EcoMagick
celebrating
mother earth
June 20-24, 2018
Pathwork
Re-Framing Initiation: Sexual Trauma, Identity, and Ritual
What does the full expression of wild, connected, authentic ecosexuality look like when we have survived sexual trauma? How are our lineages and communities affected? As Earth’s devoted lovers – how is our relationship with Gaia impacted by our history? What do we require to fully embody our own sexual narratives?
We are resourced here with the gnosis for a strong, loving container to work with trauma, through land-based embodiment, guided meditation, and co-created rituals.
The power of #metoo in the mainstream is undeniable. This is an empowering/connective experience for some, and opens wounds for others. We will pay attention to how oppression intersects – race, gender, sexual identity/expression, colonialism and class – impacting our understanding of personal and ancestral sexual trauma, and the resources we have, or have not had, to respond.
Modalities:
- Multiple ways to share stories & move energy as individuals and small groups
- Deepening our relationship with personal deities, Elementals, & the land
- Creating personalized rituals and exploring magickal techniques – binding, banishing, burying, cord-cutting and symbiotic eco-healing.
Facilitators
V
V is descended from the people of Scotland, Germany & maybe Wales. She grew up playing on the stolen land of the Massachusett & Wampanoag people, by the Charles River & in Buzzard’s Bay. Fields of study include sacred dance, Noyes Rhythm (a 20th century movement of direct inspiration from the Greek Deities, see: www.noyesrhythm.org), eclectic urban “shamanism”, and most recently a bit with David Cates and rain crowe. V has a BA from the Evergreen State College, founded The Dances of Devotion (12 month Goddess Ritual co-creation process), led the retreat group Harvest Women, and has taught elemental improvisation on Marrowstone Island. She’s on the board of Dance Camp NW and moderates Speak Out for Safety – a group for non-binary & women dance folx in the Seattle area. As a sexual assault survivor, ritualist, & artist collaborating with spirits; V is engaged in deconstructing cultural appropriation in her creative narrative & is working to reclaim and practice her ancestral magicks.
Michelle Raine (She/Her)
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Kevin Haggerty
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Awakening the Wild Within: Empowering the Seed of Desire
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The Seed of Desire: The spark inside that drives us toward the truth of our hearts. The unlimited potential that lies inside of us. That which strives for deep fulfillment, connection, and growth.
Often times shrouded by insecurities, responsibilities, doubts, confusion, and fears–this seed in always with us. It lies dormant inside, waiting patiently to be recognized, nourished, nurtured. Once acknowledged, it can grow and thrive, directing us toward a path that is beyond our wildest imaginations! Through the unfolding, we are met, seen, supported and loved.
In this ritualistic workshop, through a series of exercises including breathwork, guided visualization, partner activities, somatic experience, drawing, movement and more we will explore what blocks us from achieving our hearts’ desire and set intention to bring that which nourishes our souls into fruition. In a safe container, we will create the kind of magick that only can be created when brave souls gather together with open minds and hearts, in vulnerability, trust, and reverence for the wild forces that guide us. With new clarity and direction, we will walk out of this container feeling revitalized, confident, and ready to take the next steps toward moving closer to our dreams and life purpose.
Facilitators
Seven Root
Seven Root is a lover of life and dancer of dreams. Bringing groups together for integrated mind-body learning and sharing is an endless source of joy for Seven Root. He has organized and led ecstatic dance programs in multiple cities, co-produced personal growth workshops, and crafted curriculum for integrated physical education programs directed towards elementary school students. Seeking tools for greater connection, he has sought out trainings in non-violent communication, facilitation, and mediation. And in an effort to be closer to the earth, he became an organic farmer, permaculture designer, and amateur herbalist. Part sage, part clown, he can often be found leaping down on life with a loud laugh and a wild gleam in his eyes. He finds great satisfaction in connecting with community, which he most recently fulfills through fireside circle gatherings and interactive performance art experiences with Risk of Change.
