A Course on the Imaginal:

In this first session, we create our container for the journey ahead. We explore our whys and set intentions, begin to meet one another and develop a shared language, introduce the Trickster, explore digital tools we will use throughout the course, and dive into our first Creative Somatic praxis to encourage our inner artists to come out and play.

As we move into the heart of the Sixth Mass Extinction, what tools are readily available to us? In this session, we give the Soma a name and practice and begin to explore an intimate relationship with our intuitive body so that we may readily access our intuition, deepening our trust in it.

What did your soul come here to do? A commitment differs from a wish, and the thinking self differs from the soul. In this session, we introduce a three-body awareness practice to enter our multidimensionality and, from there, unearth our soul commitments. Through creative writing and a return to the Soma, we will root our soul commitments in our three-dimensionality.

This session is a ritual for untying ancestral trauma from the Soma. We will sit with and tend to our maternal and paternal ancestral lineages through a series of somatic and attention-intensive practices that help us reclaim our sovereign relationship with those who came before us.

What is the healing story that wants to come through you? What future ancestor will you be? Through Creative Somatic and attention-intensive practices, creative writing, and individual and collective creation, we will answer these questions for ourselves and create an altarpiece to remind us of our harvest and be a guiding light.

In this session, we delve into the heart, body, and mind connection through the complementary study of neuroplasticity, the subconscious and conscious states, epigenetics, the autonomic systems, and breathwork to better understand the science of trauma and the power of bodily, creative, and awareness-centered healing modalities. We will learn a somatic emotional release practice to ground the lecture.

In the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention.” In this session, we will create a communal ceremony where grief has a place of tenderness, allowing it to land and transmute. Though each person’s journey will be an individual and safe undertaking, the collective element of moving through the process together weaves a broader net. We will move through experiential, creative, and somatic practices to arrive there.

To create room for enchantment and wonder in our lives during times of collapse is to honor the ecstatic mystery that brought us here despite and because of the cessation all around us; it is a conscious return to beauty beyond our calculations. Through somatic and attention-intensive practices, artistic creation, group work, and a water and fire ritual, we will explore our offering for the world.

When was the last time you had an intentional full-body conversation with the part of you that connects to all livingness and listened? In this session, each person will commune with their spirit self. We will work with Solfeggio frequencies and move through a series of experiential exercises to begin the process of creating our spirit card.

The universe is full of secrets. Like the rest of this course, creating our spirit cards is an unearthing, an investigation into the unknown. It is a meeting with the deeper parts of ourselves that require our slow movement, our non-dominance, our curiosity, and our open-faced inquiry to begin to reveal.

In this session, we will use internal and external gaze practices, the power of sacred geometry, and visual art to discover the indwelling of our spirit self.

From the spirit realm to the world, in this session, we will use Visionary Fiction as a political practice and visionary rehearsal. Visionary fiction explicitly intends to envision beyond the current world, challenge mainstream power dynamics and ideals, and dream of new, just worlds. There is power in rewriting our histories to reclaim our futures. There is also power in writing our futures to manifest the realities we want to walk into.

Through collective Visionary Fiction plot creations, we will begin to rewrite dominant narratives and see what other worlds might be behind the cracks of a breaking world.

Within every human, only 5% is a conscious expression, while 95% of us is a subconscious expression. In this session, we will move through a multistep process that will unearth subconscious undesired belief systems and thought patterns that no longer serve us, and through creative somatics, applied kinesiology, and the use of solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies; we will identify and create affirmations that counter those limiting beliefs and thoughts so that our inner being begins to match the conscious self we desire.

We will collectively close the portal we opened six months before through a ceremony of remembrance. In this final session, we will harvest inspirational insights, bodily learnings, soulful commitments, and visionary applications. We will revisit our intentions and creations and see how far we have come. Through an experiential process, we will witness and be witnessed as fellow journeyers of the Imaginal Expanse.