The Fairy and Gaian Congress community is built on a three-legged foundation. We started with our summer in-person event, the Fairy and Human Relations Congress. This involves travel to the West Coast and camping out; so for people not able to manage that, we also have the online Gaian Congress every January.
Some people just come to one of the events, some people come to both.
To keep the community strong and vibrant in between the big events, there is also an online community platform featuring weekly meditations and monthly workshops, as well as monthly Book Club meetings and other opportunities to connect.
You are welcome to come check out the community even if you don’t come to one of the big events! It can be a nice introduction to who we are and what we do.
Membership in the community is FREE, workshops are $35 each
Benefits of Community Membership:
The Community Platform is a place where you can share experiences, ask questions, and connect with like-minded people. We have a schedule of weekly posts as well as a monthly schedule of zoom calls.
Weekly Schedule
Monday Meditation: every Monday we will share a short, simple exercise as a practice to connect with the Subtle Realms. It may be a specific practice to try during the week, or it may be something to just keep gently in your awareness throughout the week.
Tuesday is Tree Day: we share a photo of a tree submitted by community members, to support the tree and also to practice our tree communication
Wednesday, 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern: Writing with the Fae with Shoshana Avree. We meditate for about 7 minutes to tune into the Faery realm and meet a being that wants to share a story, then write without editing for 15 minutes to record the exchange. It’s a brilliant way to connect and learn!
Thursday: Question of the week, to prompt introspection and sharing of our journeys
Friday is Feel Good Friday: Gratitude is best way to raise our vibration, a high vibration makes it easier to connect to the Subtle Realms and also to manifest a supportive life. Sharing gratitude makes it stronger!
Book Club: we currently meet once a month, the second Sunday at 5:30pm Pacific time. We are currently reading Sacred Spirits of Gaia by Camilla Blossom, covering one chapter each month. This will be complete in January 2024, we are currently deciding on our next book, either The Faery Teachings by Orion Foxwood or Spirit Marriage by Megan Rose.
MONTHLY WORKSHOPS
Workshops are the Third Saturday of the month at 10am Pacific time, for approximatelyan hour and a half. Presenters and topics are generally scheduled three months out to allow for spontaneity as the energies of the year and the group evolve. When you register you will receive a zoom link for the workshop and an invitation to join the community
March Workshop, Saturday March 16th, 10am PDT: Goddess as the Living Land – told through the stories of Maeve, Celtic Goddess of Fertility and Protection with Linda Shreve
Linda Shreve is a ceremonialist and lifelong student of movement, stories, music and the sacred in everyday life. She currently teaches an online class “The Feminine Wisdom Series” immersing us into the Stories of various Goddesses at Minerva Educational and Wellness Treatment Center, LLC. Linda explores goddesses from the world pantheon in a monthly class called “Goddess Within Us Through the Wheel of the Year ” program at Twin Star Herbal and Energetics School in New Milford, CT, which is in its sixth year in 2022 and has covered over 50 goddesses to date. She is a trained community herbalist and flower essence practitioner, a singer and chant leader, meditator, Reiki Master and movement designer. Her books outweigh her crystals in her house, but that could change at any time. She co-created and led “The Sacred Path of the Black Madonna,” a 14-day tour of France and Spain in 2019 and is deeply committed to acting as a spiritual midwife in this time.
Linda studied with Oh Shinnah, First Nations elder, for over 30 years, leading multiple moon circles during that time. She currently studies with Lupo Passero, Community Herbalist and owner at Twin Star Herbal and Energetics School, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, a third-generation psychic who was for 50 years the director of the Servants of the Light School, and Achan Da and Achan Nipen – Thai Forest monks, studying Mahasati, a body-based Buddhist meditation practice. Past studies include intensive study in the Laban movement tradition, Reiki Master, choreography and dance in NYC, Ideokinesis movement training, years of singing and many others.
