Midwinter Mundane Magic

Presents

SCHEDULE:

Mundane Magic is a live immersion online event over zoom that attendees can weave in and out of according to desire. Participants will also receive access to the Mundane Mycelium online learning portal which will host a community forum and a workshop recording library.

Tickets are available at three tiers so that you can assess your own capacity to contribute with ease. This year in solidarity with members of our community, we are committed to donating 10% of our profits to mutual aid efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Mundane Magic is different from every other event in this field because we commit to providing our presenters with a base rate of pay for their time and service. It may seem obvious but the norm in the field is to ask folks to offer their skill and experience for exposure and that is just not the way we choose to value folks.

Any profits that the event accrues after we’ve met our expenses and mutual aid commitments is split equally between the team.

workshop details:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22

OPENING CIRCLE

~ mundane magic team ~

7:30-8:30PM(est)

We will gather together to weave a mutual container of shared dreaming.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

8:30-9:15PM(est)

Hearthtimes are emergent chill spaces with the option to wander through multiple zoom rooms experiencing embodiment practices, conversation spaces, and parallel resting vibes. Created by our organizing team Dore, Shante' and Laurel, these spaces will be responsive to collective energetics and offer contexts for integration and nourishment throughout the Nadir.

BEDTIME STORIES

~ mama yoni ~

9:15-9:30PM(est)

Each evening Hearthtime will end with bedtime stories from Mama Yoni, offering a sweet and loving transition from the Nadir space into your alternative reality. Come rest in the lap of the Crone for a moment and allow yourself to wake into the dream.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23

GOING DARK

~ Karina blackheart ~

1:00-2:30PM(est)

We find ourselves in a Liminal Time between Endings and Beginnings; betwixt the Age that is passing away, and the Time we will contribute to building, together. In the Dark of the Year, we nestle down among roots and mycelium networks. We are held within the silent, swirling bowl of stars. We receive the Wisdom of our Ancestors – for moving through hard times – and the Wisdom of our Descendants, to help us discern what is necessary, now. Facing the unknowable future can contribute to a sense of grief, anger, anxiety, hopelessness. In this presentation, we'll discuss these states, and how to move through them using some seegly counter-intuitive practices. This is a lecture and discussion. Be prepared to contribute to the conversation. We all have something of value to offer.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

2:45-3:30PM(est)

Advanced Wintering

~ Alyssa Allegretti ~

3:45-5:15PM(est)

Those of us who live in a cold climate half the year know the ongoing tension between a body that needs to hole up and slow down for winter, and a culture that demands we keep pace with the means of production and perform like robots despite natural ebbs and flows. But despite these demands, there is a lot we can do to secure the wintering process for ourselves and our families. And even if you don't live in a cold climate, the inner winter will cylically arrive, asking you to pause, rest, and revaluate. Likewise, psychosomatic states like depression are a form of wintering, if we can experience depression as a prolonged freeze begging us to thaw again. In this class, we will discuss the importance of protecting the wintering process, determine how to create pseudo-safety during uncertain or unstable times, and details ways of setting the tone and conditions of your home environment to ease you into your next spring.

LIMITLESS STATES OF GRACE CLEARING

~ Bree Greenberg ~

5:35-7:05PM(est)

My clearings run three phases: the first gets the crap we all carry, the second begins to tune your bodies into deeper intimate harmony and the third clears base relational patterns and offers a dose of massive erotic vibrancy (light!)

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

7:20-8:05PM(est)

BEDTIME STORIES

~ mama yoni ~

8:05-8:20PM(est)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

KEENS AND LULLABIES: SING THE IRISH SPIRAL

~ DR. Mary Mclaughlin ~

1:00-2:30PM(est)

The Irish Death Lament (The Keen) and lullabies sung to babies are closer than they may appear, as they are either end of the Irish spiral of life. In this presentation Mary will talk about some of the traditional customs surrounding these two inevitable earthly rites of passage; death and birth. As an Irish singer and songwriter, she has spent a life-time collecting traditional songs with their background stories, and will demonstrate the different energies contained in each of these rites of passage, referring to Irish mythology. She will also teach a short song from each end of the Irish Gaelic spiral so that all can experience these different energies. No prior knowledge of Gaelic is necessary, just a willingness to jump into the cauldron!

