Carrying Forth The Spirit:
God-Possession in Public Pagan Ritual
Raven Kaldera
The phenomenon of god-possession - when a deity inhabits the body of
a human for a short period of time - was well known to the ancient world,
and is still common among the Afro-Caribbean faiths. Over the past few
decades, it has slowly been reappearing in modern Neo-Pagan groups as
well. Some pagan groups denouce it, others embrace it. This workshop
will delve into the phenomenon of god-possession, and also discuss how
some Pagan groups are developing methods of working god-possession into
public ritual with as much safety and reverence as possible.
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Collectively Conscious
Healing: I am Sacred
Molly
Our lives are filled with patterns. Some patterns serve us and some
destroy us.
Sorting out patterns and identifying meaningful archetypes can bring
change to a stagnant self. If you are prepared to identify and break
patterns that form obstacles to your growth, join us for an hour or
two of heart and gut wrenching work. Work that will lead the group to
the realization that each of us is sacred. This workshop will use a
combination of traditional therapy techniques along with medium trance
induction and group support. Each member will be held to strict confidentiality
regarding the content.
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Divination With Everyday
Items
Pathweaver
Cards and runes are useful, but not always convenient. Wouldn’t
it be nice to be able to do a quick divination anytime, anywhere? Well,
that’s easier than you might think! Come discuss some alternatives,
using things you might have lying around wherever you are. Everyone
and their ideas are welcome—I’ll bring the Oreos!
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Easing The Transition: Pastoral
Care for the Terminally Ill and Dying
Del
Whether it's cooking meals and helping around the house or holding a
hand while the tears fall, it can be extremely difficult to answer the
call to serve those who are dealing with one of life's biggest transitions
- that which leads to the body's death. How does one prepare for such
a task? How can one be sure they're taking enough time to take care
of themselves, lest they be overwhelmed? Where does one reach out for
support? What do you say to someone who knows they are dying?
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EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique
Michelle Zee
Many people bar themselves from health, healing and happiness by allowing
negative emotions to linger and grow inside. They don't understand that
emotional well-being is essential to physical health, or the medical
establishment has conned them into believing they must shell out thousands
of dollars for conventional psychological care. One answer is EFT (Emotional
Freedom Technique) which is psychological acupressure, a simple and
proven way to eliminate the negative emotions barring you from a full
and healthy life. You can learn how to do it in 5 minutes and we will
spend the rest of the workshop practicing and releasing negative emotions
in the group.
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Honesty for Healing
Michelle Zee
Have you ever noticed a lump in your throat or a pain in your back when
you didn’t speak your truth? One of the keys to good health is
honest communication - but how often do we get to learn how to communicate
honesty in a safe environment? This workshop will help you get started
learning the difference between thinking, noticing and experiencing
feelings. We will participate in speaking honestly and noticing how
language affects how we communicate. There will also be some fun exercises
including playing an honesty game. We will also take note of body sensations
as we interact and are honest and emote. It is my belief that unexpressed
emotions and thoughts get trapped as energy in the body and can cause
illness. We will explore several examples and see how to change.
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Introduction to Total Radical
Healing 1
Nancy Smeltzer
The introduction to Total Radical Healing will consist of two consecutive
two hour sessions. During the first session, we will cover merging with
another entity, opening up and dedicating your Heart Chakra/ Brain,
and aligning the Planes of Existence within you.
Total Radical Healing is a gentle form of energy healing but as with
any trauma work, strong issues may arise. Since the work is cutting
edge, there is a disclaimer of liability form to sign.
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Introduction to Total Radical
Healing 2
Nancy Smeltzer
The second session will cover fusing your brains and chakras, and then
using their combined energies to focus their energies on a trauma or
issue and then heal it. You will have to have attended the first session
to attend the second one. As time permits, other topics that may be
covered are integrating the Realm of Infinite Possibilities, and going
to the Golden Web, where all life exists in perfection.
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Intuitive Development
Beth Lynch
Everyone has the natural ability to receive intuitive information. If
you have forgotten the time when you talked to the animals as easily
as you talked to your friends or when you knew things intuitively and
trusted that knowing, this workshop provides a fun and exciting opportunity
to remember and practice this skill.
The goal for this workshop is for you to leave with the knowledge and
skills needed to enhance your intuitive potential. After a discussion
of the principles of telepathic communication and intuitive knowing,
we will spend time doing exercises and receiving feedback from Beth
and the other participants.
This is a fun, noncompetitive workshop where you can relax and be open.
We will start exactly where you are and move forward from there.
Please bring a small personal object to use in one of the exercises.
This workshop is a pre-requisite for Intuitive Touch.
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Intuitive Tarot
Pathweaver
Have you ever wanted to use tarot cards, for yourself or others? Have
a deck but too self-conscious or afraid to use it? Do you just want
to get away from using the darn book? We’ll be talking about reading
for yourself and for others using traditional and non-traditional decks,
and without the book! Everyone will get the opportunity to read—bring
cards if you have them, and I’ll bring extras for people to use.
This will be a beginner-accessible workshop, but all skill levels are
welcome—we all have things to teach and to learn.
