Charm Casting

Presenter: Maryalyce Merritt

In this class, students will create a personalized charm casting divination kit from the charms that they have collected throughout the Changing Times conference. We will discuss the history of divination using charms, explore how to use and create a variety of spreads, and perform a practice reading on each other. Students will be encouraged to use their intuition to make this modality into a meaningful personalized favorite that can grow with them in their magickal journey. This class will be fun and interactive.

Prerequisites: Students should bring any charms that they have collected at CTCW. This class is designed to specifically incorporate those. Exact materials fee will be no more than $10

Materials fee $10.00

Gentle Yoga for Yin and Yang Balance

Presenter: Jennifer Bobbe

DesJennifer Bobbe (RYT-200, Yin-Yoga certified) will lead an all-levels gentle yoga session. “Yin” yoga poses, which take us into the dark and internal space, will be interspersed with more typical “Yang” poses and movements. This class is geared for esoteric practitioners who seek the “steady seat” offered by yoga for their spiritual pursuits. All levels/ages/abilities will be accommodated.
Yogas citta vrtti nirodhah: “Yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind.” – Patanjalicription

Prerequisites: Please wear comfortable clothing and bring yoga mat or bath towel.

Magical Writing: Let the spirit of creativity fill your cup

Presenter: Julie Ann Stratton

This path will help you tap into your inner muse and creative flow. We will fire up our inspiration to express ourselves in writing and words. Everyone can be a writer. Whether it’s journaling for yourself, writing poetry, short stories, memoirs, or novels; we all have a story to tell.
We will be using different writing prompts to awaken the the flow of words and strengthen your writing skills, such as Tarot, images, sentences,& a guided trance. This class is not about grammar, sentence structure or what you learned in school. It is about letting your words pour onto paper without judgement.

Using our visions and dreams we will be writing about the world we envision for the future.

Where do ideas come from? Let the Goddess “in-spire” to claim our voices.

Prerequisites:  Bring a journal & pen.

The Alchemy of Lucid Dreaming

Presenter: Nikki Wardwell Sleath

Come immerse in the idea that the space of lucid dreaming may be the ultimate alchemy lab, and the ability to become lucid may be the elusive philosopher’s stone. Explore the salt, mercury and sulfur of lucid dreaming, deepening your conceptual grasp of just how much sorcery skill can be facilitated through a lucid practice. Finally, come away with a clear set of instructions for predisposing yourself not only to become lucid in your dreams, but to be ready to execute magickal experimentation within them.

Prerequisites: No advanced preparation is necessary, but a deepening of this material can be found in “Dream Sorcery: The Ritual and Magick of Lucid Dreaming”, by Nikki Wardwell Sleath.

Tibetan Death Ritual

Presenter: Jennifer Bobbe

Jennifer Bobbe, M.A., provides a deep dive into the subject of her Master’s Thesis, the traditional death rituals of Tibetan Buddhism. This presentation touches on many areas such as: shamanic practice, cosmology, and religious origins. We will examine these issues in our further discussions.