Every year, the Immersion Residency takes place twice, alongside the river Oder. Once to mark the beginning of Spring and again to prepare for the descent into Autumn. The energy of these two gatherings is noticeably different, but the foundation beneath them is the same. They serve as a ceremonial space to touch into the cyclical nature of life as a creative act and the responsibility each of us has to align mind, body and spirit. You are welcome to attend both, or only one.

R E T U R N I N G takes place just after the Autumn Equinox, where, after those long stretching Summer days, light and dark begin to balance once again in equalibrium. It marks the turning point in the seasons, the gradual descent towards wintering. This time of year can often feel very full as the lingering end of summer continues to overflow with the temptation to keep filling up the already bursting calendar. But at some point the energy starts to shift and if you sensitise yourself well enough, you too can begin to recalibrate back to balance. It’s a beautiful moment to practice integration, to consider what lessons the Summer revealed and to ask yourself, what will be carried into the darkness of Winter and what should be left behind. All of this is with the deepest respect for your life as a creative, cyclical act, as opposed to a hyper-prodctive, function to perform.

Anytime we gather, we sharpen the ability to live by embodied principles and counter-balance the extractive, binary conditions of the dominate culture. It’s the cultivation of compassion through approval, respsect for your energy body and a connection to something much greater than any one individual. It’s a conscious reconditioning to something more truthful. My Immersions are not offered as a holiday or simply a place to relax, although there is time intended for just this too. The workshops and practices will ask you to be present and engaged, willing and receptive. In a world full of extraction, distraction and denial, this is urgent work, it’s passionate work and it’s a path of personal-responsibility. In this edition we will work with the invitatition to return your attention in, back and down.