ASCENDtials

BMS After-school Program with Park Takeover
2024-04-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sweetwater Regional Summit Park, 3218 Summit Meadow Rd., Bonita, California, 91902, United States
Hike with us, as we explore the wonders of nature while expanding our knowledge and understanding of the world around us.

Tree Planting with ASCENDtials
2024-01-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sweetwater National Park, 3218 Summit Meadow Road, Bonita, California, United States
The Sweetwater Park Rangers are helping out ASCENDtials! Join ASCENDtials with tree planting at Sweetwater Park at 1 pm. The Rangers are going to help us dig holes so that we can plant trees and make this world a better place. Tickets are limited, so make sure you sign up for the start of an amazing experience.

Tree Planting

Kemetic Yoga at the Soul Swapmeet
2023-08-19 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
ASCENDtials will be hosting our Kemetic Yoga at the Soul Swapmeet in Northpark this Saturday at 2pm! Please join to immerse yourself in the practices that originated on the continent of Africa, designed to provide you with practices and principles from our Ancestors most connected to the universe. Learn to be more aware of your body to bring it into an optimal state of health. Only you can save you! Save Yourself! We’ll be sharing yoga mats that were granted to us by GiveBack Yoga Foundation and LuluLemon. Don’t miss it! Tickets are $10!

Garden Workshop with Kenyatta!
2023-07-29 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Join our monthly garden sessions with our new garden lead Kenyatta! She knows a great deal about the soil, planting, the cycles, the relationships of plants and much more! You will learn how to grow your own food, improve your relationship with soil, and improve your overall wellness by just joining! Get tickets now!

Kemetic Yoga Sundays at the WorldBeat
2023-07-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WorldBeat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Every Sunday, on the lawn, we are practicing our style of yoga that brings awareness to our body, emphasizes deep breathing to help activate the body and mind into healing. We also share principles to keep aligned with nature always. Sessions are under the trees and above the roots of our ancestors! Tickets are $10. Hope to see you there.

Poetry & Writing Club
2023-05-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
The Ascendtials’ Poetry & Writer’s club is a company-run writer’s club that writes on social topics that impact the BIPOC community. The writers are divided into two groups: high school, and adults. These groups meet either monthly or every other month to discuss their writing on specific topics that they are assigned. A moderator will ensure that people are giving each other feedback, discuss feedback digitally through Slack, then meet online for a final meeting before publishing the work. As part of this series, we will be inspired by guest writers who will share their artful expression and background music sounds as motivation for writing on issues that matter most.

Gardening Workshop
2023-04-29 10:30 - 23:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
ASCENDtials is having another garden workshop! During this workshop, it’ll contain all the information you need to know in order to grow your own sunflower garden. Not only are these flowers beautiful and cherished by many, however they are easy to take care of as long as you give it the right care. As these workshops take place once a month, feel free to join and follow along to learn more about the beauty of gardening!

Kemetic Yoga Sundays
2023-04-23 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Join us for ASCENDtials’s Kemetic Yoga Session!

KOSMelaninology™ Book Club
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
We will be continuing with our book club!

Our Book
“The High Desert” by James Spooner

Full Moon Yoga
2023-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
We will celebrate the full moon each month with our kemetic yoga sessions. Each month, we will honor the cycles of the moon by enjoying our full moon session culminating at the zenith of the full moon. During sessions we will honor our ancestors and share cosmic consciousness. Join us!

Generational Wealth Workshop
2023-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Our Generational Wealth Workshop is designed to help one navigate the endless documents that are required for generational wealth. Sharyna is an Attorney from Scotts Law who is teaming up with ASCENDtials to bring a Generational Workshop to Café X. The workshop is designed to share insight into the transgenerational trauma we hold about land within the United States so that we could heal and learn to preserve our land and story. Sharyna will do this by offering tips/tools to get yourself and future generations set up for success.

