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Upcoming Shows & Workshops

October 2021

Oct 06 2021

A Course in Embodied Alchemy

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Oct 17 2021

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

Oct 28 2021 - Dec 09 2021

Fall Storytelling Intensive

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November 2021

Nov 21 2021

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

December 2021

Dec 19 2021

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

January 2022

Jan 16 2022

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

February 2022

Feb 13 2022

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

March 2022

Mar 13 2022

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

April 2022

Apr 10 2022

Regenerate – A Monthly Generative Poetry Workshop

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Registration is still open for joining me and @tri

Registration is still open for joining me and @trinitythehuman on a fun & deep & moving adventure into the embodied psychic wilds - and as of now there are two spots left. The course begins on October 6th, on the new moon in Libra, archetype of beauty and harmonious relationships and balance and justice, ruled by the heart goddess Venus. I trust the whole experience will be an exquisite homage to all that ✨It’s also a real commitment to yourself and your process and will only be right for who it’s right for right now, right? 😂 If you’re curious and haven’t reached out yet, now is the time. DM me here or Trinity and we will find a time to check in about it. The last image btw is of my back patio off my yard, it’s where I’ve been seeing clients in person all summer and I just wanted to capture this moment in time for my potted friends. The lemon verbana has wowed me especially, she keeps growing & climbing with Dr. Seussian elegance, printing more leaves, she’s now the tallest of the crew, swoon!! Anyway happy Friday everyone, happy last weekend of summer actual 🙌🏼

Friends! Especially writers & people who love writ

Friends! Especially writers & people who love writers! Starting October 17, I will be teaching a monthly generative poetry workshop – a 7-month series called Regenerate. Maybe you already know that I am a poet, & that I wrote a guide on writing poetry called Glitter in the Blood - almost ten years ago now - put out by the ferocious @writebloodypublishing. A few years after that book came out I followed my curiosity about creativity and the unconscious mind all the way to a PhD program in depth psychology with a specialization in somatic studies. My research ended up being at the intersection of neurobiology and poetry and trauma healing, exploring the impact of trauma on the voice and expression and what poets know about how to work with that, and I even coined a new theory, a theory of somatic psychopoetics, that offers an explanation for how embodied, poetic modes of languaging can bridge the conscious/unconscious divide. Basically - what poets know and could teach therapists and scientists about healing & magic. I also trained as a somatic trauma therapist, and then an apocalypse happened, or several in a row. It was a fortunate thing, to have learned how to be with myself and other people when things get dark and unravely. I spend a lot of my work life now supporting amazing humans who have been through several levels of hell and are living with nervous systems that show it. Together we learn what their systems might need, and we create the conditions that allow for neuroplasticity and the restoration of some ease and capacity. Regenerate is me playing with integrating all of this in a new way in a poetry workshop setting. Each workshop explores a foundational concept or move from trauma healing– resourcing, titration, pendulation, etc. – and then we get to experiment with a guided writing practice based on that move. Workshops will happen live on Sundays at 3pm PST on the Zoom astral plane, with recordings of the teaching and guided writing available the following day. The first one will be Sunday, October 17th on the topic of Vortexes and Counter Vortexes, and all the details are up on my website (link in bio!) I would love to see you & write with you!

I am reading two books right now from local PNW le

I am reading two books right now from local PNW legends, and they are so so good. The first is Heart Radical - A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging by the incredible Anne Liu Kellor (@anneliukellor), I got myself a kindle copy and it’s 😭❤️ Anne’s guided exploration of words and memories and geographies as portals is challenging and pleasurable and profound, an generous model of how to witness deeply and be witnessed deeply. Wow.

The second is a book called Loaners: The Making of a Street Library and it’s written by Ben Hodgson and Laura Moulton, a patron of Portland’s street library and its scrappy street-librarian founder. It’s a woven memoir - every other “chapter” is in the other voice, so you move between perspectives and worlds, and it feels like such an enjoyable to absorb a story that is bigger than any one person and happens over a lot of life and time. It documents the unexpected growth of an art project into an organization - @street.books - which is so inspiring and instructive. I am loving all the behind the scenes peaks into the inner world and experience of Laura and Ben, I don’t want to say too much and spoil it, you will love it. You should go straight to the website for the press Perfect Day Books and they give you the option to buy one / give one - so when you buy a book, a book is also donated to a patron, and I admit I would do this a lot if more presses offered this and be poorer but richer 💸

Happy waxing half moon friends 🌓 styled by Sagi

Happy waxing half moon friends 🌓 styled by Sagittarius, the expander of consciousness and perspective. I wanted to share my excitement for tonight’s streaming premiere on Hulu of Y the Last Man (@y_fxonhulu), based on Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s wild post-apocalyptic work. There’s an incredible group of actors and artists - including the gorgeous and devastating @amberrosetamblyn channeling some power wickedness. Let’s just recognize - all the episodes were directed by women, and the production had a significant number of female department heads, including both DPs, the production designer, costume designer, casting director, editors, stunt coordinator and more - all of it led by the incredible show runner Eli Clark. That’s huge 🔥🔥🔥and of course fitting for a story in which conditions suddenly arise that force a world wide experiment in double X chromosome leadership. I can’t wait to be entertained and scandalized and moved 🙌🏼

