sky + rose

What is it? An experiment in the impossible task of excluding nothing and loving everything. An alchemy of play, presence and wandering into the shadows, you could say.

We will:

• Center group parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody. You will be invited to express yourself vocally and physically, engage your imagination and play outside habituation.

• Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.

• Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work

• Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements 

Through rituals of imagination, meditation technologies and co-created fields of intentional play, we can slip out, for a time, of confining identities defined by our histories, culture and comfort.

Delivered by these practices, we can begin to inhabit perspectives and modes of being that stretch our sense of the possible and refresh our sense of the everyday

You might find yourself wearing Luminosities face or inhabiting Laughter’s chest. Together we might try out Venus’s view of the very life we live or we might make space to feel Chaos's dance and shake off some rigidity.

All of these are just examples of where our wondering and feeling into places of vitality and expansion may take us.

We will rebel against the quotidian and respect ourselves too much to only have crumbs of the sacred!

It was also be a time to work together with the challenges to living heart forward with sanity and presence within this hyper-fractured funhouse/madhouse world.

Sky and Rose is a place for Jogen and i to invite you into practices and explorations of 'soul work' that are not part of the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of growth and joy for us. Our influences in this include Paratheatre, IFS and Voice Dialogue, Process Work, Hakomi, Butoh, Jungian dream work and more.

Logistics

We will be harmonizing together to co-create a participatory practice and ritual space in our homes. We ask that you participate wholeheartedly and do not multitask.

You will be invited to sit, stand, walk, move your body and voice out loud during this two hour session. 

Creating the Temenos

Here are suggestions to optimize the potential of the practices:

• Arrange a space where you have privacy, the ability to both sit and move your body (a 5X5 ft area or more is ideal) and won’t be interrupted or distracted.

• Consider building an altar to being lost (this could include objects, candles, pictures, fragrances  + colors that invoke a sense of not-knowing, letting go of certainty, lostness)

We will also be doing meditations + rituals with the option of using various objects. Consider gathering these a few days in advance of our gathering.

• A visually compelling, beautiful, strange or heart stirring physical object. 

We will be using this for ’beauty shamatha’ during our first meditation session. 

• A blindfold or a veil to cover your eyes for a brief time during a ritual of letting go of certainty.

• For the same ritual, an opaque bag and an object that you will place within it.  This object is connected to or embodies a limiting belief, false certainty, or way of understanding you intuit it is time to release. 

We look forward to being with you in sacred space.

This event is offered freely, and we welcome donations. Feel free to make a donation via Venmo or Paypal to @amykisei. Jogen and I will split all donations.

Facilitated by Jogen and Amy Kisei

Meets monthly on the first Sunday

10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ET

Join Us for the Next Session

Sunday March 2nd