Creation Cycle: Wood (Monthly Class Series With Patrick Mansfield!)

Creation Cycle: Wood

A monthly class to illuminate the Five Elements

In the Lecture Room

*this will be a 5 part series, attendees are welcome to drop in for one class or sign up for them all

*first Wednesday of each month September - January (final class on *January 8th)

Limbs loosen and elongate from the hold of winter’s stillness. It’s time to wake up, unfurl your arms, and stretch your legs as we take our next step in the Five Elements cycle of creativity. This phase is the seedling’s emergence, blinking eyes wide to familiarize as the sun’s illumination tempts us forward to grow, to explore, to change. Free of expectations, this class will focus on how to harness emptiness within the rapidly changing landscape of birthing a new work. Imperfection is where everything manifests. In play and error, we’ll bear witness to evolutionary expansion. Through meditation, lecture, qi gong, and at-home creative exercises, wood’s budding insights will enliven us in this 2-hour class.

The Creation Cycle class series is a tool for anyone participating in acts of creation. Together, we’ll make our way through the philosophy of the Five Elements to witness the enduring cycles of our dear Earth and our own co-creation of the world around us.

Each month, we’ll meet on the first Wednesday and explore a new elemental step in the creative process. Participants are welcome to join all five classes or skip around, depending on their own curiosities.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024: Water

Wednesday, October 2, 2024: Wood

Wednesday, November 6, 2024: Fire

Wednesday, December 4, 2024: Earth

Wednesday, January 8, 2025: Metal

Participants are encouraged to wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a notebook and pen.

Patrick Mansfield is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Board-Certified Herbalist. Patrick is currently a Doctoral Fellow of Traditional Asian Medicine at Emperor’s College, where he's focusing his research in the fields of Andrology and Urology. In his free time, Patrick is a volunteer acupuncturist and meditation group facilitator at Being Alive, as well as a program organizer and board member with The Golden Dome School. Patrick also maintains a creative practice that explores the history of alchemy and art.

Ticket Price: $30 - $40 (in-person event only).

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