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This is the second night in a row that I've come home to a delicious meal waiting for me on the table, multiple household improvements and a clean kitchen. Stephanie, Michael and Trent all collaborated in this effort. I could get used to this.
Oct. 6th, 2009
Perfect Sentiment
Oct. 6th, 2009 06:48 pm"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -- EB White
I just saw this in an email from a friend. It perfectly expresses my experience.
I just saw this in an email from a friend. It perfectly expresses my experience.
Beltane PreConference Inspirations
Oct. 6th, 2009 10:46 pmLast year I did a Beltane Pre-Conference workshop for couples and magical partners. This year, I want to focus on deepening individuals' own experiences of sensuality and divine erotic connection. I'd like to combine my previous work on Sensory Spirituality with what I've experienced at FoV, contextualizing both in Aphrodite devotion. Essentially, I want to facilitate more intense, magical connections between my pre-conference participants and the people, divinities, and sensual world(s) around them.
In some ways, this would be like Priest/ess training, while in others, it would be more like Aphrodite veneraton. I would introduce the physical tools I love to work with (beautiful props and garments, essential oils, ambient sound and voice, physical touch, dance and movement, energetic touch and delectable sweets) and guide participants in using them to connect with divinity, each other, their beloveds and their own deeper selves.
The key idea would be that the body and its senses are our core tools for connecting with truth, the divine, and each other.
Wikipedia says this about the human senses:
"The traditional five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste: a classification attributed to Aristotle...Humans are considered to have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain), equilibrioception (balance), proprioception & kinesthesia (joint motion and acceleration), sense of time, thermoception (temperature differences), with possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction)...and six more if interoceptive senses are also considered."
I could build a long workshop around this concept that would appeal to both couples and singles, and serve as an introductory event to FoV.
It would have a much larger capacity than previous classes, so more people could enroll. This would require more space than usual: maybe the bat barn would work.
Hmmmmmm...
In some ways, this would be like Priest/ess training, while in others, it would be more like Aphrodite veneraton. I would introduce the physical tools I love to work with (beautiful props and garments, essential oils, ambient sound and voice, physical touch, dance and movement, energetic touch and delectable sweets) and guide participants in using them to connect with divinity, each other, their beloveds and their own deeper selves.
The key idea would be that the body and its senses are our core tools for connecting with truth, the divine, and each other.
Wikipedia says this about the human senses:
"The traditional five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste: a classification attributed to Aristotle...Humans are considered to have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain), equilibrioception (balance), proprioception & kinesthesia (joint motion and acceleration), sense of time, thermoception (temperature differences), with possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction)...and six more if interoceptive senses are also considered."
I could build a long workshop around this concept that would appeal to both couples and singles, and serve as an introductory event to FoV.
It would have a much larger capacity than previous classes, so more people could enroll. This would require more space than usual: maybe the bat barn would work.
Hmmmmmm...