Life is a verb. Life is in constant flow and movement. In this 6-week workshop, we will explore the ever-changing-, always weaving-ness of life. Connecting deeper into your intuitive sense of life. Opening our consciousness to the deeply sensuous longing of all life. Unlearning the duality of human and nature, the boundaries between individual and other. Through visualisation practices, engaging of all senses and moving through the spiral of the work that reconnects, we will deepen into our interconnectedness with nature and strengthen our imaginative skills.
All are welcome – no prior knowledge, skills or nature connection practice required.
Whether you are someone who spends most of their waking hours in front of screens who longs for a deeper connection with nature, or you are a biologist busy in field-studies who wants to shift their perspective – you are welcome in this program.
Facilitated by Yulia Smagorinsky, who brings their lifelong experience as a child of nature, as a biodynamic farmer, permaculture designer, community gardener, horticultural educator, and a great lover of the outdoors to inform this workshop.
Times: Weekly – Dates to be announced
Format: Six 120-minute online sessions
With practices and readings between sessions (30 minutes/week).
You will need: a journal, pen, pencils, colored pencils, OPTIONAL: some containers (can be repurposed) to start seedlings in, seed starting mix (approx 1 liter), seeds beans, lettuce, mustard or other quick germinators
- 1st session: Gratitude – Germination
- 2nd session: Self-Awareness, Social Location & Systems of Oppression – Access to Nature; Exposure to Pollutants
- 3rd session: Honoring our Pain for the World – Mourning, Death and Dying
- 4th session: Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes – The Fluid Nature of Trees
- 5th session: Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes &Liberation – Deep Time of Rocks
- 6th session: Going Forth – Mycelial Pathways
“Swifts are an element of the air—but they are also an element of happiness. Swifts are the children of the air’s love toward itself.
This love is nothing other than the tireless urge of living beings and ecosystems to grow and to unfold. It is the longing for such unfolding and the joy of fulfilling this desire.”
Andreas Weber (translated from “Lebendigkeit – Eine erotische Ökologie” 2014)