How can we cultivate and tend the place of meeting between humans and the animate cosmos?

Drawing from Jung’s experiences creating The Red Book, his processes of active imagination and automatic writing and his research into the oracular tradition underpinning the Western Philosophical tradition, Maya seeks to reveal the connections between these and ancient Aboriginal traditions of ‘co-becoming.’

In her workshops, ‘Writing with the Earth: Kinship, Embodiment and Belonging’, Maya facilitates deep connections with the wholeness, beauty and intelligence of life’s process, grounded in somatic and ecological principles.

Based on her doctoral research into links between European and Aboriginal contemplative and participatory practices with the natural world, her work is a contemporary form of ancient esoteric traditions of direct communication with the more-than-human world.

She will speak to the importance of taking up the request from Aboriginal people to listen to and fall deeply in love with Country.

Dr Maya Ward is a writer, artist, designer and gardener dwelling in the forest village of Warburton by the banks of Birrarung. Maya’s intimate communion with the intelligence of life is profoundly influenced by her longstanding dance and embodiment practices, and practices of earth celebration, communion, and repair. She is active in co-creating community rituals, teaching, food growing and tree planting.

Maya currently has a photographic exhibition showing at the Warburton Arts Centre which closes on Saturday April 26:

Please follow this link if interested in attending Dr Maya Ward Exhibition.