photo — Frank Lin
Breath Wind Feather and Foliage
Dear Friends,
Breath, the great expander, co-creating the container with breath/wind/spirit/place, feathered friends, water bodies, and plant people – feeling in-spiration.
Join us as we arrive at the intersection, human and non-human, recognizing the one in the sameness, no separation, alive in the heartbeat of the earth and this breath we all share.
Saturday April 18 @ Noon to 4 pm
The Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve Chilliwack, 5200 Sumas Prairie Rd.
Walking the land with Great Blue Heron Reserve Executive Director Camille Coray (she/her/hers) as she introduces the reserve, the plants, and asks what the signs of a healthy ecosystem are. (Who are the keepers of these waters, this last open waterway of the Vedder River and Sumas wetlands.)
Incorporating site specific dialogue with place, moving Chi Kung meditation using all our senses, we explore branching patterns, circulatory and neurological systems- the shape of slow waters. Connecting with ancestors and generations to come.
Movement processing with eco somatics-. We will weave a dance and song together.
Continuing to process, expressing through scroll making, we draw freely from observations, feelings and our dialogues with more than human : s- curves, rivers, lungs, celtic knots of nests, roots, tree, feathered friend and fish.
Do we have to know everything? ~ Camille Coray Executive Director of Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. www.chilliwackblueheron.com (Maybe it is enough to “be” with everything? Attentive, listening for what is needed in each moment?)
We explore how the landscape becomes not only context but co-constituent – an active participant in the choreography of attention. The pedagogical intention is not to arrive at closure or solution, but to inhabit a space of layered inquiry. What becomes possible when we sense with rather than about? When movement is framed not as expression but as dialogue? When artistic processes become conduits for ecological solidarity?
~ Gemma Collard Stokes
Please register for this 10/13 SOC Event. Bring a lunch to eat in the tabled area under cover. Rain or Shine. Warm beverages are provided. Indoor space available if weather proves too inclement. Follow up with more details will be sent to those who register.
In solidarity,
Teresa Klein she/her, Tracie Stewart she/her and Camille Coray she/her Executive Director GBHNR