Neith Sankofa is a sacred healing artist, dancer, African dance scholar, shamanic practitioner, sacred mama, warrior, artist, singer and more. We close this season with Neith (punctuated with drops of wisdom from her daughter) sharing about where art and embodiment intersect in her practices, and how movement is not only a language, but the origin of all life. We recorded this episode in the spring of 2023, a few weeks after the police murder of Tortuguita - member of our community and environmental activist - who was defending the Weelaunee forest from being bulldozed to build Cop City (an ongoing struggle as of this publishing). Our community was reeling and in deep need of space to be together and process what happened. Neith and I break down the ritual we held for community, and how we applied principles of cultural somatics to understand what was needed in a cultural body experiencing so much inflammation. The sound gets a little choppy at times, but stick with it because we close with some powerful reflections about how to be a ritualist, even if you are just beginning your journey, and how connecting to creative energy is a fundamental skill for holding ceremony.
Neith is currently offering monthly online Process Inquiry Sessions the 22nd of every month. Each session is a rotating medicine teaching including song, movement, visual art making, animal medicine, and more. You can learn more and register by emailing neithsankofa@gmail.com.
Thanks for listening. This is the last episode of the season! Upcoming announcements: the Fall Scribe Lab is going to be in person this yearrr. Registration opens in July and you can learn more about the Lab, other upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing by subscribing to the newsletter on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino. Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa. If you’re at a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi. We’d love to hear from you.
