May 27, 2025 5:00 PM UTC
Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, & ecology.
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Virginia is a writer and curator exploring social justice, ecology, feminism, and art through poetic, sensorial essays, workshops, and rituals that aim to decondition by highlighting the revolutionary power of creativity and storytelling.
Learn moreJoin renowned mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a conversation on how modern myths have been severed from their ancient roots and embedded in our bodies. Explore how we can rewild these stories to live more meaningful, liberated, and life-giving lives.
What if they don’t just reside in cultural memory, but have been taken over by the architecture of empire, the language of medicine, and therefore changed the ways we inhabit our bodies?
Join writer and mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a conversation that traces the history of myth—and the ways they’ve been severed from land, body, and place—into animations of modern systems of power and disconnection. This special webinar celebrates the newly revamped edition of our most beloved course, Rewilding Mythology, where Sophie’s groundbreaking curation helped hundreds reconnect with myth as something visceral, ecological, and alive. The course features incredible people like David Abraham, Josh Schrei, Bayo Akomolafe, bronte velez and more.
Drawing on her work, Sophie will guide us into the tangled roots of dominant paradigms: from the Cartesian split to the commodification of health. We’ll unpack how this transformation mirrors broader mythic migrations—stories uprooted from land, translated by conquest, and then hidden inside institutions as cultural “stowaways.”
We’ll ask: what happens to myths when they travel? What do they lose—and what do they smuggle through? How can we give back to the myths and the ways they live inside our bodies?
From the less so known ancient tales of wisdom, to scripts behind how we believe our bodies should behave—efficient, pure, productive. These myths, often cloaked in scientific language or spiritual ideals, suggest that to be broken, disabled, messy, or desirous is to fall short of worthiness. But what if these myths are wrong? What if we reroot and rewild them?
Most importantly, Sophie invites us back into our own mythic bodies. Not as symbols or metaphors, but as living, responsive ecosystems that remember.
Whether you're a mythologist, healer, seeker, or simply someone who’s tired of tidy narratives—this is a space to compost old truths and rewild your sense of the sacred.
Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, & ecology.
Learn moreIt would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022. She is currently researching a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde.
Virginia is a writer and curator exploring social justice, ecology, feminism, and art through poetic, sensorial essays, workshops, and rituals that aim to decondition by highlighting the revolutionary power of creativity and storytelling.
Learn moreVirginia is a writer, curator, and researcher exploring social justice, ecology, feminism, and art through a poetic lens. In the last fifteen years, she has been researching and working on gender, feminism and social justice as an activist, journalist, writer and editor. Her writing exists in the in-betweens and tackles social justice, ecology, and feminism poetically, questioning the paradigms currently in place through an approach centred on the emotional and spiritual as well as the political and logical. In her writing, she often infuses ritual, embodiment exercises, and creative prompts. She believes that deconditioning can only happen if we involve not only our minds and knowledge but also our bodies. She is the voice behind WAVES (https://virginiavigliar.substack.com/), a newsletter with thousands of monthly views that questions existing paradigms through a place of joy and care. Through sensorial essays, interviews, and cultural analysis, she weaves conversations on topics such as beauty, identity, masculinity, rest, entanglement, and feminisms. She offers workshops around an ecological approach to masculinity and creative sensorial workshops, find all her offerings here: https://www.virginiavigliar.com/workshops Her mission is to use words as poetic antidotes to systemic issues and to highlight the power of creativity, inner knowledge, and art in our society. Her words are in _Atmos, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vice, The Lissome, World of Topia_ and many notebooks around the world. Words are her comfort zone, she is working on the rest. You can follow her on Instagram @vivivigliar and subscribe to her newsletter WAVES in the link above.