FACILITATED BY: Aki Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman & JL Umipig
EXCHANGE: $125-$225 Sliding Scale (No one is turned away for a lack of funds, so if you need assistance, please email minkalogistics@gmail.com).
This workshop is a ritual space for remembering what is slowly taken away from us: our capacity to dream.
Dreaming is not imagination-as-escape. It is imagination-as-responsibility. Dreams are the raw material of futures, the scaffolding of worlds not yet formed, the inheritance we leave to generations who will never meet us. To forget how to dream is not neutral—it is one of the most effective technologies of colonization. A people who cannot dream beyond survival will never threaten the structures that cage them.
Rites of Dreams invites creatives, activists, healers, and change-makers into a shared field of remembrance where dreaming is reclaimed as a sacred, embodied, and political act. Together, we explore dreaming not only as vision, but as nervous-system practice, ancestral obligation, and spiritual co-creation. Dreams are our prayers envisioned. To bring our dreams to a space of beloved community, and offer them up for collective realization is a Revolutionary Act.
This is a space to confront the indoctrination that told us our dreams were unrealistic, dangerous, indulgent, or “too big.” A space to tend the grief of dreaming futures we may never see fully realized in our own lifetime—and to discover why that grief does not absolve us of responsibility, but deepens it. We ask what it means to dream as future ancestors, to plant visions that will grow beyond us, without demanding immediate proof or personal reward.
Through ritual, reflection, somatic regulation, and collective inquiry, we will examine:
How colonial systems shrink desire for the collective and train us to dream only within sanctioned limits of capitalistic gain
The difference between inherited colonial dreams (success, domination, extraction) and liberated dreaming
Dreaming as an equalizer—available to anyone, regardless of access or status, therefore threat to the status-quo
Dream as a spiritual technology that reconnects us to Source, God, and co-creation
How permission, safety, and regulation in the body restore our ability to imagine freely
This work is for those who love fiercely and long deeply. For those who feel exhausted by constant resistance yet refuse to surrender their creative force. For those asking: Do we stop fighting? Do we stop creating? Do we stop dreaming? And who already knows, somewhere in their bones, that the answer must be no.
Dreaming is not optional. Dreaming is not naïve. Dreaming is our responsibility.
We invite you to re-member our Dreams are Divine Right and that each Dream is an act of Divine Rite in the Movement for Liberation.
This portal is an invitation to reclaim your space, your desire, and your inherent right to imagine futures larger than yourself—futures that will continue breathing long after your body has returned to the earth.
We dream not because it is easy, but because generations are listening!
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Aki Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman is attuned to various energetic healing frequencies including Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, IET, and 13th Octave LaHoChi. She is also a master teacher of Usui Reiki, co-channeller of Earth Evolution Reiki symbols, and the founder of MINKA Brooklyn. She is a moondancer, and trained under numerous teachers of ancient traditions, including Hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation (Integral Yoga Institute), Ayurvedic Nutrition (Naina Marballi), Art of Energy Healing (Suzy Mezoly), MedicineWay (Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman), Toltec Healing Practice (Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl), Curanderismo (Rita Navarete Prez and Tonia Gonzalez) and more.
Jana Lynne (JL) Caldetera Umipig, Lawag Nakem (The Light of Knowing/Consciousness) is recently ordained and gifted the name Dayang Sidlan Laya or Priestess Vessel of Freedom through Luntiang Aghama Divine Arts + Shrine with Apu Adman Aghama. JL is an intuitive healer and Seer. She uses her creative power and full embodiments of her artistry to channel connection to Spirit, which guides all of her work. As a Death Doula, she supports families in creating rituals to honoring on going relationships with those in their lives who have transitioned Spirit Side. She centers much of this work as in all other work on supporting children and youth’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have their lost children. She recently closed 10 years of organizing and serving as a core memeber for the Center for Babaylan Studies, is the host of podcast Kultivating Kapwa and founder of CfBS Decolonization School and Co-founder and Artistic Director/Creator of Raised Pinay through Roots of Health where she centralizes her organizing around Decolonization and Liberation Education. Some of JL's most know creative works include JL is the US/Internationally travelled Journey of a Brown Girl and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot.
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What Is Sliding Scale?
We offer all of our community offerings and some private sessions by Sliding Scale. We believe everyone is entitled to heal their wounds so they can thrive; we also believe that the wellness and healing practitioners deserve to make a living wage. In order to make this possible, we ask you to pay as much as you can, so those who might not be able to pay as much can still receive their healing session - this is the idea behind 'paying it forward'. We are all in this together, and we choose to do our best to take care of one another.
Thank you in advance!