Sacred Earth Intensive: Deeper Into the Elements w/ Demetra Markis | Sonoma County, CA

Join Starhawk and herbalist Demetra Markis for a five-day intensive journey to deepen our connection with the elements and advance our magical skills. Air, fire, water, earth and spirit will be our guides, showing us five pathways into working with the healing properties of energy and plants.

This intensive is designed to offer deeper training for those who have taken a Sacred Earth Apprenticeship, attended a Reclaiming Witchcamp or skills training, or who have other training in the magical skills of ritual and ceremony.  If you have worked with the elements before, this is a chance to refine your tools and deepen your magic, visualization, energy sensing and shaping, trancework and plant communication.

All who love plants are welcome, no herbal pre-requisites are required.

We will begin each day with the collective creation of sacred space, before focusing on the nuances of magical tools for collective and personal work. Afternoon sessions will include hands-on work with the wild and cultivated plants at Black Mountain Retreat Center as well as at Starhawk’s nearby permaculture farm, Golden Rabbit Ranch. Evenings will take us through a cycle of co-created rituals delving deeper into the myths and stories we learn from the plants.

This course may be for you if:

• you have been practicing magic and ritual for some time and want to deepen your skills.
• your magical/spiritual practice needs a new boost of inspiration.
• you are an aspiring or experienced herbalist and want to deepen your spiritual connection to the plants.
• you hunger to connect with others in deep and meaningful ways.
• you want to deepen daily practices in the embrace of the elements and get your hands in the dirt.
• you want to create and facilitate rituals and healing practices for a wide variety of situations.
• you are ready to take time and space out of daily rhythms to shift your energy in the world.

This course is by application only and will have limited enrollment. Accepted applicants will be asked to make a deposit payment to hold their space.

Application for attendance here.