Zhenevere Sophia Dao, a transgender woman, 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. She teaches workshops in INTEGRITAS: Inversions of Power Through Spiritualized Martial Arts, as well as VOICE & VOICE: Profound Experimental Theaters of Body & Song, with her companion, vocalist Willa Roberts. 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.
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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Closed In-depth Study Groups with Zhenevere in 2025-2026
Students who attend the in-person POWER, EROS & IMAGINATION workshops with Zhenevere Sophia Dao and Willa Roberts have the option of joining the online in-depth study groups, led by Zhenevere, that follow these in-person experiences.
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"Eros & Civilization"
This in-depth study group has begun and is closed until after the Italy Intensive in May, at which point it will be open to participants of the Italy POWER, EROS & IMAGINATION intensive.
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"Power & Civilization"
This in-depth study group begins in June, 2025, exclusively for students who have participated in the Italy POWER, EROS & IMAGINATION intensive in May, 2025.​​
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"Imagination & Civilization"
This in-depth study group is projected for 2026.
Open Online Seminars with Zhenevere Sophia Dao
Details and Registration Forthcoming
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"Untimely Meditations"
Seminars on Pornography, AI, Hate Speech & Cancel Culture, Capitalism, Consumerism & Distraction, etc.
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"Women, Power & Poetry"
Sappho & Emily Dickinson
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REGISTER FOR LECTURES
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Upcoming Classes TBA​
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