[Sdpg] Early Registration Extended! June 10

[Fairy & Human Relations Congress]

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Early Registration extended to June 10!
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We have extended the early registration date to June 10.
 
Get 3 days of workshops and ceremonies for $235. Price goes up after June 10.

click for registration info  http://www.fairycongress.com/fc2010/2010_register.htm


It's our 10th Anniversary!

This is our 10th annual Congress devoted to promoting Communication   and Co-creation with nature spirits, devas and the faery realms. and there's nothing like this...anywhere!
 
This year Brooke Medicine Eagle, RJ Stewart (the foremost writer and   teacher on the Faery and Underworld tradition), and David Spangler  (from  Findhorn) will be joining us.
 
Workshops range from teachings in the Celtic Faery tradition, Weather Shamanism, Plant Spirit Medicine, Faery & Crossroads Magic, Co-Creative Gardening, Nature Communication, Despacho Ceremony, to Nature Constellation work ...and more.
 
The theme for this year: 
 Expanding our Capacities as Conduits  of  Loving Energy
 
This is a unique annual gathering that brings together people on the pathways of Perelandra, Findhorn, Faery Underworld, Celtic Faery Tradition, Shamanism, Flower Essences, Herbalism and Wildcrafting, Biodynamic Gardening, Plant Spirit Medicine, Geomancy, Earth Healing, Animal and Plant Communication, Faery Doctoring, Permaculture, and Deep Ecology.
 
Through the years, we have brought together amazing presenters such as Peter Tompkins (Secret   Life of Plants), Findhorn co-founders Dorothy Maclean and David   Spangler, Celtic Faery teachers Caitlin Matthews, RJ Stewart, and Orion   Foxwood (he’ll be back in 2011), flower essence specialists, animal and   plant communicators, shamanic practitioners and herbalists, biodynamic   gardeners, wildcrafters, fairy seers, intuitives, musicians,  geomancers  and earth healers, Bards and Druids, and Native American  storytellers.
 
We continue to stay committed to our mission!

www.fairycongress.com  http://www.fairycongress.com/index.htm


New this year!

 
Workshops for Teens and Young Adults
This year we have tailored some workshops specifically towards young  adults and teens:

Shamanic Journeying
Who were the Witches?
Faery scents and Aromatherapy
Dragons and Mermaids and Fae - Oh My!

"The Second Sight" with RJ Stewart
Join us for a special workshop on Monday following the Congress:
 
The Second Sight is transferred by laying-on of hands, in a  traditional ceremony known in various forms in Scotland, Ireland, and  Scandinavia. RJ will share this ancient tradition with us, and you can  choose to have your Second Sight activated or enhanced in the  traditional manner. You can also attend the workshop if you do not  choose to have your Second Sight activated, but want to learn about the  tradition. RJ Stewart has been teaching this class since 1988, when he  first taught it in Britain and this is the first time at the Fairy  Congress.
All are welcome. You must be over 18 to attend this  workshop: no exceptions!
There is a $65 fee for this half-day course  (includes meals through Monday lunch).
 more  info
Celebratory Experience with Morgan Brent
We'll be ending Sunday night with a thrivalistic experience of Tribal Talk, Songs from Singing Alive, and a surrender into Plant Trance  Dance. Fairy and Human Tribes Unite! Celebrate!
more  info
Children's Area
We have a structure set up in main camp for the children, which is  supplied with toys and craft materials. There will be children's  funshops for various age groups (led by parents and volunteers) during  adult workshop times.  Parents may drop off children ages 4 and up  during these times.  Parents sign up to volunteer in the children's area  for approximately 2 hours per child during one of the available time  slots.  What this means is that parents volunteer for 1 workshop  timeslot and the kids can be left at the kids' tent for all 6 workshop  times.  While we do offer these activities, parents are still  responsible for their children and should keep an eye on them throughout  the weekend.

complete listing of workshops   http://fairycongress.com/fc2010/2010_presenters.htm


Donations for the raffle

Help us keep the ticket prices low!
 
