The Candle, The Machete, & The Nommo

This is not a course. This is a 6 session, three month Liberatory Mystery School designed to assist you in liberating your self in spite of oppressive societies.

*Session Replays

*Signal Group for between session discussions

*Google Drive Resource List with readings and exercises used

*Communal Ritual, Witnessing and Activation

Dates

3 Saturdays, 11 AM-12:30 PM CST (UTC-6)

August 2nd

September 6th

October 4th

3 Sundays, 11 AM -12:30 PM CST (UTC-6)

August 10th

September 14th

October 12th

Who this is for:

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    People of the Global Majority.

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    Persons racialized as White.

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    All Folx, including Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Folx.

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    People who don’t know their lineages beyond 500 years due to migration—forced or willing.

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    Those who’ve reclaimed their spirituality away from colonialism, but don’t feel confident in their understanding of historical intersections of colonialism, whiteness, race, gender, class, sexuality.

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    Those who want to liberate themselves from the energetic extraction of all systems of oppression—not through bypassing but by powerful embodiment informed by freedom-makers across time.

What’s inside

Module 1: The Candle

  • Wisdom Share: Writing Ancestors into Being Through The Elements Guided Exploration

  • Home Exploration: Ancestral geographies—Making connections to land and waters of lineages.

  • Praxis: Liberatory Ancestors Reclamation

  • Activation: Creating Ancestral (Human, Elemental, Cosmic) Council & Altar

    Key Text References: Various texts from Subonfu Some

Module 2: The Machete

  • Wisdom Share: Extracting The Self From The Colonial Imagination

  • Home Exploration: Energetic Audit of the Intellectual, Physical, Emotional Bodies.

  • Praxis: Discernment and Energetic Boundaries Training: Theater of the Oppressed informed Role Play

  • Activation: Creating Spiritual, Physical, and Energetic Protection Protocols

Key Text References: “The Uses of Anger”, Audre Lorde; Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People; Also, exploring liberatory ancestors like: Louzen, Native American Warrior and Seer and Grace O’Malley, Irish Chieftain and Pirate.

Module 3: The Nommo

  • Wisdom Share: The Power to Call into Being: The Aje, The Nommo, and Sonic Activation

  • Home Exploration: Naming my World—what am I called and what do I answer to?

  • Praxis: Building a Personal Cosmology of Liberation

  • Activation: Communal Naming Ceremony

Key Text References: Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts by Teresa N. Washington; Ritual and The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Some; WorldBuilding by NK Jemisin; Boukman’s Prayer; Harriet Tubman quotes

Limited Enrollment

Limited Enrollment

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • It’s $350 total—a bit over $100/month for two sessions.

    This allows me to hold the container, appreciate myself for the time/energy, while allowing this to be as accessible as possible.

  • All my products are available through Resonance Exchange. This is a barter-style system that allows you to contribute what you have in abundance towards my and reciprocal care. To inquire about this option, email me at candice@candicedmeza.com

  • In a nutshell:

    Bachelors, Black Studies

    Masters in Public Administration

    Years developing curriculum as a certified teacher (Texas).

    10 years as artist and creative entrepreneur.

    200+ hours in ritual practice with Dagara Wisdom-Keeper Dr. Malidoma Patrice Some

    I’m the combination of this real-world qualifications, as well as the experiential praxis of exploring the embodied strategies at the intersection of history, quantum mechanics, spirituality and ritual, ancestral veneration, art, creation, and motherhood.