The Mundane Mycelium Membership
The Mundane Mycelium is a transtemporal ritual culture for reweaving the relational feedback loops that have been severed by systems of domination.
The Mycelium invites a remembering of the sacredness of all beings, all experiences, through the ordinary intimacy of their belonging within the wider field of life.
The Mycelium calls us home. Home to an embodied sensing of where we already are, of the potency within our own experience that opens the organic unfurling of our Becoming. It holds the edge of ice, of all places within and between us that have been dissociated from a wider sensing of our belonging.
The Mycelium holds the frequency of Support for How Things Grow through which we can begin to attune to the resonance that brings dreams into form. Here, there is a vision of maturation, of the embodiment of what we know through both grounding and sourcing within primal reality.
The Mycelium lives within the subtle field weaving space of the internet, made tangible through the plying of many transtemporal moments of connection, the ordinary invitation into the warping of space-time which is the gathering of video recordings and written sharings over so many distances and moments. Masquerading as an internet forum and online learning library potentiated through live events over zoom—the energetics of the Mycelium stretch us way beyond the boundaries of habituated perception while deepening our relationship to embodied center and creative agency within wider ecological and ancestral fields of support.
This next six months in the Mycelium, we will be exploring the process of Primal Becoming through experiential relationship with the Nornir, primordial pattern beings who tend the roots of the tree of life. Each month we will connect with a being from this primordial cosmology, spending a moon cycle in presence with each of the three Norns—Urd, Verthandi, Skuld—and with the ones they tend—Oorlag the Primal Law, Urtabrunner the Source of Becoming, and Yggdrasil the Tree of Life. We will invite a relationality with each of these beings that deepens beneath the conceptual and into the potency of actual energetics that can transform our perceptual reality.
The Norns are among the Old Ones within Northern European cosmology, their existence documented by written traces of pre-Christian oral culture, preserved in a trail of contradictory fragments, pointing to a completely different relationality with time and process.
At the center of reality is a tree and a wellspring. The Nornir tend the edge here, the border between life and death, a liminal becoming. They are the ultimate arbiters of fate. Fate not as static predestination, but as a relational layering, a participatory dance between what is and what must necessarily grow.
The Nornir bring nurture to the roots of reality, to Yggdrasil who grows through all the worlds. They lay down Oorlog, primal law, the geologic strata of what has become. The Norns contain the sacred wellspring, honoring the sourcing, tending the cycle through which primordial waters nourish the tree of life.
Gratitude to the many teachers and guides who are supporting my own growing, especially Bree Greenberg, Larissa Kaul, and Sadee Whip, whose approaches and frameworks have been formative to the integrity and wider root system of this offering.
Layers of Participation in The Mycelium:
BE:LONG
$35/month or $200/six months
Access to the Mundane Mycelium rituals, forum, and learning library of guided practice recordings
BE:HELD
$110/month or $600/six months (limited to 6 people, by application)
Access to the Mundane Mycelium and The Weaver’s Guild 3x monthly group practice calls and a group message thread.
BE:COME
$250/month or $1200/six months (limited to 4 people, by application)
Access to the Mundane Mycelium and two 1-1 sessions a month with a direct message thread between for integration
Included in all layers
of the Mycelium Membership:
Each month in the Mycelium, Shante’ will guide a monthly experiential ritual over zoom to invoke each relationship with each of these beings, with sharing circles before and after to explore how they can nourish themes in our own lives around animist relational integrity.
Weaving the Field Course with 9 hours of guided video and audio practices.
Fruiting Bodies discussion forum for emergent sharing and play including bonus guided practices and essays
Additional monthly pop-up events exploring themes around energetic integrity and creative potentiation, recordings saved to membership archive.
Conversations with guest artists and practitioners.
The Mundane Mycelium Membership is a space for attuning to practices of perception that have been foundational for the majority of our animist ancestors. These kinds of embodied relationality are the building blocks of ritual and culture, in its most basic sense of a witnessing of the sacredness of reality, a savoring of intimacy and beauty with all that we are in relationship with, and the creative possibility that emerges from this kind of weaving.
Testimonials:
"I have a deeper felt sense of being held by the larger field.”
— Patti Gmeiner
Ecosystem Spoons Participant
“Shante’ is attempting to give language to somatic experience that has mostly not been available to colonized humans but that we very much all need access to."
—Lise Weil
Goddard College Faculty Advisor
“Sharing space with Shante' Zenith lets you safely explore all the cracks and crevices within, making space for new insights and intra-relationships you never could have imagined were possible. Our mutual support session had me feeling held in a way that I have not felt with very many practitioners. She knows exactly how to guide your body towards nourishment with her playfulness and gentle curiosity.”
—Scout Rainer Wiley
Oscillator's Stone + Pracitioner-Peer
“Getting to watch your years of process unfold was such an honor and then some; feeling the benefits in my system from the ways you’ve learned to work with yours, there’s something about seeing kinda the before/after/in process that has a particular richness, realness and depth to it… A wonderful warmth washes over me as I watch and listen to you distill, expand and create from this years long process.”
