Meditate, Visualise, Create - workshop with Annabel Pettigrew and Rame Projects

Meditate, Visualise, Create is an Astral Projection guided meditation workshop event that facilitates connecting with your practice using breathwork and visualisation techniques, followed by a short making session, that allows for imagined material to be drawn, written, and discussed. It is led by artist Annabel Pettigrew as part of Rame Project's 'I Hadn't Finished Talking To You Yet' project. Combining techniques learned through becoming an initiate of the gnostic aural tradition of Hermetics, and creating her own iterations of astral journeying Annabel will lead the guided meditation which will cause subconscious and unconscious imagery to be realised by the participants. The work is an alchemical process, blending the personal ecology of grief with the wider ecological narrative of interconnectedness, healing and renewal. The workshop will take place in a disused Napoleonic redoubt, in the beautiful Maker Heights landscape, an area of outstanding natural beauty. You’re invited to experience the meditation workshop laying down, or in a seated meditation position. When we enter deeply relaxed states, body temperature can fluctuate so please bring a blanket to keep you warm. You are welcome to lay on the grass, but if you feel you need a mat or cushions to be comfortable, please bring them with you. We’ll be exposed to the elements so please be prepared for any possible weather. After the meditation we will document our visualisations, so please bring a sketch book or note book, pen or pencil, or anything else you like to document with. There will be an opportunity to share and discuss your experience if you feel comfortable to do so. Astral Projection can be a transformative medium, and may not be suitable for those who suffer with psychosis, psychoactive recreational drug use, drug addiction, heart conditions, visually-induced epilepsy, or within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. By participating, you agree that it is your sole responsibility to determine whether it is appropriate for you to participate. It is advisable to avoid eating a heavy meal or drinking alcohol before attending the meditation, however some people find that eating something sweet after the meditation helps to stabilise. Please also note that the ground is uneven and there is a steep hill to walk down and then up from the Rame Projects studio to the redoubt site. An art therapist will be present to provide on-site support for attendees. The therapist will offer a quiet area for those needing personal space to reflect or have one-on-one conversations, ensuring everyone feels safe and supported. This event aims to create a space where grief can be acknowledged, expressed, and shared, fostering connection and understanding through art. Please get in touch with us at rameprojectscornwall@gmail.com if there is any way in which we can support your participation in the event, or if there is any information that would be helpful for us as event organisers to know - for example, allergies, access requirements, etc. Working across a number of different media including textiles, video, sound, ceramics, performance, sculpture and installation, Annabel Pettigrew’s practice uses meditation techniques that access the unconscious mind, manifesting in the imagined creation of astral realms and psychic landscapes, accessing these realms to create a visual language unique to the processing of lived experience relating to grief. Encountering portals and entities, this quest for enlightenment presents work made from materials that appear familiar initially, interweaving research through real-time pilgrimage to sacred sites, in an attempt to realise the astral realm, or visions encountered from within it, in material form. Annabel runs an artist collective called ‘Throes of Grief’, whose focus is to hold space for artists whose lives and practices have been transformed by grief.