Mythopoetic Cognition is the Engine of Mind: Somatic Meditation & the Imaginal w/ River Kenna @thestoa

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February 10th, 2023

River shares a trajectory of practice that begins with grounding in the body, moves towards metabolizing the emotional and imagistic patterns we find in somatic meditation, and continues on to working directly with unconscious myths and archetypes that show up in the somatic-imaginal.

Usually, River talks about his work experientially and granularly, pointing out inroads to particular types of experience. Today's meeting will be his first attempt to share a version of the broader foundational backdrop he's building on, and how some of these pieces (the body & the imaginal, myths & the soma) fit together.

More from River: https://wilderless.quest

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