In the face of compounding historical and present-day traumas, environmental collapse, and chronic uncertainty, we know that we need something radically different. Yet, many of us feel the pain of not knowing where to begin. In this course, we view the wound as the portal and grief as the ceremony as we center the role of imagination in times of collapse. 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.

On this journey, we center our living wholeness. We use creative somatics to bring bodily awareness to our imagination praxis, learn to work with attention-intensive practices and the autonomic nervous system, activate wakeful dreaming, employ creative writing and visual art, work with solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies, and many more creative outlets to do the important work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed for these times. We recenter the Earth while bringing into focus our cosmic responsibility. We integrate creativity as a regular practice in our lives and the means by which we commune.

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 fall without falling apart? Come, let us sit in circles of wonder and creative devotion as we embark on this 6-month personal and collective journey. Together, we will form beloved community, sharing our experiences and learning from each other. Creativity is the antidote to destruction; when we create with intention, our creations become the invocation, and the space inside and between us becomes the sanctuary.

“Alixa García’s Course on the Imaginal took all of us on a grand journey into our imaginations, into our individual and collective trauma and grief, into the arms of our ancestors, into a collective, collaborative vision of possibility and world-building. It was, in a few words, magic alchemy in a time of collective and individual grief, fear, and loss. 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. Whole universes opened up inside of me, and I was so honored to witness whole universes open up in my fellow imaginals too. Alixa is a magical alchemist of the most unique and wonderful order. Pure poetry!”

– Camas Davis, 2022 Imaginal

Course runs from October 12, 2024 -March 16, 2025