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Learn ancestral ways of making fire through embodiment and hands-on practice in this one-day workshop for women.
Together, we’ll learn to make and tend fire, while being in relationship with all who surround us: land, women, and our own body wisdom. We’ll tend to the beauty of being in a circle with women, tending both our inner and outer fire. We’ll also tend to our ancestral wisdom through intuition and by slowing down to be present with one another.
Coyote teaching has shaped how Claudelle instructs and mentors, so some of your questions may not be answered directly, for you to find the answers within yourself.
Fire can be a lifelong journey; there's always more to learn and deepen, so come alongside us with curiosity, humility, an open heart and mind and reverence for life.
What to expect:
Your own bow-drill kit to take home
Exercises that reconnect you to your senses and intuition
Practice with ancestral fire-by-friction methods
Circling around the fire
Solo time in nature for reflection and integration
Connection with one another
Songs and storytelling
Knife safety and axe handling skills
Games and play
Limited to 12 participants.
Join us after for a community fire and potluck (4:30-5:45pm) and consider signing up for Harmony Songbirds Singing Workshop from 6-8pm.
Sliding Scale $75-90
Meet Your Facilitators
Claudelle Charette (she/her), founder of Fire Woman, is passionate about circling women around the fire - supporting them to create coals, tend their fire, and build deeper trust in their intuition. She was born and raised on Abenaki territory in Quebec, playing in the forest, swinging from treetops, and catching frogs. She is experienced in outdoor education and deep nature connection and has mentored both children and adults through various nature schools, including Wisdom of the Earth on Salt Spring Island. Claudelle holds a grounded presence, gives reverence to life, and is guided by her dreamtime. Through her connection with fire, she supports women in feeling empowered and connected to themselves and their role within our ecosystems. She believes that bringing women together in unity is one of our greatest sources of power and strength, in service of love, life, and joy.
Ancestral Rays
You’re invited to the first in a series of ancestral skill and cultural repair events at the Pacific Hedge School on Hawthorn Homestead. We’re starting with Fire and Song and intend to connect our community here on Gabriola with a variety of mentors who are gifted in nature-based crafting, animal transformation (including hide tanning), and other ways of reconnecting with self and others, including the more-than-human world.
Participate in rebuilding a village culture that honours Ancestors, Elders, and the Land, integrates multiple ways of knowing and ancient ways of being, and reconnects us with the wisdom needed to meet the times ahead. Ancestral Rays is inspired by deep meaningful work already being done in these rewilding ways through Wisdom of the Earth Wilderness School, EarthKin Wild, and other mentors, like Stephanie MacKay.
Ancestral Rays will include shorter sessions, one-day workshops, and longer gatherings, sometimes with specific audiences, like this next Fire offering for women, and other times, inclusive of all, as with the Song circle.