Decolonial Devotion & Sacred Creation: Pilgrimage to Andalusia
Excerpts from our retreat hosts:
“Decolonial Devotion and Sacred Creation is a five-day retreat in Andalusia for artists, activists, and healers devoted to the intersections of spirit and justice, creation and prayer, scholarship and ancestral memory.
Rooted in liberatory Jewish and Muslim lineages, Decolonial Devotion and Sacred Creation invites us into embodied remembrance—of who we are, where we come from, and what we are here to heal. It is a return to the heart, to the joy and aliveness of being, to the wisdom that lives in breath, movement, and connection.
The weavers of this space are aligned in solidarity for a Free Palestine, firmly against all forms of colonialism, occupation, apartheid, oppression and genocide. We come together to explore decolonial devotion- acknowledging that our mere union is in itself a political action, and that there is no separation - our faiths have been used to instigate and fuel violence and we gather to reclaim, repair, remember and pray.
This retreat is for artists, healers, organizers, spiritual seekers, and activists who live the intersections of Jewish and Muslim identity, lineage, and practice; are grounded in earth-honoring, justice-centered tradition; and seek space to rest, create, pray, and be in sacred community.
We gather in a lived experience of community that includes diversity of backgrounds, and also the diversity of emotions, practicing the ability to grieve together, inspired by our Muslim 3aza and Jewish shiva traditions, to mourn the innocent souls slaughtered unjustly, and to rage for the injuries to our shared humanity.
Decolonial Devotion is also an invocation of the sacred traditions of Andalusia—a land once marked by convivencia, where Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities coexisted, created, and dreamed together. That time inspires us now as we stand in solidarity with Palestine and gather to rekindle relationships across differences and to imagine justice as a form of sacred living. Through ritual, rest, learning, and creative expression, we open space for healing and transformation—attuning to the rhythms of body, land, and the divine. Our retreat flow includes spacious mornings gathering in prayer, afternoons in creative workshops and evenings in ritual, with topics including the Wonders of Whirling, the House of Grief, Voice as a Healing Instrument, Eating as Sacred Practice and more.”
photos and videos from our retreat:
sounds from the rooftop
sounds from the garden
sounds from the kitchen