INTENSIVES

Intensives offer the opportunity to study more deeply with a certain teacher or on a specific subject. Preregistration recommended (for the following five workshops). Intensives cost $45 and overlap two class periods (three to three and a half hours long).

The Best of Rosemary — Greatest Hits from 35 years of Herbal Wisdom
with Rosemary Gladstar, Friday 2:30 to 6:00
Learn the secrets of well being from the godmother of American Herbalism. In this unique intensive, Rosemary will share gems from her 35 years of teaching including some of her favorite formulas for teas, tinctures, salves, as well as practices that were once common such as poultices and packs, steams, baths, etc. She’ll also share her favorite culinary recipes for vibrant good health including a segment on ‘Eat Your Weedie’s,’ why wild foods are nutritionally superior to most garden vegetables. The focus in this class isn’t on the health problems, but life style habits that support health through all the stages of womanhood. This is a time to celebrate herbs, women, and the healing power of plants.   

Women Rise Up Ceremony
with ALisa Starkweather, Sunday 9:00 to 12:30
Do you feel the time is now to come forward with all you are? Are you ready to not only heal but to tap into your greatest gifts in service of life? It is time to shed any remaining shame, fear or doubts so that the power of your love can be expressed without taking yourself down from within. Like our birth, it is necessary to risk the discomfort of contractions in order to expand into more of who we were born to be. Using the most empowering tools of ceremony, breathwork and Shadow Work, we catalyze the transformative wild nature of Woman. Heed the call and take the risk if you intuit this is your work because you are worth it and you are needed. 

Women’s Anatomy of Arousal — Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
with Sheri Winston, Sunday 3:00 to 6:00
Find out what’s been missing from the textbooks and how to best support the integration of pleasure, fertility, procreation and health into your life. We’ll go on a visual romp through history and culture, weaving erotic art with old anatomy illustrations, ranging from the classical to textbook and campy to museum. We’ll explore links between cultural ideas and beliefs about women, female sexuality, and anatomy that lead to our current state of “genital amnesia.” We’ll also launch an extensive tour of female genitalia, using original unique anatomical diagrams showing parts rarely seen or understood. Among other things, we explore: the Female Erectile Network, the true function of the round ligaments, and the source of female ejaculation.