—Kate Munson
Ecosystem Spoons Participant
"The way that you hold space is so juicy. Your energy really set the tone in slowing down time (or maybe opening it up is more accurate) during our groups. Just the way that showed me what is possible to access felt like such a big deal, and that shift in relationship to ecosystems / ourselves / each other carried over for me after our groups like a sweet afterglow. The way you feel out in the moment what the group energy is telling you and where to move to next indicates so much about you as a teacher...It felt/feels like you have ... a really skilled ability to show up honestly, creatively and supportively with yourself and all of us as we all navigate this dance. The value of what you offer is tremendous.”
—Parker Rice
Ecosystem Spoons Participant
"Speaking to the 'colonized body' - a body that has been radically disconnected from cultural practices and ancestral lineages in custodial relationship to place - Shante's work provides resonance, understanding, and sacred somatic engagements that allow our colonized nervous systems to sink back into a soil that Shante' refers to as primordial nourishment.”
—Sarah Van Hoy
Goddard College Faculty Advisor
Layers of Participation in The Mycelium:
BE:LONG
$35/month or $200/six months
Access to the Mundane Mycelium rituals, forum, and learning library of guided practice recordings
BE:HELD
$110/month or $600/six months (limited to 6 people, by application)
Access to the Mundane Mycelium and The Weaver’s Guild 3x monthly group practice calls and a group message thread.
BE:COME
$250/month or $1200/six months (limited to 4 people, by application)
Access to the Mundane Mycelium and two 1-1 sessions a month with a direct message thread between for integration
Mycelium Dates 2024:
July — The Well
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, July 14th, 2-4pmCT
August — Verthandi
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, August 11th, 2-4pmCT
September—Oorlog
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, September 15th, 2-4pmCT
October—Urth
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, October 13th, 2-4pmCT
November—Yggdrasil
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, November 10th, 2-4pmCT
December— Skuld
Mycelium Ritual: Sunday, December 8th, 2-4pmCT
Included in all layers of the Mycelium Membership:
Weaving the Field:
Trans-Temporal Online Course
Weaving the Field is a course of 9 hours of foundational guided practices that can support you in attuning to exactly where you are right now, existing as an organism held by a wider web of beings.
The course will give you structure and embodied experiences of practicing this foundational language for engagement with reality. It will help you to widen your perception of different aspects of the web, including the nature spirits, radiant ancestors, and primordial forces who are dreaming you into creative expression. Intentionally differentiating these practices and inviting you to access them in your lives as part of habitual perception can over time help your system shift to the perception of a much wider webbing of connectedness.
The course is asynchronous, which I know can be a complex navigation for folks navigating sensitivity, illness, and neurodivergence that makes it difficult to self initiate action or create a differentiated sense of time. You are invited to engage with these practices in much more diffuse and peripheral ways than are traditionally expected within the framing of an online class. You can play these recordings while doing dishes, while driving, while taking a bath or laying in bed.
These practices are meant to infuse into the cracks of your daily life experience, to meet you where you are in moments of overwhelm or isolation. They are energetic accompaniment in the way that those who cooked the food would sing together or those out foraging would find their footsteps synchronizing as they walked.
You will likely experience subtle energetic “state-shifts” as you engage with the practices, things like yawning, greater relaxation or energetic circulation, and a wider sense of flow or creative possibility. These practices will also offer a soft place to land for the crunchy, uncomfortable, resistant parts of you who are convinced that they can’t be part of a wider holding. These practices can support experiences of discomfort such as physical pain and emotional stuck places. Without trying to fix or change or heal anything, this frame of practice offers subtle guidance to help you attune to the presence of your animal body and the energetic support that is present around you.
The guided practices are invitations into entrainment with a wider field of holding, a field that is accessible to us all the time but that our learning nervous systems first expect to be resonated with by other bodies than our own. Over time, our own direct relationship to this field of nourishment develops as we access our own creative potency and the expression that is wanting to emerge through us.
LESSON TITLES
Introduction to
Relational Field Weaving
Foundational Practices
for Animist Embodiment
Orientation to Foundational Practices
Sensing Relational to Ecosystem
Discernment and the Just Right Amount
Relational Backlogs and Energetic Membranes
Contextual Support from Rooted Ancestors
Bringing a “Stuck” to The Web of Holding
Longer Guided Audio Practices:
Six Textures of Ecological Belonging
Introducing the Six Textures
Guided Practice Around Contact:
Supported by Gravity
Guided Practice Around Choice:
Holding and Held
Guided Practice Around Connection:
Ancestral Support
Guided Practice Around Context:
Pulsation Beyond Domination
Guided Practice Around Coherence:
Creating the Container
Guided Practice Around Creativity:
Unique Spark and Exisitingness
Longer Guided Audio Practices:
Primordial Nourishment for Sensitive Bodies
Guided Practice: Responsibility and Support
Guided Practice: Edges and Returning Home
Guided Practice: Solidity and Flow
Guided Practice: Space and Membrane Bubble
Guided Practice: Sishephus and the Norns
Guided Practice: Primordial Permission
Guided Practice: Relational Root System
Ecosystem TeaSpoons: Bite-Size Practices for Somatic Nourishing
Longing as an Organizing Field of Intelligence
Teaching: State Shifts and Kinds of Practice
Guided Practice: Following Primal Intelligence
Guided Practice: Creating Space within Deep Structure
Writing Prompts: Gathering Embodied Metaphors
Guided Practice: Relational Contrast Between Center and Edge
Teaching: The Spirit of a Pattern Meets a Nature Being
Guided Practice: What is Becoming
Integration