Jan Kinsey has been one of the organizers for the Fairy & Human Relations Congress for close to 20 years. He is a shamanic practitioner who is passionate about working with the spirits of nature, especially weather spirits and facilitating plant ceremonies with Pacific Northwest medicinal plants.
In his healing practice, Jan utilizes shamanic healing practices and energy work to address underlying causes that are manifesting as dis-ease or emotional imbalances. He has worked in medical clinics that specialize in treating auto-immune and chronic illnesses.
He co-leads the Wy’east Enchanted, a community circle for PDX/Vancouver folks, with Camilla Blossom.
Originally from Norway, he now calls Cascadia home.
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Jan will be teaching and facilitating the following:
Elemental Ecstatic Dance with the Fae (with Quinn LeFae)
Through Shamanic Journey and Divination Quinn LeFae and Jan Kinsey received protocols to invite the King and Queen of the Sidhe to dance with them at their Elemental Ecstatic Dance Ritual. Please join us. We will be bringing shamanic work and divination to the dance floor.
Dumbledore Talks Mushrooms: Magic Meets Science
Jan will be assisting Jay Cusker, Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, in this workshop. Jan will be leading movement and dance, and leading a shamanic journey through the mycelium network to meet with the spirit of psilocybin.
Goldenrod: Shamanic Plant Journey with Goldenrod (with Camilla Blossom)
Join us in ceremony with Goldenrod. We will drink an elixir made from the plant, do guided shamanic journeys, and sing and tone with the plant spirit.
For the last 3 years, we have had a plant spirit ceremony at the beginning of the Fairy Congress on Thursday evening. In 2021, we did an Oak ceremony. The following year, Yarrow was given center stage. Last year Hawthorn shared its medicine. This year Goldenrod is calling for a ceremony.
The focus of these plant ceremonies is to
– experience a healing from the plant spirit
– develop a working relationship with the plant
– learn how its medicine pertains to you and your community.
“Goldenrod Essence supports the process of finding a true life and then courageously living it. It will help us find our backbone when we need to make tough decisions or change our life situation.”
– Green Hope Essences
“The goldenrod problem begins with a lack of endurance, a lack of strength to persevere through difficulty, an inability to process what is necessary to get to the end”
– Matthew Wood, Herbalist
“I experience kundalini activation through my spine taking the flower essence. It opens up golden consciousness, alignment, and flow between heaven and earth (vertically) through our spine and central channel. (Golden Dragon!)”
– Camilla Blossom
“Goldenrod helps support a well-developed individuality and an inner sense of self balanced with group or social consciousness”
– Flower Essence Repertory
“Goldenrod helps us to identify and release patterns that keep us out of our true brilliance; regrets, melancholy, addictions, low self esteem, ancestral and social conventions, joy-less career ladders”
– Jan Kinsey
A vibrational herbal essence of Goldenrod will be for sale for those who wish to use it to integrate and deepen this work.
Awakening the Elder
Within an acorn is a fully-grown oak. We are going to awaken the elder within us by working with the ancient ones and journeying to our future selves.
There is a West Africa saying that goes “If elders are lost, adults will be lost. If Adults are lost, youth will be lost”.
Let’s wake up the elders in this workshop!
Meet the Land Council (with Camilla Blossom & Marla Durden)
This powerful community experience is a way to meet up, connect, and possibly merge with the nature spirits, Sidhe, Fay, elementals, trees, indigenous ancestors, and spirits of land present at the Congress. Four Direction Holders will hold the space for magic to unfold. We will draw cards from Camilla’s Sacred Spirits of Gaia oracle deck to choose a being that wants to consciously co-create with each one of us. We will speak on their behalf and learn from them.