Pialli! I'm doing an update on the mooning workshops we had in February and March.
In our mooning workshop in February, we covered various topics regarding the four C's: Counting, Care, Ceremony, and Choice. This workshop has an overall younger crowd and we talked more extensively on what to expect before their first moon. We also had ice cream sundaes and singing afterwards. In our second workshop we had an older group, including some women/mothers who came on their own. We covered the four C's as well, but we also talked extensively about yoni steams. Everyone got the opportunity to take home herbs to prepare their own steams at home. Both workshops went well, with different focuses as needed, and we got to provide a space where we could talk about menstruation from a native perspective.
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Pialli everyone! I am glad to announce that we will be planning two mooning workshops! What is mooning? Mooning in my culture is used to refer a woman's menstrual cycle. Mooning is something that is very important in Native American culture. A woman's cycle is sacred and while on our moon, we refrain from certain ceremonies to give attention to our personal ceremony of renewal. I hope to give the youth in our community more knowledge about this subject, from a Native perspective. While we often learn about periods from an anatomical perspective in schools, we do not learn about the spiritual perspective. In the workshop, there will be different facilitators, and we will learn different spiritual perspectives on mooning, what it means and how to respect it. I hope to run two workshops, in two different cities. Thank you for your support!
UPDATE 1/24: We will have two workshops, one on February 10th in Sacramento and one on March 10th in Gilroy. See our Facebook for the event page. I received a grant from the Pollination Project last year, in 2016. I am so happy to be able to work with them and they have helped my organization grow tremendously. Over the year the project has helped in a number of different ways. It has provided some basic supplies that have been used for ceremonies throughout the year. These ceremonies helped youth and built relationships between youth and adults. Secondly, participating in the grant process made it so that I could attend youth camp and get more ideas about what I could do with this project. We have hiked, held talking circles, held a youth sweat lodge, held discussions with an open fire and are planning more to improve youth experiences in the indigenous community so we can succeed. I am very grateful for this grant and we hope that we can continue to grow our community with help of TPP. Visit their website below! https://thepollinationproject.org/ |
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