Next online & in-person date TBA.As I noted in circle, the theme for this set arose during its creation: "a meditation on what you get when you don't get what you expected to get." When creating the set, it was raining, a lot rain and storms were forecast for the night of this dance. A printed booklet of documents will be provided. This is an opportunity to explore and communicate what you ultimately want for the end of your life in a non-denominational, non-judgmental space. Befriending death may transform the way you live. With the support of community, we’ll be in the process, wherever we are in our life cycles, to prepare for this sacred event.
Diving into the practical and emotional realms of this inevitable transition, we can begin to shift the cultural inheritance of death-phobia and begin to envision more beautiful crossings. James Cobo and Isabel at Chicago Salsa Congress 2008. Eddie Torres, Mambo King Still Has It, & Nancy is on Fire Eddie and Nancy Ortiz 2006. Betto and Jamila Performing at Copa Night. Adam Phillips and Aubrey Griffith-Zill November 2014, Carrboro, NC at The Flowjo.
In these weeks together, we’ll begin some of the necessary work of preparing for death through meditation, visioning, dialogue and addressing practical matters. Crystal Dawn Bright is a musician and multimedia artist from North Carolina.She is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music teacher, performance artist, theatrical director & producer, and holistic health coach / nutritionist. One of my favorite groups, Yamulee from the Bronx dancing at Austin Congress 2009. Most have left this meditation inspired, touched and peaceful.
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Together, we’ll journey to our death beds to imagine how we’d most like to cross, see what’s left undone and potentially receive wisdom for how to live. Meditating on death can bring inspiration to life. Preparations & meditations for crossing the thresholdĪs the season shifts, we’ll gather to meditate on death, the ultimate transition and our mini-deaths along the way. With the support of somatic practice, ancestral connection, visioning practice & elemental ritual, we’ll focus on the threshold, prepare for our own passing and feel into how we can embrace life while blessed here. (Optional welcome event Thursday night at The Flowjo) Some camping possible here along the river. Participants must provide their own meals & lodging. Julia Hartsell & other guest instructors. With the support of somatic & movement techniques and elemental guides, we’ll seek to connect to our bodies, voices, expressions, the earth and our deepest passions. With hooping as our base practice, we’ll weave somatic inquiry, dance, ritual & visioning to find expanded states of consciousness, stillness, inspiration and purpose amidst these challenging times. Together, we’ll seek antidotes for the personal, familial and cultural inheritance of shame, repression and body/earth-disconnect. With the support of somatic & ritual techniques and helpful ancestral & elemental guides, we’ll seek to reconnect to our bodies, sensual pleasure, the earth and to life force energy. Women’s Pleasure Retreat, on the Haw Riverĭuring Beltane weekend, we’ll weave embodied practice, ancestral connection, elemental ritual to open ourselves to healing and pleasure. Protection & energetic boundaries offerings & altar work prayer & invocation. Topics include: connecting with allies, guides, teachers In this monthly circle, participants will learn foundational ritual skills for relating with the larger web of relationships including prayer, offerings and visioning with the spirits. Cultivating relationship with elemental energies, ancestors, plant & animal spirits and other helpers can offer emotional support, understanding, healing and guidance in many facets of life. Every human has allies in spirit and can relate directly with them through ritual.
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