Radical Embodiment
Delighted to be offering a series of four workshops with the formidable and fantastic Jayne Johnson. This promises to be rich with aliveness, insight, inspiration and intimacy! If you’re wanting to open doorways to new possibilities come and join us. Let’s create something alive and inspired together. Read more below and feel free to reach out if you have questions or need more contact.
Fooling For Disobedience
Join me and the magical Laura Geiger for a five-day residential retreat in Claverack, New York – October 9-13, 2024
Join us for a five-day retreat following the Fool’s invitation to edge closer to life, surrender to a different kind of perception, and practice rebellion in the context of magic, possibility, and creative collaboration.
Fooling helps us engage with the ordinary miracle of being human together. We dare to show up without being impressive. Fooling is a site of inquiry, a stage, and a playground. You can read more about Fooling here.
Dominant culture promotes separation, enforces binaries, encourages widespread deadening and hopelessness, sets the individual as the fundamental unit of society, and orients us toward extraction, scarcity, and urgency. Resistance can take many forms. The Fool’s approach to disobedience is steeped in poetic imagination, pleasure, joy, curiosity, the whisper-quiet spaces of the secreted-away self, and the thunderous delight of not knowing – and doing anyway.
To follow the Fool is to follow Life. We begin to experience ourselves as emergent, as shapers of culture. We do this through performance, movement, play and game, meditation, contemplation, and a wide variety of creative and relational practices.
This retreat is an opportunity to co-create an environment through which a new landscape can emerge.
The venue
Welcome to the Won Dharma Center located in Claverack in upstate New York. The center is set in 426 acres of rolling hills and fields offering panoramic views of the majestic Catskill Mountains. There are walking trails and spaces to explore. Set in stunningly beautiful surroundings, the center consists of eco-friendly buildings designed with sensitivity to nature , providubg a tranquil and meditative atmosphere.
For directions and details of public transport visit: https://wondharmacenter.org/directions/
What’s included:
Program
Wednesday to Sunday facilitation with full days on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. There will also be free time to explore and integrate. You are also welcome to attend the center’s own regular meditations.
Accommodations
Single rooms (limited number) and double rooms available with en-suite sink and shared bath with adjacent room. Use of spacious lounge with a magnificent view of the Catskill Mountains. You can view rooms here.
Food
All meals and all day coffee/tea are included. Fresh, local ingredients, sourcing as much as possible from the center’s own garden, to make nourishing vegetarian food with a strong Korean influence.
Costs
single room: $1850
double room $1500
We welcome additional donations from those who are in a position to support others to access this work. All donations will go toward offering sponsored places on this retreat.
Please contact us by email if you would like to make an additional contribution.
Radical Embodiment
Delighted to be offering a series of four workshops with the formidable and fantastic Jayne Johnson. This promises to be rich with aliveness, insight, inspiration and intimacy! If you’re wanting to open doorways to new possibilities come and join us here! Let’s create something amazing together. Read more below and feel free to reach out if you have questions or need more contact.
Dark Matter – a Samhain Gathering
with Jayne Johnson and Alex E. Walker
An afternoon and evening of shamanic journeying, tarot, mask work, movement and dance.
Embrace the shadows, dance with darkness. Jayne Johnson and Alex Walker offer this opportunity to explore and solace and richness in the borderlands between worlds. Finding the magic of Samhain and allowing our mind/bodies to become portals to other worlds. A chance to meet with spirits and ancestors, expand awareness and if you dare encounter and learn to play with demons entities and your own shadow!
Saturday 28th October 1-7pm
Bring your own food to share for evening meal
Cost £65. Max 14 participants
Gilling West Village Hall, Richmond, North Yorkshire
For more information or to book please contact Jayne – mail@jaynejohnson.co.uk / 07913656889