workshop presenters and their workshops
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The following list is in alphabetical order by last name/whole name.
The following list is in alphabetical order by last name/whole name.
Adesh Puran Kaur – Is a Boston native, who graduated from Webster University in 2011 with a BFA in Dance and departmental honors for her choreography. With a background in the performing and fine arts, she creates: to heal, to love, and to leave the world a little more beautiful, loving, healthy, and divinely rebellious than when she came into it.
Workshop Presented: Rise and Shine Yoga – A beautiful morning class to uplift and energize the body, mind, and soul. We will explore our own capacity for connectivity, empowerment, and expansion of our personal power through the technology of Kundalini Yoga.
**REQUIREMENTS** Mat, water, head covering, cushion (optional), blanket (optional)
Presented: Saturday @ 11am and Sunday @ 11:30am in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Rise and Shine Yoga – A beautiful morning class to uplift and energize the body, mind, and soul. We will explore our own capacity for connectivity, empowerment, and expansion of our personal power through the technology of Kundalini Yoga.
**REQUIREMENTS** Mat, water, head covering, cushion (optional), blanket (optional)
Presented: Saturday @ 11am and Sunday @ 11:30am in the Fire Workshop Space
Ami Amore - Ami Amore (Earth Rythms Bellydance) has been a long time performer and patron of the St.Louis Pagan Picnic. She not only teaches Bellydance, but she teaches metal yoga and clothing optional yoga as well. In addition she is an artist who enjoys painting and creating jewelry to honor the dead. In her spare time, she enjoys kitchen witchery, smudging and creating sigils for those in need. Www.amiamore.com
Workshop presented: Reveal Your Inner Goddess with Bellydance - In this workshop we embrace and honor our divine feminine. Releasing our potential through the power of our hips, open our heart chakra through exquisite chest movements, creating ritual with our arms and hands. All set to primal beats and otherworldly music from around the globe. All genders, ages, shapes and sizes are welcome here. Wear something that you feel comfortable and great in a be prepared to have fun.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop presented: Reveal Your Inner Goddess with Bellydance - In this workshop we embrace and honor our divine feminine. Releasing our potential through the power of our hips, open our heart chakra through exquisite chest movements, creating ritual with our arms and hands. All set to primal beats and otherworldly music from around the globe. All genders, ages, shapes and sizes are welcome here. Wear something that you feel comfortable and great in a be prepared to have fun.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Earth Workshop Space
Rev. Tiffany Andes - Rev. Tiffany Andes is currently a full-time wife, mother, and chaplain. She is a fully ordained minister with Circle Sanctuary of Wisconsin, and is the Ecumenical Program Coordinator for Oak Spirit Sanctuary of Missouri. She specializes in mental health and trauma chaplaincy, and her focus is working with veterans.
Workshop Presented: Understanding the Wounds of Self - As healers, leaders, and teachers in our communities, it is essential we understand the foundational wounds and trauma we all bear and struggle with as humans. Having a greater understanding of these dynamics allows us to communicate more effectively and to be better at interfacing in our communities. The cornerstones or wounds that we will cover in this workshop will be grief and loss, shame and guilt, forgiveness, and anger.
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Understanding the Wounds of Self - As healers, leaders, and teachers in our communities, it is essential we understand the foundational wounds and trauma we all bear and struggle with as humans. Having a greater understanding of these dynamics allows us to communicate more effectively and to be better at interfacing in our communities. The cornerstones or wounds that we will cover in this workshop will be grief and loss, shame and guilt, forgiveness, and anger.
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Water Workshop Space
Atlas - I’ve studied for over 6 years, the multi-faceted forms of psychism and mysticism - beginning in traditional forms of coven witchcraft. Today, I study as an independent mystic and diviner, with influences of blended cultural aspects. I specialize in psychic self-defense and ritual magick.
Workshop Presented: Trust Thyself: Exploring Your Psychic Gifts - This workshop will be a discussion and forum upon individual experience with psychic/divinatory talents. How to identify, refine, and apply such gifts.
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Trust Thyself: Exploring Your Psychic Gifts - This workshop will be a discussion and forum upon individual experience with psychic/divinatory talents. How to identify, refine, and apply such gifts.
