Hi, I’m Lukca. A workshop leader, theatre maker, and Scottish Pagan, trying to contribute to the new Renaissance.
I’ve developed this work over a masters degree
practitioner research, experimenting with fun ways to use my brain and body
I started the project with the goal of finding purpose. I found out how, for so long I’ve made decisions and resolved to live in a certain way, and called myself certain things, but not shown up with my daily actions; now, using methods that treat purpose as a thing to hold in every moment, cultivating energy and working with myself not against myself, I’m getting better at being who I want to be.
The conscious and unconscious mind is incredible. Magic is using symbols and ritual actions to affect your unconscious mind and using body centred awareness to make you more conscious and less egoic.
The Romans and the catholic church killed all the Druids, who knew of ways to use the power of belief, body-mind connection, and ritualistic action for empowerment and healing. Rave culture is our echo of that tradition. How about a new culture, spurred by these deeply troubled and unconscious times. Collective belonging, personal magic, the world being filled with more possibilities. Ayo!
Some inspirations for this work are:
Jerzy Grotowski
Antero Alli
Gabrielle Roth
My mum
Augusto Boal
Michael Chekhov
Stephanie Arsoska
John Dean
Zen Buddhism
Taoism
Hermetic practice
Tantric Yoga
Carl Jung
Gurdjieff
Drama therapy
Consciousness raising groups
encounter games
The Alexander Technique
The Feldenkrias method
Rudolf Steiner
Rites of passage
Scottish Folklore
Cognitive Science – specifically about the placebo effect/power of belief, and interactions between the Default mode network, Executive control network, and salience network
