Workshops
The Starwood Festival, as always, presents a diverse roster of speakers and workshop presenters. We acknowlege our origins as "more than just a Pagan Festival" and continually strive beyond anyones' expectations to provide quality education in a wide variety of topics to expand the frontiers of your consideration.
Here are some of the workshops that will be presented at Starwood XXXI:
New Frontiers
- Basics of Psychism
- Caring for the Dead: Last Rites and Rights
- Death and a Bogus Sweat Lodge
- Enneagram
- Guilt Trip
- Is Barack Obama a Hologram?
- Movie Showing - Dark of Moon
- Neurogram
- Open Source Starwood
- Repression
- So It's Your First Starwood...
- Solar Living
- The Artistic Vision of THE DOORS
- The Secret History of the New Age
- The Solartopian Green-Powered NON-NUCLEAR Cheap-Fuel Eco-Revolution
- Was George Washington a Gay Potsmoker?
Magic & Spirit
- 2012: Year of The Awakening
- 5-Minute Powerhouse Invocations
- A Feast of the Spirits - a Druidic Rite of Offering and Blessing
- Alter Magic - Spellcrafting To Shift Reality
- Aphrodisia Ritual
- Aphrodite's Bath: Cleansing and Creation Through Sensuality
- Christian Witchcraft
- Creating Aphrodisia Rituals
- Death, the Final Frontier? Exploring Near Death Experiences
- Dream Time Journeys
- Energy Exploration I: Empty Hand
- Energy Exploration II: We are One
- Energy Exploration III: Medical Intuition
- Energy Exploration IV: New Horizons
- Esoteric Education: Restoring the Wonder
- Guided Meditation: Past Life Regression
- Hall of Mirrors - Past, Present and Potential
- MAAT: The Magick of Heritage Pt. 1 and 2
- Magick For the Future
- MahaGanapatiHomam Ritual
- Orisha as Guardian Angels
- Sex, Sin and Zen
- Summoning Spirits - Ancient Magic for Modern Paganism
- The Boveda - Spiritual Evolution Through the Ancestors
- The Erotic World of Fairie: Sexuality In British Fairy Lore
- The History and Nature of Magic
- The Lost Secrets of Wicca
- The Once and Future Religion
- Trends in American Neopaganism
- What is Chaos Magic?
- Wielding Magic in a Mundane Workplace
- Working With Nature Spirits
Rhythm, Music & Movement
- Afro-Cuban Percussion
- Basic Fire Staff Play
- Beginner and Intermediate Didgeridoo Workshop: Expressing Rhythms Through Breath and Sound
- Bellydance Basics
- Clay Sculpting: Cave Art
- Dancing the Elements
- Didgeridoo 101
- Djembe!
- Drumming for the One
- Drumming in a Group
- Dundun!
- Fire Dancing Safety
- Flute Salad
- Hooping Bliss for Beginners
- Indian Rhythm Theory and Vocal Percussion
- Intermediate/Advanced Doumbek Technique
- Intro to Doumbek and Middle Eastern Rhythms
- Intro to Fire Dancing: Lighting Up For Your First Time
- Introduction to Drumming for Dancers
- Multi-Level Bellydance Combo Class
- The Magickal Connection Between Dancers and Drummers
- Time Signatures
- West African Drum Rhythms
Craft & Creativity
- A Q&A with Writer/Director of Dark of the Moon, Taliesin Govannon
- Aikido Workshop
- Beekeeping 101
- Blythe and Pullip Dolls; Meet-Up and Customization Demo
- Brewing Beer 101
- Burning the Box
- Cartooning 101
- Chainsaw Labonto: Djembe Drum Carving Workshop
- Clay Sculpting: Earthen Rattles
- Clay Sculpting: Green Man Faces from Leaves
- Drum Making & Repair
- Drum Making: Shamans Peace Drum - 14 inch hoop
- Henna 101
- Henna in Practice
- Introductory Blacksmithing
- Pit Firing, Part 1
- Pit Firing, Part 2: Opening the Pit
- Puppet and Stilt-Walker Performance Techniques
- Sour Fermentations
- Sphere-play and Dance: Two Courses in Contact Juggling (Fushigi) with Flec!
- Sword in Aikido
- Tarp Mahal I: Luxury Camping on a Budget
- Tarp Mahal II: Tying it All Together
- Tattling Tattoos - or 'Why the hell did I get that tattooed on my butt?'
- The Forest-Cathedral Theatre
Wellness & Healing
- Ancestral Breaks
- Birth Circle
- Childbirth in America
- Cultivating and Controlling Sexual Energy
- Death Discussion
- Experience Your Past Lives
- Hail and Farewell Grounding Circle
- Intense Psychic Healing/Teaching Circle, with a Side of Mirth
- Kundalini Yoga
- Loving More Stories: New Narratives for Polyamory
- Massage as a Gift of Love
- Medicinal Plant Cultivation
- More Than Lovers: Polyamory As Paradigm
- Play with Your (auric) Self
- Poly People's Practical Wisdom Sharing Circle
- Raising Fearless Children in a Culture of Fear
- Secrets of True Meditation
- Silent Sweatlodge Orientation for Participants
- Sweat Lodge Orientation for Participants
- Thai Massage - Aloha Style
- The Art of Sitting Down and Shutting Up
- The Silent Sweatlodge Ceremony
- The Starwood Recovery Fire
- The Sweat Lodge Ceremony
- The Sword that Gives Life