Theatre of Life
Embodiment
Theatre of Life is devoted to a ceremonial approach to play and expression to nurture a flowering (free) world through our embodiment.
Play is powerful. Play is a freedom practice. Play is Land-based medicine.
Why Play?
From a Mesoamerican worldview, with our precious bodies and lives we are meant to bloom like flowers in the time we have here on Earth. As we bloom and flower we experience our joy and playfulness meaning we are embodying our freedom and liberation. Play, like the flowers, is a state of being and gift that we can cultivate through the evolution of our consciousness and by committing to our unique life purpose through the guidance and power of the Land, Ancestors, and by remembering our ancestral ways of being.
Offerings
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Facilitation
Bring Theatre of Life and this approach to your group, project, or retreat space
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Play As Medicine (Online Course)
A lecture-based course for one’s conscious development to learn how to be an embodiment of play as medicine in the world through teachings rooted in a queer Mexican-Indigenous worldview.
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Commune (Practice Portal)
A seasonally guided practice space to explore playing/expression as medicine and approaching plants and elementals from a playful way of being.
Subscribe to Commune to build a relationship to your present body guided by the wisdom of first teacher, other-than-human-kin, and play through sustained practice.
Offered Online & In-Person
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Events & Circles
Circles and classes for smaller bites of learning and practice
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Healing Ensemble & Performance Troupe
An ever-evolving group of artists, healers, and feelers who organize and hold performance and play-based rituals, prayers, and sacred space
About The Practice
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Grounding & Mindfulness Tools
Compassion-Centered Space To Explore Your Authentic Expression & Play
Connecting to Your Intuition and Power
Healing & Remembering Your Wholeness
Building an Embodied Relationship to the Land, Elements, and Interspecies Kin
Joining a Web of Beings Committed To The Practice Of Embodying Liberated, Playful Worlds
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Embodied Research with the Land, Elements, & Cuerpo Presente (present body)
Experimental Theatre & Performance Art
Curanderismo & IndigiQueer Medicine Worldview
Bio-regional, Land-based Community Herbalism
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“Theatre of Life” is open to all. This is a play-based and creative expression forward space; it is well suited for those who are ok with feeling silly and diving into the unknown. If you feel like any of the mentioned topics are a brave space for you to step into; this space is for you too.
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We attune our senses, bodies, and imaginations to the Land and Nature and listen to their imprint within each of us. We also cultivate a relationship to our presence and inhabit our bodies with greater emotional, psychic, and embodied awareness.
In Theatre of Life, we engage play, movement and vocal exploration, performance/persona exercises, ritual, story-telling, meditation, herbal medicine-making and other embodied practices.
Scrapbook of the Magic
“Theatre of Life” Facilitation at the “Arte Sana: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Retreat for Artists and Culture Bearers” hosted at Wild Places in Springville, CA and at Morcom Rose Garden as part of the “Thembo Paradise” workshop series