Awaken, Embody, and Illuminate Our Oceanic Self:
Mandala Process and Continuum Movement
(a new collaboration engaging our 6 senses!)
with Julia Weaver MFT, BFA and Barbara Karlsen BN, MA
“Mermaid Dakini” ©2002 Julia Weaver 18x18”
Sunday, June 28th 10am - 5pm
$50-$80 sliding scale + $25 materials fee if you are a first-time student
Location: Art and Soul Studio, Marin County (details sent after registration)
Work scholarships available. Please email us if interested.
All profits from these offerings will be donated to planting trees
to help shift climate change. www.Treesisters.org
Registration Required
The most important thing we can do now is hear within ourselves the sounds of the earth crying. - Thich Nhat Hahn
Join Julia and Barbara for a unique and intimate opportunity to revitalize your human blueprint and to awaken this ancient "l" at the core of your cells. As we re-member, we are reclaiming our evolutionary healing potential and bio-cosmic heritage, which we share with all life forms. In these workshops, we compassionately re-member and celebrate the luminous Ocean of Light within and around us.
Just as life on Earth began in the oceanic womb, we gestated inside our mother’s womb. Similarly, our planet and her seven oceans originated inside the infinite cosmic Ocean of Light. This Ocean of Light is known by many names: chi, prana, ka, God, Great Mother, Mystery. When we cry, our salty tears remind us of our oceanic origins.This Ocean also resides in our DNA and every cell of our human body. As we transmute and release toxic emotions, thoughts, sensations, and symptoms from our human form, we do the same for the seven oceans of our beloved planet.
Together, we will co-create a resonant field, combining our deepest heart’s intention with the "two wings of wisdom and compassion action" to hear and respond to the cries of the Pacific Ocean. “Your intent, trust, and openness to the process are crucial components.”*
We will use Continuum Movement** and the language of Sacred Mandala Art*** to reclaim our original lifeline with a creative cosmos. When we give voice to the body, and allow inner images to find creative expression in the drawing of sacred mandalas, we integrate new pathways towards wholeness and healing. These energetic pathways continue to in-form us as we return to them for inner guidance and inspiration.
As we utilize ancient and modern technologies, we invite the cooperation of all healing life forms and spirits. We participate in our co-evolution with a larger planetary process. We dedicate our intention for healing to all sentient beings seen and unseen.
Just as life on Earth began in the oceanic womb, we gestated inside our mother’s womb. Similarly, our planet and her seven oceans originated inside the infinite cosmic Ocean of Light. This Ocean of Light is known by many names: chi, prana, ka, God, Great Mother, Mystery. When we cry, our salty tears remind us of our oceanic origins.This Ocean also resides in our DNA and every cell of our human body. As we transmute and release toxic emotions, thoughts, sensations, and symptoms from our human form, we do the same for the seven oceans of our beloved planet.
Together, we will co-create a resonant field, combining our deepest heart’s intention with the "two wings of wisdom and compassion action" to hear and respond to the cries of the Pacific Ocean. “Your intent, trust, and openness to the process are crucial components.”*
We will use Continuum Movement** and the language of Sacred Mandala Art*** to reclaim our original lifeline with a creative cosmos. When we give voice to the body, and allow inner images to find creative expression in the drawing of sacred mandalas, we integrate new pathways towards wholeness and healing. These energetic pathways continue to in-form us as we return to them for inner guidance and inspiration.
As we utilize ancient and modern technologies, we invite the cooperation of all healing life forms and spirits. We participate in our co-evolution with a larger planetary process. We dedicate our intention for healing to all sentient beings seen and unseen.
“Celebration” ©2001 Julia Weaver 18x18"
* For the full transmission of the Shambhala Warriors by Joanna Macy please see:
http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=236
http://joannamacy.net/
**Continuum Movement (founded by Emile Conrad) offers a variety of movement explorations, which include sounds, breaths, wave motion, and micro movements. In a modern world where our bio-wisdom is compromised by speed and technology, Continuum offers us a way to slow down, and inquire into our capacity to innovate and participate within the essential, generative, and biological movement processes of life that surround us. Contact Barbara with queries about Continuum. She is also offering a Continuum workshop on 6/27; the two workshops are both supportive for healing the connection to our body and the planet, and would complement each other well (you can sign up for both!).
