WILDNESS LABS are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Max Capacity: 15
Price: $10-20
Advance Registration is Required (If this is your first wildness lab, a brief check-in with the facilitator is required after registration)
Participants must arrive no later than 7:10 (doors will be locked after this time)
The intention of WILDNESS LABS is to explore wildness, spontaneity and full uninhibited expression of all of our parts. To allow energies and expressions to pour out of you without pushing them down or restricting them. To allow expressions that typically aren’t allowed in social space, or at all. Whatever emerges, we will let it out. Whatever comes, we will express it. This includes: sound, movement, dance, gestures and words.
Why? Because something incredible is afforded when EVERYTHING is allowed. Our psyches are able to let out and express what they always already contain. We are able to be with all the fluid content of our depths. We are able to let it all out. We are able to be radically authentic (beyond what we even thought possible). This kind of radical authenticity can be extremely cathartic and healing, but this container is after something more than just catharsis. To express fully and radically can be thought of as plumbing or mining our depths. While in these strange caverns of the soul, typically we find something there that is surprising, lovely, beautiful, strange and worth bringing home with us. Gold? Some other earthen rock? Some strange creature? Whatever we find (even nothingness can be interesting) can be carried back with us and explored and developed a bit further.
There are 3 intentions for these labs, listed in order of importance. It is crucial that everyone who comes is aligned with these intentions.
The primary intention is for individuals to explore their own uninhibited emotional states.
The secondary intention is for individuals to explore characters or archetypes that emerge when in this uninhibited state.
The tertiary intention is for individuals to explore how these characters or archetypes interact with others.
Each intention leads to the next. One can only explore with others if one is able to truly tap into one’s own authentic emotions and then let characters emerge; otherwise, the play will be surface, theatrical or akin to comedy improv. This is not a space where we intend to have constant engagement or play with others (although that may occur). This is a space where we aim to let what is already there emerge - connecting inside of us to see what is there, needing to burst forth. It is recommended that we pause and continually return to our individual authentic energetic movements and upwellings to help connect with the primary intention and our own unique beautiful wildness.
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