Undakova Update July

Let's flow with our hearts within the communications and the arts. Hello, Did you know July is my birthday month? Life has been heating gradually here in NYC but by this fall (September 27th) my partner Katie and I are looking forward to the natural birth of Kali Xion Williams!! With the guidance of my higher power I have managed to maintain the fast pace demands of my day occupation at Juice Press, continually practice my meditation, and take daily steps to stay on top of my creative endeavors. It's been a challenging emotional ride for your "cancer moon" Leo brother to say the least but here is an update just for you.  Photo by Elisa Garcia. LILY POND BITHIN ORIGINO Nuphar Advena beautiful collaboration with @mysticalratchet @undakova Katie (and baby Kali) were 100% supportive and by my side as I served at the Unifier Festival in Tolland Massachusetts. Together we taught Hip Hop Kid Yoga as well as facilitated a Hip Hop and spoken word cypher presented by the amazing wordsmith Tanya Evanson. Completing the team Elisa Garcia provided the photography and skillfully captured the memories you can see above and below.  Undakova Hip Hop Yoga photo from this year's Unifier Festival by Elisa Ghs  "It was truly impressive to watch Undakova facilitate a cypher with people who had, for the most part, never participated in one before. He held us all inside rhythm, grace and patience. We listened, learned and were blessed. May it continue." -Tanya Evanson poet/performer/producer www.mothertonguemedia.com PAST MOVEMENTS      Finally settling back home in the LES I was guided to feel our baby's head in Kali Mama's womb with my two fingers during our midwife session. I could only imagine the shocked look on my face. A moment and feeling I will never forget as each fleeting moment continued and continued passing on to the next. . .  below is a free-verse rhyme I wrote as well as other blessed times "Back in New York" UNDAKOVA FREE-VERSE Urban Tantra Workshop @ Daya Yoga Brooklyn Thanks Katie and David for the brilliant workshop and for your generosity. -Joy Curtus  Summer Solstice & Full Moon @ Alchemist Kitchen On the Summer Solstice Undakova joined together with radical, queer feminist collective Go! Push Pops as we honored the light, the inner fire/power and the ever present earth energies. Through sacred ceremony, we learned to ignite our own inner fires, burning away all that is no longer serving us and heating up the passions that bind us together in song, dance and celebration in a Free Form Ecstatic Dance Party Youth Explosion "The New Bohemia" @ Czech Center New York  Grateful to have collaborated with "New York Darlings" gopushpops, Katie Cercone and Elisa Ghs for Marie Tomanová's “Youth Explosion: The New Bohemia.” What a blessing and wonderful honor to be amongst so many groundbreaking artist and creatives serving to break down the old paradigm so we can bring forth the new. KaliMa!.-Undakova "The performance itself took the shape of a birthing ceremony: Cercone rapped, declaring herself “Ratchet Amma” as Garcia de La Huerta cut fruit and slathered it over her own shirt and Cercone’s belly, leaving the two artists stained and sticky. After a hip-hop sermon by Undakova, a small spontaneous dance party broke out with the pregnant “Ratchet Amma” shedding her shirt." - Milk Media on gopushpops at ‪#YouthExplosion‬  READ THE FULL ARTICLE on MILK FUTURE MOVEMENTS BEAT GLOBAL TEACH THE TEACHER PROGRAM Once "settled" in New York I began to remember that "Life is in cycles." I was grateful to revisit ‪#BeatGlobal‬ and reignite the passion and purpose once again with Terry Lewis ‪#Kidlucky‬ orchestrating the cypher in the picture above masterfully. BEAT is gearing up for the second coming of TEACH THE TEACHER PROGRAM. This year BEATNYC will be launching #BEATGLOBAL announcing the movements world wide initiatives and programs. Want to be more involved in BEATGLOBAL? and or participate in Teach the Teacher this year? let me know if you want more information or email anna@beatnyc.org. FRIDAY July 29th 2016 CulturePush ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS exhibition at Westbeth Gallery The radical feminist collective Go! Push Pops is teaming up with UNDAKOVA x B.E.A.T. NYC for a collaborative cypher-style performance around a fruit and vegetable mandala. The performance will take place during the ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS closing party July 29th at 7pm, and will promote a workshop UNDAKOVA will offer with Go! Push Pops in August at the Sixth Street Community Center using holistic hip hop as an entry point into a more conscious relationship to food. ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS Curated by Madelyn Ringold-Brown and Culture Push 55 BETHUNE ST. (ENTRANCE ON BANK ST.), NEW YORK, NY 100014 CLOSING PARTY:FRIDAY JULY 29, 6-9 PM CALL for PARTICIPANTS / / / / / / / / /  We are still looking for a few more performers to join us in a cypher performance about healthy, conscious food choices for the performance July 29th. We will hold one short planning meet-up before the event. Please email a reply if you are interested in performing with UNDAKOVA + B.E.A.T. + Go! Push Pops on July 29th  INTRODUCING ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS  Urban Mystery Skool @ultraculturalothers mystical self-study & wellness immersive for interdisciplinary creatives, post-studio artists, yung shamans, urban monks, queers, Buddha bitches, punk/Eco/hip hop Feminists and radical Others. Hosted by High Prieztezz Or NAH & Undakova w/ Go! Push Pops and rotating guest faculty in Manhattan's LES. Start your application process for 1-month micro-residencies beginning Nov. 1st by clicking the button below   Onboard Application Bonus Video Sending you love and light always. Many Blessings.