Sunday, February 20th
Workshops and Events
Featured Workshops
Morning Workshops |
Afternoon Workshops
In the Rounds |
Evening Workshops
You can register for individual events or the weekend packages.
All half-day workshops are $35 for members, $45 for non-members $25 for seniors 65 years or older, students (with student cards) and teens age 13-18. Except where noted for featured presenters. Special: Bring a teen with you to your workshop for $5!
All workshops are open to young women 13 years old and above, except as noted on the individual workshops. Parental permission forms are required. Download a parental permission form here.
To register for these events go to the Registration page.
For any questions about the conference go to the Conference Information page.
All events will be held in the North Seattle Community College, College Center/Administration Building.
Featured Workshops
Peggy Dylan
Femme Vital!
This workshop is being held 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
$85 WOW members, $99 Non members
Explore your remarkable capacities with practical mystic Peggy Dylan. Understand your body and the powerful ally you have in your feminine unconscious. As a woman your personal power comes from your spiritual connection - learn how to make your life work in harmony with your spirit. Comprehend the feminine energy flow, your unique relationship to power and discover how to break through into spiritually connected action!
For more information on Peggy Dylan, this featured workshop, and her evening event Click Here.
Marcia Wieder
On Your Way in Just One Day
This workshop is being held 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
$50 WOW members, $65 Non members
How would your life change if you actually believed in your dreams? Discover what really matters to you and start making it happen NOW! We guarantee the experience and knowledge you'll acquire will be priceless. It will provide you long-term benefits for years to come, changing your life, for the better, forever. You'll leave prepared to achieve your dreams, newly equipped with clarity, courage and the confidence to Make YOUR Dreams Come True.
For complete information on Marcia Weider, this featured workshop, and her evening event Click Here.
Caroline Sutherland
Special combined price for two workshops by Caroline Sutherland: Develop Your Medical Intuition and The Body Knows ~ Healthy Aging Secrets (6:30 - 9:30pm - also open to men) $85 WOW members $99 Non members
For complete information on Caroline Sutherland, both her featured workshops, and her evening event Click Here.
Develop Your Medical Intuition
This workshop is being held 1:30 - 4:30 pm
$45 WOW members, $55 Non members
Caroline offers her unique approach to the medical intuitive process, from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective clearly showing that this exciting subject is not just the domain of a few gifted people, but the birthright of everyone. Join us for this special workshop and refine your own intuitive skills.
The Body Knows ~ Healthy Aging Secrets
This workshop is being held 6:30 - 9:30 pm
$45 WOW members, $55 non members
Open to men
Is it possible to actually slow down the aging process? Health educator, medical intuitive and author of the ground breaking book The Body Knows … How to Stay Young Caroline Sutherland says yes. And when you look at this vital, energetic woman who’s in her mid-60s, you can tell she has a few secrets that are worth sharing! No need to be wary about what might befall you as the numbers tick away because Caroline has answers for the chronic degenerative breakdown that leads to mobility issues, decrease in hearing and vision, osteoporosis, and arthritis—not to mention memory loss.
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Sunday Morning Workshops
Each of these workshops is being held 9:00 AM - NOON on Sunday, February 20th
Vickie Dodd
Rest in Restless Times: De-stress with Sound
The pressures of daily life - too much to do, not enough time, fears and concerns both real or imagined - cause our adrenal system to become over-stressed. Sound is a simple, easy way to re-train your nervous system to rest, regardless of what is occurring in your life. Learn to use your voice to relieve stress and improve rest. Teach your body to come into the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing you to de-stress, relax, quiet the mind, meditate, and sleep. Sound works quite deeply and as we do this gentle work we will experience positive shifts and changes in ourselves.
Vickie Dodd has been a pioneer of the use of Sound for healing and transformation for over 40 years. She is an Aston Patterning teacher of movement awareness and a nutritional practitioner for over 30 years. She is the author of the book Tuning The Blues to Gold, and several CD's including her new release Rest Assured, Parasympathetic Resonance.
Sheila Kelly
Belly Intelligence: Accessing Your Body's Wisdom
Age 18 and over are welcome
Your "soma" (body) is smarter than you think! The body is a reservoir of untapped information and knowledge about how and why we are showing up the way we do. Experience the process as you learn methods of somatic inquiry: center in the belly via basic movements of Middle Eastern belly dance; learn and practice intrapersonal and interpersonal somatic inquiry in the present moment; and learn to discern and engage untapped knowledge in your body. Come with an unresolved, "stuck" issue and be prepared to move beyond your beliefs and delve into uncharted wisdom in your body.
