Wicca as somatic healing with dance artist iele paloumpis

New York Live Arts

presents

Shared Practice 

with 

iele paloumpis

Witchcraft – A Corporeal Practice

March 16 (1:30-3:30pm)

Third Floor Studios 

In Shared Practice workshops, Live Arts season artists share the physical and creative practices behind their work. Each process-focused session provides participants an opportunity to recharge their own artistry by experiencing different approaches to making and moving with similarly-motivated professionals. All classes are held on Saturdays throughout the season at New York Live Arts.

Witchcraft -- A Corporeal Practice

Over the past several months, changes in my health and body have shifted the ways I approach dance and daily life. Without concrete answers from doctors and various bodyworkers, I’ve been looking to Wiccan ritual as a somatic practice of integration, acceptance and healing. I’ve also been thinking a lot about how all bodies - whether elderly, disabled, or otherwise "different" - can enter into dance. For this Shared Practice, we will look to magical herbs, astrology and the lunar calendar, as well as our own unique and defiant bodies, to generate restorative movement. Come with an awareness of something you might like to shed, heal and/or embrace.

--iele paloumpis 

$15/class. Class size is limited. Advance purchase is recommended to guarantee a spot. Click here.

New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Happy Samhain!

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Margot Adler on the contemporary Pagan movement

The Moonfire series of public presentations will host a workshop facilitated by National Public Radio journalist Margot Adler:

The Pagan Movement: What's New, What's Different, What's Changed

Saturday, May 22 (5pm-7pm)

In the last 15 years, the Pagan Movement (Wicca, Goddess Spirituality, Druids, Norse Religionists, Reconstructionist Pagans, and more) has grown, so that now scholars are saying that there are at least a million contemporary Pagans worldwide, and perhaps three-quarters of that number are in the U.S.

In the last few years, Wiccans have fought and won a number of civil rights. There are now peer-reviewed academic Pagan journals, more than 100 Pagan Pride Festivals, and a strong Pagan and Wiccan presence at the Parliament of the World's Religions. What does this foretell?  What is the promise and what are the pitfalls of modern Paganism becoming a World Religion?


Margot Adler is a writer, pagan priestess and broadcast journalist.  She is the author of Drawing Down The Moon, the classic study of Paganism, Goddess Spirituality and Wicca. A lecturer and ritual leader, she has been a correspondent with National Public Radio for more than 30 years. Before NPR, she reported, produced and hosted live radio on Pacifica's WBAI-FM and was the creator of Hour of the Wolf and two other free-form radio shows there.  She was also the hostess for eight years of Justice Talking, a show about the Constitution and how it affects our daily lives, that aired on a hundred radio stations until the summer of 2008.

Admission: $6

All are welcome!

Location:
LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street (near 7th Avenue), Manhattan

For further information, click here to email Moonfire's founder, Amethyst.