Amanda Jade Fiorino
Human Exceptionalism & Entangled Agency
This is a Medusan Monday Musing “The Greek word for “nod” is numen. In Greek mythology, a deity betokens his or her overwhelming reality...
Welcome!
I'm Amanda of Feral Mysticism
Guide // Writer // Mother // Ancestral Liminalist // Mountain Dweller // Hybrid
Podcast Interviews
In Conversation with Nishant Garg
In Conversation with Alyona & Alexandre
In Conversation with Michael Ostrolenk
And out of such not-knowing comes an ask so stunning and wretched I'm left to quiver, as if I were a humming arrow waiting to be unleashed by Mystery's hand. An ask to surrender my plans while simultaneously dreaming with the world from unknown places within me. This ask plants me in the fecund humus of my life, and reminds me that my life belongs to the world.
Amanda Fiorino
Transcorporeal Musings
Remembering Ourselves Feral is a 4 day ceremonial journey where you will wander beyond the edges of your known ways of being, and begin to court unfamiliar aspects of yourself as you entangle with an unfamiliar place.
Over the course of our four days together, we will be opening ourselves to the consciousness of place and the more-than-human peoples who call the mountain lands we'll be courting home.
Through a diversity of practices and modalities, we will make ourselves available to other ways of knowing, and set down our abiding certainties. We'll forget, for a time, our habituated approaches to inquiry, and in our forgetting, we'll re-member ourselves feral. A feral remembering that can open us up to wondrous possibilities, inspiring our co-creative capacity to dream with the Earth in yet-to-be-known ways.
Remembering Ourselves Feral
Stalking the Edges of the Unknown
June 3 - 6, 2022
with Amanda Fiorino & Sara McFarland
Confronting well-worn narratives stitched into the fabric of current cultural activisms, feral mysticism conspires with ancestral, ecological, and cosmic forces that render a person accessible to initiatory experiences. Experiences that support trans-formation through the altering of one's shape and nature. A hybridic nature capable of dancing with increasing complexity, and equipped with curiosity and unforeseen ways of understanding the world and these times we are living.
TESTIMONIAL
"She is adept at the art of hearing and seeing to the essence of what her client is communicating both somatically & through dialogue & storytelling. She is uniquely skilled at synthesizing & mirroring the clients material in a way that is most delightful, evocative, & illuminating. A wisdom keeper far beyond her years..."
— Priscilla Short
Ancestral Futures of Transformation is a 3 month invocation of ancestral re-membrance where we both (re)connect with our personal ancestries, as well as tend our own ancestral becoming. For some this will be a journey of initiating relationship with ancestors, for others it will be a deepening and expanding of current ancestral connections - quite possibly both. Regardless of your perceived "starting point," tending our ancestral ground opens us up to even greater and unforeseen ways of participating in these times of immense change.
Over the course of our 3 months together, we will be opening up pathways of perception through eco-mystical practices, ceremony & ritual, deep imagination, dream work, somatic inquiry & experiencing, story & myth, and the art of council. Our full-bodied, synesthetic listening will extend from stretches of place-based belonging as we choose to stay with what is constantly unfolding and enfolding us. Listening to and for the voices of ancestors, unknown future ones, and the ecologies of our own ancestral emergence.
Ancestral Futures of
Transformation
September 2022 - November 2022
with Amanda Fiorino & Sara McFarland
In these times of eco- and paradigmatic- collapse, our somatic intelligence is ancestrally equipped to channel a feral kind of consciousness. An awareness that we are so much more than what we’ve been coerced, forced, or seduced into believing. And I don't mean belief as an abstracted thought, rather a somatic way of relationally entangling with the world.