OCT 26, 2024 - MAR 16, 2025
ALTERNATING WEEKENDS
9 AM - 12:30 PM (PT)
A Course on the Imaginal:
Cultivating the Visionary Self
Live Online Course with Alixa García
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In the face of compounding historical and present-day traumas, environmental collapse, and chronic uncertainty, we know that we need something radically different. Yet, many of us feel the pain of not knowing where to begin. In this course, we view the wound as the portal and grief as the ceremony as we center the role of imagination in times of collapse. Here, we explore and exercise our creative muscle and find in nature the ultimate creative force as her powerful teachings serve our awakening. When we encounter and encourage the wild dance of the artist within, the creative self becomes part of the visionary collective.
On this journey, we center our living wholeness. We view the wound as a portal and grief as ceremony. We use creative somatics to bring bodily awareness to our imagination praxis, learn to work with attention-intensive practices and the autonomic nervous system, activate wakeful dreaming, employ creative writing and visual art, work with solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies, and many more creative outlets to do the important work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed for these times. We recenter the Earth while bringing into focus our cosmic responsibility. We integrate creativity as a regular practice in our lives and the means by which we commune.
As we move into the heart of the 6th mass extinction, how do we re-enter the ceremony of life and awaken the Imaginal within? In times of collapse, how do we fall without falling apart? Come, let us sit in circles of wonder and creative devotion as we embark on this 6-month personal and collective journey. Together, we will form beloved community, sharing our experiences and learning from each other. Creativity is the antidote to destruction; when we create with intention, our creations become the invocation, and the space inside and between us becomes the sanctuary.
“After decades of doing anti-racist work, Alixa’s course showed me how to enter entirely new creative, imaginal dimensions of self, community, and spirit.”
– 2022 participant
This course will run from October 26, 2024 - March 16, 2025, with classes taking place from 9 am - 12:30 pm (PT) on alternating weekends (see full schedule). Classes will be held via Zoom. The sessions will be experiential, requiring a live presence, and will not be recorded.
Start
Date
OCT 26, 2024
Session
Length
3.5 HOURS
IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION DETAILS
Please be 100% available to participate when attending the sessions. Make sure to have a private space for your process. We ask that you be on camera as much as possible as the next-best alternative to not being in the room; this will help us to feel each others’ presence and deepen.
The sessions will not be recorded to ensure full authenticity without the fear of being frozen in time.
The course centers on Creative Somatics, so please be ready to engage your body and your inner creator. There will be options accessible for people of different abilities.
Processing and integration happen between the main sessions on an individual and group level. For this reason, all participants will have access to a Creative Path, a Ritual Path, and a Breath and Mindfulness Path. The Paths rotate every two months so that participants have the opportunity to walk all three Paths during the six-month journey.
The Paths have bi-weekly Expansions (or practices) that can be done as a solo journeyer or in a small Pod between the main sessions, deepening and expanding your journey. These are invitations. You only need to participate in a Path or a Pod if you wish to, though we highly encourage it.
Pods meet once between sessions. The participants of each Pod will determine when and how long they meet.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Alixa García is a Colombian-born, globally-raised, multidisciplinary artist and cultural architect whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover: our Earth. She is a distinguished artist, award-winning poet, music producer, published author, and movement strategist. Her groundbreaking work with Climbing Poetree set the tone for years of art for movement building, which has had significant ripple effects throughout the world.
With a rich 23-year background in creative strategies for social and environmental movements, curriculum development, and facilitation, Alixa's expertise has been instrumental in supporting justice leaders, scholars and students, community activists, state representatives, and the nonprofit sector to realize their potential in the areas of creative blueprinting, trans-local and global organizing, and environmental education. Her unique approach centralizes creativity and the role of imagination as an essential tool for liberation.
Alixa is a sought-after public speaker, visual artist, and facilitator. Her work has been published by Whit Press, AK Press, Monacelli, Hatchett, and Daraja Press. She is an editorial board member of ERA Coalition & Fund for Women's Equality and the lead curriculum developer and facilitator for the CS Fund Just Transitions 2024 Fellowship Cohort. She is honored to be invited to curate the Imagination Infrastructure Conference 2024. Read Alixa's full Artistic Bio here.
SCHEDULE
SESSIONS ARE LIVE AND 3.5 HOURS
OCT 26, 2024 (Saturday)
AN INVITATION TO FAIL: COAXING THE ARTIST WITHIN
OCT 27, 2024 (Sunday)
MAKING A HOME FOR INTUITION
NOV 9, 2024 (Saturday)
SOUL COMMITMENTS
NOV 24, 2024 (Sunday)
ANCESTRAL TENDING I
DEC 8, 2024 (Sunday)
ANCESTRAL TENDING II
DEC 22, 2024 (Sunday)
THE WOUND IS THE PORTAL
JAN 5, 2025 (Sunday)
GRIEF AS CEREMONY
JAN 19, 2025 (Sunday)
THE ROLE OF ENCHANTMENT IN TIME OF COLLAPSE
FEB 2, 2025 (Sunday)
SPIRIT TENDING I
FEB 16, 2025 (Sunday)
SPIRIT TENDING II
MAR 2, 2025 (Sunday)
VISIONARY FUTURES I
MAR 15, 2025 (Saturday)
VISIONARY FUTURES II
MAR 16, 2025 (Sunday)
THE UNFOLDING
A Course on The Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self
$1,050 - 3,000
An experiential course with Alixa García