With each fresh meander of the river, the bustle of civilization fades into the many-voiced stillness of the canyon – into the sunlight glinting off a heron’s wing, and the limitless eloquence of a world that exceeds all our knowing. We’ll glide into elemental conversations between our bodies and the breathing earth, entering improvisational exchanges with other creatures and plants and clouds, with the silken skin of the water, with the invisible wind and the echoing cliffs.
In the course of this week we’ll explore the mysteries of perception and the magic of sensory experience: waking our creaturely senses, loosening our animal eyes and ears and muscles from the constraints imposed by societal assumptions and over-civilized ways of thinking. We’ll glide into elemental conversations between our bodies and the breathing earth, entering improvisational exchanges with other creatures and plants and clouds, with the silken skin of the water, with the invisible wind and the echoing cliffs. Spontaneous, expressive movement may well play some part in whatever mischief we get up to. Listening, laughing, extending our bodily imagination into the hidden depths of the animate terrain, we’ll paddle our way into a more fluid and lasting rapport with the more-than-human earth dreaming all around us.
