Join us during LA Climate Week for a community Cacao circle and nature walk. Let’s awaken the dormant ancestral seeds within us to cross-pollinate & bridge our cultures.
We’ll open with a brief discussion focusing on questions such as: What are the ancestral seeds that we have within us? How can we awaken them? What does it mean to be living in a multi-cultural city, and how can I connect the ancient wisdom of my ancestors to the modern work that I am doing today?
Using Ceremonial Cacao from Thailand as our plant ally and guide, we’ll set intentions for the weeks ahead and move into a sensory and heart-opening meditation. Everyone will be invited to join in the ritual of brewing and adding our prayers to the Cacao together, before it is passed around the circle to be shared.
With our senses and hearts opened, we’ll continue expanding on these topics with a nature walk. We will talk about how different local native plants were ancestrally used as medicine and in various rituals, and how we can incorporate them into our modern daily rituals. We will also observe native and non-native plants living together in harmony, and observe other examples where they are not. What we observe and feel will inspire us to think of new and creative ways to connect not just with our own personal lineages, but with each other as well.
This event aims to bring together members of the community who are interested in finding new and creative solutions to the numerous climate and environmental issues that we face in the city. We spend so much time in our modern society looking for modern solutions, but sometimes the best inspiration comes from within when we look at our own ancestry and backgrounds. I hope that participants can leave feeling inspired after awakening some of those dormant ideas and seeds within them.
Please bring an object, snack, idea, story, tradition, or anything else that you can think of that represents your culture that you would like to share with the circle. Hopefully, by the end of our time together, we’ll leave not as strangers, but as friends with many interwoven threads!
We will meet outdoors at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. Exact location will be given upon Partiful RSVP.