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 XXX:
New Frontiers
- Intro to Biofeedback and Light & Sound Meditation
- Introduction to Permaculture: a Design System for Creating Sustainable Human Environments
- Is What You Drink Killing You or Healing You?
- Obama, Energy, the BP Apocalypse and the Road to Solartopia
- Psychism and Possession
- The Methods of Science?
- Was George Washington a Gay Potsmoker?
Magic & Spirit
- A History of the Left Hand Path as Researched by Nikolas and Zeena Schreck
- A History of The Scarlet Woman
- Babalon and the Triple Goddess: a Thelemic Witchcraft of Maat
- Basic Ritual Skills
- Chakras, Alchemy and Spiritual Growth
- Drum Prayer: Dr. John's Prayer to Stop the Oil
- Esoteric Education: Restoring the Wonder
- Ethics and the Law of Three
- Goddess Spirituality 101
- Introduction to Alchemy
- Luck Magic: Awakening the Divine
- Mentors Who Don’t Suck...You In!
- New Orleans Voodoo: An Order of Service Performed to Stem the Oil
- Ogham: The Secret Language of the Druids
- Orisha as Warriors
- Paganism in the Third Millennium
- Patriarchs and Matriarch in the Hebrew Bible: Monotheists or Pagans?
- Possessed by Ghosts
- Sweatlodge Orientation for Participants
- The Horned God
- The Light in the Dark: Working with the Dark Goddess
- The Paranormal Pagan
- The Sweatlodge
- What We Really Know About Druids
- Who were the Celts?
- Working with the Spirits
- Worshipping God/esses: Yesterday and Today
- Zen Paganism: or, Why Buddha Touched the Earth
Rhythm, Music & Movement
- African Dance
- Dance for the Greenman
- Djembe!
- Drum n Chant for Chicks
- Dumbek: All Levels
- Dundun!
- Dynamic Composition by Gregory Morris
- Fast and Funky Tribal-Fusion-Style Choreography
- Fire Shimmies - Belly Dance moves for Bonfire Circles
- Getting Odd
- Improvisation and Harmony Making
- Indian Rhythmic Theory, Vocal Percussion and Improvisation
- Instant Drumming
- Intermediate/Advanced Dumbek
- Kecak: An Exploration of the Traditional Balinese Chant Form
- Party Like a Rockstar (Party)
- Playing Nice: Working Magic with Others
- Slow and Slinky Tribal-Style Dance
- The Beginners Workshop in Didgeridoo (AKA How to Blow and Suck on Long Hard Things at the Same Time)
- The Didjgeridoo: It’s Secrets and Meanings
- The Evolution of the Drum Circle: Applications and Teachings for Better Drum Circles and Community Music Making
- The Myth of Jim Morrison
- Veiled Belly Dance
- West African Drum Rhythms
- West African Drumming
Craft & Creativity
- An Intuitive Approach to the Tarot
- Aqua Vitae - Making Cordials and Medicinal Tinctures
- Beekeeping 101
- Beginning Poi: Freedom of Flow
- Burning the Box
- Create Your Own Goddess
- Creating Your Own Tarot Layouts
- Drum Making - Shamans Peace Drum
- Drummaking and Repair
- Faerie Wings
- Fire Dancing Safety
- Fire Eating and Fire Fleshing
- Firewalking
- Introductory Blacksmithing
- Open Juggling Session
- Psychic Skills 101
- Qabalistic Tarot
- The Goddess: Sculpting and Pit Firing
- When Thespis Stepped Forth
Wellness & Healing
- Advanced Shamanic Healing (2 - part workshop)
- Chi Kung Exercises
- Cutting the Cord: Releasing Permanency
- Improvisational Healing and Teaching Circle, 303
- Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
- Loving More Stories: New Narratives for Polyamory
- More Than Lovers: Polyamory As Paradigm
- Nada Yoga
- Partner Yoga
- Problems and Processes for Poly People
- Self-defense as a Spiritual Practice
- Shamanic Healing for Our Children (2 - part workshop)
- Sunday Morning Grounding & Healing Circle
- Tantra
- Thai Massage - Aloha Style
- Zen and the Art of Love