UPCOMING CLASSES
RECLAIMING CORE CLASSES
Jan 7 - Feb 11, 2019: Six Week Elements of Magick - w Urania & Laura -- San Francisco
March 23 & 24, 2019 -- Elements of Magick - w Irisanya & Urania -- Santa Rosa, CA
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ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
December 16: Tarot Workshop with Glenn, George & Ingrid - Berkeley, CA
December 29: Tea & Tarot -- with Urania -- San Rafael, CA
January 18 - 20, 2019 -- Community Class Weekend Intensive - Copper & Irisanya - Santa Rosa, CA
Jan 27 / Feb 3, 10, 24 / March 3, 10 -- Pentacle of the Great Turning with Mykel, kmo, Jamie and Seed - Oakland, CA
Jan 29 - Feb 12: Cerridwen: Intiatrix into Wisdom & Transformation - w Urania & Riyana - Berkeley, CA
Scroll down for more info or click on the class names above to go directly to the class description or Facebook page!
RECLAIMING CORE CLASSES
Jan 7 - Feb 11, 2019: Six Week Elements of Magick - w Urania & Laura -- San Francisco
March 23 & 24, 2019 -- Elements of Magick - w Irisanya & Urania -- Santa Rosa, CA
...
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
December 16: Tarot Workshop with Glenn, George & Ingrid - Berkeley, CA
December 29: Tea & Tarot -- with Urania -- San Rafael, CA
January 18 - 20, 2019 -- Community Class Weekend Intensive - Copper & Irisanya - Santa Rosa, CA
Jan 27 / Feb 3, 10, 24 / March 3, 10 -- Pentacle of the Great Turning with Mykel, kmo, Jamie and Seed - Oakland, CA
Jan 29 - Feb 12: Cerridwen: Intiatrix into Wisdom & Transformation - w Urania & Riyana - Berkeley, CA
Scroll down for more info or click on the class names above to go directly to the class description or Facebook page!
December 16: Tarot Workshop with Glenn, George & Ingrid
Sunday December 16 - 1-5pm
Berkeley near Ashby BART
All skill levels - inspiring readings guaranteed!
Adults $10-30 / Youth (to age 30) $5-up.
Email ReclaimingEastBay@gmail.com to sign up!
Join us on Sunday December 16 as Ingrid and I and guest teacher Glenn Turner (founder of Ancient Ways magic store in Oakland) offer a Tarot workshop for people of all ages and skill levels.
Come explore divination and do a reading for the coming Winter - deep and inspiring readings guaranteed!
Adults $10-30 / Youth (to age 30) $5-up. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Questions & Reg: ReclaimingEastBay@gmail.com
Sunday December 16 - 1-5pm
Berkeley near Ashby BART
All skill levels - inspiring readings guaranteed!
Adults $10-30 / Youth (to age 30) $5-up.
Email ReclaimingEastBay@gmail.com to sign up!
Join us on Sunday December 16 as Ingrid and I and guest teacher Glenn Turner (founder of Ancient Ways magic store in Oakland) offer a Tarot workshop for people of all ages and skill levels.
Come explore divination and do a reading for the coming Winter - deep and inspiring readings guaranteed!
Adults $10-30 / Youth (to age 30) $5-up. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Questions & Reg: ReclaimingEastBay@gmail.com
December 29: Tea & Tarot -- with Urania -- San Rafael, CA
An afternoon of divination, tea, and spellcrafting. We'll trance into our year card, current or coming. Consider and claim images that resonate. Have some tea. Create a collage spell on a candle or posterboard for the coming year.
THIS IS FULL! Email to get on the waiting list
Cost: $25 to $60 sliding scale
Provided:
Tea
Clip Art
Poster board or candle
Bring: Your own tea cup, a tarot deck, journal, clip art if have some - I have a lot.
A snack to share for tea.
Contact: Urania at cobalturania@yahoo.com or on fb.
An afternoon of divination, tea, and spellcrafting. We'll trance into our year card, current or coming. Consider and claim images that resonate. Have some tea. Create a collage spell on a candle or posterboard for the coming year.
THIS IS FULL! Email to get on the waiting list
Cost: $25 to $60 sliding scale
Provided:
Tea
Clip Art
Poster board or candle
Bring: Your own tea cup, a tarot deck, journal, clip art if have some - I have a lot.
A snack to share for tea.
Contact: Urania at cobalturania@yahoo.com or on fb.
