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Here are descriptions of the workshops Thorn is available to teach in
your community. If you don't find exactly what you are looking for, contact
her to see what else is possible!
To book Thorn, contact Thorn.
It is best to schedule workshops at least one season in advance.
For information on where Thorn is doing a workshop in your area, see On the Road.
List of Workshops
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The Black Heart of Innocence
This is a deep workshop about accessing the life
force and speaking your truth. Together we will journey to the innocent,
sexual state found in the child before her force was constrained and
perverted, and in the animal still roaming in the wild. Through trance
journeying, singing, and physical movement, we will learn to re-connect
with the force that drives all of nature, that force which we are so often
cut off from in our contemporary world. This is an important tool of the
Anderson Feri Tradition. Come, polish your black heart until it shines!
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Creating Ecstatic Ritual
The Reclaiming and Feri Traditions are both based
on the power of inspiration and direct communion with the Gods and the
Elements of Life. We will sing, drum and dance. Most of all, we will learn
to listen to Deity and to the forces around us, and learn then to speak
from a place of inspired, poetic connection. Come ready to sweat! Throw
your scripts out the window! Come experience a new way of being priest and
priestess.
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The Dance of the Peacock and the Power of Names
An advanced workshop using tools of the Feri
Tradition. This is work that speaks to our fears. This is work that speaks
to our strengths. This is work that calls upon our own Divinity, our memory
of the spark, the voices, powers, and gifts held in the speaking of our
sacred names. We will journey with the Peacock God in His different faces:
beautiful, sexual and terrible. We will speak each other's names, and look
upon the Divine faces among us. Take a risk. Look into the depths of your
soul.
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The Iron Pentacle
Reclaim the qualities of Sex, Pride, Self, Power
and Passion. Call them back to you and claim them as your birthrights. Our
culture has twisted these words: we, as Witches, know that we can use these
words, they are sacred. They are the building blocks to becoming more
human. We will do Devotional Dance especially designed to access these
energies. We will explore our blocks to these words and forces. We will
journal, sing, and trance. We will run the power of the Iron Pentacle
through our human bodies, beginning the work of healing, beginning the work
of strength.
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The Pearl Pentacle
This builds on the work of the Iron. Reclaim the qualities
of Love, Law, Knowledge, Liberty and Wisdom. Our culture desperately needs these words to
heal its heart and to begin to create new ways of being based on
power-with, instead of power-over. We will do Devotional Dance especially
designed to access these energies. We will learn to re-direct their flow,
and find our places with them in the world.Ê We will learn to connect them
with the qualities of Iron, and feel how they resonate together.
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The Triple Soul
We are a trinity. We have a soul that stores the
life-force and speaks in symbols and through play. We have a soul that
communicates through speech and listening, through words and energy. We
have a soul that is Divine, that is ancestor and teacher. Through
exercises, Devotional Dance, play, energy work and song, we will learn to
better communicate with all the parts of our soul. We will learn to align
ourselves through breath-work and prayer. This is another building block to
humanness, and is recommended for all, but especially for advanced
practitioners looking to deepen their work.
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Sex, Will and Magic:
Opening to Life Power
Magic is the marriage of breath, will and desire. If our lives
lack full access to any of these, our magic will not thrive. In this
experiential workshop we will learn ways to tap the energy of life and sex,
using this to strengthen our will and fuel our work. Advanced energy
techniques, meditation and chanting will help us access life power, opening
our lives to heightened
awareness, energetic sensitivity, and a strong,
magical will. Strength, love, and beauty will surely follow.
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Engaging the Warrior's Heart
Step into the possibility of your own authority.
Thou art Goddess. Claim your power and be accountable for your own actions.
Thou art God. Stand tall. Breathe deeply. Make a commitment. Explore the
vitality of the life force: what is the depth of your love? Walk with the
posture of the warrior: what is the depth of your strength? Learn the
dances of your will: what is the depth of your soul?
Warriorship can open the door to active non-violence, to creative
discipline and to a deeper look at yourself, your fears and the depths of
your power. Together, we will practice truth telling and centering into
stillness. We will work intensively with the blade of will and the cup of
compassion.
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