Spring Arts Restorative
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chelidonMore info later, but just a quick note that we will be repeating the Spring Musical Arts Restorative event (aka the Magickal Musical Mystery Tour) over the April 10-13 weekend, with what looks like the same teaching team. I'll attach the announcement from last year below for anyone who's interested in general info, just note that it's LAST YEAR'S announcement, so the dates and other specific details will be changed once they've been finalized. More details will be posted here as soon as they're available. Last year was an absolute blast -- I'll look forward to seeing some of you this year! If you're sure you will want to come, feel free to leave a comment here and I'll put you on the pre-registration list. Last I heard, most of the folks who came last year want to come again this time, so available spaces may fill up fast, and it'll be first come, first served...
Announcing: A Spring Restorative: Exploring the Magic of Music and Dance, Song and Silence
Location: The Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's home and land in West-Central New Hampshire (near Hanover-Lebanon, NH)
Date: Thursday April 20 through Sunday April 23, Earth Day Weekend
Cost: Sliding scale $125-$150, you decide where you slide
Facilitators: Chelidon, Claudia, Crow, and Willow Kelly
We have space for 17 additional participants: Are you called to join us and create this magic?
(see end of post for contact info)
As Spring approaches, we hear the Call, and Gather together to make Music and Song, to Chant and to Dance in the Bounty of the Green World about to awaken, and to make space in our lives for Stillness and Silence and Grace to enter and dwell within us as well.
This will be a Restorative, invoking Time as an Ally. There will be enough Time for active learning and quiet contemplation, for group magic and private walks in the woods, for sleeping late or rising early to do yoga or journaling. There will be wonderful food made with Magic, Love, and Intention and shared together in a relaxed atmosphere around a single large table. There will be Time for each of us to listen and learn, to share and experience, to teach each other, and to create something new and powerful together.
Facilities include: Main House with sleep space for 12 participants in 3 bedrooms (fold out futon beds, and floor air mattress beds); 3 1/2 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 large inside meeting rooms, 4 person hot tub in the greenhouse. Barn: sleep space for 12-14 participants, (5 double, one triple bunk bed in two rooms), heated by wood stove, inside private composing toilet. 20 acres of wooded private land with 3 streams abutting hundreds of wooded acres of preserve land. Large open area for outdoor ritual with bonfire circle and space for campers should anyone wish to tent or car camp.
Our Current Working Outline of the Restorative:
Thursday Afternoon :
The land, barn, house open to participants from 2pm on, we ask all to be present by 5pm and ready to cast circle around the dinner table for our first ritual meal together at 6pm. Bardic circle, drum jam, and lovely socializing in the evening after opening ritual.
Friday:
Morning of quiet and contemplation, we ask that all refrain from conversation or loud activities at this time. This is a time to walk the land, journal, sleep in, do yoga, do personal practice work.
Breakfast Buffet open and available from 7:30-9:45 AM
Morning Path: 10-12:30: Chant Sharing and Chant Creation: Lead by Willow Kelly, this morning we will play with loosening up our bodies and voices and having fun! We will engage in the journey of making our inner critic an ally of positive feedback. And we will explore together what makes a powerful chant and the process of chant creation and transformation.
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Path: 2:00-4:30 PM
Awakening the Earth with Magical Voice. Led by Crow, this afternoon we will work with toning and voice, movement and stillness, and sound and music as a form of prayer and as method for forging connection between ourselves and with the Earth.
Free Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 PM: Sit down together at the table and share our experiences. Together we will discover the evening's Work as we feast in ritual space.
Evening Ritual: 8:30-10:00 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Saturday:
Time to walk the land, journal, sleep in, do yoga, do personal practice work
Breakfast Buffet open and available from 7:30-9:45 AM
Morning Path: 10:00-12:30: Energy Raising through Drum and Voice: Led by Chelidon, this morning we will work on techniques to raise energy in magical space, to play with it, bring it up and down, contain and release it with our voices, our movements and our drumming.
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Path: 2:00-4:30 PM Lead by Willow, Crow, and Chelidon
This afternoon we will continue the work of joining with and rejoicing in Nature and the Elements through voice, song, and dance.
Free Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 PM: Sit down together at the table and share our experiences. Together we will discover the evenings Work as we feast in ritual space.
Evening Ritual: 8:30-10:30 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Sunday:Ritual Brunch: 9:00-12:00 (a Gathering, a Reflection, a Celebration and a Transition: Moving gently back into the World, full of new skills and new connections). Restorative Ends by 12:30pm
We ask for help with clean up from those who can stay for an hour or so after the circle is down. All should plan to heading homeward by 3:00 PM at the latest.
