facilitators":
Using a process that we call Contemplative Design*, together we connect through ceremony. Facilitated by MeLisa (Jet Feather) Moore and nisha of SOMA Ayurveda + Integrative Wellness, participants will be guided on an energetic journey of time travel, meditative creation process, and opportunities for intentional connection to ancestors and ancestral lands through the process of designing a sacred healing object.
MeLisa (Jet Feather) Moore is the co-founder and co-director of Soma Ayurveda and Integrative Wellness. She is an integrative health and wellness practitioner, Earth-based medicine woman, facilitator, writer, multi-disciplinary designer/inventor and sacred sound musician. Her work is rooted in the intersectionality of spirituality, futurism, synergetics, traditional healing practices, racial-economic equity and unity, and Transpersonal + Buddhist Psychology. She is also a researcher/designer of alternative education and economic models and loves using design and STEM for social entrepreneurship development. Her life, root Tibetan master guides, Peruvian Elders, her West African + Cherokee ancestors, Mother Earth, animal allies, main collaborator nisha ahuja, and former classroom students, along with many others, have been invaluable supports in her journey and development. She loves to support people in going deep in their healing and spiritual journeys along with re-uniting people with their gifts and personal power. She does this through Deep Racial Healing Coaching, Spiritual Healing Guidance, Earth-based Energy Work, Therapeutic Sound, Creative Coaching, and Shamanic Healing. MeLisa (Jet) is author of Love Notes to Everyone: Healing Contemplations for Deeper Living, Loving, and Liberation and children’s book Adventures of Bun Bun: Design, Play, Meditate.
nisha has supported hundreds with Ayurvedic Medicine + Bodywork, Therapuetic Yoga, Attmic Energy Healing + Reiki, Sound Healing, ancestral healing, creative movement + theatre creation, and a range of wellness and equity-centered workshops. nisha is co-director of Soma Ayurveda + Integrative Wellness, a social enterprise for wellness, education + equity, co-founded alongside MeLisa (Jet) Moore who has contributed to nisha’s spiritual journey and understandings of social equity immensely. nisha is graduate of the Centre for Ayurveda and Indian Systems of Healing (Toronto) and York University Theatre and International Development (Toronto), and has trained in a Reiki (Master Level) with Varsha & Ravi Hooja (Bombay), Attmic Healing with Manav Ji Sahaj (India), and Yogic Medicine at Swami Vivekanada Ashram (Bangalore India). As a theatre artist nisha has worked internationally and her plays include Yoga Cannibal, Un-Settling (Canadian Theatre Review, January 2016), Cycle of a Sari (excerpt in Refractions: Solo, Playwright Canada Press, 2014), and 30 People Watching co-written with Amelia Sargisson (ReView: an anthology of plays committed to social justice, 2016). nisha’s practice is dedicated to dissolving the boundaries between art, traditional medicines, ceremony and spirituality, and social equity and believes healing practices are revolutionary and fundamental to our collective liberation.