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Earth Workshop Space
Lori Blackman – Rev. Lori Blackman is a Priestess of the Correllian Tradition and the Press Secretary of the Correllian Nativist Church. She Coordinated and facilitated the Global Wicca Summit, a pre Parliament of World's Religions event as well as being a Parliament volunteer in Toronto 2018 representing the Wiccan Faith.
Workshop Presented: Planting Seeds in Your Community - Rev. Lori will discuss different ways to present who and what we are to the non Pagans paths of our communities by using positive statement and discuss how to get along with Pagans of different paths so we may strengthen our community and be united.
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Planting Seeds in Your Community - Rev. Lori will discuss different ways to present who and what we are to the non Pagans paths of our communities by using positive statement and discuss how to get along with Pagans of different paths so we may strengthen our community and be united.
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Water Workshop Space
David Cauthron - Following a Shamanic Path his entire adult life, David has been involved with Pagan and Witch communities in Oklahoma for many years. Since moving to the St. Louis area he has been on a private renewal journey to bring himself in tune to the new and exciting spirits and entities in Missouri. He lives and thrives in Cedar Hill on the banks of the Big River with his wife Laurie, daughter Sarah, a bug-eyed rat dog and a very fat cat. David is always available to share his journey and knowledge with those that may be seeking or just curious about the Shamanic path and willing to pass on a lifetime of knowledge gained on his travels.
Workshop Presented: Seeking, Finding, and Connecting w/ Spirit Animals – This workshop is for those that have already found or are seeking or just needing to connect with their Spirit Animals. Presenter will describe his personal journey with his Spirit Animals and give information and guidance to those that seek to connect or reconnect with their own Spirit Animals.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Seeking, Finding, and Connecting w/ Spirit Animals – This workshop is for those that have already found or are seeking or just needing to connect with their Spirit Animals. Presenter will describe his personal journey with his Spirit Animals and give information and guidance to those that seek to connect or reconnect with their own Spirit Animals.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Air Workshop Space
Celia (Bardic Circle Headliner) – Singer/Songwriter/Comedienne Celia has been described as “A cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, and Tina Fey.” She dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly and sacred delighting audiences across the nation. In addition to having the kind of silky smooth voice often associated with classic Celtic Singers, such as “Celtic Woman”, Celia excels at comedy. She often transforms right on stage into one or more of her alter-egos-whose antics typically leave the audience howling with laughter. With powerful, heart-felt vocals and wacky comedic improvisations, the audience never knows what will happen with Celia on stage. www.Celiaonline.com
Workshop Presented – Adventures of an Everyday Goddess - Unplugged Stories & Songs from the Creative Journey of the Traveling Bardic life of “Everyday Goddess” Celia Farran. Request “Beyond the Music” Back Stories of how certain songs & characters came to be. Hear untold tales from the “You Can’t Make this Sh*t Up” file! Learn tips and tricks of being a full time Traveler & Bard. Learn more about how to play the Bodhran (Irish Drum) & how Live Looping works. Learn what it is *really* like to choose the *Glamorous* life of the touring musician. Expect to be inspired & entertained.
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented – Adventures of an Everyday Goddess - Unplugged Stories & Songs from the Creative Journey of the Traveling Bardic life of “Everyday Goddess” Celia Farran. Request “Beyond the Music” Back Stories of how certain songs & characters came to be. Hear untold tales from the “You Can’t Make this Sh*t Up” file! Learn tips and tricks of being a full time Traveler & Bard. Learn more about how to play the Bodhran (Irish Drum) & how Live Looping works. Learn what it is *really* like to choose the *Glamorous* life of the touring musician. Expect to be inspired & entertained.
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Air Workshop Space
Rev. Taz Chance - Rev. Victoria Chance, H.Ps. 3*^ has been involved with magic her whole life and has been a priestess for over 22 years. Known in the community as Taz, Tori serves the Conclave of the Craft as President of the Board of Directors and High Priestess of both the Conclave proper and of Naofa Tintean, a Conclave working group. Tori has presented numerous workshops over the years, including appearances at Pagan Picnic, Heartland Pagan Festival, Gaea Goddess Gathering, Pan Pagan Festival, and is a regular presenter and panel contributor for the University of Missouri. Her special interests include shamanic techniques, clergy training, and ending sexual harassment and predation in our community. https://conclaveofthecraft.org/home/leadership/
Workshop Presented: Planting Leaders, Growing Community - The Pagan community is at a crossroads in our growth. It can be difficult to bridge gaps and work together for a better community for all. Let’s talk about strategies to transcend the differences between traditions and build hopeful, collaborative, supportive, and positive relationships with other Pagan community leaders. Join us in planting seeds of hope for the Pagan Leadership Community!