Jan 7 - Feb 11, 2019: Six Week Elements of Magick - w Urania & Laura -- San Francisco
With the art of magic, we deepen our vision and focus our will, empowering ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and Goddess spirituality by working with the Elements of Magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit. Techniques include: visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. We hope to provide a fair and nurturing environment for all participants. A Beginning six-week course
Prerequisite: Reading of the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk. We ask that applicants be committed to attending the full weekend.
Time: 7 - 9:30p, 6 Tuesdays
Cost: $90-$240, sliding scale
To register: Contact Urania at cobalturania@yahoo.com
With the art of magic, we deepen our vision and focus our will, empowering ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and Goddess spirituality by working with the Elements of Magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit. Techniques include: visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. We hope to provide a fair and nurturing environment for all participants. A Beginning six-week course
Prerequisite: Reading of the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk. We ask that applicants be committed to attending the full weekend.
Time: 7 - 9:30p, 6 Tuesdays
Cost: $90-$240, sliding scale
To register: Contact Urania at cobalturania@yahoo.com
January 18 - 20, 2019 -- Community Class Weekend Intensive - Copper & Irisanya - Santa Rosa, CA
Reclaiming Community: Tending the Hive
A Weekend Intensive 2019
The Bees Dance in Community,
Calling the Melissae….
Calling the Hive ….
Calling us Home….
Teachers: Copper and Irisanya
Dates: January 18 - 20, 2019
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Some room available for overnight stays, first come, first
served. Floor space and backyard tenting space and
some other creative options for the daring. :)
Times: Fri. 7 - 10p, Sat. 10a - 10pm, Sun. 10a - 4p
Cost: $90 - $240, sliding scale and scholarships available
As of 10/30 -- CLASS IS FULL, WE ARE ACCEPTING NAMES FOR A WAIT LIST
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/cliWmR7P9bfz7qqj1
Neighborhoods, workplaces, planning groups, covens, witchcamps, families, affinity groups, households, study groups, and more. Every day, we move in and out of varied and diverse communities which form the weft and weave of our lives. At its best, being in community is like dancing with trusted partners. We connect, feel supported, we engage and celebrate. We also, at times, walk in community feeling disempowered, frustrated, isolated, and burnt out. In these experiences, we may find ourselves leaving circles of connection, stepping out of service from a place of scarcity and unsustainable efforts.
Is another way possible? Can we learn to stay together through times of difficulty and build more resilient structures for leadership, for shared restorative practices, for reenergizing our activism and our magic and community-work?
Calling on the magic of the hive, we step into a weekend of sacred trust and community building. Working with the points of the Pentacle of Community, and with our allies, the bees, we will engage each other in honest communication, play, ritual, trance and spellwork as we explore what it takes to build and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.
This class is the 5th Core Reclaiming class and is focused on creating community in the Reclaiming Tradition and its ally communities.
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Copper Persephone: (she/her) Feeling two homes in my bones, California and Minnesota, I currently live in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. I have been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social work with people who live in poverty for over 25 years. I walk a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms and am called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer tantric practice and journey work. I have facilitated workshops in leadership, personal growth, communication, conflict resolution, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, I am devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bees Clan and the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform my daily life.
Irisanya (she/her) is a Witch, priestess, writer, teacher, drummer, moon lover, Sagittarius, and Reclaiming initiate. A fateful connection with a camp organizer led her to her first California Witchcamp in 2008. Since then, Irisanya has been blessed and humbled by opportunities to teach at Witchcamps in North America, Europe, and Australia. Now 20+ years (really?) into being a Witch, she is committed to facilitating community growth and connection through ritual, storytelling, drumming, and conflict resolution, embracing the beauty and complexity of being on this earth right now. She's devoted to Aphrodite and dedicated to showing up authentically and open-heartedly -- and, hopefully, with grace. You’ll often find her writing poetry, ignoring grammar rules, and making coffee. You can find her other goings-on and blurry moon pictures at www.irisanya.com.
Reclaiming Community: Tending the Hive
A Weekend Intensive 2019
The Bees Dance in Community,
Calling the Melissae….
Calling the Hive ….
Calling us Home….
