Shifts, Shedding and Sliding into Spaces of JOY

Sharing the Medicine has rooted my joy in service of life, love, family, self and community.  Listening and responding to the field of resonance, I find myself in alignment with creation, recognizing affirmations mirrored in synchronicity all around the world, as we re-align with life and thrive, embracing joy as the shift that resists oppression and emancipates our spirit from the confines of conditioning and illusion.

I have a few announcements to share that have been born out of my personal journey with the work of liberation and spiritual growth.  I continually return to the question, how may I be of service now?  What is my soul mission tasking me with now? What is wanting to be born from the seed within me?

In my most recent share (Authentic Layers: The Medicine of Being Seen 8/30/20) I talk about the idea of going back to school, so to speak, to learn or re-learn what we need to know to evolve and thrive.  Sometimes the introspective journey must be taken with support, and discussed out loud, given an audible voice, to manifest into form from spirit what is crowning into being.  I encouraged by example and spoke about my personal process through the letting go, not-knowing, and moving from formlessness into form. 

What was born out of that space-time of shifts and drifts and leaping with trust are these heart-centered offerings:

Back-to-School Promo
A service for healing practitioners and perpetual learners on the journeying on the pathways to sustain joyful liberation.  I offer you all an hour-long session for $50 (via zoom or phone) to help you where you feel the need to go "back to school" for that extra support, feedback, guidance, healing, clearing and deepening into your authentic truth and soul mission.

Community Referral
An ongoing service offering for local community members and word-of-mouth referrals.

​Joy Spring*
Embodiment Art, Sound and Movement Improv Creating Space for Joy
Open spaces to express and explore being with guided embodiment journeys and practices

I am offering a monthly joyful family romp to engage in a light-hearted experience to deepen our presence with each other and activate a sensory exploration of relationship, tuning our bodies in space with guided and self-directed sound and movement. Enjoy this unique and timely liberation ground open to all ages, abilities and interests.  First Fridays starting January 3, 2020 7pm-8:30pm.
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A second monthly JOY SPRING space will be held for women to root joy and feel safe to go deeper and create even more space for pleasure to be embodied.  Guided and self-directed sound and movement will shift and release energy, to dislodge patterns of conditioning that aren’t useful for a joyful liberated embodied life. Gently and freely flow the energy body to feel and release emotions; emancipate stagnation and inflammation; and alter perspectives and patterns.  Shift constellations of relationships -with aspects of our selves and in relation to others- to return to optimal harmonious and natural balance, creating space for joy.  Second Saturdays starting January 18, 2020 1:30pm-3pm.

JOY SPRING is an invitation to let spirit play free again. Embodied in our selves and cells, we root and grow, becoming our full sovereign organic being - and in this way feel our connection to the earth and life, and become present and able to tend the garden of our selves, our family, our community and our planet. We will hold a circle of space and create a picture of what is wanting to be expressed before and after the practice and free flow dance. It will be intriguing to witness what life has to share from the deeply embodied balanced space of knowing.  

These monthly alchemical yin-yang playshops will meet in the rear sanctuary studio at The Afro Brazilian Cultural Center of New Jersey beginning January 3, 2020 at 7pm.
*JOY SPRING is a jazz composition by Clifford Brown Max Roach (1954)

Working Together to Liberate Joy*
September 8, 2019 9pm-10pm
An Emerging Forest podcast hosted by Alan Ritter 

My husband and I will be talking about our almost 20-year collaborative partnership, parenting and soul journey during this episode of An Emerging Forest.   We are lovers of life committed to tending the garden of this sacred earth; dedicated to living in joy, continually engaging the unpleasant shadow work to keep it real and integrate into wholeness truth and authenticity, to be present for self and other, family, friends, community and nurture all relationships.
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*Link to episode event will be added soon

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Last but not least, for the last several months I have been arduously weaving this community offering in synch with the evolution of current movements, and ways in which indigenous people and grassroots organizations have been practicing for years and generations, emancipating mind-body-soul from the confines of colonial systems and thought:

Pathways to Sustain Joyful Liberation
Family Retreat and Self-Directed Conference
June 2-4, 2020
A transformative playful living space for all of us BIPOC, our unschooling or self-directed learning families and friends interested in living within and actively co-creating a world that honors the light within life with integrity, who respect young people as whole persons and are willing to open hearts with radical empathy to continually honor and live in harmony with life.  Come together to share the ways we co-create, visualize, embody and hold sacred space for our selves and our families; to expand our parenting experience into an even deeper holistic awareness of the lands we inhabit; to learn and weave into the world more loving pathways for joyful liberation of our nature.  Pathways to Sustain Joyful Liberation is a co-created seed sanctuary space which nurtures and nourishes the pulse of life within every cell, to deepen our individual and community unschooling journey, and evolve a thriving global culture of reverence for life.

May this gathering be a playful nourishing seedbed for emergent ideas and ways to grow us into interconnected life-sustaining joy-liberating global communities.

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On that note, I thank you for reading this update and wish you well. 
Abundant blessings to you all, for the good of all!

~Dhyana

I open my heart and leap toward joyful liberation!