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Soulstice
At the New Marigny Theatre Church of Arts and Sciences, a winter solstice sharing of wellness practice and community gathering. (Image by Natasha Sanchez, "Blue Daisy")
Soulstice …bring a mat, pillow, teddy bear, blankie…
Soulstice Dec. 21-22, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 4pm-10pm -
AND - Friday, December 21, 5am-8pm
(Central Standard Time, Louisiana Time!)
1201 Mandeville, corner of Marais
Soulstice details
Coming Up Dec 21 and 22, 2023
Soulstice
21 hours of
wellness, ritual, and community
gathering
Sunset December 21
to Sunset December 22
on the corner of
Marais and Mandeville Streets
-> MAP
At this Soulstice,
we will walk into the darkness
in celebration,
embracing what lurks in the shadows,
knowing that down this dark path,
this longest, darkest night,
there will be an opening,
into a valley of light.
(reese johanson)
This is an admission free gathering.
Please consider donating
Give from your heart.
Venmo: @artstreet504
CashAp: $artstreet504
Image: unfixed lumen print,
"Two Pink Lilies" by Natasha Sanchez
Soulstice Schedule
Dec. 21, Thursday
430p~ Open
4:30p-5:05p Sunset Walking Meditation
5:20p-5:30p The Plague Doctor
5:45p-6:45p Cafe de la Muerte
7:00p-8:15p Enter the Darkness
8:30p-9:30p Ritual, the Solstice Fire
10:00pm Close
December 22, Friday
5a Open: Welcome
5:30a-6:30a Community Breathwork
630a-7a Sunrise Walking Meditation
7a-8:30a Body Mind Spirit Somatic
7a-8:30a Body Mind Spirit Somatic
10a-11a Sound Bath Meditation
11:15a-12:30p Yoga Flow
11a-3p Lumen Print Solstice Offering
11a-3p Feel Good Vibes
11a-4p Massage with Joseph Stein
Noon-3p Lunch by Top Taco NOLA
12:45p-2p Permission to Winter
2:15p-3:30p ClitSit Meditation
3:30p-4:30p Somatic Movement
3p-4:30p Readings with Victory
4:30p-5:06p Sunset Walking Meditation
5:06pm Lighting of the Shabbat Candles
5:00p-7:30p Community Potluck Dinner
8pm Close
Image: unfixed lumen print,
"Blue Daisy" by Natasha Sanchez
Dec. 21 ~ Artists ~ practitioners ~ OFFERINGS ~ Dec. 21
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
Welcome and Walking Meditation.
reese will welcome guests to the space and lead a walking meditation with the sunset. (For more offerings by reese scroll down for Dec 22 schedule or see the newsletter)
Thursday, Dec. 21, 4:30pm-5:05pm
Cherice Harrison-Nelson
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
The Plague Doctor,
with Cherice Harrison-Nelson AKA Queen Reesie. The Plague Doctor character was developed to make commentary on the historical plague of systemic racism on the People of African Descent in the diaspora.
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Thursday, Dec. 21, 5:15pm-5:30pm.
Aidi Kansas
reese johanson, welcomes you
Enter the Darkness
Cafe de la Muerte,
facilitated by Aidi Kansas,
invites a discussion surrounding grief. Honoring imminent loss and release, whether physical, material, emotional, or spiritual.
In preparation for death, we honor life.
Thursday, Dec. 21, 5:45pm-6:45pm
Enter the Darkness
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Enter the Darkness
Enter the Darkness with reese johanson
Beyond rage, despair, grief, loss is love. We all will enter at our own pace as deeply as we desire. A somatic, physical practice, dancing with the shadows to clear space for the light.
Thursday, Dec. 21, 7:00pm-8:15pm
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Lighting of the Solstice Fire
Ritual, poetry, and performance,
with Ray (Moose) Jackson.
Thursday, Dec. 21, 8:30pm-9:30pm
Close
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Ray (Moose) Jackson
Closing
We will close the evening
with the acknowledgement of entering
the longest and darkest night of the year.
Blessings for a peaceful and restful night.
Sleep well.
Thursday, Dec. 21, 10:00pm
Dec. 22 ~ Artists ~ practitioners ~ OFFERINGS ~ Dec. 22
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
Welcome and Morning Practice
5am: Open, tea and coffee offered
5:30am-6:30am: Breathwork Community
630am-7am: Sunrise Walking Meditation
7am-8:30am: Body Mind Spirit Somatics
830am-10am: The Sweet Spot
Friday, Dec. 22, 5am-10am
Dominic Minix
reese johanson, welcomes you
reese johanson, welcomes you
Soundbath,
Dominic Minix is a guitarist from New Orleans, currently offering a meditative guitar Soundbath where attendees are invited to sit with their inner stillness accompanied by transcendent music.
Friday, Dec. 22, 10am-11am
Josiah McCormick
reese johanson, welcomes you
Josiah McCormick
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Love to love yourself through a practice that has been passed down for generations. Allow billions of cells to flow freely through your movement and breath by embracing this ancient practice with our gentle giant Josiah.
Friday, Dec. 22, 11am-12:15am
Top Taco
Natasha Sanchez
Josiah McCormick
Top Taco NOLA generously offers lunch!
Chicken and Vegetarian make your own fijitas!
Thank you Shane Finkelstein
Friday, Dec. 22, NOON-3pm
Natasha Sanchez
Natasha Sanchez
Natasha Sanchez
Lumen Solstice Offering
Natasha Sanchez shares the lumen print process, as a way to connect with nature and release These prints will be unfixed and impermanent. Over time, the image will fade, its intention released back to the sun.
Friday, Dec. 22, 11am-3pm
Raquel Haupt
Natasha Sanchez
Natasha Sanchez
with Raquel Haupt offers Feel Good activities for groups and individuals. "We envision a safe and sustainable environment where artists thrive, finding fulfillment, balance, and purpose in their creative journeys."
Friday, Dec. 22, 11am-3pm.
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Massage
Joseph Stein, an orthopedic massage therapist since 2008, dedicated to bringing real change and reduction of pain in your bodies. Nationally certified, LaBMT lic# 4444, NCBTMB, ABMP insured. Appt: 504-251-3273,
Friday, Dec. 22, 11am-4pm
Sultana Harris
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Permission to Winter
with Sultana Harris, a heart centered physical practice to be better able to lovingly shift patterns which have inhibited us from embracing how to interact with ourselves, others, and the world from heart perception and vulnerability.
Friday, Dec. 22, 12:45pm-2pm
Aidi Kansas
Joseph (Joe) Stein
Katya Chizayeva
Clit Sit
with Aidi Kansas is a lecture, meditation, discussion and blessing that recounts a healing journey. From a decade of chronic pain and illness to recovery and good health, maintained via the clitoris and meditation.
Friday, Dec. 22, 2:15pm-3:30pm
Katya Chizayeva
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Katya Chizayeva
Somatic Movement
Guided movement and improvisation to build physical, somatic, and social awareness.
Katya is a choreographer, dancer, acupuncturist, herbalist, bodyworker, and tai qi practitioner.
Friday, Dec. 22, 3;30pm-4-30pm
Victory
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Readings by Victory
Intuitive, Tarot, Palms, Tea, Bones
Friday, Dec. 22,
3pm-4;30pm and 6pm-7:30pm
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
Sunset Walking Meditation & Shabbat Potluck Dinner
4:30pm-5:06pm Sunset Walking Meditation
5:06pm Lighting of the Shabbat Candles
5pm-7:30pm Community Potluck Dinner
Please bring a dish or drinks, not required.
Share, release, and embrace stories.
8:00pm~ Close. Happy Soulstice!