Live Online Course with Alixa García
A COURSE ON THE IMAGINAL
Cultivating the Visionary Self
Jan 24, 2026 - May 31, 2026
A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self is a pedagogy of interiority.
Through creative somatics and a decolonial framework, we bring bodily awareness to our imagination practice. We learn to attune the body and focus the attentional system by fortifying the autonomic nervous system, thereby helping to heal the mind/body split imposed by colonial modernity. We center our living wholeness. We activate wakeful dreaming and use creative tools to do the vital work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed in these times.
On this journey, we begin with the body. Our body is the first territory we can liberate. For most of us, our body is the only territory in which we have complete sovereignty. We cannot get entirely out of the systems of oppression that minimize life, but we can expel them from this first and sacred territory.
By working consciously and creatively with the body, we begin to disidentify from the inherited colonial ethos that has captured our thoughts and imagination. By having a robust imagination practice that is rooted in bodily awareness, we can open new liberatory pathways for the self and the collective.
A regulated body connected to imagination is more likely to bring forth a new vision. A regulated body can also readily co-regulate with others. Once we can co-regulate, we can begin to TerraRegulate. A term I’ve developed to speak to the crucial and urgent work of co-regulating with the Earth.
As we move into the heart of the 6th mass extinction, what is the role of imagination in times of collapse? How do we re-enter the ceremony of life and awaken the Imaginal within? How do we learn to fall together without falling apart?
Creativity is the antidote to destruction; on this journey, we explore and exercise our creative muscle and find in nature the ultimate creative force as her powerful teachings serve our awakening. When we encounter and encourage the wild dance of the artist within, the creative self becomes part of the visionary collective.
You're invited to sit with us in circles of wonder as we embark on this 5.5-month journey into embodied wisdom, awareness-centered imagination practice, and beloved community. Come, reset the body and develop a consistent, creative, and ceremonial practice for the times ahead.
THE FRAMEWORK
9 Course Pillars
50 Hours
Live online Facilitation
20 Hours+
Individual practice time through Pods and Paths
3 Paths
Creative, Ritual, and Breath & Mindfulness.
Deepen Your Journey: In-Person Retreat in Peru (June)
After completing the online course, participants are invited to continue the work in person amidst the sacred landscapes of Peru. Together, we will get closer to the Earth, ourselves, and each other through high Andean Ceremonies led by Claudia Cuentas , and deepen our somatic and creative practice guided by Alixa García.
This optional retreat is available exclusively to course participants at an additional cost.
Come root the teachings in the land, the body, and the spirit that holds us.
“After decades of doing anti-racist work, Alixa’s course showed me how to enter entirely new creative, imaginal dimensions of self, community, and spirit. This was one of the most beautiful, moving, collective and individual journeys I have ever been on.”
– Camas Davis, 2022 Imaginal
Join Us
REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 15, 2026
IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION DETAILS
Integration happens between the main sessions on an individual and group level. For this reason, all participants will have access to a Creative Path, a Ritual Path, and a Breath and Mindfulness Path. The Paths rotate every six weeks so that participants have the opportunity to walk all three Paths during the 5.5-month journey.
The Paths offer Expansions (or practices) that can be done as a solo journeyer or in a small Pod between the main sessions, deepening and expanding your journey. This is an invitation. You only need to participate in a Path or a Pod if you wish to, though we highly encourage it.
Pods meet once between sessions. Participants in each Pod will determine when and how long they meet.
The Course will run from January 24 - May 31, 2026, with classes taking place from 9 am - 12:30 pm (Pacific Time) see full schedule.
Classes will be held via Zoom. The sessions will be experiential, requiring a live presence, and will not be recorded.
Limited space. 28 seats available.
FREE INFO SESSION
For those who are interested in going on this journey, and would like more information before committing, Alixa is offering 3 FREE, 45-minute info sessions with centering practice.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
5 PM to 5:45 PM PST / 8 PM to 8:45 PM EST REGISTER HERE
Sunday, December 21, 2025
9:30 AM to 10:15 AM PST / 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM EST REGISTER HERE
Monday, December 29, 2025
9 AM to 9:45 AM PST / 12 PM to 12:45 PM EST REGISTER HERE
THE EXCHANGE
$2957
Solidarity Rate
$3640
Base Rate
$4550
Sustainability
A Course on the Imaginal centers Solidarity Economics. In the past we have supported:
- Mujeres Amazónicas (Ecuador)
- Jóvenes por la Defensa de la Amazonia (Ecuador)
- Mujeres de Wayú (Colombia)
- Favela Da Paz (Brasil)
- OTEPIC Permaculture (Kenya)
Over the first four years we have given $70,000 in contributions through course tuition and matched donations to frontline defenders. For the 2026 cycle, 15% of course proceeds will be dedicated to supporting frontline communities and social impact initiatives. As our community grows, so does our collective contribution.
SCHOLARSHIP
SCHEDULE
Sessions are LIVE. No Recordings.
COAXING THE ARTIST WITHIN | JAN 24 (Saturday)
In this first session, we begin to create our container for the journey ahead. We explore our whys and set intentions, begin to meet one another and develop a shared language, introduce the Trickster, explore and familiarize ourselves with the digital tools we will use throughout the course, and dive into our first Creative Somatic practice: Coaxing the Artist Within.
MAKING A HOME FOR INTUITION | JAN 25 (Sunday)
With our intuition, we can sense our way through any darkness. As we enter the 6th mass extinction, growing an intimate relationship with our intuitive body becomes a powerful and essential practice in troubling times.
