Redwood Grove Fire Circle Oakland
Thursdays 9/17, 10/1, 10/15, 10/29, 11/12
6:30-9:30pm
Early Bird by 9/9: $225–$400
After: $250–$500
Individual Class: $50-$100
Registration for the full journey is open now. A limited number spots will open for individual classes later. Please reach out!
Join us as we enter a 5 session journey into the mythic story of the Wandering Spirit Star. We will co-create mythic stories around this old legend and see how the star spirit weaves its way through our story. Together we'll traverse mythic realms, weave tales of liberation and healing, and ignite mythic stories that live beyond the ordinary world.
Register here or pay directly: PayPal – asher@medicinetheater.com Venmo – @Asher-Lyons
Dear Mythic Story Travelers,
Join us for a special afternoon of Family style Medicine Theater: a co-created mythic story journey for kids, parents, and families!
Together we'll enter the mythic story realms, awakening lvisions and dreams as we play our way into healing, joy, and creative liberation!
Come explore the magic of spontaneous play, creative expression, and mythic story-making as children and adults become fellow travelers in worlds of their own creation!
When: Sunday, November 29 1–3:30 pm
Where: Sebastopol Landbase (address provided upon registration)
Ages: Best suited for children ages 5–12 and their parents or caregivers
Potluck: Optional community potluck following our journey at 3:30 pm. Bring a dish to share!
Registration:
Adults: $40-$65
Children (ages 5–12): $15-$25
If cost is a barrier, please reach out. We want all families who feel called to participate to be able to join us!
Register via:
PayPal – asher@medicinetheater.com
Venmo – @Asher-Lyons
Website – Sign Up Here
Your payment confirms your registration. Please include the number of adults and children attending, along with the children's ages.
About Family Style Medicine Theater
"Through play, children find freedom. Adults find freedom, too, if they will play with children rather than 'teach' them."
— Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin, the Grandmother of this work, believed that play is universal.
Children already live inside the world of play, while adults often forget how to enter.
When parents join their children in spontaneous play, the usual roles and barriers begin to soften, allowing everyone to meet as fellow explorers in a shared world of imagination.
Through playful improv games, embodied creative expression, and co-created mythic storytelling, we'll discover new worlds together, awakening our intuitive knowing and bringing the invisible realms of imagination to life!
Our journey will include a short break halfway through, with opportunities to rest and recharge before continuing our adventure.
No theater experience is necessary! Just a willingness to play, explore, and create together!
This is a shared family experience, with parents and caregivers participating alongside their children.
Join us for an afternoon of liberation, discovery, connection, and joy-making!
Dear Mythic Story Travelers,
Deep in the mountains lies an old ancestral valley where the dreams of the world were once cultivated and renewed in preparation for winter.
But over the generations, the people have forgotten how to slow down, listen, and dream together. Now the ancient valley is calling for our return.
For the first time in five hundred years, the ancestral ice trail has mysteriously opened, calling travelers from distant lands to bring their dreams to the valley before the deep winter freeze.
But the passage is hard and time is running out, and a mysterious ancient being is said to haunt the trail...
Will we reach the Winter Valley before the passage closes? And what dreams might awaken in those who answer its call?
Join us for a two-part co-created mythic story journey as we prepare to enter winter dreamtime, release the burdens of old, and cultivate the dreams and visions calling us into the new year.
Part One — Thursday, December 3
Journey on the Ancestral Ice Trail
Part Two — Thursday, December 17
Entering the Winter Valley of Dreams
Where: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1606 Bonita Ave, Berkeley
6:30–9:30 PM
Cost for Both Sessions:
Open Door — $75
Sustaining — $100
Keep the Fire Burning — $150
Choose the rate that best reflects your circumstances and ability to contribute.
Those who can give more help keep the Mythic StoryFire burning for everyone. No explanation needed.
Register through the website — $100 Sustaining Rate
Or pay directly:
PayPal: asher@medicinetheater.com
Venmo: @Asher-Lyons
Your payment confirms your registration! Please let me know if you'll be joining us!
Together, we'll explore the transformative power of mythic story creation, using improv exercises and other story-making methods to co-create worlds that bridge personal and collective healing.
Improvisation, or the art of awakening intuitive knowing thru spontaneous play, is an ancient art form used as long as humans have existed. This powerful vehicle provides the opportunity to tap into an inner knowing that goes beyond our rational thinking. It exists in a stream of consciousness dimension, similar to the world of our dream time.
Through the art of spontaneous play and intuitive knowing we will improvise our way into unique, liberating and healing relationships with ourselves and each other. We will access incarcerated aspects of our inner being and free them through whole body intention, relationship development, and group play.
The vehicles of prayer (or intention setting) and medicinal music and sounds will help paint the pictures and open the portals into alternate worlds and inner landscapes. Together we will weave these landscapes into stories, journeys and relationships that extend beyond our wildest imagination into the realm of limitless creative possibility.
*Connect to the power of vulnerable creative play
*Discover untapped creative forces within
*Develop a relationship with your sacred fool
*Support in expressing your true voice in front of an audience
*Heal & Release through Laughter
*Access new or dormant aspects of your creative being
*Overcome fears and cultivate new courage
*Practice problem solving skills through creative play
*Experience connection between the creative mind, body, spirit
