nourish welcome
A Mini Practice Portal for the NOURISH Cohort
choose your adventure
Welcome, NOURISH sisters! Thank you for visiting our mini practice portal. Please enjoy feeling for your Yes and journeying into whichever practices nourish you. Some offerings are available for download as well, and more shares will be added here over the next few weeks. You are invited to practice doing what feels good, generative, and expansive to you. You are welcome to connect with Mother Mother to ask questions, share sacred stories, or give feedback about your experience.
This mini practice portal will be open through Thursday June 30, 2022 at 11:59pm EST.
fertile soundscapes mixed by dj mother mother Be
Soundtrack | Kokoroko Abusey Junction | Yazmin Lacey 90 Degrees | Nicola Cruz Criançada (con Castello Branco) | Mlindo The Vocalist Emakhaya | Sara Tavares Balance | Mamani Keita Douba | DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small, Bontle Smith Lerato | Download
There’s all sorts of things that impact the soft morning.
And that’s what I love about the soft morning—
Because it’s not static.
It’s not going to be the same everyday.
I don’t know what my life is going to look like
when I wake up.
I have no idea how the day is gonna go.
And this allows me ultimate possibility
because anything can happen…
anything is possible…
Maybe not everything I want will happen,
but I start the day off knowing that it’s possible.
And that possibility creates
a warmth.
Creates more softness.
Creates optimism.
Creates a sense of excitement—
like, “This is an adventure.
What can come from this beautiful day?”
Soundtrack | Janelle Monáe Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu | DJ Mother Mother Be A Liberated Booty Is | Junkyard Band Loose Booty | A La Modeliste Produced by Mark Ronson ft. Erykah Badu,Trombone Shorty, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste, and members of The Dap Kings | Bracket Mama Africa | Heavy D & The Boyz Now That We Found Love feat. Aaron Hall | Yemi Alade Johnny | Sweet Talks Akumpaye | KonKoma Kpanlogo | Amerie 1 Thing | DJ Mother Mother Be A Liberated Booty Is (Shakara Mix) | North East Groovers Booty Call | Mary J. Blige Just Fine | Download
“The Liberated Booty language
evolved from these different moments
of experiencing freedom in unlikely places,
and realizing that with movement,
I had the power to transcend
any reality.
and that I could actually nurture
a new reality through the presence
and consciousness that I brought
to my movement.
And the booty is this space
of infinite possibilities.
It’s where the regenerative magic
of life lives.
what stories are you holding in your body?
Everything in this practice portal is an invitation for you to be with the majesty of your body, the bounty of your being as a creator. Your beautifully intelligent body holds stories, memories, experiences, knowings, and possibilities. How do you access your inner archive? How do you engage the brilliance of your body in loving and imaginative ways?
Dance into your day with mother mother!
Soundtrack | Nadia Khan Sunburnt | Susso Alagi | Nina Simone Here Comes The Sun ((Francois K. Remix)
Mother Mother invites you to embody the magic and abundance frequencies of that amazing star 93 million miles away that sources and sustains all life on Earth. A 3-set progression, the movement begins with gentle, soft expansive movements, and gradually builds in intensity and expression with each song.
Soundtrack | Guts Bougé Bagay La | Nickodemus Crazy Stranger | The Shaolin Afronauts Shira
Mother Mother activates a deeper understanding of one of her life scriptures: My body is the site of all my creations. She dances into a rapturous clarity while experimenting with all the ways to embody the vibrancy of creation in every part of her body.
You are a creator, and all of your creations must come from you!
You are invited to be with and celebrate yourself as a creator, in all the ways you birth, nurture, vision, provide, sustain, restore, and recreate. You are abundant and your creation magic is healing to yourself and others. What do you yearn to create? What do you know in your heart, in your soul, in your body—must come from you?
winter solstice 2021
A Soft Time Practice Portal
A 48-minute groove to dance to, create with, vibe out on…
Soundtrack | Sade, Cottonbelly By Your Side (Sade Remix) | Susso Alagi | Osunlade A Monk’s Tear | Nina Simone Here Comes The Sun ((Francois K. Remix)) | LION BABE Umi Says | DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small, Bontle Smith Lerato | Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist, Mansur Brown Love Is The Message | Download
an introductory listening practice
Soundtrack | Alice Coltrane Blue Nile | Cantoma Etoile (Phil Mison Remix) | Photo by Colin A. Danville
an embodied fertile soundscape practice
Listen, commune, and dance along to a reading of Mother Audre’s Timeless Essay
Audre Lorde is the author of this essay, "Poetry Is Not A Luxury" | Read by Mother Mother Binahkaye Joy | Soundtrack | Zap Mama Mizike | Abadou | Meshell Ndegeocello Good Intentions | Come Smoke My Herb
what does it mean to be sustainable?
We are reimagining the role and place of the doula in the birth world. Why are doulas necessary in America? What types of support do doulas give in the this society that the family naturally provides in other cultures? Is it sustainable for one person to substitute for a family of support? Why are you a doula? What types of support do you need to serve the families you do?
