OtherWise

Becoming Vessel for the Wisdom of the Otherworld

October 3-5, at SOLA Dojo, Santa Fe

Facilitated by Nico Wolf & Carlisle Vandervoort

Through shamanic practice, animist ritual, expression work and acting technique we explore ways to displace the ego and become the “hollow bone” - a meeting place for wisdom from the Otherworld to enter, move through and guide us.

This non-residential immersion (Oct 3rd, 4th & 5th) invites you into a weekend of joyful exploration, devoted study and deep ceremony. 

With a circle of artist Carlisle Vandervoort’s spirit-headdresses as our allies, we’ll practice the ancient, liberating art of becoming “Other” — shedding the skin of the familiar so we can receive insight, perspective, and vision from unseen realms. This work carries us into the liminal, beyond the confines of dualistic thinking, opening the aperture of possibility and inviting deeper communion with the vast, interconnected consciousness of the more-than-human world.

The details:

This course will take place at SOLA Dojo in Santa Fe, NM located at 906 St Francis, unit B.

Friday October 3rd, 6:30pm - 9:00pm / Saturday October 4th, 4pm - 9pm / Sunday October 5th, 4pm-9pm

Tiered pricing is as follows:

$250 supported / $300 standard / $350 supporter

Tickets are sold in separate tiers to keep a lower price range available for those who need support, while inviting those able to contribute more to help sustain our work. The lowest tier is first come, first serve, and will be available until sold out.
Reach out via email subject line OtherWise if you need a payment plan.

Once you sign up, you’ll be sent joining instructions. Please be sure to read them carefully as you prepare to join us in this work. Reach out via email at schoolofliminalart@gmail.com for any questions.

Nico and Carlisle are liminal artists, ceremonialists, seeresses, healing practitioners, Earth lovers, social artists, and ritualists who have been dreaming, scheming, and creating together across years and realms.

Last year, after a rupture in their extended community, Nico was introduced to Carlisle through their mutual friend Sara Rothwell. What began as a call for support and truth-telling quickly deepened into kinship and creative collaboration. They have since offered ceremonial work together — including a powerful installation in Santa Fe with the Temple of the Black Mirror, where they sat as oracles for the community alongside Sara. Sara, Nico & Carlisle are also working together on the upcoming immersion called Smoke & Mirrors.

(Read more about them via the drop down beneath their photos)

About your guides:

  • Nico Wolf (Nicole Haciba Burke) is a healing practitioner, trans-disciplinary artist, writer, guide and facilitator of dreamwork, ceremony, embodiment practices, Earth wisdom ways and animistic-based healing work. Her work incites rebellion against the status quo and invites fellow humans toward endless curiosity, courageous authenticity, compassion, and connectivity.

    For 10 years, Nico and her husband Ryan stewarded Golden Well Sanctuary - a retreat and regenerative farm in central Vermont devoted to re-potentiating our relationship with the living Earth through cultivating deeper and more meaningful connections between Nature, Spirit, Self and Community. After selling their farm in 2021, the couple moved to Brooklyn, NY for a year where they transitioned their work to School of Liminal Arts - a platform to house not only their offerings, but to expand into more creative collaborations. They explored Europe for a year and have recently returned to New Mexico where they plan to settle for a while.

    Born in Hong Kong to a Moroccan/Algerian mother and an Irish/Polish/American father, Nico’s work is influenced by a life of multiculturalism, travel, adventure and seeking new perspectives. In addition to nearly two decades in the healing arts, her experiences range from artist and fashion designer to beekeeper, organic farmer and ceremonialist. Nico has undertaken several formal apprenticeships in Japanese medicine and acupressure, Classical Shamanism, and Shamanic practice based on the wisdom of the serpent and the honeybee.

    Nico’s diverse background and multi-faceted worldview has inspired her to create spaces that elicit a deep sense of anything-goes-ness, belonging and freedom where the full palate of human expression and creative impulse comes to the surface. Through her group and private sessions, she ushers participants towards the transformation that can occur when finding oneself in unexpected and non-dual realities.

    More info: nicogoldenwolf.com

  • At various times Carlisle Vandervoort has been an artist, beekeeper, publicist, and filmmaker. As artist, her goal was to shift the viewer out of the mundane and into a sublime experience, a not-always attainable goal. Beekeeping, however, delivered that time and time again, especially when sharing the bees’ hum, energies of honey and pollen, and honey harvesting with non-beekeepers. As filmmaker, Carlisle produced the documentary, “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins,” a film about the late great Texas political columnist, which screened to sold-out audiences at both Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals and received national distribution. 

    Carlisle’s current studio focus is creating sacred tools —handmade headdresses and brooms for personal transformation.

 Some kind words:

“Nico weaves the fabric of liminal realm with mastery. A powerful healer and enchantress, she carries connection between the many layers of life and mystery. As a mentor, she holds generous architecture around learning. Creates space for moving ceremony. A portal and a channel. Will carry you places and bring messages and medicine back. Dreamer and dream weaver. She watches over this world and midwifes it across change with entire devotion.” — Jaden, VT

“This work is much needed for navigating complex times of transformation and transition, death and rebirth. Nico's facilitating of the work is as gentle and safe as it is deep and empowering. I highly recommend taking this dive with her, no matter where you are on your spiritual path. Expect to connect with practices that feel simple and transporting, and women who will refresh your spirit and remember your roots all at once.” — Elena Greenlee, Facilitator, Director, Writer, Tarot & Astrology

“Nico has a way of dropping into a very deep place almost casually, like ‘please pass the salt’. She does it with ease and humility and never a trace of pretense or judgment. She’s a guide in the truest sense, in that she makes the vast and incomprehensible land of the unconscious feel like a terrain that is safe to explore.” — Anaïs Mitchell (member of Bonny Light Horseman & Creator of the Broadway musical Hadestown)