During each session in her sunny studio in downtown Point Reyes Station, Sylvia will tell a fairytale or myth, weaving it back into its root systems in matrilineal Old Europe during the Neolithic and earlier. There will be time to creatively respond to the stories through mythic writing exercises, ceramics, and textile work, and to share together in the spiraling sisterhood of the Motherhouse.

In this session, Sylvia will tell her own version of the great ancient Mediterranean tale of Psyche and Amor, taking us a step deeper into the old feminine mystery tales whose roots rest long before the days of Rome.

We will follow Psyche as she learns the language of serpents, sorts seeds, travels to the underworld, traverses ecstatic physical and spiritual love and immense despair, and births the child of her truest, deepest love, while discussing the older origins of her initiatory activities and the great August festivals to the Mediterranean goddess of all earthly pleasure and abundance.

We will then use clay to shape our own votives in response to the story, which Sylvia will fire in her kiln and return to participants the following month.

Saturday August 8th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm.

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Join Sylvia for an online telling of a beautiful old fairytale from the forested islands of Scandinavia that she calls “The Island Daughter the Green Knight.”

This is a story about a woman who longs for a green land she has never seen, and a knight who speaks the language of birds. It is a story about the healing that comes from the deepest forest and the language of wild things, a story about the miraculous ways that true love can find us when we least expect it.

After the telling, Sylvia will walk participants into a series of mythic writing exercises that will help deepen your personal relationship to the Island Daughter’s journey, and to the green language of the living earth.