Free Soundbath & Plant Medicine info session
with Malka Lew
with Malka Lew
July 1 (Saturday)
at 2:30 pm
Class length
75 minutes
Location
downtown oakland
Malka Lew has been practicing yoga since she was 20 years old. While studying at UC Santa Cruz, she stumbled into an Iyengar yoga studio and fell in love with the practice. She later found her love growing for heated vinyasa yoga when she was working at the Yoga Tree in San Francisco as a massage therapist. It was there that she recieved her 200 hr YTT certificate. Her intention was to deepen her practice but a couple years later, she ended up landing a job in Thailand at a wellness center. This is where Malka found herself as a teacher and after many years of practice at this point, she could feel the teaching pouring out of her. She then went to New York city to pursue her 500 hr YTT with Dharma Mittra. With a committment to the practice, Malka continues to gain knowledge and the practice continues to evolve her into new understandings. For Malka, teaching yoga is a joy and an honor. She loves holding space for deep transformation. Her classes consist of pranayama, meditation, wisdom from the yoga texts, a vigorous flow, and she always ends her class chanting mantras on her harmonium. Malka believes that being embodied is the biggest tool when dealing with social change. If we and connect to even just a spark of liberation within, we can spread that feeling out into the world and together we can make change in this world. Malka’s first experience with Grandmother medicine was in 2012 in Puerto Rico. After spending some time with the Yawanawa tribe in Brazil and doing her own plant diet in Peru with the Shipibo tribe, Malka was given the blessing to be a keeper and giver of the medicine. Currently, Malka’s study and journey as a Priestess of the Ifa tradition of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria is intensive and therefore to not mix traditions too much, Malka doesnt serve the medicine often. However, when the time arrives, Malka is extremely grateful to be im communion with Grandmothet wisdom which has played a pivotol role in her own transformation, healing and connection to her ancestors. The wisdom of this medicine is in its essence love, humility and grace.
AshEL SeaSunZ Eldridge is a creative immersed in healing arts. He is a TEDx speaker and a vocalist with West African/West Oakland band Dogon Lights. www.LyftRapper.com is his critically acclaimed rideshare webisode. Soulestial Church, brings a unique perspective to spiritual world music, transmitting stories and ceremonial songs from spirit. He uses sound, meditation, and plant consciousness for global transformation. His Galactic Language Activations, PrayerSongs, and karmic purification practice via Sukyo Mahikari works to clear inhibitions to our true self. His latest project, EFAM: Essential Foods and Medicine, is a community and land regeneration org transforming food surplus into medicine for the unhoused, formerly incarcerated, and low-income of Oakland, Ca.
www.ashelseasunz.com