There are parts of your being you learned to push away, to reject and to wrong. Parts you wrapped in secrecy, shame, or silence.
Yet your shadows aren't something to fix or purge or dishonour.
They are here to ripen and mature through presence, honesty, creativity, and love.
Shadowlands is a three-immersion journey into the beauty, power, and tenderness of the shadow. Through somatic exploration, movement, art-making, story, and sacred theatre, you'll meet parts of yourself that have long been waiting to be met and loved.
This is both personal and transpersonal/mythic work. Our journey over these immersive 3 days together is here to beautifully and powerfully meet these deeper layers of your being where your identity, personal story, culture, and soul all merge into the unconscious reality that lives under and shapes your everyday experience of life.
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Immersion 1: Exploring the Shadowlands
Jan 4, 2026 • 1-6pm
We begin by coming to understand the shadow, not as a problem, but as a source of power that has not yet matured.
Short-Talks and Embodied Explorations
- The Nature of Shadow and how it holds beauty, depth, and creative potential.
- How to hold this work with love, maturity, and sacred responsibility.
- Why we avoid our shadow and how this avoidance keeps us trapped.
- Shadow Circle & Witnessing practices.
- Movement Explorations & Subtle Ritual
- Somatic Honesty practices. No fixing, no changing.
- PLUS more.
You leave with a single shadow to deeply explore over the weeks ahead with intimacy, curiosity, and tenderness.
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Learn More...
For the rest of the details including registration pricing, a breakdown of immersions 2 & 3, information about the facilitator, and to get a better understanding of whether this is for you checkout the event page on the website...
www.matthewliamgardner.com/events/shadowlands
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