Embodied Ritual: Perfectionism, Pleasure, & Play

Friday, December 17th | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | The Archive Collective | $51
The last Embodied Ritual of 2025

Perfectionism freezes our creativity, muffles our voice, and keeps our deepest desires waiting.

But beneath the tightness of “getting it right” lives something softer, wilder, and infinitely more alive: pleasure and play.

In this end-of-year ritual, we’ll meet the inner perfectionist with compassion, alchemize the patterns that keep you stuck, and awaken the playful creative current that wants to move through you. Through vocal toning/singing, somatic dance, art-making, and embodied writing, you’ll remember what it feels like to create, and live, with freedom instead of pressure.

A somatic and emotional reset.
A creative reclamation.
A playful doorway to close out 2025 and set the tone for 2026.

What You’ll Experience

• Use vocal toning and singing to soften self-judgment and open your expressive channel.
• Somatic Dance that welcomes imperfection as magic.
• Create art from sensation rather than self-critique, draw, mark, scribble and let your body lead.
• Explore embodied writing to translate inner signals into language and insight.
• Build a relationship with your inner perfectionist and transform its grip through curiosity, compassion, and play.
• Leave with practices that support creative aliveness in everyday life.

Why This Matters!

When perfectionism leads, desire gets silenced.
Dreams get delayed.
Joy gets postponed.

This embodied ritual invites you back into your body, where creativity originates, aliveness is felt, and play becomes a pathway to self-trust. As you practice pleasureful, imperfect creativity, you rewire how you move through the world.

This is your chance to close 2025 out with emotional and somatic alchemy and step into 2026 feeling more free, playful, and creatively awake.

Event Details

Location: The Archive Collective, Suite 130 1900 11 ST SE
Calgary, AB
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM (arrive at 5:45 PM)
Investment: $51
Provided: Art materials are provided, you're welcome to bring extra
Parking: Lot right by the building

Please bring

• Cushion
• Yoga mat
• Water bottle
• Journal and pen
• Wear comfortable clothing you can move in

No artistic or dance experience required, just a willingness to be imperfect, curious, and alive.

Reserve your spot and come play your way into the new year.

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