THE REMEMBRANCE: Decolonizing Minds, Bodies & Spirits

THE REMEMBRANCE is a week-long immersive experience Sept. 8-12, 2025 designed for BIPOC community members to reclaim their bodies, reconnect with ancestral power, and activate the divine balance of feminine and masculine energy through movement, healing, and story.

Every night, you’ll be guided through transformative sessions of AfroFusion, AfroCaribbean, West African, House, and Waacking, paired with mirror work, guided meditations, journaling, and breathwork.

You’ll be held, seen, and called forward—into a sacred process that culminates in a community performance and post-show celebration.

Before our movement was performance, it was prayer.

Before art was product, it was sacred expression.

To decolonize is to remove what was never ours—and reclaim what has always lived within.

In this space, we return to embodied freedom.

To somatic sovereignty.

To the truth that Spirit was never separate from us.

This event is not a class.

It is a ceremony, a re-membering, and a call to rise—together.

Info: 2 hour workshop with @Aminah Jackson
7-8:15: Community Healing
Break
8:25-9:25: Dance

What to Expect: Community Healing: Movement

"Decolonize The Pelvis” is a transformative process for children of the Diaspora and is essential for reclaiming total liberation and freedom in our womanhood. Movement of the pelvis, waist, booty, and hips helps to release stagnant energy and trauma blockages, opening and realigning the root and sacral chakras. These benefits include enhanced emotional balance, increased vitality, and a deeper connection to our inner selves.

During *Decolonize The Pelvis*, you can expect, to learn how to release shame, guilt, trapped energy in your body by tapping into the Divine balance of Feminine & Masculine Power through:
✨Guided, Visual Meditation
✨Breath work
✨Energy Healing
✨Journaling
✨Mirror work
✨Affirmations
✨Community Discussion
✨Diasporic Dance: AfroFusion (West African, Soca, Dancehall, Salsa, Dembo, Brazilian Funk)

Info: 7pm -8:15 HOUSE
Break
8:25-9:25 Community Rehearsal

The jack, footwork and the party.

Exploration of house as a social dance while connecting to the fluidity of the divine masculine and feminine through footwork, grooves, and rhythms.

Community Rehearsal: Participants will have the opportunity to apply the movement techniques and concepts from the movement class, in the creative process of building a performance piece.

Info: Waacking class

Waacking, punking and posing. (The arms, the character, and the picture)

Exploring arm techniques and expressive story telling. And using these tools to embody divine masculine and divine feminine energy to show up as one’s full self.

Community Rehearsal with All 3 Organizers: Participants will have the opportunity to apply the movement techniques and concepts from the movement class, in the creative process of building a performance piece.

Info: 7pm- 8:15: Sabar, Doudoumba, and polyrhythmic grounding
Fusion of traditional West African movement + AfroContemporary forms

Break

8:25 – 9:25 PM – Wellness Integration
Afro-Somatic healing, Mindful Movement
Group reflection

Info: 7:00 – 8:15 PM – Grounding + Final Flow
Reflective movement
Closing ritual and affirmation circle

8:15 – 8:25 PM – Break

8:25 – 9:25 PM – Final Rehearsal
Full ensemble run-through
Final energy alignment + polish

Info:

2 hour workshop with @Aminah Jackson
7-8:15: Community Healing
Break
8:25-9:25: Dance

What to Expect: Community Healing: Movement

“Decolonize The Pelvis” is a transformative process for children of the Diaspora and is essential for reclaiming total liberation and freedom in our womanhood. Movement of the pelvis, waist, booty, and hips helps to release stagnant energy and trauma blockages, opening and realigning the root and sacral chakras. These benefits include enhanced emotional balance, increased vitality, and a deeper connection to our inner selves.

During *Decolonize The Pelvis*, you can expect, to learn how to release shame, guilt, trapped energy in your body by tapping into the Divine balance of Feminine & Masculine Power through:
✨Guided, Visual Meditation
✨Breath work
✨Energy Healing
✨Journaling
✨Mirror work
✨Affirmations
✨Community Discussion
✨Diasporic Dance: AfroFusion (West African, Soca, Dancehall, Salsa, Dembo, Brazilian Funk)

Host or Publisher Aminah Jackson