Monday, October 22, 2012

Iron Pentacle in Montreal, November 2012

We still have a few spots left for the Iron Pentacle workshop in Montreal on November 17th and 18th. Here are the details.

Iron Pentacle Weekend Intensive
November 17th and 18th,  930am-6pm
Cost:  $135 – $70 sliding scale
We ask that participants be committed to attending the workshop in its entirety.

Description
Step into your authentic self for a weekend and explore your relationship with the five points of the Iron Pentacle: Sex, Pride, Self, Power, and Passion. We believe that these points are our sacred birthrights, and we’re willing to claim them.

The Iron Pentacle is one of the core elements of Reclaiming Tradition of contemporary American witchcraft. It challenges us to look at our relationships with the qualities/energies of sex, pride, self, power and passion; and then integrate these energies into our lives and magic. It is definitely shadow work!.

Using trance, spellwork and ritual, we will experience the connections between these points and what happens when the points become out of balance. We will access each point of the pentacle using techniques including guided meditation, art, creativity, song, movement, and sacred play. Together, we will learn to balance the Iron Pentacle within ourselves and bring it more fully into our lives.

Teaching Team
Claudia Manifest is a Reclaiming initiate and a devote to Feri who strives to combine the knowledge to be learned from her Elders in the craft with the Wisdom she has gained from discovering and developing her own personal practices and magical arts. She has been teaching witchcraft at camps, intensives, workshops and classes for the past 15 years. She loves the practical, manifestation magics of creating, recognizing, and honoring the sacred in our daily lives. Her magical daily practice includes Iron Pentacle work, grounding, Time magic, Yoga, Tarot, child rearing and cooking; all as magical and intentional acts. Striving always to welcome in and acknowledge more beauty, balance, and delight in her life, she is excited to share, learn, and practice the Art and Craft of living a sensual, magical, grounded life with you all.

Amanda is an ecstatic Witch following an initiatory mystery tradition of North American witchcraft. She has been involved in Reclaiming since 2003 and teaching within the tradition since 2006. She is currently a member of the Reclaiming Teachers in Training and Service (RTITS) guild in New England. Her personal practice celebrates life and places a strong emphasis on personal responsibility and relationship with Mystery, including deity, the ancestors, spirits, nature, and our selves. She believes strongly in having an extensive magical toolkit that complements real-world skills.

Pre-requisite
This is intermediate-level work. Participants should be comfortable with basic personal energy work and should be able to solidly ground and participate in creating sacred space with a group. This is shadow work. Participants must be willing to face their triumphs, flaws, and faults.

Prior completion of Elements of Magic, a core course in the Reclaiming tradition, is a prerequisite for this course. On occasion, comparable work can be substituted. It is our goal to create a supportive environment together in which to do this work.

Please do not use drugs or alcohol during our time together in the workshop.

While this work can be deeply healing and truly transformative, it is not a substitute for professional counselling.

Space is limited. All students accepted at the discretion of the instructors.

Registration
The fee for the workshop is on a sliding scale ($135-$70) – you choose where you fit on the scale based on the sustainability of your finances in the world. The actual cost of the weekend is somewhere just above the middle. If you need additional help in order to attend, please let us know.

We expect this workshop to fill up. To reserve your spot, a non-refundable deposit of $50 is required before September 24th. (The deposit is transferable.) Payment in full is appreciated before October 31st.
The costs of putting on this workshop include two full days of studio rental in a space located near a metro and large enough to accommodate movement; travel and billeting for Claudia, as well as childcare while she is in Montreal with us; and healthy food and snacks. We also hope to offer each teacher an honorarium if funds permit. If any money is left over, it will go to a fund to help bring another teacher to Montreal for a weekend intensive in 2013.

More Information
For more information or to register, please e-mail ravenka(at)cosmic-muse(dot)com

Also, updates are posted to our facebook event page

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