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
- A Crowd of Loners: Paradox or Marketing Niche?
- Balance: What Is It and How Important Is It?
- Connecting With the Land
- Evidence of Consciousness in the Multiverse: From Sub-Atomic to Astronomical Phenomena
- Fab Faerie High Tea and Potluck
- How to Use Alternative Media
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Killing Nukes and Winning Solartopia
- Living the Dream: Creating Land-Based Community
- Navigating Altered States and Gaining the Most from an Entheogenic Journey
- Panpsychism: the Merger of Physics and Consciousness
- Permaculture Projects for Your Home
- So Its Your First Starwood...
- Solar Living
- Spirits: Ghosts, the God Bureaucracy, and the Wild Fauna of the Spirit World
- Star Walk
- The GLBT Faerie Experience
- The Methods of Science?
- The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality
- The Rainbow Ally
- The Spiral of Our History: America - and Humanity - Born and Reborn
- Walking with Nature
- Wikipedia and the Magical Community
Magic & Spirit
- An Audience with the Lord of Wisdom
- Ancestral "Breaks"
- Animal Allies: How to Find Yours and Build a Lifelong Relationship
- Being a Warrior: A Round-Table Discussion /Workshop
- Bull of Heaven: An Introduction to the Minoan Brotherhood
- Burning Down the House: A Celtic Sacrificial Shrine
- Caring for the Dead: Last Rites and Rights
- Chant Circle
- Common Ground
- Coyote, Eris, and the Trickster Archetype
- Discordianism Through Its Literature
- Ethics of Defensive Magic
- Exploring the Dark Goddess, Embracing your Sacred Whore
- Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis
- Guided Past Life Meditation
- H. P. Lovecraft: A Dreamer out of Time
- Intro to the World of Tarot
- Maat: Magic of Heritage
- Mystic Caravan Meet-Up
- Pagan Theurgy and an Audience With the Gods
- Performing and Conducting Non-Religious Group Ritual
- Reclaiming Womyn's Rites and Mysteries
- Runes Part 1: Make Your Own Rune Set
- Runes Part 2: Runes in Magick
- Sacrifice in Santeria
- Sex and Sex Magick in the Victorian Age
- Spi/Ritual Performance Art
- Tantra Puja
- The "Fam Trad": Paganism's Urban Legend
- The Age of the Indigo Enlightenment
- The Gnostic Mass
- The Irish Sacred King
- The Long-Lost Friend
- The Mask of Ecstasy: Classical and Modern Dionysos Worship
- The Nature of Sacrifice
- The Pagan Pundit
- The Parting Glass
- This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius
- Thunder, Perfect Mind Meditation
- What is Chaos Magic?
- What is Santeria?
- What is the O.T.O.?/ O.T.O. Meet and Greet
Music, Rhythm & Movement
- Basics of Acrobalance
- Beginner to Intermediate Poi
- Bellydance for the Brave Broad in All of Us
- Celtic Songwriting Workshop
- Conscious Capitalism
- Dance the Goddess: Green Tara and White Tara
- Dance the Tarot
- Dances of Universal Peace - Goddess Dances for Women
- Djembe!
- Drumming for Bellydancers: Basic Structure and Easy Cues
- Drumming: Improving your Inner Clock, the Value of Syncopation, and Becoming a Better Accompanist
- Dundun!
- Fire Dance 101: Finding Your Flow within Sacred Geometry
- Fire Eating and Fleshing
- Fire Safety
- Getting Odd
- How to Read Music for Beginners and Those Who Need a Review
- Intro to Doumbek and Middle Eastern Rhythms
- Istanbul not Constantinople: Drumming and Travel Stories in Turkey
- Middle Eastern Scales and Melodies for all Melodic Instruments
- Stepping into the Ring of Fire
- The Art and Practice of Kirtan
- The Art of the Indian Tabla
- The Didjgeridoo: Its Secrets and Meanings
- The Spirit of Drumming and Drum Technique
- The Voice of the Kemenche: an Intro to the Middle Eastern Maqam
- Vishuddha Yoga, Mantra and Kirtan
- Yoga Dance
Craft & Creativity
- Advanced Art
- Contact Juggling as a Dynamic Meditation: Part 1 for Beginners, Part 2 for Intermediates
- Eat Out (at) the G-Spot
- Instant Drumming
- Introduction to Ojibwe Woodland Style Art
- Introductory Blacksmithing
- Juggling from Beginner to Expert
- Keeping it Wet
- Learn to Draw with Drew
- Lingerie Parade
- Mask Painting
- Midnight Madness Classes
- Ninja TV
- Orienteering Workshop
- Plain Jane: The SHOCKUMENTARY!
- Plant Identification
- Practical Poppetry
- SpaceStation Blackout
- The Official "Re-Do" at the G-Spot
- The Sacred Mask: Liminal Tools for Community and Personal Invocation
- West African Drum Rhythms
Wellness & Healing
- ArteKamp: Presented by The Gossamer Court and the faery king
- Burning the Box
- Cloud Hands
- Create Your Own Goddess
- Drum Building and Repair Apprenticeship Program
- Firetending and The Sweatlodge
- Hail and Farewell Grounding Circle
- Helping Friends Feel Good with Acupressure and Shiatsu
- Improv Fun Time
- Intense Psychic Healing/Teaching Circle, With a Side of Mirth
- Kundalini Yoga
- Majikal/Medicinal Herbalism
- More Than Lovers: The Polyamory Paradigm
- Music for Healing and Transition
- Play with Your (auric) Self
- Poly Peoples Practical Wisdom and Wit Sharing Circle
- Polyamory, Paganism and Community
- Psychic or Psycho?
- Rattle Your Way to a Better Death
- Say Ahhhh with Aerial Yoga
- Self-Defense as a Spiritual Practice
- Shamanic/Ethnobotanical Herbs
- Shen Set
- Sweatlodge Orientation for Participants
- The Art of Memory: Memes and Mnemotechnics
- The Starwood Recovery Fire
- The Sweatlodge Ceremony
- Varieties of Therapeutic Music
- Veganism: Living a Plant-Based Lifestyle
- Yoga for Every Body
