In this workshop we will consider the Unuit story of SKELETON
WOMAN as a guide for creative process. Creativity can be sustained and is most
inventive when the feminine principle is in balance with the masculine. In the
story there are underlying themes of trust and expectations around relating to
the masculine principle. This is reflected in our personal stories, but also most
dramatically in the world in which we live.
To be clear, it is not male but the masculine part of all of
us that holds the structure of the rational, expediency and the material. The
feminine principle brings in the heart and the intuitive. Both are needed to
cultivate and sustain creative process.
In Skeleton Woman, a father throws his daughter into the sea
or the unconscious out of anger or in some stories he sacrifices her to save
himself. In our world the feminine has been sacrificed in the name of
production and commodity and we are paying globally for that imbalance of
resources of the planet.
Through the Skeleton Woman story, we will explore our
relationship to the internalized masculine qualities, which do and do not
support our creative process and what it takes to trust and be supported by the
masculine principle. Myths, fairy tales and stories are a powerful way to
explore and update our own mythology in an engaging and imaginative way.
Our workshops require
no experience or skill in the arts, only the interest in reflective play and
willingness to step into your authenticity.
