Workshops
Sol - a Solstice Celebration and Retreat

Practical Magic and The College of Esoteric Arts are pleased to invite you to SOL our ceremony to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, at Kamp night-magicKiwanis (Highway 8 turnoff to Bragg Creek). The Solstice is a time of growth and nurturing, inviting prosperity in the harvests to come in late summer and fall. The energy is that of growth, illumination, and celebrating the life force that is quickening around us as summer begins to bloom.

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Medicine Walk Workshop

Experience the sacred in nature, connect with the wisdom of Mother Earth, winter-medicine-walk2and open yourself to her guidance and magic. Our walk will incorporate three elements; meditation; divining; and plant medicine. We will walk to a sacred location to experience a meditation that connects us to Mother Earth and Father Sky; then engage in a 'divining with nature' exercise where nature becomes our oracle and speaks her messages to us; then respectfully collect plants that we will incorporate into personal healing and manifesting.

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Sacred Oils Workshop

A feast for the senses! Participants will learn the essentials sacred_oilsof the magical and healing properties of herbs and creating with herbs, essential oils and crystals. After a meditation to receive guidance in the manner of shamanic plant journeying (we will not be ingesting any plant substances!!!) we will bring these elements together to create an oil that is charged with intention , and then can be used for ceremonial bathing, worn as fragrance and placed in a sacred space as a talisman of our desired outcome. 

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Introduction to Ceremony Workshop

Participants will be given instruction on the nature of sacred ceremony,ceremony its background and use by different groups historically and present, and how ceremony connects us to the sacred and is used to manifest desires, heal each other, and bring inspiration and magic to our lives. We will further explore the elements of creating simple ceremony in our everyday lives and more involved ceremony for auspicious occasions, then put our understanding into practice in a group manifestation ceremony.

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Full Moon Circles

...the forest lit up by a crackling fire, the rush of the river reflecting the full moon overhead, these ceremonies experiment with taking inspiration to its extreme. Often held at midnight on the night of the full moon, the setting is magical and the effect is transformational.

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Circle nights are not formally scheduled but offered by invitation a week or so before the event.

Details of the ceremony are dependent on weather and will be announced a week or two before the event. Please indicate if you would like to be added to the contact list. 

 

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