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Passages
Open Studies

Made for your deepest curiosities 

Open Studies are monthly workshops, conversations, and introductory teachings offered through Passages. These gatherings create accessible entry points into ancestral studies, earth-based cosmology, embodiment, mythic inquiry, and depth psychology as lived practice.

 

Some Open Studies are offered freely as a gesture of reciprocity and collective learning. Others are low-cost community workshops designed to support sustained study, integration, and dialogue.

 

Together, they serve as a foundational layer within the Passages learning ecosystem.

Open Studies may include:

 

  • Monthly live workshops

  • Free public webinars

  • Guest teachers and collaborators

  • Lecture-style teachings

  • Conversational dialogues

  • Guided reflections or embodied practices

  • Opportunities to continue into deeper study

The Anthropology of Death

A recurring series exploring death, grief, funerary traditions, ancestor relationships, and initiation across cultures. These studies approach death as a teacher and a threshold, weaving anthropology, cosmology, and depth psychology.

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Womb Consciousness

A series devoted to the womb as a site of memory, descent, creation, and cosmological intelligence. Topics may include menstrual cycles, the womb–grave relationship, embodiment, and the feminine mysteries across cultures.

Myth, Story & the Psyche

A series examining mythic narratives, archetypes, and the symbolic language of the psyche. These gatherings explore how story shapes identity, transformation, and the inner life through a depth-psychological and ancestral lens.

Plantcestors

A series centered on The Plant Kingdom as Master teachers. These studies explore reciprocity, ceremony, ecology, and ethical relationship with the living world.

Lineage, Land & Belonging

A series exploring ancestry, place, biocultural identity, and what it means to live in right relationship with land, culture, and memory. These studies support clarity around belonging and responsibility.

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JOIN OUR

EARTH SCHOOL 

The Passages Open Studies

is hosted on Mighty Networks. 

This is where our class portals, community conversations, free introductions, and living library of teachings are held in one place.

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UpCOMING 

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Free Introduction
The Waters We Carry
An Introduction to Ancestral Memory
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This free teaching introduces an ancestral framework for understanding the psyche through the element of water. Drawing from Mesoamerican cosmology, anthropology, and depth psychology, we explore Imox as the primordial waters where ancestral memory, emotion, and unconscious material circulate.

 

Rather than viewing grief, emotion, or memory as individual experiences, this session approaches them as inherited currents carried through blood, body, and lineage. We will reflect on how ancestral emotions move through us, how they become stagnant or metabolized, and how maturation requires circulation rather than suppression.

Led by: 

Mariana

Date:

January 14th, 2026 

10am-11am CST

Free Introduction

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The Primordial Waters We Carry
Ancestral Memory, Currents & the Living Psyche
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This workshop deepens the framework introduced in Ancestral Memory & the Living Psyche by turning our attention to water as a structural, cosmological, and psychological field of inheritance.

Across Mesoamerican cosmology, depth psychology, and biological science, water is understood not as a passive element, but as a carrier of memory, movement, and relationship. In this session, we explore Imox deeper as the primordial waters where ancestral memory circulates — shaping emotion, perception, and the unconscious through currents rather than fixed narratives.

We will examine ancestry through a hydrological lens: how emotions move like rivers through lineage, where currents become stagnant or diverted, and what allows memory to mature rather than repeat. Drawing from river systems, watershed logic, and the molecular structure of water, we explore how coherence, flow, and disruption operate both in the natural world and within the psyche.

This workshop also introduces water-based reflective practices that support emotional circulation — not to bypass grief or difficult feeling, but to allow movement where there has been holding, freezing, or accumulation across generations. These practices are offered as contemplative and ancestral technologies, not therapeutic techniques.

 

This is a study space for those ready to engage ancestry as a living system — one that moves through blood, memory, and emotion, and requires care, discernment, and responsibility to tend.

Led by: 

Mariana

Date:

January 14th, 2026 

10am -12:30pm CST

With Breaks and Introduction session 

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