PORTALS
A YEAR OF INVISIBLE PRACTICE
The seasons are happening! The breath is happening! You are happening too :)
Portals is a syncretic dialogue of practical and poetic practice moving through five seasons, eight thresholds, and the turning year — organized around the calendar we actually live inside, because we are always playing between two seasons, an octave always borrowing a note from the one above and the one below.
WHAT IS PORTALS?
Portals is a monthly membership — Dages's practice made public, a living, iterative archive of breath, seasonal intelligence, subtle body cartographies, sensory expansion, poetry, and vitality.
Our organically emerging curriculum is organized around five seasons, with dialogues drawn from Katonah Yoga, cultural theory, plant work and poetry, all held in conversation with the Western agrarian calendar.
One monthly live gathering on Zoom: move, breathe, write, connect
One monthly audio or video transmission- a teaching, a ritual, a practice to play with
One prompt/image/map to print or reference
Ongoing conversation on our exclusive WhatsApp group and other surprises (goodies!) from our extensive video and audio archive
Summer Zooms are Thursdays 9am EST/3pm CET:
May 14 + June 11 + July 16 + August 6
Drop in for a month, a season, a solar cycle.
The body is a site of radical openness, a ground of revelation and experience rather than merely a locus of identity. I research invitations beyond identity and back into innate, intimate relationship with our own materiality — techniques of decivilization, of unhooking attachment to narratives, of greeting the ghosts of our intergenerational errands, allowing the balm of the strange to soothe our moment's sense of estrangement.
I am interested in techniques of friendship — containers to be chosen for durations and held lightly, practices that trust the life and desire that is already shaping us, exploring habits that cultivate options, and options make us powerful.
We have always been embodied ecologies, but we forget. Portals offers practices of remembering who is really here: much truer, stranger, older, wilder, wiser and vaster.
THE FORM
Every month, a braid:
GATHERING
A live session once a month: practice, teaching, open conversation. Always recorded and archived for you to revisit on your own time.
A recorded breath or embodiment practice, 20–35 minutes, tuned to the intelligence of the current season. Sometimes movement or breath, sometimes a lecture, essay, or voice memo. Always alive to what is actually happening.
PRACTICING / THINKING
A single PDF: a ritual, a writing prompt, a diagram, a sensory or herbal guide. Something to print out and return to.
ALCHEMIZING
Between deliveries, the community Whatsapp thread stays open — collectively we become the ingredients and we simmer together. You can ask questions, share what you're noticing, respond to the live and recorded gatherings.
You can join any month. You don't need to wait for a particular season to begin — you enter where the year is, and you'll move through the full cycle in your own time. The archive is available from your first day. But the living edge of the program is always now — the current season is always the right one.
Membership is $24/month, or $240/year. Join at any time, cancel at any time.
ABOUT DAGES
Dages Juvelier Keates has been teaching breath, movement, and embodied practice for over twenty years. She is a senior Katonah Yoga teacher and author of Breath Magic: Portals to Presence and Radical Acts of Embodiment. She is a current candidate at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics and dramaturg for choreographer Faye Driscoll.
Portals is her ongoing school — the place where she thinks out loud and stays in conversation with anyone who wants to chat :)