Today

Day 28 (Week 4, Day 7)

Dr. Shamell Bell and the Global Dance Meditation Team

Healers

The Shift

Theme

Street Dance Activism

Guided Practice

On this day...

Meditation Practices

TODAY: WE MOVE, MARCH FORWARD, AND SHIFT TOGETHER! These 28 days of embodied mediation will culminate with our co-created choreography of liberation. Learn the choreography as we embody our intentions and mantras, and MEET US IN COMMUNITY at 9:45am this Friday, August 28th for a live viewing party of the @NAACP's March on Washington and a reflective gathering for our Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation. We are also lifting vibrations in alignment with @mvmnt4blklives 's Black National Convention and supporting the "commitment walk" featuring The Wide Awakes (@wideawakes2020), an artist-led processional centered in creativity, community and joy as an act of resistance, all also happening this Friday.

All bodies are welcome and we will have a live ASL interpreter.

We've healed this past month to root deep, preparing to birth this shift for this Friday... Join us as we move, spark the next steps of the movement, and further charge towards that freedom dream of Black liberation.

Liberation Journal Prompt

How has your relationship to liberation shifted/opened through this 28 day process?

Imagine, feel into, the future. How are we living in liberation?

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Vocabulary

GDM_Day 28 Vocab [NO DATES].pdf

Weekly 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

Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.

“From Here a Path”

By Derrick Spiva

Bringing together Ghanaian Ewe drumming, Hindustani Tihais, and melodic content from the Balkans, Derrick Spiva finds the common ground between vastly different musical cultures. As he states in an interview, Derrick explains that the opening of the piece is based on the Ewe Husago, which is tied to a story of how one tribe of Ewe escaped from an oppressive regime. The husago music and its associated festivities provided coverage, giving them time to find an escape path, and footwork/dance to disorient anyone trying to trace their escape route after the dance. Here is his interview.

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