JJ Sperry
J. J. Sperry is a Mycology/Botany Specialist, Didgeridoo Sound Healer, Musician and Agriculture & Human Geography Specialist.
Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, JJ experienced early lessons from an independent upbringing and submergence in a toxic culture that brightly lit his healing path. Becoming more aware of healing frequencies manifested though sound, JJ enveloped himself in creating music for the purpose of healing and celebrating the earth.
As a young teenager, he was fortunate to meet and work with Jared Hanna (Manager of Oakland University's permaculture gardens/organic farm) who enlightened him at a young age about the truth of America's inefficient food system and fragile economic structure. After turning his parent's backyard into an urban farm, he moved to the Upper Peninsula in order to study sustainability and biological sciences at Northern Michigan University. Since living in Marquette, JJ has worked on multiple organic farms which built a strong spiritual connection with local farmers and artisans.
Presently, JJ is the owner and creator of Moonberry Mushroom Farm, LLC; he intends to provide Michigan with edible organic mushrooms and medicinal healing extracts. JJ has played music and healed at numerous gatherings such as Rootwire Festival (shamanic healing w/Liza Hunter), Earthwork Harvest Gathering (didgeridoo sound healing), Transition Marquette (mushroom cultivation workshop), Shady Grove Farm Fundraiser (w/Seth Bernard) as well as a didgeridoo performance/Local food movement presence at EarthNight2013.
JJ is a musician, farmer, friend, and energetic healer, with a unique speaking power as well as empathetic abilities which channel a force of powerful healing and compassionate communication. JJ's greatest joy is sharing the gift of self-reliance through empathetic awareness.
Workshop #1: Didgeridoo sound healing
During this group gathering, a safe and healing sonic environment is created. Every "Sound Journey" is different, as it is essentially an intuitive, shamanic process. Sound is kept at a very peaceful level, at no time becoming loud or intrusive. A constant low buzz assists the participants to move though the barriers of fear, outwardly perceiving the density of the physical form. The spirit or soul is then free to travel and play. Sound and sonic dissonance bypasses the intellectual, analytical hemisphere of the brain, allowing the creative, intuitive hemisphere to have free reign to perceive the earth.
Workshop #2: Sacred Community and Local Food Systems
The purpose of this workshop is to identify the issues and fragility that run hand-in-hand with global food systems in rural and urban areas such as the Midwest, while also discussing benefits of sustainable community concepts and efficient farming techniques. In becoming more conscious of the nature of our food, community, personal energy responsibilities, and food infrastructure, the artistic and creative minds blended at transformational gatherings will be equipped and aware to ease our damaged and destructive society into the golden age.
Workshop #3: Practical home mushroom cultivation
This short interactive workshop will provide the community a solid understanding of the life cycle of fungus. Along with practical knowledge on how to grow mushrooms as food, process mushrooms into extracts, and finally, the divine nature of fungi.
Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, JJ experienced early lessons from an independent upbringing and submergence in a toxic culture that brightly lit his healing path. Becoming more aware of healing frequencies manifested though sound, JJ enveloped himself in creating music for the purpose of healing and celebrating the earth.
As a young teenager, he was fortunate to meet and work with Jared Hanna (Manager of Oakland University's permaculture gardens/organic farm) who enlightened him at a young age about the truth of America's inefficient food system and fragile economic structure. After turning his parent's backyard into an urban farm, he moved to the Upper Peninsula in order to study sustainability and biological sciences at Northern Michigan University. Since living in Marquette, JJ has worked on multiple organic farms which built a strong spiritual connection with local farmers and artisans.
Presently, JJ is the owner and creator of Moonberry Mushroom Farm, LLC; he intends to provide Michigan with edible organic mushrooms and medicinal healing extracts. JJ has played music and healed at numerous gatherings such as Rootwire Festival (shamanic healing w/Liza Hunter), Earthwork Harvest Gathering (didgeridoo sound healing), Transition Marquette (mushroom cultivation workshop), Shady Grove Farm Fundraiser (w/Seth Bernard) as well as a didgeridoo performance/Local food movement presence at EarthNight2013.
JJ is a musician, farmer, friend, and energetic healer, with a unique speaking power as well as empathetic abilities which channel a force of powerful healing and compassionate communication. JJ's greatest joy is sharing the gift of self-reliance through empathetic awareness.
Workshop #1: Didgeridoo sound healing
During this group gathering, a safe and healing sonic environment is created. Every "Sound Journey" is different, as it is essentially an intuitive, shamanic process. Sound is kept at a very peaceful level, at no time becoming loud or intrusive. A constant low buzz assists the participants to move though the barriers of fear, outwardly perceiving the density of the physical form. The spirit or soul is then free to travel and play. Sound and sonic dissonance bypasses the intellectual, analytical hemisphere of the brain, allowing the creative, intuitive hemisphere to have free reign to perceive the earth.
Workshop #2: Sacred Community and Local Food Systems
The purpose of this workshop is to identify the issues and fragility that run hand-in-hand with global food systems in rural and urban areas such as the Midwest, while also discussing benefits of sustainable community concepts and efficient farming techniques. In becoming more conscious of the nature of our food, community, personal energy responsibilities, and food infrastructure, the artistic and creative minds blended at transformational gatherings will be equipped and aware to ease our damaged and destructive society into the golden age.
Workshop #3: Practical home mushroom cultivation
This short interactive workshop will provide the community a solid understanding of the life cycle of fungus. Along with practical knowledge on how to grow mushrooms as food, process mushrooms into extracts, and finally, the divine nature of fungi.
