Rhythm for Inner Peace
Music is a tool, a key to altered consciousness. Learn to use rhythm—alone, or in groups—to change your state of mind. Fifth grade and up.
Kriya Yoga
Breathe for Life - Breath connects our physical and spiritual selves. Yoga literally means “to connect”. Guided meditation focuses our attention and breath to awaken and strengthen our energetic bodies. This internal work—sitting, listening, doing—needs no mats. Fifth grade and up.
Mindful Movement
Meditation is not only sitting in Lotus position, chanting “Om”. Mindfulness—focused attention—can be done walking, dancing, even boogie-ing. In this first-step class, a gentle guided practice will help get the stress off; this is a great way to go. Fifth grade and up.
Chakra Circle: Self-Centering with Story and Sound
Our energetic body is just as complex as our physical one, if not more. In this class we will discuss the purposes of our seven main Energy Centers, or Chakras. We will learn chants to energize and optimize their functions. We will also become acquainted with these archetypal Energies through myth, music, and dance.
The Rising Road: Mindfulness, Movement, and Self-Mastery
In our Journey of Life, cares and troubles burden us, and take root in our hearts, muscles, and bones. In this gentle workshop we will pair the Buddhist practice of Moving Meditation with ancient music of Earth-based peoples, creating both an internal and external focus to accelerate transformation.
Sacred Space, and Holy Highs: Go Within and Take to the Sky
Every child works real hard to get high! They swing, they spin, they laugh, they roll, they skip, they sing, they yell. All these activities are natural ways to upgrade your consciousness, increasing oxygen levels and releasing endorphins. In this just-for-fun workshop, we will explore and practice some of these All-Natural, All-Legal, and Reasonably Safe ways people all over the world have developed to make themselves High!
I Ching Oracle System
The Ancients recognized that each circumstance in Life goes through its own cycle of manifestation—from idea, to rough beginnings, to empowerment, to fruition, to decline. That cycle was depicted graphically through eight basic figures: the Trigrams—a binary trio of lines that chart the energy available for something to manifest to completion.
This system was used by China’s first documented dynasty, the Shang, and has been use ever since—an oracle in practice for thousands of years—that charts where in that process the topic of a given question lies.
In this experiential workshop, we will examine the energy and images the Trigrams, the scenarios they can depict, and how to use them to better understand our place in, and impact upon, the world.
Get Down & Let Go I: Spirit-Cleansing Dances from the African Tradition
Every culture in the world has troubles and stressors. Some relieve it with kneeling prayer; some sit in meditation; some dance it away. In this by-the-hand workshop, Súle Greg Wilson will teach you dance steps and movements from al over the Continent of Africa: North, West, Central, South, and East—he has witnessed and experienced; steps that ground you and open you up to releasing negativity and stepping into your Best Self.
Get Down & Let Go II: Personal Spirit-Cleansing from the African Tradition
Newly-imported Africans and their African American descendants had a lot to contend with. Others had dominion over their bodies, but they controlled their souls. To survive these stressors, they turned to their deep Spiritual technologies, creating ceremonies to keep them in touch with God and Spirit (Nyame/Olodumare), as well as rituals to expunge the negativity the captives were bombarded with on a daily basis.
In this experiential workshop, we will learn and practice the ritual use of song and dance to release and purge accumulated frustration and negativity. Come prepared to move, to shout, and to become fearless.
Shout and Juba: Down-Home/Antebellum Rituals of Self-Cleansing
Newly-imported Africans and their African American descendants had a lot to contend with. Others had dominion over their bodies, but they controlled their souls. To survive these stressors, they turned to their deep Spiritual technologies, creating ceremonies to keep them in touch with God and Spirit (Nyame/Olodumare), as well as rituals to expunge the negativity the captives were bombarded with on a daily basis.
In this experiential workshop, we will learn the origins and ritual use of Kumbaya, and Amen; we will Pat Juba to purge our souls; we will experience the power of the R.B. (Not R-AND-B!) and “Old Time Religion”; create our own RingShout, and more.