In this session, we activate the Soma, our living wholeness. We will engage in a multi-step somatic practice to bring greater sensitivity to our entire being and, through this process, identify the home of our intuition. By recognizing where our intuition is rooted, we can readily access it, thereby deepening our trust in it. We will leave this session with expanded capacity for nuance and tools to broaden self-awareness and self-regulation.
SOUL COMMITMENTS | FEB 8 (Sunday)
What is your soul commitment in times of collapse? In this session, we activate the body through Creative Somatic practices that awaken our multidimensionality. From here, we unearth, fine-tune, and root our soul commitment within the activated Soma. This session serves to quiet the racing mind, tap into the sensing body, and activate the energetic body, offering powerful insights and a way to fortify one's inner constitution and soul direction in troubling times.
THE WOUND IS THE PORTAL | FEB 22 (Sunday)
In this session, I offer a lecture on the connection between the heart, body, and mind through the complementary study of neuroplasticity, epigenetics, the autonomic nervous system, and the subconscious and conscious states, to better understand the science of trauma and the power of bodily, creative, and awareness-centered healing modalities. We will learn a powerful somatic emotional release practice to ground the lecture.
GRIEF AS CEREMONY | MAR 8 (Sunday)
Grief is a ceremony, a site for another kind of power. In this session, we will move through a ceremony where grief will find a tender home, allowing it to land and transmute. Though each person’s journey will be an individual and safe undertaking, the collective element of moving through the process together weaves a broader net. We will move through experiential, creative, and somatic practices to arrive there.
ANCESTRAL TENDING I | MAR 15 (Sunday) 4-HOUR SESSION
This session is a ritual of connection and tending to our ancestral lineages through a series of somatic and attention-intensive practices that strengthen ancestral bonds while reclaiming our sovereign relationship with those who came before us. We will move through a guided somatic and ceremonial process as creative practice.
ANCESTRAL TENDING II | MAR 22 (Sunday) 4-HOURS SESSION
What is the healing story that wants to come through you? What future ancestor will you be? Through Creative Somatics and attention-intensive practices, creative writing, and individual and collective processes, we will answer these questions for ourselves and begin the work of becoming good future ancestors, while we are still alive.
SPIRIT TENDING | APR 12 (Sunday)
When was the last time you had an intentional full-body conversation with the part of you that connects to all livingness and listened? In this session, you will commune with your spirit self. We will work with Solfeggio frequencies and engage in a series of experiential, creative, and embodied exercises to initiate the process of creating a visual map of this subtle and potent conversation.
SPIRIT TENDING II | APR 19 (Sunday)
A rooted decolonial process first welcomes the spirit back into the self and opens doors for its return. This session is dedicated to that arrival. It is a meeting with the deeper parts of ourselves that require our slow movement, our non-dominance, and open-faced inquiry to reveal what is calling us back. In this session, we will utilize internal and external gaze practices, the power of sacred geometry, and visual art to unearth the indwelling of our spirit-self.
THE ROLE OF WONDER IN TIME OF COLLAPSE | MAY 3 (Sunday)
One of the powerful things about wonder is that we can easily become catalysts for awe and delight in one another. In times of collapse, this small opening into the unexpected becomes a practice in creating beloved community. In this session, we will create a container of wonder that will ripple outward to our kin.
VISIONARY FUTURES I MAY 17 (Sunday)
From the spirit realm to the world, in this session, we will use Visionary Fiction as a political and visionary rehearsal. Visionary fiction explicitly intends to envision a world beyond the current one, challenge mainstream power dynamics, and dream of new, just worlds. There is power in rewriting our histories to reclaim our futures. There is also power in writing our futures to manifest the realities we want to walk into.
Through collective Visionary Fiction plot creations, we will begin to rewrite dominant narratives and see what other worlds might be behind the cracks of a breaking world.
VISIONARY FUTURES II | MAY 30 (Saturday, closing weekend)
Within every human, only 5% is a conscious expression, while 95% of us is a subconscious expression. In this session, we will move through a multistep process that will unearth subconscious undesired belief systems and thought patterns that no longer serve us. Through Creative Somatics, applied kinesiology, and the use of solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies we will create affirmations that counter those limiting systems so that our inner being begins to match the conscious self we desire.
THE UNFOLDING | MAY 31 (Sunday, closing weekend )
We will collectively close the portal we opened months before through a ceremony of remembrance. In this final session, we will harvest inspirational insights, bodily learnings, soulful commitments, and visionary applications. We will revisit our intentions and creations and see how far we have come. Through an experiential process, we will witness and be witnessed as fellow journeyers of the Imaginal Expanse.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Alixa García is a Colombian-born, globally-raised, multidisciplinary artist and cultural architect whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover: our Earth. She is a distinguished artist, award-winning poet, music producer, published author, and movement strategist. Her groundbreaking work with Climbing Poetree set the tone for years of art for movement building, which has had significant ripple effects throughout the world.
With a rich 23-year background in creative strategies for social and environmental movements, curriculum development, and facilitation, Alixa's expertise has been instrumental in supporting justice leaders, scholars and students, community activists, state representatives, and the nonprofit sector to realize their potential in the areas of creative blueprinting, trans-local and global organizing, and environmental education. Her unique approach centralizes creativity and the role of imagination as an essential tool for liberation.
Alixa is a sought-after public speaker, visual artist, and facilitator. Her work has been published by Whit Press, AK Press, Monacelli, Hatchett, and Daraja Press. She is an editorial board member of ERA Coalition & Fund for Women's Equality and the lead curriculum developer and facilitator for the CS Fund Just Transitions 2024-2026 Fellowship Cohort. She was honored to represent North America as a poet at the Global Ethical Stocktake, for COP30 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).
Read Alixa's full Bio
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