The Body of Stars: Exploring Embodiment, Earth & Purpose through Astrology
With Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish, Renee Sills and Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish
October 24 - 27, 2024
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Exploring to Embodiment, Earth & Purpose through Astrology
Astrology is a symbolic language that helps us attune with our intuition, open the gates of our imagination and live with a sense of inspiration, presence and purpose. As a model for complex systems thinking and mind-body coherence and integration that predates and underlies many forms of science and psychology, astrology goes far beyond the simplicity of “sun signs.”
In this retreat, participants will explore astrology as a spiritual and contemplative method. We’ll engage with charts, signs and symbolism, to develop greater self and relational awareness; connect with our physical environments and psychic processes as a seamless cosmos; and cultivate perspectives on how our individual karmic inheritances and dharmic potentials can help us meet this historical moment as change agents, healers and visionaries.
We will engage embodied approaches to astrology that utilize somatic awareness, mindfulness, emergent ritual and ceremony, as well as other interactive experiential, creative and artistic processes. Participants will be invited to explore and express through solo practice, group process, community building, and inspired transmission.
Overview/Schedule
Day 1- Orientation to Community, Land and the Symbolic Language of the Stars.
Where are we? On this first day, participants will ground in their bodies and at the Ecodharma retreat center. We will connect with one another and practice the fundamentals of cyclic thinking–exploring the cardinal directions as symbols of life stages and temperaments, and the circle of the year as a basis for contemplative narrative.
Day 2- The Living Zodiac, Planetary Energies and Earthly Elements.
Through movement, gesture, creative imagery and the powers of poetry, we will delve into the twelve signs of the Tropical Zodiac; the planetary forces; and the four phenomenal elements of nature, contemplating their capacities through the mirror of our birth charts. This day will include sensing practices with the land surrounding the retreat center.
Day 3- Aspects, Houses and Transits- Conflicts and Opportunities.
We will use the more technical elements of astrological practice to explore habitual patterns, triggers, resources and timing. Through mapping our constellations, we’ll discover new awareness and skillful means in navigating our relationships, professional lives, spirit/soul callings and inner experiences. This day will include solo time, journaling and group constellations.
Day 4: The Endless Circle- Cosmic Views and Personal Dharma
On the final day of the workshop we will begin integrating our work and time together. We’ll reflect on how we might return to our lives with more acceptance of our strengths and vulnerabilities, and wider, more timeless views of The Big Picture, and our places in it. Participants will leave with astral support practices, clarified personal intentions and, hopefully, renewed zest the journey of their lives and destinies. .
Skills:
In this retreat, we will balance time for meditation, time in the Colorado wilderness, connection, deepening understanding of our own birth charts, and building skills in:
• Embodiment and somatic practices
• Meditation
• Making the path of the cosmos tangible and easier to witness and understand
• Reading generational charts
• Using astrology to deepen our advocacy and activism, and explore oppression & liberation
• Learn to read the landscape– of our bodies, of the land, of the cosmological moment
• Astrology for community building
• Astrology for communal and historical healing
• Creative right livelihood
Venue at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Center
Teachers
Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish is a lifelong star gazer, Afrofuturist philosopher, dancing mythologist and storyteller, practicing astrologer, social artist and creative ceremonialist. His current project is to utilize the many outer planetary alignments of the 2020’s as occasions to create new holidays and festivals that open spaces for alternative futures and social realities. He serves as an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Naropa University, focusing on the intersections of equity and sustainability through courses on food and environmental justice. He also teaches foundations in contemplative learning and theory, embodiment, social identity, and conflict transformation. Ramon is committed to community, cultural and…
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Renee Sills is a second generation astrologer, intuitive, somatic educator and practitioner, and the founder of Embodied Astrology – a community-based, hybrid platform exploring intersectional astrology and the synthesis and application of astrology with other forms of knowledge, healing and creating. The through-lines of their work involve ongoing investigations of inter-relatedness, spirituality, mindfulness, creative agency, and the adaptive processes and queering of human bodies and consciousness in times of apocalypse. Renee’s work weaves together and between the realms of astrology, mysticism, bodywork, healing ritual and participatory art. She seeks to proliferate (through all means possible) accessible, adaptable, embodied practices that…
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Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ethnofuturist mama, “cultural therapist” and ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, Environmental Justice and Earth (re)becoming a paradise. She brings over 27 years of experience uniting sustainability, justice, and art. Michelle is the founder of FLOWS environmental justice program, serves on the Colorado Water Equity Partnership, the advisory board for Frontline Farming, and the State of Colorado Biochar for Oil and Gas Plugging Working Group. As founder of the consulting group “Once and Future Green” Michelle facilitates and trains communities to reclaim diverse ecological wisdom and cultural traditions with anti-oppression and ecological design tools. Leaning on…
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