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past workshop

The Mythical Body

October 12–16, 2026

Kerri Kelly

The myths that built this world — the ones that tell us who belongs, who leads, and who is worthy of care — are losing their hold, and the body knows it. Long before the mind catches up, the body has been carrying the weight of these stories: in the armor we wear, the patterns we embody, and the creativity we withhold.

This workshop is an invitation to go beyond the veil and begin the ancient, necessary work of returning to yourself. Over the course of our time together, you will be guided through a layered journey of the myths that have shaped us and the medicine waiting on the other side.

Our journey weaves in four directions:

  • Unlearn — surface the cultural stories embedded in your posture, your patterns, and your pain, and begin to loosen their grip.
  • Transform — reorganize the patterns of control, scarcity, and separation that have run your inner life, and feel what opens when they no longer do.
  • Recover — reclaim the wisdom, histories, and ways of knowing that dominant culture has obscured or erased.
  • Co–create — practice, together, what it actually feels like to move from a different story entirely.

This is the work that makes the other work possible — the foundation beneath every vision, every relationship, every act of courage toward a different future. Designed for those who sense that the world will not change until we do.

Kerri Kelly

Kerri Kelly is a master coach, movement educator, and author of American Detox who works at the intersection of embodiment, justice, and leadership. Founder of CTZNWELL and Movement for the Movement, she helps leaders build capacity for collective liberation.

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