Hali Ma
Hali Ma is a Wild Woman Awakener, and believer in the importance of all humans becoming more connected to their Soul and our Lover Earth. Nature is her great teacher, from which she learns and grows from within. As a practicing Speech Language Therapist for over 14 years, she has developed a deep sense of compassion and understanding of individual variability and difference. For over 5 years she has facilitated a myriad of workshops under the Awakening the Wild Woman banner, in which participants explore relationship to their own unique wildish nature through guided meditation, somatic exercises, vocal sound healing, drumming, catharsis, shadow work, ritual, interactive exercises, inquiry, storytelling, movement, and many other creative, magical activities. Her fierce calling to activate a deepened sense of empowerment in as many beings as possible fuels the formula of each unique workshop. Themes have included:The Feral Woman; Rage and Forgiveness; Reclaiming our Feminine Power; Rage and Deconstructing the Predator; and Empowering the Seed of Desire. Hali Ma is radically dedicated to sustainability, conservation, self-care, and deepening community. She is currently co-crafting designs to create an urban farm and permaculture paradise at her home in the heart of NE Portland. Power to self-grown food and the Village!
Earth Our Muse: The Poetry of Ecosexuality
Poetry can be a door into an ecosexual experience. It stands cracked open, brimming with light and echoes, offering us a taste of what is possible when we connect with the natural world. The earth offers endless inspiration for artistic collaboration, and poetry invites full sensory experience, erotic lenses through which to view things, new storylines to try out ourselves. We write to know ourselves, to transform ourselves, to share our view with others.
In this path we will build a container to connect to our inner voice, get our creative writing juices flowing, use poetry as a magical tool, court the land with our words, and use all our senses to deepen our erotic connection to the earth and translate it into revelatory art. We welcome everyone regardless of your writing experience!
Facilitators
Carey French
Carey is a seasoned facilitator who first found her spiritual self through poetry. She has Mary Oliver to thank for the foundations of her ecosexual identity, and for the beginning of her love affair with the power of the poetic voice. She believes in the magical potency of words to transform reality and bring clarifying truth. Her work is primarily as an educator in the realm of consent, boundaries, and sexual sovereignty, but she moonlights as a DJ, jewelry-maker, conflict doula, photographer, and dancer.
Shannon Pritchard
Shannon comes to this path having been saved, time again, by the legacy of poets that have come before her. Transformed and indebted to this mysterious journey, she has made a commitment to invoking the muse and passing along the poetic spark. She believes that language is holistic: that how we recite, the feeling and weight, is as important as the words we say. Her writing practice includes the poem store; a performative public writing ritual with her typewriter. She also has a background in dance, herbalism, honeybee magic, and handwork.
The Forest of Stories, The Power of Persona: Inquiry into our Many Selves
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Did you know that you’re not just you? How many selves inhabit your terrain? How do we tend to what is emerging in the moment? How do we safely encounter and be encountered by aspects of our self, and by other selves? On this path, Savannah & Dare invite you to consider the notion that you contain multitudes.
Our path draws from improv theater, BDSM and kink, performance art, mythology, relational therapies, and other practices, to investigate the aspects of ourselves both known and unknown.
We may discover that we contain gods, creatures, energies, and a whole array of personalities that are aching to tell their stories through us.
While some aspects of our Selves demand and deserve more airtime, other aspects may need to be quieted for our safety and well being, and we will play with revealing and concealing, creating good boundaries and how to release them, as feels appropriate to each participant.
We will provide tools for shaping what and who we are in the moment, in scaled, accessible exercises, with an opportunity for a performative group action during the annual stage event.
A small amount of homework is encouraged, but not required for this path.
Facilitators
Dare Sohei
Dare Sohei (they/them/us/we) is a somatic educator, ancestral medicine practitioner, and neurodivergent ritual animist who hears and communicates with voices. Dealing with many illnesses throughout their life they have developed an uncommon resiliency and a trauma informed approach to altered states of consciousness for pleasure, communion, and healing. They bring a heightened awareness of childhood, developmental and attachment traumas, equity informed dialogue and conflict facilitation, along with years of dance, circus and theater performance to work with the body to release trauma and receive life.
Savannah Sly
Savannah Sly is a career sex worker who specializes in BDSM and kink, with role play being chief among their favorite offerings. Though painfully shy into early adulthood, Savannah discovered that favorable traits such as confidence and sociability were accessible to them through a litany of tools relating to the mind, and the idea of “being seen”. Savannah’s sexual orientation is that of a sensual fantasizer, and they employ costume, fetish objects, art, and focused intention to shape shift. Savannah’s gender is fluid, and they look forward to meeting you, and whichever aspects of yourself you care (or know) how to reveal.