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Planting Leaders, Growing Community - The Pagan community is at a crossroads in our growth. It can be difficult to bridge gaps and work together for a better community for all. Let’s talk about strategies to transcend the differences between traditions and build hopeful, collaborative, supportive, and positive relationships with other Pagan community leaders. Join us in planting seeds of hope for the Pagan Leadership Community!
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Air Workshop Space
Rev. Heather Choppin- She has been a serious practitioner for 27 years and ordained in 1998. She started in traditional Wicca, then ceremonial magick, but finally finding her life path in Norse/Germanic heathenry. For the past 11 years has been oathed to Odin and a volva (northern European shaman).
Workshop Presented: Vikings and More - Workshop covers the history of the northern Europeans and the evolution of the gods through time and location. The 9 worlds, gods and goddess, and cultural aspects of this path and their cultural magick will be discussed. You will also learn how to connect with spirits and gods of the north.At the end we will be doing a symbol which is a ritual format that vikings and northern Europeans practiced.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Vikings and More - Workshop covers the history of the northern Europeans and the evolution of the gods through time and location. The 9 worlds, gods and goddess, and cultural aspects of this path and their cultural magick will be discussed. You will also learn how to connect with spirits and gods of the north.At the end we will be doing a symbol which is a ritual format that vikings and northern Europeans practiced.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Water Workshop Space
Sugar Cyanide - Sugar is a Fire and Burlesque Performance Artist that mixes her spirituality into her movement and her magic in her art. www.sugarcyanide.com
Workshop Presented: Movement and Magic - Movement and Magic are about exploring ways to build energy for your ritual and personnel workings via physical movement of the body. In this workshop, we will use that energy towards self-love leaving the attendee feeling centered and revitalized.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Movement and Magic - Movement and Magic are about exploring ways to build energy for your ritual and personnel workings via physical movement of the body. In this workshop, we will use that energy towards self-love leaving the attendee feeling centered and revitalized.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Valkyr Dragonborn - Lifelong fiber artist and Heathen Witch- Valkyr can be found at www.dragonhill.co
Workshop Presented: Learn the ancient art of spinning fiber into string on a drop spindle, some of the magical history behind the craft and how to use your yarn in spellwork!
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Learn the ancient art of spinning fiber into string on a drop spindle, some of the magical history behind the craft and how to use your yarn in spellwork!
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Air Workshop Space
Right Rev. Bill Duvendack - Right Rev. Bill Duvendack is an internationally known astrologer, author, teacher, psychic, presenter, and teacher. He has dozens of essays published on the western esoteric tradition and is the author of many books on the same subject. His writings have been translated into six languages. For more information visit his website: www.418ascendant.com.
Workshop Presented: Astrological Timing of Rituals - In this presentation, we will take a look at basic rules of thumb for adding more strength to your rituals by timing them with the cosmos. It is not necessary to know any astrology to use this information. Handouts will be provided.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Earth Workshop space
Workshop Presented: Astrological Timing of Rituals - In this presentation, we will take a look at basic rules of thumb for adding more strength to your rituals by timing them with the cosmos. It is not necessary to know any astrology to use this information. Handouts will be provided.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Earth Workshop space
EnCHANTment -. EnCHANTment, a facilitated group chanting experience, evokes and invokes the Divine in a ritual of connection and inspiration. We share chants in a way that makes them accessible. We honor many paths.
Workshop Presented: EnCHANTment - When we sing together, we vibrate together. Our hearts beat together. Those vibrational connections bridge our separateness and bring healing. Chanting together moves beyond the language of the mind and embraces the language of the spirit. EnCHANTment, a facilitated group experience, evokes and invokes the divine through chant in a permeable ritual of connection and inspiration. Everyone has a place in the circle. Whether you sing loudly or quietly, bob your head or tap your foot, or just settle in and absorb it all, enchantment welcomes you to the ritual of community and shared voice. We share chants in a way that makes them accessible and easy to learn for EVERYONE. We honor many paths. Come make magic and community with us!
