a five-day residential retreat in Claverack, New York
October 9-13, 2024
Join me and the magical Laura Geiger 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.
To find out more and register for your place click here or check out the events and courses page.
