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‘In any creative work, be it the artist or the artisan, the creatve person unites with the material they are working with, which symbolises the world outside him/herself. The worker and the artefact become one. The human being becomes one with his creation. ‘ Erich Fromm
The word Poiein in Ancient Greek (ποιεá¿–ν) means making. It is where the word Poetry comes from. Plato had pointed at the connection between craft-making and poetry, calling us to gaze at the rich worlds of form and meaning that come to life when we take raw material from our landscape and create with it. It is possible, when we look at a handcrafted object, to appreciate the emotion and soul life that the maker had infused in it.
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Sefrou is located in the heart of the middle Atlas. Traditionally, a market town located amidst fertile farming lands, it is known for its fruit orchards, cherry festival and the large Jewish community that lived there up until the last century. Sefrou is still home to a large community of local artisans, metal smiths, woodworkers, weavers and button makers. Though the community is still thriving, few are the ones of the young generation who wish to learn these skills.
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Visiting local crafts people in their workshops, we will learn about their work and daily lives as a way to get a sense of the place through the people and their working spaces. An orientation of the city from the inside out hosted by Culture Vultures, will lead us into a deeper relationship with Amazigh women who spin and weave and we will participate in a hands own textile workshop.
We will be introduced to ‘The Loom in Local Rituals’ and how women used the loom as a sacred medium for protection. On Sunday we will make a day trip to a mountain market town in the Middle Atlas where the wool comes from, to meet women who practice unbroken textile traditions in the region.
Alongside these visits our work will consist of listening to the stories that emerge from our activities, as well as engage with traditional stories from around the world to bring into clearer focus the role of craft-making in the life of the Soul. On our last day we will share these stories in a storytelling evening (no previous experience necessary). Daily shamanic practices will help us access ancestral knowledge and seek healing for modern day’s rupture between skill and community, craft and Time.
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KARMIT EVEN-ZUR
EL SUPERORGANISMO
21 Ene
18 Feb
11 Marzo
18:30 - 21:30
lacolmenadeafrica@gmail.com
Sesiones de prácticas chamánicas y corporales para conectar con las corrientes serpentinas, que a la vez fluyen en la tierra y en nuestros cuerpos. Aprenderemos a canalizar sus mensajes para aumentar nuestro vocabulario sensorial y re-inhabitar el territorio.
Los 'dragones' y poderes serpentinas que circulan en la tierra a través de las líneas magnéticas, son conocidos como seres ctónicos en la mitología griega. Se cuenta que Gaia, la tierra, distribuyó su sabiduría a través de sus venas subterráneas para llevar y encarnar su energía y conocimiento.
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Antiguamente, ciertos sitios sagrados formaban una red de portales para mantener una conexión viva con los poderes ctónicos. Se practicaba una relacionalidad espiritual entre los humanos y su entorno en estos santuarios oraculares. Hoy en día podemos escuchar un llamamiento a las profundidades que nos invita a establecer de nuevo una alianza terrestre y multi-especies.
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En estas sesiones aprenderemos a canalizar sus mensajes para seguir desarrollando nuestra visión eco sistémica. Integraremos lo aprendido en un ritual en la antigua laguna de La Janda donde podemos seguir cultivando la relación con estas fuerzas en nuestro entorno local.
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En estos "tiempos de catastrofes”, actuar como seres terrenales deberia hacernos prestar atencion al llama do de los chthulus, estos 'seres de la tierra a la vez anti guo y de última hora', cuyo grito es un deseo de que
escuchemos, de que nos hagamos preguntas perturbado ras que nos ayuden a asumir responsabilidades, a dejar de practicar la doble muerte, a aprender las artes de vivir en un planeta herida.
Helen Torres / Especies del Chthuluceno
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Guiada por Karmit EvenZur - Karmit abarca diversas experiencias y competencias tanto a la ecología y las distintas modalidades de sanación telurica como a la sanacion energética y las prácticas chamánicas. Su trabajo es fruto de una profunda formación que se nutre de una tradición chamánica Europea (Path of Pollen).
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