Music is a tool, a key to altered consciousness. Learn to use rhythm—alone, or in groups—to change your state of mind. Fifth grade and up.
Kriya Yoga
Breathe for Life - Breath connects our physical and spiritual selves. Yoga literally means “to connect”. Guided meditation focuses our attention and breath to awaken and strengthen our energetic bodies. This internal work—sitting, listening, doing—needs no mats. Fifth grade and up.
Mindful Movement
Meditation is not only sitting in Lotus position, chanting “Om”. Mindfulness—focused attention—can be done walking, dancing, even boogie-ing. In this first-step class, a gentle guided practice will help get the stress off; this is a great way to go. Fifth grade and up.
Chakra Circle: Self-Centering with Story and Sound
Our energetic body is just as complex as our physical one, if not more. In this class we will discuss the purposes of our seven main Energy Centers, or Chakras. We will learn chants to energize and optimize their functions. We will also become acquainted with these archetypal Energies through myth, music, and dance.
The Rising Road: Mindfulness, Movement, and Self-Mastery
In our Journey of Life, cares and troubles burden us, and take root in our hearts, muscles, and bones. In this gentle workshop we will pair the Buddhist practice of Moving Meditation with ancient music of Earth-based peoples, creating both an internal and external focus to accelerate transformation.
Sacred Space, and Holy Highs: Go Within and Take to the Sky
Every child works real hard to get high! They swing, they spin, they laugh, they roll, they skip, they sing, they yell. All these activities are natural ways to upgrade your consciousness, increasing oxygen levels and releasing endorphins. In this just-for-fun workshop, we will explore and practice some of these All-Natural, All-Legal, and Reasonably Safe ways people all over the world have developed to make themselves High!
I Ching Oracle System
The Ancients recognized that each circumstance in Life goes through its own cycle of manifestation—from idea, to rough beginnings, to empowerment, to fruition, to decline. That cycle was depicted graphically through eight basic figures: the Trigrams—a binary trio of lines that chart the energy available for something to manifest to completion.
This system was used by China’s first documented dynasty, the Shang, and has been use ever since—an oracle in practice for thousands of years—that charts where in that process the topic of a given question lies.
In this experiential workshop, we will examine the energy and images the Trigrams, the scenarios they can depict, and how to use them to better understand our place in, and impact upon, the world.
Get Down & Let Go I: Spirit-Cleansing Dances from the African Tradition
Every culture in the world has troubles and stressors. Some relieve it with kneeling prayer; some sit in meditation; some dance it away. In this by-the-hand workshop, Súle Greg Wilson will teach you dance steps and movements from al over the Continent of Africa: North, West, Central, South, and East—he has witnessed and experienced; steps that ground you and open you up to releasing negativity and stepping into your Best Self.
Get Down & Let Go II: Personal Spirit-Cleansing from the African Tradition
Newly-imported Africans and their African American descendants had a lot to contend with. Others had dominion over their bodies, but they controlled their souls. To survive these stressors, they turned to their deep Spiritual technologies, creating ceremonies to keep them in touch with God and Spirit (Nyame/Olodumare), as well as rituals to expunge the negativity the captives were bombarded with on a daily basis.
In this experiential workshop, we will learn and practice the ritual use of song and dance to release and purge accumulated frustration and negativity. Come prepared to move, to shout, and to become fearless.
Shout and Juba: Down-Home/Antebellum Rituals of Self-Cleansing
Newly-imported Africans and their African American descendants had a lot to contend with. Others had dominion over their bodies, but they controlled their souls. To survive these stressors, they turned to their deep Spiritual technologies, creating ceremonies to keep them in touch with God and Spirit (Nyame/Olodumare), as well as rituals to expunge the negativity the captives were bombarded with on a daily basis.
In this experiential workshop, we will learn the origins and ritual use of Kumbaya, and Amen; we will Pat Juba to purge our souls; we will experience the power of the R.B. (Not R-AND-B!) and “Old Time Religion”; create our own RingShout, and more.