We are having a raffle to create seed money with which to use for each  year’s start up and advertising costs for the Congress.  For the raffle  we have received donations of items such as flower essences, herbal tinctures, books, CD's, gemstones and more.
 
Contact  Suki, our Raffle Coordinator at magikdancer at gmail.com

  


The Green Teachings of the Fairies 

Article by Herbalist Julie Charette Nunn
 
It was just over five years ago that my husband Taddeusz and I came  here to this land on Whidbey Island in  Washington.  We moved here from  the rentals we had lived in for 7 years  after selling our house in  Seattle.  Because we had moved so much, lived  in so many places around  Puget Sound, getting here to this place didn’t  seem that significant at  first.  Another place to live, to discover,  another adventure.  What  was to unfold as winter turned into spring  could not have been known,  but perhaps in the holy darkness of my psyche, I knew about the  enchantment that was calling me forward.
 
I offered an herbal class at our  farm the spring after moving here.   As we walked on the land to discover  the wild plant populations, one  participant walked ahead of the rest of  us.  I saw her looking down at  the ground and pointing.  She said,  “Look at this.”  I came to the  place where she stood and saw an old dead  tree stump, quite small  actually, with shelf mushrooms growing out of  it.  I knew immediately  that this was the place where fairies dwelled.  A gateway into their  underworld sanctuary.
 
This place on our land became known as  “The Fairy Dell” As spring  came into her fullness, we discovered that  “The Fairy Dell” was in the  middle of a great thicket of wild roses.  We  told everyone who came to  the land that this fairy sanctuary was off  limits to humans, showing  everyone where they could walk no further.
 
I didn’t know much about fairy lore.  I had attended some talks given by RJ Stewart and Dorothy Maclean at the Fairy and Human Relations Congress and listened intently.  I read  stories.  And then I began to  offer herbal mentorships for girls here at the farm.  I did my journey  work to discover what I could offer the girls. The fairies appeared in  my journeys, giving me shamanic exercises in which the girls could  connect with the unseen realm of these enchanted beings.  The girls,  ages 6-13 years old, understood the fairy  language.  They were  delighted and seriously indulged in these  experiences.
 
We listened, offered trinkets, libations and blessings.  When the old  tree fell over in a storm we created a staff with ribbons, herbs and  beads to mark its place. It was this relationship that the girls had  with the fairies that created a place in me to believe and to listen.
 
The fairy realm is intricatedly connected with the green world.  A  deva is a plant in its true and  entire essence.  Offered here are a few  shamanic exercises in which you  can discover the teachings of the  fairies first hand right where you live.
 
This  First Meditation/Journey can be done in a comfortable  chair in your  home:

Close your eyes and find yourself at home  outside in your  garden or yard. 
Within this space, go to a plant with  which you feel a  connection.
Notice your breath. 
Breathe in and out 3 time naturally. 
Now breathe and imagine you are breathing  in the breath of  this plant. Breathe out and offer your breath to the  plant. 
Ask your plant, this plant, “What have you for me?” and  listen. 
Now look down at the base of the plant  where it comes out of  the ground. Look for movement, as if you can see  the wind. 
Acknowledge  this as the fairy beings that dwell around this  plant. 
Watch this energy move, and see if you  can sense this energy  communicating with you.  What might it be telling  you?  Listen. 
When  you sense this is complete, step back from the plant and  acknowledge it  by saying thank you. 
Open  your eyes. 

Activating the  Fairy~Plant Connection: 
You  are  going to be activating the fairy~plant connection.  The Devic realm   will be honored and blessed.  The magical realm of the plants will be   activated.  Fairies and Devas work together in the magical realm of the   plants. This ceremony will open these realms. It can be done in each  season.

