Creative Collaboration with Land;
Working with the Four Directions
4 Part Series
with Laura Burns
Do you wish to deepen your dialogue with the living world through guidance from a grounded, earth-based perspective?
In this 4 part series, we will work with the four cardinal directions and explore them as a way of encountering and collaborating with land and the more-than-human in our creative practice.
Laura (she/they) is a queer artist, dancer and facilitator tending to the re-membrance of embodied knowing in order to collaborate with land and its life-giving, material-spiritual capacities. She is also a Family Constellations practitioner, developing a mode of constellations that works specifically with the land and more-than-humans; this informs all of her art making. She is currently working with natural dye and textiles as an extension of this enquiry. www.lauraburns.co.uk
£150*
Wednesday October 2 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Wednesday October 9 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Wednesday October 16 | 6pm - 8pm BST
Wednesday October 23 | 6pm - 8pm BST
All sessions are recorded and made available for a week following the course.
This also includes time for any feedback questions.
*Discounted prices available for those on low incomes.
SESSION CONTENT
The Four Directions have been a guidance system the world over - from Indigenous Turtle Island to the Celtic Cross, they are deeply anchored in the land itself, and as such, can facilitate a deep listening to land for our personal, creative and collective practices.
In each session we will work with one of the directions, starting in the South and moving to the East. Each direction has a different quality, a different facet of being, and different entry into ourselves and the world around us. Some of the different qualities we will explore include embodiment, collaborating with the muse, collaborating with the ancestors, and play/praise/mystery. We will work with simple embodiment and creative writing/drawing in the sessions themselves. Feel free to bring any other materials you like to work with to explore with. No experience necessary!
Each week participants will receive a guided meditation to listen to in their own time, and prompts to explore independently in their local place. This will enrich the sessions, so perhaps imagine giving a few hours to this solo enquiry each week and we will share our experiences with each other to deepen the terrain of the work.
The sessions will include creative prompts, guided imagery and simple embodied practices.
Please bring a yoga mat or blanket, notebook, colouring pens/pencils or any material you like to make marks with.
As a participant you can bring any aspect of creative practice to work with during the session and will leave with guided audio recordings to continue an inquiry in your own time.
You will gain invaluable tools for enlivening and deepening a creative enquiry with the natural world and your place in it.
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