Ascendtials

Ascenditals is focused on creating an environmental program that promotes two objectives: bringing awareness to current U.S. farming systems and their role in depleting soil health and contributing to water pollution while utilizing educative tools to create a tree planting garden program that aims to address our individual contribution towards pollution practices through lower water consumption and improved soil quality that will decrease San Diego’s heat islands. Ascendtials’ mission aims to integrate initiatives/programs centered on building a more harmonizing connection with nature while bringing awareness to behaviors that perpetuate imbalance through environmental education and concern for farming practices that negatively impact the environment. Our program seeks to inspire conscious citizens to protect their local environment while developing their knowledge on sustainable farming systems that preserve California’s natural wildlife.

It is much more than merely doing poses that come from the walls of ancient Egyptian
tombs and temples. Kemetic Yoga is a social, cultural and political movement which
emerged out of the struggle for liberation of African people all over the world. We
invite all people to participate in this system of Yoga as a positive means of total self
development but it's underlying motive is the restoration and rejuvenation of the culture. A style of Yoga puts emphasis on alignment of the vertebral column of the spine. Many of the poses are triangular and mimic the geometrical configuration of the pyramid. Kemetic Yoga emphasizes the rejuvenation of the entire body and mind, not just the physical development of outer muscles and flexibility. Most importantly, Kemetic Yoga emphasizes control of the breath. The breath is the life force. Our primary source of energy is from the breath and not food. In Kemetic Yoga, we use the breath to “flow” through the movements from one posture to the next.

It signifies a transition from a culture built around and promoting the privilege of being white to one that equally recognizes, the importance of the power of black bodies’ creative energy, transformative power, and skill to solve problems and dismantles oppressive systems that do not do the same.

Designing From Whiteness to Oneness™ is a curriculum to help learners understand, critically and consciously connect and engage in dialogue, through presentations, storytelling, bringing greater awareness to the five senses, including developing the third eye, using KOS (Knowledge of Self) tools, and framework to create a dialogical process of learning and knowing that motivates and reinforces change. Our goal is to empower black communities through the discovery and deep discussion of how things came to be, in terms of Anti-Black structures in place, that sustains the oppressor and oppressed status quo which continually dehumanizes and impedes progress.

The Ascenditals writers group is a company run writers group 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 writer’s who will share their artful expression and background musical sounds as motivation for writing on issues that matter most.
The purpose of the writers’ group is to start developing volunteer writers for specific topics to create a company think tank. This think tank will be seen as credible experts and writers on a specific field that will help influence positive change and establish the company as a top influencer for social change.

Ascendtials Garden project is a great starting point for those that want to learn more about how to garden and grow fresh pesticide-free fruits, vegetables, herbal plants, grains, and flowers. It’s also an opportunity to attend garden workshops on the most important practices of caring for the soil, protecting water, understanding plant and animal life, as well as being aligned with the cycles and seasons. Join our dedicated community of growers that understand the importance of growing food ourselves and of preserving seeds to feed you and yours for a lifetime. Get more aligned with truth, with nature, with all that is critical for you to live more optimally. We look forward to learning and growing with you. So, joining our garden is more than just growing food, it’s about changing your outlook on life and regaining new tools that will have you lead your best life. You cannot do it without the world of benefits that nature offers.

With the topic of mental health always in the news and its stigma across nations, we all must gain a better understanding of what our education has taught us or not about our own mental health. We as Blacks, are affected immensely by not knowing ourselves and not managing our overall health. Knowing thy Self, and understanding the role of Melanin in our lives is certainly part of that. To reject the knowledge and application of tools our ancient ancestors left for us is in itself anti-blackness and signals great alarm. We aren't all the same, and the fact that we've behaved the way we do, has caused great detriment to our health. I'm of the opinion that we must take greater control over "knowing thyself" which is written above many structures in ancient Kemet, and why not want to embrace this wisdom of our ancestors, so that we might save ourselves from our current identity crisis of "whiteness".