June 9, 2-5pm
at Sadhana in Hudson, NY
Read about it here: https://sadhanayogahudson.com/weirding/
Provoking, practicing, and embracing weirdness might be understood to be indulgent, immature, deviant, unproductive, an inconvenience to others, and/or a privilege. In this workshop however, I propose a practice of weirding as a way to uncover portals of possibility and creative resistance and restoration beyond neuro-typicality, human-centrism, white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and a privileging of rationality. The etymology of “weird” is from the Old English wyrd, “having the power to control fate” or “that which comes.” It also has origins in the Germanic root wer, “to turn, to bend.” And indeed, I find that weirding in/as/through collaborative, embodied, absurd, and sacred streams to be a potent practice of harnessing powers for otherwise, for change. So, that’s what we’ll explore in this workshop mostly through experiential, body-based approaches, but also through discussion and a little (embodied) reading. We will incorporate objects and textiles into our work together. Bring some natural and/or constructed items if they ask to be brought along.
Sign up via Sadhana: https://sadhanayogahudson.com/#schedule. Pricing is tiered at $40, $65, $90 or $115. Reach out to me directly if $ is a barrier to participation and we will make sure you can be there.
Desire is neither inherently good nor bad, but it is a very very big feature of being a human. Desire is shifting, relational, contextual, conditioned, embodied, painful sometimes, ecstatic other times, and often entangled with complex emotional and political terrain. Many of us have learned, in our bones, that there’s potential danger in diverging from norms and expectations around our desires, and especially our bodies; different dangers and stakes depending on how our bodies are raced, classed, gendered, sized and more. In Desire Lab, we study desire so that we can cultivate more intimacy with ourselves, others, and the whole heartbreaking/heartbreakingly beautiful world. In doing so, we hone our capacity to trust our desires and discern how to work and play with their power. More at https://www.hanavanderkolk.com/desire-lab.
IN PERSON at GOODWITCH, Hudson
July 6, 2024, 11am-6pm
More at https://www.hanavanderkolk.com/desire-lab
ONLINE over the course of five months (includes a 90-minute one-on-one body-based Internal Family Systems/coaching session with me at some point during the five months of the course)
Wednesdays July 17, August 14, September 11, October 9, and November 13, 7-9:15pm eastern
More at https://www.hanavanderkolk.com/desire-lab
I offer one-on-one intuitive and body-based Internal Family Systems guidance/coaching. My sessions integrate the Internal Family Systems method with additional approaches including awareness through movement, meditation, touch (when in person), sex and gender expansion coaching, and ritual and spiritual guidance. I do sessions via voice call and in person in the Hudson Valley. More info here: https://www.hanavandrkolk.com/coaching-counseling.
Psychic Practice and the Eroticism of Nothing(ness): Somatic Technologies for Exhausting Times
Published in Apria’s EXHAUSTION issue