Wilder Mountain Dojo · 野山道场
The way of becoming you.
Free the body, find support, and gain ample room for body and mind.
Living map · Calendar workspace
Draw a map of our unfolding life, with what sustains us all along.
Put messy information in its place, reduce conflict and friction, and arrange your life, learning and connections without getting frazzled.
Built for creative and somatic practitioners running one-person studios, it connects making, class preparation, registration and personal time. The calendar unfolds into linked, nestable rooms that branch and grow over time: as you organise your own project spaces, you are also organising the working context for AI. Each room keeps its own accumulating memory and experience, tended and carried forward by its resident AI, so that you and the AI work directly in the same space. It takes over the repeated labour of searching, moving, explaining and coordinating across many threads, and makes room for bodily practice, creative work and rest.
Workshop · Somatic drawing and rhythm exploration
On the way to our dreams, what rhythms does the body keep repeating — the ones that wear us down, and the ones that carry us?
Wilder Mountain Dojo helps people on that road see those rhythms, and choose which ones to keep.
For people under pressure and looking for support as they navigate major shifts in life and career, and work independently. Through body awareness, drawing and conversation, they notice the patterns that repeat across their work, rest and social life, recognise what sustains them and what friction they'd like to cast off, and create their own bodily rhythm cards to bring back into their daily lives, as a minimal intervention towards a more sustainable life, while developing together the ways Wilder Mountain's community supports one another.
An invitation
Basecamp: What Sustains Us Internally, Even If…?
SooVAC, Minneapolis · Saturday, November 7, 2026
A free two-hour workshop for adults, 2–4 PM, at SooVAC (Soo Visual Arts Center), 2909 Bryant Ave S, Suite 101, Minneapolis. Limited to 8 participants; no experience needed.
Subtitle: Dwelling in the Negative Space of an Image of Success, with the Perpetually Foreign “Alien Worker” Artist’s Full-Time Husband.
Basecamp is a community-based outcome of my studies in the Enlight Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute. The programme supports social entrepreneurs and leaders working in mental wellbeing to grow their social impact.
So far
A practice taking shape.
One ink self-reflection painting workshop has taken place during Watson’s in-person immersive. Talks and exchanges at the CYC community in Dali are another part of the wider practice. Basecamp is the next invitation to gather.
Where it began
A name drawn from moving landscapes.
For my love, I moved between two continents several times. My life has been constantly rearranged by things I have no control over: visas, waiting lists, distance.
These past few years I've been researching AI, organising communities, and coming back to the body, looking for the things I want to keep returning to. I call this journey of arriving home on the road Wilder Mountain Dojo.
In a 2023 invitation to share nomadic narratives, “wild mountains” named the layered landscapes encountered through a life of movement. A dojo was imagined as a place of practice: a rehearsal room for expression, a group for autobiographical creation, and a shared narrative space. Belonging could grow through participation.
First, let a room become real. Then the mountain has room to grow.