Presented: Sunday @1pm in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: EnCHANTment - When we sing together, we vibrate together. Our hearts beat together. Those vibrational connections bridge our separateness and bring healing. Chanting together moves beyond the language of the mind and embraces the language of the spirit. EnCHANTment, a facilitated group experience, evokes and invokes the divine through chant in a permeable ritual of connection and inspiration. Everyone has a place in the circle. Whether you sing loudly or quietly, bob your head or tap your foot, or just settle in and absorb it all, enchantment welcomes you to the ritual of community and shared voice. We share chants in a way that makes them accessible and easy to learn for EVERYONE. We honor many paths. Come make magic and community with us!
Presented: Sunday @1pm in the Air Workshop Space
River Higginbotham – River Higginbotham connects and brings passionate concern for healthy pagan community into the world in many ways. He is long time member of the St. Louis pagan community. He is a pagan leader, author, interfaith advocate, teacher and ritualist. River helped start and sustain the St. Louis Pagan Picnic that is in its 25th year! This year, River is the chairperson of the Picnic Committee with a fabulous team of volunteers. River, along with his wife, Joyce Higginbotham, have written several books on Paganism, Pagan Spirituality and Christopaganism. (http://riverandjoyce.com). River is part of the Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) community and is a coordinator there, and elsewhere, for enCHANTment: an experience of shared voices, harmony and connection.
Workshop Presented: Paganism 101 - Are some here at Pagan Picnic still wondering what Paganism is? Perhaps you are curious, perhaps you are new, perhaps you have your own ideas and are willing to share. This discussion will offer a starting point for understanding and exploring all that Pagans do and believe. Are you a Pagan? Perhaps you are!
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Paganism 101 - Are some here at Pagan Picnic still wondering what Paganism is? Perhaps you are curious, perhaps you are new, perhaps you have your own ideas and are willing to share. This discussion will offer a starting point for understanding and exploring all that Pagans do and believe. Are you a Pagan? Perhaps you are!
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Fire Workshop Space
Hooded Wanderer - Hooded Wanderer's work has led him to develop the Modern American Shamanism program along with his wife Crow Spirit. He has been walking the path of the shaman for over 20 years. He is a shaman, teacher, healer, writer, an ordained minister (ULC), and a certified Taijiquan and Qigong instructor.
Workshop Presented: Sacrifices and Ancestor Worship in the Germanic Traditions - How and why the ancient Germanic people performed sacrifices and how we can apply that knowledge today. Why ancestor worship was important to the Germanic people and how we can continue those traditions.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Sacrifices and Ancestor Worship in the Germanic Traditions - How and why the ancient Germanic people performed sacrifices and how we can apply that knowledge today. Why ancestor worship was important to the Germanic people and how we can continue those traditions.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Fire Workshop Space
Sam Jackson - Sam resides in Illinois and is actively involved with his local community for which he facilitates and leads rituals and workshops dedicated to Sumerian and Babylonian spirituality. He has presented at major pagan pride festivals, and at national events such as Pagan Spirit Gathering and Paganicon.
Workshop Presented: Showers of Abundance – Join us as we chant, sing, and drum to honor the Mesopotamian god of abundance!
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Showers of Abundance – Join us as we chant, sing, and drum to honor the Mesopotamian god of abundance!
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Jasmine - Jasmine instigates community, song, dance, sacred play and ritual. She helped birth a small series of festivals in the 90s and continues work to build community and offer ecstatic participatory ritual and dance in St. Louis, MO. She specializes in emergent, community-created ritual and experiences and has facilitated, for two decades, sacred body prayer and dance workshops. She identifies as a witch with her roots in feminism and deep influences from Reclaiming but claims no tradition. She helped found, and coordinates, enCHANTment, an embodied sung prayer to the sacred.
