Upcoming events.
The Witch's Dance - Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch’s Dance - Winter Solstice Retreat
The Witch’s Dance - Winter Solstice Retreat
A 5-day immersion into the mysteries of embodied magic and ritual movement through the force of the witch.
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In this retreat, you will be initiated into The Witch’s Dance as a mystery school of embodied magic—a ritual practice grounded in elemental movement and techniques of attention and sensation that summon, channel, and amplify the witch’s force into direct, transformative experience in and through the body.
Drawing from modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, physical theatre, dance, and somatic practice—and informed by both academic and practice-based research—The Witch’s Dance is a deeply intentional, experiential method for accessing elemental and extraphysical currents, embodying and directing their power in magical work, and using the body itself as a magical tool for conjuration, attunement, and transformation.
Together we will move with the force of the witch through an elemental cartography of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. Within each elemental threshold, we will create and discover the conditions for and means of access into deeper experiences of magic, enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive and responsive elemental movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
Ghostly Practice Workshop (In Person)
In-person Ghostly Practice guided group movement meditation and ritual workshop.
Each workshop experience unfolds as an exploration around a theme through Ghostly Practice techniques, collective breath-work, sensual stimulation, guided visualization and movement meditation, and the offering and activation of intentions, grounding, and time for reflection.
The Witch's Dance - Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - FULL MOON Ritual Movement Workshop (Palenville, UpState New York)
The Witch’s Dance special ritual movement workshop for the full moon in Upstate New York
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Guest Teacher: Lilith Dorsey (New York City)
The Witch’s Dance: A Ritual Movement Workshop Series
Special Guest Ritual Facilitator: Lilith Dorsey
Join us for a special edition of The Witch’s Dance, a ritual movement workshop series facilitated by Jacquelyn Marie Shannon, featuring guest teacher Lilith Dorsey from New Orleans.
For this workshop, Lilith will share her unique expertise at the crossroads of dance, ritual, and Afro-Diasporan Pagan religions, drawing on movement practices informed by the African diaspora.
About Lilith:
"My personal spiritual journey includes numerous initiations in Haitian Vodou, New Orleans Voodoo, and Santeria. In 1995 I became editor and publisher of the Oshun newsletter, providing accurate and respectful information about Afro-Diasporan Pagan religions. I hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology and my graduate degree comes from a inter-disciplinary program in cinema/television studies and anthropology. Training is vital in any discipline, but takes on special significance in a spiritual context. Voodoo, Vodou, Santeria, Candomble, Ifa, Obeah, Hoodoo, and for that matter any other African based religion survives on it’s lineage, history, and training of it’s devotees.
My first initiation came from Mambo Bonnie Devlin, more widely known for her phenomenal drumming and musicianship. Her music is available on iTunes, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in connecting with spirit. I then went on to join Priestess Miriam Chamani at the Voodoo Spiritual Temple in New Orleans. The temple does an immense amount of good works and is located at 1428 N. Rampart Street across from Congo Square, both locales a must see for anyone visiting New Orleans. While my Santeria house is led by Ochun Olukari Al’aye and based in Florida. I am continually amazed and inspired by my spiritual family there, who most recently gave me the opportunity to watch a ritual drum being crafted with a chainsaw.
My academic career focused most specifically on ritual dance and possession on film. Informed by phenomenal women like Maya Deren and Zora Neale Hurston who were filmmakers, ritualists and anthropologists, I went on to create an experimental documentary Bodies of Water, focusing on Voodoo identity and “tranceformation.” It has been shown everywhere from Harvard University to the living room of the Royal Street Courtyard bed and breakfast. My favorite compliment on the work, which was designed to be a synestetic foray into cinematic experience, came from a devoutly Catholic friend who said “Your film scares me; I feel like I am changing.”"
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
Ghostly Practice Workshop (In Person)
In-person Ghostly Practice guided group movement meditation and ritual workshop.
Each workshop experience unfolds as an exploration around a theme through Ghostly Practice techniques, collective breath-work, sensual stimulation, guided visualization and movement meditation, and the offering and activation of intentions, grounding, and time for reflection.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Online NEW MOON Ritual Movement Workshop [Virtual - On ZOOM]
Note: This session is offered online via ZOOM.
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Online Ritual Movement Workshop [Virtual - On ZOOM]
Note: This session is offered online via ZOOM.
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop (New York City)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - Winter Solstice Ritual Workshop (Virtual - On Zoom)
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
The Witch's Dance - In-Person Ritual Movement Workshop
In the series, participants will be invited to encounter, embody, and engage the witch not simply as a metaphor or archetype, but as an affecting presence—a catalyzing force that haunts and moves through us, transforming the body into a site of enchantment, resistance, and ritual power. I view this work in part as an applied form of ‘Ghostly Practice’ where we seek out those spectral affecting aspects of the witch that haunt our personal and collective cultural memory and re-member the witch as a transformative force itself that can be experienced and engaged with as/through haunting within a ritual container.
Rooted in my ongoing dissertation research, these workshops will unfold as guided ritual gatherings that seek and summon the witch’s force into performance. Each session revolves around a theme and invites participants to engage the witch in The Witch’s Dance through modalities that may include becoming and unbecoming, activating and witnessing, conjuring and releasing, dreaming, reviving and revisioning. Drawing from techniques in modern Western witchcraft, ritual dramaturgy, dance, and somatic practice, my goal is to create and discover the conditions for and means of access into experiences of enchantment and embodied power through guided journeys of intuitive movement and collective ritual acts that engage deeply with the witch’s transformative force.
Ghostly Practice Workshop (In Person)
In-person Ghostly Practice guided group movement meditation and ritual workshop.
Each workshop experience unfolds as an exploration around a theme through Ghostly Practice techniques, collective breath-work, sensual stimulation, guided visualization and movement meditation, and the offering and activation of intentions, grounding, and time for reflection.
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