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In the face of compounding historical and present-day traumas, environmental collapse, and chronic uncertainty, we know that we need something radically different. Yet, many of us feel the pain of not knowing where to begin. In this course, we view the wound as the portal and grief as the ceremony as we center the role of imagination in times of collapse. Here, 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.

On this journey we center our living wholeness. We view the wound as the portal and grief as ceremony. We use creative somatics to bring bodily awareness to our imagination praxis, learn to work with attention-intensive practices and the autonomic nervous system, activate wakeful dreaming, employ creative writing and visual art, work with solfeggio and binaural beat frequencies, and many more creative outlets to do the important work of bodily, energetic, ancestral, and future generational tending needed for these times. We recenter the Earth while bringing into focus our cosmic responsibility. We integrate creativity as a regular practice in our lives and the means by which we commune.

As we move into the heart of the 6th mass extinction, how do we re-enter the ceremony of life and awaken the Imaginal within? In times of collapse, how do we fall without falling apart? Come, let us sit in circles of wonder and creative devotion as we embark on this 6-month personal and collective journey. Together, we will form beloved community, sharing our experiences and learning from each other. Creativity is the antidote to destruction; when we create with intention, our creations become the invocation, and the space inside and between us becomes the sanctuary.

“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.”  – 2022 participant

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SESSIONS ARE LIVE & 3-3.5 HOURS

OCT 26, 2024 (Saturday)
AN INVITATION TO FAIL: COAXING THE ARTIST WITHIN

OCT 27, 2024 (Sunday)
A HOME FOR INTUITION & SOUL COMMITMENTS

NOV 9, 2024 (Saturday)
ANCESTRAL TENDING I

NOV 24, 2024 (Sunday)
ANCESTRAL TENDING II

DEC 8, 2024 (Sunday)
THE WOUND IS THE PORTAL

DEC 22, 2024 (Sunday)
GRIEF AS CEREMONY

JAN 5, 2025 (Sunday)
TRICKSTER TRICKSTER

JAN 19, 2025 (Sunday)
THE ROLE OF ENCHANTMENT IN TIME OF COLLAPSE

FEB 2, 2025 (Sunday)
SPIRIT TENDING I

FEB 16, 2025 (Sunday)
SPIRIT TENDING II

MAR 2, 2025 (Sunday)
VISIONARY FUTURES I

MAR 15, 2025 (Saturday)
VISIONARY FUTURES II

MAR 16, 2025 (Sunday)
THE UNFOLDING

IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION DETAILS

Please be 100% available to participate when attending the sessions. Make sure to have a private space for your process. We ask that you be on camera as much as possible as the next-best alternative to not being in the room; this will help us to feel each other’s presence and deepen.
 
The sessions will not be recorded to ensure full authenticity without the fear of being frozen in time.

The course centers on Creative Somatics, so please be ready to engage your body and your inner creator. There will be options accessible for people of different abilities.  

Processing and integration happen 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 two months so that participants have the opportunity to walk all three Paths during the six-month journey.

The Paths have bi-weekly 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. These are invitations. 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. The participants of each Pod will determine when and for how long they meet.

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TESTIMONIALS

2021-2022

"Alixa García's Course on the Imaginal took all of us on a grand journey into our imaginations, into our individual and collective trauma and grief, into the arms of our ancestors, into a collective, collaborative vision of possibility and world-building. It was, in a few words, magic alchemy in a time of collective and individual grief, fear, and loss. 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. Whole universes opened up inside of me, and I was so honored to witness whole universes open up in my fellow imaginals too. Alixa is a magical alchemist of the most unique and wonderful order. Pure poetry!" -Camas Davis, 2021-2022 Participant

"A Course on the Imaginal is a container created by Alixa García and the participant community. It is stunning in its warmth, courage, and transformation. It is a journey of months that I suspect will take years to unpack in an embodied way, in a holistic way that embraces body, mind, heart, and spirit. The course names some hard truths, challenges beliefs, makes space for generative conflict, soothes the soul, and offers tools for safety, transformation, and creativity so that the person who walks in will not remain the person who walks out—feeling so much gratitude for the learnings, camaraderie, and movements in the past months. I highly recommend attending this wonderful course and making it even better with your own magic." - Arpita Gaidhane, 2021-2022 Participant

"Something shifted for me during Alixa's course.  I went from seeing creativity as a sidebar to my life to making creativity, play, and experimentation central to my own healing, joy, and transformation." - AJ Johnston, 2021-2022 Participant

