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Traditional Spiritwork 101 with Ren

March 31, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Thursday, repeating until May 6, 2016

Fuzzy Illuminated Shika Fawn

Thursdays March 31, 2016 – May 5, 2016
*In the 5th week, class will be Wednesday evening the 27th, instead of Thursday the 28th – to make room for our very special guest Sharon Knight who will be presenting her Well of Song workshop while in town for her performance at our annual Beltane Festival.

Class runs 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm PST
in Los Angeles, CA at The Green Man
call 818-985-2010 to reserve your space.

Price of $120 may be paid in two equal installments of $60 at the first and fourth meeting.
Price includes downloadable audio-recordings of class and access to an online discussion forum including Q&A with Ren.
More about Ren Zatopek

+What is Traditional Spiritwork?

Traditional Spiritwork begins with conversations.  The stars are singing.  The memories in your blood are whispering.  Can you hear them?  The spiritworker learns the language of the dead, of trees, of the heart.  Through these diverse relationships our worldview evolves and our understanding deepens, just like the expansion we experience if we have the opportunity to visit another country or learn a foreign language.

Sometimes the conversations lead us to other sacred arts: like the rituals, shrine-keeping, prayers, visionary work, and folk-practices of our ancestors.  We will discuss these arts, but to me, Traditional doesn’t mean going through the same motions as those who came before.  Our animist ancestors didn’t look up which color candle to use on the internet.  They found their own Way.  They worked with what they had, they talked with what they found, they saw spirit in everything.  The Tradition is heretical, it is the way of finding your own way.

 

+Why practice Traditional Spiritwork?

There was a time when people mostly asked me: “Ren, can you tell me what my spirit guides are saying? Can you see them?”  Now, it seems every week I hear: “Ren, how do I learn to hear my spirit guides?  How can I see them more clearly?”

Any shift towards personal responsibility and adventure is great!  But remember that spiritual Sight is the vehicle for your travel, not the journey itself.  Traditional Spiritwork is not just about perceiving spirits, it’s about communicating, collaborating, and creating a meaningful life with them.  If it isn’t meaningful, the spirits, too, might get bored and wonder: “Why Humanwork?”

The only way to have a friend is to be one. +Ralph w. Emerson

Practice Traditional Spiritwork to cultivate a life of Freedom and Family.  Imagine a kind of love that pushes you forward instead of holding you back.  Spiritwork is the serpent constantly hatching from ever-larger eggs.  Spiritwork is a tool that can work within any system, religion, belief, or box that you enjoy, even atheism, so long as that box isn’t brittle — in which case, fair warning, spiritwork may crack a few of your favorite eggs.

 

+Traditionally, isn’t Spiritwork learned from the Spirits out alone in the forest or something? Why take a class?

Yes, spiritwork is learned from the spirits and it is as individual as a fingerprint.  (I’m a spirit though, and so are you!)  However, the states of being which allow spiritwork to take root are not easy for everyone to access.  Animism and the animist world-view is no longer the dominant paradigm in our society.

We become caught wanting to see through those animist eyes, while fearing the madness that might come if we really start seeing faces and hearing voices in everything.  We become blocked, not by inability to perceive spirit, but by our fear that spirit isn’t “real”, such that what we perceive is never good enough.  The vision is never strong enough to eradicate our fear.  The comfort of confirmation never lasts.

In this class, we will learn that Comfort is not the goal of Spiritwork.  Neither is suffering.  We will learn that stronger contact is not clearer contact.  We will learn a healthier way of relating to our fears.  We will develop dexterity in our spiritual senses.  We will embrace Growth and Adventure, and yes, meet some of our nearest and dearest friends: Souls, Spirits, Ancestors, Plants, Animals, Minerals, Faery, Gods, Titans, Innerworlds, Otherworlds, and more.

++Subscribers to my mailing list will get a sneak-preview full course outline in the middle of March. Sign-up here:
http://eepurl.com/bLFa6f

++Persons who take this series will receive a coupon code and early access to this course when it launches through my online classroom later this year. There will be both free and paid courses coming, but enrolling in the classroom is free, so sign-up now so that you don’t miss out on any opportunities to beta test, get early adopter coupons, or other sneak-previews. Go here and push the blue button to “Enroll Now.”
http://ren-zatopek-spiritwork.teachable.com/

 

Fuzzy Illuminated Shika Fawn
Image Credit: Ren Zatopek + Shika Fawn + Nara, Japan
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