Flash Silvermoon
Flash silvermoon has been a mover and shaker in the WomanSpirit Movement nationally and locally since the early 70's and has been stirring the collective cauldron ever since! Flash is a Priestess of the Elizabeth Gould Davis Coven #1, author of TWWTarotBook and Deck, Flash Silvermoon's Planetary Playbook, Temple of Isis and another in progress on Past Lives and our Animals called Lifetime Companions.
Animal communicator, Stone healer, Astrologer, Psychic, Flower Essence Practitioner, Teacher, musician and founder of this festival! You can hear Flash's powerful music Saturday night with the Blues Sisters or on one of her CD's Flash Silvermoon, or Phases of the Silvermoon.
The Wise Woman's Tarot Workshop
Come learn all about the magic and mystery of the Wise Woman's Tarot. We will explore and deepen our knowledge of Tarot Divination as well as a global view of Matriarchal Culture. Learn how to let these amazing cards literally speak to you. Decks will be available for purchase and signing but not essential for the workshop.
Animal Communication
Learn to communicate on a deep and healing level with your animal friends. Get helpful tips on care, feeding and many useful alternative remedies.
Be a better friend to your pets!
Topics include:
- How do we communicate?
- An exercise to tune in using a photo of your pet
- How animals function as our first line of defense
- Surviving the loss of a pet
- Reincarnation and your critters
- Exercise using photo of pets that have passed on
- How to facilitate the return of the spirit of a favor
- Care/feeding and alternative tips using homeopathy,
- How to create a healing grid for you and your furry friends
Rock and Roll: Stone Healing
Discover the healing power of quartz crystals and gemstones as they gently align and balance your chakras. You can experience deep releases where you are blocked and enjoy a greater overall flow of energy.
Flash will show you how to use grids as a tool for healing. A large selection of hi-vibration stones and jewelry will be available for sale as well.
Ackadia Seawind
Ackadia Seawind is a Postulant in the Church of All World; Coordinator of the Dragon Egg Nest, and has worked as AWA’s Earth Spirituality Youth Camp Director; and Coordinator of an Earth Day Festival at All World Acres. She has organized and participated in several environmental actions including Protest, Clean-up, Public Rituals, Tree Plantings and Educational Tours. A second generation Floridian, she is dedicated to preserving Florida’s Flora and Fauna for future generations to enjoy and love.
Environmentalism as a Religious Act
Environmental activism allows the participant to gain an intimate and tactile experience of Divinity. By participating in everyday acts of activism and by joining group events the participant expands their relationship with Divinity and Humanity while serving both. The benefit to humanity is sometimes lost in the rhetoric of the Environmental Activist Movement. This workshop will look at several aspects of Environmentalism. From simply prescribed actions to help make our world a cleaner, healthier place to live, to hands on restructuring of environmentally afflicted areas, the discussion of "why" will focus on our relationship to Divinity.
This relationship, with Divinity can be one of direct interaction, without mediation, without guides, without teachers; the seekers, touching, serving, and caring directly for Divinity and Divinity responding. Concepts of Divinity differ greatly, so a brief amount of time will be spent on how different concepts of Divinity perceive different acts. The main focus will be on expanding the conceptual base of religious acts so that more of what we do as Environmentalists is perceived to be an act of religious devotion. By allowing ourselves to recognize each other as acting in a devotional manner, we unify ourselves across theological lines, and enliven the movement both for Neopaganism and for Environmentalism.
Omi Aladora Ajamu
Omi Aladora Ajamu is a woman of great magic, music and power. She is a Yoruba Priest of Yemanja and founding mother of the African Connection an African Cultural performance group. She worked in the early days with Martin Luther King and was in the Broadway production of Hair. In addition she is a gifted Psychic and divines with the African Shells. She will be offering readings here at her booth.Omi is also part of the Blues Sisters as well as her own jazz band The Omi Aladora Ajamu Trio.
Goddesses of the Yoruba
This workshop will introduce you to the magic and mystery of the Orisha, the Yoruba Goddesses... Yemanja, Oshun, Oya and others. learn some of the chants and rituals of this ancient but very ALIVE culture.
