Hi Friend,

For the last few months, I've talked off and on and sometimes more consistently about the ReMembering Course. It is a Course that has been beloved by so many.

We start tomorrow. There is no pre-work, though I do ask that people register and sign up for the online course portal we use, Ruzuku, in case there are any technical difficulties (which occasionally happens).   Officially, the Course is open for two weeks after we begin, assuming that participants are willing to listen to the recording of the opening orientation session, which sets you up for the rest of the course. Or until the course is full.

I've talked about why I keep teaching this course. I've talked about logistics and time and money. I've tried to share some of the hope and power that is in this wider work - that's not just about this course.

I'm really not into selling-through-urgency. That misses the point of the bigger thing itself. 

And we are starting tomorrow.

It's not too late to join.... Though I've only got a few spots left. 

Send me an email to let me know that you are interested and, if you can, a bit about why you want to join.

I don't think there is a lot more for me to say in this, my final email about this Spring/Summer ReMembering Course other than this gentle reminder for those of you who might be wanting to take it but haven't actually signed up yet. 

So I will leave you with a few encouraging words from previous participants:

From Erin Treat:

"During my sabbatical a close group of women friends and I have been studying with Sara Jolena through her Remembering Course with Sequoia Samanvaya. Prior to my sabbatical, I also deepened my study of land acknowledgements with her and Krissy. If you are interested in re-integrating the history of climate change into the history of colonization or anything written together below, I soooo recommend her upcoming Remembering Course."

From Jennifer Rayman:

The ReMembering class had been a wonderful learning community experience. All the the ways that Sara Jolena provides to enter into the material are just magical through texts and songs and ritual and artistic expression. I savor the space she holds for us to share and learn together. The learning is profound—especially around "time traveling" as we delve into texts and our imagination. Throughout the course “history” has become less of the cartoony version of my early schooling and more Real through the process of unlearning and re-membering.

From Rachel Arlene Redeye Porter
"This course is really important. I've seen you, over the years, with this course. It's improved since I took it seven years ago, become more of a lifeway and less and less of an intellectual pursuit. You have grown, you have both more confidence and less ego. You've done the work, and you keep doing the work, and I see you keep doing the work. You have created something really unique, really yours, really not like anything else there. And this course has enabled me to take the information/knowledge and do my own thing with it, and to heal in my own way in my own community. My work is not to do your work." 

"The remembering course is a place to look at, weave back together, and discard the fragmentary pieces of life on land that was stolen. It is a place to re-imagine what now can feel like and what the future can be. People of all backgrounds can benefit, because it is not about the knowledge you gain but letting the knowledge move through and find rest within your body at any given moment. That's a continual process. As you change, the process changes. At any point in your journey and your familiarity with this subject, at any point in living these truths - there's always space - for all of us, to welcome in what the ReMembering Course has to offer.  When you think you don't need this course, that might be one of the times you need it the most.

But honestly, Sara, and this is something that I'm really ok for you to quote me on, nothing makes me more pissed off than someone who says they don't need the ReMembering Course.  I'm like, are you a human? Do you live on this land? Do you eat food? Do you eat candy? Then yes, you need this course.  

These histories of colonization, really everything that we talk about in the course, visit my body every day. I have to deal with it every day. So, don't tell me the history in this course, which relates directly to my body today, is not important."