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 XXXII:
New Frontiers
- Be the Change
- Become a Hypnotist in One Hour
- Beyond Recycling
- Black Magick
- Cannabis, Hemp, & Marijuana in America - Past, Present, & Future
- Caring for the Dead: Last Rites and Rights
- Deep Rapport Workshop / Group Mind Ritual
- Drug War Debate 101 - A Hands-On Marijuana Debate Prep Session
- Entering the Silence
- Fighting Cancer Naturally
- Finding Your Inner Pantheon
- Forest Wildflower, Herb, Plant and Mushroom Walks along Wisteria's Trails: an Interactive Experience in Plant and Mushroom Identification and Ecology, Greenman-Style.
- Framing the Conversation in a Socially Connected World
- Free Association
- Hedonic Engineering for Partners
- How to Survive an Encounter with Law Enforcement
- How to Survive the Hospital
- Interface: A Hands-On Experience with Meditation, Light/Sound Machines and Biofeedback
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Living On a Plant-Based Diet
- Living the Dream: Creating Land-Based Community
- Neurogram I
- Neurogram II
- Passions of the Potsmoking Patriots: a Drama in Many Acts
- Permaculture Projects for Your Home
- Politics, Pagans, Christians, Tolerance, and Intolerance
- Right Mind, Left Behind
- Seeking 1 Million Pagan Friends
- So Its Your First Starwood...
- Solar Living
- Spirits vs Psychology
- Starting Your Own Small Business
- The 3rd Phoenix Resurrection of the Church of All Worlds
- The ADF Druidic Sacrifice to the Spirits
- The Constitution and Cannabis - Civil Rights in the War on Marijuana
- The Experience of Self
- The Methods of Science?
- The War on the Elderly, Sick, and Disabled
- Who Wants To Live Forever?
- Will Obama Get Us to Solartopia?
Magic & Spirit
- 2012: Year of the Awakening
- A Greater Feast: A Rite of Passage
- A Guide to Initiation
- Aphrodite's Sacraments
- Basic Ritual Skills
- Bull of Heaven: An Introduction to the Minoan Brotherhood
- Casting the Circle: So Where Does That Energy Come From Anyway?
- Coronation of the Queen: A New Face for the Goddess
- Don't Dream It, Be It: Performance Art as a Majikal Act
- Dr. John Montanee: Patron of Ritual Drummers
- Drawing Down the Moon: The Mechanics of Invoking Deity
- Healing the Imajica: A Guided Journey into a Consciously Created Future
- Hekate: Goddess of the Crossroads
- Honoring the Magus: A Ritual to Dr. John Montanee, Drum Loa
- Introduction to a Modern Dreamtime
- Magic and Sacrifice
- Magical Bird Lore
- Maya 2012 Prophecy
- Modern Fae Magic: Into the Mouths of Weird and Allies of the Wild
- Mythic Role Play
- Pagans And The Media
- Performing Gender in Festival Culture
- Practicing Paganism - Developing a Personal Spiritual Practice
- Runes Part 1: Runes in Magick
- Runes Part 2: Make Your Own Rune Set
- Science, Consciousness and Magic
- Supergods and Slayers
- Taino Shamanism
- The Dionysus/Jim Morrison Ritual
- The Horned God
- The Irish Sacred King
- The Mask of Ecstasy: Classical and Modern Dionysos Worship
- The Political Pagan
- The Queen: A New Face for the Goddess
- The Question of Animal Sacrifice
- Tibetan Buddhism and New Orleans Voodoo: A Discussion
- What is Chaos Magic?
- What is Santeria?
- Witchcraft Familiars
- Working with Nature Spirits
- Zen Paganism (or Why Buddha Touched the Earth)
Music, Rhythm & Movement
- A Highly Opinionated History of Pagan Music
- Advanced Didge and Whale Song Playing
- Afro-Cuban Percussion
- Ancient Harmonic Instruments and Throat Singing/ Kirtan Chants from India Pt. 1: Harmonic Overtone Vocal Techniques and Instruments
- Ancient Harmonic Instruments and Throat Singing/ Kirtan Chants from India Pt. 2: Kirtan Chanting
- Basics of Acrobalance
- Belly Dance 101
- Contact Improvisation
- Contact Juggling as a Dynamic Meditation: Part 1 for Beginners, Part 2 for Intermediates
- Dance Your Soul
- Devotional Dance to Aphrodite
- Didgeridoo Basics
- Djembe!
- Djembes and Dunduns for Everyone!
- Dundun!
- Fire Dance 101: Finding Your Flow within Sacred Geometry
- Fire Eating and Fleshing
- Fire Safety
- Fire Shimmies - Belly Dance Moves for Bonfire Circles
- How to Play the Didgeridoo
- Instant Drumming
- Led Zeppelin and the Occult
- Mojo and Magic in Blues Music
- Moving from a Spiritual Core
- Music in Ritual Part I: Music as a Ritual Device
- Music in Ritual Part II: Using Music in Ritual Space
- Play Every Day! Part 1: The Basic Movements and Illusions of Flow Wand (Beginner)
- Play Every Day! Part 2: Dance, and Sacred Flow (Intermediate)
- The Art of the Indian Tabla
- The Hacky Sack Workshop
- The Magickal Connection between Dancers and Drummers
- West African Drum Rhythms
Craft & Creativity
- Advanced Art
- Basic Lashing
- Create Your Own Goddess
- Drum Building and Repair Apprenticeship Program
- Drum Making: Shamans Peace Drum (14 inch hoop)
- Dutch Oven Baking
- Fans, Flowing and Focus, Oh My!
- Gardening for Magick, Medicine, Decoration, and Food!
- Henna 101
- Henna in Practice
- How to Create Cordials in Your Own Home
- Intermediate/Advanced Doumbek Technique
- Intro to Doumbek and Middle Eastern Rhythms
- Introductory Blacksmithing
- Journal Writing as Magical Method
- Learn to Draw with Drew
- Self Exploration: Transcendence in the Fire Circle
Wellness & Healing
- Birth Healing Circle
- Chi Kung Exercises
- Death Discussion
- Feeling Good with Accupressure and Shiatsu
- Flights of Passage - The Spiritual Aspects of End-of-Life
- Hail and Farewell Grounding Circle
- Intense Psychic Healing/Teaching Circle (with a Side of Mirth)
- Majikal/Medicinal Herbalism
- More than Lovers: The Polyamory Paradigm
- Play with Your (auric) Self
- Poly Peoples Practical Wisdom Sharing Circle
- Polyamory and the Politics of Marriage and Parenthood
- Polyamory Meet and Greet
- Psychic or Psycho?
- Shamanic/Ethnobotanical Herbs
- Sweatlodge Orientation for Participants
- Thai Massage - Aloha Style
- The GLBT Faerie Experience
- The Starwood Recovery Fire
- The Sweatlodge and The Courtroom: A Bogus Sweatlodge & the James Ray Homicide Trial, Arizona 2011
- The Sweatlodge Ceremony
- Vishuddha Yoga, Mantra and Kirtan