"Alixa is a powerhouse! Such wisdom, knowledge, creativity and expert facilitation. Thank you so much!” - Elizabeth Spavento, 2021-2022 Participant

"I would take this course every year! I am always looking for safe growing and learning spaces, and this was more than it! Alixa was creative, thoughtful, wise, accommodating, and brilliant in what she gave to the participants. I have been a fan of hers for years, and this was another way for me to experience her creative talent!" -Nkechi Feaster, 2021-2022 Participant

"Do it! The experience will change you and your life in unimaginable and unanticipated ways! Whatever you are bringing or showing up with is exactly what you need to be with—all of it feels welcome and held with spaciousness while also being challenging beyond expectation. This is some of the most important medicine our world needs as we face the Sixth Mass Extinction and the breaking apart of modernity and coloniality." -Cristien Storm, 2021-2022 Participant

"I highly recommend this course to anyone...to EVERYONE!  Alixa's facilitation was profoundly impactful, as well as enjoyable.  Her richly gorgeous energy is palpable even through a Zoom screen. I was deeply nourished by all of the practices, as well as rediscovering the joy of playing with art in simple ways.  The connection with other Imaginal souls was so beautiful and uplifting." - Teri Osborne,2021-2022 Participant

"This course, with the inspiring guidance provided, literally changed my whole life. I have eyes to see and ears that do hear what has always been available to me, but I lacked the knowledge, insight, or capacity to access it before taking this course. With Alixa's compassionate, wisdom-rich, and humble leadership, we journeyed on a path of self and communal discovery that opened my heart and mind to an expansive universe of divine greatness that has been waiting for me to acknowledge. I found the key to unlock the doors I had previously knocked on or wondered about, and I am forever gratefully changed." -Kimberly Cato, 2021-2022 Participant

"The ripples are many, deep, and wide. Every aspect of my life and relationships have been supported by this journey—some of the biggest ripples include the practice of being authentic-self-led and feeling into the web of life and non-linear waves of time and being." -Cristien Storm, 2021-2022 Participant

"This course is a truly heart-opening experience. Throughout our journey, we practiced the Imaginal together, deepening our core commitments towards ourselves and for the future, as we face the gravity of these times." -Marie Varghese, 2021-2022 Participant

2023-2024

“I came to this course having done a great deal of work with trauma and grief.  I didn't start here, but I arrived here after a great deal of work that left me feeling lighter but still not free. This course launched me into the felt-sense of the liberatory love field that I was yearning for. (Alongside my own deep spiritual disciplines).  Alixa has crafted and curated a space, a container, poetic teachings, and a profound series of embodiment and creative exercises that will change the course you are on.  If you permit yourself to surrender to the process, you will awaken to versions of yourself you have been longing for, and to threads of awareness you have been asking for all along.” - Romona Mukherjee, 2023-2024 Participant

“A month on and I am still unsure where the edges of the Imaginal Journey and my day to day life are. I became so entangled in it that not a single aspect of my being was left untouched. Without doubt this is a very good thing! I bow to the generous and gracious facilitation Alixa modeled for us. The obvious care and attention taken over every aspect of the course. If the slightest part of you feels a tug to enroll I say follow the thread and see where it may lead you. Whether it is further into a labyrinth or out of it, you won’t regret it.” - Elizabeth Lovely, 2023-2024 Participant

“I am filled with gratitude for being a part of this cohort. To hear Alixa speaking is a privilege and magic itself of every sort. I am very very grateful to be here. A miracle way to explore and connect with your own self - beyond the body, mind and spirits.” -Sabitri, 2023-2024 Participant 

“It is challenging to put into words all the powerful ways I was moved in my journey.  I loved how the multi-faceted journey opened up, strengthened my connection to my ancestors. The numerous creative expressions of what we were learning were awesome, and they nurtured and deepened my artistic soul. The mind, body, and energetic experiences threw open many doors of visions and connections to inner and outer worlds of spirituality, community, and social justice in this time of social and environmental collapse.” - Mary Mallahan Hicken, 2023-2024 Participant

“I was struggling to integrate creativity and play into my life, and having this as a regular part of my life for 6 months, opened me up in so many ways. Allowed me to be gentler, deeper, quieter. I am very grateful and already miss having these sessions as a part of my biweekly routine.” -2023-24 Participant

“I looked forward to each class with Alixa. Many new avenues of self exploration, relating to and sharing with others, and the natural world were opened to me. My creative spirit was nurtured and encouraged.”  -Kathy Lewis, 2023-2024 Participant

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