Accepting waitlist applications for 2022 enrollment
If you have an accepted application,
fall 2021 Enrollment is open until 9/9
Beginning each FALL equinox,
a 16 week online intensive
to dream with ancestors
& landscapes -
emotional, geographic, and astrological
Equinox dreaming awake begins
9/22/21
dream medicine for
Inner Child Work
Grief Work & TRANSITIONS
Beginning New Creative Projects
Finding Speaking Voice
Chronic pain
Persistent anxiety
General stress
Chronic fatigue
Spiritual hygiene needs for diviners and direct care practitioners
Tension Headaches
Nightmares
PTSD symptoms
Trauma Recovery
Intergenerational Trauma
Physical illness
Lack of peace, boredom, desire for more joy
It all started when…
I created EQUINOX Dreaming Awake after teaching dream workshops for 2 years at conferences, private events and interviews with friends and folks across diasporas. EQUINOX Dreaming Awake was birthed after traveling and learning to dream with many landscapes. It is my gift to you - a framework for dreaming with your ancestors among many landscapes - emotional, geographic and political.
You can begin your dream journey today. Starting with a journal and some water by your bedside.
Meet the DREAM School Teaching Apprentices
& support team
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Zakiya Bediako-Blake was born and raised in the black radical tradition in homes between Atlanta, Georgia and Memphis, Tennessee. They have 10+ years in Higher Education. In 2016 , they left Higher Ed and began studying & sharing in black + indigenious decolonial spaces of knowing. Their current areas of focus are a quilt of black spiritual tradition keeping : dream reclamation, ritual, herbalism, voice and grief work. @griefwerk
Zakiya is currently working on their first DREAM School course called Black Lullaby Tradition to be offered Spring 2022.
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Yaya (they / them) is a Black Indigenous person born and raised in northeastern Turtle Island. They come from a lineage of rootworkers, altar builders, and storytellers. Yaya has studied indigenous aromatherapy and movement practices, as well as received degrees in philosophy and sequential arts. In their art and as a garden educator, Yaya is committed to building and imagining a future that centers food/medicine sovereignty, autonomous self-liberation, and deep ancestral healing. During their herbalism apprenticeship, they focused on creating and distributing medicines to BIPOC in Washington DC via mutual aid support networks. Currently they are working with ancestral skincare and pleasure medicine, and creating educational resources to enable people to develop healing relationships with plants and plant medicine.
Yaya is a 2021 EQUINOX Teaching Apprentice.
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Amiri (he/him) is a queer black liberationist who was born and raised in the Atlanta area. He is a writer, storyteller, listener, and careworker for human beings. Amiri has primarily done this work in the context of education while also tending to the seeds of family and friends. He is passionate about growing, resting, dreaming, loving the land, and healing intergenerational wounds through authentic art. He is also learning to hone his divination, ancestral recall, and ceremony skills. Amiri is currently working on an Afrofuturist sci-fi epic that merges an admiration for the forces of nature with a meditation on societal and family legacy.
Amiri is a 2021 EQUINOX Teaching Apprentice.
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Roldine Richard (They/Them) Based in Philadelphia, PA, Roldine Richard is a Graphic Designer and Branding Strategist With a commitment to producing quality results, they combine novelty and analytics to design media that communicate your brand’s unique message. Their work seeks to address the dissonance between the current landscape of design solutions and the dynamic issues QTPOC experiences. They aim to leverage emergent programming skills in technologies such as web applications, and 'new media', to uplift the stories of these largely ignored communities. They are the founder of Creative Conjuring Etc. and have been practicing, studying and teaching astrology for 9+ years.
Roldine is DREAM School’s Managing Art Director and Astrologer-in-Residence.
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Steph Figgins Ramirez (she/her) is a Peruvian-American cinematographer and grassroots media organizer living in Arizona. Her commitment to decolonial creative practices unfolds through work with Peruvian plant medicines, dreamwork, and collaborative art and media production. She has worked with queer, trans, and indigenous migrants in Phoenix to produce a community art gallery, a queer street cinema, and a digital Day of the Dead altar. She is currently a Matakyev Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.
Stephanie is a 2021 EQUINOX Teaching Apprentice
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Oshiyi (she/they) is a Xicanx performer, mover, and curandera born in Houston, TX. They channel Indigenous and African ways of knowing to project and share spiritual healing modes with QTPOC communities. Their movement and healing practice is founded on the principle of decolonization and focused on discovering the roots of both our trauma and our joy. She has been living in New York City for 3 years and has since been healing through acupressure, mediation, movement and guidance from her Indigenous Ancestors. Her practice of Indigenous reiki, acupressure, bodywork, and movement (Qi Gong, African dance, and somatics) is derived from the moment and is being performed to liberate bodies from colonization, imperialism, and capitalism, and to return to Indigenous roots.”
Oshiyi is DREAM School’s 2021 TransFemme Movement Fellow.
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Edgar Bernal Sevilla (he/him) Edgar Bernal Sevilla is a historian, scholar, and educator from the western edge of the Sonoran Desert. Bernal Sevilla's chief area of historical interest is the impact of colonization on the U.S. Mexico borderlands. Bernal Sevilla hopes to contribute to the creation of a Borderlands Nation through community building in education and the dissemination of regional stories. Bernal Sevilla has a Bachelor of Arts in History from San Diego State University and is a finished thesis away from completing his Master of Arts in Borderlands History with an Emphasis in Public History. Professionally, he's work in 3 museums that specialize in cultural preservation, published in local newspapers, presented at national conferences, prepared the archive of archaeologist Morlin Childers and became the only Morlin Childers expert resulting in starring as a guest expert on the TV Show, Unexplained and Unexplored. Currently, he is teaching middle school history in Arizona, preparing to co-lead DREAM Schools Afterschool Family program, and finishing his master's thesis on the Navajo Generating Station.
Edgar is DREAM School’s Afterschool Family Program’s Assistant Program Coordinator. The program will run January-May 2022 in Tucson, AZ.
have you ever had a dream come true?
dreaming Awake is a practice of learning your lineage dream medicine and language.
Enrollment is limited. Complete your application today.
Dreaming Awake is daydreams and visions too. we’re in ceremony all day, in all the ways you move.
Thank you for making it this far on your journey. The world needs you to do exactly what you came here to do. Thank you for staying with us and offering what you can. Appreciate it deeply. After your application and interview process, you may sign up for your payment plan.
**If you would like additional support on your journey to complete a project associated with your lineage dream medicine, please note that you are interested in the apprenticeship on your application. **
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