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Ayiti Resurrect is a team of visionary artists, community builders, mental health specialists, and holistic healers with bloodlines in Haiti and the African Diaspora, working in collaboration with local Haitian organizations, to help address the psychological and spiritual healing of the survivors of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
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Ayiti Resurrect Jan 2012 Delegation Report Back!!!
Jan 25, 2012 01:31 am - Posted by Ayiti Resurrect
Ayiti Resurrect Delegation & Partners - 8 Jan 2012
Ayiti Resurrect’s January 2012 delegation was an incredible confluence of dedicated individuals coming together across nations to make an offering toward social, spiritual, emotional, physical, and environmental health in Haiti. A powerhouse team of holistic healers, artists, musicians, dancers, yoga instructors, permaculture gardeners and environmental innovators from the Haitian and African Diaspora travelled to Leogane to work in partnership with artists, healers and community organizers living in Haiti.
Core collective members Angelique Nixon, Beatrice Anderson, and Naima Penniman were hard at work throughout 2011 planning for the 2012 delegation: communicating with partners over the phone and email, traveling to Ayiti to meet in person and insure community input in the planning, devising a model for sustainable programming, fundraising for ground expenses, and assembling our team of delegates.
The 2012 delegation was a powerful culminating moment of two years of relationship building and grassroots organizing. Our fourth collective trip to Ayiti since the earthquake, this time we were accompanied by 17 people who share our vision for cultivating genuine people-to-people solidarity among members of the African diasporic family while reinforcing the strength and autonomy of the Haitian community. Over the course of three weeks coinciding with the second anniversary of the earthquake, we deepened relationships, exchanged knowledge and resources, carried out health services and trainings, and organized cultural and environmental education programming that served hundreds of people daily.
See Complete Report Back Here along with Photos from the 2012 Delegation!
This week’s programming has been incredibly powerful
Jan 12, 2012 03:09 pm - Posted by Ayiti Resurrectand has served over 200 people per day. Ayiti Resurrect delegates in partnership with our collaborators in Cormier and other parts of Haiti have been hard at work!
Every morning we hosted a Wellness Clinic that included Massage, reflexology and reiki services; Birthing and reproductive health; Plant medicine; First aid and emergency medicine; Sessions with professional psychologist; and Re-Evaluation Counseling: training in peer supported healing from the hurts of oppression, violence, tragedy, poverty and loss.
Afternoons were filled with creative activities and skill shares including: Haitian and African Diasporic Dance; Story Telling, Performance Art and Poetry; Mask Making to Express Emotions; Drumming for Freedom; Yoga and Meditation; Stone Sculpture; Self-Esteem, Natural Self-Care, and Body Awareness for Women; Theatre; Women’s Empowerment Circles; Herbal Medicine Walks; Sustainable Agriculture Skill Shares; Recycled Arts and Crafts; Solar Oven Workshop; and Composting Toilet construction.
Detailed report backs from each session and photos coming very soon! FB people check out photo album
Leah and I returned to Haiti December 28th to meet with our partners and collaborators here in Cormier, and plan for our upcoming programming! There’s been an unmistakable grace following us around since arrival and the preparations are unfolding with powerful intention! Wednesday we will be joined by 18 Ayiti Resurrect delegates from across the diaspora–> from Brooklyn to Oakland, Port au Prince to Mirebalais. Together we will implement a Mental Wellness & Stress Relief clinic, initiate an environmental sustainability education project, and facilitate art and music therapy workshops with and for quake survivors. Offerings include: Recycled Arts and Crafts, Performance Art and Poetry, Mask Making, Story-telling, Theatre, Instrument-making, Drumming, Yoga and Meditation, Dance, Birthing and Reproductive Health workshops, Self-Esteem Self-Care & Self-Love for Women, Herbal Medicine Walks, Tree Planting, Sustainable Agriculture Skill-Shares, Composting Toilet Construction, Solar Oven Building, Stone Sculpture, Holistic Healing Circles, Massage, Ra Sekhi and Reiki Services, Plant Medicine, Peer to Peer Counseling, and more! Stay posted on our new blog page: http://www.ayitiresurrect.org/headlines-from-the-frontlines/
Thanks for the solidarity and support!
Love,
Naima
Ayiti Resurrect launched IndieGogo Campaign!
Dec 15, 2011 10:19 pm - Posted by Ayiti ResurrectWe need to raise $9,834 before we leave to Ayiti to cover expenses on the ground, and have launched an Indiegogo campaign in an effort to raise these funds. Please help us reach our goal so that we can provide all of the support we intend to offer to our brothers and sisters in Ayiti!
Check out the video below and please consider making an offering during this holiday season!!!
You will be blessed with our endless gratitude, rippling out from all of the hearts who will be impacted by this cross-continental collaboration, as well as some beautiful gifts as a tangible expression of our appreciation. Check out the awesome perks!
Gearing up for our January 2012 Delegation!
Dec 09, 2011 08:31 pm - Posted by Ayiti Resurrect
The core collective of Ayiti Resurrect — Naima, Beatrice & Angelique — are excited to share some updates about our upcoming delegation in January! After two beautiful and successful fundraisers on both coasts and the building of our brilliant team of delegates, the grassroots collective Ayiti Resurrect will soon be on our way to continue our work in Comier, Leogane. We will be in Haiti during the first two weeks of January, working in collaboration with artists, healers and community builders to implement a mental wellness clinic, initiate an environmental sustainability education project, and facilitate art and music therapy workshops with and for quake survivors!
We have such an incredible team both in the U.S./diaspora and in Haiti, and the coalescing of all our offerings promises to be powerful!!! We have created programming and workshops based on the needs and requests of the community. And the delegates are a direct part of this building. Everything we have organized is Haitian-led, and we will continue this work after the delegation through the implementation of long-term programs, led by folks on the ground – who will share and build with our team of delegates.
