Liberation Is a Soft Space
Why We’re Hosting the Living Room Sessions
Posted on 6 N’oj — a day of ideas being brought into the physical world.
I know I have felt liberation. Liberation is the experience where I can lay down the performance and feel fully within myself. Liberation is laughing with my daughter on the couch, being silly for no reason. It is when I dig my toes into the sand at a sunset by the river with my soul friend. It is a Sunday afternoon with Mamí on the couch while I have my head on her shoulder and she tells me the story of how she met my dad over and over because of dementia.
Liberation is a soft place. It is a place I go when I am tired and I need to be human in a society that takes any opportunity to dehumanize us. Liberation is being with my loved ones, with community. It is when we speak of our dreams like prophecy.
“Liberation is being with my loved ones. It is when we speak of our dreams like prophecy.”
This is the feeling that birthed the Living Room Sessions—an offering held by Ceiba Futures and Pete-Flo Enterprises that invites us to gather without agenda, without the pressure to produce or explain. A space where we can show up as we are, held in a container of presence, love, and unstructured connection.
In a world where so much is driven by urgency, metrics, and visibility, this is a space to practice the radical act of just being together. We are creating a global living room, where people across imaginary imposed borders can slow down, breathe, and speak from the heart—if and when they feel moved to. We’ll laugh. We might cry. We’ll listen. And through it all, we’ll remember what it feels like to belong.
Our first session will take place on the Cholq’ij day of 10 Ajpu, a day that honors creative radiance, ancestry, and the light we carry forward. We gather not to fix or perform, but to remember. To rest in each other’s company. To dream together.
Liberation is not always loud. Sometimes it is quiet. Sometimes it is just a couch, a story, a shared silence, a feeling in the body that says: you belong here.
Come be with us 10 Ajpu—Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 5pm PST
Image of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala taken by mariana moscoso