Teachers: Copper and Irisanya
Dates: January 18 - 20, 2019
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Some room available for overnight stays, first come, first
served. Floor space and backyard tenting space and
some other creative options for the daring. :)
Times: Fri. 7 - 10p, Sat. 10a - 10pm, Sun. 10a - 4p
Cost: $90 - $240, sliding scale and scholarships available
As of 10/30 -- CLASS IS FULL, WE ARE ACCEPTING NAMES FOR A WAIT LIST
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/cliWmR7P9bfz7qqj1
Neighborhoods, workplaces, planning groups, covens, witchcamps, families, affinity groups, households, study groups, and more. Every day, we move in and out of varied and diverse communities which form the weft and weave of our lives. At its best, being in community is like dancing with trusted partners. We connect, feel supported, we engage and celebrate. We also, at times, walk in community feeling disempowered, frustrated, isolated, and burnt out. In these experiences, we may find ourselves leaving circles of connection, stepping out of service from a place of scarcity and unsustainable efforts.
Is another way possible? Can we learn to stay together through times of difficulty and build more resilient structures for leadership, for shared restorative practices, for reenergizing our activism and our magic and community-work?
Calling on the magic of the hive, we step into a weekend of sacred trust and community building. Working with the points of the Pentacle of Community, and with our allies, the bees, we will engage each other in honest communication, play, ritual, trance and spellwork as we explore what it takes to build and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.
This class is the 5th Core Reclaiming class and is focused on creating community in the Reclaiming Tradition and its ally communities.
_______________________________________________________________
Copper Persephone: (she/her) Feeling two homes in my bones, California and Minnesota, I currently live in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. I have been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social work with people who live in poverty for over 25 years. I walk a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms and am called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer tantric practice and journey work. I have facilitated workshops in leadership, personal growth, communication, conflict resolution, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, I am devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bees Clan and the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform my daily life.
Irisanya (she/her) is a Witch, priestess, writer, teacher, drummer, moon lover, Sagittarius, and Reclaiming initiate. A fateful connection with a camp organizer led her to her first California Witchcamp in 2008. Since then, Irisanya has been blessed and humbled by opportunities to teach at Witchcamps in North America, Europe, and Australia. Now 20+ years (really?) into being a Witch, she is committed to facilitating community growth and connection through ritual, storytelling, drumming, and conflict resolution, embracing the beauty and complexity of being on this earth right now. She's devoted to Aphrodite and dedicated to showing up authentically and open-heartedly -- and, hopefully, with grace. You’ll often find her writing poetry, ignoring grammar rules, and making coffee. You can find her other goings-on and blurry moon pictures at www.irisanya.com.
Jan 27 / Feb 3, 10, 24 / March 3, 10 -- Pentacle of the Great Turning with Mykel, kmo, Jamie and Seed - Oakland, CA
(Class will not meet on Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 17)
“The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization.” -Joanna Macy
The Pentacle of the Great Turning is a tool of healing for this time of great change. It is a potent source of strength and inspiration for our spirits, our work in the world, and our connections with community and the earth.
We will explore the points of the pentacle:
Desire - Surrender - Transformation - Solidarity - Manifestation
We will also explore the magic of the emergence of multicellular life on earth, the mystery of our cells and ourselves as multicellular beings.
Connecting to the energy of both the cells and the stars, we will explore deep longing and surrender, unravel the old stories and enter into the deep collaboration and compassion inherent within our bodies and the natural world. Tapping into energies that are both spacious and intimate, we will honor and renew our deeper purposes.
There will be lots of laughter (Grex the slime mold is our mascot) and emergent creativity to fuel the transmutation of grief, fear and anger into energy that can carry us forward.
This is class taught in the Reclaiming tradition of magical activist community by a multigenerational teaching team.
When: Six Sunday afternoons 1:30-4:30 PM
January 27, February 3, 10, 24 & March 3, 10
(Class will not meet on Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 17)
Where: Oakland home (details provided upon registration)
Cost: $75-300 sliding scale ($40 deposit holds your place). If this cost is prohibitive, please contact us.
Contact: Mykel at killerpenguin564@gmail.com
Class size is limited so RSVP ASAP to ensure your place in this circle
.Prerequisite: Elements of Magic class, witchcamp, or equivalent experience and commitment to attend.
Class is scent-free and can be made wheelchair and otherwise accessible.
Jan 29 - Feb 12,: Cerridwen: Intiatrix into Wisdom & Transformation - w Urania & Riyana
Goddess of transformation, prophesy, and inspiration, Cerridwen’s story is one of danger, fate, and the ways in which our shadows may be the wells that feed our greatest creativity and magic. This Welsh Goddess is associated with both the cauldron and the white sow, and appears as both Mother or Crone in Her myths.
