Workshop description
How we measure time shapes how we understand ourselves, our societies, and our relationship with the natural world.
In this workshop, Marin Vayu invites you to explore the history and meaning of calendars, asking what becomes possible when we approach time not only as something to measure, but as something to live in relationship with.
At the heart of the experience is the Five Elements Calendar, a system created – or, as Marin describes it, rediscovered – through his study of elemental wisdom, natural cycles and ancient approaches to timekeeping.
Designed around the movements of the Sun and Moon and the rhythms of Nature, the calendar is intended not only as a way of tracking time, but as a tool for self-observation, personal development, and inner balance.
Marin proposes that just as the wisdom of the Five Elements appears across many esoteric and spiritual traditions, similar elemental principles may also lie beneath some of humanity’s earliest systems of measuring time. It is from this possibility, and from the idea of an ancient source of knowledge shared across civilisations, that he gives the system its evocative name: The Calendar from Atlantis.
Throughout the workshop, participants will be invited to reconsider the Gregorian calendar we use today and explore how modern timekeeping can distance us from direct awareness of seasonal, lunar, and solar rhythms.
More than a conversation about dates and months, this is an invitation to question our relationship with time itself – and to imagine what a calendar might look like if it were created as a bridge between human life and the cycles of Nature.
What you will receive
YYou will explore how calendars have influenced the development of civilisations and their relationship with agriculture, astronomy, religion, ritual and social organisation.
Marin will introduce key moments in the evolution of different calendar systems and share lesser-known perspectives on how the calendar used by much of the world today came to take its present form.
You will also be introduced to the principles of the Five Elements Calendar and Marin’s perspective on the relationship between elemental wisdom, solar and lunar cycles, and personal balance.
The workshop offers a new lens through which to consider time – not simply as a sequence of days to organise, but as a living rhythm that can deepen our awareness of Nature, ourselves and the cycles through which we move.
Duration: 120 minutes
Intensity: Level 1 – Gentle / Accessible
