Lydia Violet- Singing the Bones

June 25th 1:30-5pm

Across cultures and centuries, our ancestors carried ways of surviving, resisting, grieving, celebrating, and protecting life through stories, songs, dances, rituals, and communal practices. These were not only expressions of culture. They were technologies of resilience, dignity, and continuity in the face of oppression, corruption, displacement, and loss. Singing the Bones is an invitation to return to those roots. Lydia will offer an experiential workshop grounded in the understanding that building our humanity and reducing harm are ancestral skills passed through bodies, stories, rhythm, culture, and relationship. 

Learning about the cultures of our ancestors is not a nostalgic pursuit; it is a rigorous and intimate process of remembering. In a time when many of us have been severed from the languages, land-based practices, and cosmologies that shaped our lineage, turning toward ancestral knowledge can offer powerful tools for, disentangling inherited patterns of disconnection and harm, and cultivating more honest and rooted relationships with ourselves, others, and the earth. It can help us recover a deeper sense of meaning, belonging, and direction. As we engage with ancestral stories, songs, and lifeways, we begin to re-enter the psychic and spiritual terrain our people once walked. This work is not about returning to an idealized past, but about listening carefully to what remains and becoming reparative cultural forces in our communities.