Rituals Presented: Opening Ritual, Saturday Main Ritual, Sunday Main Ritual, Closing Ritual
Workshop Presented: Ritual ‘Conspiracy’ - Magic and community emerge from us. What we do, how we act, and how we move energy with our intention bring ritual to life. YOU are invited to “breathe your life” into the final stage of our community-created ritual of hope. Hearts, hands, and voices have conspired to shape the ideas for the ritual to this point, and now we invite all attending the picnic today to conspire with us and breathe life into our work today.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Air Workshop Space
Rituals Presented: Opening Ritual, Saturday Main Ritual, Sunday Main Ritual, Closing Ritual
Workshop Presented: Ritual ‘Conspiracy’ - Magic and community emerge from us. What we do, how we act, and how we move energy with our intention bring ritual to life. YOU are invited to “breathe your life” into the final stage of our community-created ritual of hope. Hearts, hands, and voices have conspired to shape the ideas for the ritual to this point, and now we invite all attending the picnic today to conspire with us and breathe life into our work today.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Air Workshop Space
Mike Kaan - Mike Kaan is Norse Pagan and Druid of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, and is also the Senior Druid of Grove of the Gathering Waters, ADF, based in Troy, Illinois.
Workshop Presented: Ritual to Honor Odin - Join the Grove of the Gathering Waters, ADF as we honor Odin and Thor in an ADF ritual. We honor Odin as we seek wisdom among the people at Pagan Picnic, and we honor Thor to protect us from the storms that make their way over the region this time of year.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Ritual to Honor Odin - Join the Grove of the Gathering Waters, ADF as we honor Odin and Thor in an ADF ritual. We honor Odin as we seek wisdom among the people at Pagan Picnic, and we honor Thor to protect us from the storms that make their way over the region this time of year.
Presented: Sunday @ 2pm in the Water Workshop Space
Angela Kaufman - Angela Kaufman is an Intuitive Empowerment Coach, Author, Psychic and practicing Witch. She has co-authored several books including Wicca, What's the Real Deal? (Schiffer, 2010), Sacred Objects, Sacred Space- Everyday Tools for the Modern Day Witch (Schiffer 2011) and The Esoteric Dreambook (Schiffer 2013). She is also the author of Queen Up! Reclaim Your Crown When Life Knocks You Down- Unleash the Power of Your Inner Tarot Queen (Conari, 2018). For more information visit intuitiveangela.com
Workshop Presented: Queen Up Your Magick – Supercharge Your Rituals with the Tarot Queens - Each of the Tarot Queens represents a distinct elemental energy. Learn to recognize the four Queens within yourself and in nature, so you can supercharge your Magickal workings. All levels welcome, Tarot experience not required.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Queen Up Your Magick – Supercharge Your Rituals with the Tarot Queens - Each of the Tarot Queens represents a distinct elemental energy. Learn to recognize the four Queens within yourself and in nature, so you can supercharge your Magickal workings. All levels welcome, Tarot experience not required.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Water Workshop Space
Kerry Lynn – Kerry Lynn has been a practicing Witch since 1998. She offers a wealth of experience, 20 substantial years within the Occult. Past events planned include: Oak Spirit Sanctuary (2011-2018); the International Left Hand Path Consortium (StL 2018); Garlic Fest (2011-2013); and many private Full Moon services. Currently, Kerry Lynn works with Haunted STL Tours as a personal divinatory intermediary & spiritual guide along paranormal investigations. Haunted STL Tours offers group & private tours of Dark and strange St. Louis. http://practicallymagicalliving.com/
Workshop Presented: Candle Magick 101- Candle Magick is one of the 'staples' of magickal living, it's practical, can be used for spells, rituals, sending energy and wishing a happy birthday! In this workshop we will discuss the colors, oils and timing logistics to make your candles work for YOU!
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Candle Magick 101- Candle Magick is one of the 'staples' of magickal living, it's practical, can be used for spells, rituals, sending energy and wishing a happy birthday! In this workshop we will discuss the colors, oils and timing logistics to make your candles work for YOU!
Presented: Saturday @ 11am in the Earth Workshop Space
Natalie Kreider - I have 9 years of experience in the paranormal field. I started Mostly Ghostly Paranormal Research Society to help those in need and to help restore and preserve history in our community.
