DEEP REST - Sun Stop Winter

Service Description

Sunday 21 December, 6pm-8pm Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound, Gorbals Winter Solstice or, as it’s know in Gaelic, grian-stad a' gheamhraidh - sun stop winter. This moment marks the longest night and the shortest day, when we are surrounded by the most darkness - but also are on the precipice of the light’s return. From this moment on, slowly slowly, the days start to stretch imperceptibly longer - illuminating the next spiral and cycle ahead of us. The moment has been celebrated and ritualised across cultures and traditions over thousands of years. It’s a powerful moment to rest, to shed, to meet darkness and sense what can only emerge to be met in the dark. FORM! in sweet collaboration with the Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound will offer a special ritual practice with live ambient synthesised sound. Together we’ll build an altar to the darkness, call in the Cailleach - the Celtic Goddess of winter and storms - and her fierce sister Goddess from the South Asian pantheon - Kali associated with time and dissolution. In their holding we’ll let body illuminate the darkness - through somatic enquiry and soft free movement, before slipping into passive, supported yin yielding, and culminating with a deep nidra journey - all drenched in the drones and resonance of an immersive live soundscape. This is an invitation to sink into the sweet holding of the dark void space. To let our animal bodies whisper their hibernation visions. To sense the fullness and promise of total dissolution. To offer ritual, devotion, and the collective charge of our presence into the dark vastness from which new light, shape, colour and form will slowly start to emerge