Victory to the Mother! Hip Hop Yoga Puja Honoring Five Living Goddesses
Sat, June 26, 2021
7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Suggested Donation $20 please offer what you can
Ceremony begins at 7pm
VICTORY TO THE MOTHER! participatory Hip Hop Yoga Puja honoring five living Goddesses
Ceremony begins at 7pm
Alees Yvon as KALI MA
Katie Cercone as TRILLITH
Elisa Garcia de la Huerta as PATCHAMAMA
Kelly Shaw Nyala as BRIGID
Fanny Perez as HURACAN
Closing invocation & GONG bath led by Siri Rishi's TEMPLE 143
Audio-visuals by Laura Kimmel
Henna by Adana Collins
Victory to the Mother! is a participatory Hip Hop Yoga Puja honoring five living Goddesses (Female MCs, Brujas & Wise Wombyn) who deliver their origin story and fed by hours of mantra, fly into spiritual ecstasy. Inspired by jagratas of folk India, our Hip Hop Yoga puja harnesses ritually induced passion to cement healthy social bonds. Invoking the Goddess in the form of a flame (jyoti) kept burning throughout the night, keeping the flame burning suggests the root metaphor of being “woke” spiritually. Our puja is the culminating public event of a week-long Hip Hop Yoga retreat upstate at Rosekill.
All guests will be asked to chant along with us the mantra to the Goddess Kali:
*OM KREEM KALIKAYAI NAMAHA*
Come prepared for an evening of cosmic replenishment, communal effervescence and spiritual ecstasy!
Space is limited, RSVP here to have your name on the list: 646.578.3402
This is a free event - donations are accepted by Venmo @Katie-Cercone
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Much Thanks to Grace Exhibition Space & Rosekill for the generous gift of space
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