We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams come true.
What does it mean to “re-member” our roots? To acknowledge those who–over generations–paved the way for our own spirits to enter this earth realm? To re-connect the ties to our deep cultural lineages, our ancestors, and the ancient traditions that systems of discrimination, colonization and forced assimilation once attempted to erase?
Join us this Halloween as we explore these questions through the multicultural origins of this mystical holiday, while co-creating safe space for communal joy and remembrance for the departed loved ones who came before us. Re-imagining our ideas of death and loss through celebration, intention, and veneration.
We invite each guest to come with an open heart and the respectful understanding that this may be a deeply emotional experience for some attendees which we will all be collectively holding space for. Our evening's flow will include:
∷ creating a living community altar within the teahouse to strengthen our ceremonial connection to the ancestral realm for the evening
∷ intuitively channeled sacred sound meditation using spiritual guidance from oracle cards, and healing frequencies from a steel tongue pan drum, Tibetan + crystal singing bowls, Chau gong, Koshi chime, and meditation bell
∷ altar offering jar workshop using spiritually potent herbal & floral plantcestors, natural resins, healing stones, and other elemental allies to continue honoring this sacred connection at home
∷ tea talk ceremony by sharing personal stories, traditions, rituals from our unique heritages over a custom blend of organic herbal remembrance tea by Lune Souleil
Please feel free to bring a photo of an ancestor or departed loved one, a personal cultural totem [i.e. family heirloom, traditional art or cloth, calavera, etc], or flowers/candles/fruits to place on our living altar for the evening. All other materials and light refreshments will be provided!
*Tickets are offered on a sliding scale basis — we ask that guests who are in need of communal financial support and identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color reserve space at tier 1 or 2. Those who are able to invest higher will directly support the costs to offset the lower sliding scale tickets.