Debra Lones
Debra Lones has an energy healing practice in which she incorporates intuitive energy work, sacred journey, soul retrieval, reiki and qigong healing techniques. She received a doctorate degree from Stetson University and spent years navigating through the brain of the corporate world and then back out into the heart of the great Mother. It was there that she discovered her passion - facilitating consciousness expansion through energy work. Debra has studied with numerous healers, teachers and Shamans on a journey that has taken her as far as China and Indonesia.
Debra regularly conducts workshops in which she blends science and spirituality providing an open and relaxed venue in which one may embrace the teaching and wisdom of the ancient mystery schools. Debra teaches energetic healing practices, meditation, qigong and tai chi. She is a reiki master/teacher, an ordained minister, and a certified tai chi instructor.
The Art of Moving Energy:
Healing and Sacred Sexuality
The art of moving energy is the art of living fully in our power. Our initiation begins with our first breath of life. In ancient practices initiates were taught the power of moving energy to awaken the kundalini, to access unlimited creativity, and for healing. There has never been a time when this information was needed more than today.
In this workshop you will learn to cultivate, move, transform and store energy. We will explore the relationship between energy and health, creativity, love and sexuality. We are living in an ever-changing, pulsing, passionate matrix of energy. Learn how to interface with this matrix and call forth your passion and creativity. Find out how you can become a super-conductor of energy, eliminating resistance in your body to the powerful flow of universal energy.
Aurora Whitebird
Aurora Whitebird is a Gardnerian High Priestess/Elder High Priestesss Fellowship of Isis/Reiki Master/Lakota Shamanic Practitioner
Energy Exstasy
Experience the magic and power of sound and vibration and how you can shift and change everything in your world!! Some instruments will be available and do bring your favorite percussion /bells etc
Tara Allen
Tara Allen MA, LMT lives in the Mystery in Melrose working as a healer using Ortho-Bionomy (energy work), Process Work, Creative Arts Therapy, and Amazon herbs. She guides people into allignment with their Spirit Souls.
Land Blessing Walkabout
Getting to know our space and Blessing the Spirits present.
Living Magic
ALL life is Hi-vib Magic; Inexhaustible Mystery!
Come spend an hour or two with Tara... learn how to follow the trail of your particular l unfoldment. You will soon be able to decipher the clues to the magical mystery tour which is your life's journey.. However incredible this may appear, it actually works!
Regarding your health, wealth, relationships, body image, etc...whatever is going on in your life offers a treasure chest of guidance, hidden in front of your nose. Learn how to open Pandora's box! Become congruent with your treasure and you will find yourself living in peace, harmony and imperturbability.
This is a model of power-with not power-over. It is in-the-moment, creative--not based on left-brain assertions of power. Like the tao of tai-chi, it is the art of yielding to the river so as to align with the force of its flow. It is a proactive stance towards a life that becomes ever more balanced and beautiful with the effortless touch of an asian painting, informed with the passion of your unique, personal nature.
Getting it is a process: playful, fun, creative, colorful, spontaneous, instantaneous!
Deerwomon
Deerwomon is a Shamanic and Improvisational Performer and Teacher. Her performances are a practice and discipline in the “Art of Be-ing In The Moment”. Deerwomon impulses from her own inner source. The material is any arrangement of emotional, psychic, mental and yes, even, extraterrestrial development. As Deerwomon drops into her inner dance and vocals characters emerge and become hyokas and clowns and et’s and reflections of you or me. To experience Deerwomon’s improv’s is to experience something unusual and familiar at the same time.
Shamanic Journey
A Shamanic Journey is about empowering
self as healer and seeker of knowledge and wisdom.
Through the use of the drum
we journey to meet our power animals,
totems and spirit guides.
The drum creates an altered state of consciousness
as we enter into the “non-ordinary” reality.
Materials Needed For shamanic Journey:
Bandanna to cover your eyes, a comfortable mat to lie upon, a blanket to stay cozy and a journal or sketch book to record your journey. Bring drums, percussive instruments, drinking water.
