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Day 23 (Week 4, Day 2)
Day 23 (Week 4, Day 2)
Asya Abdrahman
Asya Abdrahman
Healer
Ego Transcendence
Ego Transcendence
Theme
On unceded Ohlone land, I call for a blessed rain. I release all ego and breathe love, life, compassion, consideration, empathy and calmness.
On unceded Ohlone land, I call for a blessed rain. I release all ego and breathe love, life, compassion, consideration, empathy and calmness.
Guided Practice
On this day...
On this day...
On this day we bring awareness to our primary support systems of cellular breathing and gravity. We expand and condense with the rhythms of our cells, our selves. On this day, we Yield. Yielding is moving into our support, and from that relationship we increase readiness, potential energy and tone.
Meditation Practices
Meditation Practices
Asya Abdrahman is an Oakland and San Francisco artist/curator, world builder and multi-disciplinary artist who considers the intersection of cultural identity, human rights and the environment in her work. Of Somali, Eritrean, and Ethiopian heritages, she fled her East African homeland during a time of regional wars. Abdrahman’s work promotes cultural and ecological survival, advanced through her use of human, technological, natural, found, and recycled resources.
In addition to exhibiting her art, Abdrahman is the founder of Sun Village Artisan Corner, Wisdom's Exchange, POST11NINE, Pay It Forward (PIF) Cafe in collaboration with The Exploratorium and SF Coffee Cruiser. Abdrahman produces and curates exhibitions at Pro Arts Gallery and Alena Museum. Her work was featured at Museum of African Diaspora. In 2019/2020 her artwork will be featured at Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Marin County Civic Center and Root Division Gallery. She is currently an XIR (Explorer In Residence) for CalCEF at New Energy Nexus where she offers clean energy and zero-waste micro-business classes at a local mobile urban art and economic project, Sun Village Artisan Corner, to overcome the barriers to clean energy in underserved communities.
Liberation Journal Prompt
Liberation Journal Prompt
Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds
“The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.”
“The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.”
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
GDM_Day 23 Vocab [NO DATES].pdfWeekly Questions: How can I claim my own body? How can I celebrate the path that brought me here while eliminating what no longer serves me? How can I set aside my own ego in order to build communally? How do I put my thoughts and intentions into practice and political action? Where can I practice healing and transformative justice within my spheres of influence? How can I practice radical love in my everyday life and interactions?
Song of the Day
Song of the Day
Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.
“Final Form”
“Final Form”
By Sampa the Great
By Sampa the Great
Aside from having sections of her song dedicated to chanting “Black Power,” Sampa the Great celebrates the many varieties and cultures of Blackness. A transplant herself (born in Zambia, raised in Botswana, then relocating to Australia for her career), she understands the importance of international solidarity and acceptance of diversity in the struggle for Black Liberation: “Great state I’m in/ in all states I’m in/ I might final form/ in my melanin.”
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