Thank you for your interest in being a good ancestor.
After receiving a request from a person descended from Europeans to join the EQUINOX Dreaming Awake course, the teaching staff and I had a meeting. Since EQUINOX is primarily based on African and Indigenous traditions, I noted that the content would not apply to the specific ancestral healing for European ancestors. As a team of Black Indigenous folks, we were primarily concerned with the amount of emotional and spiritual labor of holding sacred space for white folks. We would like to create a new container for those interested in pursuing their European ancestral traditions. This work would be a collaboration, therefore, it is very important that all parties are able to clearly express their areas vulnerability and strength.
We decided to create a container, a facilitated space for a specific intention, for white folks to uncover European ancestral traditions. The members of this cohort will pay $888 until May 23 using coupon code SUNRISE or $1111 after May 23. This course is intended for educators, caregivers, and professionals who work with vulnerable populations, especially within the public fields of education, medicine, non-profit organizations, and green corporations. We will journey together through the emotional, historical, geographical, and spiritual landscapes. Our overall goal is to provide support to folks through a somatic process of identifying their worldview and how it impacts their relationships and ability to be of service. We will do this through 6 weeks of a well-curated syllabus, facilitated work, research questions, live sessions, bone divination, and small group work. After the 6 weeks, students will have access to the curriculum for 1 year to review and return to it. This course is an opportunity for deep personal transformation and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional development. All practices in this course are explicitly for personal use ONLY. It is strictly prohibited to discuss these practices for any profit-making venture including but not limited to a class, workshop, or intentional community. All ways into this work including but not limited to concepts, theory, course materials, lectures, notes are the express intellectual and spiritual property of the lead instructor, space holders, and guest lecturers. Each participant will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and Terms and Conditions agreement at the beginning of the course. Each student is welcome and invited to share their personal stories about what they experienced and their personal growth journey with whomever they choose. After the 6 weeks, students will have access to the curriculum for 1 year to review and return to it.
Learning Objectives
Identify belief systems and worldview about dreams.
Research genealogy using historical and alternative spiritual methodologies.
Discover overlaps in lived experience through small group dialogue.
Create shareable content of research findings.
Experience African and Indigenous traditional methods of life coaching.
Identify questions and gaps in knowledge regarding Indigenous methodologies.
Identify the impacts of colonialism on one’s body and emotions.
Identify how one’s worldview impacts their relationships and ability to perform.
Apply a conceptual framework for reflection to grow in authentic allyship.
Learner Outcomes
Increased self-awareness and resilience-building techniques to prevent burnout.
Increased ability to produce and provide services.
Increased ability to create a corporate or professional environment that allows staff to feel a sense of connection to the important issues of the day.
Below you will find the course outline:
Intake Interview Form and Phone Call
Each week you will receive your research questions and materials to stimulate & soothe mind, body, and emotions.
Spiritual research methods and ideas for collaboration will also be provided.
By the end of the course, if you would like a completion certificate, you will create 4-6 reflection modules to answer the research questions.
Study Lounge: Collaborate with your 2 cohort mates in your Slack channel.
Receive one 60 min bone divination, to communicate with your ancestral spirits and assist in your research, from TBN, the lead instructor.
Questions: Tag the teaching staff in Slack throughout the duration of the course with any questions.
Complete final assignment: Present your 4-6 reflection modules and answer the question: Have you walked away feeling enriched? If so, in what ways?
