Grue Demoiselle - A relaxing spiritual retreat in Limousin France with workshops and bed and breakfast

APHRODITE'S MAGIC: Celebrate and Heal Your Sexuality (women only)
with Jane Meredith

Dates for 2012 to be announced. Please register your interest now though.

250 euros includes lunch, refreshments and your girdle!

(Photo of an example girdle is shown below)

Tutor


We are thrilled that Jane is coming to Grue Demoiselle whilst on tour from her home in Australia, make sure you take this opportunity to spend quality time with Jane on this fabulous course.

Jane Meredith is a Priestess of the Goddess and writer. She is a regular presenter at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference and Australian Goddess Conference. Jane runs classes, rituals and workshops and is passionate about making ritual and magic accessible. She is also a marriage celebrant. Jane is particularly known for her ability to create and hold powerful sacred space and the creativity of her work. Some of her favourite things are trees, cats, magic and dark chocolate. Her book, Aphrodite's Magic: Celebrate and Heal Your Sexuality, is published by O Books (2010) and is based on this workshop. Jane's forthcoming book, Journey to the Dark Goddess will be published in 2012. Jane's website is: www.janemeredith.com

Workshop

Aphrodite, ancient Greek Goddess of love and passion, was said to have a magical belt, a girdle that made the wearer sexually irresistible…. Journey back to the times of the Temples of the Goddess, where we can again weave her magic and participate in her qualities.

This workshop explores the mystery at the centre of our women’s bodies. In a safe, supportive environment each woman will explore her relationship to her own sexuality. Taking the form of a sacred inner journey, this work involves the collecting, healing and empowering of the different strands of our sexuality that have been damaged, wounded or simply not freely expressed in our lives.T his is a magical process, combining song, memory, ritual, movement and dance, inner reflection and group work.

Within our own Temple space, we will work with seven aspects of women's sexuality, including the Eye of Beauty, Opening the Heart, the Voice of Truth and the Red Womb. Issues that can be worked on include fear of intimacy, past hurts such as incest and rape, self-love and sexual confidence. During the workshop each woman will create her own Girdle of Aphrodite, which will have her power, her delight, her healing and the magic of the Goddess woven into it. This seven-stranded girdle, made and decorated by the participant, can then be placed on an altar, worn as adornment or used in further ritual.

Reclaiming, healing and celebrating our sexuality leads us into the dance of life with the Goddess, whose sexuality is free and beautiful and sacred.

Times & sessions

Course: Friday evening (after dinner ) 20.00 - 22.00 Aphrodite's Temple
Saturday morning 10am - 1pm - Saturday afternoon Free time
Saturday evening (after dinner) 20.00 - 22.00
Sunday morning 10 - 12:30
Sunday afternoon - 1:30 - 17.00

WHAT TO BRING:

• Please bring clothing you can dance in
• A journal or notebook and pen
• An offering for Aphrodite (could be a shell, flower, candle or anything else you would like to offer) - offerings are usually not returned.
• Decorations for your girdle - the girdle materials will be supplied, plus decorations, but it's good to have some of your own as well. These might include: special beads or feathers or charms, old jewellery is especially good (necklaces, earrings), small bells.

You are also welcome to bring something decorative for the altar, which you can then take home again.

Comments from previous participants

To Jane, thank you so much for a wonderful, inspiring, beautiful experience. It felt like plaiting the precious strands of my life together... The fertile land of my body feels watered and nourished and I have renamed my womanhood in innumerable ways. Blessings to you! - Ali

The Aphrodite’s Girdle workshop has centered my sexuality, given back a love of my femininity and freed me to see clearly. - Jackie

Jane – a brilliant weekend. It’s rare for me not to have some criticisms of a workshop – but this time I really don’t. You asked if we moved past an edge and I have moved past several that would usually be edges – but with you it wasn’t difficult, I didn’t have to jump, it just happened. It’s been a really important weekend for me, doing things I wouldn’t have dreamed I could and experiencing many wonderful things for the first time. - Valerie

I love the way you have created you Aphrodite's Magic workshop - I really enjoyed the rituals, the singing and the way you built the energy and meaning of the girdle and its connection to our intentions and to Aphrodite power. I particularly was impressed and deeply touched by the incredible integration of the journey I went through when we wove our girdles. I think that integration helps the continuing connection with Aphrodite in an ongoing conscious or subtle way. It is on my altar and I certainly do wear it sometimes and dance and I am consistently working with Aphrodite since the workshop in a magical way. ... I have had some incredible connections with my husband - one in particular when I was wearing the girdle - it really took us in to altered consciousness and sacred space. - Christina Henry, Counsellor.

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www.gruedemoiselle.fr