Kat Whitestar
Kat Whitestar is a nationally known recording artist who will be performing at the Wise Woman Festival.
Born in North Africa in Kenitra, Morocco, Kat White Star has never
strayed far from her heart connection with the Mother Land of Civilization: Africa.
"It was something in the water, it was something in the air, there was music
in my soul, that Africa birthed there." As a performer, Kat White Star
presents a healing musical journey that engages the heart, radiates warmth, and wraps
the listener in soothing melodies sourced from sacred prayers. As a vocalist
she mines the rich a capella traditions of American gospel and ancient world
melodies in the style of Sweet Honey in the Rock and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Raven Moondance
Raven Moondance (aka Shenna Benarte) utilizes Yoga, Reiki, Feng Shui, Moon Astrology, Chord Cutting Ceremony and other healing modalities to clear and balance body, mind, spirit and environment through classes, ceremony and individual sessions. (352 372-8594)
Energy Healing Circle
Join us as we focus on healing ourselves, each other and Mother Earth. Come to learn aout energy healing, to utilize any healing skills or talents you may have and to receive healing energy, if you so desire.
Omito
Omitowade Salewa Ajamu is a lifetime priestess of Yemoja, raised in the Aftican ancestral spirutual tradition of the Yoruba. Along with the ordinary demands for drumming and chanting which are part of her priesthood Omito has especially developed her skill as an African dancer and fine arts painter, to further reveal the depth of her cultural heritage. Pieces by her are hanging in several institutions from South Florida to South Carolina. She has long given workshops in these arts all over the US and Jamaica. When not teaching or doing spiritual work, Omito spends time with her 4-year-old daughter who teachers her refinements of dance guided by a spirit source beyond this world.
African Dance
Dancing us into awareness, Omito will illustrate in movement some of the differences between secular African dance and dances done specifically to honor each of three goddesses or "orisha" of the Yoruba tradition: Oya, Yemoja and Osun. She will then demostrate traditional movements and costumes, and share with us the symbolic meaning involved in these steps, gestures and African outfits. At the end she will model and make available a few traditional dance head wraps (gele) and hip wraps (lapa) for those who might like to buy a set.
Morgana
Morgana is a ritual performer and matriarchal belly dancer with an M.A. in Women's Studies. In 1977, she founded the Pagoda, a womynspace in St. Augustine, Fla. In St. Augustine, she worked as a dance and art therapist while teaching and performing at festivals, colleges and conferences nationwide. Her handbook, Dance of Birth, has been used by midwives and pregnant dancers for over 20 years. She now lives on Lookout Mountain in N.E. Alabama, where she is one of eight owners of Mountain Mamas, an arts and crafts store featuring the art of over 50 craftswomyn. Recently she opened a creative arts center in Mentone, Ala., called Joy of Movement where she teaches creative dance and belly dancing.
Goddess Dancing (Workshop)
Through music and movement we celebrate the Goddess within by exploring circles, spirals, cycles,centering, connections, chakras, meditative states and personal transformation. No dance experience is necessary.
INVOCATION (Performance)
A 30 min. dance drama telling the story of the ancient Mother, her suppression, and her reemergence today.
Siren
"Siren" is a dynamic/erotic poet/writer and performance artist. She is a lesbian of color from Atlanta with a lot to say. She describes herself as,"Siren," as the beauty of our voices, in all of our complexities, is sacred and should never be silenced. Like a dreamcatcher, I fling my laptop wide and gather words to frame my thoughts, being sure to toss them high to treasure their kaleidoscopic appeal, and then watch them paint my essence across the Heavens.
Siren is currently working on a poetry CD and seeking a publishing home for her collection of poetic words. Check her out at Daystage over lunch hour
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Cauldron of Culture
Passin'the rattle to preserve our own oral tradition. If you are a veteran of various and sundry movements/spiritual groups,come share your stories that we may preserve the rich heritage we are co-creating as we speak.
If you are a newcomer or just shy, come listen and learn from your foremothers so that we needn't reinvent the wheel as well as pay homage to those who have gone before us.