As of today, we are two weeks away from the fall e

As of today, we are two weeks away from the fall equinox 🍂all the fall workshop offerings are now live on my website. There are some poetry workshops and a storytelling intensive, and I am very excited about those, but I want to take a moment today to be proud of this new gem that is a cocreation of mine and the incredible Trinity Capili (@trinitythehuman). This is the only long-form workshop container I am offering in this next cycle – an 8-month course in Embodied Alchemy that begins in October. It will cover essential philosophies and practices of ritual somatic meditation as an aid in personal healing and transformation, which, IMO, is where it’s at. The course includes weekly readings and talks, somatic experientials and practices, and a small-group process group to bring your feelings and insights for witnessing – plus a monthly one-on-one session so you receive some personal attention and assistance with whatever you’re working with. You might already be doing these kinds of explorations in therapy, in your yoga practice, in the art studio that is wherever-you-are, with plant medicines, and it just might be time to join forces with a group of tender radicals and get some exquisite witnessing and containment. I would be honored to spend this kind of quality time with you! And if you don’t know Trinity, wow, regardless of whether you join this workshop you should check out CreaturePace and her work in decompression and body meditation, you should just have that resource on tap as we head into this next cycle. If your spidey sense is tingling, go to my website to get all the facts and feel into it further. And if youve never worked with me before, I recommend you get in touch quick-like to schedule a pre-game drop-in so we can see if it’s the right fit. As of now there are 4 spots left, and registration will stay open until October 6th, the new moon in Libra, or until the boat is full. Links are in my bio and registration is fully live on thecultofmindy.com.

Shana tova to all who celebrate ✨ the universe b

Shana tova to all who celebrate ✨ the universe begins again, and we begin again.

Art by Moebius

Happy new moon friends! This one arrives at 5:51 p

Happy new moon friends! This one arrives at 5:51 pm PST, at 14° of Virgo, the harvest goddess and high priestess of system and form. Arriving on Labor Day here in the U.S., it feels like a moment of physical and spiritual rest, a time to analyze our personal life systems and attend to any needed clean-up, reorganizing, upgrades. This new moon wants to get us ready for the labor to come.

I woke up remembering a dream I had back in the spring of 2016 (I keep a dream journal in the notes function of my smartphone so I have a searchable archive of my dreams, which is a very Virgo thing to do). In this dream I am in a class on alchemy, and I’m trying to play one of Beethoven’s sonatas – the Pathetique – on a toy piano, just as the teacher of the class had done. I had a lot of associations to the dream – I was a classically trained pianist, and this was the last song I learned to play on the piano before injuring myself and having to stop. I was in a class IRL on alchemy at the time, with Jungian analyst and authentic movement facilitator Tina Stromsted, and it was waking some things up in me. But what really struck me about this dream was the feeling of trying/struggling to play this enormous piece of music on this tiny toy instrument.

I asked myself the question – where in my life am I trying to play Beethoven on a toy piano? Where in my life do I not have the containers or instruments or tools required for the big work I am trying to pull off? The answer was: basically everywhere. Everywhere in my life. I now think of 2016 as the year of commitment. The year I was learning about the extent of my half-heartedness and how to knock that shit off. The year I decided to finally, wholeheartedly commit to myself, my relationships, my life’s work. If this is hitting home, take some time today to just stop, find some cushions or grass, take a breath on purpose, and reflect. What do you already know about who you are, and the work you are here to do? How far have you already come? What might you need now to get ready for the next stage? Or to get ready to get ready? What do you need to demonstrate to yourself that you are all in?

Cellular artforms by David Goodsell

We lost Jack Hirschman, he departed under the high

We lost Jack Hirschman, he departed under the high tide of the full moon. He was a joyful communist, a trouble making mystic, poet laureate of San Francisco, dear teacher and dearer friend to all poets, a real heart-can-opener of a man. Pictured here with the one he loved especially, the radiant Agneta Falk Hirschman, appropriate for one whose legacy will be one of ecstatic love. We are mourning Jack, but also feeling light, and you did that for us, you lived such a magnificent life, we can’t help but feel good at the close. Safe travels professor ✨✨✨

Happy full moon friends - this is the second full

Happy full moon friends - this is the second full moon in Aquarius, the cosmic water bearer, and it’s closing out Leo Season with a conjunction to Jupiter and some bountiful doubling vibes. The peak moment is at 5:03 am PST in the dark early hours of Sunday morning at 29° of Aquarius. The Sabian symbol for this degree point is A Butterfly Emerging from a Chrysalis, so it’s like that. It’s not hyperbolic to say this marks a significant turn in whatever’s been cooking in the part of our charts ruled Aquarius - a stage or phase is now complete. We are emerging from the chrysalis in a new form - but it’s likely we don’t really know what that means yet. Our wings are still wet, we’ve never heard of flying, and all this real change might be freaking us out.

If you’re feeling the mood for some full moon ritualing, this one might respond well to deep contemplation and journaling. Aquarius is fixed air, expansive mind, imagination in full flight, intuition crystallizing as thought forms. What’s been transforming in your life since March 21, 2020? What‘s starting to solidify? What still feels mysterious? What questions are you feeling less afraid to ask? If you’re aware of any beliefs or ego positions that are holding you back, practice letting them go, act as if you have. See how it feels in your body. Take some time to coin some antidote beliefs and supportive affirmations and see how those feel. It’s a good time to accept that there’s no turning back now, and to properly acknowledge our growth. We have a little longer with the moon bathing in all this angelic Kuan Yin starlight, and the protection of Saturn, and the generous support of Daddy Warbucks Jupiter. Let’s not waste it ✨

Biblically accurate angel moonlighting as a helicopter via @evolveandascend

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