Unspelling the Patriarch Within: Healing Together as Male Folk
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Fellas, we got some work to do! This path will bring together all those who identify as male, masculine, male socialized, and PAMPS (persons with access to male privilege). Patriarchy hurts all of us, and as male folk it is our responsibility to understand the roles we play in perpetuating gender-based oppression, and support one another in healing from the ways we ourselves have been impacted. With deep gratitude and humility we will draw on the invaluable body of feminist work by countless women and queer-folk as we deepen our understanding of institutional oppression. This path will be a transformational journey into our wounding, grief, growth edges and our potential to be allies to our communities and each other. Together we’ll unpack how we’ve been conditioned to internalize toxic masculine archetypes that have harmful impacts on our communities, our sexuality, our relationships with women, femmes, others of marginalized gender as well as with other male folk and to Earth. We’ll practice movement and embodiment, intimacy building exercises, facilitated dialogue, magic, trance, and spell work along our path to initiating ourselves into the sacred work of Unspelling in service of collective liberation.
Facilitators
Ian Mae
Ian Mae is an ecosexual herbalist, a licensed body worker, peer counselor, a feminist and a queer, poly, genderfluid PAMP (person with access to male privilege) of European descent who has several years of experience participating in and facilitating transformational men’s circles in the Portland area. At Surrender 2017 Mae was wedded into sacred marriage to Earth. He has a magical background in Reclaiming Witchcraft, as well as the Northern Mysteries and works closely with the Runes as ancestral guides and teachers. He believes that men working together to heal themselves and each other is a critical step on the journey towards collective liberation.
Jeffree Oshala
Jeffree Oshala Jeffree’s experience stems from a background of Conflict Resolution, Feminist Studies, Anti-Oppression Activism, Magic, and the formation of a Men’s group focused on connection, healing, and accountability.
He has a background in Conflict Resolution, a career working with people in the developmentally disabled communities, lives on an urban land-based communal living project, and supporting the start-up and process of Men’s groups and leading workshops in the Portland area. He has a background and training in western herbalism, and is also a 3rd year student at the Blue Iris Mystery School. Jeffree aims to weave together his passions in Magic, Conflict Resolution, Feminism, and land-based ethics to work with male identified people to heal the wounds of patriarchy.
Sharing Nectar: Pleasure and Reciprocity in Relationship with Nature
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How do we flirt with our food, connect intuitively with a tree, and find the creature inside who wants to roll in the dust? How do we grow a relationship of sensual reciprocity with the Earth? How can pleasure lead us into a deeper experience of belonging?
This path is designed to fan the flames of your unique sensual relationship with nature and your own body. Together, we will explore different ways of connecting and sharing pleasure with the world, inviting all of our senses and even our fears into authentic play. Bring your inner animal, your curiosity, and your inherent wisdom. Through embodied play, sensual nature communion, authentic relating, and group exploration, this path will help you reach or reignite an embodied understanding of what being an ecosexual means for you.
Facilitators
Emily Buffi
Emily’s first language is dancing. She can’t help but use her whole body to communicate. When she’s not creatively coaxing culinary cuisine, she’s dancing with trees and making out with leaves. When she’s not burying herself in the sound of the soil, she’s deeply listening to the heart songs in her human community.
A community builder, weaver of spaces, and anchor for radical self-expression, Emily provides grounded ecstatic support for wild embodied energy to flow. She passionately believes in empowering other humans to cultivate a deep relationship with their bodies, with their own private Earths. Emily facilitates embodied intelligence explorations through sensory-based nature walks, improvisational movement, spoken word, rhythm and sound gatherings, and compassionate witnessing and mirroring.
Gaia Surya
Gaia Surya works as a community builder, counselor, and healer in Boulder, CO. They regularly lead playshops and gatherings themed around feminine nourishment, eco-sensuality, and communication with nature, spirits, intuition, the body, and the “inner family.”
They love dancing, crawling around with bugs, holding their loved ones, being held, and writing devotional love poems to poorly-loved things. They identify as bi-gender, eco-erotic, and psychic/empathic. This is, happily, their fourth year at Surrender.
EcoMagicks: Aphrodite, Amimism, & Ancestors
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“Aphrodite’s Body is the archetype of the human body and also the body of the world”
-Thomas Moore in The Soul Of Sex
We Bee EcoSexy! One way to participate in the radical activism of EcoSexuality is to joyfully immerse yourself in Nature and the unseen but palpable worlds of non-humans.
Taste the golden ambrosias of The Melissae: Aphrodities’ working priestesses. Create your own waggle bee dance and hum together in a hive pile of other humans. Adventure into the forest around us and co-create a courtship altar with what you discover there. Make time to sense the multitude of non-human consciousness that surround us and lovingly connect with them. Trance to experience your blood ancestors and learn ways of honoring and elevating them. Teri & Benjamin share a fierce commitment to the living world; embracing erotic life force as an act of resistance to Empire. Join us in a three day pathwork experiment that moves us toward creating a culture worth living into.
