AUTUMN ALCHEMY: TURNING IN, LETTING GO, FINDING TREASURE

… an embodied mindfulness and movement workshop …

Saturday November 19, 2022 1-3pm Eastern time (10am-12pm Pacific) online via Zoom

$45 (scholarships available) Contact sarah@alchemySJLcatalyst.com to register All bodies and movement abilities are welcome

Autumn is a season of brilliance and decay. Jewel-toned leaves adorn the trees, and then they fall. The sun is still bright and golden, yet it shines at a lower angle in the sky. The earth prepares to slow down into a season of rest and pause. The energy of plants and animals turns inwards and downwards. After the harvest, we compost what’s no longer needed, and preserve what will sustain us.

This is a time of reflection, acceptance, acknowledgement of what is and what has been. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, autumn is associated with the metal element, which invites us to remember what is of value to us, what treasure we hold within us.

November is a midpoint – after the Equinox tipped summer into autumn, past when daylight savings brings the night earlier, and towards the darkest point of the winter Solstice when the light begins to return. 

This workshop is a chance to pause and check in before the often hectic holiday season. To receive the gifts and wisdom of this time, to tap into our inner resources, to recognize the preciousness of the present moment. To honor what has been, to let go, to be grateful for the richness of what is – even with its complexities and challenges. 

Using the catalysts of movement practice, embodied mindfulness, and creative process, we will explore, experience, express. Cultivate courage and en-couragement. Develop our capacities for moving and being still, sitting with questions and discerning right action. 

The alchemy of the autumn is an invitation to turn in, let go, and find treasure – so that we can do what we’re each called to do: for ourselves, for each other, for the world.