Wintering Well Series: Heal // Wellness, Rest and Healing: Lessons from the Northwoods
Facilitated by Rebeka Ndosi, Founder of Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary, and Sandra Joy Agustin (Firekeeper)
Part of the Wintering Well Series, sponsored by Wild Rice Retreat
Feb 3, 2024
The Market at Malcolm Yards
Tickets: Donation-based
Join us for a dynamic conversation around the importance of nature-based healing, rest, and the true meaning of radical self-care. These women leaders are creating a new way to travel by offering intentional spaces designed for ritual, rest, ceremony, healing circles, connecting to nature, and fostering places of belonging.
Wintertime can be a sacred time to align with nature and invite us to rest deeply. Join us for a mindful conversation and learn tools, rituals, and daily practices to support your self-care, rest, healing, and wellness/wholeness from some of the North’s leaders on wintering well.
Learn more about these soul-nourishing places for healing with a spotlight on Minnesota’s newest healing retreat space, Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary, located in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Founded by Rebeka Ndosi, Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary is a Black-led, nature-based healing retreat created to provide rest, reconnection, and rejuvenation of mind, body, and soul for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across generations.
All proceeds for this event further the support of Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary.
Please note that photographs and video footage may be taken throughout this event. These will be used by The Great Northern and its partners for marketing and publicity, our archives, on our website and in social media.
About the Facilitators
Rebeka Ndosi, M.S., L.Ac., is Founder and Keeper of the Vision for Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary, a nature-based emerging healing retreat near the North Shore of Gichigami (Lake Superior). As a Sanctuary and Homecoming, Maji ya Chai will center rest, rejuvenation, joy and thriving for Black, Native and People of Color across generations. Rebeka is a board licensed acupuncturist and herbalist; a teacher and teacher trainer of child, youth, adult and family yoga and meditation; a certified Community Coach in Healing Justice; and a certified Soul Answer Healer. In 2016, Rebeka co-founded the Youth Healing Justice Network, and in 2017, she created Warriors of Light™ Card Deck: Tools & Techniques for Feeling Healthy, Happy, and Whole featuring youth of the African Diaspora. Dedicated to building a culture and practice of soul, mind and body wellbeing for youth of color and the adults in their everyday spaces and places, her work recognizes, honors, and nurtures the individual and collective wisdom that we hold. Rebeka’s practice is driven by the firm belief that lasting, revolutionary, change and healing starts from within. Learn more about Rebeka’s work at www.rebeka.org.
Sandra Joy Agustin (Firekeeper) grew up in South Minneapolis, the youngest of 8 children born to a Pinoy immigrant and Euro-mix mother.
Her first language was movement; studying Hawaiian dance at the age of 9 and teaching it by the age of 10. She grew up surrounded by animals, siblings, neighbors, gardens, Filipino dance, and the sounds of Motown.
She is a lifelong dancer, creative activist and lover of all sentient and living things. She has collaborated with children as a teaching artist, with adults through teaching dance and exercise and is a longtime volunteer for animals and considers herself a "cre8tive navigator", helping individuals and groups move from where they are to where they need to be, whether a nonprofit or a family experiencing a loved one's transition into death. She is a master facilitator, using artistic tools to help shift energy, embody ideas and build understanding among people.
About the Wintering Well Series
Wild Rice Retreat’s Wintering Well series, specially curated for The Great Northern, focuses on harnessing the winter months as a time of wellness. The three-part series will incorporate guided breathwork, meditation, yoga, wellness, and bathing practices to support your health and wellbeing during the winter months.
The series is inspired by the wintering well principles of Wild Rice Retreat in Bayfield, WI—the North’s award winning nature-based wellness resort, with a special focus on supporting the BIPOC experience in healing spaces and the great outdoors of the North.
All proceeds from these events will further the mission of Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary—a Black-led nature based healing retreat being developed on Minnesota's North Shore.
The three-part series will incorporate different wellness and healing practices into the sessions to help you restore, rejuvenate, and thrive in the winter season.