Beading Our Womb Stories: Story Sharing & Bead Creations | A Soils Lab with Netsenet | Practice Map
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Beading Our Womb Stories
A Soils Lab with Netsenet | Practice Map
Monday | 13 June 2022 | 6pm Et
How do you honor your womb, your mother’s womb, the wombs of all those that came before you? What does sacred adornment mean to you? How can sacred adornment be used to honor our womb stories?
In this Soils Lab, creators are invited to share their womb stories— the challenges, the beauty, the miracles, the revelations, and the wisdom. We will tune into the voice of our wombs and invite the wisdom of our maternal ancestors to guide our creation process as we craft sacred adornment pieces that reflect our womb stories and honor our maternal lineage.
What to bring:
Please bring along the following items: materials for beading, journal + writing and/or coloring tools, a glass or bowl of water (optional), a candle (optional), a photo of or a sacred item that belonged to your mother or other maternal ancestor.
If you don’t have these items, no worries— just bring yourself and your womb story.
this Creation Session includes these elements:
Story sharing circle/dialogue circle
A workshop in development/experimental practice
An instructional class on a specific practice/tool/topic
This is a hybrid Soils Lab experience— part story sharing circle + part instructional creation session.
Netesent recommends these articles…
“Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Sacred Technology” by Altagracia Alvarado @ ITS-IN-SCOPE
“Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Belief in Ancient Egypt” by Glencairn Museum
“What Is A [SACRED BODY ADORNMENT]?” by Sky Britnei on Elements of a Hippie
meet the creator
Netsenet Ghiday
Netsenet is a dancer, doula, blood rites priestess, and thriving sexual abuse survivor exploring ways to deepen in her healing journey by using creative expression and sisterhood as tools of transmutation magic for continued transformation. She is developing her self sovereignty by curating sacred spaces to heal out loud, in community with other Creators in the Garden, and with her platform, Sacred Womb Works. You can also follow Netsenet on Instagram @fairywombgoddess.
ABOUT OUR SOILS LAB
Soils Lab is a central component of Mother Mother’s evolving creative practice methodology, An Introduction to Soils: Preparing the Heart, Mind and Body for Deeply Generative Creations.
Soils Labs are where we explore practices that nourish our soil of creation, the substance from which we create everything we do. Soils Labs journey into diverse creative realms like writing, storytelling, visual art, sacred rituals, healing practices, movement, birth and fertility studies, and so much more. Every creator shares from the wealth of her brilliance, and we all grow from there.
ATTENDING SOILS LAB
Soils Labs are collaborative-time, virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Soils Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. You must be a creator in the Garden who has confirmed conscious participation to receive the access link for the labs. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. If you have recently or previously joined the Garden, visit the Sanctuary to confirm or reconfirm your conscious participation.
ABOUT SOFT-TIME
The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Soils Lab is a collaborative-time gathering, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Soils Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators.
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where do you share your stories?
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