A Live Online Course
Animist Daoism
The Way of Mythic Purpose
WITH EVE BRADFORD
Beloved Educator, Artist and Oracular Practitioner
Six Mondays over Zoom
Starting June 17, 2024
5:00pm - 6:30pm PT
(Lifetime access to replays will be available)
Course Overview
You are invited to reintegrate all aspects of your heart, body, and soul, weaving together the threads of your being that have become frayed in the maze of modern life. Whether you're new to Daoism and somatic practices or a seasoned explorer, you’ll be immersed in a philosophy that introduces you to the sacred aliveness of all beings. You will receive tools that you can use to navigate life’s challenges with grace.
Animist Daoism: The Way of Mythic Purpose is a unique synthesis of the Daoist and Animist traditions which Eve has devoted many years to studying and teaching. This philosophy is a deeply relational way of engaging with the world, one that recognizes the sentience and soul in all things. As we cultivate this intimate relationship with the elemental world, we begin to sense our place in the ecology of the cosmos.
The embodied practices of Mythosomatic forms, which Eve has honed through intensive study and now masterfully teaches, provide a powerful way to re-inhabit our bodies with sensitivity and vitality so that we can align with our mythic purpose.
Animist Daoism philosophy and the Mythosomatic practices are eminently practical. You'll gain the resources to meet life's challenges with grace, stay rooted in your truth while holding space for others, and participate creatively in the unfolding of your destiny.
Whether you're feeling lost in the labyrinth of life or simply longing for a deeper, more soulful way of moving through the world, this course provides a pathway to reclaiming your wholeness.
No prior experience is necessary - just a willingness to show up with an open heart and a curious spirit. If you're ready to venture into the wild and wondrous landscape of your being, we invite you to join us.
As a student of Animist Daoism, you will:
- Develop the capacity to listen deeply to your soul's whispers and align with your unique mythic purpose
- Learn to alchemize Animist Daoist teachings, Mythosomatic practices, and ritual to create a meaningful and practical way of being
- Journey through the elemental realms of Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal to dissolve old patterns, emerge in authentic expression, embody generous purpose, ground in nourishing rest, and metabolize experience into wisdom
Eve Bradford is your beloved guide for this course
Eve Bradford is an educator, artist, and oracular practitioner who works at the crossroads of art, activism, medicine, and magic. Her offerings are a fierce invitation into radical aliveness, weaving together ancient wisdom teachings with truths she has found on her own journey.
In 2017, a series of life-shattering events brought Eve to her knees. It was in this crucible that she met her primary teacher, Genevieve Sophia Tao. Under Tao's guidance, Eve immersed herself in the study of Mythosomatic practices, Daoist philosophy, sacred martial arts, and primordial yoga. For three years, she devoted herself to daily training, eventually becoming one of only two people certified to teach the full spectrum of Tao's work.
Eve also spent a decade studying with Martin Prechtel. While she acknowledges the complexity of her relationship with him as a teacher, his work profoundly shaped Eve's relationship to ritual, community, and the sacred.
From these rich lineages, and through her own deep practice and teaching, Eve has birthed this unique body of wisdom known as Animist Daoism.
In Eve’s Own words:
"This practice offers a way for highly sensitive people to feel truly resourced in our relationship to reality. So often, we feel that we must choose between being in contact with ourselves or with the world, that we can't have both. This work empowers us to inhabit both realms simultaneously, to be fully resourced in our sensitivity and fully engaged with life.”
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This Course is For You If...
- You know that your capacity to feel deeply is a powerful gift, and you're ready to cultivate it as a strength
- You sense that you have a unique purpose to fulfill, a mythic story that's longing to be lived, but you're not sure how to align with it
- You feel overwhelmed by the complexities and contradictions of modern life, and you're seeking practices to help you navigate them as your authentic self
- You desire a more intimate relationship with the non-human world, to experience yourself as part of the sacred ecology of life
- You're drawn to the wisdom of ancient lineages like Daoism, and you want to engage with them in a way that feels embodied, experiential, and relevant to your contemporary life
- You sense that your personal healing and wholeness are intricately tied to the healing of the collective, and you long to participate in that larger story
Whether you're seeking an authentic way of moving through the world or feeling disconnected and lost, this course embraces all that you are and all that you are destined to become.
