UpdatesThe EarthSong WitchCamp Organising Collective is pleased to announce that we are able to offer a number of scholarships to assist people to attend our 2012 Camp.
Scholarships will be awarded to people who are in need of assistance to attend WitchCamp and are deserving of our support.
We have two separate scholarship funds:
The 'Wombat' Scholarship Fund (named in honour of WitchCamp Teacher Ravyn Stanfield) - for someone on a low income.
The 'Ivan the Fool' Scholarship Fund (named in honour of WitchCamp Teacher John Brazaitis) - for someone who would be traveling a great distance to attend camp.
These funds are limited, and are intended to assist people who would otherwise be unable to cover the full costs of attending the 2012 EarthSong WitchCamp.
If you would like to apply for a scholarship via either of these funds, please send a letter outlining the four points below
- Why are you applying for this particular scholarship?
- What amount are you able to contribute towards the cost of camp and what is the value of scholarship you need?
Please note you will have until September 21st, 2012 to complete payments towards your contribution. Please state how much you intend to pay and at what frequency (for example $10 per week). - What benefit do you hope to achieve by attending EarthSong WitchCamp 2012?
- How can you/do you contribute to the Australian Reclaiming community, and what concrete contribution can you make to build the Reclaiming community in your local area, and in Australia?
Please send your application to:
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by May 1st 2012.
Our organising collective will endeavor to respond to all applications by June 21st, 2012 to notify applicants whether we will be able to assist.
We look forward to seeing you at WitchCamp!
Please connect with us to receive updates as they become available.
1st - 6th October 2012
Healesville, Victoria
EarthSong WitchCamp is a growing community of Pagans and Witches who come together annually in a camp setting. Together we celebrate the sacred mysteries and practice magic and ritual in the Reclaiming Tradition.
EarthSong is now in its second year. In honour of the strength of connection experienced between Community and Earth during the inaugural Australian WitchCamp, we have felt called to change the name of the Camp from the Australian Reclaiming Community WitchCamp to EarthSong WitchCamp.
Join us in a six-day intensive that includes trance work, healing, drumming, dancing, chanting, storytelling, guided visualisation and energy work. Participate in our evening rituals that take us into the heart of ancient tales, creating a powerful, transformational energy that builds throughout the Camp.
Regular updates will be posted here, on Facebook and Twitter. Please connect with us to receive updates as they become available.
for the EarthSong Oct 2012 WitchCamp
Registration fees pay for six days of accommodation (each dorm fully heated with its own ensuite), scrumptious vegetarian catering, and all teaching and path work. All this for only $100-$117 per day! We have also spaced the payment periods to make it easier for people to save for this special event.
Register now to reserve your place! A $200 (non-refundable) deposit is required and this year we anticipate that EarthSong will book fairly quickly. Spaces are limited. Concession rates are available.
In order to secure a discounted rate, the balance of full payment needs to be received within the applicable timeline for that discounted rate.
| RATE | AMOUNT | LAST DATE to COMPLETE your PAYMENT |
| Early Bird | $600 | 21st March 2012 |
| Barely Early Bird | $650 | 22nd June 2012 |
| Normal | $700 | 21st September 2012 |
The "Registration" link at left will begin the process by asking you to review the Terms and Conditions before you begin registration.
The 2012 WitchCamp will take place on private property overlooking the Yarra Ranges National Forest. The venue is located near the town of Healesville in Victoria, about an hour's drive from Melbourne.
More details will be provided soon. Please connect with us to receive updates as they become available.
"Out of the darkness, upon the Earth, emerges a new interconnected tribe, which holds the energy of starfire and expresses itself in a myriad of lifeforms. Through voice, dance and sensuality, we dream our song into being and awaken to a new reality that lovingly shares our hearth with all beings who choose to join us."
Elements of Magic
with Dawn Isidora, Cath and Ash
The Five Elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit comprise our world, our bodies, and thus our magic. In this introduction to Witchcraft and the Reclaiming Tradition, we will initiate and deepen our relationships with these Sacred Elements. Through embodied experience, engaging: touch and taste, sight and scent, getting our hands dirty, we will explore the Elements of Life within ourselves and within the Cauldron of Nature which embraces us. Forging physical, intellectual, emotional and energetic connections to our magical selves, we seed and strengthen our relationships with the Land – which is the body of the Goddess – and the Spirits of Place.
Iron Pentacle
with Ravyn Stanfield and Aria Weaver
Reclaim your human birthright! Expand your authentic self to explore the five points of the Iron Pentacle: Sex, Pride, Self, Power and Passion. These points energetically represent aspects of our consciousness that are often distorted by the dominant culture. Using trance, magic and ritual, we will delve into our connections to each of these points and explore our relationships with them.
Iron Pentacle, a Reclaiming tool of self-discovery and transformation, is known as ‘the work of a lifetime’. Through guided meditation, art, song, movement and sacred play, we will access the points of our inner pentacle and begin to reclaim and integrate these points into our lives. By restructuring our relationships with these concepts we can begin to balance our worldview through the removal of negative preconceptions and the discovery of our authentic selves.
From this space of balance and integration, true magic is made. Our path work will begin the journey that will help us to live our Divinity and step forward as Witches, able to affect real change in our lives and in the world.
Iron Pentacle is one of the Reclaiming Tradition’s core classes. The ‘Elements of Magic’ class or equivalent magical experience is a prerequisite for this path.
Rites of Passage: Dreaming our song into being
with Rose May Dance and Rhonda Evenstar
The Rites of Passage path will focus on dreams, myths, and language by the use of traditional and non-traditional tales.
Through individual and group trance, storytelling, release work and dreams, we will traverse the faery story, to draw forth and weave a rich tapestry of images and symbols: between the worlds, to empower us in all the worlds.
We will learn and sharpen magical skills which enable us to create magic circles around our own lives. These skills include guided trance journeying, and how to guide others in trance. We will also practice entering into the dreams and trances of each other, as we learn to trance together into a shared vision. We will allow this magic to express itself in our journals, artwork, movement, and song.
Join us as we journey into the realm of our own dreams and imaginings, each becoming the main character in our own faerytale as we dream our song into being.
Using storytelling motifs and trance techniques, we receive our challenge(s), meet our allies and work through our blocks, to create a personal rite of passage that allows us to emerge renewed, reborn and ready to awaken to a new reality.
This is the first time this advanced Core Reclaiming Class has been offered in Australia. Please bring a recent dream, a magical talisman, ritual objects, your Book of Shadows (journal) and other creative art materials to record and deepen your experience.
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