Play – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png Play – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Social Permaculture Playshop: Clowning Theory and Praxis for Earth Activists http://permacultureconvergence.com/social-permaculture-playshop-clowning-theory-and-praxis-for-earth-activists/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:47:59 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=11153 Let’s play: tap into the wisdom of your body as a force for activist self-care and cultural critique.

You’ve heard that these times are dire and urgent, right? So isn’t it time we had some fun? Back due to popular demand, this hands- hearts- and bodies-on workshop returns for the second year to explore play and sacred clowning as tools for social permaculture. Endless urgency and intellectual seriousness are symptoms of a mechanistic, burn-out activist culture. Social sustainability requires different skills than those practiced within the Western capitalist paradigm. Forget those creepy clowns from childhood nightmares – come learn how to use the craft of clowning and play to bring life and joy into our movements. Play facilitates honest cultural critique and creates space for creative alternatives. And, it’s very fun. Notes: No experience necessary. Come especially if you have no experience.

Presented By: Annie-Rose London

]]> Fireside Chat with your Neighborhood Herbalist Dominatrix http://permacultureconvergence.com/fireside-chat-with-your-neighborhood-herbalist-dominatrix/ Mon, 21 May 2018 21:14:22 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=9510 An Exploration of Herbal Allies and Practices for Cathartic Sexual Experience

Are you ready to explore the brilliant wealth of pleasure and knowledge that’s stored in your body? What world of possibilities awaits as we dive into the deep recesses of the psyche and massage our knottiest kinks. In this rich conversation we will discuss (and play with)

X Herbal allies and formulas for cathartic release and transformation
X Techniques for creating an immaculate container strong enough to explore your deepest desires
X Methods to integrate release and begin anew

This is a safe space and all discussed in class is completely confidential.

Presented By: Alexandra Hudson

]]> Music As Medicine In Our Time http://permacultureconvergence.com/music-as-medicine/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:55:14 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5716 Lydia Violet (of Ayla Nereo band) will lead us through an intimate experience with Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects (WTR), a set of teachings and group exercises that help build inner resilience, fierce compassion, wisdom, and creative responses to challenging eco-socio-political times. As we move through both the dangers and awakenings we currently face as a people, we learn tools, meditations, and concepts that we can rest into, connecting to our desires to be effective allies to both planet and people. Hearts opened by grief and celebration want to sing their songs of longing, despair, reckoning, and gentle loving kindness. We bring in music of revolution, transformation, and celebration as we navigate our questions and our solutions for this time.

This work helps cultivate healing and resilience in our hearts and psyches as we continue to show up for the heartbreak and desecration of our world. Showing up in our time is inherently taxing on our empathy, our faith in humanity, and our energy to show up for our communities. When we acknowledge this, we can rest into this shared experience and that our pain is born out of our still giving a damn, which is a holy feeling in our time. The combination of Joanna’s work and music offer a beautiful set of tools for growing our inner resources to stay engaged in our world, and somatically experience our belonging in community and in the living body of Earth.

Saturday Oct 7| 11am| Willow Grove

Presented By: Lydia Violet Harutoonian

]]> Lydia Violet Harutoonian http://permacultureconvergence.com/lydia-violet-harutoonian/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:36:44 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5711 Lydia Violet Harutoonian, M.A, has a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS. She has studied closely with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 8 years, learning how we can metabolize our pain for the world into profound communion with our human and more-than-human communities. She is also an accomplished musician who is deeply inspired by folk, blues, and protest music traditions. In her solo project she combines fiddle, banjo, and her soulful voice to offer a soul-folk revival experience. In the past year she has collaborated with Rising Appalachia, Climbing Poetree, Ayla Nereo, and the wonderful women of MaMuse. Two years ago she pioneered, “Music As Medicine In Our Time” with Penny Livinghgston at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA. In this workshop she brings together facilitation of Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects” with exploring movement music that nourishes resilience, promotes justice, and facilitates healing in our communities.

 

2017 Workshop:

Music As Medicine In Our Time

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