EL SUEÑO Healing Day

In conjunction with the final week of EL SUEÑO: THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM, we hope you will join us for EL SUEÑO Healing Day. Imagined and developed  by EL SUEÑO, a dance company that uses ancestral and familial ties as the driving force for their work, this series of programs features the work and knowledge of four Mexican-American artists and healing practitioners. EL SUEÑO Healing Day offers participants a chance to reflect on their own histories in the context of ancestral observance and utilizes guided meditation, movement,  journaling, and discussion as a way to foster and understand one’s relationship and responsibility to their ancestral lineage. In between workshop sessions, there will be offerings of frybread and treats from Off The Rez. The day concludes with a free screening of EL SUEÑO’s recent film and a panel discussion with the director Alicia Mullikin and filmmaker Devin Muñoz.

SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION LINKS

11 – 12 PM — Yoga & Your Ancestry with Alfonso Cervera 
12 – 2:30 PM — Snacks from Off the Rez
12:30 – 1:30 PM — Sound bath, Meditation & Intentional Journaling with Maria Muñoz
2 – 3:30 PM — Screening of EL SUEÑO + Q&A with Alicia Mullikin & Devin Muñoz


WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Yoga & Your Ancestry with Alfonso Cervera
11 - 12 PM, LOBBY

Open to all levels of practice, this class will embody asana yoga as an impetus to dialogue with the self and with those in the community. We will explore an investigative practice that allows us to invite our individual ancestors from past, present, and beyond as a method to find honesty with the self and to provide space to those that have guided us to be who we are.

Space is limited and registration is recommended. Limited number of yoga mats available; participants who have their own are encouraged to bring them.

BIO:
Alfonso Cervera holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside. He is a Queer first generational Mexicano/a/x choreographer, performer, educator, curator, and activist. Along with his degree, he holds professional certifications in Asana Yoga, Reiki Healing, and has recently been elected as Executive Director of Show Box L.A. His research and specialization as an independent artist, focuses on the conversation between queerness, Ballet Folklorico and Afro-LatinX social dances in a contemporary auto-biographical embodied experience that he calls Poc-Chuc. Poc-Chuc, an emerging and inclusive dance technique developed by Cervera, weaves these techniques as a pedagogical tool to adhere to the current times and to create representation for marginalized communities. Instagram: @fonzy110990

Connecting with our healed ancestors: Sound bath, meditation, and Intentional Journaling with Maria Muñoz
12:30 - 1:30 PM, LOBBY

This class offers an opportunity to go within while holding the intention of connecting with our ancestors. The session offers a group sound bath, energy meditation, and journaling experience for participants. In this expansive state of being, we allow clarity and insight, creating space to support connection with our ancestors. Dress in comfortable layers and bring your journal, water bottle, and yoga mat. Thank you for making time for yourself, in community. Your energy & presence are invaluable.

Space is limited and registration is recommended. Limited number of yoga mats available; participants who have their own are encouraged to bring them.

BIO: Maria Muñoz is a first generation Mexican-American Curandera, Spiritual and Intuitive guide, and IPHM Certified Sound healing practitioner. She is guided between realms to bring healing and connection by continuing the work started by her ancestors and she believes that humans are limitless. She trusts the unseen beyond time and dimension. Instagram: @marialightowl

ABOUT THE FILM

EL SUEÑO is a contemporary dance film created in collaboration by two Mexican-American dance artists. Director/Choreographer Alicia Mullikin and Filmmaker/Dancer Devin Muñoz explore what it means to be powerful brown women and to be the narrators and illustrators of their own stories. Filmed in the scenic Mohave Desert, the work offers a glimpse of the woven landscapes of pain and joy echoed in both ancient and contemporary experience that are central to the film and the dancers who are part of it. EL SUEÑO offers an intimate glimpse of female archetypes—mother, grandmother, queen, and warrior. These ancestors are reimagined as traits that are passed down through generations and challenges us to take ownership over the world we leave for our future ancestors. The film seeks to honor the many brown women who have risked it all for the next generation of dreamers.