If you're ready to say yes to the adventure of your own becoming, we welcome you.
Overview of Sessions
Each week will include both teachings on the spiritual philosophy of Animist Daoism as well as mythosomatic and ritual practices to support and embody these understandings.
SESSION 1: WATER
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We begin our journey on the path to Mythic Purpose in the elemental realm of Water, in surrender, forgiveness and the dissolution of patterns of thought and behavior that are no longer in alignment with the deep intelligence of our soul.
SESSION 2: WOOD
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We then journey into the Wood Realm, beginning to feel the natural emergence of our most authentic expression, exploring and inquiring into the way that the vast intelligence of the Dao expresses itself specifically through the vessel of our unique being.
SESSION 3: FIRE
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The Fire realm is where we reach with courage and vulnerability into the fullness of how our unique Mythic Purpose is longing to be expressed in our lives at this time, and feeling how the ultimate form of self-cultivation is generosity.
SESSION 4: EARTH
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Now we get to land in Earth, to ground and stabilize after the passionate risk of Fire, to connect with communal networks of care, to come into relationship with rest, nourishment and resource.
SESSION 5: METAL
- In Metal, we now have the opportunity to enter the realm of spiritual rigor, to reflect honestly with ourselves about the journey thus far, and to begin the process of metabolizing experience into wisdom, further clarifying the truth of our own Mythic Purpose.
SESSION 6: WATER
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We return at last to Water, allowing all that we have cultivated and learned to integrate, to enter into deep listening and active receptivity, as the journey around the elemental cycle begins again.
Schedule of Classes
ALL CLASSES ARE FROM 5:00PM - 6:30PM PT ON MONDAYS
June 17, 2024
June 24, 2024
No Class this week
July 8, 2024
July 15, 2024
July 22, 202
July 29, 2024
For those unable to make the live Zoom sessions, all classes will be recorded and uploaded into the Academy Portal. You will have lifetime access to replays.
What previous students say about Eve's courses
“The Journey of the Seed affirmed my connection with the elements as the true depth of this human experience. This IS the intersection where imagination and reality wandered back into my heart. And how joyous, how rich, how fucking incredible it felt to return home with Eve’s profound guidance and generosity. I can say with the deepest sense of clarity, that our week together lifted the wings of my personal mythos and collected the hopeful essence of healing back into my hands. To say I needed this immersion is an injustice. I have found a place on Earth where I am welcome, I am sovereign, and I belong. Simply put, this experience is the holiest of medicine.”
- Jewell Waters
“Eve's work and teachings are utterly transforming my life. Her careful sensitivity and her capacity to interact tenderly with nuance are profoundly nourishing to my own becoming. I feel more capable of being a sensitive, caring human inside the context of our current world. because of her work. Because of these teachings, and Eve's willingness to share a far-reaching depth of wisdom and emergent understanding of her own relationship to what it is to be human, I have come into closer contact with my soul, my heart and my body.”
- Madhavi Messmer
“I've been doing deep spiritual work in many traditions for 30+ years, and I hugely value extraordinary teachers. Eve certainly falls into this category. She not only works with intense sensitivity from a profound base of experiential and pedagogical knowledge, she knows how to create a sacred container and facilitate real alchemical understanding. Her authenticity, responsibility, and heart are truly exceptional.”
- Diana Rico
Secure your space here!
Join us beginning Monday, June 17, 2024 on this journey towards your Mythic Purpose.
"I genuinely believe the world needs more empowered, resourced highly-sensitive people able to participate in shaping culture. I have seen this work do just that and it deeply inspires me to offer it more broadly."
