I feel touched and moved by the urge with which you bring matters into the field that have been neglected for far too long, the consequences of which are becoming more clearly in our world. Not only are the topics raised, but we are taken on a journey that helps us to go to the root of our pain, and therefore our healing. Your courage to not avoid uncomfortable topics, to help us remember, to hold us as a family through this process of composting our grief has inspired me to show up for life in a deeper and more meaningful way. Your art and your words are not just here to please us or to makes us feel comfortable , but have been received as doorways, portals to an inner world that is sacred, has meaning and begs to be explored. Being with, stopping, remembering, and from there giving shape to, expressing the world of our longing. Your invitations have been heard and have touched parts of myself that had been buried too long.
PIETER
The Voyage calls feel comforting. They are bi-weekly anchors in which we turn towards the topics that are important to the soul and to deepen the language of the soul. A space to sit with others and feel into what is alive in the world.
The calls give time to listening to the body's knowledge through practical making and moulding. For this reason, I recommend undertaking the calls in a space with easy access to artistic materials.
Voyage provides an oh so necessary space to witness our hearts, the hearts of others, and the beating, swirling universe around us.
KATE O'Donoghue
Azul embodies a rare blend of wisdom, kindness, and fierce devotion to truth, justice, and soul.
At the intersection of art, activism, and deep inner work, she brings together the insight of an artist, the courage of an activist, and the depth of a soul guide.
Rooted in compassion and clarity, she supports others in remembering their innate wisdom and in realizing what their soul most longs to bring into being.
To walk with Azul is to find a steadfast ally in bringing forth what your deepest self came here to create.
KAROLINA
Dear Azul, what attracted me to voyage was the questions “what is soul for me? What is the world of my longing?“
I could only reply from plagiarizing because I didn’t know anything about how to answer these questions but to copy from someone else. What has touched me is that I am moved to explore rites of passages that have been skipped over throughout my life.
The four sisters of the last forest inspired me to create four sisters amongst the medicine wheel in order to keep the children’s fire burning. The spirit animals of badger, fox, raven and dragonfly sit in Noble silence for us to arrive and feed the fire and to bring messages back to our community.
I am a steward of the land and steward to all its beings here and from the past/extinct ones. I am provoked to honor and alchemize past lineage contracts and patterns into beauty and gratitude
With Gratitude
CANDACE
My experience of Voyage so far, and my sense making of that, is still perculating, awakening, hiding, feeling too tender. Too expansive/intangible to be reduced to words or take form yet. Im 'in alchemy'.
What I recognise is that the feeling of clay between my hands has fed me in ways Id lost connection with, that my felt understanding has deepened around facilitating my grief more intentionally and the necessity of its interdependence on/reciprocity with feeding my soul for healthy resilience and empowerment, and that I have Azul by my side as a trusted, honest, reflective channel and ally through which we can orientate, grow, allow, express and nurture ourselves. We are all travelling within Mystery together, and I am humbled.
Sent with love,
CLAIRE
I was also very moved by the way you call us into deeper presence: you said that you do not want to be a tourist anywhere, but an offering, a gift to the place you are in.
So much in that one sentence. And as much as I wholeheartedly agree, that truely felt also like a sobering wake up call to a part of me that can fall into slumber, also on this course.
So I thank you for the space you hold in this. The depth, the sobriety, your presence. The way you hold the space makes my shadows more visible to me. And in my better moments I can take responsibility for them.
And of course the shadow of our so called civilisation and mindset of exploitation, extraction and plunder. One of the things that stays with me is what you said about returning what we have stolen from the earth, returning it to her. In that call and simple action I can feel a whole other world possible- and humility as medicine, and feel the deep truth that giving always blesses the giver.
This course holds the space for this return to belonging and for me makes visible everything that is in the way of it.
MONA