Election week was even harder than I anticipated, and as I write this, we’re still waiting to see if anyone from the GOP starts to do the right thing and acknowledge the Biden/Harris win.
And because election week had me totally unable to focus on anything but the state of the free world, I’ve changed the start date of the Grief workshop.
We will now start a week later, Sunday, November 22nd.
Go here to register.
In this workshop, we’ll use a wide variety of tools to first face the many types and levels of grief we’ve been living with and then (begin to) transmute that energy into a fuel that can be used to power action. This work can happen because we are joybody… because our essential nature is meant for something other than all the anger and anxiety we’ve been living with this year.
And though that joybody nature can feel very exhausted, very covered up, almost to the point of being gone, it’s still there. It just needs to be tended to — in a variety of ways.
We’ll be using: therapeutic joybody movement art (very guided and not at all what you think of as dance), visual arts (whichever is your favorite — drawing, painting, taking photos), writing, and ritual.
We’ll be doing all of this, of course, in community, a vital ingredient to the work.
Starting Sunday, November 22nd.
And ending the week of Sunday, December 13th, which concludes with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or the great compassionate mother.
I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.
You will need either a large scarf or about 2 yards of dark fabric.
You’ll also want to gather writing and art materials (again, whichever medium you like so it might just be the camera on your phone!), candles, and anything that might be included on an altar (stones, pictures, flowers, symbols, whatever calls to you).
You must be connected to me on Facebook as we’ll use a closed and private group on there for a primary “classroom.”
You must be able to use Skype and you need to connect to me on there (you can find me and wave to me via my email — christineserfozo@gmail.com).
You need access to shared music lists. I’ll do these via both Spotify AND YouTube.
PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR TECHNOLOGY before the first Sunday evening get together: BE ABLE TO RUN BOTH SKYPE AND YOUR MUSIC AT THE SAME TIME. This is vital.
This workshop is meant as a STARTING POINT for work that we all need to be doing into the new year. So you’ll have breakthroughs, surely, during our time together, but you’re meant to take the bits and pieces and techniques that really speak to you and continue using them for perhaps even the whole of 2021 if not a good month after we finish.
I want you to feel more hopeful than you’ve felt in a long time by the end of our time.
I want you to feel like you have energy for action.
I want you to have more clarity for next steps.
And again, I want you to have an arsenal of tools that you can continue to explore.
Each Sunday evening (or on your own time) we’ll meet on Skype for 60 to 75 minutes starting at 5:30 PM (EASTERN TIME).
THESE SKYPE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED BUT…. BUT!!!!! THE RECORDING ONLY STAYS AVAILABLE FOR THAT WEEK. So you can be with us live or you can catch up and watch when you can but WITHIN THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
Then throughout the week, I’ll be posting content regarding visual arts, writing prompts, and ritual building exercises. (This content will remain up for one month following the conclusion of the workshop.)
Again, I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.
Nope. JOYBODY is a way of living.
Remember what I said: it’s not a product or a goal.
JOYBODY is a process. We live FROM joybody by listening deeply TO joybody.
And that means joybody is everything about being in these bodies and in these lives.
What we eat. What we wear. How we treat others. How we engage in our communities. The work we do. Our relationships in every part of our lives.
If you’ve been around me for more than a couple of years, you know that I can never quite NAME the work I do. Until recently…when I woke up one morning a couple of weeks ago with this in my head…
JOYBODY.
And as someone smart in my orbit remarked, that name has been there all along.
Yes. It has. I can remember the very first training I took at Kripalu and this idea of accessing our original joy nature? It popped out of my mouth by the end of that week.
When I watch you, even though you might not be capable of feeling it yet, that’s what I see… your essential nature as a joybody.
A being of love and compassion and a strength you likely have forgotten.
But through our movement experiments and our shared rituals, we can remember.
We can re-member:
We are not a product or a result or someone's "after" photo. There is nothing wrong with us. We are not "over" or "under" weight. We are not "inflexible." We are not someone "with two left feet."
We are not a THING in any way, and we are not, therefore, to be somehow qualified, quantified, or categorized.
We are a PROCESS... and we are ever-evolving.
WHERE: ONLINE, via Skype
TIME: Mondays, 5:30 to 6:45 PM (Eastern Time)
DATES: October 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 9, 16
HOW: For this session, you need to also be familiar with/able to use Spotify or YouTube ALONG WITH Skype. It’s free. I’ll be providing a music list BEFORE each class. While I’m teaching, ALL MICS MUST BE OFF, except for mine. You’ll be listening to the music at your end (providing more volume and clarity) AND you’ll still be able to hear me (I’ll be using an earbud for my own music.)
MISSED CLASS: If you miss a class, I will gladly provide the prompts for that music list in writing up to two times per session.
COST: $85
According to yoga tradition and philosophy, we are in a time period when things are very skewed. (And they don’t just mean 2020.)
We’re in a time when the typical spiritual practices are either too difficult for people to comprehend or just not effective because of the depth of despair and disbelief and disconnect that humans are experiencing.
During this time, tantra yoga practices are what humans need. They’re concrete. They’re easy to grasp. They’re grounded in the physical world more than any of the others. They’re effective QUICKLY.
And so we have Kundalini yoga.
And I DO believe that this is the yoga we need right now.
We need a yoga that can quickly affect our mind and heart and spirit via body practices that are accessible to all bodies with barely any modification.
This yoga clarifies immediately. Even a short practice, takes away my brain fog.
This yoga clears the heart immediately. No matter what’s on the news, after a quick Kundalini practice I feel like I can handle life again.
This yoga activates the body powerfully. I feel like a different person after a mere ten minutes and I feel ready to tackle whatever needs to be tackled.
This is the yoga of the heart based warrior.
PLEASE READ ALL THE HOWS AND WHATS BELOW CAREFULLY!
You can also REPEAT the material as much as you want. Each class will stay up in the group for the entire month and a bit beyond.
You also have access to ME. You can ask for help ANY TIME in the group.
MUSIC will be provided in the group prior to the class via Spotify and YouTube lists.
You’ll be added to a “Morning Quickie Yoga” PRIVATE group.
TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.
ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.
COST: $70 for 6 weeks of 2 quickie classes
TIME: 10:30 AM
Tuesdays: October 13, 20, 27 and November 3, 10, 17
Thursdays: October 15, 22, 29 and November 5, 12, 19