Winter Solstice Gathering 2024

Embracing the Solstice: A Virtual Ceremony to Prepare for Winter

We invite you to join our 3rd Annual Virtual Winter Solstice Event on Saturday, December 21st at 4:30-6pm CST. It will be an immersive experience designed to help you prepare your mind, body, and spirit for the months ahead with your own curated toolkit.
Participants will:

• Be led through guided meditations and pour ancestral libations
• Set intentions for what they'd like to invite into their lives in during the Winter season
• Prepare tools to help them navigate the winter months through (2) guided winter toolkit sessions
• Have time to share and commune with others

Cost: Slide scale $25-40 [only 35 tickets available, once we sell out we sell out]

Location: Virtual (link will be sent after you purchase your ticket)

The two winter toolkit sessions will be:

Session 1: De-stress with plants! by Qubilah Huddleston
In this session, participants will learn about a variety of potent and gentle herbs that can help manage and ease life's stressors. Participants will also learn about three key preparations they can make with the herbs including infusions, tinctures, and pastilles.
Session 2: The Harmony Corner by arkansawblk
In this space, we’ll come together to curate a harmony corner. Participants will be guided through a visualization to design a personal, sensory-rich space that inspires grounding, self-reflection, and renewal. This sacred, harmony corner will be your sanctuary for re-centering and well-being. You are the artist—let's create!

Join us as we honor the quiet strength of winter and prepare for the journey ahead. May this solstice bring clarity, healing, and harmony as we move into a new cycle of light and transformation. There are only 35 slots so don't delay on getting your ticket today!

We encourage you to bring:

• Notebook & writing utensil
• Open heart and open mind
• Water to stay hydrated
• Good vibes!

Meet your host & facilitators

• Host & Facilitator: arkansawblk of Urban Wildlife Haven facilitating The Harmony Corner, Winter Toolkit session
• Guest Facilitator: Qubilah Huddleston of Black Women Get to Be facilitating Destress with Plants! Winter Toolkit Session

arkansawblk [arkansaw ~ black](she/her) is a multi-dimensional creative and restorative facilitator who sews together elements of the African diaspora ancestry, spirituality, and ritual traditions through her mixed media artwork, storytelling, and community gatherings.

She uses the artist moniker to intentionally center queer & Pan-African diasporic stories with emphasis on religion, mysticism, & the tradition of freedom fighting in the American South, specifically in Arkansas. A place that seems to be forgotten and overlooked by everyone who doesn’t live there. Currently, arkansawblk is the founder and creative director of the Urban Wildlife Haven which offers nature-centered education and seasonal outdoor adventures to urban communities to foster and nurture the relationship between people and the natural world. Her work aims to center the needs of underestimated communities' health and wholeness and to dismantle oppressive systems that divide communities and harm nature. arkansawblk is a native of Little Rock, AR but at heart a traveler and currently living in Durham, NC.

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Qubilah Huddleston is a wellness enthusiast and Founder of The Holistic Agenda and Black Women Get to Be. Follow her journey here.

Qubilah envisions a world in which Black women reject the idea that they must do it all. She wants Black women to retire the superhero or magician capes that have been forced onto them by an unjust society.

In her practice, Qubilah infuses her desire for and love of radical self-care, sisterhood, community, and nature to create a soft landing for Black women. She believes that while we must unapologetically take care of ourselves, caring for ourselves and our community sustains us.

Qubilah currently resides in Washington, DC.

Host or Publisher The Urban Wildlife Haven