Workshop Presented: Paranormal 101 - This workshop will consist of learning the basics for the paranormal. We will cover terminology, do's and don'ts, how to review evidence and how to conduct yourself in a professional manor. I will also do a Q&A at the end.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Paranormal 101 - This workshop will consist of learning the basics for the paranormal. We will cover terminology, do's and don'ts, how to review evidence and how to conduct yourself in a professional manor. I will also do a Q&A at the end.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Water Workshop Space
Rev. Don Lewis - Rev. Don Lewis is Chancellor and First Priest of the Correllian Tradition, Co-Founder of WitchSchool.com, the world's largest school of Magic and Witchcraft, and Production Head for Magick TV. Magick TV has covered the Picnic since 2006.
Workshop Presented: Correllian Soul Retrieval - Rev Don will discuss and, if time permits, demonstrate the Correllian form of Soul Retrieval. This is a powerful form of self healing and releasing energies that we have blocked within ourselves, so that we may become more fully whole.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Correllian Soul Retrieval - Rev Don will discuss and, if time permits, demonstrate the Correllian form of Soul Retrieval. This is a powerful form of self healing and releasing energies that we have blocked within ourselves, so that we may become more fully whole.
Presented: Saturday @ Noon in the Earth Workshop Space
Mama Gina (Bardic Circle Headliner) – Mama Gina is a singer/songwriter, fearless storyteller, and wanderlust. With down-to-earth, bluesy vocals, a bit of humor, and straight-ahead, rhythmic, acoustic guitar, djembe and frame drum, she tells the true stories that fall into her head and heart. She speaks to the Gods and Goddesses and they speak back. Oh, boy, do they speak back! She sings of our responsibility to nurture both the mundane and the magical. Speaking of magical, meet Nine Toes the Bard, a 15th century Welsh lass who once dealt with a Dragon. She now travels the world, singing tales of love and battle, Pirates and Vikings, damsels and elves, trolls and that wicked Dragon that left her one digit shy.Come laugh, weep, laugh some more and sing along with Mama Gina and her alter-ego Nine Toes the Bard! www.mamaginamusic.com, www.mamagina.bandcamp.com
Workshop Presented: Frame Drum Meditation - Mama Gina will share how she uses the frame drum in her personal meditative practice. You'll get an opportunity to play a bit and sing and chant into the drum, and then we'll settle in for a brief meditation. If you have any kind of frame drum, please bring it!
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Frame Drum Meditation - Mama Gina will share how she uses the frame drum in her personal meditative practice. You'll get an opportunity to play a bit and sing and chant into the drum, and then we'll settle in for a brief meditation. If you have any kind of frame drum, please bring it!
Presented: Sunday @ Noon in the Air Workshop Space
Kassia Morgan - Kassia is the founder, minister, teacher and High Priestess of the Spirit’s Edge Shamonial Temple, Tradition, A Seeker’s Salon community and five-year Spirit's Edge Mystery School with online apprenticeships in Witchcraft, Shamanism and Magick. Kassia has been a practicing Witch for over 20 years, joined a teaching coven, had her own circle and formed her own currently working coven in 2010. She is a Shaman, Witch, Mage, Certified Life Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, a Priestess of the Morrighan, healer, writer, lightworker, psychic, empath and medium. Kassia has studied intensively with don Miguel Ruiz and his family, The Foundation for Shamanic Studies and is a graduate of a four-year Mystery School. www.SpiritsEdge.org
Workshop Presented: Gossip & The Four Agreements - Join us for an exploration of effective techniques to live The Four Agreements in your daily life, including the hazards of gossiping and how to build and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships in your lives, workplace, community and families. As a magickal practitioner and spiritual being, you have a personal responsibility to yourself and to others to have a handle on the power of Air as it relates to your interpersonal relationships, and this workshop will give you added tools.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Air Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Gossip & The Four Agreements - Join us for an exploration of effective techniques to live The Four Agreements in your daily life, including the hazards of gossiping and how to build and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships in your lives, workplace, community and families. As a magickal practitioner and spiritual being, you have a personal responsibility to yourself and to others to have a handle on the power of Air as it relates to your interpersonal relationships, and this workshop will give you added tools.
