Talks and Workshops.
Featured Speaker: "Romancing the Underworld: Why Worshiping Goddesses of Death is the Only Way to Save Modern Culture"
Peter Rollins Grant Recipient Featured Speaker, Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
This exploration focuses on the critical role of feminine figures in Mesoamerican myth, which are often direly misunderstood by the Western mind. These strange, beautiful/hideous, death-adorned maternal figures shapeshift throughout myths and over time but they always serve a similar purpose: To guide us through our necessary death/life cycles and into regeneration of our collective psyche and landscape. Cultivating a deep understanding of the waste land/borderlands motif and the "dark" feminine figures at the heart of the Mesoamerican worldview is more than just an exciting mythological adventure, it is part of a radical approach to "decolonizing" the American mind…
Lessons From the Darkness: Leaning into Nature, Easing into Light, a Winter Solstice Teaching and Guided Meditation @ Raleigh City Farm
As the leaves finish falling, we are reminded as humans to also shed what is no longer needed from the season past to prepare for new growth…
Honoring Darkness, Welcoming Light: A Winter Solstice Guided Meditation and Teaching @ Unwined on White
As the leaves finish falling, we are reminded as humans to also shed what is no longer needed from the season past to prepare for new growth. This guided winter solstice practice uses mythological teachings and a meditation inspired by C.G. Jung’s teachings on alchemy to help us align with nature and nurture our own inner growth and transformation.
We will begin with a teaching from the Aztec tradition that assists us in accessing our own darkness….
Expert Panelist on Philosophy and the Myth of Sisyphus for the Myth Salon’s Discussion with Author Phil Cousineau
Expert panelist on the philosophy and mythology of the Myth of Sisyphus and discussion of Phil Cousineau’s new book.
Master Class on the Origin of the Shadow, The Red Book, and How to Access the Unconscious Mind
This course walked through the origins of the concept of the “shadow,” rooting participants in a deep understanding of the Jungian root of the term, what the Red Book is and how to understand this important text, and gain tools for accessing and communicating with our unconscious and shadow mind…