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Cicada Magic: The Sonic Weaving and Magic of the Rattle Have you ever sat and listened to the depthful sonic field created in a forest filled with Cicada? The level of attunement is often beyond human comprehension. Through this inspiration we will look to being in service to the land and the fire circle ceremony. We will make our own rattles form Bear skin and with seeds and objects we find on the land, and that we bring with us to the site. We will explore together the uses of the rattles and will play with them and be in service with them during the night. And we hope to find balance with the art of both listening and expressing simultaneously.
Katie Quarrier Katie, experiencing her first sweat with the Hopi at 14years developed a deep connection and curiosity to indigenous ways and rituals. Her passion for movement and experienceing the many different realities that exist in this world has lead her all over the world and into many other ways of seeing. Last year she to left her professional aerial acrobat career and life in NYC and has spent the past 6 months traveling through south and central America exploring and developing her gifts in connecting deeper into the spiritual world. While in Peru she studied with the Q'ero tribe and was initiated and given permission to carry some of their rituals and ways. She makes magical tools and is a core member of the Forestdance Team.
Jason Cohen Jason Cohen discovered the flow of energy between his fingers and hands at the age of 13 while contemplating how people of many different faiths prayed. The practice of cultivating this energy and applying it with will and faith has led him on a life long journey of experimentation, music, dance, ritual, production and prayer. He is the producer of 14 Forestdance gatherings in five states in the US and now in Massachusetts and Costa Rica, he has devoted his life to bringing people together in safe eclectic sacred spaces that are designed for the balancing of deep listening and profound human expression. As a the director of the heARTbeat Collective: Healing and Expressive ARTists for Balance, Ecology, Awareness, and Transformation, based in Jamaica Plain, MA, Jason hosts events that help people reclaim inspiration while honoring personal connection to the earth and to life. He is the composer, keyboardist and singer for his band Incus, whose unique and dynamic World Tribal Medicine Rock music has moved listeners all over the US and in Costa Rica. For more information visit the following sites: forestdance.net, heARTbeatCollective.org, and Incus.net.
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