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Free Live and Recorded Online Webinar. Video Below!
Recorded September 28, 2024 |
Free Video of a Powerful Conversation between
Eli Andrew Ramer and Hunter Flournoy on Cultivating Embodied Resilience in Challenging Times Grounding in Our Sacred Chosen Bodies |
Spirit Journeys is delighted to offer a very special conversation between Queer Walks-Between Elders Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer, and Spirit Journeys' own Hunter Flournoy, exploring essential strategies and perspectives for cultivating embodied sacred connection in challenging times.
These are challenging times indeed; the UN estimates that by the year 2050 there will be one billion climate refugees; the world will be radically different, fractured, and divided.
The good news is that we are here.
We, as queer folk, come from every other people, and we have the innate ability to connect all of humanity. In this conversation, Eli and Hunter share a few simple and delicious embodied practices that allow us to be present in the world, grounded in our bodies, and ready to work to help heal the
world!
These are challenging times indeed; the UN estimates that by the year 2050 there will be one billion climate refugees; the world will be radically different, fractured, and divided.
The good news is that we are here.
We, as queer folk, come from every other people, and we have the innate ability to connect all of humanity. In this conversation, Eli and Hunter share a few simple and delicious embodied practices that allow us to be present in the world, grounded in our bodies, and ready to work to help heal the
world!
Andrew Elias Ramer is a Maggid (Jewish sacred storyteller) living in San Francisco, California. Born in Queens, New York in 1951, he believes that the prophetic tradition and storytelling are one and the same. The job of a storyteller is to create a narrative that holds a group together, forms the fabric of thought that a community or village of people inhabit. Andrew grew into being a maggid through many moments and teachers. He was spiritually formed through many communities including the Gay Spirit Visions Conference in North Carolina, and the New York Healing Circle, which flourished during the early AIDS years. His mentors, collaborators and guides have included Charles Lawrence, Donna Cunningham, Harry Hay, Raven Wolfdancer, Rabbi Benay Lappe, and Rabbi Dev Noily. He is a member and one of many lay leaders at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco. After years of spiritual wandering, it was in Torah study with Dev Noily at Sha’ar Zahav that he found wisdom, comfort and a rich new way to live as a Queer Jewish man. Andrew writes in a genre he calls "queer feminist speculative-fiction theology" and is the author of four books of midrash: Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories; Torah Told Different; Deathless; and Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud, with a fifth due out in 2022, Texting with Angels. He's also the author of Revelations for New Millennium; Angel Answers; and a co-author of Ask Your Angels; The Spiritual Dimensions of Healing Addictions and Further Dimensions of Healing Addictions.
Hunter Flournoy (pictured right) is the owner and director of Spirit Journeys. A heart-centered life coach, therapist, and spiritual healer, Hunter teaches skills for self-regulation, self-love, conscious breathing, and spiritual practice to help people break free from shame, trauma, and addiction, and create joyful lives. He is a pioneer in the use of breathwork in trauma and addiction treatment and the creator of Somatic Breath Coachng, and his work integrates two decades as a licensed psychotherapist with thirty years of experience in the world's shamanic and mystical traditions, including the Buddhist, Sufi, Buddhist, Eastern Christian, Toltec, and Currandero traditions. He has spent twenty years sitting in the Zen Buddhist and Contemplative Prayer Traditions. Hunter offers individual sessions by phone and in person, retreats, ceremonies, and journeys around the world. To learn more about Hunter and his work, go to www.hunterflournoy.com.