This fall, we invite you to step off the grid and into the living and breathing space of community ritual
The Spiral Path is a five-part ritual series held in the backyard of Thrive Health & Wellness Collective in Los Angeles— an intimate and sacred space to return to your body, your voice, and your ancestral roots.
SEPTEMBER 27 VIGIL FOR PALESTINE
and OUTDOOR MOVIE
we gather in vigil as an act of collective witnessing, remembrance, and resistance, featuring an outdoor screening of the documentary whERE olive trees weep, followed by the powerful sacred medicine poems and words of dr. jaiya john and meital Yaniv
THE DETAILS:
Date: Saturday September 27
Location: Thrive Health and Wellness Collective, Los Angeles. 2907 Stanford Ave, Marina Del Rey, 90292
Time: 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Where Olive Trees Weep - a science of non duality documentary - is a searing film that gives voice to the lived reality of Palestinian survival under occupation. It weaves together personal testimony, intergenerational trauma, and the enduring fight for dignity and land.
The evening will move as a ceremony: opening words, film screening, a guided community discussion, and a closing held with medicine words. This is a call to grieve together, to break the silence, and to transform sorrow into action.
More than a film,
this is a call to freedom, solidarity, and justice.
WHERE OLIVES TREE WEEP
Where Olive Trees Weep is a raw and unflinching film about the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people—told through the voices of survivors, healers, journalists, and those who have lived under occupation for generations.
The Palestinian struggle is not distant. It is interconnected with every colonized land, every community that has been displaced, every lineage that has carried trauma and resilience across generations. For those of us committed to earth-honoring practices, to decolonizing wellness, and to ancestral remembrance, the call to stand with Palestine is inseparable from our call to heal.
This vigil creates a container where grief becomes medicine, where poetry and song become tools of resilience, and where community can rise into solidarity. By holding this event in Los Angeles, we honor our interconnected struggles and declare: justice is a collective practice.
Healing is resistance. Silence is not an option
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
Support & Partnership
We are honored to be joined by Dr. Jaiya John, offering his sacred medicine poem and by multidisciplinary artist and former israeli solider turned anti zionist meital yaniv sharing their story and words from their book bloodlines
Both authors will have their books for sale at the event
Supporting our prayer Dr. Jaiya John
Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, poet, novelist, author, and speaker. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water, We Birth Freedom at Dawn, Fragrance After Rain, and Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of The Gathering, a global initiative and tour reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation.
offering sacred medicine poetry
Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of The Gathering, a global initiative and tour reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest. He is a Lewis & Clark College Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.
supporting our prayer: meital yaniv
Raised as a zionist occupier on the land of Palestine and born into a Sephardic and Ashkenasi lineages of in/famous war heroes and pillars of the state of israel, meital traces their paternal family narrative from surviving the Holocaust of the second world war to migrating to Palestine and their subsequent indoctrination as zionist colonizers and defenders of the state of israel. yaniv directs our attention to the cycles of history and how genocide not only repeats but grows monstrously in the crevices of state belonging. bloodlines is an invitation to contemporary israelis to unstitch the military uniform from their bodies and to reckon with their atrocities against generations of Palestinian lives and livelihoods. It is also a demand that the ongoing catastrophes in Palestine end now. With uncompromising courage and in lucid manifestation, yaniv urges israelis to join them in drowning in the wounds of their ancestors as well as the wounds they've inflicted, and in so doing, bring the state of israel and israeli identity to "a loving and caring death."
offering words from their book bloodlines
Meital is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-Chemeheuvi, Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation. We are honored to have their powerful voice opening and closing our vigil.
Where Your Contribution Goes:
This gathering is rooted in love, not profit. Your donations sustain the circle itself—covering the costs of bringing together our speakers, musicians, and support team—so that healing, truth-telling, and community can flourish. Beyond that, a portion of every gift is directed outward, as tangible action in solidarity.
We are committed to channeling funds to:
Gaza soup kitchen a ground effort that provides daily meals to families facing hunger and devastation. In this way, your presence here not only nurtures your own healing, but also places food directly on the tables of Palestinians living under siege.
