UNIQ-eXplorations by Estrella P

Come view this community gallery experience and participate in a series of FREE drop-in collective practices.

This exhibition will gather a constellation of works of art reflecting on personal visions and experiences of courage. Most importantly, this will be a celebration of our community and the power of self-expression.

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  • *Morning Ritual is a sacred time to feel the day, receive from the art, and practice grounding offerings. It will be an open format where you choose your own exploration and ritual, there’ll be various rituals to choose from if you so desire.

  • *Gathering of Stars, is a trans-nonbinary, GNC, multiple/queer-gendered care group for those who identify as Queer, Radical, Healers, Lovers, Warriors, Guides, (M)othering, Medicine caretakers, Land stewards, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Magick practitioners, Elemental mystics, Shamans, Future builders. Because that’s what you are, a big, powerful, fabulous STAR.

  • *Creative Rest & Quiet is the open hours of the exhibit where you can come and STFU and vibe. Bring whatever you need to rest and chill and enjoy the art and music that will be curated to balance your whole body.

  • *Dance Medicine will be a 90-min invitation to practice Physical Magick and infuse/alchemize courage within and around your energy body. It’s a spiritual dance of love and peace where you can explore your dream to live a life outside of survival mode.

5/2 |

5/3|

  • *Morning Ritual is a sacred time to feel the day, receive from the art, and practice grounding offerings. It will be an open format where you choose your own exploration and ritual, there’ll be various rituals to choose from if you so desire.

  • *Poetry Writing & Meditation is a practice to connect the heart and mind by seeing what it's like to be guided into your heart and allow your mind practice deciphering and expressing what's in your inner core. The intention is to open and explore alternative dimensions, possible rocks un-turned; and have an opportunity to see and talk to yourself.

Making art is a shared human desire, but one that takes courage to express and share. And like the art courage enables, it too takes shape through many forms. Courage is not the absence of fear, or even pushing through it. Courage is the infinite decisions we make in trusting ourselves alongside fear:

  • The courage to get out of bed

  • The courage to have dreams

  • The courage to stand up for ourselves

  • The courage to ask for help

  • The courage to believe in a better world

  • The courage to offer support and care 

  • The courage to be kind

  • The courage to feel joy

Community Practices meant to support your healing-care. These explorations center the Queer + Trans-NB Community and Black, Brown, 2Spirited experience. The intention of these community offerings are to create a reliable space to learn, share, and practice spiritual modalities meant to expand and grow our capacity to live our lives away from survival mode.

You can think of these experiences as explorations
into your Full spirit.

UNIQ

Explorations

Shamanic community clinic

Details: Next Clinic TBD

Shamanic Community clinic sessions are 45 minutes. They are scheduled every 15 minutes.

Each session includes 15 minutes of self-reflection with a journal prompt, followed by 30 minutes of shamanic energy work to clear stagnation, pain, and toxic energy.

**Clinic is Pay What You Can. Pre-registration required**

Location:

Practice Space
2200 Dominion St., Unit H,
Durham, NC 27704

A reliable, QTBIPOC-centered space to experience shamanic energy & Bodywork developed to expand our collective capacity for healthy relationships, shadow work, and processing inner wounds.

Whether you're seeking guidance, healing, or simply a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you, Pablo Robles (aka @Running_Guerrero) will guide you through this embodied journey.

You will learn and share in a combination of accessible embodiment, somatic & spiritual practices that support our collective survival and liberation by challenging the popularization of self-care and healing.

What to expect

Uniq Explorations are meant to offer time and space to develop and grow your intuition, your inner healer, your creativity, your healing-care routines, your relationship to movement and pleasure beyond your practice and into all aspects of your life.

  • Please bring comfy clothes an whatever you want to feel supported. Additionally, we encourage you to bring your favorite water vessel or tea mug, a journal, and your sense of curiosity.

  • Masking is requested in all interior common areas, including bathrooms and hallways on campus. For larger format group spaces, please continue to wear a mask unless everyone in the group has discussed comfort and agrees to remove masks.

    The Movement Space has a medical-grade HEPA Filter that cleans the air every 8-10 minutes, and when possible, facilitators may choose to open doors and windows to increase ventilation in the space.

    If you have symptoms of COVID or any other illness or infection, please consider alternative session plans or ensure you’re wearing masks in session if you test negative for COVID. If you need access to a COVID test, please contact a member of the Organizing Team for extra support.

    IF YOU TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID (updated 9/2023): Current guidelines recommend staying home for 5 days following a positive COVID test. Day 0 is the first onset of symptoms and Day 1 is considered the first full day after the day your symptoms started. You may want to consider masking in person for the next week after you return to campus following the 5 day isolation period.

  • This is a pace that is curated to center QTBIPOC individuals. We ask that all who choose to join us come prepared and ready to listen with compassion and understanding that we move with the intention to dismantle all forms of oppression and violence.

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