Sheila “Sheikha” Kelly has been studying and teaching Middle Eastern Belly dance for 13 years. Her instruction is female-centered, technical, and comes from a perspective that movement is a gateway to the soul. She is also an educational consultant and has worked with thousands of women, children, school and non-profit staff and community members to promote healthy communication and relationships, deal with conflict and build environments where people feel safe, respected and empowered. Her approach is body centered and mind blowing.
Denise Kester
Awaken and Amplify Your Creativity
$10 material fee paid to presenter at the workshop
$5 material fee for teens
Do you long to be in touch with your art or creativity? Do you desire to take your art deeper? We will explore practical tools for opening the deep-rooted creative knowledge welling up within you. You will learn tools to help overcome avoidance and fear and magnify your creative impulses. Along with the practical tools and dialogue, we will make a story collage and a creative art guardian action figure. No experience in the arts is necessary. What you create is important and it may be essential to you and to the well being of the planet.
Denise Kester, a renowned teacher and international artist, has been teaching workshops for 17 years in the creative process. She has presented with Dr. Jean Houston’s Social Artistry Seminars. Denise is Artistic Director of Drawing On The Dream, an art distribution company since 1992. She regularly exhibits her work in galleries and art shows including The Goddess Market at WOW. She was a recent featured artist on Oregon Public Television’s Art Beat.
Vajra Ma
Woman Wisdom Unbridled: Declaring our Natural Spiritual Authority
Reclaim Woman’s heritage as the original shamans and healers, the source of culture, and the authentic spiritual teachers of humanity! With earth, air, fire and water we will cleanse away old conditioning. We will write and declare in witnessed space our birthright and our power to create healing, peace and justice, then drum, dance and voice our reclaiming into the world for ourselves and for all women! Our ritual will be inspired by rich imagery and awe-inspiring stories of women who have lived Woman's Natural Spiritual Authority.
Vajra Ma is the founder of Woman Mysteries of Ancient Future Sisterhood, a priestess lineage with its core practice The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power, the Womb-Sourced Yoga of Feminine Wisdom. She has facilitated movement, voice and ritual for over 25 years, guiding women to align with the original sacred text–-woman’s body and womb. Her work is featured in Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity and Empowerment.
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Sunday Afternoon Workshops
Each of these workshops is being held 1:30 - 4:30 pm on Sunday, February 20th
Kahu Hoakalei (Len Cotton)
Ancient Hawaiian Goddesses
Kahu & Kumu Hoakalei guides you thru the mo'olelo (history), oli (chants), the hula and the malama (caring) of the pantheon of Goddesses of Hawai'i.
Discover the stories around the Ancient Hawaiian Female Dieties. As a Kumu of Halau Kameleokalani, Len will share cultural practices that include an Awa Ceremony, which will allow you a glimpse into a Halau (school) of Hawaiian traditions. It is with gratitude that she will be able to transmit these time-honored teachings to you in this experiential workshop. Malama Pono.
Kahu Hoakalei was brought up in the Hawaiian tradition of Hawaiian Goddesses and spiritual practices. She has written a book, Deva World. She has a Deva Connection practice where she does consulting, facilitating and workshops.
Rev. Judith Laxer
Lakshmi’s Flow of Prosperity
Age 16 and over are welcome
Some sexual content is included in this workshop
Times like these call for deep magick! The Hindu Goddess Lakshmi teaches us about the nature of flow so that our lives may abundantly manifest. We will create sacred space, invoke Lakshmi and through meditation receive guidance and information to determine what we desire to manifest as we open to receive Lakshmi’s flow of prosperity.
Rev. Judith Laxer treasures her profession as the founding priestess of Gaia’s Temple, Minister, Spiritual Counselor, Psychic, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic practitioner and teacher of magickal arts. She dedicates her work to restoring the balance of female and male energies in our culture.
Kris Steinnes
The Seven Gates of Initiating Your Feminine Power
Women pass through many important life stages, from birth to the end of life, which are largely not acknowledged and honored in our society. The result is a feeling loss of our soul’s purpose, individually and collectively. Through meditation, exercises, sharing, and ritual we will honor these life stages. We will claim the power of these transitions as we go through the seven gates leading to a deepening of our soul’s purpose. It will require sacrifice and letting go of what doesn’t serve us anymore and it will open the space for the truth of our spirit to come forward.
