What Rises Here

Welcome to the portal of the forest rock. This film is an invitation to pause, breathe and receive. We share with you a performance inspired by the land within a Northern California redwood forest. A collection of four film shorts honoring the divine feminine in relation with the earth, with the forest, and in collaboration with a magnificent boulder. May these 13 minutes provide a space of peace and connection.

0:00 Title: What Rises Here
0:11 Water Blessings
2:53 Embodied Incantations
6:24 Spaces Between
9:33 Crown Rising

We give thanks to our friend, Rock, for this joyful and playful co-creation.
We give thanks to the redwoods and the wild Pacific coast.
We give thanks to the creeks and rivers that flow here.
We give thanks to the ancestors and beings of light who watch over this land.
We acknowledge and give thanks to Mount Shasta, the Breath of the Mother.

This performance takes place on Wiyot land, in the place known as Goudi'ni, or “among the redwoods.”

Performed by Laura Muñoz, Melanie Schauwecker, Isabel Semler, Maria Sotiropoulou and Sara Kei Wegmuller. Vocals by Melanie Schauwecker, Maria Sotiropoulou and Sara Kei Wegmuller. Conceived, edited and directed by Melanie Schauwecker. Special thanks extended to Neroli Devaney and Sarah Peters Gonzalez for technical support during filming.

Musical tracks: “Restoration” and "Follow The Light" composed by Music of Wisdom - Licensed from https://meditationmusiclibrary.com/

Parts of the film have kindly received energetic clearings by Spiritual Response Therapy practitioner Dana Averie at https://www.danaaverie.com/

This is a production of Blossom of Sunlight Healing and Performing Arts, which exists to create visual, aural and embodied experiences that nurture, clear, inspire and activate a sacred connection within.