Workshops & Upcoming Events
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Quicklinks for 2012 events:
March 4-10, 2012 Bootmaking Workshop
March 12-16, 2012 Shoemaking WorkshopMar 31Women's Sweat Lodge
&April 1, 2012 Women Be WiseApril 21-22, 2012 Herbs & Botanical Weekend
with Stephen Foster, Valerie Hubbard Damon & Melissa ClareONGOING CLASSES: Click here for details on ongoing BellyYogaChi, Tai Chi, Clay Fundamentals Studio Class, and Drum Classes
Register and pay online for your upcoming event
CANCELLATION POLICYLODGING options at Fire Om Earth (for workshop attendees)
LODGING options at Fire Om Earth (for April Retreat attendees)
Drum Class
with Lorna Trigg Hirsch
next Monthly class - March 7
1st Wed of each month - 7:00- 8:00 p.m.
$10 per class
Focusing on the hoop or frame drum style of playing, this can be expanded into Doumbek's and Celtic Boudhran.
Explore this ancient women's drum, played by our ancestors. Used as a harvest implement first and then for healing, ceremony and celebration.
Finger style techniques, rhythms, how to communicate with the voice of your drum, and with others. Questions? Call Lorna 479-363-9402
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Woman's Full Moon Gathering
6:00pm January 10th
Calling in the circle - Bring your drums, rattles, a candle and some finger
foods to share for a feast afterwards.
Shoe Making Workshop
with Lorna Trigg-Hirsch
March 12 - 16, 2012
"While living in South Africa I learned the art of designing, drafting a pattern and making everything from a sandal to a full boot. This is a age old craft, learn how to create a shoe of your own design and to fit your foot perfectly."
click here for slideshow of workshops
5 day workshop - 10am - 4pm each day
Designs will be based on a good all round walking shoe, flat sole. Suggested leathers are a buttery soft garment hide, giving almost a slipper type feel. Some hand stitching, as well as machine stitching for construction. Call with questions 479 363-9402
$250 studio use and instruction
- does not include materials...estimated at around $50 - $75
Materials list will be provided when you register.
Online Registration - Lodging Options
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Boot Making Workshop
with Lorna Trigg Hirsch
March 4 - 10, 2012
"While living in South Africa I learned the art of designing, drafting a pattern and making everything from a sandal to a full boot. This is a age old craft, learn how to create a shoe of your own design and to fit your foot perfectly."
click here for slideshow of leather workshops
7 day workshop - 10am - 4pm most days
Soft knee or ankle length flat soled boot, using suede or garment hide. Pattern drafting, design and construction will be taught. Some hand stitching as well as machine stitching. Call with questions 479 363-9402
$275 studio use and instruction
- does not include materials...estimated at around $100
Materials list will be provided when you register.
Online Registration - Lodging Options
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Women be Wise Weekend
March 31 & April 1, 2012
The weekend opens with optional Sweat Lodge....
Women's Ceremonial Sweat Lodge
Sat March 31, 2012 - 4pm to 10pm
This Lodge, built by Thirteen Clan Mothers in April of 2009, is built from Cedar branches that came down after the Ice Storm. The Lodge is large, will seat 20 comfortably, and due to its size the Sweat's are relatively mild.
All participants in this event will be involved in some part of creating
sacred space and getting the fire and lodge ready for the Sweat.
Beginning at 5pm - laying of the sacred fire to heat the rocks
6pm- lighting of the fire and covering the lodge with blanket layers
6pm till dusk - community gathering to hold a sacred space
Dusk - enter the sweat
Click
here for more details on what to bring etc.
Women be Wise Retreat Day
Sunday, April 1 (10am - 6pm)
Tap into the primal, tribal self and join
this
gathering of Women in Community.
Taking time to honor the sacred way of ritual and celebration, creativity and communication, we will join in seeking spiritual guidance, as we share of ourselves and our knowledge.
Greeting the day and each other, setting intention for being open and ready to receive. As the day unfolds so will we - blossoming into our higher selves, tapping into our roots, communicating with our Ancestors, and all our relations.
Examples of this years sharing flow of events include: Rebecca Clark - "Opening Meditation & Sacred Chant Weaver for the Day" - Dianna 'Snow Eagle' Henry - IN CELEBRATION of the WISDOM of CORN - Lorna SkyDancer- 'Cooking & Baking Village Style' and 'Star-fire Light' and 'Clay Vessels - creating your sacred space' (no schedule or choices to make ahead of time - see Lorna's note below) To preview these and other sharings-click here
$55 - Advance Registration required
- Rain or Shine/No Refunds -
(if you need to cancel, please consider applying your registration as a
gift to a sister who can not afford to attend)
Register
Online Now
(with option to Sponsor a Sister for an additional $55 - we have a Wish
List or you can designate someone specific you would like to sponsor)
or Mail a check to Fire Om Earth, 872 Mill
Hollow Road,
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
- Bring a dish to pass during the day Sunday - our grazing
time
We will share a late afternoon meal that we will prepare together around the fire during the day. - Bring your drum, rattle, voice
- A Yoga mat or blanket to sit on
- A journal
- Rain gear (if needed)
- Indoor and outdoor clothing (layers)
- Your plate, bowl, mug, utensils for the Sunday meal
A
message from Lorna Sky Dancer
A new idea emerged with last years Women Be Wise and again this year the two day event will be about Women gathering in ritual and celebration. . .a time for us to come together and share as a community of women.
