Sacred Conversation with Palestinian filmmaker Rolla Selbak
Listen and heal your soul
My Sacred Conversation with Palestinian filmmaker, director, writer, and teacher Rolla Selbak was an exchange of sweet and saltwater tides. I cried. Then she cried. Then I cried. And she cried. It was oceanic in its soulfulness, honesty, clarity, and Love offering for humanity. I had been yearning for this conversation since we met at the Los Angeles reading of the Gaza Monologues in January of this year (2024). I can't wait for you to listen to, feel, and be sown by this kinship river. Bless you.
JUNE 5 VIRTUAL GATHERING TICKETS
Bless you, your circle, and all living things, Dear Soul,
I am excited to join you this Wednesday, June 5 at 9am Pacific Daylight Time for our next virtual gathering as a part of my world tour, The Gathering, a poetry / book reading ceremony for collective freedom from oppression.
I will be reading selections from my various books and pouring healing medicine for your heart and soul. I hope you will invite your friends, family, colleagues, mentees, book clubs, and social groups to register now and join us. The ticket link is below and a ticket purchase qualifies you for our book giveaway.
Also, if you purchased a ticket for our April 11 virtual gathering, the video recording is now available to stream at our Soul Shop at jaiyajohn.com. If you purchased a ticket for April 11, you can email us at jaiya@soulwater.org to receive a coupon code for free streaming of this video. I hope to see you on June 5.
Big Love,
Jaiya
JUNE 5 VIRTUAL GATHERING TICKETS
Enjoy listening to a brief reading here:
JAIYA JOHN'S
THE GATHERING.
A WORLD TOUR.
a poetry reading ceremony and
book collection sale and signing
I am excited to join you in person this year in your community to read from my collection of 19 books and unpublished work, bringing to life the spirit of the medicine words. I say reading, though incantation and prayer are truer. Thematically, these readings are on collective freedom, and take on the flavor of each audience from gathering to gathering. A rich weaving of cultural fabric. These gatherings center Indigenous, marginalized, dehumanized people and communities, and are remembrance songs, bringing us back to our Indigenous ancestral ways of gathering and being together. As this tour is part of my global Soul Water Rising rehumanizing mission, we stir the soul to remember itself as we garden our collective liberation and the end of oppressive systems and ways of life.
I am also honored to include, at some of the gatherings, live Sacred Conversations with revolutionary souls who inspire me. During these gatherings, I also commune with the audience in questions and conversation. And we build into this healing experience what we are calling Aftercare. After the reading, we care for each other as I make myself available for sacred listening and embraces, tears and laughter, photos, and book collection purchasing and signing.
As a part of Soul Water Rising's Book Angel Project, whether or not you attend a particular gathering, you have the opportunity to purchase books that we then gift to vulnerable souls with whom we gather along the tour.
The Gathering is a people's freedom movement. The tour is happening in cafés, bookstores, libraries, prisons, hospitals, shelters, community centers, women's centers, college campuses, HBCU's, Indigenous reservations, art galleries, art studios, museums, parks, amphitheaters, auditoriums, theaters, festivals, and stadiums. Call out to us. We go where we are called.
You can play an organic role in this. If you desire for the tour to come your way, email me through our tour page at jaiyajohn.com. You or someone you know may be able to help identify aligned venues, communities, and audiences.
Tour dates and locations are announced on a rolling calendar as sites are secured. This tour is a culmination, crystallizing, and new season of my life's journey, work, and calling. I am awed and enchanted to read for you and embrace you in a healing way.
We will see each other soon, in Love, at The Gathering.
Big Love,
Jaiya
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My books are available at booksellers worldwide and directly from the author at jaiyajohn.com (eBooks are exclusively at my site). Thank you for posting your copies, readings, and creative images and videos, and for sharing online reviews. It all breathes life into a book's life. I hope you will gift these books to your people.
Also at jaiyajohn.com, enjoy my books, eBooks, audiobooks, talks, sleep stories, and piano music. I also offer creative writing support phone sessions, keynote speaking, talks, and book/poetry readings.
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in absolute love listening to this. thank you both Jaiya and Rolla, for raising and rising and soaring and carrying and exploring and committing and trusting and holding and releasing and connecting and flying and Falastin and all beings and all beings and all beings and free.