Kris Steinnes is the best-selling author of Women of Wisdom, Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women. She is the founder of Women of Wisdom Foundation and the WOW Conference. She is a minister, spiritual leader, teacher and host of Voices of Women Radio Show at Transformation Talk Radio. www.transformationtalkradio.com
Heather Taylor
Living Mandalas, Bringing Beauty and Balance to the Earth
$3 material fee paid to presenter at the workshop
Celebrate and honor the natural world as we align ourselves and attune our cells to the wonder that is within us and around us. Through group visualization, prayer, chanting and guided meditation, we form a connection with and create an honorary living mandala of the earth. We will use living materials as we build a temporal offering that will sustain nature as she sustains us. Made of yellow corn, birdseed, sunflowers, living plants, our mandala comes from and returns to the earth, in harmony with the circle of life. As we heal ourselves within this circle, we heal the world.
Heather Taylor is an environmental and iconic mandala artist, expressing her vision through sacred geometry, numerology, symbolism and archetype. Recurrent themes in her art of the human family and sacred trinity form the structure for an emergent potential both human and divine. The transformative potential guides her work in service to the creation of a greater world. Beginning with the sacred feminine she works with gratitude to celebrate Mother Earth.
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In the Rounds
These events are being held 5:00 - 6:00 pm on Sunday, February 20th
$5 members, $10 non-members
No one turned away for lack of funds
Starfeather
The Heart Expansion Ceremony
In sacred circle, we co-create an uplifting and healing ceremony. A powerful influx of beautiful energy raises our vibration; our hearts naturally expand - like a flower opening to the Light. We shift, expanded in love and joy. Our circle offers healing prayers for ourselves, the Earth and All our Relations in gratitude. Our voices unite, toning with the crystal singing bowl and drums.
Starfeather channels the Language of Light Blessing, shares Reconnective Healing energy, and her amazing Crystal Quartz Sphere on our altar. Starfeather is a spiritual teacher, trained in vibrational medicine, sound healing and is a master circle facilitator.
Susan Blair
Dancing Through Life With NIA
Discover the joy of Nia; a pleasure-based fitness and lifestyle practice which blends dance arts, martial arts and healing arts into a total mind-body-spirit experience. Here you will learn the concepts and principles of Nia, the moves, steps and stances. Slip into movement that touches your soul! Nia is Every Body, including those who prefer Seated Nia. Wear comfortable clothes in which you can move and work up a sweat.
Susan Blair is an award-winning speaker, workshop presenter and Certified Blue Belt Nia Instructor who believes that "our bodies are meant to be moved, spirits are meant to be danced".
WOW Council Launch 2012 20th Anniversary
Sit in circle with the Women of Wisdom 2011 Council as the vision, goals and events for 2012 and beyond are co-created! WOW Online, World-wide WOW chapters, the 20th Anniversary Conference of 2012, Community Connections, monthly dinner nights out and regional micro-festivals are all in the early stages of development. We will draw on the powerful, divine energy of this year's Conference to inspire the leadership and support needed to fulfill our mission of empowering women's dreams and spirits.
Interested in bringing WOW to your city? Come to the meeting and find out how you can. As paradigms shift, community evolves, and knowledge is gained, so too must the WOW Foundation grow and learn. We invite you to join WOW leaders in bringing our collective wisdom to our membership throughout these times of great transformation.
We want to get to know our sisters both locally and from around the country, so bring your questions and enthusiasm, or simply your curiosity.. and join us Sunday at 5 PM as we collaboratively define and participate in the future of the Women of Wisdom Foundation.
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Sunday Evening Workshops
Each of these workshops is being held 6:30 - 9:30 pm on Sunday, February 20th
Men are welcome to attend these workshops.
Miriam Dyak
Second Destiny: Reawaken Your Life Purpose!
$3 material fee paid to presenter at the workshop
Do you feel complete with the first half of your life and ready for a new beginning? Are you called beyond the familiar world of family and work to find new purpose and explore your Second Destiny? This is a workshop full of practical magic – multi-dimensional embodiment exercises and mythic journeys to help us manifest our “passion for the possible” and discover how to be powerful participants at this vital turning point in your life and in human existence. Miriam Dyak will share exercises and principles from her training for the past five years with Dr. Jean Houston.
