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Her passion for the arts began at a very early age and has since blossomed into a successful and fulfilling international entertainment career. Born in Houston, Texas, Roni refers to herself as ‘Houston born but Carolina bred’ and her love for the South is only matched by her endeavors to improve its conditions through her arts, poetry, prose, and activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/8d8d8527-8b14-474a-a22a-18c3f3896677/demetriamosley+-+Demetria+Mosley.jpg GEM Team - Advisory Board 2025 Demetria Blooms (she/they) is a Black, Fat, Queer, healer and artist born and raised in the South. They support people with remembering their power through ancestral practices and spiritual tools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/ffb63c37-08ec-44a9-8d0f-f18fa447bdaa/IMG_0759+copy.png GEM Team - Ifasina Clear, Artistic Director & Dance Chaplin Master Trainer, Leadership Consultant, and Wellness Artist Ifasina (they/them) creates dynamic and compassionate team based group coaching containers for professionals, organizers, artist, healers, and community based organizations. They have worked with lawyers, policy makers, program managers, elders and youth in intergenerational teams and community roles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/dbe4c88c-0f7d-4f6d-adae-9c70ca24496f/7b828bb8-c9f3-434e-9be0-5468536b20f8.jpg GEM Team - Administration & Finance GEM Collaborating Elder Tina Pennington (she/her) I’m the Finance Manager at Get Embodied Soul Movement, where I support a mission that merges mindfulness with purpose. I originally joined the team to help the founder bring her vision to life—what began as a supportive role has grown into a personal commitment to the work we’re doing. I bring financial strategy and heart to the table, helping this passion-fueled movement scale and sustain its impact. Outside the numbers, I’m a big fan of music, fantasy novels, and legal dramas—stories with soul and stakes draw me in every time. I believe in aligning passion with purpose, and I’m proud to help shape a venture that empowers others to live fully embodied lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/862927d6-05e7-43e2-a5ae-145bcb6b4174/IMG_6427+-+Sanzari+Aranyak.jpeg GEM Team - Advisory Board 2025 Sanzari Aranyak (he/they) is a disabled and desi southern organizer and artist who's been burnt out for years. After organizing in college and working at a nonprofit, he's currently focused on disrupting urgency culture by resting, drawing outside, and spending time with their friends. You can find them online @diasphoriaart for his digital art and tiger balm candles, and find him in the world on a picnic blanket by the trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/4986eaab-6e71-4286-91ba-6f4b9d48ebd4/Cuba+Big+dancing+-+Maisha+Aza.jpg GEM Team - Advisory Board 2025 Maisha Najuma Aza (she/they) When Maisha was a child, she taught her mother how to hug. Her mother would tell her this later in life. Little Maisha would innocently skip and cartwheel around as she offered hugs and massages to everyone in her family. That love was taken for granted and taken advantage of. This was a time when not many people knew how sacred a child’s love truly was. Today, Maisha still centers intentional touch in her life. Maisha honors the sacredness of touch, eros, breath, and the heart-centered marriage of sensuality and spirituality, along with boundaries and consent practices. Maisha sees the erotic as life-force-energy, which lives at the center of her purpose. Maisha centers the stories and bodies of Black, fat, disabled, women, trans and queer, bipoc community in her offerings. Their ultimate vision, is that all bodies will come together and weave the sacredness of the erotic into our personal and collective lives for healing, intimacy, resistance, collaboration, harmony and justice. Maisha founded Black Girl Tantra to breathe life into her erotically embodied, world-community vision. Maisha Najuma Aza is proud to call themselves a member of the GEM advisory board and a GEM practitioner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/c527fe3c-c816-4f11-a473-f9d9f4b5fe58/IMG_5383+-+Malik+Kimata.jpeg GEM Team - Advisory Board 2025 Malik Kimata (he/him) As a Black Muslim of trans experience, my duty as a community organizer is derived from the ways capitalism and white supremacy has caused violence in my everyday life. My work shines through music and disability justice; which has ranged from empowering Black and queer workers, and working towards equitable inclusion for all disabled people. In my personal life, I stay grounded in the hearts of the communities through mutual aid and furthering the struggle of colonized people in the Amerikkkan and global South. https://www.getembodiedsoulmovement.com/offerings daily 0.75 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/ba5151f7-d275-42be-8b03-c8533f08ab1c/GEMCLASS.jpg GEM Offerings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg GEM Offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg GEM Offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg GEM Offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg GEM Offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg GEM Offerings https://www.getembodiedsoulmovement.com/work-with-me daily 0.75 