Join Rehane Abrahams and Nan McAughey for a two part series of classes to give voice-body to what is moving inside you as it meets what is moving in the other. Patterns of interaction flowing between, create and evolve us as errant, collaborative and situated subjectivities. Our vulnerabilities set the world alive.

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World is in crisis, doing what it does to survive. Outrage over the catastrophe feels desolate. It is time to sing like birds, and whales, to be heard and seen, proclaiming a deeper creative force within us that knows. Time to dance, sing, pray, make ritual and offer story. The five medicines.
We do this together with land and sea, that for 13.8 billion years has invested a creative love in us. We do this in faith that we can attune to the call of that wilful and mystical force that bubbles up into every day experience. We do this in recognition that its beauty has stamina, and it rebels. Soul beauty avoids piety. It asks that we sing of the schisms between thought and feeling, the discord between what we think is best and what we know is right. In this moment it calls for lament as protest, as the heart wailing for what is lost, awakening our every sense of beauty.

Working with Fitzmaurice Vocal techniques, Jin Shin Jyutsu vibrational practices, and choreographic theatre improvisations to dismember the scorched familiar, we enter a bewilderness - those wild places that disturb, interrupt, disable identities, make us hesitate and yearn, where we wander without certainties.

Creating a psychic vessel and opening to these middling terrains of breakdown and vulnerability, we engage with the dynamic interactions of body, breath, frequency, desire, voice, imagination, and language, to give expression to all that comes alive in our tender undoings. In the slippage of certainty, there is no more binary, no more distance, no external gaze. No more human at the centre. Simply the dark flux of the imaginal soul moving between and remaking us, provocatively.

This is a practice of ceremony, of voice questing, through which we cross thresholds into a different type of awareness with the world. We apply ourselves creatively and sensitively to the dreaming and listening process, to hear songs and stories that have been waiting for  our attention. Touching the chthonic and dismissed within us, what future or past voices speak into the between, what coherencies vibrate? What handholds become essential for singing the world alive again?

“There are songs, singing in my bones, I can barely hear the notes, they are older than I know. There is sound like, the ones I've not brought home yet, the ones I've not yet named, the ones I’ve pushed away.” Bloodlines, by Alexandra Blakely.

If it calls, we may offer our ecological symphony outside somewhere.

No special background required — just curiosity and a willingness to move beyond boundaries.

WHEN: All Sundays: Part 1: 23 March, 30 March, 6 April. Part 2: 17, 31 Aug and 7 Sept.

TIME: 12 - 3pm.

WHERE: Kalk Bay Community Centre.

COST: R2400 paid upfront.

Thank you for your participation. Attendance at all classes is preferable.

FOR DETAILS OF THE CLASSES OR TO BOOK: please email nan@imaginalbody.com

We look forward to welcoming each other in this deep dive for what is possible to voice within our human understanding,

WITH LOVE,

Nan and Rehane.

ALL IMAGES: Krista Dragomer at https://www.kristadragomer.com