Ayni Healing Collective - Monthly Digital Reiki Circle

The Ayni Healing Collective at Kota Alliance invites you to our Digital Reiki Circle Series for the Spring of 2025. Join us online every 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM for a rejuvenating session of energy healing, open to all. Each circle will be facilitated by a trained Reiki practitioner/facilitator and will center on a theme of the month.

Energy medicine is a powerful tool of many cultures and traditions around the world, and for many Indigenous peoples throughout time. We offer this space for anyone who wants to join, as you are, from wherever you are - let's share in community healing space online together.

You’ll receive the Zoom link via email after signing up, so keep an eye out for the confirmation email. If you have any trouble joining the meeting, please email deenalynn@kota-alliance.org for help.

EQUITY COMMITMENT: The Ayni Healing Collective is an inclusive and affirming space that honors all of our beautiful differences and respects all genders, sexualities, abilities and ethnicities. Come as you are in your full self and bring your own commitment to be respectful and honoring of each other's differences.

REIKI INFO:

Reiki is a gentle non-invasive, but powerful bio-field form of holistic healing. Reiki supports the body, mind, spirit and emotions in relieving stress, reducing pain, increasing immunity, and enhancing well-being. It is an alternative complimentary energy medicine that is safe for use with traditional medicine treatments.

Dates for the upcoming Reiki circles:

• 2/5
• 3/4
• 4/2
• 5/7
• 6/4

OUR GUIDES + CO-COORDINATORS OF AYNI HEALING COLLECTIVE:

DeenaLynn Dockery-Collins:

DeenaLynn is a Graduate of The New York College of Health Professions Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine; Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Reiki Master/Teacher, Eastern Nutritionist, Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher, Qigong Practitioner and Spiritual Consultant. As a healer, her focus is on developing curricula and strong partnerships that support optimum health and well-being for individual and organizations. Her work is deeply centered around serving disenfranchised young adults and the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ community. She builds relationships with her clients and patients to help them achieve their wellness goals and highest desires. She is a passionate, and dedicated health professional with more than 15 years of experience as a multidisciplinary healer, and trauma healing facilitator. She practices an integral, East/West approach to optimum wellness and believe joyful living depends bringing in to balance the 4 pillars of health: Body, Mind, Spirit, and Emotions.

Teresa Mateus: Teresa brings her background as a Clinical Social Worker, with her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York University into the work of the Ayni Healing Collective. She was trained in Sivananda Yoga in 2009 and has practiced integrative mental health care as a trauma therapist for nearly 20 years, integrating mind-body-spirit care including somatic practices, creative arts, equine-facilitated psychotherapy, and mindfulness for healing trauma. She has also studied for years in the Andean Indigenous healer tradition of the Q’eros tribes from the high mountains above Cusco, Peru. Teresa was born in Bogota, Colombia and loves to return to the Andes whenever she can, back to her tierra sagrada (sacred land) of her birthplace. Learn more about Teresa at www.teresamateus.com.

ADDITIONAL SPACE INFORMATION:

HOW TO SHOW UP: Come as you are in whatever is most comfortable to you. There are no expectations for how you show up - just that however you join is in respect and appreciation to the fellow attendees. You'll receive the Zoom link in your confirmation email after signing up.

ACCESSIBILITY: Join us however you are most comfortable in your body - sitting, standing, or laying down - and in whatever way you are most comfortable from whatever your comfortable clothes are to end your day with this shared practice space and with your camera on or off (we understand camera fatigue). Anything we do in shared space together can be modified to your comfort level but overall it is a practice that is very easy and restorative for any and all bodies.

Ayni Healing Collective's work is grounded in the empowerment of young folx through multi-generational community-building and healing centering the ethic of liberation through holistic health, trauma-conscious care, sharing BIPOC/QTBIPOC ancestral wisdom and building collective power for social change and racial, gender and sexual equity. We are a partnered program of Kota Alliance in the historic Sugar Hill neighborhood of West Harlem.

The Kota Alliance is a non-profit Global Center for Gender Equity. Kota partners with organizations, entities, and individuals that seek to improve and empower women's lives through impactful collaboration. By sharing ideas and working together, we advance gender equity and promote women’s empowerment, both locally and globally.