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Class One of the Into the Motherhouse Series in Sylvia’s sunny studio in downtown Point Reyes Station.
Note that these classes can be taken as a series (see link above for discount), or as one-offs.
During each session 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.
After telling her version of an Eastern European Cinderella that Sylvia calls “Maria of the Ashes ,” we will discuss the sacred hearth in Old Europe, the Neolithic practice of burying ancestral bones in house floors, the ancestral nourishment contained in our motherlines, and the pre-patriarchal power of the mother cow.
We will then work with wool and drop spindles to learn how to spin our own threads, just like Maria in the story, threads that we can carry with us in order to connect back to the oldest mothering bones of nourishment in our lives.
Saturday July 11th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm.
EXACT LOCATION & DETAILS SENT OUT BEFORE EACH SESSION
Class One of the Into the Motherhouse Series in Sylvia’s sunny studio in downtown Point Reyes Station.
Note that these classes can be taken as a series (see link above for discount), or as one-offs.
During each session 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.
After telling her version of an Eastern European Cinderella that Sylvia calls “Maria of the Ashes ,” we will discuss the sacred hearth in Old Europe, the Neolithic practice of burying ancestral bones in house floors, the ancestral nourishment contained in our motherlines, and the pre-patriarchal power of the mother cow.
We will then work with wool and drop spindles to learn how to spin our own threads, just like Maria in the story, threads that we can carry with us in order to connect back to the oldest mothering bones of nourishment in our lives.
Saturday July 11th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm.
EXACT LOCATION & DETAILS SENT OUT BEFORE EACH SESSION