From the global pandemic to blatant racial injustice and police brutality, we are living at a unique moment in history that has had a profound effect on us all individually, and as a society.
Whether or not we recognize the effects, it's important to take time for personal reflection and healing so that we can better rise to the challenges (and joys) that lie ahead.
You are invited to do just that on Wednesday July 8th during an evening of sound healing, meditation and writing led by poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative, Elana Bell.
Elana facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice, creating spaces where all people’s voices and stories are heard and deeply valued.
She will be leading us in a sound meditation, some vocal release work to move stuck energy, and some writing prompts all designed to help us reflect, recharge and release so that we can better process all that is going on in the world and move forward with actions that our aligned with our authentic selves.
As with all of our virtual connection sessions, the event is gender inclusive and there will also be time to connect with the community and get to know the fellow attendees.
This session is being offered with a $5 minimum donation, and 50% of proceeds will be donated to the Loveland Foundation, a non-profit committed to bringing opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls. All registrants will receive the zoom call-in info on their receipt and a recording will be made available afterwards.
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More about Elana Bell:
Elana is an award-winning Poet, Teacher, Artist, Sound Practitioner and Sacred Creative. Among other achievements and accolades, she holds a certification in Sound and Music Integration from the New York Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute and has been a featured poet in numerous venues throughout the United States and abroad including the Bowery Poetry Club, NuYorican Poets Café, Bar 13, Hunter College, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and Sarah Lawrence College among others.
She is also the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and her writing has appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, and the Massachusetts Review, among others.
She has taught literature and creative writing at CUNY College of Staten Island and Brandeis University, and currently teaches poetry to the first year drama students at the Juilliard School.
Her debut collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones (LSU Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and brings her complex heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her second book of poems, Mother Country, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2020.
She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into artistic expression. Whether through her soul-stirring poetry, her sacred sound journeys, or through her inspiring workshops, Elana creates a space where all people’s voices and stories are heard and deeply valued.
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