Every offering becomes both a seed for community and a lifeline across borders. Together, we weave justice with compassion, turning words and witness into sustenance.
JOIN US - BRING YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, CHILDREN
YOU CAN RSVP BY CHOOSING YOUR CONTRIBUTION OR SIMPLY ADD YOUR NAME AND INFO TO THE FORM BELOW AND DONATE WHATEVER YOU CAN ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT
NO ONE WILL BE DENIED ENTRY, WE WANT YOU THERE!
RECOMMENDED CONTRIBUTIONS:
This tier supports both the event and our team. It allows us to honor our speakers, musicians, and organizing crew who are giving their time and energy to hold this container. Your donation sustains the people who make spaces of justice and healing possible.
This level goes beyond sustaining the vigil itself. A portion of these funds will be directed to a vetted grassroots organization providing tangible relief on the ground in Palestine—such as food distribution and essential supplies for families. By giving here, you help extend the impact of this gathering from Los Angeles directly to communities in need.
ATTEND THE VIGIL AND CHOOSE TO DONATE IN SITE WHATEVER YOU CAN, NO ONE WILL BE DENIED!
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Featured Voices in Where Olive Trees Weep
Dr. Gabor Maté
A Hungarian-Canadian physician and trauma expert (founder of Compassionate Inquiry™), Maté brings both personal and professional depth to the film. Once identifying as a Zionist, he has since shifted to a fierce critique of Israel’s occupation. In the film, he leads a healing workshop with Palestinian women recently released from Israeli prisons. His presence underscores the interconnected nature of trauma, occupation, and collective healing.
Ashira Ali Darwish
A Palestinian journalist and trauma healer, Ashira spent over 15 years working with BBC, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. She is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, which offers a trauma therapy rooted in Sufi-inspired ancestral and Indigenous knowledge—an anchor of intergenerational healing in the film.
Ahed Tamimi
A West Bank grassroots symbol of resistance, Ahed drew global attention at sixteen when she confronted an Israeli soldier, leading to her arrest. Her story—marked by detention and resilience—embodies defiance rooted in home and identity.
Amira Hass
A longtime Israeli journalist for Haaretz, Hass has chronicled Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank for nearly three decades. Her nuanced reporting bridges narrative and accountability, challenging both her own society and international assumptions
Join us in holding space for truth, justice, and the power of community.
RITUAL 5:
Embers of Belonging - October 18
EMBERS OF BELONGING
We end where we begin. A seasonal fall ritual of recommitment to Earth, to life and to the spiral path of the feminine.
Closing the Summer Series with a Cacao Circle, prayer bundles and earth despacho. Ayurvedic Dinacharya - daily rituals for optimal health. Celebrating inner growth and planting long-term intentions
Saturday, October 18 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Cacao Circle + Despacho Offering + Ayurvedic Rituals
We close the summer spiral with a cacao circle and earth despacho ceremony. Through fire, prayer bundles, and daily practices to move from the fall to the winter from Ayurveda (ritucharya), we recommit to living in sacred rhythm with ourselves and nature
Focus: Integration, celebration, long-term intention-setting, and feminine seasonal wisdom.
This Series Is For You If:
You long for real, meaningful connection off-screen and in community
You’re in a time of transition—physical, emotional, or spiritual
You want to learn and reclaim ancient, Earth-based rituals
You feel called to deepen your relationship with your body, your womb, and your lineage
You’re craving a rhythm that honors your inner cycles—not just your calendar
What Awaits You:
Sacred cacao ceremonies
Ancestral rituals and Earth offerings
Womb healing and hormonal support practices
Drum circles, altar-building, plant medicine, and prayer
Ayurveda-informed tools for everyday feminine wellness
Storytelling, silence, and songs for the soul
A circle of women walking the spiral path with you
“This summer, we gather under the moonlight and among sisters to remember what the modern world has encouraged us to forget: how to listen to the Earth, how to live in rhythm with our bodies, and how to heal together in community.”