***Mandala means “sacred circle” in Sanskrit. A mandala is a vehicle for Self-remembrance and healing across cultures. Even if you have never drawn before, you will discover a wealth of images within, and the means to give them form through simple, yet powerful techniques. These “sacred circles” offer an opportunity to rest in the Heart and celebrate the presence of our communal resonance. See Julia's other course descriptions for more information.
This collaboration is inspired by the revolutionary healing work of Masaru Emoto; see more about his work here.
Bios:
Barbara Karlsen BN., MA Somatic Psychology, is a transformational movement teacher who has been working with the body and movement for over 25 years. In a world where technology is privileged over gene, Nature, and embodiment, Barbara has become a teacher and advocate for “sustainable humanism.” Questioning the fate of embodied wisdom in an information age, she holds Eco-Somatic workshops in Nature for awakening and transmitting evolutionary consciousness through the body. Barbara is an authorized Continuum teacher and is presently a Phd candidate in the Transformative studies program at CIIS in San Francisco where her area of inquiry is Ecophilosophy and Formative Consciousness.
Julia Weaver, MFT, BFA. Since 1996, she has been an Environmental Arts Educator, facilitating rite-of-passage ceremonies that combine sacred intention and the Mandala Process with gardens, rituals, collages, and tree planting. These ceremonies promote community re-vitalization, ecological healing and world peace. She is also a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with 30 years of experience, incorporating embodied spiritual psychotherapy with many somatic and movement modalities of inquiry. She works with individuals, groups and sangha circles. All that she offers is dedicated to supporting embodied spiritual awakening that is in service to Gaia and all sentient beings. Her intention is to perceive and reveal the Light inherent in all Life, while resting in the “Heart of Luminous Darkness", letting all response emerge from the fertile womb of silence. Her mandalas may be viewed here. For current workshops and webinars click here or call Art & Soul at 415-455-5989.
http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=236
http://joannamacy.net/
**Continuum Movement (founded by Emile Conrad) offers a variety of movement explorations, which include sounds, breaths, wave motion, and micro movements. In a modern world where our bio-wisdom is compromised by speed and technology, Continuum offers us a way to slow down, and inquire into our capacity to innovate and participate within the essential, generative, and biological movement processes of life that surround us. Contact Barbara with queries about Continuum. She is also offering a Continuum workshop on 6/27; the two workshops are both supportive for healing the connection to our body and the planet, and would complement each other well (you can sign up for both!).
***Mandala means “sacred circle” in Sanskrit. A mandala is a vehicle for Self-remembrance and healing across cultures. Even if you have never drawn before, you will discover a wealth of images within, and the means to give them form through simple, yet powerful techniques. These “sacred circles” offer an opportunity to rest in the Heart and celebrate the presence of our communal resonance. See Julia's other course descriptions for more information.
This collaboration is inspired by the revolutionary healing work of Masaru Emoto; see more about his work here.
Bios:
Barbara Karlsen BN., MA Somatic Psychology, is a transformational movement teacher who has been working with the body and movement for over 25 years. In a world where technology is privileged over gene, Nature, and embodiment, Barbara has become a teacher and advocate for “sustainable humanism.” Questioning the fate of embodied wisdom in an information age, she holds Eco-Somatic workshops in Nature for awakening and transmitting evolutionary consciousness through the body. Barbara is an authorized Continuum teacher and is presently a Phd candidate in the Transformative studies program at CIIS in San Francisco where her area of inquiry is Ecophilosophy and Formative Consciousness.
Julia Weaver, MFT, BFA. Since 1996, she has been an Environmental Arts Educator, facilitating rite-of-passage ceremonies that combine sacred intention and the Mandala Process with gardens, rituals, collages, and tree planting. These ceremonies promote community re-vitalization, ecological healing and world peace. She is also a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with 30 years of experience, incorporating embodied spiritual psychotherapy with many somatic and movement modalities of inquiry. She works with individuals, groups and sangha circles. All that she offers is dedicated to supporting embodied spiritual awakening that is in service to Gaia and all sentient beings. Her intention is to perceive and reveal the Light inherent in all Life, while resting in the “Heart of Luminous Darkness", letting all response emerge from the fertile womb of silence. Her mandalas may be viewed here. For current workshops and webinars click here or call Art & Soul at 415-455-5989.