There is a primary energetic Relational Field from which all life is sourced. This field is a forming consciousness, a weblike structure of relational tissues that are weaving all the patterns of reality. When our perception is tuned towards this primal web of unseen presence, there is a tangible ground orienting us, a resonance that opens us to movement, possibility, and play.
The Mundane Mycelium Membership is a space for attuning to practices of Relational Field Weaving that have been foundational for the majority of our animist ancestors. These kinds of perception 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.
The Mycelium will give you resources both for solo practice to deep your sense of energetic integrity and ability to modulate your nervous system responses, and will also support you in exploring these skills with other humans to discover how your unique ways of sensing and shared places of resonance weave together into something wider than you.
The Membership will support you in bringing these more relational ways of sensing into your daily life, your vocation, your family, and your organizing and catalyzing of wider structures.You can learn the subtle ways of feeling into those field energies, inviting in the just right support from radiant ancestors and nature beings, moving more from the rhythm of your animal body and sense of embodied agency, while deepening your access to creative potency and sourcing from primal intelligence.
The Mycelium is a practice space for seeding an awareness of energetic integrity while opening up a subtly widened perception of reality and the movement of consciousness across many scales of a system. It supports us in learning that as humans we have the ability to sense from many parts of the web simultaneously and to bring our perceptual systems into a process of harmonization where we are participating in the singing of a wider song. The Mycelium invites us to find our own tone within that song, the unique ways in which our organism is a convergence of many fields of dreaming that are nourishing specific aspects of the wider ecosystem. We are invited to feel back into our fundamental belonging as part of this wider relational tissuing of becoming.
Join the Mundane Mycelium:
THE FIRST SIX PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR THE MEMBERSHIP WILL RECEIVE A FREE RELATIONAL FIELD CONSULTING SESSION WITH ME.
AND FOUNDING MEMBERS WHO SIGN UP FOR $200 WILL BE MAILED AN ANIMIST ORACLE DECK!
If $30/month is out of your financial means, please reach out for a scholarship.
Included in the Mundane Mycelium Membership
Relational Field Weaving 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
Monthly live call exploring themes around energetic integrity and creative potentiation, recordings saved to membership archive.
Opportunities to engage with guest artists through live calls and the discussion forum.
Discounted access to 1-1 sessions and small group offerings.
Intro to Relational Field Weaving 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 half asleep.
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.
Join the Mundane Mycelium:
THE FIRST SIX PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR THE MEMBERSHIP WILL RECEIVE A FREE RELATIONAL FIELD CONSULTING SESSION WITH ME.
AND FOUNDING MEMBERS WHO SIGN UP FOR $200 WILL BE MAILED AN ANIMIST ORACLE DECK!
If $30/month is out of your financial means, please reach out for a scholarship.
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
The live calls for April in the Mycelium will be guided practices playing with the presence of our Resistance Guardians:
There are particular energetic relational field beings who I’ve come to call “Resistance Guardians.” Within a Relational Field Weaving context, “problematic” patterns—which domination discourse might describe as things like “hypervigilance,” “procrastination,””demand-avoidance,” or “dissociation”—can be related to directly as presences that have a wise aspect of protection and discernment of the just right conditions within which creativity is welcome to emerge. To my delight, I’ve been discovering that within these energetic structures, there are often very specific spirit guardian beings who actually are protecting creative potency and are in piercing discernment around right timing. When these beings are witnessed and welcome, there is the potential for more spaciousness and possibility to enter the field, to relax extraneous effort, so that creative flow can emerge, channel, and circulate across your system.