Workshops & Upcoming Events
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January 30th - Womens Full Moon Drum
Feb 4 - Woman's Drum Class NEW class
Febuary 11th- Sacred Chant with Rebekah Clark
Feb 18-20 - Shoe Making Workshop
Feb 25-March 3 - 4 Day Boot Making Workshop
TBA - A Native Point of View with Jim TwoFeathers
March 11 - New Tile Making Workshop 4 weeks
March 20 - Return Again - Women's Retreat
March 20 - Ostara/Spring Equinox Gathering 7PM
March 21 - Women Be Wise Retreat Day
April 2-4 - 'Know Wonder' Sacred Sound Workshop w/ Rebekah Clark
April 4-6 - Medicine Drum Building Workshop
April 17 - Valerie's Face Painting Workshop
April 24-25 - Herbs and Botanicals Weekend
ONGOING CLASSES: Click here for BellYogaChi and Tai Chi weekly classes
Register and pay online for your upcoming event
LODGING options at Fire Om Earth (for workshop attendees)
Understanding Native American Spirituality
with Jim TwoFeathers
Next Date TBA - 6:30 PM
Next will be the fifth in a series of Talks and Lessons with Jim TwoFeathers - Wolf Clan, Coyote Medicine Man.
By donation.
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"Sacred Chant -
Some En-Chanted Evening"
Chanting, Singing, Toning
with Rebekah Clark, MT-BC, LMT
Using Chants from multiple traditions
Thursday, Febuary 11th
6:30-8:30 PM
Meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month in The Artist Cottage at Fire Om Earth Retreat.
Group chanting and singing has a special energy. There is no pressure, no performance, no experience required. Listen, sing, and join in as you are comfortable. "Tune up" your body, mind and spiri and learn to vibrate your body in a healthy way.
Rebekah Clark is a Board Certified Music Therapist and a Sound Healer trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions. She has presented workshops for numerous organizations and facilitates group and individual energy attunement sessions using sound.
For further info on group events or individual sessions
call: 479-244-5631 or e-mail Rebekah
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Womens Full Moon Drum
Next date: January 30th
January 2010 celebrates Talks With Relations, the Clan Mother of Nature and the Planetary Family. She teaches us how to understand the unspoken Languages of Nature, our kinship with all life forms, how to enter the Sacred Spaces of others with respect, how to honor cycles, rhythms, and changes of season and weather, and how to meld with the life force and rhythms in all dimensions to learn the Truth of each thing in our World.
7:00pm drum class $5 Learn the voice of your drum, how to use your drum as communication with others. Instruction in Frame Drum and Doumbek. Drums available to use or bring your own.
8:00pm full moon drum - drum and share with others. Bring a snack to share with our Chai afterwards. Donation.
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Woman's Drum Class
with Lorna Trigg Hirsch
NEW..........Starts
Feb 4th 6.00 - 7pm
1st Thurs of each month
$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.
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Shoe Making Workshop
Thurs, Friday, Saturday
Feb 18, 19 & 20
with Lorna Trigg Hirsch
"While living in South Africa I learned the art of desiging, 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."
3 day workshop - 10am - 4pm each day
Designs will be based on a shoe sandal, combining a closed toe and heel, with slotted straps, sandal style. A good all round walking shoe.
$150 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
4 full days 10 am - 4 pm
Thurs, Friday, Feb 25 & 26,
Monday, March 1 and
Wed, March 3
with Lorna Trigg Hirsch
"While living in South Africa I learned the art of desiging, 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."
4 day workshop - 10am - 4pm each day
Soft knee length boot, using suede or garment hide.
Pattern drafting, design and construction will be taught.
$200 studio use and instruction - does not include materials - estimated around $100
Materials list will be provided when you register.
Online Registration - Lodging Options
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Tile Making Workshop
Meet once a week for four weeks
10am - 4pm
March 11, 18, 25 and April 1
$250 inc all materials, mold making supplies, clay, glazes and firing
Create handcrafted tiles in clay, learn all aspects of tile making.
