EMBODIED
MYTH
Have you ever read the stories in your bones?
Have you ever felt the shivers, cliff hangers and sweet landing of myth melt into your tissue?
Have you ever stretched the arc of character across your fascia?
Join me for Embodied Myth, where I retell the great stories so that they are rooted, reanimated and relived through your own body.
“Just as fungi originally taught plants how to root into the soil, so myths teach us how to root into relation with our ecological and social ecosystems.”
Sophie Strand
EMBODIED MYTH
A monthly online offering combining Storytelling, Embodied Movement and Deep Rest.
You will root the great stories, the ones that really mattered, into your DNA.
You will touch the archetypal energies of the stories that shaped our souls.
You will meet the human and more-than-human beings
who travel through time within the myths
that are alive in the soil, in the sky and within you.
Why?
“Because there’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
28 July, 7-9pm BST
CHAPTER 3: ORPHEUS
£20, online and by recording
Orpheus
There is something so agonising about Orpheus’ story that it can be hard to look directly at it.
But it is love, the wild, untameable, unequivocal love at the centre of the story that calls me, time and again, to turn my head.
Maybe this is what the story asks us to do to. To turn back towards love. Even when the turning towards will be the cause of the greatest heartbreak the world has ever known. And what is birthed from Orpheus’ heartbreak? From his longing? His desperate love?
Music.
And not just any music.
The most infinitely beautiful music the world has ever heard.
The most despairingly soul wrenching music the underworld has ever heard.
It is my immense pleasure to announce that the greatest musician that I know, an Orpheus for our own time - Georgie Buchanan - will be joining me for the next Embodied Myth offering.
Georgie is a harpist and heartist of epic proportions. There’s nobody else who I would trust to re-play Orpheus’ lament for Eurydice.
So join us, to let the music melt your ears. To listen for your own longing. To turn back towards love.
More about Georgie:
Inspired by tales of Celtic Goddesses, ancient mythology and voyages to the Outer Hebrides and beyond, Georgie is a unique singer and harpist on the contemporary folk scene. Interweaving traditional melodies with original compositions, songs and stories, Georgie’s music speaks of a heartfelt connection with the natural world and the inner wisdom of the body.
Georgie is passionate about the power of music to transform and transcend and she has been playing for yoga and movement classes for the past 10 years. Georgie’s debut album Wise as a Fool has been played on BBC Radio Three and BBC 6 Music and she has performed sell out shows around the UK.
"Gorgeous"
– Guy Garvey, BBC 6Music
The myths are calling to you.
They are in the air, gasping
underneath the wingspan of the birds that soar
from slipstream to precipice. They howl through the vast valleys and
they exhale with the rising moon.
They are in the roots, reaching their fingers
down into the dirt and decay, clawing at the dark crevices
of remembering. Worms nestle inside their chapters,
eating the poetry and turning it to mush.
The myths long to grow tall, to push
life up into the day, to drink in the sunlight.
They are in the soil. Silent, silken and shuddering
with the tremors of Earth. Glimmering blackness
reflecting the secrets waiting to be told and retold,
hanging onto the bottom of the serpent’s belly as they
glide over the ages of lost story.
And the myths are in your bones.
They are written in the steady binding of your form
longing to ripple out and be reclaimed
through the slopes and slides and soft openings
of your body.
The myths call through you.
“Libby reignited a spark in my imaginal world, I now offer that world as much devotion as my waking life. I am immersed in symbols that flicker behind closed and open eyes. I have dream companions, protectors that are by my side. I am living with big questions but I have a whole universe of wisdom to tap into when I sit with soul. If you are wondering what is deep inside your soul, what is whispering or screaming to be heard, which path to walk down, which way to swim or how to live with such deep hunger for life, then sit with Libby.”