Mythopoetic Journey-Spring Equinox Poetry Workshop

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“Sounds like something Neo would attend in between battling Morpheus.” -Michael Willis

Spring Equinox Mythopoetic Journey: March 20th, 2025
A generative writing journey with Maria Garcia Teutsch

The first day of Spring. What are the conduits to the divine within oneself? In this guided writing experience, each participant will be invited to journey into their personal mythology creating and recognizing and naming the totems in their lives as the trigger for the writing prompts. We will use these responses as an agent for accessing the innermost workings of our psyches both collective and individual. This workshop goes beyond the usual axis points to enchantment: love, sex, food, psychedelics, wine, art, dance, music, etc, and into the inner workshop of one’s own divinity, which in turn can create a channel from which to open the pathways to all sentient beings.

Our personal histories are singular and yet draw upon all of the symbols each has collected over the course of their lives. Amidst this chaos how can we come to understand ourselves and our place in the continuum? We will turn to poetry as a way to generate meaning from events that may in themselves remain meaningless unless we use the medium of poetry as a collective response in conversation with filmmakers, songwriters, painters and artists across the millennia.

The Spring Equinox reminds of the cycle of new beginnings, and the importance of recognizing symbol and ritual as a way to further make meaning out of a world of chaos.

In the mythopoetic register of self-understanding we find no singular events, but confluences of meaning.

The writings from this workshop will be the basis for a potential flow of poems, stories, plays, films, essays and songs.

Mythopoetic Journey with Maria Teutsch
Via Zoom link (after registration)
March, 20, 2025 1:00 PM EST
10:00 AM PST
7 PM Berlin time

“The currents of history move in the direction of self-understanding, but the idea of what self-understanding means changes too. The historical-semiotic object is geared towards a mythopoetic concept of history.”
from Infinite Signs, A Historical Semiotic, by River Atwood Tabor