Facilitators Bio's:
Willow Kelly: Willow Kelly is a priestess and witch that has experienced transformation through the ecstatic vibrations of music, sound and rhythm. She is devoted to creating opportunities for others to experience the profound impact these vibrations have on the body, mind, spirit, and surrounding environments. She excels at creating a safe space and helps to facilitate the conversion of the inner critical voices many people experience with music and voice, into a healthy feedback process. Willow is a singer/songwriter and ritual drummer and has been a priestess of music throughout her life. She finds great joy and nourishment in creating spontaneous music with others and brings participants into a delightful experience and understanding of their own musical qualities. She is a devotee of Nature and the Fey (and plies them heavily with music.)
Willow has taught and been a music resource at several Reclaiming Witchcamps, workshops, drum and song circles. She has helped to foster new pagan communities and drum circles in the US and Europe. She has studied percussion techniques, styles, and traditional rhythms with several teachers including Layne Redmond and Souhail Kaspar. She has performed on several different artists' CDs and is currently producing her own CD of original music.
Crow: Crow has been practicing music magic since his teenage years, and moving energy with music continues to be his life's passion. Especially playing music in sacred space. For the past 10 years he's been actively providing music and leadership for his Dances of Universal Peace community. Crow's
been at Reclaiming Witch Camps for the past five years and giggles at enhancing ritual with music and inciting playful participation. He's is a member of several local and national bands and has performed and recorded with many well known artists include John McCutcheon, Robin and Linda Williams, and Tom Paxton. Along with playing music professionally, he's on faculty at the local community college teaching the mysteries of mathematics. Crow lives in central Virginia with his partner Willow and other loving bears.
Claudia Manifest: Claudia is taking the role of Kitchen Witch, Time Priestess, and House Mage during this Restorative. As such she will be preparing your meals and living spaces in sacred space, and taking the lead in facilitating the rituals that are also meals. She has taught at numerous Reclaiming Witchcamps, weekend workshops, community based classes, and was the instigating and creative force behind 2 previous Magic of Art Restoratives in Maryland.
Chelidon is a devotee of the bardic arts, including the skills of word, rhythm, instrument and voice. He is dedicated to allowing time and space for the infinite diversity of Tales to be shared. His other loves include history and mythology, medicinal and magickal herbalism, and art made with wood, metal, stone, chocolate or pixels. Much of his inspiration comes from the wild, untamed and ferocious beauty of nature, especially the woods of New Hampshire, where he lives in an intentional community with his wife, Claudia, son Forest, and much-beloved family and friends.
Announcing: A Spring Restorative: Exploring the Magic of Music and Dance, Song and Silence
Location: The Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's home and land in West-Central New Hampshire (near Hanover-Lebanon, NH)
Date: Thursday April 20 through Sunday April 23, Earth Day Weekend
Cost: Sliding scale $125-$150, you decide where you slide
Facilitators: Chelidon, Claudia, Crow, and Willow Kelly
We have space for 17 additional participants: Are you called to join us and create this magic?
(see end of post for contact info)
As Spring approaches, we hear the Call, and Gather together to make Music and Song, to Chant and to Dance in the Bounty of the Green World about to awaken, and to make space in our lives for Stillness and Silence and Grace to enter and dwell within us as well.
This will be a Restorative, invoking Time as an Ally. There will be enough Time for active learning and quiet contemplation, for group magic and private walks in the woods, for sleeping late or rising early to do yoga or journaling. There will be wonderful food made with Magic, Love, and Intention and shared together in a relaxed atmosphere around a single large table. There will be Time for each of us to listen and learn, to share and experience, to teach each other, and to create something new and powerful together.
Facilities include: Main House with sleep space for 12 participants in 3 bedrooms (fold out futon beds, and floor air mattress beds); 3 1/2 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 large inside meeting rooms, 4 person hot tub in the greenhouse. Barn: sleep space for 12-14 participants, (5 double, one triple bunk bed in two rooms), heated by wood stove, inside private composing toilet. 20 acres of wooded private land with 3 streams abutting hundreds of wooded acres of preserve land. Large open area for outdoor ritual with bonfire circle and space for campers should anyone wish to tent or car camp.
Our Current Working Outline of the Restorative:
Thursday Afternoon :
The land, barn, house open to participants from 2pm on, we ask all to be present by 5pm and ready to cast circle around the dinner table for our first ritual meal together at 6pm. Bardic circle, drum jam, and lovely socializing in the evening after opening ritual.
