Returning to The Commons of the Soul - Immersive Evening

In a time of great divisiveness, let us slip outside the culture war and revive our connection with the commons of the soul. 

John O’Donohue writes, “So much of what troubles and delights you happens on a surface you take for ground.” His words invite us to the true ground below the surface where we often spend our days. 

During this experiential evening, we will explore the commons of the soul and reflect on what happens when we abandon this holy ground. When we abandon soul, we abandon community, the sacred ground of grief and gratitude, the making of elders, connection with ancestors, dedication to future ones, appreciation of beauty, the felt sense of belonging to an ecosystem, and that which can truly sustain a people and a culture. Let’s gather to revive our connection with the commons of the soul, and return to the ground under the ground, the river under the river, that can sustain our lives and foster a community of deep belonging. 

Francis Weller said, “We experience little genuine joy in part because we avoid the depths. Many of us have forgotten that we’re a part of an ecosystem, a watershed. We’ve forgotten that we’re kin to all the other animals. We’ve forgotten that we need each other. We have forgotten what I call the “commons of the soul.” 

We are alive during this time of what poet Jaiya John calls “the colonizing centuries of the great forgetting.” It is clearly time for the great remembering - for a homecoming to the commons of the soul.

This season we offer you a new way to engage--our Friday evenings will have more audience engagement and participation.

You will have the opportunity that evening to begin what we will dive into fully the next day, Saturday, in embodied, highly interactive exploration and practice--together!

This follows Jung's process of alchemy as the compensation for our intense focus on the rational world. He believed alchemy to be the symbolic mirror of our psychological journey into wholeness and self-realization.

Consider investing in yourself each month, this season. Consider giving yourself an entire immersive transformational experience with like-minded, like-hearted community. Renew your heart and soul. Dive and play with us, as Jung himself did, in the the ether of soul and self. We will be weaving Jung's teachings deeply into our explorations. And we will be alchemizing what is ready in our lives to become "gold."

Friday Evening: Tiny Kingdoms: The power of the stories we tell-and how to tell better ones

Immersive Evening (or choose the from the workshop ticket options)

Friday, April 4th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

UMOCA

20 S. West Temple

SLC UT

Opening Poet: tba

Live Music: tba

Local Artist: tba

Saturday: Reviving Soul Manners & Celebrating Primary Satisfactions

Tickets here:

Depth Workshop (or choose the )

Saturday, April 5th, 12:00m – 5:00 pm

Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

1719 S. Main Street, SLC UT

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Friday Only: $20 Advance Tickets | $25 Same Day, if available (Free for Members)

Entire Weekend: $70 (Members: $50) BEST PRICE! .

Saturday Only: $75 Advance Tickets | $85 Same Day, if available (Members $50)

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Schedule: Friday Evening

6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle

7:00 – 8:30 pm: Interactive Alchemy event with the Jung Board

8:30 – 9:00 pm: Community Social

Schedule: Saturday

11:45 Arrive at Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

12:00 – 5:00 pm: Depth Workshop begins

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1.5 CEUs & 5 CEUs available (per event) for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)

Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!

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About Our Presenters:

Carl Rabke is a Somatic Naturalist, Embodiment teacher, and a tender of soul and living culture. For the last 25 years, he has practiced and taught where the streams of somatics, soul work, and a deep love of this living Earth meet. He is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Rolfer, and loves to support people in returning to and remembering our natural, inherent intelligence in movement, meditation, ritual, song, rhythm, and community. Carl has studied at Bobby McFerrin’s Circlesongs School and is a Musica do Círculo practitioner. He has studied voice work with George Grant, Judi Vinar, and Zuza Goncalves. He has mentored with Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey. Carl has also mentored with and taught alongside Francis Weller. Carl hosts the Embodiment Matters Podcast with his beloved wife, Erin. You can find out more about him here.

Erin Geesaman Rabke is a Somatic Naturalist & Embodiment Mentor; a writer, a mother, a teacher, a group facilitator, and a possibilitarian.

Professionally trained as a Feldenkrais® Practitioner, an Embodied Life Teacher, a Work That Reconnects Facilitator, and a Community Grief Ritualist, over the past 30 years, she’s been trained in many somatics lineages, in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of Dzogchen and Lojong, as well as being engaged in ongoing deep mentorship in soul work, deep ecology, systems thinking, and the mythopoetic.

She is dedicated to ripening mature human beings, restoring nature & culture, and stewarding Refugia. She is a meditator, an animist, a lover of poetry, a convener of soulful community, a home herbalist, a beekeeper, and is devoted to this wild Earth. Erin is currently at work on her first book. Along with her husband, Carl, she hosts the Embodiment Matters Podcast. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their 15-year-old son, many wily animals, and a wild permaculture garden. Find out more at https://embodimentmatters.com/about-erin-2/about/#erinhere

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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Goldenbraid Books, Fallow Renewal Jungian Life Coaching, Vivia Baldwin, and Piers Adrian.

Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters, Christian West Photography & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy, Atlas Tea Company

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