To learn more about our delegates, please check out our newly updated “Delegates” page. Summaries of our offerings are listings on the “January 2012 delegation” page.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
We need to raise roughly $10,000 before we leave to Ayiti to cover expenses on the ground.
Please consider making an offering during this holiday season: https://www.wepay.com/donate/196391.
There are also other ways to support us:
1) donate your frequent flier miles to one of our delegates
2) donate a laptop for the community
3) donate art supplies for children and teens.
Details on our “Contribute page”.
Thank you for any help you can offer! We are truly grateful for all the support and blessings we have received and continue to receive. And we are thrilled and humbled to be doing this work with our brothers and sisters in Ayiti. We appreciate all of your prayers and meditations and continued blessings as we embark on another journey for collective healing.
With Love,
Naima, Beatrice, & Angelique
HAITI RISING benefit a huge success!!!
Dec 09, 2011 07:12 pm - Posted by Ayiti ResurrectHAITI RISING was such an incredible, nourishing event filled with medicine and magic! A benefit to support the work of AYITI RESURRECT that took place on Fete Gede (Festival of the Ancestors), we gathered to honor those who passed in the earthquake and celebrate the resilience, survival and self-determination of our Haitian family.
Cynthia edited a beautiful video with clips from the event! You can watch it here.
THANK YOU Cynthia Blancaflor!! And endless gratitude to Fanta Lawrence, Lalin St. Juste, Ambessa Negus, Cleome Bova, Gina Breedlove, Richelle Donigan, Climbing PoeTree, Rara Tou Limen Bay Area Haitian Dance Company, Sandrine Malary, Jene Levine Snipes, Abja, Summerlynn Burlews, Monica Anderson, Shukuru, Karma, Dania McManus Wong and Rick Luckens from the NeXus! Grateful to all those who came out to show support!
On Fete Gede, the night of Festival of the Ancestors (Haitian Day of the Dead), we will gather to honor those who passed in the earthquake and celebrate the resilience, survival and self-determination of our Haitian family.
An inspiring array of artists from coast to coast with bloodlines in the Haitian Diaspora across the globe are coming together to make a powerful offering to Spirit, and to support the collaborative healing work Ayiti Ressurect is engaged in Leogane, Comier, Haiti.
Come with us and experience a beautiful new venue in Richmond, a post-industrial temple filled with magical sculptures and creative sanctuary!!! We will be drunk on the synergy of poetry choreographed to movement, medicine distilled from song, music carved from the hollow spaces transformation creates in our lives!
++grooves by DJ Divinity!!!
Produced in partnership with Kinfolkz and Sista2Sista!
$15-35 sliding scale
You can purchase tickets in advance here!!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/206795
all proceeds benefit Ayiti Resurrect January delegation to Comier, Leogane, Haiti
RSVP & SPREAD THE WORD ON FACEBOOK!
Ayiti Resurrect Holistic Health Fair was a huge success!
Oct 18, 2011 04:41 pm - Posted by Ayiti Resurrect
In collaboration with Third Root Community Health Center, we created an afternoon for folks to nurture their self-care while supporting a grassroots healing in Haiti! Through a kundalini yoga and mediation class, reiki and shamanic healing, massage, acupuncture, & herbal and nutritional consultations lead by Ayiti Resurrect collective members and volunteers & Third Root practitioners.
We would like to thank THIRD ROOT for so generously donating their space and for partnering with us to make this event happen! Special shout out to Kate Johnson and D Dixon for their hard work in collaboration!
Big Thanks to all our volunteers: Adaku Utah, Al Spivey, Ayinde Jean-Baptist, Kate Johnson, and D Dixon
Boundless gratitude to all the practitioners who have volunteered their services in tribute to healing from Brooklyn to Haiti!! Julie Brown, Jasmine Nefertiti, Julia Bennett, Ramona Knepp, Anne-Marie Duchene, Sokhna Mabin, Maurice Sangodele-Ayoka, Talesh Lopez, and Wendell Cooper
AND THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT!!!!
Ayiti Resurrect Holistic Health Fair in BKLYN 10/2/11
Sep 19, 2011 03:15 pm - Posted by Ayiti ResurrectNurture your self-care and support
a grassroots collective dedicated to healing in Haiti!
An afternoon to experience:
YOGA, MEDITATION, REIKI, MASSAGE, LAIKA
ACUPUNCTURE, HERBAL & NUTRITIONAL CONSULTATION
lead by Ayiti Resurrect & Third Root practitioners.
All services on a sliding scale.
All proceeds benefit Ayiti Resurrect’s January delegation to Comier, Leogane, Haiti.
Herbal elixirs and refreshments will be available by donation.
Media and materials on display to learn more and get involved with Ayiti Resurrect.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
at Third Root Community Health Center
380 Marlborough Road, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Third Root strives to achieve social justice and community wellness by providing
holistic, collaborative care in an accessible and sustainable manner. Find out more.
Third Root is accessible via the Q train off the Cortelyou Road stop,
and buses BM1, 2, 3, 4; B23; and the B103.
No cover charge! Bring cash for classes and services.
OR RESERVE YOUR SPACE!
Sign up pay in advance for the yoga and mediation class,
a reiki, massage, or acupuncture session, or herbal and nutritional consultation
RSVP and spread the word on FACEBOOK!
SCHEDULE:
2:00-3:15 p.m,- Reiki, Acupuncture, Massage, Laika sessions in main space
3:30-4:45 p.m.- Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Class
2:00-5:00- Private massage, herbal and nutritional consultations