Alchemical Movement Ceremony

# Alchemical Movement Ceremony

※ Cultivating embodiment to meet life expansively ※

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(registration ends Friday 9/12 at noon)

Fellow Deep Feelers and Change Makers,

We face unprecedented times and need resiliency practices that reconnect us to the depths of our collective resilience so we can meet life expansively.

We are honored to invite you to our in-person Alchemical Movement Ceremony on Saturday September 13th, 12-5pm in Petaluma, Ca. This is a Cannabis optional (but highly recommended) somatic embodiment retreat. No movement experience necessary :)

During the first half of the ceremony Lani will guide a somatic movement exploration - guidance will not dictate specific movements/postures, but rather support movers into deep, reverent relationship with the dance between the medicine and the body, cultivating the ability to deeply witness and follow/allow the movement processes that arise.

Chris will provide an alchemically influenced music set with intentionally curated selections combined with live musical elements as co-guide to the movement experience. During the second half of the ceremony participants will be invited to lay down with an optional eyeshade to journey inward and surrender to musical soundscapes, integrating the movements that arose.

Towards your embodied resilience,
-Lani & Chris

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• Set aside 5hrs for your own self care
• Gather in circle to set intentions: what are you moving with these days?
• Tend to your body through a guided Alchemical Movement practice
• Lay down and journey to live-mixed musical soundscapes
• Snack and integrate in community

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“Alchemical Movement” integrates Lani’s extensive education in somatic psychotherapy and personal somatospiritual practices over the past two decades into an offering for the community to support decolonizing the body through transformative re-earthing practices, cultivating integral collective resilience and authenticity.

Overlapping the 7 stages of alchemy, 7 directions and corresponding primary Somatic movement influences:
Authentic Movement/ Continuum, Gyrokenesis/ Somatic Experiencing, Ganja Yoga/ Body-Mind Centering, Developmental Somatics/ Butoh/ Ecstatic Dance/ Myofascial Unwinding.

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*CannaCocoon offers a neuro-variant affirming, body positive, LGBTQQI and BIPOC safe/ brave space- come unmask your authenticity in beloved community*

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Architect a body as vast as space...
“One can contemplate that one’s entire body, or indeed the whole world, consists of consciousness. All the tissues of the body: space, consciousness…

Architect a body as vast as space. It can help day to day life tremendously, give us a wider, broader perspective, not just mentally but bodily so that life can be met expansively. Contractive situations when the tendency is to want to tighten and brace and repel, can be met expansively…

Visions of spacious luminous humming bodies, the energies of the elements are embodied, the vibrational power of syllables are embodied… body is a realm, to be embodied is to understand, feel into and eventually architect the individual bodymind in a way that makes it more possible to merge into the great body of nature.

So the question becomes: how is my body meeting the vastness? How is the vastness alive in my body? In a world where anxieties spur energetic contractions, do I still allow myself to soar? Soar we must, soar we must, how can we see clearly into our lives unless we go high?”

*The Emerald Podcast #72: “Embodiment Means Being Torn Apart and Flying Away” with Joshua Michael Shrei
....so that life can be met expansively

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Chris and Lani are neuro-complex, credentialed psychedelic guides with collective histories in authenticity, embodiment and transformation. They have been partners for over twenty years and you can learn more about their professional identities here.