DYNAMIC STILLNESS: Embodying Restorative and Sensuous Rest as Ritual Practice, An Online Course

Dynamic Stillness: Embodying Restorative and Sensuous Rest as Ritual Practice, is facilitated by Pamela Wong (@thepathunfolding) and guided by a re-embodiment and yoga-based approach to practice and ritual.

Part of Comuna’s cyclical Ceremonia Sessions programming hosted in the Comuna Exchange community platform.

February 2nd and February 9th, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

ABOUT THE COURSE OFFERING

When we live in cultures that have been designed as an external and collective function of our attention, productivity, and time, devoting an equal—if not more—effort toward our relationships with Self can feel like a counterintuitive act. In this way, stepping away to tend to our “inner life” requires presence and conscious intention, and, yet, there exists innumerable alternative (and perhaps less-pervasive) practices that can strengthen a more vital, nourished, and creative life when we honour the inherent and essential cycle of restorative rest.

The Earth is a complex, interconnected, and dynamic web of diverse living systems that requires each part to recognize and honour its place as a whole. Diverse global cultures and knowledge systems have long recognized and respected the cyclical nature of the micro and macro systems that sustain our shared ecology. Perhaps the externalization of our attention, productivity and time, and failure to honor the cycles of rest have resulted in a disconnection from Self and, as a result, the natural world. Tools, practices, and knowledge rooted in the very intelligence of earth-based cycles can help us to reintroduce ourselves to this dynamic relationship.

The season of Winter is a reminder to rest and restore. As shorter days and longer evenings blanket us in stillness, we are presented with an opportunity to turn inward toward the dynamic rhythms within. This course is a shared space for reconnecting with ourselves through shared learning and personal exploration in community: an opportunity to take individual responsibility not only for ourselves but for our place in shared living and healing systems of wellbeing. Informed by lineages of yoga and multi-knowledge systems perspectives, these sessions will facilitate an embodied inner exploration of turning inner experiences into outward action, and ultimately, slow and positive change within and without.

Join us on February 2nd and February 9th from 6pm-9pm EST via Zoom (sessions will be recorded and made available)

THE COURSE FORMAT

The Dynamic Stillness Ceremonia Sessions will gently guide you to re-align with the energy and elements that govern this season’s cycle. 

This weeklong online course is co-created and facilitated by Pamela Wong (@thepathunfolding) in a self-retreat format.

Held live over two evenings via Zoom on February 2nd and February 9th, 2023 between 6:00 pm-9:00 pm EST, and with interactive and guided exploration throughout the week in a private container via the Comuna Exchange community platform.

SESSION 1: ACTIVE STILLNESS

Thursday, February 2nd, 6:00 PM-9:00 PM EST (via Zoom)

Highlights: Tea Ceremony, Nervous System Connection, Active Release, Embodiment Practice

HOMEPLAY: GUIDED PERSONAL RITUAL PRACTICE IN BETWEEN SESSIONS

You’ll be provided with interactive and guided explorations throughout the week in a private container via the Comuna Exchange community platform.

SESSION 2: RECEPTIVE STILLNESS

Thursday, February 9th, 6:00 PM-9:00 PM EST (via Zoom)

Highlights: Multisensory Practice (meditation), Self-Massage, Restorative Yoga

Primary Facilitator: Pamela Wong

Under the guise of @thepathunfolding, Pamela creates spaces for an inward exploration and journey. Her sessions use a combination of visualizations and guided prompts as well as embodied ways of seeing and knowing to cultivate a meditative experience. These practices aim to achieve a less conventional path to the less conventional inquiry into the self. With a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge research, Pamela also bridges gaps between conventional and unconventional ways of knowing in her work. She is a wildlife researcher and technical advisor in Nunavut, when she is not teaching yoga, or studying scriptures with her sat sang group.
Connect with more of Pamela’s thoughts here.

Co-Facilitator: Sara Dubeau

Sara Dubeau is a multi-hyphenate natural healthcare practitioner, wellbeing communicator, facilitator, and farmer. She’s also co-creator of the Ceremonia Sessions in the Comuna ecosystem.

“I’m a passionate advocate for health education, modalities, and experiences that reconnect us with our innate healing capacity and inner guidance. My clinical experience and personal evolution inspired me to extend my knowledge beyond clinic walls and develop unique opportunities to experience deeper healing work in community – teaching others how our health is expressed through our physical vitality, and also, our ability to live in alignment with our highest self-expression.”

Join us on February 2nd and February 9th from 6pm-9pm EST via Zoom (sessions will be recorded and made available)

EXCHANGE

• The regular exchange of $350 CAD for this weeklong online course fairly values the work and energy put into curating this course, our teachers, and collaborators, and allows us the ability to sustain future offerings.

• It’s important to us that our course offerings are financially accessible for as many folks as possible. Therefore, if you are feeling called to participate in this event but require financial support, Please take advantage of the Sliding Scale Option.

• If you would like to become a seed supporter of our Bursary Program, so that we may offer more access to these courses for more folks, we would be honoured if you considered choosing “Supporter Ticket” when booking your spot. Supporter tickets are for folks who have the means and can afford to pay a little more in order to support our Bursary program and provide access to those who can not afford the regular price of courses.

FAQ:

• The two live online sessions will be held from 6pm - 9pm EST, on February 2nd and February 9th, 2023.

• Please check the time of this course in your local time zone.

• Sessions will be recorded and made available to watch after the live sessions if for any reason you are not able to be present for the live gathering, find yourself in a different timezone, or can only join a portion of it. The recording links will be shared the same day and you will have indefinite access to the recording and course materials via the Comuna Exchange community platform.