Will you answer Her call to face the dark to find deeper mystical wisdom?
Jan 29-Feb 12, 2019 -- Tuesday evenings
$90-$300
To register, drop Riyana a note at rebeccasangasong@yahoo.com, or here on the FB.
Goddess of transformation, prophesy, and inspiration, Cerridwen’s story is one of danger, fate, and the ways in which our shadows may be the wells that feed our greatest creativity and magic. This Welsh Goddess is associated with both the cauldron and the white sow, and appears as both Mother or Crone in Her myths.
Will you answer Her call to face the dark to find deeper mystical wisdom?
Jan 29-Feb 12, 2019 -- Tuesday evenings
$90-$300
To register, drop Riyana a note at rebeccasangasong@yahoo.com, or here on the FB.
March 23 & 24, 2019 -- Elements of Magick - w Irisanya & Urania -- Santa Rosa, CA
With the art of magic, we deepen our vision and focus our will, empowering ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and Goddess spirituality by working with the elements of Magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit.
During this weekend, we will encounter and practice visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. We hope to provide a fair and nurturing environment for all participants.
Prerequisite: Read the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk. We ask that applicants be committed to attending the full weekend.
LOCATION: Santa Rosa, CA
TIMES: 11- 8 / 11 - 6
COST: $90-$240 (a $50 deposit saves your space), some scholarships available
CONTACT: Irisanya at irisanya.moon@gmail.com with any questions
REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-ZhYoyXCJ8rZxqSA61bBIQk5F6s5NeuvyMj7WD4LMAmHPiA/viewform?usp=sf_l
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2068665876776745/
With the art of magic, we deepen our vision and focus our will, empowering ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and Goddess spirituality by working with the elements of Magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit.
During this weekend, we will encounter and practice visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. We hope to provide a fair and nurturing environment for all participants.
Prerequisite: Read the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk. We ask that applicants be committed to attending the full weekend.
LOCATION: Santa Rosa, CA
TIMES: 11- 8 / 11 - 6
COST: $90-$240 (a $50 deposit saves your space), some scholarships available
CONTACT: Irisanya at irisanya.moon@gmail.com with any questions
REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-ZhYoyXCJ8rZxqSA61bBIQk5F6s5NeuvyMj7WD4LMAmHPiA/viewform?usp=sf_l
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2068665876776745/
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT CLASSES
Courting the Goddess: Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth with Urania and Riyana Sang
Rites of Passage Weekend Intensive - San Francisco, CA with Cypress, Brook and Thibaut
Winter Trance Dance - Sebastopol, CA with Phoenix and Justin
Wild Writing for Healing & Revolutionary Change with Ravyn Stanfield and Riyana Rose
Elements of Magic - Six week class - Sebastopol, CA with Phoenix and Gwion
Water Witches Spa Weekend with Urania, Ewa, and Heidi
Courting the Goddess: Aphrodite - Alameda, CA with Riyana and Urania
Elements of Magic - Three-Class Series - San Francisco, CA with Irisanya, Ewa, and Thibaut
The Elements of Magic - with Rose May Dance, Laurel, and Heidi Marian
Iron Pentacle - Weekend Intensive - Sebastopol, CA w Phoenix LeFae, Irisanya and Heidi Marian
Investigating the Mistress of Will: Nature Crafting, Hoodoo & Witchcraft in Conversation w Lou Florez & Cypress
Iron Pentacle - 3 Sundays - SF - with Thibaut, Irisanya & Root
Elements of Magic - Vallejo, CA - with Preston & Yule
Elements of Magick - Sebastopol, CA - w Irisanya & Justin
Elements of Magick - San Francisco/East Bay - w Ewa, Laurel, & Justin
Rites of Passage: the Dance of Sovereignty with Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady - Oakland, CA
Pearl Pentacle Weekend Intensive - Oakland, CA - w Robin, Caduceus, & Honeycomb