How:
Lead Instructor - Raised in Kenosha, WI — Tyrell Blacquemoss (they/he) is a Threshold Wellness practitioner and the founder of W3AVING W3BS (pronounced Weaving Webs), Cause Reign, Dream Reclamation, Energy and Ancestral Healing, and Matriarchal Praxis (DREAM) School and the curator of Diasporic African Dream Anthology (DADA). Blacquemoss is a prophetic dreamworker and descendant of a long line of African priests and Turtle Island medicine people. As a scholarly researcher with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an emphasis in Africana Studies and Indigenous Studies from Cornell University, Blacquemoss reclaims and continues their family legacy of the science and art of dreaming. Blacquemoss has traveled globally studying with shaman, elders, and healers of the following traditions: African diasporic and Western Herbalism, Conjure, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Southern Folk Medicine, Pachakuti Mesa (Peruvian shamanism), Sonoran desert Curanderismo, Toltec - Chichimeca dreamplanting, and diasporic African and Japanese energy healing. They were a 2019-2020 fellow in Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship. Blacquemoss is currently based in Tucson, AZ, practicing as a postpartum doula with Rooted Doula Collective and an MFA candidate at Prescott College in Social and Environmental Arts Practice led by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
We have sought 4 additional experts to collaborate with us on this journey. Please see their bios below (more coming soon).
30% of revenue will go towards BIPOC student scholarships for EQUINOX Dreaming Awake & Trans Apprenticeship of Medicinal Afro-Indigeneity. At the end of the course, there will be an option to become a monthly contributor and please share the scholarship link with your networks as well.
Érica Alcocer • @que_rrrica • (they/them/elle) is a 3rd generation Mexican-American queer non-binary femme of color of Spanish and Indigenous descent living on Somi Se’k Territory (Esto’k Gna), Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, Lipan Apaches, Jumanos, Kiikapoo aka occupied Indigenous lands called San Antonio, Texas • home of the Yanaguana River. Their focuses are in radical social and self-awareness, abolition, disability//transformative justice, (de)colonization and Texas//México//borderland curanderismo. Érica is a community organizer & cultural worker with practices rooted in liberation of all colonized folks and work that centers queer•trans Black women/femmes/folks and queer•trans non-Black Indigenous women/femmes/folks. They hold a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Spanish & Mexican American Studies with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Gianna Purcell (she/her) is an international yoga asana, pranayama, meditation teacher, and death worker. She studies with The Bihar School of Yoga in Bihar India, is a devout tántrica, and a 15 yeared hatha yoga guide. Her passion sits in the seat of reflection to witness, regulate, and respond with awareness. The practices offered are lifelong vitality building and reflective work meant to see clearly the intersections of our existence and step with clarity into navigating the flows of life.
Questions?
When:
Classes will take place June 23, 2021 to August 3, 2021, and Final Projects due - August 23. Live sessions will be as follows:
Week 1 - Live Session - Asana & Pranayama Yoga by Gianna on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 5:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm MT / 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET
Week 2 - Live Session - Decentering Settler Ego Part 1 by Érica on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 8:00 am PT / 9:00 am MT / 10:00 am CT / 11:00 am ET
Week 3 - Live Session - Asana & Pranayama Yoga by Gianna on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 5:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm MT / 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET
Week 4 - Live Session - Dream Siesta by Jen the Rainmaker on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 5:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm MT / 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET
Week 5 - Live Session - Decentering Settler Ego Part 2 by Érica on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:00 am PT / 9:00 am MT / 10:00 am CT / 11:00 am ET
Week 6 - Live Session - Dr. Washington Lecture on Six-S Framework on Wednesday, July 28 8:00 am PT / 9:00 am MT / 10:00 am CT / 11:00 am ET
Where:
Cause Reign’s online Incubator Classroom with a private Slack channel and cohort zoom meetings for live sessions. Any divination sessions will happen remotely and scheduled through a link provided by Tyrell Blacquemoss
Why:
There is a lack of well-advertised, curated European traditional dream practices. In an effort to slow the theft of Indigenous/African dream practices, the content created by this cohort will be housed within Cause Reign to be built into a curriculum and disseminated to folks of European descent. If we are unable to see God in ourselves and reflect on our homes and histories, how can we expect to uplift God in others and help to rebuild our home, the Earth?
STEP 1
STEP 2
If you are registering before May 23, remember to use coupon code SUNRISE.
For any questions or if you are interested in working on a one-on-one level for a significantly higher rate, please book a call with TBN.