Intro to Radical Aliveness
Weekend Workshop | March 6 - 8 in Montague, MA
We live in an increasingly polarized world. A world where neighbors with different perspectives than us can feel like the enemy. Where co-workers who voted for “the other guy” are written off as ignorant. Where family gatherings can quickly become divisive.
This is not about ignoring the impacts of certain actions; it is about creating connection at a time when we are often taught to separate. Separate from the other, separate from nature, separate from ourselves.
Radical Aliveness is about coming home to ourselves. It’s about witnessing the humanity in others and being willing to be changed by our encounters. It’s learning how we all have been conditioned in certain ways based on our culture, our family, our teachers and others.
We can learn so much when we take the time to deeply listen to the sensations arising in our bodies. Paired with an exploration of our complex cultural frameworks, we can greatly expand our capacity to engage with all of life. In Radical Aliveness, we call this the “self as instrument.”
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This weekend training is for those who are pulled to deepen their self-awareness, grow their relational capacity, and learn to live from grounded presence amid complexity and diverse perspectives.
Over the weekend, participants will engage the principles and practices of Radical Aliveness through dynamic experiential exercises, individual and group somatic processes and teachings to support integration and application.
In Radical Aliveness, we work with what emerges in the group as a shared field of awareness. Participants practice tracking their own internal experience while staying connected to the collective process, noticing how meaning, assumptions, and action arise through relationship. By allowing ourselves to be guided by what is present, we begin to move with greater choice, responsibility, and responsiveness.
Radical Aliveness principles we will work with include:
- Knowing you don’t know
- A non shaming heart and attitude
- Honoring multiple perspectives
- Welcoming what is present
- Being willing to be changed
- Do your part
- Acknowledge impact
Participants can expect to leave with a deeper relationship to their own embodied awareness, increased capacity to stay present in group settings, and practical tools for engaging difference and complexity with greater clarity and care.
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Application:
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The application deadline is January 24 but apply soon as spaces are limited.
- APPLY HERE
Payment:
- Workshop fee: $495
- Fee includes the workshop, snacks, tea and lunches for Saturday and Sunday
- Payment is due upon acceptance via check to Susan Pincus or Zelle
Dates:
- March 6: 6 - 8 pm
- March 7: 10 - 5:30 pm
- March 8: 10 - 5:30 pm
Location: Sawmill Herb Farm in Montague, MA
Questions? Email Susan at sawmillherbs@gmail.com
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About Susan Pincus:
Susan is the owner of Sawmill Herb Farm. Her relationship with the natural world began early through time spent in the woods and tending a backyard garden, experiences that shaped her lifelong connection to land and plants.
Susan trained for many years as an herbalist and naturalist with teachers at Thyme Herbal, Clearpath Herbals and Wolftree, and other land based programs.
Susan is a Certified Practitioner of Radical Aliveness, a unique somatic healing philosophy that works at the intersection of systemic reality and emotional process.
She is the creator of the Somatic Herbalism Apprenticeship, a seven month land-based journey that weaves earth centered healing with body based practices. Susan works with individuals, couples and groups.
Her teaching and lecturing experience includes UMass Amherst, Smith College, and Amherst College.