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Intuitive
Touch
Beth Lynch
Hands-on healing, whether or not based on a specific modality such as
massage or Reiki, is enhanced by the ability to intuitively place the
hands in accord with the body’s needs. Building on the principles
learned in Intuitive Development (pre-requisite), this workshop focuses
on using intuition in hands-on healing. The workshop will be primarily
experiential, allowing participants to actively experience these skills
and receive feedback. While the intent is to help participants enhance
skills in the specific area of hands-on healing, participants do not
need any formal healing training or skills beyond what is taught in
the Intuitive Development workshop nor do they need to be formally involved
in any form of hands on healing. What is required is an open heart and
mind coupled with a willingness to trust the body to know best what
it needs for its own healing.
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Ishta Devata
Bennu Heka
In this class we will be looking at chosen Deity. We will be talking
about how one finds their personal deity and how to develop a working
friendship with that chosen deity. In order to apply the energy of Deity
in your everyday life.
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Living a Multi-Dimensional Life
Jackie Green
As Witches, Wiccans and Pagans, we are more prone than most to experience
strange goings on in our lives. We live in a Universe that consists
of more than one dimension. In fact, with the Super String Theory, scientists
believe they have found as many as eleven dimensions around an atom.
So, what happens when we experience "bleed over?" How do we
deal with it? How do we convince ourselves that we are not going crazy,
that we don't need to be admitted to the nut house? That is what we
will explore in this workshop. Learn how to begin coping with the bleed
over as you go through your daily, muggle inhabited life.
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Mandalas as Magical Tools
Amy Lawrence
Mandalas are portals to the subconscious. They can assist you in identifying
areas of your life which need attention or which have healed and changed.
They can also be used to plant the seeds of change within the creative
faculty of the mind. We will discuss and play with various symbol sets
to create individual mandalas to suit your needs.
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Meeting The Needs Of Unusual
People in Pagan Groups
Raven Kaldera
What do you do when someone shows up to your Pagan group who has special
needs, such as physical or mental handicaps, mental illnesses, autism,
or neurological problems? What do you do when someone shows up who lives
an alternative lifestyle - queer, or transgendered/transsexual, or into
BDSM, or body modification, or polyamorous? What if they're "multiple
axis offenders" - people with several of these issues at once?
What if they make your ordinary, average, "normal" members
uncomfortable? Let's discuss what to do when an ethic of diversity slams
up against people's biases, and share advice on how to handle the special
needs of unusual people.
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Northern-Tradition Herbalism
Raven Kaldera
The ancient peoples of Northern Europe had a working knowledge of herbs
that included not only their medicinal uses, but also partnership with
the plant spirits. The early-medieval healer of Northern Europe was
known as the Leike, and their course of study included this style of
hands-on, soul-on herbalism, as well as spells and charms for working
with the plant spirits and their patron deities. We'll explore this
form of medicinal and magical herbalism the way our ancestors did. If
you're a Pagan or Heathen and you call yourself a healer, this is a
class you should take.
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Past Life Regression: (finding the partial
cause or starting point of your situation)
Bennu Heka
In this class we will be discussing the soul’s contract and how
past lives interact with the life we are living now. As well as doing
a past life regression meditation.
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Pathwalker's Guide to the Nine Worlds
Raven Kaldera
For those who work with Norse/Germanic/Saxon cosmology, and who journey
or pathwalk to the Nine Worlds that surround the World Tree, or who'd
like to try it but want to know what to expect. We'll share our experiences
with geography, using runes for journeying and pathwalking, otherworldly
etiquette, making magical gear, and not getting lost. Please have some
basic familiarity with the general Norse/Germanic/Saxon tradition, or
you might be a bit bewildered. Taught by a Northern-tradition shaman.
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Quarter Calling: (working with the elements
to heal)
Bennu Heka
This class will be on calling quarters and the energy found in each.
We will also be discussing how to work with the individual elemental
energies to help in our personal lives.
Ritual Construction
Bennu Heka
In this class we will be going over the steps to constructing rituals
for use in your personal life and healing.
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The Sole of the Matter: Gourmet
Foot Massage for Health and Relaxation
Whittney Matlock
Ever come home from a long day at work and feel the stresses of the
day slip away as you slip off your work shoes? Whittney will show you
how to take that feeling of "Ahhh" a step further as you learn
how to give (and receive) a foot massage guaranteed to help soothe the
sole. This is a hands-on, feet-on workshop so wear comfortable clothing
and expect to be swept off your feet.
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Sound Healing with Tuning Forks
Tim Bshara
A demonstration of the power of Solfeggio scale tuning forks! This session
is designed to give the participant some information and history about
the Solfeggio musical scale, why it is so important that it was hidden
away for centuries, and deliver a first-hand experience of the power
of sound vibration healing. We will discuss the various tones and intervals
of the Solfeggio scale as well as the difference between "singing"
forks and "weighted" forks. My central message is one of healing,
and I present this modality for all those who may resonate with it.
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Vocal Techniques for Ritual: Speech and
Song
Carolina
The voice is our primary communication tool, and Pagan circles often
practice in large open spaces without amplification. This workshop introduces
the basic elements for making a more efficient sound, a sound that carries
farther in distance and reaches the audience more effectively.
Topics include posture, breathing, relaxation, projection, diction,
intonation, as applied to spoken word as well as chanting and singing.
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Working with Hospice
Rev. Mark Crewson
Learn about the Hospice movement and the valuable services it provides
to terminally ill patients and their caregivers as well as how you can
become involved as a volunteer in your local area.
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If you have a workshop idea you would like to present at Healing-the-Spirit,
please email
Whittney with the phrase "Healing-the-Spirit Workshops"
in the subject line to discuss your workshop idea.
Thank you.
Dark Blessings.
