August 21–23 · Oakland, CA
Reclaiming Connection Through Play, Ritual & Ancestral Wisdom
An experiential gathering designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and remember the sources of support that are always available.
In a time when many of us feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stretched thin, we believe the answer lives in our bodies, our relationships, and the wisdom of those who came before us.
Through movement, ritual, storytelling, song, reflection, improvisational play, and ancestral connection practices, we’ll explore what it means to belong—to ourselves, to our lineages, and to one another.
Rather than focusing on fixing what’s wrong, we’ll practice listening for what is alive, resilient, and longing to emerge.
Together we’ll cultivate greater connection to our inner knowing, deepen our relationship with ancestral support, and experience the healing power of community, creativity, and embodied presence.
Many of us are navigating uncertainty, grief, and rapid change. It’s easy to become consumed by headlines, responsibilities, and the relentless pressure to keep moving.
And yet clarity rarely comes from pushing harder. It emerges when we slow down enough to listen.
This gathering is an invitation to step out of overwhelm and into relationship—with your body, your imagination, your ancestors, and a community of fellow seekers. Together we’ll explore how embodied and ancestral practices can help us stay connected to possibility, purpose, and belonging even in challenging times.
Join us for Friday’s all-bodies evening, the BIPOC weekend gathering, or both.
6:30–8:30 p.m.
$25
An evening of ancestral healing and community song.
Together we’ll open the weekend by exploring the stories, gifts, and wisdom that live within us and around us. This gathering can be attended as a stand-alone event or as an introduction to the BIPOC weekend.
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
$95 · $75 with a friend
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
A closing morning of integration, reflection, and collective ritual.
This gathering is for people who long for deeper connection with themselves and their ancestors, are curious about embodied and spiritual practices, and want healing that includes joy, creativity, and play.
It’s for those feeling overwhelmed and seeking grounding, renewal, and community as an essential part of transformation.
No prior experience with somatics, ancestral healing, ritual practice, or InterPlay is necessary.
Come as you are.
Choose the option that fits how you’d like to join us.
Ancestral healing, evolutionary astrology, and community song.
$25
Register for FridaySaturday full-day gathering plus Sunday closing morning.
$95
Register for BIPOC WeekendBring a friend and receive the reduced rate.
$75 each
Register with a FriendWe are asking participants to help us create a low-scent space and to take a COVID test before coming. Masks are not required, and participants are welcome to wear one if that supports their care and comfort.
The gathering takes place at InterPlayce, 2273 Telegraph Ave in Oakland. Please enter on 23rd.
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Soleil Blackwell is a somatic coach, writer, ritualist, and community educator devoted to helping people remember their belonging—to themselves, their ancestors, one another, and the living world.
Drawing from somatic practice, ancestral healing, contemplative traditions, InterPlay, and over two decades of community-based facilitation, Soleil creates spaces where healing is rooted in embodiment, creativity, and connection rather than self-improvement alone.
Soleil is the author of Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity & Self-Worth and lives on Ramaytush Ohlone land, also known as San Francisco.
Aarti works at the intersection of body, ancestry, relationships, and rhythm—supporting people through periods of transition, transformation, and deep pattern change.
Her background draws from Hindu and Buddhist traditions, InterPlay, restorative practice, and ancestral lineage healing. In her twenties, she worked within a Buddhist meditation community in Chicago, supporting individuals and leading meditation and contemplative programs before expanding into community building, facilitation, and embodied healing practice.
In 2023, Aarti moved from Chicago to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where she helps co-create Moya, a land-based community rooted in embodiment, rhythm, and collective care. Her work is practical, intuitive, and deeply human, inviting people into more honest relationship with themselves, their bodies, their histories, and the lives they are actually living.