Events

Exploring the sacred changing of the seasons for wisdom and resilience 

We welcome you to this upcoming In-Person Workshop with Maryam Hasnaa and the California Institute of Integral Studies on Saturday, October 26th 2024.

This experiential workshop, set in the beautiful garden of Urban Adamah, an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California, provides a deep opportunity to collaborate with the forces of change that exist in nature.

In ancient traditions the time between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice was considered deeply sacred and meaningful. It was revered for how it opened doorways between worlds and aligned us with the more hidden aspects of ourselves. These sacred times were often marked with the change of seasons, harvest festivals, rites and rituals for death and resurrection, as well as celebrations honoring those on the other side. In our modern times, we still have the beautiful opportunity to reflect upon our relationship with the unseen that dwells in this powerful time of year.

Join us Saturday, October 26th in Berkeley, California for a transformative workshop exploring tools and practices for working with the energies of the changing season to infuse more wisdom and resilience into our soul development. 

On the Land in Our Bones 

In her latest book, The Land in Our Bones, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, cultural worker and author, Layla K. Feghali ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. Offering a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and asks into the ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement.

Layla remaps Cana’an and its crossroads, exploring the complexities, systemic impacts, and yearnings of diaspora. She shows how ancestral healing practices connect land and kin—calling back and forth across geographies and generations and providing an embodied lifeline for regenerative healing and repair.

In collaboration with CIIS, join Maryam and Layla on Thursday, April 4th at 6PM PST for a profound conversation that invites us to re-member our roots, to deepen our relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora, and is a beckoning call towards belonging, healing, and freedom through tending the land in your own bones.

NATURE SPIRITS: THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND NATURE

Inspired by the work of Hazrat Inayat Khan, we will learn about how each aspect of creation has a unique song and how that creation song is awakened and made manifest through responding to a calling.

In collaboration with Inayatiyya we invite you to join us on Friday, March 8th, 2024 at 12PM PST.

We welcome all who are able to join us. This is free event hosted via Zoom.