We are like the spider.
We weave our life and then move along in it.
We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream.
-the upanishads
This is a week-long workshop aimed at dreamers of all kinds, wherein we shall attempt to trace the ancient thread that weaves the natural element of water to dreaming, and to allow ourselves to be claimed by the voices of the non-human intelligences of Syros island.
A truth generally accepted in the sailing community is that the sway of a boat and the sounds of the water licking it tend to facilitate deeper dreaming; sailors report more vivid, vibrant dreams, with a hint of the numinous peeking through. Broken down to its fundamentals, a sailing voyage can be experienced as a play between the velocity of air and the mobility of water.
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