The Virtual Pilgrim: Mystical Scotland
March 20, 21 and 22, 2021
11 am- 1 pm PDT daily
Three days of art, music, poetry, gorgeous imagery and inspiring stories in the enchanted Hebrides Islands of Scotland
March 20: Connecting with Sea, Sky and Stone
The Hebrides Islands Through Time and Culture
The Callanish Stones with Judith Tripp
Fingal's Cave and Felix Mendelssohn
An introduction to Andy Goldsworthy's Land Art and how to create Earth Mandalas
Recommended Evening film: Rivers and Tides
March 21: The Monastic and Bardic Traditions
Iona Abbey and Community
St. Columba and The Book of Kells
Artmaking and Illuminated Manuscripts as Spiritual Practice
An Introduction to Creating Blessing Books with Katherine Witteman
Music of Felix Mendelssohn: The "Scottish" Symphony
Lectio Divina with the Poetry of George MacLoud
Recommended Evening Film: Leaning Into the Wind
March 22: Finding the Bard Within
Chanting with Robin O'Brien
Writing Workshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Lectio Divina and Poetry of George McLeod
Community Sharing
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Choose your contribution: $150.00 Basic Tuition $100.00 Reduced Tuition for those in financial need $200.00 Donor: registration plus scholarship donation All students will receive both live access and access to stream the recorded videos, plus class notes. Materials: Please have a large blank notebook (preferably 8 1/2 x 11 or larger) with colored pens or pencils, oil pastels or watercolor paints for the practice of metacognitive drawing/Blessing books. You may also want a gluestick and magazine images for collage work. |
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Faculty
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Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D, is a passionate cultural historian, poet, musician, land artist and mythologist who weaves together all of these topics with personal reflection and Jungian-inspired experiential activities. Kayleen fell in love with Scotland while co-leading a pilgrimage with tour director Stephen Carpenter in the Footsteps of Felix Mendelssohn in 2019. She is the Artistic Director of Mythica's Pilgrimages which will be following the path of the mystics to sacred sites in Europe online ever month of 2021, and then , we hope, offering in person pilgrimage for the summer of 2022 in France, Austria and Scotland.
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Author and thespian Peggy Rubin is the founding director of the Center for Sacred Theatre in Ashland, Oregon and a contributing faculty member of Ubiquity University. Working with Jean Houston, Peggy Rubin has presented classes, workshops and trainings throughout the United States, and in Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Egypt, The Netherlands, India, West Africa, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jamaica, and on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, in Albania, St. Lucia, Barbados, Kenya, and the Philippines. |
oJudith Tripp, MFC is a therapist, labyrinth facilitator and musician who weaves ritual and the arts with her healing work as a therapist. Judith began her work with the Women’s Dream Quest in 1987 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Today she leads Dream Quests all over the world and offers pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world., with a special affinity for Chartres Cathedral, Glastonbury and Iona. Read more about her work at www.circleway.com
Devoted to helping others explore their creative potential, poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process (with Christie Aschwanden), co-director of Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club (with Art Goodtimes) and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (with Sherry Richert Belul). She also directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years.
She teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers and more.
She believes in the power of practice and has been writing a poem a day since 2006. Her daily poems can be found at https://ahundredfallingveils.com/.
She teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers and more.
She believes in the power of practice and has been writing a poem a day since 2006. Her daily poems can be found at https://ahundredfallingveils.com/.
Katherine Witteman is a master teacher in the field of Intentional Creativity and the healing power of the arts. She is a painter, a poet, a mother of two artist daughters and a leader of ritual and ceremony throughout the world, from England to Egypt. Read more about her joyous work at www. dancingheartart.com
