CONSCIOUSNESS ROOTING CIRCLES
Consciousness Rooting is an ongoing strategic practice that supports us through reflection, embodiment, creativity, and dialogue to connect with our bodies, our ancestors, the lands we’re on, and the stories of who we are to understand, heal, and transform ourselves and our collective conditions.
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds:
Consciousness Rooting & Storytelling Circles
In-Person circles coming Summer 2025
We are excited to offer our first in-person program of consciousness rooting & collective storytelling after Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds launched in 2023. Last year, we virtually convened visionary educators and participants across borders for collective learning and healing.
Now, we are inviting our communities to join us in-person for a deep dive into radical learning & unlearning.
This program is a combination of two existing projects: 1) Consciousness Rooting Circles, a project led by We Rise in 2019 inspired by the consciousness raising of twentieth century freedom movements in the United States. And 2) Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds, a podcast about Indigenous sovereignty and collective storytelling, a collaboration between We Rise producers nicole gervacio and Catherine Petru based in Oakland/Huchiun and Erika Murcia, a mesoamerican poet based in Náhuatl-Pipil land also known as El Salvador.
The spiritual is political.
The purpose of this work is to care for our whole selves as we strengthen & strategize
how we rise up in action in these deeply challenging political times.
Our team is currently seeking funding & sponsorship in order to offer scholarships for participants & to lower cost for participation. Please view our Sponsor Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds page here for more information. If you have ideas or connection to possible funders or sponsors please contact us at WeRiseProduction@ProtonMail.com.
Program facilitation by Erika Murcia, Catherine Petru & nicole gervacio
Purpose
– Bringing DIGNITY to our walk on Earth by humanizing our ancient stories
– Steward creative spaces for collective storytelling beyond our trauma stories projected through spiritual colonial scarcity.
– Invite attendees to an introductory initiation for slow self-study.
– In other words, learn how to understand and purposefully navigate with the four aspects of the self – Spiritual, Physical, Mental, and Emotional – in relationship with the five elements within: Water, Earth, Wind, Fire and Ether.
– Deepen practice, introspection, self reflection, and internal wellbeing to support communal care and transformation in our sacred ecological kinship.
This community learning project is an invitation to a rooted
– Sacred discipline with our heart’s intent.
– Creative discipline with our emotions and nervous systems.
– Poetic discipline with our walk on Earth Mother and interdependently with our ecological relationships.
Poetic Storytelling Purposes
– Cleansing our individual and collective perception.
– Practicing breaking the habit of scarcity, survival, and external approval.
– Embodying clarity in our heart’s intent.
– Remembering to inhabit joy.
Support our work!
If you are interested in sponsoring this season's series, please review our Sponsor Somos Semillas guidelines.
Erika is a two-spirit, Mesoamerican storyteller, poet and acompañante of Rites of Passage.
I am a traveler walking my talk with various ecologies that call my heart. As the creator of the learning and pedagogical proposal Sanadora Práctica Creativa, my vision of heart-feeding our creativity is a space for self-study to reconnect with our daily rituals.
Erika is co-creator of Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds podcast series and storytelling circles, a collaboration between Sanadora Practica Creativa and We Rise Production.
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds:
Consciousness Rooting & Storytelling Circles
Autumn 2023 • October 31st - December 19th
Tuesdays 4PM - 6PM PST / 7PM - 9PM EST
Dialogue facilitation by Erika Murcia, Catherine Petru & nicole gervacio
Co-facilitators & guest educators include: Karina Falcon, Ember Phoenix, Uzo Nwankpa, and Sol Almonacid
Karina is Mexican Transgenerational Consultant, Writer, Poet and Editor centered in the Sacred Feminine Wisdom. She has been practicing the way of the Medicine Wheel from ancestral medicine such as traditional mexican healing, astrology, Native American and Maya-Tolteca spirituality for about 18 years.
In 2013 she founded Mujer Lunar [MoonWoman] a portal for Spanish speaker women who wanted to explore their sacredness through Ancestral Feminine Wisdom and Visionary tools that help them be grounded while weaving their heart’s intent in form of projects and entrepreneurial deeds.
In 2016, Karina co-founded Carpa Lunar [Moon Lodge] a school in which indigenous teachings, familly constellations work and mindfulness is held in every course and training.
Uzo is a fourth generation descendant of healers from Enugu in Southeast Nigeria. As first generation immigrant to Turtle Island, and global visitor, Uzo is committed to being a bridge between the world of Africans in the continent and the diaspora decolonizing patterns. As an advocate for communities that use the arts to heal, Uzo is dedicated to exploring diverse ways to combine ancient practices with innovation. Uzo is the creator of the Uzo Method Project- A Public Health Solution, which is used as a means to fulfill their mission to ignite a billion souls rising in harmony of the heart mind and soul.
Learn more at www.theuzo.com.
Ember is a Black/Indigenous 2 Spirit Queer Human.
Pronouns are She/Her/they/them.
You will tend to find me in my community building deep intentional relationships, digging in dirt or harvesting on our community farm, loving on my child, sitting on my porch having all the conversations, getting lost in the woods with the fairies, frolicking in the sacred waters and rivers, or in deep reverence in the mountains talking to my ancestors.
I am a creative star soul with a passion for healing, transformative and restorative social justice, herbalism, land Stewardship and visioning the new world we are creating as the systems we currently are surviving in are being destroyed.
I believe in the power of community and its ability to sustain and hold space for the healing and growth necessary to foster networks that allow us all to thrive together as we build foundations of community accountability and care that actually center collective interdependence and acknowledge the kinship systems of our ancestors and the value they offer us.
I am a passionate star being who sees the galaxies of magical possibility that lives within us all. I am deeply woven into the web of spirit and honor our ancestors with every breath I take (or forget to take at times). The experiences I have walked and lessons I have learned this cycle of being a student of earthschool have created a human who fights fiercely for equity and justice and a person who never moves away from difficult conversations and constantly is reminding folks to drink water and find joy...
I am one who is determined to create a world that is safer, kinder and freer for not just the generations to come but those of us who reside earthside now. I am rooted in my commitment to heal and thrive, and I understand that in order to get free we must do so together.
Sol is a 33-year-old Chilean, handpan player and self-taught multi-instrumentalist.
Since I was little, music has accompanied me through the voice and different instruments. My profession is Pharmacist, but it was never something that fulfilled me as much as this wonderful instrument has done. When you choose with your heart you will never be wrong.
I discovered the handpan in 2015, but only in 2018 did I manage to have it. For me the handpan has been and is a great tool to connect with my internal world through its sound and vibration. Channel emotions through it and turn them into melodies.
In 2022 I completed a certification in sound therapy. I play other instruments to accompany group sound baths, such as the didgeridoo, flutes, bowls, among others. Today, after more than 4 years, my focus is totally on the handpan, I already have an album, I teach classes and participate in different types of events accompanying with my music.
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2019 Consciousness Rooting series in collaboration with our communities
2019 Consciousness Rooting event at Irving Street Projects in San Francisco, CA
Cat & nicky in collaboration with Kris
What keeps us out of shock is knowing our history.
- Naomi Klein