There are no scheduled classes, with time frames around them, instead we will move through the day organically, sometimes walking out alone to just sit and be still, sometimes joining in a shared activity that presents itself.
Email Lorna if you have a specific sharing to offer.
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Herbs and Botanicals Weekend 2012
April 21-22, 2012
includes Yoga - Tai Chi - Fire Circle
3
workshops for the Weekend, plus included in the weekend offerings are:
- Meditation walks - trails or labyrinth
- Morning Yoga or Tai Chi 8.30 - 9.30am
- Sat night Fire Circle - Calling in All Our Relations (drumming, chant and community gathering) 7 pm
The Saturday & Sunday Retreat Packages (2 workshops) are $80 (Steven Foster and Valerie Damon) or $65 (Steven Foster and Melissa Clare) plus optional lunches ($15) See below for link for lodging options.
Backyard Medicinals - Discovery
& Documentation
with Steven Foster
Saturday, April 21, 2012 10am - 4pm
An informational and explorative day with Steven Foster, renowned author and photographer of Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Petersens Guide, National Geographic)
Steven will present a slide show of medicinals common to Arkansas and guide us on an identification walk from backyard to surrounding woods, plus offer tips and tricks on photographing specimens.
"My mission is to serve the human-plant relationship. Recognizing that plants are vital for food, wellness, medicine, flavor and fragrance, I offer information and imagery on the source of plants of human experience. In doing so I strive to introduce you to the plants in a way that inspires growth".
Bring a journal / note taking book Camera Hiking Boots
Fee: $30 bring a bag lunch or $45 includes lunch (Local Chefs Vela Giri and David Roll, whole food and organic produce gardeners, prepare a delightful meal of a vegetarian, locally grown, whole food nutritious lunch meal, paired with a fresh fruit cobbler).
Herbs and Botanicals Weekend 2012
Botanical Illustration Workshop
with Valerie Hubbard Damon, Author & Illustrator
Sunday, April 22nd
10 am - 4 pm
"The best supplies combined with the right water color
techniques,
will result in a great botanical illustration."
We will communicate through paint. Drawing on the essential elements of the plant rather than an impressionistic image of the flowers and leaves.
~ Inspired Steps ~ Valerie demonstrates ~ You pick a plant from the woods that speaks to you ~ Learn an easy sketching technique ~ Fill in the blanks with a wet on wet watercolor technique + accent ~
Price $35- includes all materials, use of
brushes, paints and paper.
Valerie supplies the perfect brush, best water color paints
and 3 ply strathmore paper.
...Bring a bag lunch... or pay $50 to include lunch (Local Chefs Vela Giri and David Roll, whole food and organic produce gardeners, prepare a delightful meal of a vegetarian, locally grown, whole food nutritious lunch meal, paired with a fresh fruit cobbler).
Register online for this event (or the full weekend)
Retreat Lodging Options - Online Reservation for lodging
Herbs and Botanicals Weekend 2012
Plant Spirit Communications
with Melissa Clare
Sunday, April 22nd
10 am - 1 pm
Melissa Clare is a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and Fire keeper in the sacred Fire Community. She trained with Eliot Cowan, author of Plant Spirit Medicine and Shaman in Huichol tradition. Melissa is also influenced by the work of Dorothy McLean (To Hear the Angels Sing and the Findhorn Garden Book) whom she met through their mutual Sufi connections in the 1980's.
We will enter into a respectful relationship with the plant world, exploring both a meditative and shamanic approach. We will invite friendly input as well as artistic inspiration from the from the plant spirits, offering our gratitude. This session will include dream journeying as well as group sharing.
Participants should bring color pencils, notebooks a blanket/pad to lie on. We will be sitting in nature so bring a groundsheet or cushion to sit on, and if the weather is inclement bring raingear.
Fee: $20 (bring a bag lunch) or $35 with lunch (Local Chefs Vela Giri and David Roll, whole food and organic produce gardeners, prepare a delightful meal of a vegetarian, locally grown, whole food nutritious lunch meal, paired with a fresh fruit cobbler).
Register online for this event (or the full weekend)
Retreat Lodging Options - Online Reservation for lodging
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