| This track is designed for students with a foundation
in
storytelling as a performative art who wish to deepen their
understanding of its ritual uses. We will focus on improvisational
storytelling techniques to create personal and collective magical
realities. Students will be guided through the process of developing
and performing ritual stories on a solo and group basis. Respectful
listening skills are a prerequisite for this course as students
will
be participating in group and solo performative ritual. Track limited
to eight students.
Sacred
stories and holy myths create a framework we each utilize to
make sense of our experiences and inform decisions about our
future
actions. Rather than passively reacting to existing personal and
collective cosmologies we have the ability to directly select and
shape how reality manifests. Cognitive understanding of reality
is
achieved through our association of separate events to generate
a
cohesive overview. In other words, we tell ourselves and each other
stories connecting the strands of experience into meaningful patterns.
Working
with Deities, Ancestors, Muses, and other powerful Guides we
will explore multiple ways for sourcing inspiration from the
realm
of Imagination and Re-Creating the World. We will investigate how
tarot cards, meditation, trance, fasting, sensory deprivation,
and
other magical tools can be utilized to generate and sustain ritual
storytelling space. Along with practical methods for structuring
a
fertile environment for our rituals, we will be discussing the
responsibilities and obligations of the Sacred Storyteller. Some
topics of group discussion will include Channeling the Myths of
our
Gods and Ancestors, the Seasonal Cycle of Myth, and respectful
use and
non use of stories outside of our culture.
Presenter:
Kiarna Boyd utilizes Sacred Storytelling as her
primary form of ritual magic to heal and transform people and places.
She combines her studies of Celtic Mythology under Professor Patrick
Ford at Harvard University and her BFA focus of Performance Art
at
the School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston with her family
background in Forteana, to create a rich primal ritual artform
that
allows her to honor her Community, Gods, and Beloved Dead. Sourcing
various traditions such as ancient Irish bardic roles, modern Ordeal
Path, Permaculture, Celtic Reiki, and Geomancy she acts as a
spiritworker and servant of the World.
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