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trance for many, trance for one
I have done five hypnosis sessions in the past week. I'm kind of dizzy with it. I'm immersed in how working with a single client is and is not like trance with a group ( Read more... ) -
Trance class -
Oh, the joy of trance class - with engaged students, in an occult bookstore staffed with practicers of Vodun - in Chicago in the springtime - and with talented folks I haven't had a chance to work with in a couple of years and have missed very much ( Read more... ) -
It's OK if this work is not for you ...
Thursday night's Beltane ritual raised the kind of energy I had heard people speak of, but had never really experienced myself. No one remembers much of anything - so it's hard to know what happened, except as an energetic experience. It was a huge experience, for me - one I don't expect to get to repeat, in this lifetime. The women who were there ( Read more... ) -
trance rap
Brief post -
Trance Rap. Way fun. I must have more of it .... -
trance mentoring
Last Saturday, two TranceShaman trance team members set out on their own to do a trance for our sacral chakra path. Both get frustrated with the group's sometimes unwillingness to go to the really deep dark - so they make great partners for each other ( Read more... ) -
Epona Trance
I'm so very happy with the way the Epona trance went, tonight at RCG. The ritual team didn't ask Jasmine and me to do it till Sunday - it was a quick plan, one evening of Jasmine and me going over it. I am really pleased most of the women had such a deep experience, and wish I was sure just WHY they did ... some possibilities ( Read more... ) -
sustainability
Of the last three trances the team has done, two had half the facilitators drop out at last minute due to illness; the Kali etc trance was just - so big. All three left me and several other facilitators wondering how we can do this work without being utterly whacked when it's over ( Read more... ) -
Priestesses on the Road, and ethics
Our TranceShamans trance team facilitated two really complex trances, since I posted last - the Parvati/Durga/Kali trance at the Toltec Center, and the Baba Yaga trance this past Thursday. Lots to process about! Both trances gave us insight into issues of mixed group trancing, how we work together as a team, and sustainability ( Read more... ) -
it's more like theater
During planning for the Inanna trance the trance team agreed, pretty quickly, that those trancing needed to be walking - descending, as Inanna did. It seemed like an obvious choice. But I was surprised at how much changed, with that choice ( Read more... ) -
When Six become Three -
Thursday's ritual and trance for our Samhain celebration were pretty indicative of what happens when Kimber, Jasmine and I come up with most of the plans. Dark. Prop-heavy. Complicated, but also with a structure that lets us find our way through. Four speaking voices in the trance ( Read more... )