Dock and Dine Tour: Saturdays Event
2022-12-10 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-11-12 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-08 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Please schedule a date for Dock and Dine Tour by visiting our calendar.
After scheduling your date, please purchase your Dock and Dine ticket via our shop.
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Generational Wealth Workshop Part 5
2022-12-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California

KOSMelaninology™ BOOK CLUB with R3sh on Between the World and Me
2022-12-07 05:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
About this eventAs authors our words are given a unique scrutiny, not reserved for the average individual. For those whose words do not align with the great colonial storyline the weight and therefore the discrimination are interpersonal. Any thing and everything become propaganda or agenda. The impact of these interactions and their resulting feelings are rarely given the same space to air and exhort their power.
An intimate dialogue, meant for their son, discusses in raw form the full emotional whirlwind of trying to survive in a country terrorizing their existence. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and Me, shares secrets of Afro-ancestored fatherhood. Through the hopes of redemption; while directly conquering fears of trans generational repetition
Our two-part book club will digest the whole range of honest vulnerability sol Coates exposed themselves, family, family history; & son too. The seed that would create such a loving act of sensitivity against hatred. What the impact is to all parties. Culminating with a community space to discuss our own “letters” and where these experiences have shaped us.

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Board Meeting (Quarterly)
2022-12-01 | California
More information will be provided soon! Please check back here for additional information on our next meeting.

Generational Wealth Workshop 4
2022-11-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Sharyna will introduce us to health directives and other critical documents and language needed to help us build our wealth from the bottom up. One of the essential steps is to ensure that if there’s any land that needs to be dealt with, do it now before our family members pass on. We need to ensure we are all at the table and united to protect and preserve our family and our story. Consider these important documents with our local Estate Planning Lawyer, Sharyna Scott. During this workshop, she will provide 15-minute sessions for participants to ask questions and get documents ready to be signed. Don’t miss this event with our lawyer!

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Panera Fundraising
2022-11-29 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
This fundraiser is to support our continued programming and the offerings of free to low cost literacy workshops to participants that are interested in improving their overall health and wellness by participating in our experiential learning sessions. Our programming encompasses nature cleanups, and learning sessions ranging from outdoor gardening workshops to generational wealth building workshops, to our Kemetic Yoga sessions. We require funding to pay our team for organizing, our hosts and experts to put on these sessions, and provide funding for the resources needed to address the ongoing issues we face, by building a community that is keen to protect and preserve nature and humanity.

Book Club with rameses "r3sh" setekh
2022-11-16 05:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | California

Kemetic Yoga at Mt Hope Community
2022-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Join our upcoming yoga session at Mt Hope Community Garden during the Farmer’s Market on Wednesday at noon! This is an opportunity to learn about Kemetic Yoga and get your fresh produce! Donations appreciated! Hope to see you there!

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Cannabis Equity Healing Session
2022-11-09 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
In this upcoming session, we will ideate on what the best Cannabis Social Equity program looks like, and how it can serve as a framework for the multiple programs we can create that address the communities most harmed by the War on Drugs. We require your attendance, as a stakeholder in this process. We will share the Design Thinking process, which is a modern interpretation of “the process of creation” which is used to solve problems.

Kemetic Yoga at Mt Hope Community
2022-11-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Join our upcoming yoga session at Mt Hope Community Garden during the Farmer’s Market on Wednesday at noon! This is an opportunity to learn about Kemetic Yoga and get your fresh produce! Donations appreciated! Hope to see you there!

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Kemetic Yoga at Mt Hope Community
2022-11-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
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ASCENDTIALS Kemetic YOGA Sundays at the WorldBeat Center
2022-10-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 2100 park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Kemetic Yoga is an ancient African Yoga art form that promotes African philosophy and practices that originated from the land of Kemet. This ancient Yoga art form emphasizes the rejuvenation of the body and mind as it attempts to provide BIPOC communities with cultural roots that stem from its antique African origins.-Y.R.H.
Our goal is to encourage participants to explore KOS-Melanin-ology™ for a stronger KNOWLEDGE OF SELF as a form of self-healing so that we may transform structures that prevent change. Many factors contribute to keeping structures in place. Our health, habits, and conditioning contribute to improper thinking and lack of awareness, but our ancestors designed a system that aids in understanding our body, mind, and breath through practice. We aim to get “straight” by embracing Ancient thoughts from our ancestors that we may become more aware of ourselves internally and externally in the detection of obstacles to our development. This program will also help to support our growing organization and mission.