Create a carved or sculpted positive, make a mold of your original. Use a tile press to create multiplies, learn use of glazes, engobes, stains, decorating techniques and firing.
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Grand Sabbat Ostara
Spring/ Vernal Equinox Gathering
March 20th at 7:00pm
Ostara in the Latin name for the Saxon goddess, Eostre. She is a maiden goddess. She symbolizes springtime, new growth, and rebirth. Offerings of cakes and colored eggs were made to her. The white hare was especially sacred to her.
The Vernal Equinox is a time of balance when day and night are equal. It is a day to celebrate both the Earth and the Sun. Our ancestors honored the balance of all things female and male, spiritual and physical. Signs of reawakening life can be seem everywhere. This season brings freshness into our lives and a new perspective as we shed the heaviness of winter and welcome the warmth of Spring.
Lisa Dawn will be leading the ritual (at the Altar, weather permitting). Bring walking shoes, a flashlight, drums and instruments. Refreshments afterwards. Love donations accepted.
All are welcome - please R.S.V.P.
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Women be Wise 2010
Sunday March 21st 2010
9am - 6pm
Women be Wise is an annual retreat designed to bring incredible women together. We bring to you facilitators and therapists that offer workshops, classes and skills to help enrich your life. <
Click for preview of session:
- Lilian Bern, Holistic Psychotherapist - Dreams - Why they are important.
- Chef Samantha of Simply Red Bistro, Sheldrake Point Winery, Up State New York - Cooking Workshop: Spring Start your Palate
- Barbara Harmony - Planetary Walk
- Valerie Damon - Tribal Face Painting
- 'Bree' Donna Thompson - Herbs as your Medicine - Edible greens and Tinctures
-Teressena Bakens - Tarot: Playground for the Goddess Within
- Darlene - Vocal Play
- Rebekah Clark - Sacred Sound
- Melissa Clare - Exploring Healing in the Sufi Tradition
- Janie Schumann - Wellness / Feel Pain Free and Energized For 2010
Click Here for Registration Form
choose your workshops and mail form with check
Must pre-register by March 15, workshops on first-come, first-served!
$25 (includes a evening meal)
plus additional gratuities
to your chosen facilitators.
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NEW!
This year Women be Wise is adding
a Saturday event
Return Again, Return Again
A Back To Nature, Back to Self
Women’s Retreat
Day Retreat: $35 includes lunch
Day Retreat and Overnight in the Dorm: $95 includes lunch & dinner
Become a 'Women Be Wise' Benefactor:
Day Retreat and Overnight Camping: for benefactor/sponsors
$300 is the cost to build a 8' x 8' on-stilts wooden camping pallet in the Sacred Moon Lodge area, with its spring fed pond and bubbling stream, solar shower and composting toilet nearby. As a benefactor, you can use it to camp for Return Again, Return Again and Women be Wise, as well as two times during the year, for your own personal retreat time. As a Benefactor you will also be awarding a space for any other women who need to spend some quiet time, but are not in a position to afford the luxury of creating a place that we all need from time to time.
To become a benefactor your donation will need to be sent by Feb 1, 2010, for a timely execution of the construction.
(As a Benefactor your Women be Wise $25 fee is waived.)
Thanks to Becky Gillette - our first Women Be Wise Benefactor.
Return Again, Return Again…
A Back To Nature, Back to Self
Women’s Retreat
Saturday, MARCH 20, 2010
8 am - 9 pm
Come experience the nurturing embrace of Mother Earth
and the supportive connections of your sisters
on the 13 acre Fire Om Earth spiritual retreat center in the Ozarks.
As the shift of the seasons awakens our cells from winter's slumber, it sounds a soulful call to celebrate
beauty, creativity, and wholeness.
No agendas, no lessons to learn – just bring your beautiful self and be open to an inspiring retreat experience designed to expand your potentials for a self-sustaining and self-fulfilling life.
