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chelidonI've been buried in Feri for a bit, but there are some other juicy events coming up, and one even sooner than Feri Camp -- this is a draft announcement, but all the basic info is correct. One note -- Willow Firefly is the same person as Willow Kelly (all these dang name-changing pagans, I swear... ;>)
Announcing: A Spring Restorative: Exploring the Magic of Music and Dance, Song and Silence to Enter into a Dialogue with Divinity
Location: The Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's home and land in West-Central New Hampshire (near Hanover-Lebanon, NH)
Date: Thursday April 24 through Sunday April 27, 2008
Cost: Sliding scale $150- $180, you decide where you slide
Facilitators: Chelidon, Claudia, Crow, Jude, and Willow Firefly
We have space for 18 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: Converted Barn with woodstove heat, water, compost toilet, and bunk beds sleeping up to 12; Main House: sleep space for up to 6 participants (futon beds and floor mattress beds in two rooms); 3 1/2 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 large inside meeting rooms, 4 person hot tub in the greenhouse. 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. Second local house (5 minute drive away): room for 3-4 in 2 bedrooms, beautiful private wooded location. ( Please note both houses have several cats each but the barn is cat-free.)
Our Current Working Outline of the Restorative:
Thursday Afternoon :
The land and houses will be open to participants from 2pm on, we ask all to be present by 5:30pm and ready to cast circle around the dinner table for our first ritual meal together at 6:30pm. 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 Pathwork: 10-12:30:
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Pathwork: 2:00-4:30 PM
Friday's pathwork (morning and afternoon) will be taught primarily by Willow Firefly Kelly and Crow; the focus of the work will be on inner critic work, trance and ritual music techniques, creating moods with different scales, and new improvisation techniques.
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:
Morning 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 Pathwork: 10:00-12:30:
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Pathwork: 2:00-4:30 PM
Saturday's pathwork (morning and afternoon) will be taught primarily by Chelidon and Jude; the focus on the work will be energy raising and sensing in groups through sound and movement, use of voice, instrument, and body to create power and communication within a group.
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: 8:30-10:30 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Sunday:
Ritual Brunch: led by Claudia: 9:00-12:00 (a Gathering, a Reflection, a Celebration and a Transition: A sharing of our music and magic with each other, moving gently back into the World, full of new skills and new connections). Restorative Ends by 12:30pm
We ask for help with cleanup 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.
Facilitator's Bios:
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.
Crow and Willow Firefly Kelly met and fell in love playing music and singing together in 2000 at Witchcamp in the Woodlands of Mendocino, CA. The magic of music still dances through them as they continue to play sacred music for Witches, Sufis, Yogis, and other spiritual groups. Crow is a master of stringed things, stirring and evoking the wordless depths with mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and other instruments that inspire him in the moment. Willow is an experiential priestess of rhythm and voice, holding the steady hip-bouncing pulse of the dance divinely coupled with the opening and deepening rhythms of trance. Their musicianship, their love for each other and their love for those that do this work of transformation infuse their facilitation with a special kind of magic.
Jude Elf has danced her way through life studying traditional forms of movement of many cultures and genres (including Yoga, Judo, West African and Afro Caribbean dance, Fire Spinning, American Tribal and Egyptian Cabaret Belly Dance, Israeli Dance, International folk dance, Circle Dance, Appalachian Clogging, Ballroom, and Swing). She considers herself a song catcher, spinner, and budding drummer. She currently performs with Adja and Shidda: West African Dance and Culture Troupes, and the Hardwick Area Vagina Warriors. A priestess with a life long devotion to ecstatic transformative ritual and deep personal magic, she rejoices in sharing her passion for connecting to the divine through music, dance, and song. With Kidsfest, she helps facilitate large public rituals that gather the community to turn the wheel and honor the seasons. She has taught Reclaiming magic in her local community and Vermont and Free Activist Witch Camps.
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 previous Magic of Art Restoratives in Maryland and New Hampshire.
Are You Called To Be A Part Of This Magic?
For more information and/or registration info please email claudia@casachaos.net or call us at 603-863-8393 before 9pm evenings. (FYI, A $25 non-refundable deposit will be required to hold your space when you fill out the registration info. There has been a lot of interest and spaces are limited so please contact us early if you wish to participate in this magical long weekend.)
Announcing: A Spring Restorative: Exploring the Magic of Music and Dance, Song and Silence to Enter into a Dialogue with Divinity
Location: The Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's home and land in West-Central New Hampshire (near Hanover-Lebanon, NH)
Date: Thursday April 24 through Sunday April 27, 2008
Cost: Sliding scale $150- $180, you decide where you slide
Facilitators: Chelidon, Claudia, Crow, Jude, and Willow Firefly
We have space for 18 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: Converted Barn with woodstove heat, water, compost toilet, and bunk beds sleeping up to 12; Main House: sleep space for up to 6 participants (futon beds and floor mattress beds in two rooms); 3 1/2 baths, 2 kitchens, 2 large inside meeting rooms, 4 person hot tub in the greenhouse. 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. Second local house (5 minute drive away): room for 3-4 in 2 bedrooms, beautiful private wooded location. ( Please note both houses have several cats each but the barn is cat-free.)
