Nyasha Williams is an author, creative activist, and community weaver whose work lives at the crossroads of creativity, liberation, and Ancestral remembrance. She invites us to remember who we are beneath colonization, urgency, scarcity, and fear. Guided by Spirit and the Ancestors, Nyasha designs spaces where people can slow down, return to themselves, and rekindle the creative instincts colonization tried to quiet.
Born between the United States and South Africa, Nyasha’s life has always moved between worlds, a rhythm that shaped her understanding of story, liberation, and the sacred responsibility to heal in both directions: backward toward the Ancestors and forward toward future generations.
As her practice evolved, Nyasha felt her Ancestors call her deeper into facilitation rooted in Poka Laenui’s Processes of Decolonization. Through ritual, story, movement, rest, and play, she supports individuals and communities through the phases of rediscovery & recovery, mourning, dreaming, commitment, and action as pathways toward a more communally liberated way of being.
This calling became The Dreaming Table — an annual retreat and a year-round ecosystem of Days of Dreaming:
Seasonal 1:1 Days of Dreaming — planned intuitively by Nyasha
Co-planned Days of Dreaming — designed in ritual partnership with the participant
Community Days of Dreaming — five co-facilitated sessions + two held solely by Nyasha, including The Dreaming Table Retreat
All Dreaming experiences center creativity as a liberatory practice. Each day is divined with her spiritual court and shaped around what the individual or group most needs: rest, play, grief, imagination, connection, or transformation. No two Dreaming Days are the same; they unfold intuitively through Ancestral guidance and the processes of decolonization.
Across her work, Nyasha widens what is possible — helping people reconnect with the elements, their imagination, their right to rest, and the golden thread of their soul mission. Her creative praxis reminds us that liberation is not just fought for; it is practiced, embodied, and co-created through the ways we dream together.
The Dreaming Table is the living foundation for her larger vision: Fire + Honey, a future Colorado-based home for residencies, retreats, creative cohorts, communal healing, and liberatory publishing — a regenerative ecosystem where artists and community members can gather, restore, imagine, and build the worlds we deserve.
In all her work, Nyasha invites us into a simple but radical truth:
When we dream in community, we become impossible to contain.
Origin & Intention
The Dreaming Table was born at the meeting place of all Nyasha’s medicines — creativity, collaboration, intuitive guidance, and Ancestral remembrance. Long before she had language for it, Nyasha was bringing people together to make things: neighborhood talent shows, shared recipes in the kitchen, group dances choreographed in the living room, handmade art that turned friends into collaborators. Creativity has always been her way of gathering people, her way of healing, and her way of imagining a life beyond the limits imposed by colonization.
That lifelong thread snapped into clarity during her residency at Milkwood, her first creative residency. At Milkwood, Nyasha experienced what it meant to feel held: abundance without pressure, freedom without exhaustion, safety without performance. For the first time, she tasted a rhythm that matched her spirit, slow mornings, deep play, sacred rest, communal creation, and space to listen inward without interruption. The liberation she felt there awakened a truth she could no longer ignore: everybody deserves a place where they can return to themselves through creativity.
The Dreaming Table emerged from that realization. It is the seed of the larger home Nyasha is building a future creative sanctuary rooted in land, Spirit, and community. The Dreaming Table is the first expression of the ecosystem that will one day become Fire + Honey, a physical campus where people can move in right relationship with the land and the elementals; where studios for movement, pottery, dance, writing, cooking, gardening, glass work, and water rituals live side-by-side; and where artists, healers, and community members can gather to dream, rest, create, and transform.
Creativity is the core medicine of The Dreaming Table. Through painting, movement, writing, play, ritual, cooking, elemental work, storytelling, or stillness, participants reconnect with the creative spark colonization taught them to suppress. Creativity becomes a doorway back to joy, intuition, imagination, and personal truth and a way of remembering who we were before urgency, scarcity, and survival hardened our spirits.
Collaboration is the second pillar. Nyasha’s life work affirms that we expand differently when we create together. The Dreaming Table cultivates co-authorship but as a worldview. Participants learn how ideas grow in community, how imagination widens beside other imaginations, and how our healing becomes more spacious when we are witnessed. Collaboration here is not optional; it is a practice of liberation.
Every Dreaming Table offering, whether a one-on-one Day of Dreaming, a co-created session, or a communal gathering is guided by Poka Laenui’s Processes of Decolonization, translated through creativity. Nyasha divines each session with her spiritual court: pulling cards, throwing shells, listening for direction, and shaping the day around what each person or group needs. Some sessions ground into rediscovery and recovery. Some move through mourning. Some open into dreaming and collaborative imagination. Others anchor commitment and creative action. No two Dreaming Days are ever the same.
And beyond the ritual, art, movement, or play, the deepest intention remains constant:
When people leave The Dreaming Table, they should feel so full that they are overflowing and that overflow nourishes others.
That fullness spills into their families, their communities, their work, and their creative lives. It becomes inspiration, clarity, courage, and renewed purpose. It becomes ripples of liberation.
Fire + Honey, the larger ecosystem that The Dreaming Table is building toward, carries an economic vision as well: a future where artists and community members are paid a living wage, where retreats and cohorts require no financial expectation beyond travel, and where creativity is recognized as essential labor that deserves compensation, support, and sanctuary. The Dreaming Table is the foundation that will allow Fire + Honey to offer accessible, regenerative, deeply equitable creative spaces.
In essence, The Dreaming Table is a place where people remember: their creativity, their magic, their belonging, their breath, their imagination, their connection to land and Spirit, and their capacity to dream beyond the world we inherited.