about us

MISSION

Cause Reign is an oral history project that connects Black TGNC people to their histories through dreamwork -- the practice of remembering, recording, and activating the healing potential of our dreams. We guide students to explore the meaning of their dreams through artistic expression, journaling, and dream play therapy. SAGE House is an autonomous artist RESTidency for Black TGNC folks, and it will be piloted this summer. Our adult audiences remember through DREAM School. Dream Reclamation, Energy and Ancestral Healing, and Matriarchal Praxis (DREAM) School is for Black and Indigenous students to feel safe to dream. Functioning as both a digital oral history project and online decolonial education, DREAM School creates celebratory remembrance containers; students remember how to pray, eat, tell stories, and sing medicine songs while walking alongside their ancestors. Our younger audiences remember through KindeziCare, the oral tradition and art of Kongo babysitting. Through the KindeziCare art of deep creative youth care, we teach medicinal lessons which directly translate to the honoring of spirit, elders, and the environment.

EXPERIENCE

TBN is Cause Reign’s Principal Dreamworker. TBN has lectured and facilitated classes at the following conferences and private events:

  • 191 Toole and Casa Libre in Tucson, AZ

  • Black Farmer and Urban Gardeners Conference in Durham, NC

  • Herbal Hoedown Conference in Lodi, NY

  • Trans Day of Joy Conference in Queens, NY

  • Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, CA

  • Emotions and Society Guest Lecture, FIT, New York, NY

  • Studio 34 in Philadelphia, PA

  • NOLA Herb Gathering, virtual conference based in New Orleans, LA

Classes are offered quarterly with the equinoxes (online) and solstices (in-person). Contact if you would like to book a class in your area.

“I personally have always had poignant, metaphysical dreams that I now combine with additional research and strategies to sharpen the effects of my dreamwork (easing PTSD symptoms, divination) and the dreamwork of others (visiting other realms, learning dream language).” - TBN

STORY

Tyrell Blacquemoss (TBN) is a prophetic dreamworker and descendant of a long line of African priests and Turtle Island medicine people. As a scholarly researcher with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an emphasis in Africana Studies and Indigenous Studies from Cornell University, TBN reclaims and continues their family legacy of the science and art of dreaming.

TBN has traveled globally studying with shaman, elders, and healers of the following traditions: African diasporic and Western Herbalism, Conjure, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Southern Folk Medicine, Pachakuti Mesa (Peruvian shamanism), Sonoran desert Curanderismo, Toltec - Chichimeca dreamplanting, and diasporic African and Japanese energy healing.

TBN is certified in Usui Reiki 1 and 11, a trained herbalist specializing in mental-emotional health and dreams, with ancestral licenses in dreamwork, elemental healing, bone divination and is a gifted seer, Sangoma gobela initiate (in training to teach others to become South African Traditional healers) and future doctor of acupuncture.

TBN has volunteered in advocacy and organizing work for survivors of domestic violence and abuse. In addition to their work for others, their practice is very personal and has supported them through eighteen months of houselessness. They were nomadically based, living on farms, couch surfing, camping in wilderness, between upstate NY and the southwest, searching for their indigenous roots and connecting people of color to their ancestors and the land.

They are a 2019-2020 fellow in Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship. TBN is currently based in Flagstaff, AZ and quarantined in the desert, seeking birth worker training and beginning an MFA candidacy at Prescott College in Social and Environmental Arts Practice with Patrisse Cullors.