August 23-28, 2008
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For 32 years, women have returned to Rowe each year to enter into the Mysteries. At WomenCircles, we come together from all directions to explore a magical realm unique to this community and this land. We create our own ancient temple – our Brigadoon, our Mists of Avalon – a place that we can return to each year to rest, to heal, and to retreat into our mystical selves. WomenCircles becomes our Mystery School.
Each year at WomenCircles, we recognize the Goddess through many traditions, choosing one goddess to explore in depth. This year we will go deep into the kindness of our hearts with Sedna – She who holds the depths of our lives, who rests in the ice oceans, she whose hair is the tangled web of the soul of humanity. We will explore through her ways the subtle interconnections of all there is, paying attention especially to the deep ties we have made in our lives. Strand by strand we will untangle the knots that no longer serve us. We will learn the extraordinary healing power of the tides and the gentle flow of the waves. We will learn about the ancient myths and the traditions of mermaids. We will praise the lore of the oceans and the gifts of the sea. And we will honor the mammals of the ice oceans.
At WomenCircles, we use new and innovative ways to work with myth and lore, and we are given precious time to be who we are – powerful and compassionate women. We will explore our own stories and experience the healing life force as we dance the ancient cosmic dance and sail the uncharted paths of Mystery together.
Healing work requires energy and seriousness of purpose as well as patience and compassion. Our goal is to honor and support each woman’s different way and to share her tears and her laughter. We’re free to swim in nearby lakes, walk in the woods, sun on the rocks, connect with friends, or find a quiet place alone to nap or read, attending lovingly to our spiritual selves.
Eclipse Fey Falconbridge, the author of two sets of divination cards and The Moon In Hand and Wing and Bough, is an activist, healer, ritual artist, and founder of the Magaian apprenticeship program. She has been directing WomenCircles for 21 years. Our talented staff will include: Heather Alexander, artist, craftswoman, writer, and Reiki healer; Pam Padula, healer and astrologer; Phyllis Brooks, teacher of Shambala Multi-dimensional Healing and flower essences, and sweat-lodge practitioner; Sapphire Stretton, author and certified healing-touch energy practitioner; Joanne Dorrance, body worker, cranio-sacral therapist, and lover of poetry; Gretchen Harvey, Magaian priestess, firedancer; Trish Casimira, hypnotherapist, tarot teacher, and shamanic practitioner; Ione, spiritual teacher and dream worker; Marie Summerwood, composer and wise woman herbalist; Annie Hasset, singer and Tai Chi teacher; and Brightflame, teacher, writer, and priestess who brings forth Mystery.