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Air Workshop Space
Mickie Mueller – Mickie Mueller explores magic and spirituality through art and the written word. She includes magical herbal washes in her art that correspond with the subject, enchanting every piece. She is the author and illustrator of The Voice of the Trees, the illustrator of The Mystical Cats Tarot, Magical Dogs Tarot, and author of The Witch’s Mirror and Llewellyn’s Little Book of Halloween, as well as a regular article and illustration contributor to Llewellyn’s almanacs and annuals and many Llewellyn books. Her art has been seen as set dressing on SyFy’s The Magicians and Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce. Her home studio is set up right next to the cottage workshop that produces products with her art for people all over the world that is run by her husband, author and craftsman Daniel Mueller. http://www.mickiemuellerart.com/
Workshop Presented: Magical Self-Care During Hard Times - Magical self care can be used to empower yourself when facing big challenges like a financial crisis, divorce, or medical issues. Sometimes hard times hit us out of the blue but how we handle it can sometimes affect the outcome. It's a knee jerk reaction to either shut down in confusion or panic, but by using magical self care techniques and being inventive with our magic we can embrace our power and navigate troubled waters of life.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Magical Self-Care During Hard Times - Magical self care can be used to empower yourself when facing big challenges like a financial crisis, divorce, or medical issues. Sometimes hard times hit us out of the blue but how we handle it can sometimes affect the outcome. It's a knee jerk reaction to either shut down in confusion or panic, but by using magical self care techniques and being inventive with our magic we can embrace our power and navigate troubled waters of life.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Earth Workshop Space
Lacey Reinhardt - Lacey Reinhardt is the Owner/Operator of Haunted STL Tours and "Boo"-tique in downtown St. Louis. As both a 7th generation St. Louisan and Paranormal Investigator, Lacey is passionate about maintining ethics in the field of Paranormal Research as well as maintaining the historical accuracy around St. Louis' many urban legends. www.hauntedstltours.com
Workshop Presented: Paying for the Paranormal - As the Paranormal Tourism or "Ghost Hunt" Industry continues to grow across the nation, it can be hard to tell who's legit and who isn't. Join St. Louis' own Dark Historian and Paranormal Tourism Entrepreneur, Lacey Reinhardt for an engaging and informative discussion on ethics and integrity in the field of Paranormal Research and Dark Tourism.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Paying for the Paranormal - As the Paranormal Tourism or "Ghost Hunt" Industry continues to grow across the nation, it can be hard to tell who's legit and who isn't. Join St. Louis' own Dark Historian and Paranormal Tourism Entrepreneur, Lacey Reinhardt for an engaging and informative discussion on ethics and integrity in the field of Paranormal Research and Dark Tourism.
Presented: Saturday @ 1pm in the Water Workshop Space
Claire Schosser – Claire Schosser is the current Grand Almoner and Mentor Coordinator of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA). Learn more about the AODA by visiting its website, aoda.org.
Workshop Presented: Introduction to Revival Druidry and the AODA - In the early 1700s, at a time when industrialization was first disrupting the natural order, folks in the British Isles were inspired by what they knew of the ancient Druids to revive their sense of the sacredness of the world and themselves. In 1912, their spiritual descendants in the US founded the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) to bring Revival Druidry practices to North America. Now in its 107th year, the AODA continues to offer the study and practice of Revival Druidry to people around the world. Join Claire Schosser, AODA Companion and its current Grand Almoner and Mentor Coordinator, to learn more about Revival Druidry, the AODA, and opportunities to learn and practice Revival Druidry here in St. Louis.
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Water Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Introduction to Revival Druidry and the AODA - In the early 1700s, at a time when industrialization was first disrupting the natural order, folks in the British Isles were inspired by what they knew of the ancient Druids to revive their sense of the sacredness of the world and themselves. In 1912, their spiritual descendants in the US founded the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) to bring Revival Druidry practices to North America. Now in its 107th year, the AODA continues to offer the study and practice of Revival Druidry to people around the world. Join Claire Schosser, AODA Companion and its current Grand Almoner and Mentor Coordinator, to learn more about Revival Druidry, the AODA, and opportunities to learn and practice Revival Druidry here in St. Louis.