Our Current Working Outline of the Restorative:
Thursday Afternoon :
The land and houses will be open to participants from 2pm on, we ask all to be present by 5:30pm and ready to cast circle around the dinner table for our first ritual meal together at 6:30pm. 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 Pathwork: 10-12:30:
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Pathwork: 2:00-4:30 PM
Friday's pathwork (morning and afternoon) will be taught primarily by Willow Firefly Kelly and Crow; the focus of the work will be on inner critic work, trance and ritual music techniques, creating moods with different scales, and new improvisation techniques.
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:
Morning 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 Pathwork: 10:00-12:30:
Lunch Buffet (sandwiches, salads, soups, goodies) 12:30- 2:00 PM
Afternoon Pathwork: 2:00-4:30 PM
Saturday's pathwork (morning and afternoon) will be taught primarily by Chelidon and Jude; the focus on the work will be energy raising and sensing in groups through sound and movement, use of voice, instrument, and body to create power and communication within a group.
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: 8:30-10:30 PM ( A co-created musical and movement ritual based on the work and themes of the day)
Sunday:
Ritual Brunch: led by Claudia: 9:00-12:00 (a Gathering, a Reflection, a Celebration and a Transition: A sharing of our music and magic with each other, moving gently back into the World, full of new skills and new connections). Restorative Ends by 12:30pm
We ask for help with cleanup 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.
Facilitator's Bios:
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.
Crow and Willow Firefly Kelly met and fell in love playing music and singing together in 2000 at Witchcamp in the Woodlands of Mendocino, CA. The magic of music still dances through them as they continue to play sacred music for Witches, Sufis, Yogis, and other spiritual groups. Crow is a master of stringed things, stirring and evoking the wordless depths with mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and other instruments that inspire him in the moment. Willow is an experiential priestess of rhythm and voice, holding the steady hip-bouncing pulse of the dance divinely coupled with the opening and deepening rhythms of trance. Their musicianship, their love for each other and their love for those that do this work of transformation infuse their facilitation with a special kind of magic.
Jude Elf has danced her way through life studying traditional forms of movement of many cultures and genres (including Yoga, Judo, West African and Afro Caribbean dance, Fire Spinning, American Tribal and Egyptian Cabaret Belly Dance, Israeli Dance, International folk dance, Circle Dance, Appalachian Clogging, Ballroom, and Swing). She considers herself a song catcher, spinner, and budding drummer. She currently performs with Adja and Shidda: West African Dance and Culture Troupes, and the Hardwick Area Vagina Warriors. A priestess with a life long devotion to ecstatic transformative ritual and deep personal magic, she rejoices in sharing her passion for connecting to the divine through music, dance, and song. With Kidsfest, she helps facilitate large public rituals that gather the community to turn the wheel and honor the seasons. She has taught Reclaiming magic in her local community and Vermont and Free Activist Witch Camps.
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 previous Magic of Art Restoratives in Maryland and New Hampshire.
Are You Called To Be A Part Of This Magic?
For more information and/or registration info please email claudia@casachaos.net or call us at 603-863-8393 before 9pm evenings. (FYI, A $25 non-refundable deposit will be required to hold your space when you fill out the registration info. There has been a lot of interest and spaces are limited so please contact us early if you wish to participate in this magical long weekend.)
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:00 pm (UTC)Hope it's a fantastic event. Hugs to Willow from me!
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 09:34 pm (UTC)Would you hurry up and finish that teleportation device so that I can come?
Please kiss Willow for me...twice!
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:41 pm (UTC)But yeah, whichever of us clever witches figures out the teleportation thing really must share the tech...
And re: Willow-kissing: gladly! :)
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 09:50 pm (UTC)I am going back and forth about Dandelion...really wanting to go - but it's not fitting easily into my life. Depending on that (which I have to decide like...today), I may have more open space than I know.
I need a patron. What are my chances of finding a modern-day, green, leftist Medici who wants to fund all my spiritual expansion?
Oh, don't even bother answering that.
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:05 pm (UTC)Just sayin'.
By the way, did you teach at Loreley last year?
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:07 pm (UTC)And yes, I did teach at Loreley last year. Are you on the team for '08?
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:13 pm (UTC)Same here about Dandelion -- I just can't fit it all into my schedule of weekends, available time off, and so on. I really wanted to go...hmm, well, I felt somewhat obligated to go, and there are some people I'd really love to see. But...probably not in the cards this time around. I went last time, perhaps every other is my personal tradition ;>
Jude is an excellent siren, and she will be doing even more juicy stuff at this coming event... (tempt, tempt)
Totally seriously (for a moment, anyway), last year's event was one of the peak musical/magickal events I have ever seen or participated in -- I was there teaching, but I would have paid serious money just to be in the room and hang out/learn from/jam with all the people who were there. I've honestly never done or participated in better improv, ever, and the magickal impact (as well as the musical fun) was...breathtaking. (tempt, tempt)
For instance, Daniel, Crystaline's (sp?) sweetie, was there, and he's just the most *amazing* musician. We're hoping to lure them both back to this one.
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Date: 2008-02-29 06:09 pm (UTC)I can tell you that there is definitely space. I sent out the pre-announcement on LJ, but with all else that's been going on, we're just getting the actual event announcements out now. The official announcement goes out (via mailing lists, etc) this weekend, and it'll start filling up then.