Spooning with Myselves | A Soils Lab with Alexis | Practice Map
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Spooning with Myselves
Soils Lab with Alexis | Practice Map
monday | 23 May 2022 | 6pm Est
Don’t you love a good, snuggled up nap? In this Soils Lab, let’s get snuggly...with ourselves. Inspired by an invitation I received that I have not had a chance to practice myself, I am inviting you, my loves, to join me in a practice inspired by the brilliant rest coach Octavia Raheem. In this practice, we will spend time with our little kid self, allowing them to guide us for some minutes. Then, we’ll spend the same amount of time with our future self or our ancestor self, allowing them to guide us. After, all three of us will lay down together. Videos off, blankets, pillows, the whole deal. In my mind, we were spooning, little Lexi in front of me and elder or ancestor Lexi behind me. After some time to rest with our-selves, let’s create something: a poem, a dance, a painting...whatever you feel inspired to create from a place of deep rest with Self across time and space.
I am in a group coaching cohort and my coach was invited into this practice and shared it with us. I have been beyond myself with busyness and I haven’t had time to try the practice so I decided, what better time than with my Garden Boos!
what to bring:
Plan to be someplace comfy with pillows, blankets, snuggle objects
Writing or art making supplies of your choice
this soils lab includes these elements:
Rest & reflection practice
Alexis recommends…
Listen to the Rest Is Resistance playlist. Read the Washington Post’s feature, “A soundtrack for rest, curated by the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey” (includes playlist as well in the article).
meet Creator Alexis
Alexis
Alexis is a queer Black feminist DC girl whose heart pumps to the beat of “the Pocket” that holds down DC go-go music and culture.
about our soils lab
Soils Lab is a central component of Mother Mother’s evolving creative practice methodology, An Introduction to Soils: Preparing the Heart, Mind and Body for Deeply Generative Creations.
Soils Labs are where we explore practices that nourish our soil of creation, the substance from which we create everything we do. Soils Labs journey into diverse creative realms like writing, storytelling, visual art, sacred rituals, healing practices, movement, birth and fertility studies, and so much more. Every creator shares from the wealth of her brilliance, and we all grow from there.
attending soils lab
Soils Labs are collaborative-time (live), virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Soils Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. You must be a creator in the Garden who has confirmed conscious participation to receive the access link for the labs. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. If you have recently or previously joined the Garden, visit the Sanctuary to confirm or reconfirm your conscious participation.
ABOUT SOFT-TIME
The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Soils Lab is a collaborative-time gathering, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Soils Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators.
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