Shamanic Tools for Liberating Our True Longing

Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day 

Given the current state of our world and the potential grim futures on the horizon, it can feel shameful to center our pleasure, joy, and desire. Instead, many of us learn to compartmentalize the erotic into arenas of hyper sexualization and sensation divorced from context, or we deny and distance ourselves from it entirely. 

But what if forming a trusting relationship with our desire is essential for navigating into a future in service of Life? What if the Earth is speaking to us through our desire all the time and we simply need the tools to listen? 

Join shamanic practitioner and healer Langston Kahn for an experiential workshop on releasing oppressive patterning, reclaiming our capacity to know satisfaction, and learning how to engage with our heart’s desire. Our desire, pleasure, and joy are the foundations of any true power we have.  

In this immersive workshop participants engage in somatic movement, elemental ritual, guided meditation, animism, deep self-inquiry and other practices for engaging our desire as a compass that points us towards our purpose. Consort with the wild chaotic forces of the sacred elements and the wisdom of our bodies to help us liberate a relationship with the erotic powerful enough to guide us in weaving wholeness from the brokenness of these times. Explore grief as a teacher guiding us into relationship with what we value.  

Change is possible if we focus on what we want to move towards rather than what we are fighting against. Langston invites you to reclaim our relationship with what we want for ourselves and for future generations to come. 

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Langston Kahn is a healer, teacher and community weaver specializing in radical human transformation, ancestral healing and the restoration of an authentic relationship with our emotions and the more-than-human world. He stands firmly at the crossroads, his practice informed by somatic modalities, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into traditions of the African Diaspora and his helping spirits and ancestors weaving it all together. He is a teacher and co-leader of the Cycle Community, a collective of people striving to live in alignment with ancient animist principles and applying them in service of personal and collective liberation. He is the author of Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma. For more information, please visit his website.  

Accessibility

If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page.

Recording Policy

Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers.

Refund Policy

Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% partial refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy at our Frequently Asked Questions web page.