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November 2019
The Storyteller and the Shaman: the Woman Who Married a Bear
Myth binds us to soul, place, magic and history. Since pre-history we have gathered to be divinely discombobulated by myth's power, to gratefully consume the spiritual roughage of its images. Join master storyteller Martin Shaw for a day getting near the heart of the matter: why do we still need storytellers? What is their archaic relationship to magic? Expect to leave with at least one story to tell, and a reservoir of approaches to honour the courting of such tales.
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The Hawk Across The Waters: Romanticism as Activism
A day journey into the stirring Celtic myth of Tristan and Isolde, a profoundly powerful story about the many gradations of love, grief and ecstasy. This is a time when a woman can also be a hawk that flew straight from the heart of the sun, a time when a man is enraptured by the bone white moon.
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Woman Who Carries Gold Between Her Teeth: The Etiquette of the Underworld
This gathering focuses around the mythic feminine and the Underworld within story, especially the story of Psyche and Eros. Supported by conversation around the story of Inanna and many fairy tales Martin has told over the years, this will be an illuminating journey for both women and men.
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Wolf Milk: a Counsel of Resistance and Delight
A New Intensive Weekend with Dr Martin Shaw. Myth, Rites of Passage, The Times We Are In. Martin Shaw writes: Back at the end of last year I wrote this - "For the first time in history an initiation is coming that will involve everyone on the planet. Not a rite-of-passage for a few but all of us, human and non-human alike." The plan at that moment was to create a three weekend program that directly related the worlds of myth and rites-of-passage, something that has been a core value in my work for twenty years. And then the initiation turned up. And here we are.
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