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ASCENDTIALS Kemetic YOGA Sundays with the Super Heru Crew at the WorldBeat Center
2022-10-23 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 2100 park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

Taste of Africa
2022-10-15 14:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Taste of Africa: A Tribute to Fela Kuti
Taste of Africa family day out with African music, food and music.
With too many negative representations of Africa entrenched in images of war, disease, poverty, and famine, our festival seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures, foods, music, and artists that make this great continent one of the most vibrant and emerging in the world.
Taste of Africa aims to show Africa before it was colonized. Come see the Women Kings and Queens of Africa!
Tickets include

Pass to sample all participating food vendors. Participating vendors include local businesses like Abule Afro Market and Eatery, Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant, Caribbean Pleasure, Perkey’s South African Food and Catering and Asmara Cafe. (Food will also be available for sale.)
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
Kemetic Yoga
Afro-Beat Dance class
Ghanaian Food Demonstration
Live African entertainment by Piwai (Zimbabwe), Sankoh and the Rockaway Kings (Sierra Leone), Djelia Kadi West African Drum & Dance Ensemble (Burkina Faso), and Ibrahima Ba (Senegal). Plus a choice of 2 wine tastings.

Children admission (10 and under free)

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Generational Wealth Workshop
2022-09-27 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
About this event
This generational wealth workshop is an information session on an estate planning document called the Financial Power of Attorney. Sharyna will discuss the importance of having someone you trust who can make important financial decisions for you in case of an emergency. This is one of the must haves in estate planning. No fee for this session as it will be primarily informational with discussion components.

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Cannabis Equity Healing Session
2022-09-22 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cafe X: By Any Beans Necessary 1835 Imperial Avenue San Diego, CA 92102
About this event
The City of San Diego is developing a cannabis social equity program as part of their cannabis ordinance and they are purposely sabotaging it. We want to bring awareness to the content in the program in hopes of tearing down this structure before it begins. We need others to understand and support us in this effort so that we might shape this program to support the people who have been harmed by it most. To educate the general public about:
The state of cannabis social equity in San Diego
How cannabis social equity relates to reparations and healing
Ways to support cannabis social equity in San Diego

Bio:
Anthony Avalos
Cannabis Justice Advocate/Council of Equity Advocacy in San Diego
As a 3rd and 4th generation San Diegan, Anthony has witnessed the impact a family unit has on community as well as the impact community has on the family unit’s wellbeing. As a survivor of the failed drug war, Anthony is acutely aware of the disproportionate trauma that some communities continue to experience. The pharmacological and economic powerhouse that is cannabis represents both direct and indirect pathways to community healing. Anthony has studied Human Resource Management as well as obtained multiple certifications through Columbia Care and Americans for Safe Access “Patient Focused Care” program. As a certified patient-focused cannabis expert, Anthony has developed retail SOP’s, curriculum and facilitated cannabis education programs for our most vulnerable San Diegans.
Anthony has logistical expertise in HRM as well as c-suite support and has assisted both legacy operators and MSO’s brand development. This has cultivated an understanding of cannabis business needs while developing standards of equity with multiple stakeholders within the emerging cannabis industry. Anthony is dedicated to honoring the work of those that came before us by creating the most effective cannabis social equity program in the nation.
This event is part of a series of KOSMelaninology™ healing sessions for black people about black people to begin to stop Anti-Blackness in its tracks. We will address the question “How Might We Design a more equitable Cannabis program that considers Black, Latinx and Indigenous people. It seems only We can do this ourselves

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KOSMelaninology™ BOOK CLUB with Tonia Ferguson on Unlearn
2022-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | California
About this event
Tonia is an Advocacy & Community Director at ASCENDtials. The book we will use for the event will let you learn new, unconventional ways of moving through life.
About the Book
Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life, by Humble the Poet
“The internationally bestselling self-empowerment book from influencer, rapper, and spoken word artist Humble the Poet, now available in a new edition with a new foreword by the author. Unlearn offers short, accessible, and counterintuitive lessons for reaching our full potential. In Unlearn, he opens our eyes to our own lives, helping us to recognize the possibilities that await us and the challenges that prevent us from realizing our dreams. With his characteristic honesty and forthrightness, he helps us shed the problematic lessons we’ve learned throughout our lives that limit us, from sabotaging habits, to fixed mindsets, to past regrets, and relearn new, unconventional ways of moving through life. “
Among his 101 lessons are:
-Fitting In Is a Pointless Activity
-Don’t Trust Everything You Feel
-Killing Expectations Births Happiness
-Comparisons are Killer
-Baby Steps Add Up
-You Decide Your Worth

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