Live Online Course with Alixa García
A COURSE ON THE IMAGINAL
Cultivating the Visionary Self
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A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary is a pedagogy of interiority that brings bodily awareness to our imagination through creative somatics as a decolonial and liberatory practice.
By centering the Imaginal Blueprint methodology developed by Alixa García, we learn to attune the body and focus the attentional system by fortifying the autonomic nervous system, thereby helping to heal the mind/body split imposed by colonial modernity. Here, we center our living wholeness. We activate wakeful dreaming and use creative tools to do the vital work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed in these times.
On this journey, we begin with the body. Our body is the first territory we can liberate. For most of us, our body is the only territory in which we have complete sovereignty. We cannot get entirely out of the systems of oppression that minimize life, but we can expel them from this first and sacred territory.
By working consciously and creatively, we begin to disidentify from the inherited colonial ethos that has captured our thoughts and imagination. By having a robust imagination practice that is rooted in bodily awareness, we can open new liberatory pathways for the self and the collective.
A regulated body connected to imagination is more likely to bring forth a new vision. A regulated body can also readily co-regulate with others. Once we can co-regulate, we can begin to TerraRegulate. A term I’ve developed to speak to the crucial and urgent work of co-regulating with the Earth.
As we move into the heart of the 6th mass extinction, what is the role of imagination in times of collapse? How do we re-enter the ceremony of life and awaken the Imaginal within? How do we learn to fall together without falling apart?
Because creativity is the antidote to destruction, on this journey, 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.
You're invited to sit with us in circles of wonder as we embark on this 6-month journey into embodied wisdom, awareness-centered imagination practice, ancestral tending, and the art of ceremony to fortify self and beloved community. Come, reset the body and develop a consistent, creative, and ceremonial practice for the times ahead.
THE FRAMEWORK
9 Course Pillars
52 Hours
Live online Facilitation
20 Hours+
Individual practice time through Pods and Paths
3 Paths
Creative, Ritual, and Breath & Mindfulness.
Deepen Your Journey: In-Person Retreat
After completing the online course, participants are invited to deepen the work in person amidst breathtaking land. Together, we get closer to the Earth, ourselves, and each other through Andean Ceremonies led by Claudia Cuentas and co-held by Alixa García, while further rooting the creative liberatory practices centered in the course.
This optional retreat is available to course participants at an additional cost.
Come root the teachings in the body and the spirit through the wisdom of our plant allies and the art of ceremony.
“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. This was one of the most beautiful, moving, collective and individual journeys I have ever been on.”
– Camas D. 2022 Imaginal
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PATHS & EXPANSIONS
Participants have access to an additional Creative Path, Ritual Path, and Breath and Mindfulness Path. The Paths rotate every eight weeks so that participants have the opportunity to walk all three Paths during the 6-month journey.
The Paths offer 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. This is an invitation. 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. Participants in each Pod will determine when and how long to meet.
Classes will be held via Zoom. The sessions will be experiential, requiring a live presence, and will not be recorded.
Limited space. 28 seats available.
THE EXCHANGE
Economic justice based on a Solidarity Share Model.
Scholarships are available.
$3500
Solidarity Rate
$4200
Base Rate
$5000
Sustainability
For 52 hours of live online facilitation and an additional 20+ hours of practices for a total of 70+ hours of course material.
SOLIDARITY
Inspired by nature’s principles of reciprocity, A Course on the Imaginal centers a Solidarity Economic Model.
To date, we have given $80,000 in contributions through course tuition and matched donations to frontline social and environmental justice defenders, Indigenous communities, and social impact initiatives. As our community grows, so does our collective contribution.
We have supported:
- Mujeres Amazónicas (Ecuador)
- Jóvenes por la Defensa de la Amazonia (Ecuador)
- Mujeres de Wayú (Colombia)
- Favela Da Paz (Brasil)
- OTEPIC Permaculture (Kenya)
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SCHEDULE
Sessions are LIVE. No Recordings.
SESSION 1: COAXING THE ARTIST WITHIN
We set the stage and begin to create our container for the journey ahead, develop a shared language, introduce the Trickster, explore and familiarize ourselves with the digital tools we will use throughout the course, and dive into our first Creative Somatic practice: Coaxing the Artist Within.
SESSION 2: MAKING A HOME FOR INTUITION
With our intuition, we can sense our way through any darkness. As we enter the 6th mass extinction, growing an intimate relationship with our intuitive body becomes a powerful and essential practice in this times.
In this session, we activate the Soma and engage in a multi-step process to identify where our intuition roots from and how to strengthen it.