EcoSexuality imagines the opportunity to design a human culture that can take care of, tend and dwell within the Cascadia Bioregion in a manner that confers respect to the deity Aphrodite, the land itself and the complex ecological web of human and non-human persons coexisting there.
EcoMagicks are a variety of ritual techniques and somatic “ways of being” that include poetry, song, trance, movement, and invocation. These techniques expand our capacity to experience phenomena that occur both outside our physical bodies in the real and palpable worlds of Nature (the bodies of Gaia) and insde our consciousness, altering our inner worlds of perception and imagination.
Facilitators
Reverend Benjamin Pixie
Reverend Benjamin Pixie has been actively romancing the wilds of this world for over half of his life. He is husband to millions of virgin maidens who dedicate their lives to the sex work of the Earth, and lovingly serves 50 queens. In addition to beekeeping, he is a mead maker, a conjurer of spirits, herbalist, a hide tanner, leather worker, & warrior poet. He is father of 2 shining radiant little witches.
Reverend Teri D. Ciachi, MSW
Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi, MSW Teri is the relational matrix of the Living Love Revolution, a holistic sex educator, a Priestess of Aphrodite, a leader of the EcoSexuality movement, and an EcoMagicks practitioner. She has been generating Cascadia Holistic Peer Counseling system since 1997, holding Aphrodite Temples since 2000 and co-creating Surrender:The EcoSex Convergence since 2013. Her newest endeavor is Interdependence and Autonomy LLC founded in July 2017, a for profit business that builds consent culture by healing conflict through education, mediation and facilitation.
Reverend Ciacchi looks to Nature for guidance and wisdom. She translates the teachings she receives from mycelium (mushrooms), bees and stardust into useable social skills for human beings. She leads collaborative workshops and events that honor the innate connections between humans and the Living Earth. You can find her works at the following websites:
www.LivingLoveRevolution.org, www.iandaspace.com www.AphroditeTemple.com
Self-Pleasure: Coming on to Nature, Comin in to Ourselves
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“Change the way you masturbate, change your life.”
– Joseph Kramer
Permission and support to develop a daily self-pleasuring practice opens portals in all areas of life! Committed to moving beyond the habitual, we gather to become more curious, playful, attentive self-lovers. We unspin shame, we grieve, explore, and celebrate. Through somatic, in-the-flesh practices, we experience ourselves as able to identify desires, keen to our own cues, and skillful at using breath, movement, sound, & awareness to hone our arousal. We build a practice of “exquisite attention” to become sexy allies and lovers with the natural world. We learn to “wake up” our skin to expand pleasant sensations, and discover how to orient our bodies towards pleasure. We practice accessing “energetic orgasms.” This pathwork centers a daily facilitated “self-pleasuring circle” where we experiment with our own bodies, attuning to personal sensation as fuel for prayer/intention, to power our lives, to power the revolution!
Facilitators
Sarabell Eisenfeld (She/They)
Sarabell Eisenfeld (she/they)
Embodied communitarian, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, mediator, peer counselor, social permaculturist, seeker, lover: Sarabell’s roles in community on Earth grow from a delight, intrigue, and presence with communication, desire, and ritual.
As a Somatic Sex Educator, Sarabell facilitates individuals and groups accessing body wisdom, cultivating self-trust, unspinning shame, and expanding capacity to embody curious creativity and pleasure.
Trained also through Resolutions Northwest’s yearlong mediation training program, Sarabell serves community members, couples/moreples, all configurations of striving humans experiencing conflict.
Sarabell facilitates interrupting internalized and systematic oppression through Theater of the Oppressed playshops, and pursues trainings in Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation (with Rain Crowe,) Reiki (with Oakry,) Sexual Sovereignty with mentors Teri Ciacchi, Betty Martin, Amy Jo Goddard, Eva Blake, and Captain Snowdon, and Living Love Revolution Aphrodite Temple Priestess Training Body. Sarabell works with creatures of all ages, celebrating seasonal rhythms, self-awareness, allyship, and empowered self-expression.
Sarabell lives with 10 other people on an urban co-op ecovillage in Portland called Fosterville (fostervillagepdx.org) working to shift the dominant urban paradigm from land “ownership” to land stewardship, service, lovership.
Somatic Sex Educator, Mediator, Facilitator: tendingtogrow@gmail.com, 610.804.6656
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