Fill a bowl with water, and place plants in it. 
Choose plants with which you feel a  strong connection.  Ask  permission before gathering these plants and  offer gratitude. 
Hold  the bowl of water and plants in your hands. 
Breathe in and out, allowing the  entireness of the plant to  be breathed into you. As you breathe out,  offer your entire self to the  plant.  Do this for 21 breaths. 
When this is complete, offer this water  at the base of an old  tree and offer gratitude to the  fairies~devas~plants~water. 

Song  of the Birds:  The  fairies  say that when you breath the song of the birds into your body,  when you  are in the garden or surrounded by plants, that you go to the  place  where plants walk around like humans and speak in the language  you can  understand.
 

Find  a place where you can sit and listen to the song of the  birds.
Close your eyes. 
Listen to the songs, breathe the songs  into your body, feel  it enter you body. 
Allow the song of the birds to take you to  the unseen realm  of the plants. And see what you discover. 
When you are home, cooking in your  kitchen, open the window  and allow the bird song into your kitchen.   Breathe it in. This will  bring the fairy energy into your home. 

The   connections with the fairy realm are not always light and fanciful.   The  fairies are powerful beings with strong intentions and will ask you  to  do things for them.  Be strong in your own intentions as you begin  this  connection and trust your own intuition always. 
 
May it be in Beauty.
 
First  Printed in The Beltane Papers, Journal  of Women's Mysteries, Spring  2009. Julie will be offering a couple of workshops at the Congress.



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Ride share!

We have a Rideshare website: www.rideshare.us 
 (event code: fairycongress10)
 
and our wonderful Andrea is our Ride Share Coordinator: andreablair at yahoo.com

  


Support our Sponsors!

In July 2009, this website was visited by over 8000 unique visitors.  Our  mailing list contains over 1800 subscribers. It pays to be a  sponsor!! Be a sponsor next year! Check out the website for more details!

"The Way of the Fairies"  https://www.createspace.com/3379074


July 12-25: Permaculture Design Course with Michael Pilarski, Skalitude

 
A two-week intensive Permaculture Design Course
 
Instructors:
 
Michael Pilarski, Andrew Millison, Josho Somine, Deston Denniston, David Sansone & other guests
Permaculture is the premier design system for high  productivity and  ecologically-sound, food systems. In addition to the  plant landscape,  permaculture also considers transportation, energy,  buildings, water  supply, community economics and governance.
 
 
Tuition includes instruction, permaculture design certificate,   camping, meals, and curriculum material. Graduates are entitled to use   the term "Permaculture" in pursuit of livelihood and for educational   purposes.
 
 
COURSE TOPICS


Permaculture principles & methodology
Observation skills
Zones and sectors
Site analysis
Ecosystem restoration
Home food production
Fruits, berries, nuts
Edible landscaping
Soils, fertilizers, mulches, inoculants
Edible and useful native plants, wildcrafting
Multi-story, food forests
Vegetable and crop selection
Sources for seed and nursery stock
Plant propagation & seed saving
Agroforestry & forestry
Windbreaks, hedgerows
Ethnobotany & ethnoecology
Livestock and wildlife
Urban permaculture
Water in the landscape
Swales, keyline, ponds & aquaculture
Rain water harvesting
Grey water & bioremediation
Dry land strategies
Natural building
Alternative energy and fuels
Intentional communities & ecovillages
Local economies/barter systems
Decentralized governance systems
Large-scale design for cities, counties and islands
  and much, much more!

 
The word 'Permaculture' was originally coined in Australia in  the  1970's by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. Over the last 30 years,   permaculture has become a global grassroots movement involving hundreds   of thousands of people. Permaculture offers a huge storehouse of   solutions, strategies and practical techniques gathered from around the   globe and throughout history. If permaculture designs were implemented   on a planetary scale in cities, farms and homes the world would become a   garden of Eden.
 
