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Most of the classes offered will be directly or indirectly related to the Reclaiming tradition of modern pagan witchcraft. For more information on the Reclaiming tradition, see the Reclaiming Home Page.
Please note: Although studying and practicing the Reclaiming Tradition can be profoundly healing, Reclaiming’s classes, rituals, events and workshops are not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care. Priestesses and teachers are not responsible for diagnosing illnesses or recommending treatments. The Reclaiming community and teachers hold students responsible for seeking professional help if they need it.
For more information e-mail info@olypagans.org.
Join our low-volume, announce-only Olypagans Crier list and we’ll send you an e-mail when events or classes come up! Send us an e-mail at info@olypagans.org and let us know what classes you are interested in having brought back to town. After all, current classes without you is spelled crrent, and who know what the heck that means?!
You may also want to take a look at the schedules of the Seattle and Portland Reclaiming communities. Although not local, you may be interested in the Reclaiming: Bay Area Core Classes. (While the Bay Area is definitely not in the Salish Sea or the Pacific Northwest Megacity, and may or may not be in Cascadia, it is definitely part of Ecotopia, after all.)
Additionally, please consider checking out the annual BC Witchcamp, or any of the other Witchcamps.
There are core classes offered as a basic curriculum in the tradition.
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. Beginning six-week course (or weekend intensive).
Was offered May 7-8, 2005
Was offered Oct 25-26, 2003
Was offered Jan 25-26, 2003
Using our magical skills, moving and shaping energy, transforming ourselves through trance to explore the five points of our inner pentacle: Sex (primal energy), Self, Passion, Pride (self-esteem), and Power (effectiveness in the worlds).
Prerequisite: Elements of Magic class.
Was offered Oct 21-22nd, 2006
Was offered Feb 7-8, 2003
We will work with the deep, healing energies of the Pentacle of Pearl, moving through the five points: Love, Law, Wisdom, Power and Knowledge.
Prerequisite: Elements of Magic and Pentacle of Iron.
Was offered Feb 20-21, 2005
The Rites of Passage focuses on dreams, myths and language, using traditional and non-traditional tales and techniques to create a personal rite of passage. Through storytelling, trance, release work and dreams we receive our challenge(s), meet our helpers, work through our blocks and emerge renewed, reborn. This class culminates with a ritual created by the students.
Prerequisite: Elements of Magic and Pentacle of Iron.
Was offered Oct 15-16, 2005
These are classes other than the Core Reclaiming Classes organized by Olypagans.
Ecstasy. Boundaries. Attraction. Sensuality. Desire.
Our sacred sexuality is a birthright, a source of incredible joy and sometimes frustration. We welcome all the pieces of our sexual selves in the gorgeous paradox of being broken and whole. Together we will awaken and refresh a deep relationship with our unique sexual life force. We seek to know our own sex energy intimately in order to bring it fully into the world, inspiring our relationships and magic.
Working with sexual energy can challenge us on many levels and willingness to participate fully is important - however, please know that you will not be asked to sexually interact with your classmates or teachers. Please be pagan friendly and comfortable with creating sacred space and working with guided meditation or trance. We welcome adults of all genders and orientations.
Ravyn Stanfield is an acupuncturist, writer, lover, artist and activist dedicated to bringing more magic and erotic revolution into the world through the cracks in Western civilization. She teaches workshops internationally and in the Oregon prison system. She has been involved with Reclaiming since 1995.
Dawn Isidora works as a spiritual counselor and hypnotherapist with a focus on relationship issues (be they relationship with oneself, other(s) or the Mysterious Ones) as well as teaches internationally. Involved with the Reclaiming tradition since the early ‘80s, she is an initiated priestess of both Feri and Reclaiming and these inform her work.
Was offered Sept 13th and 14th, 2008
Have you ever woken from a dream and wondered what it meant? Do you still think about an important dream from childhood? Is your sound sleep disturbed by troubling dreams?
Dream interpretation is an ancient art, and all dreams have many layers of meaning. In this informal dream salon, we will learn how to work on dreams as a group, cover some key dream symbols and their meanings, and explore techniques for cultivating healing dreams. By using the simple, supportive techniques of group dream work, we can connect with the personal, archetypal, and transformational energies all our dreams are made of. All levels of experience are welcome, and everyone will have a chance to work on a dream.
Anne Hill, D.Min., is a writer, ritualist, and dreamworker who has been investigating dreams for many years. Anne is co-author with Starhawk and Dianne Baker of Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions. She teaches widely and has a private dreamwork practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more info about Anne Hill check out Gnosis Cafe Dream Studio.
Was offered Mar 9, 2007
Tarot Magic
A day-long journey with Amy MoonDragon
Come and explore the Magic of Tarot in this transformative journey. We’ll work with techniques for tapping your own inner wisdom about the cards, popular layouts, keeping a tarot journal, doing readings for yourself and others, and using the cards for magic and meditation.
Was offered Dec 12, 2002
Reclaiming WitchCamps are intensive retreats for the study of magic and ritual, usually held in a campground setting.
WitchCamps are offered to people at all levels of experience. Newcomers can learn the basic skills of magic and ritual, working with the elements, movement, sound and the mythological and historical framework of the Goddess Tradition. Advanced paths offer the chance to apply the tools of ritual to personal healing and empowerment, or a focus of taking the craft out into the world, creating public ritual, ongoing groups and healing issues surrounding leadership and power.
You can find out more by checking out the Witchcamp site, or specifically gander at some regional Witchcamps:
British Columbia Witchcamp (BC, CA)
Cascadia Village (WA, US)
Free Activist Witchcamp West (OR, US)