Iron Pentacle - 3 Sundays - SF - with Ivory Fly, Laurel, & Heidi
Beauty Pentacle - 6 weeks - Sebastopol, CA - w Phoenix, Irisanya & Honeycomb
Courting the Goddess: Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth with Urania and Riyana Sang
Iron Pentacle -- Vacaville, CA w Yule & Gwion
Rites of Passage - San Francisco, CA - w Thibaut, Ewa, and Irisanya
Advanced Elements of Magic - San Francisco, CA - Willow Kelly & Heidi Marian
Pearl Pentacle -- Weekend Intensive -- Santa Rosa, CA -- w Phoenix LeFae, Heidi Marian & Irisanya
Elements of Magic 6 Week Intensive -- San Francisco, CA -- Heidi Marian, Thibaut & Justin
Elements of Magic in the East Bay with Seed, Jamie Lantz, Kmo Valkyrie and Mykel
Rites of Passage -- North Bay -- w Preston & Irisanya
Iron Pentacle -- Sebastopol, CA -- w Phoenix LeFae, Irisanya, & Honeycomb
Beauty Pentacle w Phoenix, Honeycomb, & Irisanya -- Santa Rosa, CA
Elements of Magic w Urania, Heidi & Hilary - San Francisco, CA
Aspecting Workshop: Deepening with Deity -- Laura Wyrd & Thibaut -- San Francisco
Rites of Passage - w Seed, Jamie, Kmo Valkyrie and Mykel - East Bay
Courting the Goddess: Hecate - with Urania & Irisanya -- Santa Rosa, CA
Courting the Goddess: Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth with Urania and Riyana Sang
Rites of Passage Weekend Intensive - San Francisco, CA with Cypress, Brook and Thibaut
Winter Trance Dance - Sebastopol, CA with Phoenix and Justin
Wild Writing for Healing & Revolutionary Change with Ravyn Stanfield and Riyana Rose
Elements of Magic - Six week class - Sebastopol, CA with Phoenix and Gwion
Water Witches Spa Weekend with Urania, Ewa, and Heidi
Courting the Goddess: Aphrodite - Alameda, CA with Riyana and Urania
Elements of Magic - Three-Class Series - San Francisco, CA with Irisanya, Ewa, and Thibaut
The Elements of Magic - with Rose May Dance, Laurel, and Heidi Marian
Iron Pentacle - Weekend Intensive - Sebastopol, CA w Phoenix LeFae, Irisanya and Heidi Marian
Investigating the Mistress of Will: Nature Crafting, Hoodoo & Witchcraft in Conversation w Lou Florez & Cypress
Iron Pentacle - 3 Sundays - SF - with Thibaut, Irisanya & Root
Elements of Magic - Vallejo, CA - with Preston & Yule
Elements of Magick - Sebastopol, CA - w Irisanya & Justin
Elements of Magick - San Francisco/East Bay - w Ewa, Laurel, & Justin
Rites of Passage: the Dance of Sovereignty with Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady - Oakland, CA
Pearl Pentacle Weekend Intensive - Oakland, CA - w Robin, Caduceus, & Honeycomb
Iron Pentacle - 3 Sundays - SF - with Ivory Fly, Laurel, & Heidi
Beauty Pentacle - 6 weeks - Sebastopol, CA - w Phoenix, Irisanya & Honeycomb
Courting the Goddess: Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth with Urania and Riyana Sang
Iron Pentacle -- Vacaville, CA w Yule & Gwion
Rites of Passage - San Francisco, CA - w Thibaut, Ewa, and Irisanya
Advanced Elements of Magic - San Francisco, CA - Willow Kelly & Heidi Marian
Pearl Pentacle -- Weekend Intensive -- Santa Rosa, CA -- w Phoenix LeFae, Heidi Marian & Irisanya
Elements of Magic 6 Week Intensive -- San Francisco, CA -- Heidi Marian, Thibaut & Justin
Elements of Magic in the East Bay with Seed, Jamie Lantz, Kmo Valkyrie and Mykel
Rites of Passage -- North Bay -- w Preston & Irisanya
Iron Pentacle -- Sebastopol, CA -- w Phoenix LeFae, Irisanya, & Honeycomb
Beauty Pentacle w Phoenix, Honeycomb, & Irisanya -- Santa Rosa, CA
Elements of Magic w Urania, Heidi & Hilary - San Francisco, CA
Aspecting Workshop: Deepening with Deity -- Laura Wyrd & Thibaut -- San Francisco
Rites of Passage - w Seed, Jamie, Kmo Valkyrie and Mykel - East Bay
Courting the Goddess: Hecate - with Urania & Irisanya -- Santa Rosa, CA
Interested in teaching Reclaiming classes?
Use this Google form to apply to be a student teacher or use this form as a guideline to fill out the application.
Please send the form to phoenix_lefae@comcast.net
Use this Google form to apply to be a student teacher or use this form as a guideline to fill out the application.
Please send the form to phoenix_lefae@comcast.net