Yes and Hallelujah with Raina Manuel Paris

Written By Cristy
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God is a Black Woman Writer by Raïna Manuel-Paris

God is a black woman writer

her name is Maya

Toni and Angela

God is a black woman writer

Alice Walker

sister outsider

God is a wild woman writer

Oh Oh Oh what a numinous power

God is a wild woman writer

‘Cause Pale and Male is not forever

And you got to know Mirabai and Sylvia,

And you got to know Emily and Djuna

And you got to say YES and Halleluiah (x2)

And god is a wild dancer

A winter night shape shifter

A new born cosmic dreamer

‘Cause your mother needs a prayer

And anything DEAD coming back to life hurts

Because never having your own life hurts

And you got to love your flesh

You got to love your flesh

And you got to love your hands

‘Cause they won’t

You know they won’t

They would rather cut off your hands

And tear out your heart if they can

And sew up your lips

Sew up your lips

And keep you silent

Yes keep you silent

But you were not born to be a slave

No! No! No! Not a slave

To history or family

Bigotry, or Patriarchy,

No! You were not born to be a slave

And you got to say YES, and Halleluiah (x2)

And the way forward is with a broken heart

All the way down to the wet ground of the heart

Because it’s all about love

It’s always been about love

Your inside eyes, you must trust

Before it all turns to dust

They show you a new vision

Your genius-heart-life-mission

Dancing like a maenad,

And praying like a nomad

Gathering all the storms

‘Cause you’ve never had a home

And there is no time to rewind

The trap of your embattled mind

Because it’s never been about making sense

No, it’s never been about making sense

It’s always been about making Self

O yes, it’s always been about making Self

God is a wild woman writer

And your broken broken broken heart is the healer

And you got to say YES and Halleluiah (x2)

Source: Soul Crush

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

https://imaginaltherapy@gmail.com
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