Ancestral Futures of Transformation 

We will begin our deep dive with our human ancestry - the peoples of our personal blood and bone lines. To feel the arroyos of their skin as our skin, the caves of their hearts shaping our hearts, the supple muscle of our tongues intuiting shaped sounds and rhythms from their tongues. To invoke their gaze so as to be seen through and within their eyes, and to let the power of their multi-sensory perception change us.

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You will be invited to deepen your understanding and relationship with your human ancestors, invoking their presence through the body, imagination, movement, dreamtime, and ceremony. Wading through waterways of birth and death, catching echoes of their songs and ululations, beckoning you toward the ecstasy and grief of your astounding existence.
 

Our second month together will entail an invocation of our faunal ancestries. The furred, four-legged, clawed, feathered, scaled, swimming and slithering peoples our human ancestors were entangled with and nourished by, as well as those with whom we currently share place and space. Faunal ancestors whose spiritual ways and cultural rhythms infuse(d) our dreams, and churn(ed) the digestive juices of our bellies calling out to the holy ground of our belonging.

We will also court and track our floral and mycelial ancestries. The peoples of root, stem, leaf, fruit, and tendril. You will be invited to deepen your understanding and relationship with both those your human ancestors entangled with and learned from, as well as the floral and mycelial peoples with whom you share current landscapes of co-habitation. Peoples imbued with healing capacities, the ability to expand consciousness, and the knowledge to decompose shape and form. Light- and death-eating and darkness-loving creatures who understand the world and these times from their own embodied places of perception.

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We'll call upon their intelligences and ways of knowing through food & drink, ceremony, movement, deep imagery, the dreamtime and more, permissioning their ways of knowing to shape us from within. Remembering that their flesh, bones, roots, stems, fruits and flowers live within us, and our flesh, bones, and breath live within them. And, that through their eyes, breath, tracks, rootways, and blossoming intelligence we come to know ourselves with greater intimacy as multiplicitous beings whose dreams belong to the world.

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Waterways, forests, caves, mountains, grasslands, deserts - in our fourth month together we will invoke the forces of place and space. Those living tapestries of ecological confluence that envelop the senses, and hold the temples of inter-specied dreaming. The places and spaces our human, floral/mycelial, and faunal ancestors belong(ed) to, and those with(in) which we each now reside. Places and spaces that pluck at our heartstrings, and magnetize our imaginations through melodic memories of past and future that conjure the immensity of belonging.

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We'll call out to and invite in the sandy, salty, root-waying, decaying, bursting, lush, arid, storming terra-scapes whose relentless changing natures remind us of what devotion really means. Through ceremony, deep imagery, place-based wanders, the dreamtime and more we'll feel the places where ours and our ancestors hands and feet, paws and claws connect to the ground of becoming.