We hope you will ‘return again’ and again for this annual event!
~ Lorna Trigg Hirsch & Cynthia Morin
- Camping or dorm accommodation (1 night)
- All-vegetarian meals
Everything you might expect at a women’s retreat, including: - yoga/meditation time
- fire circles
- chanting, drumming, dance
- nature walks
- Day and Evening – pick and choose as you like. Depending on what calls to you – the spring fed pond, the bubbling stream, the stones bluffs and outcroppings, the trees and foliage, the wildflowers and herbs, star-gazing – there will be individual and group ‘encounters’ available day and into the evening for you to enjoy.
Guided by Cynthia & Lorna you can share, give, receive, and just ‘be’ as you are called to…
‘Return gain, return again, return to the land of your soul
Return to what you are, Return to who you are,
Return to where you are, born and reborn again”
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"Know Wonder"
Earth Mysteries and the
Sacred Sound Current
APRIL 2-4, 2010
(Fri. 6pm - Sun. noon)
--Easter Weekend--
Re-birthing, Re-energizing
Illumined Consciousness
A Workshop with Sound Therapist, Rebekah Clark, MT-BC
The Stones of the Earth and our human DNA both hold the libraries of the Earth. Sacred Sound becomes a "key" to encoding and un-coding. Sacred Sound both holds and opens doorways. Come on a journey of remembering
- Your voice is the most powerful tool you have
- Intention travels on the sound current
- Your voice is the most direct pathway to your heart
- Sound is the most primal creative force of the universe
- Illumination of consciousness
During this workshop instruments used will include:
Crystal Singing Bowls, Drum, Bells, Voice -
No music or vocal experience necessary
Cost: $100.00
Make Checks payable to: Rebekah Clark
946 Mill Hollow Rd., Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Early bird -- $80.00 by 3/20/10
Workshop is based in the Artists Cottage @
946 Mill Hollow Rd
- Friday 6pm - Sun noon - and includes:
~Teaching
~Experiences on the land at Fire Om Earth
~Ceremony in sacred caves of the Ozarks
~Tour of Studio at Fire Om Earth
Contact Rebekah for details on lodging options and meal plans:
call: 479-244-5631 or e-mail Rebekah
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Drum Building Workshop
April 4- 6 (Sun - Mon - Tue)
10am - 4pm each day
$260 inc all materials
Build your own Medicine Drum. This is a eight sided 14" hoop drum, and is based on the traditional indigenous style. Learn all aspects of building this drum, construction of hoop, choosing and preparing the raw hide, attaching the head and stretching for sound quality, create a mallet, treatment and finishes.
Register Online - Lodging Options
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Valerie's Face Painting Workshop
Sat April 17th 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Valerie Hubbard Damon, author, illustrator, publisher, sculptor, received a Mad Hatter's Achievement award in 2009 for years of creating her extraordinay costumes and painted faces.
Valerie will give a six hour face painting demonstration during which she will share her breathing techniques, methods of painting and mirror studies with different magnifications, favorite brush selections, value and intensity considerations and professional face paint options.
During the latter part of class, Valerie will guide YOU through your own face painting adventure.
Fee: $45 plus $30 lab fee which includes your own take-home face painting kit. (Bring your own bag lunch and personal supplies including Q-Tips, mascara, black pencil eyeliner, scarf and mirror on stand)
Register Online - full payment due by April 3rd - non-refundable.
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Herbs and Botanicals Weekend
April 24th - 25th
Backyard Medicinals - Discovery & Documentation
with Steven Foster
Sat April 24th 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
Menu: Herb infused Gluten free organic pasta and vegetables
Gluten free Buckwheat, Cornmeal bread
Fresh fruit cobbler with Lavender Coconut milk cream custard
Plant Spirit Communications with Melissa Clare
Sun April 25th 10am - 1pm
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.
Bring a bag lunch
Fee: $20
Saturday & Sunday - $50 or $65 (with lunch)
Lodging Options
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