ABOUT THE CURATORS
Kay'aleya Hunnybee has been passionate about supporting the emergence of an integral sustainable culture for many years. In college, she studied Anthropology and Religion, focusing on the inherent fundamental qualities in a culture that maintains itself over a long duration. Her specific participant-observer research for her senior paper involved spending time in a variety of ecovillages around the world and explored the eco-centric consciousness that precluded membership in those communities. After a series of deeply profound experiences in India where she completed her study abroad program, Kay'a returned to the US with a relentless dedication to actively pursuing her visions of what is possible in this world - the creation of dynamic, diverse, inspiring cultures that thrive in resilience and beauty.
For several years after college, Kay'a focused on cultivating the basic practical skills related to her visions. She WWOOFed and work-traded on many farms and communities, familiarizing herself with fundamental skills and principles of: organic/biodynamic gardening, sustainable forestry, appropriate technology, living in community, permaculture, yoga, herbal medicine, food preservation and value-added production, event production, cooking for groups, off-grid lifestyle, and more. During these years, she obtained a permaculture design certification and a yoga teacher certification. She then rooted herself for a year and attended the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, where she completed an 800-hour course in Natural Therapeutics and diverse bodywork modalities.
Since graduating from NMSNT, Kay'a has moved with Justin to New England where she has worked as a bodyworker; private yoga teacher; office assistant for various amazing local businesses and nonprofits; apprenticed at a CSA farm and education center; and become increasingly engrossed in her love of working with women and families in their childbearing years. She has attended births as a doula and worked with families postpartum and is currently in the gradual process of pursuing direct-entry midwifery (homebirth/birth center-based). Her love and excitement for growing and wildcrafting food, medicine and other useful plants has also grown exponentially in recent years. She is moving to Underhill, VT where she will continue to pursue her dreams at a beautiful budding retreat center. See her website to learn more about her personal passions and work: http://blossomingbirthandvitality.weebly.com.
Most recently, Kay'a lived and worked for a year at Earthdance (where Weave will take place) filling all kinds of roles, however eventually her official title was "Gardener." While there, she served as a member of the sustainability committee and joined the programming committee to represent a sustainability initiative in Earthdance programming. With Justin's inspired and aligned support, she drafted a list of proposals for the committee. WEAVE was one of those proposals. And now, here it is - an event in the making, a dream awaking, a nexus for dynamic collaboration across disciplines, a beautiful emergence.
For several years after college, Kay'a focused on cultivating the basic practical skills related to her visions. She WWOOFed and work-traded on many farms and communities, familiarizing herself with fundamental skills and principles of: organic/biodynamic gardening, sustainable forestry, appropriate technology, living in community, permaculture, yoga, herbal medicine, food preservation and value-added production, event production, cooking for groups, off-grid lifestyle, and more. During these years, she obtained a permaculture design certification and a yoga teacher certification. She then rooted herself for a year and attended the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, where she completed an 800-hour course in Natural Therapeutics and diverse bodywork modalities.
Since graduating from NMSNT, Kay'a has moved with Justin to New England where she has worked as a bodyworker; private yoga teacher; office assistant for various amazing local businesses and nonprofits; apprenticed at a CSA farm and education center; and become increasingly engrossed in her love of working with women and families in their childbearing years. She has attended births as a doula and worked with families postpartum and is currently in the gradual process of pursuing direct-entry midwifery (homebirth/birth center-based). Her love and excitement for growing and wildcrafting food, medicine and other useful plants has also grown exponentially in recent years. She is moving to Underhill, VT where she will continue to pursue her dreams at a beautiful budding retreat center. See her website to learn more about her personal passions and work: http://blossomingbirthandvitality.weebly.com.
Most recently, Kay'a lived and worked for a year at Earthdance (where Weave will take place) filling all kinds of roles, however eventually her official title was "Gardener." While there, she served as a member of the sustainability committee and joined the programming committee to represent a sustainability initiative in Earthdance programming. With Justin's inspired and aligned support, she drafted a list of proposals for the committee. WEAVE was one of those proposals. And now, here it is - an event in the making, a dream awaking, a nexus for dynamic collaboration across disciplines, a beautiful emergence.
