Who
WE
Be
A collective of Black and Queer spiritualists, artists, cultural organizers, and activists, The Wind & The Warrior apply indigenous healing modalities, and place-based cultural arts practices, within movements for transformative justice and spaces of mutual aid.
Our intention is to contribute to the sustainable transformation of our relationship to the Earth through economic and ecological shifts to which we are called to respond with great imagination. Grounded in our Black Feminist and eco-womanist values, we facilitate the healing of intergenerational wounds and relationships.
We do this by centering the most marginalized in communities and at the frontlines, i.e. Indigenous, Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, disabled, and poor peoples. We offer ancestral knowledge and practices; we support movement spaces, activists, and leaders to embrace and embody healing practices and regard them as critical to “the work”; we grow community and movement healers through education and training experiences.
Our Faculty
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Karma Mayet, MFA
Co-Founder
Artist. Educator. Mystic. Rootwoman.
ERYT/YACEP Yoga Teacher Trainer. MBSR Qualified Teacher.
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Nana A. Korantema Pierce Williams, MS
Co-Founder
Mind Body Medicine, CMT-Certified Massage Therapist
Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor, Teacher Trainer
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Ife Afriye Fagbulu Kilimanjaro, Ph.D.
Co-Founder
Spirit-Healer-Warrior. Climate Activist. Writer.
Seven Elemental Principles of The Wind & The Warrior
THE CIRCLE
We honor the wisdoms of circles and spirals that unify the past, present and future generations through patterns and cycles, evolutions and revolutions. The Wind & the Warrior embrace infinite movement across time and space.
RELEASE
We release that which doesn’t serve us, including shame, fear, oppressive thought systems and dispiriting energies. The Wind & the Warrior let it go.
SEVEN
The Wind & the Warrior embody the mystic number 7. We search for underlying meanings and hidden truths - with intelligence, intuition and spiritual discipline - to understand current realities, reject scarcity paradigms and create new possibilities.
SACRED WATERS
We honor the sacred waters that nourish and cleanse our minds, bodies and spirits, and open our hearts to radical acceptance, surrender and release. The Wind & The Warrior seek communication with the sacred waters.
DIVINE LIGHT
We call upon that which contains and reflects all to connect us as light workers to each other and to our ancestors. The Wind & The Warrior conduct divine light.
JOY & PLEASURE
We invite into our lives joy, play and all that is in alignment with our greatest good, our highest destiny. The Wind & the Warrior call upon the principle of pleasure.
THE BLACK ROCK
The Wind & the Warrior are seeded by the Black Rock. We honor the shared symbols of the infinite divine among many spiritual systems. We bow to the Oneness of All and to the Creator.
Sacred Waters Pilgrimage
On Saturday, June 20, 2020, the day of the Summer Solstice, Wind & Warrior joined in ceremony with Anishinaabe water and wisdom keepers at the headwaters of the Mississippi River for the beginning of the Sacred Waters Pilgrimage.
Our Sacred Waters Pilgrimage opened at the headwaters of the Mississippi River on the day of the Summer Solstice, in community with Ojibwe elder water and wisdom keepers, women of all ages, children and beautiful babies. We of The Wind & The Warrior, and our extended family, are grateful for the permission and the welcoming we received. We are grateful and nourished from the sharing and the exchange of song, dance, food, knowledge, and practices that opened this pilgrimage.
The purpose of this journey is to join in sacred water ceremony and in courageous conversations for healing & for the shifts being called for in these times: healing the lands and waters, healing the generational & historical wounds of Black and Native peoples on these lands under Settler Colonialism, and healing the historical relationships of Black and Native peoples with each other. The intentions for the pilgrimage are to honor the sacred water work that has come before us, to share indigenous practices in ceremony between Black and local Native water keepers, healers, and culture-bearers, and to co-create practices and conversations toward a stronger solidarity and shared vision for liberation of and on these lands.