SKILLSHARE SUN

  In this class you will be learning the art of crafting coal-burned spoons while honing essential knife safety skills. This is an ancestral skill you can use to shape functional and beautiful utensils using time-honored methods. Simultaneously, acquire crucial knife safety skills, ensuring confidence and precision in your craft. From proper grip techniques to understanding blade angles, this class prioritizes a safe and supportive environment, empowering participants to create beautiful, functional spoons while fostering a keen awareness of knife safety practices. Embark on a creative journey that blends artistry with safety, leaving you with both a beautiful handmade spoon and newfound skills to carry into future projects. Please provide your own knife for this class. I will be bringing a few for purchase if needed. Coal...

31 December, 2023

Fire is the life force of us all :: the Sun we revolve around, the hearth at the center of our homes, the lava core of our Earth, and the energy feeding all life on this planet. This being transforms and catalyzes life, story, and ritual. They are a profound spiritual teacher and source for endless lessons and growth. In this class you will learn how to build and sustain a fire from the landscape :: gathering wood, building a fire structure, and practicing both the bow drill and hand drill methods of friction fire. Through patient courtship and curiosity, we can call on the solar energy stored in our bodies and the bones of plant beings to create a flame and deepen our connection to...

03 January, 2025

I created an Ancestor Essence at my Dad's grave once with a bowl of spring water, roses and infused it with song. We'll be gathering in a circle and practice embodiment, sing a bit and then each create a 2oz tincture bottle infused with the memory & love of a chosen ancestor.We'll share stories of the ancestor and sing their memory into the water. I'll bring some flowers/herbs that we can add as well. Then we'll all fill up our bottles. This essence/potion can be carried with them at all times, a small way to ritualize 'closeness' with the one they are longing for. The essence is also an energetic medicine for grief; filling their hearts with the memory of storytelling and singing the ancestor's praises...

31 December, 2024

The Cutting Away Ceremony is a ceremony offered by Sweet Medicine Nation that helps people gain new perspectives and insight to move forward in their lives. The ceremony can be done individually or in a group, and can help people release something from the past or overcome a situation that's holding them back. Cutting Away ceremony comes from an indigenous ritual which she uses in her ceremonies today.   People who have experienced this ceremony have been able to cut away: old resentments, hurt, grudges, regrets, suffering, and focus on what is more significant to us. It's time to cutaway the old decades in this special and powerfully affirming cord cutting practice    We will all join together in releasing the cords we have been tethered too. ...

26 December, 2024

What about the space in between the mother and the crone, the space in between a woman’s reproductive years and post menopause? Dancing The In Between Womb Circle invites women to gather in a safe, facilitated container, to share, learn, grow, be inspired, empowered, honored and celebrated through the dance of perimenopause. “Dancing the in between” speaks to the journey women move through for approximately 4-10 years often beginning in our mid-40’s and moving through to our mid-50’s (age range varies, sometimes beginning earlier or ending later). “Dancing the in between” speaks to the space in between, when a woman is no longer reproductive/ child bearing and not quite an elder. “Dancing the in between” speaks to this period called perimenopause and the journey transitioning to postmenopause....

02 January, 2025

Dream Practice: Beginning a Dream Practice & Plant Allies for Dreamtime Dreaming is sacred. Dreaming is your birthright. And dreaming is about relationship. Together we will look at our current relationship to the dreamtime and then what it could be like to court this relationship into a deeper place, where we feel connected to the messages, healing and inspiration available there. We will share tools and simple rituals to encourage dream recall, then look at ways to work with dreams and start to build an understanding of the messages they carry. We will also explore how working with specific plants can support your dreaming by encouraging steady sleep, nervous system regulation, dream recall and lucid dreaming. Together we will find the plant ally that will best support your...

31 December, 2024

  Menopause is a sacred threshold, offering women the chance to reclaim their wisdom and power. In this session, we will explore Dreamwork as a tool for visioning into menopause, using the guidance of our dreams to reframe this life stage as one of empowerment and renewal. It's the stage of life I like to call, The Enchantress. We’ll create space to share dreams, work with symbols, and uncover messages that can inform our transition into this profound phase of life. Together, we’ll honor the wisdom of our inner worlds and create a ceremonial container for the Enchantress to emerge. This offering is for women who wish to connect deeply with their intuition, reclaim their power, and reimagine menopause as a sacred journey. Shauna Lay will be sharing Dreaming...

30 December, 2024

  Learn to spin fiber into yarn using a drop spindle! Create a beautiful skein of hand spun yarn and explore a variety of earthen fibers. You will walk away from this workshop with your yarn and all of the wisdom and tools that you need to keep spinning at home. Fiber spinning has been an essential skill throughout the history of human kind. Yarn is the foundation for all fabric and for most of history, these threads have been spun by hand! We all have spinners in our bloodlines, and through spinning we honor them and connect with and the Earth, Spirit, and beyond. We become alchemists; spinning earthen fibers into threads to be woven anew; infused with out unique essence. The ancient art of spinning...

01 January, 2025

  Create your own watercolor kit to take home, entirely made from earth pigments and natural binders. This course will cover the techniques of creating watercolor paint, starting from raw earth (rock, soil, pigment) and finishing with a travel kit you can use to make art anywhere. Participants will learn the following skills: - Ethical pigment foraging -Safely breaking up raw rocks into powder, -Transforming powder into paint pigment, -Grinding pigment into watercolor paint -Using natural materials as “binders” to preserve the colors - How to create a color palette for your watercolor kit Participants will leave the class with a complete, earth-based watercolor painting kit that they can use to paint at home. Although this course covers some basic technique for watercolor painting, we will not focus on artwork creation during this...

02 January, 2025

Shaping Earth & Fire: Earthenware Pottery Earthenware is a dialogue with the elements; listening to and from the ways of fire, the personality of clays, and the alchemy of color and form. When we shape wild clays, made of minerals and iron like us of bones and blood, our intentions are magnified and fortified. We will create an earth oven to fire our pottery. Pit firing clay vessels is practiced by many cultures around the world, each with rich, pottery traditions, cuisines and histories. This simple method is the oldest form of pottery making, but with the prevalence of modern technological methods and commercial clay companies, the inherent connection between ceramics and the land has become abstracted. The very use of foraged clays can be a profoundly...

03 January, 2025