The Mycelium

Schedule

Mon, 20 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 15 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Alternity - Elixir Bar and Lounge | Toronto, ON

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A Bi-weekly creative workshop series guiding the mind through the body as an ancestral animal, culminating in a storytelling event.
About this Event

Autumn | The Body is an Animal

If you are experiencing a desire for rich conversation, inspiring artistic practice and a re-enchantment of the wild world around us, join us within the Mycelium.

This Fall we invite you to a five-part workshop series exploring the Body as an Animal through the lens of embodied art.

Our culture of mental health and consciousness tends to begin with the psyche when trying to remedy suffering. What would it mean to start with the body? Approaching our “disorders” or struggles through our environments, habits, communities and experiences. What would it mean to re-wild, decivilize, decolonize our ways of being. 

In this space we will be engaging in a myriad of artistic practices, from visual art to sculpture and movement. No previous art experience is required, but a willingness to be messy, wild and courageous is. 

Whether you’re reconnecting with your inner power, healing ancestral wounds, or awakening your sensitivity to the earth’s rhythms; this is a space to weave your mind back into the bones of your animal body, and root deeply into the community that is wild and vibrant in our city.


Week One: The Body is an Animal: Mask Making & Body mapping 

Week Two: We are Herd Animals: Circles of Care, Mapping your Ecosystem - looking at Ours

Week Three: Parts of Psyche: Internal Family Systems Art Workshop on Protector Parts 

Week Four: The Shameling: Clay sculpting through the transformation of Shame into Sensitivity

Week Five: Story Weaving: Creation of a community fiber artpiece made from our story 

Winter Solstice: Open Mic style Story Telling Event where you can share publicly 



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Where is it happening?

Alternity - Elixir Bar and Lounge, 333 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada

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