[CRNMC] Decolonization of Mind - Discussion Group - Meeting Notice

[Charles Cresson Wood]

DECOLONIZATION  OF MIND 
Lunch-Time Discussion Group Announcement
Event Title: Music and Breath Workshop
Time & Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at 12:30PM 
Location: (NOTE NEW SPOT) 14101 Prairie Way, Caspar (directions below)

Event Description
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Come unload all that colonized stress -- and its tyrannical companion, "never enough time!" Join us for an afternoon of deep relaxation, as we explore the safe experiential tools of Music and Breath. We'll move beyond our usual bag lunch and conversation to an individualized private and personal journey, except this time we'll travel and flow on the rhythms of evocative music, and focus on a conscious pattern of breath. As we travel and touch the de-colonized places that already lie within, we can re-embrace and fully embody our innate freedom and fluidity, healing capacity, joyful creativity and wholeness. Whenever we shift our focus to the non-linear-non-verbal world of deep breathing and sound, we can move effortlessly through all the "stuck" colonized places in our body-mind. Dis-ease and crises can be re-experienced as "interference patterns," coming from a more conscious reality and pattern of wholeness seeking to emerge. 

Since we're launching a "whole new world" of de-colonization work, a bit more preparation for this type of "travel" is provided below. Please be sure to read the following instructions before showing up at the meeting because the instructions will help you be adequately prepared.

Facilitator & Her Approach
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The Music and Breath Workshop will be guided by Geri Morisky-Ross, who experienced her first holotropic music-breath session in Marin in 1977 -- opening up a "a whole new world" and life journey. That profound session inspired 7 years of intensive holotropic study and personal work, plus a series of popular workshops in Boulder, Colorado. By creating the safety and comfort of intentional and prepared space, each person is free to travel wherever their wise psyche leads (including guided movement), and each person interprets their experience in their own unique way. Recording the journey in a journal and/or drawing whatever symbols or images emerge, help ground and integrate the experience. We each contain within us a pristine pre-colonized state of being, and through the deeper neurological pathways of music and breath, we can take a journey back to the power, freedom and harmony of our true HOME .  

We will begin the event with a guided breath and safe intentional space to begin the journey, plus have initial hand-out sheets to give everyone more information -- to help deepen the experience and give the psyche permission to travel to the most pivotal place they need at this moment in time.  And this moment in time IS a very profound doorway that calls for all the best de-colonizing tools available! May we all be true "freedom riders." 

Location & Logistics
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Take time to have a leisurely and light meal before you come, bring a comfortable thick pad for lying on the floor, plus a warm blanket, pillow, and a journal and/or art materials to complete and record your journey. Arriving at noon would be ideal, as the session will begin promptly at 12:30PM. If you would like to stay longer than our appointed ending time of 2:00PM, we'll keep the workshop open until 3:30PM.  

For this workshop we'll be at a new location: Arising Phoenix Dance Studio, 14101 Prairie Way, in Caspar. Take Road 409 out of Casper, go east 2 miles, and make a right on Prairie Way. When you reach the sign "Road Ends 500 feet," the numbered mailbox and driveway will be on the LEFT. Turn into the driveway and make an immediate left again into the studio parking area. Studio phone: 707-962-9441.

All are welcome. Questions about the group or the meeting can be directed to Charles Cresson Wood at ccwood at ix.netcom.com.

About the Decolonization of Mind Group
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An outgrowth of Mendocino Coast Transition Towns and the Community Rights Network of Mendocino County, the discussion group was a spin-off from a weekend workshop that activist Paul Cienfuegos facilitated. That workshop, dealing with community rights, and the powers of people versus those of corporations, included a challenge from Paul that the participants not only understand how our minds have been colonized, but that we escape from that colonization. In keeping with Paul’s challenge, the decolonization of mind group seeks to go beyond the propaganda from government, the indoctrination of the public school system, the brainwashing from corporate advertising, and also the myths created and perpetuated via movies, TV, newspapers, Facebook, and other modern media. The discussion group seeks to empower people so as to emancipate themselves from all that, and to come back to our own personal power to live the life we feel called to live.