Today
Day 3
Fountainetta Coleman
Healer
Self Compassion
Mindfulness vs over identification
Theme
Kinetic Yoga
Guided Practice
INTRO
Today's Greeting
Shalom Cook greets us for Day 3.
Meditation Practices
Fountainetta Coleman has been a dancer, performing multi-instrumentalist and DJ, as well as an instructor of percussion throughout the Bay Area for 20 years. Her deepest interest is fusing percussion, voice, sound and movement in order to bring a fully embodied experience into artistic creation and expression. Through embodiment she seeks to impact and expand consciousness around wellness, and bring focus to how embodiment may lead us to a truly wholistic-humane existence.
With her studies in Sound, Voice and Music Healing (California Institute of Integral Studies), Hypnotherapy (Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy), training in various movement styles (Maureen Haley Studios in San Jose and the Malonga Casquelord Center in Oakland); her deepest passion is focused upon how our embodiment can bring us INSPIRATION, clarity, engagement and community.
Additional Resources:
https://www.afiawalkingtree.com/
https://malidoma.com/main/
https://www.earthlodgecenter.org/
http://voxmundiproject.com/
https://biosonics.com/
Quote of the Day
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
-Maya Angelou
Liberation Journal Prompt
How do you hold yourself accountable with your self-compassion? What are the awareness practices, or ways you ensure you are centered in a compassionate way toward yourself during the times you feel let down (either by yourself or an external disappointment)?
Vocabulary
GDM_Day 3 Vocab [NO DATES].pdfWeekly Questions: What is my relationship to my breath? My physical body? How connected is my sense of self to the land that I live on? Who were the original stewards of this land? How have things gotten so twisted? How can I see my own self more clearly? How will identifying my biases help me? What work will I do to excavate my shadow self? What do I believe I need to live safely? What do my neighbors need to live safely? What do the people who live cross town need? What is the relationship between my safety and my breath?
Song of the Day
Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.
“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
By Nina Simone
This is a song I’ve listened to on repeat at several points in my life. What I love about Nina’s performance is the slow transition from somberness, to realization, to being demanding, and finally joyful. Liberation is a process, not a moment, and even though slaves were technically emancipated long ago, their descendants still fight for true freedom.