As part of the 2025 Brooklyn Brujeria Festival we are bring back our Classes!

All workshops will be held at Alchemia Studio - a beautiful new Studio space connected to the Crossroads Cafe. In between classes join us at the cafe where we'll have a mini mercadito and DJs playing from 12-6, a live performance by la Manga, along with Tarot Readers, Aura Portrait sessions, and more!

Advance tickets are available for $20 per class!

Alchemia Studios and Crossroads Cafe - 119 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn NYC

WORKSHOPS

12pm - 1pm: Flow into Fall: Yin Yoga w/ Carmen Marissa

Join Carmen of Sana Sana Studio for a deep stretching, yin and somatic based class to help us transition in the last months of the year. Class will close out with a short sound bath.

1:15pm - 2:15pm: Ancestral Waters w/ Lynsey

Join Lynsey from Yabisi for a hands-on class about the sacred art of baños—herbal spiritual baths rooted in diasporic traditions of cleansing, protection & renewal. Together we’ll explore the history and ancestral technology of baños, learning how they’ve been used across diasporic cultures as powerful tools for spiritual hygiene. We’ll work with local, in-season herbs to craft our own blends, reconnecting with the medicine that grows within and around us. This workshop is an invitation to remember water as a vessel of prayer, plants as allies, and ritual bathing as a pathway to balance and protection.

2:30pm-3:30pm: Sacred Stitches: A Pañuelo Making Workshop w/ Nikki B.

Join Nikki of Soul Thing Botanica and make your own Pañuelo! In this workshop, you will learn the history and hands-on craft of making a pañuelo: a traditional spiritual handkerchief used for cleansing and protection in Afro-Diasporic traditions.

We will provide all materials for you to cut and hand-sew your own pañuelo. You’ll learn how to choose colors for intention and receive a demonstration on how to use it with spiritual waters and colognes for daily cleansing routines. Leave with a personal, consecrated tool and the knowledge to incorporate it into your life.

No sewing experience needed.

3:45pm-4:45pm: Earthing + Grounding: Yoga Flow w/ Lucha

Join Lucha of Besos Not Bombs for a deep and slow, earthing and grounding yoga flow class. Set to a reggae mixes, the class will calm the nervous system, open the body, and help release stored trauma while connecting you to the land.

5:00pm-6:00pm: Whack & Release w/ Stephy Styles

Rhythm, Roots, Resurgence

Journey through the vibrant resurgence of 1970s dance culture from the underground discos of Los Angeles to the soulful streets of New York. This high-energy Waacking workshop channels the expressive, angular power of a style born in resistance and reclaimed in joy. Blending the flair of classic club culture with the heartbeat of diaspora tropical drumming, we honor the rhythms of Afro-Caribbean and Latin roots while staying grounded in our native NY/NJ flavor. Expect bold storytelling, percussive blends, and unapologetic expression through rhythm, resistance, and radical self-love.

Join Stephy Styles for an open-level Waacking session all bodies, backgrounds, and rhythms welcome.

About our Instructors -

Carmen Marissa is a queer reiki practitioner, tarot readers, and yoga teacher. She received her Reiki Level 1 and 2 at Minka Brooklyn with Aki Baker and Manu Del Prete, completed her 200hr yoga training at Sacred Brooklyn and has completed yoga mentorships at Sky Ting and Flying Tree Yoga in Medellin, Colombia. In addition to Yoga and Reiki, Carmen has also been studying and practicing Tarot since 2016, starting with readings for friends and family, and continuing through the past several years as part of the Brujeria famila summer at Brujeria Sundays.

Lynsey Ayala Rinaldi, founder of Yabisi works at the intersection of Caribbean diasporic herbalism and ancestral spiritual practices. Like many Caribbean folks, her work carries a blend traditions, lineages and modalities. As a medicine woman and educator, Lynsey create experiences for folks to come back to their roots and weave ancestral practices into everyday life. This comes to life through her Botanica of remedios, as well as in ceremony and educational workshops.

DJ Lucha has been doing yoga and somatic trauma healing in the social work systems for almost 20 years. Whether in domestic violence centers, the housing projects, prison systems, high stress office buildings, after school programs, factories with immigrant men, cultural centers, mixed use dance and yoga studios, beaches around the world, or a multitude of non profits that serve immigrants, she will help you breathe, release, and learn pressure points to take you out of fight or flight. As DJ Lucha, she is a badass vinyl DJ specializing in Reggae and Afro-Latin Rhythms.

Stephy Styles (@stylophonicdoll) is a professional street/club-style dancer, MC host, event producer, and community organizer. She is the co-founder of @LadiesAdios, a femme-led collective, and @AJamCalledTribe , a nonprofit focused on cultural preservation and creative empowerment through the elements of hip hop. As a first-generation Colombian-Ecuadorian-American, Stephy’s artistry is deeply rooted in legacy and cultural pride. She honors her ancestors and channels the dreams of her grandmothers through her work in movement, storytelling, and music. Currently exploring DJing and music production, Stephy is committed to amplifying the rhythm and resistance of her communities on stage, on by decks, and in every space she creates.