What we believe
We believe every Black person is equipped with Ancestral messages and gifts waiting to be unearthed. Our Bodies hold the code to our Liberation, Healing, and Understanding. And we use Dance as a tool to Explore, Reclaim, Surrender, and conjure our best-case scenario.
With the experience of anti-Blackness across the globe, it is important we as a community Practice our Power and Multiplicity. We believe in using both Traditional and Innovative ways to dig deep into Collective Care.
Mission:
Body Prayers aims to influence and aid in the Healing Process of all Black people; Using Dance, Revolutionary Love Practices, Dreaming, Education, and Community Fellowship as a tool for social, economic, and emotional Liberation.
Vision:
We envision a world where Black people, of the full multidimensional spectrum, heal and live freely in their long-earned inheritance of time, grace, space, and support. We imagine a global Healing community where each individual feels safe, supported, and active. We manifest a world where all Black people have an elevated quality of life.
What we practice
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RECLAIM
Collecting and taking inventory of the things we need to move forward.
Our Breath = Collective Gathering. Our Bodies = Collective Action. Our Voice = Collective Storytelling. Our Peace = Collective Healing
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SURRENDER
Surrender to the flow of the Body/Spirit, Healing, and Divine connection. In this realm, we are encouraged to receive messages and decipher our lessons figuring out how to best apply them, More forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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CONJURE
Pulling our best-case scenarios closer to us. Using tools from previous cycles to connect to your divine purpose and deliberately craft your life.
Caring for self is also caring for Community.
“We are a poly - realmic people, which means we have the ability to participate, and travel to different realms in time.”
-DejaJoelle
Prayer Example
Prayer
A choreographic sequence that integrates Breathwork, ASL Classifiers, and Talawa Spider Arm indications.
Ritual
A series of Prayers woven together to create a Ritual of 20-30 minutes.
why
dance?
Dance: A way to let our bodies speak
Dance is a way for us to put Prayers and Thoughts into action. What does it mean to embody the very thing you Prayed for? What do you move like or speak like when you know you are Prayed for? Dancing Collectively is traditional. We have always been informed. Always been poly rhythmic people. Layering one rhythm on top of another to build something cosmic. Like we’ve never heard before. OR one that is familiar but brings about something new in the times in its Presence. When we open ourselves up to the specific rhythms pressed into our DNA. We are able to guide ourselves towards our purpose. These things feel like they have been predetermined once they are discovered. Purpose.