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COURSES
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self 2026
Jan 10, 2026 - Sun, May 31, 2026
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self is a pedagogy of interiority.On this journey, we axis our living wholeness. We work with decolonial and creative somatics to bring bodily awareness to our imagination praxis. We focus the attentional system and fortify the autonomic nervous system to help heal the mind/body split imposed by colonial modernity. We activate wakeful dreaming and use creative tools to do the vital work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed for these times.
Here, 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 the body.
By working consciously and creatively with this first sacred territory, we begin to disidentify from the inherited colonial language 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 are capable of co-regulation, 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, how do we re-enter the ceremony of life and awaken the Imaginal within? In times of collapse, how do we learn to fall together without falling apart?
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.
Come, sit with us in circles of wonder as we embark on this 6-month journey into embodied wisdom, creative practice, and beloved community.
Creativity is the antidote to destruction; when we create with intention, our creations become the invocation, and the space inside and between us, the sanctuary.
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self
Oct 12, 2024 -Mar 16, 2025
REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED! Hosted by Bioneers and Bioneers Learning
This year was the best yet, with an added in-person retreat for those who wanted to deepen the work. We traveled to Costa Rica, where we centered ceremony, and creative and embodied somatics for 10 days.
This year, we partnered with Bioneers Learning, supporting the crucial work they have been bringing forth for decades.
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self
Jan 13, 2024 - Jun 16, 2024
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED! Hosted by Education for Racial Equity.
The 2024 course was a complete success, with the most consistent feedback being “life changing” and “transformational.” Read TESTIMONIALS.
This year, we partnered with ERE and, through our commitment to cooperative economics, were able to redistribute $25,000 to:
- Favela Da Paz (Brazil)
- OTEPIC Permaculture (Kenya)
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self
Sep 24, 2022- Dec 10, 2022
The 2024 course was a complete success, with the most consistent feedback being “transformational.” Read TESTIMONIALS.
This year, we partnered with ERE and, through our commitment to cooperative economics, were able to redistribute to three Indigenous women and youth-led organizations that are protecting, with their lives and culture, the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia and Ecuador.
Through course tuition and matched donations through ERE’s Redistribution Fund, we were able to send a total of $45,000 to the Amazon, fortifying:
- Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuú (Colombia)
- Mujeres Amazónicas (Ecuador)
- Jovenes en Defensa de la Amazonia (Ecuador).