Held on generationally Black-tended land in Southern California—home of the Grief to Action Sanctuary—Earthsong is four days of generational and cultural healing across all lineages.

Held by Aaron Johnson, Alyx Somas, Kaylyn Wright, Kingsya Omega, and Saraswati Pottekkatt, this intimate Global-Majority founded gathering offers deep space to listen, sing, move, and weave a future of cross-cultural belonging. Encounter the rhythm of liberation and the unwavering strength of tenderness.

For full event information, please visit grieftoaction.com/earthsong-2026.

WHO ARE YOUR FACILITATORS?

KINGSYA OMEGA (ZYA)
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator
Somatic Heart Guide | Licensed Bodyworker | Speaker
manaheart.com

Kingsya’s mission is to help others reconnect with their truth and live from a heart-centered place. He co-founded Sanctuary Healing Spa in Fort Collins, CO, and created ManaHeart — community spaces designed to cultivate courageous vulnerability, authentic expression, and sacred interconnection. Through his signature Heartwork Sessions, Kingsya supports individuals navigating life transitions, releasing stuck emotional patterns, and returning to an authentic relationship with themselves.

Over the past six years, he has worked closely with youth through organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club (Fort Collins, CO), The Matthews House (Fort Collins, CO), and Boys to Men Hawaii (Big Island, HI), creating spaces for trust, listening, and authentic voice.

A speaker and co-host of How Do You Human, Kingsya explores themes of vulnerability, masculinity, healing, and heart-centered living. His training includes the South Carolina School of Healing Arts, Acupressure Institute, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Coaching Practicum Intensive, and Hakalau Immersion on the Big Island, HI, among others.

SARASWATI POTTEKKATT (സരസ്വതി)
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator
Depth-Oriented Somatic, Therapeutic & Spiritual Practitioner
saraswatisomatics.com
theoceanofmilk.com

Saraswati is a certified meditation teacher who provides chaplaincy services at Elmwood Jail in the Men’s Mental Health Unit. They are training as a board-certified Buddhist chaplain and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®.

Their approach moves like a river—drawing from their magical faith tradition, traditional medicine, psychological and somatic practices, and a trauma- and carnage-informed perspective. Rooted in ritual and grounded in earth practices, Saraswati’s work moves in dialogue with Eastern and Western lineages, the seen and the unseen, tending both the wounded personal psyche and the divided collective body. Through their ancestors, they receive support from earth, water, and fire, working to heal ancestral wounds and foster healing across differences.

Saraswati lives on unceded Ohlone land in California.

ALYX SOMAS
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator
The Collectivity Project | 2S Native Northern American Culture Tender & Reindigenization Practitioner
thecollectivityproject.my.canva.site/offerings

Alyx guides communities in life-honoring ancestral teachings, helping us to re-member our sacred human nature and restore relationship with lineage, land, and kinship-based lifeways. Holding circles, ceremonies, workshops, and personal mentorship, they offer Ancestral Healing, Cross-Cultural Repair + Coalition, Belonging-Based Decolonial Organization Systems, and Grief, Initiation, + Healing Work.

Trained in community facilitation, decolonial repair, and somatic healing, their work kindles a pan-cultural revival of interdependence and reciprocity with the whole living world. This work is an offering to nurture our sacred responsibility as living ancestors.

KAYLYN WRIGHT
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator
Artist | Educator | Wellness Facilitator

Kaylyn Wright is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work centers creative embodiment, mental health, and nature-based healing. With a B.A. in Psychology from Pitzer College and nearly a decade supporting youth programs across Los Angeles, he brings this experience into wellness facilitation. His path into music and wellness began in 2016 after the passing of his grandmother, sparking devotion to hip hop and mindfulness.

Kaylyn integrates breathwork, meditation, and movement into his music offerings, blending hip hop, affirmation, and presence to create multisensory experiences honoring vulnerability, play, and authenticity. He currently guides weekly Community Yoga at Black Being and hosts Rerootd Radio, a podcast for creatives committed to wellness.

Kaylyn emphasizes hip hop freestyle as a tool for healing, creative expression, and somatic connection, supporting participants in exploring the origins of hip hop, engaging in vocal and movement exercises, and leaving with deeper confidence in their voice, mind-body connection, and authentic self-expression.

AARON JOHNSON
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator, Grief to Action Founder
Speaker | Facilitator | Touch Activist

Aaron Johnson (he/him) is a public speaker, facilitator, and touch activist, fostering environments where Black-bodied individuals can express their full selves. As a founder of Holistic Resistance, Grief to Action, and The Chronically UnderTouched Project, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of Black people around homophobia, transphobia, and internalized racism.

Aaron's journey began, as it does for many Black men, with lack of loving and platonic touch. Now, Aaron assists other Black men in developing holistic touch practices to move from a Chronically UnderTouched state into touch balance. Aaron aims to create spaces for Black people and People of the Global Majority (PGM/BIPOC) to connect with each other and the earth. He and his team are establishing retreats and workshops on Black-owned land in the Mojave Desert and beyond to promote emotional and physical tenderness, platonic connection, and singing, which enhances the healing process for those overlooked by mainstream society.

Supported by Grief to Action Team Member, Leah Vendl

Earthsong Gathering 2026

With Facilitators Kingsya Omega (Zya), Saraswati Pottekkatt, Alyx Somas, Kaylyn Wright and Aaron Johnson