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Martín Prechtel
Sept. 12-13 Workshop
Occidental, California
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Annual Northern California Martin Prechtel ritual get-together in hopes to feed the heart of the Holy Water-Woman of the Sea. That in the attempt, we might, for a moment, become humans of such beauty that even our failures feed the holy.
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Sept. 12-13 Workshop
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Occidental, California
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Come to A Workshop with
Author, Singer, Healer and Teacher
Martín Prechtel
Saturday and Sunday
September 12-13, 2009
House Made of Songs Tied Together With Threads of Metabolized Grief and Stars
From the eyes of the Holy in Nature what is greatest about humans is the reality that humans souls are not human. Unlike the faces and personalities we’ve learned to become, each of us has a diverse, magnificent subtle natural soul, an animal or riparian forest mist or the winds up from the old white foaming haired Grandmother Ocean or the smile of a pine martin, or some pond reeds, water bugs, water squirting oysters, fireflies, musk ox, or fierce snow, still others as sand or fireweed. All these souls have corresponding natures and voices that resound in a symphonic wild jazz-like vital delicious whine, grind, purr, crash and rustle like frogs or mice in leaves or the sound salamanders make as they dream under ice, all of which must make the world Jump Up and Live Again. Come with Martín Prechtel to make an offering-Temple of the Songs of the Natural World and its people
to feed the Holy in Nature.
A Ritual Gathering with Martín Prechtel
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Ocean Song Farm & Wilderness Center
Occidental, CA (Sonoma County)
$185 Early Registration
$225 after Aug. 22, 2009
download directions to Ocean Song (link to PDF)
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workshop materials
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Materials to gather and bring with you:
1 yard square of yellow cotton cloth
1 yard square of red cotton cloth
4 live willows as thick as your thumb about 7 feet long or so
Cut flowers of all kinds and colors
Cotton string (like kite string)
Turquoise beads- at least 12
Shell beads- at least 12
Or if none are to be had, beautiful glass beads (just no wood, plastic or resin beads)
1 abalone shell
two river quartz stones, each the size to be just covered by closed hand
red earth pulverized
cornmeal – white, yellow or blue
1 small cane whistle/flute
beautiful earth
Feathers (no chickens, ravens, owls or vultures)
Happy spring water (water that has not touched metal…probably not from the store)
Small fired pottery bowl
3 small gifts
one song of your ancestors
one song of your animal soul
one song of seeds
pocket knife and sharpener
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Biography
for Martín
Prechtel
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Martín Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language, and a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. His life, the well known subject of his previous books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico upbringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member, becoming a principal in the body of village leaders, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories that took place in the rituals of adult rites of passage.
Martín once again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. Broadly cherished, Martín’s third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, has become a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio’s Roses, brilliantly continues the story of his life and visionary understandings.
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"The Mayan people's main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I'd never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy, and the hard-working nature of this representative."
- Robert Bly
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"The Mayan people's main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I'd never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy and the hardworking nature of this representative."
"Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence,wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are."
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For more information visit:www.floweringmountain.com
Martín Prechtel is the author of : Stealing Benefacio's Roses; The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time; Long Life, Honey in the Heart; and Secrets of the Talking Jaguar.
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