SPRING CONVERGENCE WORKSHOPS

SENSUOUS TRANSFIGURATION THROUGH PLEASURE MAGICK W/ ANGELA MARY MAGICK

Sensuality is sacred. It is your right, and it can be beautifully incorporated as a delicious part of your self-care and magical practice. Through sensuality, we are able to transmute energies, building and growing through our own beings. “Sensuous Transfiguration Through Pleasure Magick” is a workshop for anyone looking to enchant their everyday life with sacred sensuality practices. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to create Angela’s original cocoa & spice based recipe, the Sensual Witches Brew (recipe will be sent out 1 week prior to class), based upon a recipe which will be shared through PDF, and taught as we move through the energy meridians of our bodies illuminated by our 6 senses. This workshop will be done in a closed circle and sacred ritual. This workshop is for all adult bodies and all sexual orientations.

Topics include: Sex Spellbound Rites, self massage + partner massage, sensual touch, Sensual Witches Brew recipe + how-to, soothing vibrational voice connection, concepts of sensual Magickal practice

MATERIALS: A journal to take notes, Tarot of Oracle deck, all your wonderful thoughts to share and questions to ask, Click here for Sensual Witches Brew Recipe, Click here for Transfiguration Spread

LOVE SURVIVORS: HERBAL CARE FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE W/ CATHERINE FELIZ

How do we recover safety, pleasure, and love? Reflecting on my personal experience of surviving several accounts of sexual trauma, I will reflect on the plant medicines and rituals that have allowed me to cope, heal, and continue to transmute the pain and to make space for deep pleasure. There will also be space for conversation to invite in our communal wisdom.

LOVE, LUST, AND THE GODDESS W/ GABY HERSTIK

In this class, students will be led in creating and developing rituals rooted in self-love, self-lust, and pleasure as part of a devotional practice to the Goddess. Together, we will be opening the class through a short meditation and grounding, and learning about the different virtues of the Goddess, and what connecting to Goddess energy through the portal of pleasure and the heart means. There will be journaling to help students expand their definitions of love, lust, sex, and the Goddess, and there will be examples of rituals and practices that call forth these energies, as well as time for students to brainstorm and plan their own rituals.

This class will be deep and subversive- as the Goddess calls us forth to be our most powerful selves, enraptured in our brilliance and divine love and lust- and sex magick, prayer, invocation, and body magick will all be discussed. I will be sharing about my own work with Venus and the Goddess of Love, and how I create devotionals, rituals, and practices to Her.

MONEY MOVES: CIRCULATION, ABUNDANCE, AND THE SENSUALITY OF MONEY W/ JESSIE SUSANNAH KARNATZ AKA MONEY WITCH + SHIRLEY JOHNSON, LMFT

Our relationship to money can be a site of injury. We hold the impact of not just our own experiences but those of our lineages: capitalism, colonialism, enslavement, war, migration, scarcity, neglect, and resource hoarding. The magnitude of carrying these wounds and narratives can mean talking about money brings us into a state of fear, contraction, and overwhelm. How do we hold both the violence that is connected to money and also make space to experience pleasure, joy, sensuality, and ease in our individual and collective relationships with money?

As we stretch toward visions of a more liberated and pleasurable world, remember that our relationship to money also needs transforming. This is an opportunity to heal by intentionally introducing expansion, excitement, sensuality, pleasure, permission, spaciousness, and generosity into the way you relate to money. Allow money to be an agent of pleasure to you. Imagine deriving pleasure from thinking about your budget and bookkeeping. Another financial world is possible!

Through conversation, writing prompts, ritual and visualization, we will co-create space for exploration of our relationship with money and with pleasure, allowing a connection between these two aspects of our personal life to start forming.

MATERIALS: Three individual dollar bills, Anointing oil: any blend, essential oil or olive oil, A journal, pen + markers

DREAMING IN THE EROTIC W/ KRIS ADAMS

Topics of Discussion: Tapping into our sensual nature can be an intense and deeply vulnerable journey. One way of exploring our own erotic nature is through our dreamscapes; what images and stories show up for us when our defenses our lowered and our imaginations are allowed to roam a bit? During our time together, we will explore the erotic, dive into ways we can incorporate more sensuality into our waking and dreaming lives and discuss ways that we can prioritize our pleasure as a personal practice and as a community.

HAWTHORN: RECLAIMING THE FLOWERING VESSEL OF DESIRE W/ LIZ MIGLIORELLI

Hawthorn Spell: begin at the edge. Here, at the threshold of the greenwood, at the top of the fairy hill, rooted next to the well. A handful of blossoms have bloomed as the fires of Beltane are ignited, into the honey pot they go. One thorn plucked from the branch and placed under the tongue. Red berry beads, dried and worn around the neck, close to the heart. From bud, from thorn, from berry, desire stirs under this flowering branch. Dip the cloth into the healing pool, run it through the dew, tie it to the branch. As we jump, the knot of the wish becomes ripe fruit; the well opens, the woods open, the soil opens, the fire opens, the root opens, the song opens, the edge opens...

One part story, one part meditation, one part lecture, this workshop will dance with the magic and medicine of the May Blossom, also known as the Hawthorn Tree. We will cover medicinal uses and traditional European folk practices as we lean into our experiences of desire and enchantment. Participants are asked to bring a tea, tincture or essence of hawthorn flower, leaf and/or berry for a meditation with this Tree of Fairy.

MATERIALS: Tea, Tincture or Essence of Hawthorne (can be leaf, flower or berry), Notebook and pen

SEXING THE PENTACLE: A WITCH'S PATH OF PLEASURE AND POWER W/ PAVINI MORAY

Using the points of the pentacle to embody qualities of magickal transformation, this experiential workshop, held within a ritual container, helps make your sex magick extra impactful and effective. Sexual magickal practices are often imbued with annoying gender essentialism. This new practice gives witches of all genders (especially trans and NB magick makers) access to effective technique for working with the energy of pleasure and how it can potentize your spells. 

THE BAWDY DIVINE W/ RAWIYAH TARIQ

Lez seduce the Universe and be it's Pillow Princess shall we?
This workshop mixes accessible movement with music, ritual and daily practices to raise energy and convey the ineffable. Join Rawiyah Tariq aka Magnoliah Black for magic made in movement and connection with the voluptuous sovereign power of fierce vulnerability. From catharsis to creation you are the altar upon which your needs and desires can be manifested and maintained in a multitude of pleasurous ways. Come see and be seen!

AUTHENTICITY THROUGH VULNERABILITY W/ TRISTA MARIE MCGOVERN

By going over the process of my work, I will highlight how more authenticity through vulnerability has continually brought me closer to feeling the most me and subsequently includes having more healthy pleasure in all its forms. By using my experiences and projects as a personal example, I will share the obstacles and unlearning needed to dive further into your life and yourself.

MATERIALS: Pen + paper