Aviva Arts launches Resonance, a global in-person retreat program.
Resonance Retreats take Aviva Arts’ practice of empathy, compassion and personal growth and our relationship to the natural world to the next level
What would it look like to live the world you envision for the future now?
Resonance offers participants affinity spaces that re-align and re-tune our relationship to community, culture-building and our own inner purpose.
Light, movement, energy are all vibration.
Politics, society, digital communication often contribute to isolation, static energy, a feeling of stuckness and divisiveness. We make attempts to sound out our authentic selves (at work, home, with friends) but cannot make a connection. We are not receiving a signal back because outside systems are telling individuals to stay alert and fear others. This takes a lot of energy to maintain. We are tired and seek to numb ourselves in so many ways in order to cope in a system that doesn’t serve our true humanity
When we resonate, we are responding…
…to intuition, inner knowing, the Great Mystery, our True North. When we resonate we feel seen, acknowledged, a part of something greater than ourselves. To resonate with ourselves we return to a simple state of presence where we can move from authentic desire.
When we resonate we are making connection
Connecting with people in our personal relationships, connecting with our true purpose and connecting with the more than human world. We recognize our interdependence on the journey of life, feel lighter, seen a sense of belonging. We remain present longer and yearn for the simplicity, the effortlessness of this state of being. It is only by resonating with the universe that we will ever begin to imagine new ways of being together, of gathering, of inclusivity systems of governance of play and joy and greater health.
It is in these systems that serve a capitalist and colonialist agenda (see Tema Okun, white supremacy culture for more on this,) fear and othering are offered as solutions that uphold these systems but continue to oppress individuals and suppress ancient native knowledge and practices and erase individual story.
About Resonance
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Resonance is an innovative community learning model for anyone seeking greater resonance in their lives, relationships, groups and the more than human world. The Programs will center liberatory arts and wellness practice with world class facilitators.
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Our social, political and natural worlds are in dissonance for the global majority. We need new/old practices to envision better ways of living that are in attunement. Five years after a global pandemic
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Organizational leaders, Culturalmakers, artists, teachers, thought leaders, healers and individuals who would like to build a practice of community connection in a deeper way are warmly invited to join us.
Centering BIPOC, queer, disabled, women and non-binary folks living together resilience and leadership skills, and community creativity to co-imagine the world we wish to live in.
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Look for weekend and weeklong retreats Resonance Retreats in 2025 in the Spring (Bay Area) and Summer (Portugal)
REST
When we are present, we are open to opportunity. We are nonjudgmental. We are outside of a story based arms length critique, and we are in embodied experience. This presence practice allows us to be in our state of play. It’s no accident that actors are called players. We as children had more access to our authentic desire, so that’s why play is such an important part of ensemble work.
REST: Sustainability vs Subsistence
If the fire is always there, and all the elements are always available in the universe and the cosmos and the forest and our own bodies when we are not using them, they are dormant so the fire was dormant for 80 years, simply gathering energy and the dormancy helped give it energy by resting, so do we call the fire resting an active self care?
What is actual rest?
It’s a gathering of energy. If we think of the earth as a body, what does she need to be healthy? Every system requires balance, and attunement for its optimal function. If the earth suppresses the fire or humans suppress the fire, it puts the system out of balance, and when the fire was re-introduced, where she inserted herself, because she could no longer wait. She came back with a vengeance, which means she came back hot. Very very hot, so hot that the humans could not withstand or control the fire. Which also shows us how the elements themselves are as powerful. Certainly more than humans. They are warriors. They have their own weapons. As we’ve seen in Turkey and Syria in Quito,Equador so many places on the earth were flooding and earthquakes, tsunami‘s have recently occurred.
What is a tsunami?
It is a response. It is the answer to the question on another continent. So what is the explanation of a fire of such force? It is the constant desire for the universe to realign, retune and rebalance itself. Humans are a part of that.
We are a part of something bigger.