We will share our experiences and feelings about death, our questions about death, and explore how to become more comfortable with the idea of our own death. We will talk about The Five Wishes and how to prepare ourselves and support our elders in preparing for death. We will talk about Hospice care, body disposal options, ethical wills, and different cultural traditions around death. Judith will be sharing a Death Cafe...
Disarming Our Language is a methodology for transforming internalized oppression and cultivating kinship. Through writing and mindfulness exercises, nuanced discussions, embodiment practices, and grounded ritual we will raise our awareness about how structural domination and dichotomy are woven into our identities and relationships through words, how we can consciously choose to perpetuate or transform those patterns, and h0w we might co-create a a grammar of healing and interconnectedness. Part etymological geekery, part compassionate inquiry, part liberatory anti-establishment dreamscaping, Disarming Our Language is a cauldron of transfiguration guided by wonder: can we turn a weapon of destruction into a tool of co-creation? Disarming Our Language will be shared by Niema Lightseed...
Diversifying and deepening sisterhood through the Divine Reflections Ceremony. I will curate a sacred circle with an altar in the center, smudge and set the space with the supplies needed. The ceremony begins with an opening prayer, calling in the elements and directions. Each being in the circle will introduce themselves and have the space to call upon their ancestral mothers, wisdom keepers and matriarchal line known and unknown. Moving into the first phase, everyone will turn to the left in the circle and gently braid and adorn the hair of the person in front of them or if hair is too short or sensitive to braid, just gracefully removing it from their face - ( I will have flowers, hair ties and headbands provided) During...
Deepen your dream practice. In this class, you'll learn Gina's cosmology on dreaming, and how to retain, recite, and recall your dreams through practice and ritual. You'll get the very basics of working a dream and then learn about Gina's favorite dreaming plant allies. And of course, we'll make some plant medicine and dream with some of our favorite allies. Dream Allies & Rituals will be taught by Gina Rose Baiamonte. ...
The Dreaming Den is a community space! We are hosting drop-in dream groups each morning before breakfast, dreaming skillshares during the day, informal dinner conversations and nightmare vigils in the evenings. Skillshares include Grandmother Sarah's Dream Tracking, Gina Baiamonte's Dream Allies and Ritual, and Akhila Kolesar's Shadow Work: The portal of nightmares. Come find us near the Healing Village!...
Mapping and tracking your dreams is an ancient art. It is a process that we share with our ancestors and remains relevant today. They dreamed, we dream, and with the art of bringing our dreams through into daytime, we become a bigger part of all that is happening. Dreaming is a practice- a way of connecting and being that never arrives but creates a continuous informing thread back into our awakening lives. Based on the ancient premise that everything is alive, that there is another reality running parallel or alongside us, I am calling dream time. Running 24/7, it is outside the realm of ordinary words and speaks in a language that rhymes, and connects outside the field of rationality in metaphor, synchronicity, and magical irrationality....
Our ancestors have been spinning for thousands of years, with materials that are all around us – in the stalks of plants, and the fur of animals, even the cocoons of insects. Fiber Spinning is a process of transforming raw fibers into strong and elegant threads, from which there are limitless possibilities of what we may create. . . clothing, shelter, adornments. As we work with our hands and spindles to transform fibers, we also work with our stories – spinning tales of transformation. Together we will spin, share, and be creating a collaborative woven piece with our first spun threads. Drop Spindle Fiber Spinning will be shared by Shannon Pritchard...
Earthenware is a dialogue with the elements; listening to and learning from the ways of fire, the personalities of clay, and the alchemy of color and form. When we shape foraged clay, made like us of bones and blood, and offer our creations to the fire, our intentions are transformed and our vessels are born. Pit firing foraged clay vessels is practiced by many cultures around the world, each with rich pottery traditions, cuisines, and stories. With the prevalence of modern technological methods, the inherent connection between ceramics and the land has become abstracted. The very use of wild clays in this craft can be a profoundly enriching way to connect with the land, the bio regions we call home, and literally build relationship to place. We...
Flower Farming; Grow Flowers for Food, Dye and Floral Artistry it all starts with a seed; soil, water, sun, and our hands and heart to plant a garden and beautiful sustainable future filled with flowers! Flowers that are filled with possibilities, and grown with regenerative practices and permaculture principles for practical and high impact results. Learn to grow flowers that can be co-created with in multiple ways and modalities; flowers to nourish our body, warm our creative heart and take root in our land steward souls. Wai’ala will be sharing Flower Farming; Grow Flowers for Food, Dye and Floral Artistry...
This is an open discussion and council on how we can be “Allys” in today’s day and age. This is more than race or color, sex, gender, orientation, faith, nationalism, ability, class, beliefs… this is about all of that AND a deep desire to dissolve that which separates us by being heard, seen, and empathized with and doing the same for all. We show up as we are, knowing there's always more to learn + remember. We show up holding what we're holding. It's all not only welcomed here, but it's also needed. We take responsibility for how we choose to show up. When we come together in the shared space of council we see the experiences that unite us, we connect through differences, we empathize with...