April Workshop, Saturday April 20th, 10am PDT: The Yew Mysteries with Michael Dunning
Born and raised in Scotland, Michael now lives in rural western MA. An internationally recognized speaker and teacher, Michael is also founder of the Yew Mysteries, a mystery school based on the direct transmission of the ancient wisdom of the yew tree, Eya – ‘Tree of Eternity.’ He also runs a busy biodynamic craniosacral practice and teaches that work as well as the Yew Mysteries in UK and USA. Michael has a background in the visual arts, having graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art, and as a former professional jazz musician has toured widely with various ensembles, physical theatre and contemporary dance companies. A regular guest on spiritually flavored podcasts, Michael has also written for magazines such as Indie Shaman, Sacred Hoop and, A Journal for Contemporary Shamanism. www.yewmysteries.com
May workshop, Saturday May 18th, 10am PDT: Word Magic with Laurel Airica
Laurel’s WordMagic is a mind-bending, paradigm-shifting re-introduction to the English language that brings to light the subliminal programming ‘hidden’ in plain view –– in puns, anagrams and the symbols of the alphabet. By adopting this simple yet magical way of playing with words, people often become more fully awake and aware, conscious and kind, literate, witty and wise.
Laurel’s trance-lations of English help reveal and remove linguistic obstructions to our divine connection with our E L E M E N-tal S ELVES. During her interactive presentation, participants ––
Behold – As ordinary words are opened up like oyster shells to reveal the pearls of wisdom and
other surprises embedded within them.
Find Out – How the ‘cymbals’ of the alphabet really do ring bells in our minds.
Discover – That in truth – We DO Come With Instructions for living fulfilling lives. They’re in the very words we speak and are as easy to access as ABC!
Learn – Obscure yet empowering words that can expand our sense of human possibilities; and ––
Recall Again – How we can collectively, creatively tune-up English to a freer frequency so we can Use the Word for the World’s ReCreation and Turn the Tide on the Global SEE of Consciousness!
Many people first discover Laurel’s work through her 2010 YouTube video, The Secret Spells of the English Language. In our time together, she will reveal more of the ‘Secret Spells with which we wRite our own Life Sentences’ –– as well Sacred PathWords that point toward Liberation.
Ultimately, Laurel shows –– in verse and prose –– how young and old around the globe can collectively, creatively and quite rapidly Take Command of the English Language and upgrade it to support our essential evolutionary leap from humankind to HumanKindness.
Current Available Products:
The Book of E: A Book of Alphabet Alchemy (free e-book for subscribers to WordMagicGlobal.com)
Gifts of Presence: Love Song to Humanity on the Precipice of Calamity (illustrated Holiday book)
WordMagic: WordPlay That Puts a New Spin on the Whirled (+ audio recitation to original music)
Horsing Around: The Inside Word on Marriage and Horses –– a coffee-table book (few copies left)
Animation for Patrons on Patreon.com/WordMagicGlobal
eSoterica by Laurel Airica: The Definitive Exegesis on the Letter S in Verse
The Aye That Is Oui – reveals how the two different eyes in the alphabet relate to us
Background: In addition to creating WordMagic Global, Laurel leads Sacred wRites Creative Circles online each
month. She has also served as a communications consultant and writer-editor for clients in a wide range of fields.
Among these have been international policy advisors, a top Hollywood film director, a Broadway Theatre owner/Tony Award-winning producer –– plus spiritual teachers, professors, psychologists, and thought-leaders in the education, science, the arts, the environment and consciousness studies. (www.LaurelAirica.com)
“Over this past year, I have attended many of the online sessions from amazing Healers and Intuitives channeling beings of fun and light with important messages for us to hear. All of these sessions allowed my soul to soar and feel the potent energies of the guides and our allies calling for our awakenings. Much healing has happened. During these 3rd Saturday trips into the other realms, I have literally felt my being filling up with light burning out old head trips and feelings of “unworthiness” replaced with unconditional warm love.”
“Though I’ve had a ridiculously challenging year, I find comfort as soon as I connect with the Fairy Congress. The magic dwells within this network whether I or we are all actively connected or not… It’s the unspoken support & Joy I feel within a community of my human peeps & elementals & all living things”
“I want to thank you for the addition of the Fairy Congress community. I have been part of the Congress for most of it’s 20 years, and I am SO glad I joined the community. The weekly posts and monthly workshops have kept me engaged with nature and the unseen realms on a consistent basis, and has deeply enriched my life. It really has taken the learnings from the Congress to the next level and beyond. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t wait to see what you bring us next year.”