Release pain. Heal your spiritual DNA.My workshops, classes, and one-one sessions are personally designed for people who have suffered, survived--and desire a new way of life.
Through creative writing, centering practices, mind-body-spirit integration, and intimate connection, wounds and insights are gently and lovingly brought to light. Speaking and writing your unheard story is key to:
I support people of all backgrounds, with an emphasis on women, youth and communities who are experiencing life-altering trauma and transformation. |
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Andréana is a poet, educator, justice worker, and community grower.
She's the author of Circle the Bones with Shining.
She partners with community leaders & global nonprofits, using creative writing and the arts to illumine heart and soul.
As lead storyteller for the EARTH Initiative: Empowering All Relatives to Heal, she amplifies the voices of Indigenous and Iranian women on the frontlines of the global healing revolution (in collaboration with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Arizona, and The Center for Mind-Body Medicine).
She has lived and traveled across the US, UK, Hawaii, Europe, and the Middle East, listening and supporting women and youth.
Her writing has been recognized by the Elise Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, The Atlantic, the UN Society of Writers, American University, and the London School of Economics. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Sojourners; On Being; Braided Way; About Place Journal; Rising Phoenix Review; IranWire; and The Good Men Project. She was a featured artist at Red Clay State Park, where the Trail of Tears began; and the Hunter Museum of Art.
Andréana has degrees from American University and the London School of Economics.
She's the author of Circle the Bones with Shining.
She partners with community leaders & global nonprofits, using creative writing and the arts to illumine heart and soul.
As lead storyteller for the EARTH Initiative: Empowering All Relatives to Heal, she amplifies the voices of Indigenous and Iranian women on the frontlines of the global healing revolution (in collaboration with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Arizona, and The Center for Mind-Body Medicine).
She has lived and traveled across the US, UK, Hawaii, Europe, and the Middle East, listening and supporting women and youth.
Her writing has been recognized by the Elise Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, The Atlantic, the UN Society of Writers, American University, and the London School of Economics. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Sojourners; On Being; Braided Way; About Place Journal; Rising Phoenix Review; IranWire; and The Good Men Project. She was a featured artist at Red Clay State Park, where the Trail of Tears began; and the Hunter Museum of Art.
Andréana has degrees from American University and the London School of Economics.
My Sacred "Terms & Conditions"
If you wish to work with me, please read and reflect on this first.
1. I do not exploit myself.
2. I do not accept exploitation.
3. I do not exploit others or Mother Earth.
4. I bring ALL of myself to the table: body-heart-soul-world.
5. I fuel my life and work in ways that are holistic, sustainable and life-affirming.
6. I work and play in a mode of sacred prosperity, reciprocity, and respect.
7. I am worthy of material resources and inputs of time, space, money, and magic.
8. I am justly compensated financially. I justly compensate others.
9. I recognize and recompense my emotional and spiritual labor and that of others.
10. I honor and commit to my creative, emotional, spiritual gifts and capacities.
11. I honor and protect my body, time, space, emotions, presence, and energy.
12. I honor and commit to my health, happiness, wellbeing.
13. I am a cause of health, happiness, and wellbeing for my kindred and Mother Earth.
14. I seek people and environments that are loving, nourishing, and energizing.
15. I support my own unique humanness and that of others.
16. I am guided by full-body awareness and connection to Spirit.
17. I listen to my feelings and intuition.
18. I act with integrity.
19. I make changes and speak truthfully when I feel dissonance or dis-ease.
20. I am open to Dreaming together, as long as my own Dreams are recognized and credited.
21. I stand in humbleness before the Mystery.
22. I stand in Gratitude for gifts given and received.
23. I am blessed and bless others with Presence and Trust.
24. I am learning the HOW of all this and am practicing patience and self-forgiveness.
25. I fall, make mistakes, recalibrate and take account without beating myself up.
26. [Space for new insights to be added at any time!]
In this and all things:
I Trust my Source.
I am Sustained by Source.
I am Supported by Source.
I am Nourished by Source.
I am Safe with Source.
At all times, and under all conditions.
AHO
If you wish to work with me, please read and reflect on this first.
1. I do not exploit myself.
2. I do not accept exploitation.
3. I do not exploit others or Mother Earth.
4. I bring ALL of myself to the table: body-heart-soul-world.
5. I fuel my life and work in ways that are holistic, sustainable and life-affirming.
6. I work and play in a mode of sacred prosperity, reciprocity, and respect.
7. I am worthy of material resources and inputs of time, space, money, and magic.
8. I am justly compensated financially. I justly compensate others.
9. I recognize and recompense my emotional and spiritual labor and that of others.
10. I honor and commit to my creative, emotional, spiritual gifts and capacities.
11. I honor and protect my body, time, space, emotions, presence, and energy.
12. I honor and commit to my health, happiness, wellbeing.
13. I am a cause of health, happiness, and wellbeing for my kindred and Mother Earth.
14. I seek people and environments that are loving, nourishing, and energizing.
15. I support my own unique humanness and that of others.
16. I am guided by full-body awareness and connection to Spirit.
17. I listen to my feelings and intuition.
18. I act with integrity.
19. I make changes and speak truthfully when I feel dissonance or dis-ease.
20. I am open to Dreaming together, as long as my own Dreams are recognized and credited.
21. I stand in humbleness before the Mystery.
22. I stand in Gratitude for gifts given and received.
23. I am blessed and bless others with Presence and Trust.
24. I am learning the HOW of all this and am practicing patience and self-forgiveness.
25. I fall, make mistakes, recalibrate and take account without beating myself up.
26. [Space for new insights to be added at any time!]
In this and all things:
I Trust my Source.
I am Sustained by Source.
I am Supported by Source.
I am Nourished by Source.
I am Safe with Source.
At all times, and under all conditions.
AHO
