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; Mythopoetic Meditation; Poetry
Every Week on Tuesday Evenings from 6pm—6:45pm MT USA
$10
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Each Tuesday evening we'll have a guided mythopoetic meditation followed by select forms of Mythosomatic Movement. 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.​
Register Below for PROFUNDITAS
Tuesday, January 21
6—6:45pm MT USA
No one is rejected for financial reasons. Please contact Zhenevere on this website.
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The Inmost Revolution
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Lectures and Dialogues on Challenging Subjects
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The Inmost Revolution
Introduction to the Year-long Online Series
February 5th, 2025
6-8pm MT USA; $20
"The Coldness & Numbness of Our Times"
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On February 5th we have the introductory class to the year-long series, THE INMOST REVOLUTION. For the remainder of 2025, twice a month, on the 1st and the 3rd Wednesday evening of each month, Zhenevere Sophia Dao will attempt to address some of the most difficult and divisive issues of our time, such as: gender, misogyny, racism, hate speech and cancellation, AI, pornography, corporate conditioning, capitalism and spirituality, techno-media and depression, etc. The lecture will last approximately 75 minutes, after which there will be a group dialogue.
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In this introductory class on the 5th, Zhenevere Sophia Dao will attempt to bring to consciousness many of the forces of contemporary culture that have contributed to, if not manufactured, the current (perhaps unprecedented) nihilism.
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No one is excluded for financial reasons. Please contact Zhenevere Sophia Dao on this website.
