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, 11am - 4pm

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

  • Carlisle Vandervoort has been a publicist, artist, beekeeper, and film maker. As an artist, she focused on the challenge of shifting viewers out of the mundane and into the sublime. She discovered that beekeeping was a new route to that goal. As she shared honey harvesting with non-beekeepers, the hum of the bees and the energy of the honey and pollen found their way to hearts of the guests and boom, lift off occurred. Her artistic practice and Houston roots made her the ideal producer for “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins,” a documentary about the maverick Texas political columnist who spoke truth to power—with a jaded eye and thick southern drawl—through her humorous but sharply-insightful syndicated columns, books, and speeches. The film screened at both the Sundance and SXSW film festivals to sold out audiences in 2019 and went on to receive national distribution, screening in 42 states. Currently living in Houston, Carlisle continues to be in service to the upliftment of humans so that we may all be in better service to all living beings through the creation of sacred tools such as headdresses and brooms for personal transformation.