Held on generationally Black-tended land in Southern California—home of the Grief to Action Sanctuary—and founded by people of the Global Majority, Earthsong Festival is the only gathering of its kind on the West Coast.

This intimate festival invites participants to listen, sing, move, and engage in ceremony in Circle with our wise Ancestors and with the Earth, Water, Fire, Sky, and Plants—honoring both the seen and unseen worlds, tending the ground beneath us, and igniting the flame within our hearts.

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
Earthsong Festival Keeper & Facilitator
Depth-Oriented Somatic, Therapeutic & Spiritual Practitioner
saraswatisomatics.com
theoceanofmilk.com

Saraswati (സരസ്വതി | they/them) lives on unceded Ohlone land in California. They are a certified meditation teacher and are training as a board-certified Buddhist chaplain and a 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.

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

Alyx mentors communities in ancestral teachings to help humanity re-member our sacred human nature, restoring relationship to lineage, land, and kinship-based life ways. They guide circles, ceremonies, workshops, and personal mentorship in Ancestral Reclamation, Collective Liberation, Practical Decolonial Pathways, and Grief and Initiatory Healing Rites.

Trained in group facilitation and trauma-informed somatic healing, Alyx holds the intention of pan-cultural revival—revitalizing village interdependence and ancestral ways of reverence for all life. Their work invites participants to courageously engage with their responsibility as sacred parts of the whole.

KAYLYN WRIGHT
Earthsong Festival 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 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 Festival 2026

By Grief to Action

Earthsong Festival 2026

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