Friday:
Morning of quiet and contemplation, we ask that all refrain from conversation or loud activities at this time. This is a time to walk the land, journal, sleep in, do yoga, do personal practice work.
Breakfast Buffet open and available from 7:30-9:45 AM
Morning Path: 10-12:30: Chant Sharing and Chant Creation: Lead by Willow Kelly, this morning we will play with loosening up our bodies and voices and having fun! We will engage in the journey of making our inner critic an ally of positive feedback. And we will explore together what makes a powerful chant and the process of chant creation and transformation.
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Path: 2:00-4:30 PM
Awakening the Earth with Magical Voice. Led by Crow, this afternoon we will work with toning and voice, movement and stillness, and sound and music as a form of prayer and as method for forging connection between ourselves and with the Earth.
Free Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 PM: Sit down together at the table and share our experiences. Together we will discover the evening's Work as we feast in ritual space.
Evening Ritual: 8:30-10:00 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Saturday:
Time to walk the land, journal, sleep in, do yoga, do personal practice work
Breakfast Buffet open and available from 7:30-9:45 AM
Morning Path: 10:00-12:30: Energy Raising through Drum and Voice: Led by Chelidon, this morning we will work on techniques to raise energy in magical space, to play with it, bring it up and down, contain and release it with our voices, our movements and our drumming.
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Path: 2:00-4:30 PM Lead by Willow, Crow, and Chelidon
This afternoon we will continue the work of joining with and rejoicing in Nature and the Elements through voice, song, and dance.
Free Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 PM: Sit down together at the table and share our experiences. Together we will discover the evenings Work as we feast in ritual space.
Evening Ritual: 8:30-10:30 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Sunday:Ritual Brunch: 9:00-12:00 (a Gathering, a Reflection, a Celebration and a Transition: Moving gently back into the World, full of new skills and new connections). Restorative Ends by 12:30pm
We ask for help with clean up from those who can stay for an hour or so after the circle is down. All should plan to heading homeward by 3:00 PM at the latest.
Facilitators Bio's:
Willow Kelly: Willow Kelly is a priestess and witch that has experienced transformation through the ecstatic vibrations of music, sound and rhythm. She is devoted to creating opportunities for others to experience the profound impact these vibrations have on the body, mind, spirit, and surrounding environments. She excels at creating a safe space and helps to facilitate the conversion of the inner critical voices many people experience with music and voice, into a healthy feedback process. Willow is a singer/songwriter and ritual drummer and has been a priestess of music throughout her life. She finds great joy and nourishment in creating spontaneous music with others and brings participants into a delightful experience and understanding of their own musical qualities. She is a devotee of Nature and the Fey (and plies them heavily with music.)
Willow has taught and been a music resource at several Reclaiming Witchcamps, workshops, drum and song circles. She has helped to foster new pagan communities and drum circles in the US and Europe. She has studied percussion techniques, styles, and traditional rhythms with several teachers including Layne Redmond and Souhail Kaspar. She has performed on several different artists' CDs and is currently producing her own CD of original music.
Crow: Crow has been practicing music magic since his teenage years, and moving energy with music continues to be his life's passion. Especially playing music in sacred space. For the past 10 years he's been actively providing music and leadership for his Dances of Universal Peace community. Crow's
been at Reclaiming Witch Camps for the past five years and giggles at enhancing ritual with music and inciting playful participation. He's is a member of several local and national bands and has performed and recorded with many well known artists include John McCutcheon, Robin and Linda Williams, and Tom Paxton. Along with playing music professionally, he's on faculty at the local community college teaching the mysteries of mathematics. Crow lives in central Virginia with his partner Willow and other loving bears.
Claudia Manifest: Claudia is taking the role of Kitchen Witch, Time Priestess, and House Mage during this Restorative. As such she will be preparing your meals and living spaces in sacred space, and taking the lead in facilitating the rituals that are also meals. She has taught at numerous Reclaiming Witchcamps, weekend workshops, community based classes, and was the instigating and creative force behind 2 previous Magic of Art Restoratives in Maryland.
Chelidon is a devotee of the bardic arts, including the skills of word, rhythm, instrument and voice. He is dedicated to allowing time and space for the infinite diversity of Tales to be shared. His other loves include history and mythology, medicinal and magickal herbalism, and art made with wood, metal, stone, chocolate or pixels. Much of his inspiration comes from the wild, untamed and ferocious beauty of nature, especially the woods of New Hampshire, where he lives in an intentional community with his wife, Claudia, son Forest, and much-beloved family and friends.
