CHRYSALIS
“We are gods in the chrysalis”
~ Elbert Hubbard
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A 7 week transformational online movement journey
into the dark deliquescent interior of the chrysalis.
From within the cocoon of your home.
BEGINS WINTER SOLSTICE
2025 DATES TBC
Enter this portal of refuge,
chamber of transformation,
sanctum of sensitivity,
a support for you, your body,
your nervous system,
and your creative alchemy.
OVERVIEW
Harnessing the potent 5Rhythms medicine wheel to resource ourselves through self-inquiry, movement, meditation, and dance. As we traverse this collective dark night of the soul, there is also a deeper message that for life to evolve,
we must evolve ourselves.
In essential service to ourselves and our kin
We are required to go all the way IN.
To meet the murk, the mystery, and the magnificence we are.
to embrace the opportunity to pass through our biology,
fortify our capacity, face our shadow,
and allow the crumbling world inside us,
to die and disintegrate.
Make of this time a potent beautiful medicine of renewal and awakening.
Inside the chrysalis,
the body breaks down into imaginal cells,
which like stem cells,
can become any type of cell.
The imaginal cells put themselves back together
in a new design, a new dreaming.
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In the betweening
of past and future,
of now and never
Is the liminal zone
The imaginal field
The great dissolve
The Mystery revealed.
“Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis
and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell.
But still, you will survive the transformation (over and over again) and you will fly.
Remember this when it hurts the most.
This is the metamorphosis, the going down to liquid, and the rising again.
It’s no joke – but damn, it’s one hell of a journey.”
~ Jeanette LeBlanc
A 7 week online journey harnessing the potent 5Rhythms medicine wheel to resource ourselves through self-inquiry, movement, meditation, and dance.
This format is designed as an opportunity to enter the chrysalis from the sanctuary of your own home to create and benefit from the sense of retreat from the external world. It is designed to be able to complete in the evening and roll right into bed into the imaginal cellular dreamtime.
TIMING:
We enter the Chrysalis during Winter Solstice 2025
7.30 ~ 9pm (AEST)
There are several other significant alignments such as the Mayan 'Day Out of Time' on our Stillness session, and we emerge from the Chrysalis on Imbolc ~ the time of the beginning of beginnings. Imbolc is a time of hope, a time filled with new possibilities for the future, of those we’ve dreamed up, ‘seeded’ over the winter.
Seven consecutive Thursdays
There will be 6 live sessions over the 7 weeks:
Exact dates TBC
If you can’t make it to the live session, the replay will be available.
INVESTMENT:
General Admission: $220
Concession: $190
Tech Crew/work exchange available. Contact for details.
CONTAINER:
• A weekly online live practice via zoom, from the comfort of your own home.
• Each session will hold a teaching of an aspect of the Chrysalis journey, through the lens of the 5Rhythms® medicine wheel.
• You will be guided into movement practice to hone the listening to your own internal guidance.
• You will receive the zoom link upon registration and it will be the same link for the duration of the sequence.
By retreating from the busyness of the external world into our inner being, we are able to cultivate and dive into rich Stillness, Presence, and Awareness.
When we surround ourselves in cocoons of prayer, movement, meditation, insights and reflections, we transform.
When we are willing to face our own shadow self, greeting all the aspects of ourselves…welcoming everything, and all that we are with love and with compassion, we transform.
Through this inner journey, we heal, grow and evolve…
We become ready and willing to emerge.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
No matter how scary it gets down there
the dark tends to be gentler than you think.
And at the end of the path,
there will be sunlight.
And wings.
~ Kirstin Vanlierde
Please contact Honor if you have Q’s