WEEKEND PROGRAM

Fri. Dec. 4 through Sun. Dec 6

$300 - $440 (Sliding Scale)

meals, lecture and lodging included

EVENING LECTURE

Friday, 7pm Open to the PublicTopic: Social PermacultureTickets for lecture only are $25

To register visit www.ojaifoundation.org or call (805) 646-8343, ext. 101

Permaculture (“permanent-culture”) creates a practical model of abundance and beauty for all, a vision that’s both attainable and sustainable with present technology, a practice that works with nature instead of against her.

In this workshop, Starhawk, a dedicated permaculturalist herself, takes it one step further. Join her to explore ways to listen to the land, communicate with nature spirits, heal the scars of past land-abuse, and observe the wisdom of the wild. [Lectures and hands-on projects to be created in response to site itself and its opportunities. In past, has included fungi cultivation, planting living shade structures with fruit trees, fun with cobb, “mud people,” pond construction, kitchen garden plantings, herb spirals, ritual to heal clear-cut forests, learning to see like an owl and walk like a fox — and so on.]

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk’s newest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She believes council, ceremony and nature can enrich anyone’s life, and the sooner the better.

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"If there is any positive side to stark changes coming our way, it may be in the benefits of close communal relations, of having to really work intimately (and physically) with our neighbors, to be part of an enterprise that really matters and to be fully engaged in meaningful social enactments instead of being merely entertained to avoid boredom.

Years from now, when we hear singing at all, we will hear ourselves, and we will sing with our whole hearts."

"The Long Emergency", 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., publisher.