A visionary and creator, Justin Manocchia (Just.One.Creation) has been passionate about the weave across disciplines for over a decade. This interest has been fueled by his commitment to finding an integrative thriving relationship to life. Over the past 12 years, he has focused on exploring ways to cultivate right livelihood through diet, embodied movement practices, bodywork, practical skill development, permaculture, group electronic music/dance events, art, and general lifestyle choices.
In 2006, Justin took a Permaculture Design Course with Dave Jacke and Jono Neiger and was struck by the relationship of the permaculture principles to his other areas of interest. He recognized that these overlapping fundamental principles could be applied in almost every discipline. Born from this recognition, Justin coined the term, Periphocus, which references the synthesis of the periphery and focus. In other words, our awareness is not necessarily limited to a specific focal point but encompasses a phenomenological spectrum of all that is, and we can cultivate an intentionality to where we direct our attention within this spectrum. He would love to engage more with you about these concepts in personal dialogue in the future, perhaps at WEAVE. :)
At about this same time, Justin began to explore Contact Improvisation (CI) as an embodied practice of Periphocus. CI offers an environment where a group can develop a collective nervous system. Through this practice, he could engage in a dance with someone and tune into the dance itself, beyond the two people experiencing it, to access a sense of the whole while also in his own body - a physical practice of shifting his attention and focus to perceive different parts of the whole. He also appreciates CI for its attention to the present and the necessary self-reflective process that it provides.
Justin is deeply intrigued by bridging the worlds of principles and practice, bringing disciplines together to inform and stimulate each other. This embodied intrigue is one of the primary seeds from which WEAVE has grown.
Over the past couple of years, Justin has been birthing some of his long-standing visions into event form. Last year, he co-founded Pollinate, a thriving monthly multidisciplinary dance/music/art/education/community event in western Massachusetts which has continued beyond his residency there. And now, WEAVE is emerging, an event where his passionate interest in the overlapping fundamental principles of various disciplines can finally be explored in dialogue and practice. It is truly a dream coming true.
See more about Justin's personal passions and work (music and artwork) at his website: http://www.justonecreation.com.
In 2006, Justin took a Permaculture Design Course with Dave Jacke and Jono Neiger and was struck by the relationship of the permaculture principles to his other areas of interest. He recognized that these overlapping fundamental principles could be applied in almost every discipline. Born from this recognition, Justin coined the term, Periphocus, which references the synthesis of the periphery and focus. In other words, our awareness is not necessarily limited to a specific focal point but encompasses a phenomenological spectrum of all that is, and we can cultivate an intentionality to where we direct our attention within this spectrum. He would love to engage more with you about these concepts in personal dialogue in the future, perhaps at WEAVE. :)
At about this same time, Justin began to explore Contact Improvisation (CI) as an embodied practice of Periphocus. CI offers an environment where a group can develop a collective nervous system. Through this practice, he could engage in a dance with someone and tune into the dance itself, beyond the two people experiencing it, to access a sense of the whole while also in his own body - a physical practice of shifting his attention and focus to perceive different parts of the whole. He also appreciates CI for its attention to the present and the necessary self-reflective process that it provides.
Justin is deeply intrigued by bridging the worlds of principles and practice, bringing disciplines together to inform and stimulate each other. This embodied intrigue is one of the primary seeds from which WEAVE has grown.
Over the past couple of years, Justin has been birthing some of his long-standing visions into event form. Last year, he co-founded Pollinate, a thriving monthly multidisciplinary dance/music/art/education/community event in western Massachusetts which has continued beyond his residency there. And now, WEAVE is emerging, an event where his passionate interest in the overlapping fundamental principles of various disciplines can finally be explored in dialogue and practice. It is truly a dream coming true.
See more about Justin's personal passions and work (music and artwork) at his website: http://www.justonecreation.com.