This course will impart permaculture principles and  methodologies  which can be applied anywhere in the world. Through  lecture, slide  shows, discussion, observation, field trips and hands-on  activities,  permaculture design students will develop the practical  skills and  knowledge necessary to design and implement sustainable  systems that  are in harmony with the natural world.
 
This course will be useful for gardeners, farmers, community  food  organizers, natural resource managers and anyone interested in self   employment and local economies.
 
Some partial work trades and scholarships available.


download PDF for more info...  http://www.friendsofthetrees.net/images/permaculture_july_2010.pdf


Sept 3-6 - Singing Alive

A  teaching  gathering for ceremonial/devotional singing circles, dancing,  and  music. We change the world as  we  transform ourselves with songs of light, love, peace on earth, and goodwill to all beings

more info...  http://www.tribesofcreation.com/singing_alive.html


Sept 23-27: Primitive Skills Gathering, Skalitude


Saskatoon   Circle - a  Gathering for Primitive Skills and    Sustainable Living 
Learn hide tanning, friction fire, wildcrafting    edible  and medicinal plants, cordage, basketry, basic tool skills,    knots,  felting and more!
Contact saskatooncircle09 at yahoo.com, or call     509-997-9077


more info...  http://saskatooncircle.blogspot.com/


Daphne Charters, who lived in England, wrote down her adventures with the fairies over a  span of four decades. She could see the fairies and carry on long  conversations with them. The fairies told Daphne about their lives,  their exploits, their work and their spiritual development.  As such,  they are stories about the lives of the fairies told in their own words.
 
One of the most far-reaching outcomes of the friendship between  Daphne and the fairies was the establishment of their annual Fairy &  Human Relations Congress. The story of the beginnings of the Congress  is found in Chapter 3 of "A True Fairy Tale" and in Daphne's  preface to the Report on the 1985 Fairy & Human Relations  Congress. The Congress was a success from the very first one, (held  sometime in the early 1950s) which 3,000 fairies from around the world  attended, along with the high devas assigned to help keep it organized.  The only humans present were not in their physical form with the  exception of Daphne.
 
Daphne passed on from the Earth plane in 1991, after asking Michael Pilarski to publish her Collected Manuscripts.  In 2001, the first Fairy & Human Relations Congress on the earthly plane was held at  Skalitude. It has been an annual event ever since.

more on Daphne Charters...  http://www.fairycongress.com/Daphne/daphne.htm


 2009 Slide Show!



slide show on Flikr!  http://www.flickr.com/groups/fairycongress2009/pool/show/


Co-creation from a Native American perspective

In his book, Coyote  Medicine, Louis Mehl-Madrona, a Native American M.D., relays what   the Lakota elders tell us about  co-creation. They say that when humans   take action and create from a space of  honoring all of creation, allowing   input and participation from the  spirit world and all beings that  will  be affected, our creations are in  harmony with the whole.  They  bring only positive results. When humans try to  short cut the  process  and act from personal will, the resulting creation is out  of  harmony  with the whole and creates only more problems. Co-creation  seems like   the long road. It takes extra time and patience, just like  working with a   committee that operates through group consensus.  However, because it  honors the  cycles of life, all beings, and the  great mystery, the  resulting creations are  harmonious, healing and  life enhancing.
 
The bold part is what we are teaching at the Congress! We  are  teaching  people how to communicate and co-create with all the beings in    the spirit realms.

  


Skalitude Retreat Center

Skalalitude - a Salish word which translates as
"When people and Nature are in harmony, then magic and beauty are  everywhere"
 
Skalitude is perfect for the Congress! It's a 160-acre site surrounded by  National Forest on 4 sides! It'ss nestled at the end of a remote mountain  valley in the  North Cascades in the Methow Valley watershed in Washington State. The inhabitants are ponderosa pines, douglas  firs, aspens, bunchgrasses, countless  wildflowers, deer, some coyotes, and an occasional wolf, cougar,  rattlesnake, and bear; and   many  fairies.

www.skalitude.com  http://www.skalitude.com/


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