Revival A Solstice Celebration

Sun Salutation Yoga Sequence

Sovereign Relating: Finding what is real beyond the roles.

 Something about relationship seems to be dying. In this workshop we address the end of the materialistic notion of relationship as a thing and open into the emergent understanding of relating as a process. We will practice grieving the ways relationship has broken us as well as learning new skills to draw back our projections, re-humanize ourselves and others, and begin experiencing the ease of relating to and from our divinity instead of objectification. We will guide several practices to embody the teachings as well as have plenty of time for questions and answers about relating in general and about the unique journey that Cedar and Xoch have experienced in their unconventional relating container.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Rumi

One of the most mysterious aspects of self-love is that we tend to land on it only as a last resort, when everything else has failed, when we have truly hit bottom, when our yearning to be rescued by others has led to disappointment again and again and again.

In this workshop, we will consider the possibility of stepping into deep and profound self-love RIGHT NOW. We will stare straight into the paradox of our resistance to self-love and in doing so we will glimpse the sovereignty that awaits us by shedding the barriers we have built against it.

Being a human is the most challenging journey any conscious being could ever undertake. Were it possible to travel to all the galaxies of this universe and study all the intelligent life forms it contains, we would not find a single creature who faces a journey of existence more challenging than our own. No human can bypass this predicament. Deferring, ignoring or evading it only complicates our task in the long run.

But there is one thing that we can do to simplify the journey immeasurably—we can commit to the practice of self-love. It is a big commitment, it is a scary commitment, it is an unconventional commitment. It is a commitment that all of our social conditioning dismisses and devalues.

And yet the rewards are immense. For how can we love others before we have learned to love ourselves? How can we know what we are called to do in this lifetime before we know ourselves? How can we connect with the magical wonders of this universe if we cannot connect with ourselves? How can we be truly free until we are SOVEREIGN?

Each of us is like a tessera, a beautiful and unique piece of colorful ceramic, carrying the potential to become part of a stunning mosaic. Yet we cannot land on our own sovereignty until we know where our individual tessara fits. Just as we must patiently pivot and turn a tessera, so too must we explore our inner landscape with curiosity and compassion. This workshop is an invitation to journey inward with love, to let go of our resistance, to allow that “click” as we place our tessera into the mosaic of life.

My Body: A Disrobing Ceremony and Tantric Temple
(Please arrive early as doors will close at 2:00) Cedar and Xochitl

 This closed-door ceremonial experience invites participants to gently explore vulnerability, body image, and self-acceptance through optional disrobing, witnessing, and sacred ritual. Rooted in tantric principles, it’s a space to release shame and honor the beauty and truth of every body. We will briefly explore practices of consent, privacy, and space holding before opening the opportunity for each person to disrobe to their level of comfort and share their body’s story with us and be witnessed in love and attunement. Participants will not be engaging in physical touch with each other during the experience.  Limited seating. Doors will close when the class is full or at 2:00pm, whichever happens first. 

Thanks for Supporting and spending the weekend with us! Conversations with Life will be closed for a private event Saturday Night