Omi Callings: Community Art Workshop @ YOGALOVE OAKLAND 🌊🌊🌊✨✨✨
“The element of water reconciles and quiets down that which is trapped in the crisis of combustion. In effect, water cools the burning psyche. It stills the restless consciousness and bestows serenity upon a person in turmoil, returning focus to a chaotic existence…Water seeks to cleanse, reconcile, and balance that which is in agitation, emotional disorder, and self-danger. When water succeeds, it restores or enhances life where there was the threat of death. Hence the connection between water and life. To seek water is to seek to reconcile and balance that which is constantly in danger of being thrown out of balance, that which is caught in the fiery loop of speed and consumption.”
Malidoma Somé The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Omi Callings: Community Art Workshop @YOGALOVE OAKLAND
Omi Callings is a 3 month/3 sessions creative process where artists, feelers, hearers, and utterers will spend time with the messages and wisdoms pouring forth from our ever giving waters. In the Yoruba Ifa-Orisa spiritual tradition and many other African traditional spiritual practices, there is honor, reverence and deep awareness of the power of omi (water). Omi flows in our lives in a continuous cycle calling us to heal, to transform, to release, to cleanse, to remember, to hold, to nourish, to connect, to illuminate, to grow. We will be creating art, affirmations, prints, and mini zines during our time. Come create art with us!
Omi Callings is an invitation to explore the Yoruba cosmology system, African Diasporic Spirituality/Wisdom and strengthen our personal relationship with our inner waters.
Session Outline:
Sunday, July 16th 11:30 - 1:00pm
(themes: oshun, creativity, collaboration, sacral power)
Sunday, August 13th 11:30pm -1:00pm
(themes: egun, collective consciousness, sankofa, roots)
Sunday, September 3rd 11:30pm -1:00pm
(themes: energetics & remedies for machine culture)
Come and paint and let’s get into flow together!