Miriam Dyak has been involved in social activism for women, peace, the environment, and political change since the late 1960’s. For the past five years she has been training in Social Artistry with Dr. Jean Houston and has used those skills to “accomplish the impossible” with the Washington State Legislature. Miriam, co-founder of The Voice Dialogue Institute, has a private practice as a counselor and has published three books of poetry. She is co-founder of Washington Professional Counselors Association.
Anique Radiant Heart
The 33 Vibrations of Kuan Yin
$10 material fee paid to presenter at the workshop
As 2012 approaches, we all ask “How will the Mayan prophesy manifest? What will happen to our Divine Mother Earth and all of the Divine Beings on Her?” The shift in consciousness for all beings on Earth will be to “live from the heart” and to “think with our hearts”. Kuan Yin, through Her 33 aspects or vibrations, teaches us how to bring about these changes – both within ourselves and the planet. We shall explore Her 33 emanations and understand the encoded messages held within them. We shall invoke Her, chant Her praises, create our Kuan Yin mala and imbue it with sacred energy of intention for our own transformation, into our heart consciousness.
Anique Radiant Heart, well loved in her Australian Goddess community, is a Goddess scholar, priestess, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. She regularly presents at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference. She is a sacred singer, songwriter, and author of Chanting the Chakras – A Way to the Goddess Through Energetic Use of Voice. She has created CDs celebrating the Goddess, produced Goddess festivals, and led tours to sacred sites all over the world.
Heather Roan Robbins
The Anima in the Stars
We are at a pivotal, turning-point year in an era-changing planetary pattern (2008 -2015) as Uranus and Pluto square repeatedly. We can use the powerful anima archetypes in this moment’s chart to steer this change in a compassionate and whole direction. Come explore the feminine side of Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and asteroids. We will do a walking meditation with Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn and feel them through astro-drama. Collaborate with the planets through meditation and dialogue to learn how to work with their powerfully fertile challenge to improve our situation and invoke a creative future.
Heather Roan Robbins is a practical, intuitive, choice-oriented ceremonialist and astrologer for over 30 years. She uses this beautiful symbolic language to see the connections woven between our practical, private everyday experience, our human interactions and the pulse of the political and mythic world around us. For over 15 years she’s written an astrological column for the Santa Fe New Mexican, WeMoon calendars, and now in John Edward’s www.InfinityQuest.com.
Julie Vance
Pacific Wisdom Rising: A Sacred Canoe Journey
Age 18 and over are welcome
$1 material fee paid to presenter at the workshop
The Miconesian Elders long ago dreamed this time of gathering darkness that would cause the ocean waters to rise and engulf their beloved island home. As the sacred ground of their Ancestors gave way to the up-welling sea, the essence of their ancient wisdom way would rise like a beautiful rainbow to light the way of unity, peace and happiness for future generations. This offering is part of that Rainbow Bridge. Step into the Sacred Canoe and journey for a time with the ancient wisdom of the Central Pacific Islands. Inner stillness, mind-free awareness, alignment with Spirit, unity, strength, and the capacity to hold are needed to maintain balance and move with the subtle flow. Our focus will be dispelling anxiousness and rising into happiness.
Julie Vance returns from a 13-year journey in the pristine islets of Micronesia to fulfill their vision of a Rainbow Bridge. With her husband, they were adopted by the spiritual Elders of a remote island village and brought into the fold of their ancient wisdom tradition. Licensed counselor, engaging writer, sailor, adventurer and spiritual guide, she has over twenty years experience awakening awareness, healing, transformation and change in her clients.
Colby Wilk
Change How You Feel In An Instant: Theta Healing
Learn to tap directly into your highest self by changing your brain waves. By maintaining a theta brain wave you can quickly discover the core of any problem: physical or emotional. Enter into wellness by releasing limiting beliefs, trauma and long-standing dilemmas through this simple, profound method of healing. Join us for this fun, experiential class where Colby will do verifiable healing work with everyone in the room simultaneously.
Combining spiritual healing with his experience as a counselor and coach, Colby Wilk assists people to create powerful, magical relationships with themselves and to life. He trains others to become their own teachers guiding them to access spiritual states and overcome blocks to thriving.
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