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Water Workshop Space
Alfred Willowhawk - Alfred’s work has led him to be the HP of a Welsh Family Tradition and Traditional Coven. He is a Reiki Master, a traditional 3rd Degree, a Spiritual Counselor, Metaphysical Practitioner, a member of Healers International, and a chartered member of the World Metaphysical Association. He is the founder of the “Healing System – Celtic Transformational Healing”, and a founder of the Three Gates Gathering. Alfred is the host of a weekly radio show Up Close and Personal on WCAS-DB. His latest work Warriors of The Millennium and other works are available on his website. http://alfredwillowhawk.us, http://witerayvn.org, http://lifecoachalfred.com
Workshop Presented: YOU are in Control of YOU - Creating and maintaining balance in the 21st century can be difficult. Debts, job prospects, relationship issues all can distract us from following our own paths. The environment, family, friends, co-workers all seek to influence our decisions. You are truly in control of your own life. This workshop shares techniques to control the chaos all around you and within you to create good decisions for your own life.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: YOU are in Control of YOU - Creating and maintaining balance in the 21st century can be difficult. Debts, job prospects, relationship issues all can distract us from following our own paths. The environment, family, friends, co-workers all seek to influence our decisions. You are truly in control of your own life. This workshop shares techniques to control the chaos all around you and within you to create good decisions for your own life.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Earth Workshop Space
J Gwenhwyfar Wyrrd - Mythology and fairytales have fascinated me since childhood. The study of deities and the various pantheons has become somewhat of a minor in my studies in becoming a HPS and in the decades I have written rituals for private, public and regional event use.
Workshop Presented: A Panegyric to Pandora - When I heard the theme of the Picnic this year I was called to share the story of Pandora. Her mythology is as pertinent today as when it originated. Join us in discussion of her story and a brief working to inspire our imaginations and seed of hope.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: A Panegyric to Pandora - When I heard the theme of the Picnic this year I was called to share the story of Pandora. Her mythology is as pertinent today as when it originated. Join us in discussion of her story and a brief working to inspire our imaginations and seed of hope.
Presented: Sunday @ 1pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Zemaemidjehuty - Zemaemidjehuty is from Illinois and it was there, between the Mississippi River and the illustrious corn fields of the American Midwest, that he found the gods of Egypt. Zemmi is an author, poet, playwright, and folklorist working his way to priesthood with Kemetic Orthodoxy and has presented all over the country.
Workshop Presented: Honoring Thoth, Lord of Divine Words - In this workshop, we will discuss the nature of Thoth, the god of writing, time, and fate then honor Him through ritual. At the end, we will invoke Him and ask for His blessing. Join us as we sing, drum, and chant to honor the Great God Thoth!
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Honoring Thoth, Lord of Divine Words - In this workshop, we will discuss the nature of Thoth, the god of writing, time, and fate then honor Him through ritual. At the end, we will invoke Him and ask for His blessing. Join us as we sing, drum, and chant to honor the Great God Thoth!
Presented: Saturday @ 2pm in the Fire Workshop Space
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (Special Guest) - Oberon Zell is a renowned Pagan Elder, founding the Church of All Worlds in 1962. First to apply the term “Pagan” to the new Nature Religions of the ‘60s, and through his publication of Green Egg magazine, Oberon was instrumental in fostering the modern Pagan movement. He designs altar statuary and jewelry for The Mythic Images Collection, and wrote Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard. He is also Founder and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. www.OberonZell.com
Workshop Presented: Awakening into Quantum Consciousness - The Gaea Thesis asserts that our planetary biosphere is a single vast living organism, known to all peoples as Mother Earth. But is Gaea really the greatest level of consciousness beyond our own? The latest developments in quantum theory suggest that nothing above the level of the primordial quantum field has any physical reality at all. Rather, biocentrism and simulation theory propose that the world of our experience is an emergent and evolving simulation, much like 2nd Life, or the Matrix, in which we temporarily animate very realistic avatars.
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Earth Workshop Space
Workshop Presented: Awakening into Quantum Consciousness - The Gaea Thesis asserts that our planetary biosphere is a single vast living organism, known to all peoples as Mother Earth. But is Gaea really the greatest level of consciousness beyond our own? The latest developments in quantum theory suggest that nothing above the level of the primordial quantum field has any physical reality at all. Rather, biocentrism and simulation theory propose that the world of our experience is an emergent and evolving simulation, much like 2nd Life, or the Matrix, in which we temporarily animate very realistic avatars.
Presented: Sunday @ 11am in the Earth Workshop Space