SESSION 3: SOUL COMMITMENTS
What is your soul commitment in times of collapse? In this session, we activate the body through Creative Somatic practices that awaken our multidimensionality. From here, we unearth, fine-tune, and root our soul commitment within the activated Soma. This session offers powerful insights and a way to fortify one's inner constitution and soul direction in troubling times.
SESSION 4: THE WOUND IS THE PORTAL
In this session, we delve into the heart, body, mind connection through an embodied lecture that weaves the complementary study of neuroplasticity, epigenetics, the autonomic nervous system, and the subconscious and conscious states to better understand the science of trauma and the power of bodily, creative, and awareness-centered healing modalities. We will learn a powerful somatic emotional release practice to ground the lecture.
SESSION 5: GRIEF AS CEREMONY
Grief is a ceremony, a site for another kind of power. In this session, we will move through a ceremony where grief will find a tender home, allowing it to land and transmute. Though each person’s journey will be an individual and safe undertaking, the collective element of moving through the process together weaves a broader net. We will move through experiential, creative, and somatic practices to arrive there.
SESSION 6: ANCESTRAL TENDING I
This session is a ritual of connection and tending to our ancestral lineages through a series of somatic and attention-intensive practices that strengthen ancestral bonds while reclaiming our sovereign relationship with those who came before us. We will move through a guided somatic and ceremonial process as creative practice.
SESSION 7: ANCESTRAL TENDING II
What is the healing story that wants to come through you? What future ancestor will you be? Through Creative Somatics and attention-intensive practices, creative writing, and individual and collective processes, we will answer these questions for ourselves and begin the work of becoming good future ancestors, while we are still alive.
SESSION 8: SPIRIT TENDING I
When was the last time you had an intentional full-body conversation with the part of you that connects to all livingness, and listened? In this session, you will commune with your spirit self. We will work with Solfeggio frequencies and engage in a series of experiential, creative, and embodied exercises to initiate the process of creating a visual map of this subtle and potent conversation.
SESSION 9: SPIRIT TENDING II
A rooted decolonial process first welcomes the spirit back into the self and opens doors for its return. This session is dedicated to that arrival. It is a meeting with the deeper parts of ourselves that require our slow movement, our non-dominance, and open-faced inquiry to reveal what is calling us back. In this session, we will utilize internal and external gaze practices, the power of sacred geometry, and visual art to unearth the indwelling of our spirit-self.
SESSION 10: THE ROLE OF WONDER IN TIME OF COLLAPSE
One of the powerful things about wonder is that we can easily become catalysts for awe and delight in one another. In times of collapse, this small opening into the unexpected becomes a practice in creating beloved community. In this session, we will create a container of wonder that will ripple outward.
SESSION 11: VISIONARY FUTURES I
From the spirit realm to the material world- in this session, we will use Visionary Fiction as a political and visionary rehearsal. Visionary fiction explicitly intends to envision a world beyond the current one, challenge mainstream power dynamics, and dream of new, just worlds. There is power in rewriting our histories to reclaim our futures. There is also power in writing our futures to manifest the realities we want to walk into.
In this session we will rewrite dominant narratives and see what other worlds might be behind the cracks of a breaking world.
SESSION 12: VISIONARY FUTURES II
Within every human, only 5% is a conscious expression, while 95% is a subconscious expression. In this session, we will move through a multistep process that will unearth subconscious undesired belief systems and thought patterns that no longer serve us.
Through Creative Somatics, applied kinesiology, and the use of solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies we will create affirmations that counter those limiting systems so that our inner being begins to match the conscious self we desire.
SESSION 13: THE UNFOLDING
We will collectively close the portal we opened months before through a ceremony of remembrance. In this final session, we will harvest inspirational insights, bodily learnings, soulful commitments, and visionary applications.
Through an experiential process, we will witness and be witnessed as fellow journeyers of the Imaginal Expanse.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Alixa García is a Colombian-born, globally-raised, multidisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative somatic facilitator whose work centers intersectional liberatory pedagogy rooted in creative, embodied, and Indigenous wisdom.
With a 24-year background in creative strategies for social and environmental movements, social justice curriculum development, popular education, and creative somatic facilitation, Alixa's expertise has been instrumental in supporting scholars and students, justice leaders, community activists, state representatives, and the nonprofit sector to realize their potential in the areas of creative blueprinting and trans-local & global organizing. Her unique approach centralizes community practice, embodied creativity, and the role of imagination as an essential tool for liberation.
Alixa is a sought-after public speaker, visual artist, musician, 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 lead curriculum developer and somatic facilitator for the CS Fund Just Transitions 2024-2026 Fellowship Cohort. She was honored to represent North America as a poet at the Global Ethical Stocktake during COP30 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Belém, Brazil. Her forthcoming book will be published by North Atlantic in 2027. Read Alixa's full Bio
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