Zhenevere Sophia Dao
Post-Daoist & Neo-Romantic
Cultural & Existential Philosophy
& Counter-Capitalist Imagination
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Mythosomatics
My little flames kip up everywhere,
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trying to burn us with sameness,
but you say, “
You poor, poor ocean,
you mess of endless stars.”
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ZSD
Photo by Willa Roberts, August 2024
Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist (Penguin Books), playwright, and existential and cultural philosopher. She was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, after which she relinquished a Jones Lectureship position in Poetry and Creative Writing at Stanford, leaving academia for the equestrian and blacksmithing professions, and to become an independent scholar. She is the founder of Mythosomatics, an original body of mythopoetic movement art, and the philosophies of Post-Daoism and Neo-Romanticism. With her companion, vocalist Willa Roberts, she teaches workshops in INVERSIONS OF POWER: Spiritualized Martial Arts & Profound Experimental Theaters of Body & Song. She is the founding director and a principal player of SACRa Theater. Zhenevere makes the better part of her living as a blacksmith, farrier (horseshoer), and horse trainer.
PROFUNDITAS:
Deep Practices Toward Everlasting Things
Mythosomatic Movement; Floating Heart Meditation; Poetry
Every Week on Tuesday Evenings from 5pm—5:45pm MT USA
$10
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Each Tuesday evening we'll practice Floating Heart Meditation, a mythopoetic meditation I created (in 2018) for anxiety and grounding. We'll also practice some select forms of Mythosomatic movement, primarily derived from the Trauma Series of Mythosomatics (also created in 2018). I'll speak briefly about some concept of Post-Daoist & Neo-Romantic philosophy that might help to orient us toward everlasting things. And finally, I will read a poem, from among the many great poems of the world, that likewise might help us to focus on truly important and enduring things.
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Purchase below for Tuesday, December 10th
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The Inmost Revolution
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Lectures and Dialogues on Challenging Subjects
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"Source & Resource"
Sensibility, the Last Frontier of Power
$35 for both sessions
EUROPEAN TIME ZONE CLASS
Lecture: Wednesday, December 11th
6pm—7:30 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
(11am—12:30pm MT USA)
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Communal Dialogue: Thursday, December 12th
6pm—7:30 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
(11am—12:30pm MT USA)
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In this lecture, I'll focus on my philosophies of Post-Daoism and Neo-Romanticism, providing a background and foundation of these philosophies for students to refer to as we proceed through these challenging seminars. On the following evening, we'll discuss this topic as a group. Registration for this class encompasses both the lecture and the dialogue. A single ZOOM link will be provided upon registration which functions for both sessions.
Purchase below for INMOST REVOLUTION, Wednesday, December 11th & Thursday, December 12th
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2025 Open In-Person Intensives
with Zhenevere Sophia Dao & Vocalist Willa Roberts
Umbria, Italy, May 14-20
POWER, EROS & IMAGINATION
at Casa Sangam
Gubbio, Italy
REGISTRATION FORTHCOMING
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