PRAYERS AND ACTIONS BEYOND BOUNDARIES
with Gigi Coyle
October 25 - October 28
Prayers and Actions Beyond Boundaries
A Weekend for Community
October 25, 16:00 - October 28, 14:00
Gigi Coyle, a visionary guide for the alliance Beyond Boundaries, offers individuals and groups rites of passage, the nature of council, and maps of wholeness along with different stewardship best-practices and exercises. She and her partner, Win Phelps will return this year to work with Christina Chorafa and Daphne Percy-Chorafa at Oikia Karapanou. We will co-create a weekend experience exploring peacemaking and peace keeping within and without.
How are we each part of the healing? Where are we to be and what is ours to do?
Through our time together we will touch the importance of being current in our lives, as best we can be, prepared for all that is arising in us and in our world today. Join us to share story, song and movement, the practices of council and mindfulness, courting and deepening our connections with nature daily, opening to old and new relationships, inviting in what is essential to inform our time and lives to come.
Our journey, its themes and direction, will be informed by the time, the place and those who attend.
Cost
Each will be asked to pay the costs for food and lodging and offer “dana,” a financial gift to our guides according to your own means and heart.
Preparation
Prerequisites include a commitment to community as you define it, full participation during these days, experience in circle or council ways (can we not open to people without this experience?) and review of the websites : waysofcouncil.net, walking-water.org, livebeyondboundaries.net.
BIOS
Gigi Coyle has sat, worked and lived in circle-ways for decades, guiding pilgrimage, offering the Nature of Council, and serving as a facilitator for many kinds of passages, gatherings, and trainings in over 20 countries. Today, she is best known as a community activist, mentor and guardian for individuals, communities, networks, and organizations, a caretaker or care-keeper, steward of land, water, and cetaceans, visionary for an alliance Beyond Boundaries (https://livebeyondboundaries.net). She is devoted to the emergence of local and global sanctuaries, “watering holes” or acupuncture points. She is focused on healing ways through ceremony, inter-generational, cross-cultural projects of prayer, action and service. Gigi has co-founded, co-created and/or co-directed The Ojai Foundation, the Terma Company, Living Arts, Three Creeks, Walking-Water (Walking-Water.org) and ORCA: Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, responsible for the release of two captive dolphins back to the wild. Currently, she continues her engagement thru Beyond Boundaries and Defend the Sacred Alliance, www.defend the sacred.org. Co-author of The Way of Council; The Box, Remembering the Gift; Kaleidoscope: Finding My Way Home, and A Practice of Council, http://waysofcouncil.net, along with other pamphlets, articles and interviews available.
Christina Chorafa is the founder and vision holder of Oikia and of the School of All Relations. She is a certified fascia therapist and mindfulness meditation teacher. She is committed to cultivating pure presence to Βeing.
Daphne Percy Chorafa was born in Sweden and grew up between Greece, Sweden and France. She studied Fine Art (BA) in Scotland between 2012-2016. Between the years of 2018-2023, Daphne lived on the land of Israel-Palestine, where she studied dance and Dance-movement therapy (MA), focusing on the development of kinaesthetic awareness and sensitivity to expression and communication through the body. She particularly loves working in nature, immersing herself in the natural world, alone or in a group. Daphne returned to her native Aegina in July 2023, where she now lives and teaches Contact Improvisation, and just completed the building process of a spacious dance yurt, that will host many beautiful moments!