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/ffb63c37-08ec-44a9-8d0f-f18fa447bdaa/IMG_0759+copy.png Contract Work With Ifasina Community based rituals that bring restoration after conflict, harmony after death, and ritual release after harm or violence Weddings and other Sacred Commitment Ceremonies (specialize in radical relationship styles and structures) Project Plan and Manage Healing Based Retreats Team and Group Based Process for Direct Support and Front Line Staff Rituals for endings and transitions that foster a culture of radical love, acceptance and managing grief and change, starting over or a new https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/f3d0d3a6-326f-4a6a-b3ef-38fd795f5376/Workshop+1.jpg Contract Work With Ifasina - Individual Coaching and Training for Executives, Directors, and Leads that are managing Working Poor & Working Class Teams, and Directly impacted people . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/029f075a-e93f-48e1-9f0d-e73c7d0d1a36/IMG_0659+copy.png Contract Work With Ifasina - Body Liberation Workshops, Group coaching, and Programs https://www.getembodiedsoulmovement.com/book-me daily 0.75 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/499b8c77-2269-426c-89e1-7f645ef3c806/IMG_0561+copy.png Book Me https://www.getembodiedsoulmovement.com/founder daily 0.75 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62b0bfb230e81b6bd5684b46/518ae59c-e46d-4bd8-8296-0872c62a84c4/Bio+1.png GEM Founder My given name is TaMeicka Lashelle Clear. I have come to love this name as it says a lot about the time frame that I grew up in (early 80s) and displays my southern, Black roots in a way that really shows the color and creativity of Black people during that time. I believe that Black American English is real, valid, and a whole language. TaMeicka Lashelle is a proud badge of Black American English that I love to wear! I received the name Ifasina during ritual initiation into the African Traditional Practice of Ifa in 2014. Ifasina translates loosely to "Ifa brings forth blessings with power and great force". It is a powerful name and a vibration I strive to walk in. Most people in my life know me as Ifasina at this point. My roots and history both from the name I was given at birth and bestowed upon me at rebirth are a large part of who I am. I am a big bodied (fat), Black, genderqueer person (they/them pronouns) from Dallas, Texas living and working across The South and California. I've been a dancer since I was 8 years old and I've been teaching dance since I was 15. Dancing and teaching are core to who I am. Dance is my home based creative gift. I make offerings to spirit, take care of my body and soul, and channel a large portion of my creative energy through dance. Teaching is my second gift and it tends to be the kind of work I enjoy most. Both dance and teaching are what I am purposed to do with my life. Life has allowed me so many ways to use these two parts of myself in the world to impact and support others, to heal myself, and my contribute to my community. In my work over the years, those that I have served, taught, or led have been just as much my teacher as I have been theirs. I've been working since I was 14 and come from a working poor/working class family. We have multiple generations of being impacted by poverty, welfare, mass incarceration, foster care systems, and gender based violence. I am a product of these experiences and the teen parents that believed "it takes a village to raise a child". This strong foundation and ability to navigate complex life circumstances informs the way I approach my work as a trainer, consultant, and coach. My art, my leadership, and my work in the world are largely shaped by who I am and who I come from. I am currently in my 5th year of 7+ year training as a priest in the Ifa tradition. I am a Master Level Usui Reiki Healing Practitioner with 10 years of practice and training. In my commitment to stay current with my own healing, I regularly attend talk and process therapy, ritual healing with my elders, and engage in other kinds of trauma recovery. I lead a life that centers radical honesty about who I am and where I am on the journey of recovery, community contribution, and leadership development. I believe in transparency and this shows in how I collaborate, forge teams, and do my work in the world. I have a gift for active listening and translation, including authentic communication and synthesis, and getting to the heart of the matter. All this makes me an excellent resource for collaborators trying to pull together teams. I am a grounding force as a group facilitator and a compassionate and accessible ritual and culture keeper. It is my absolute joy and passion to partner and collaborate with complex teams on the meaningful initiatives and projects they are leading. Some positions I've held and roles I have had: Sr. Director of Culture and Healing, Young Women’s Freedom Center 2016-2022 Leadership Consultant ACLU Northern California-DECRIM Coalition, Winter 2021-2022 Co-Chair of Youth Committee for San Francisco Mayors TaskForce on Anti-Human Trafficking, 2017-2018 Co Director and Performance Coach Black Rage//Black Magic Theater Arts Program, Spring 2016 Ritual Lead for Community Based Vigil (Mac Arthur BART Station Oakland, Ca), August 2018 Healing Coordinator for Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, 2017-2019