VOID MAGIC

~ kate fontana ~

2:50-3:50PM(est)

Being alive is a negotiation with the Void. This is the aspect of Reality that so much of dominant western culture has attempted to protect against and do away with - chaos, uncertainty, destruction, and death. The Void has held many names across time and culture: The Dark Mother, Kali, Bhuvaneshwari, Hecate, Nyx, Chaos, or the God of the Apophatic tradition. It is Holy Absence, the nadir to the zenith of ecstatic spiritual encounter with Divine Presence.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

4:05-4:50PM(est)

REPATTERNING FROM GROUND ZERO

~ Arden Leigh ~

5:05-7:05PM(est)

This introduction to repatterning, the magick of belief and behavior alteration, will teach you the keys to rewiring your internal system in order to generate the external results you desire. We’ll be unpacking how the internal work functions to create the often stunning and rapid external results that folks receive in the process. Our patterns, beliefs, and internal algorithms form over a lifetime of experiential learning with the world around us. They begin with an incident that creates that learning in ourselves or in our lineage, and if left to their own devices they will continue to inform the experiences we align with and create for ourselves, snowballing over time through our information and memory processing and our confirmation bias. This means that an incident that formed a belief about the world during our childhood, at a time in which we were in a very limited environment, can still be unconsciously inforg our actions and decisions even when we are a fully grown adult with the free will to move about the world as we please.

HEARTHTIME

~ nadir team ~

7:20-8:05PM(est)

BEDTIME STORIES

~ mama yoni ~

8:05-8:20PM(est)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

DISSOLVING AS PRIMAL EXPRESSION

~ liz koch ~

1:00-2:30PM(est)

Dissolving is a biological imperative of all living organisms, a return to the ocean of life. Exploring the primal curl: letting go, falling, and dissolving – original gestures begin emerging. To be moved, rather than move, offers bio-morphic wisdom. Slowing down and pausing we sense the unraveling of cultural distortions. Natural rhythms begin to make their re-appearance. In the great pause, a subtle wave increases our consciousness. These nourishing waves carry us into far-reaching terrains of being, awakening a cellular dance – a gesture of longing and inter-conductivity.

BREATHWORK JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF THE CRONE

~ Daniella Matutes ~

3:00-4:30PM(est)

This 90 minute somatic ritual invites you to step into the quiet magic of midwinter and journey into the heart of the Crone. Through restorative breathwork and somatic self-love practices, we will honor the Crone’s archetype—embodying stillness, intuition, pleasure and transformation. In this sacred season where darkness reigns, we will embrace its mysteries as fertile ground for rest, reflection, and renewal. Guided by the breath and the wisdom of our bodies, we will connect deeply with ourselves, have some fun, feel pleasure pulsing, and be with the timeless wisdom that resides within our breath and body.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

4:45-5:45PM(est)

LET'S FIND WHAT'S NEW

~ esi wildcat~

6:00-7:15PM(est)

Learn to listen and discover felt-sense, while pushing nothing away and listening to what is available right now.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

7:30-8:15PM(est)

BEDTIME STORIES

~ mama yoni ~

8:15-8:30PM(est)

SUNDAY, JANUARY 26

DREAM POETICS

~ Kristopher Drummond ~

1:00-2:30PM(est)

Description coming soon!

ANCESTRAL REMEMBERANCE

~ Nathali Arostegui ~

2:50-5:20PM(est)

This space will be an opportunity to be with the seen and unseen worlds within us and all around us. A gentle yet powerful journey into the depths of the stories and beings that shape shift through time and space. Courage and Humility are required for Spirit to move, release, and rewire new and old threads of awareness through our blood and bones. We will allow the ancestors to weave their medicines in order for us to rise together in remembrance and reclamation! There is no other place to be but here now.

HEARTHTIME

~ mundane magic team ~

5:35-6:20PM(est)

ALCHEMY OF THE HOLY WOUND

~ scout wiley ~

6:35-8:05PM(est)

Art is quite possibly the greatest catalyst for both personal and social transformation. Positive neuropsychological effects aside, the true power of artistic expression lies in its ability to provide us with what is arguably the most meaningful human experience--communion with a Divine Other. In this hybrid lecture, ritual movement, and bardic practise workshop, we'll explore various avenues of creative expression and allow them to reveal the poetic rapport between our deepest wounds and our greatest gifts.

CLOSING CIRCLE

~ mundane magic team ~

8:20-9:20PM(est)

Together we gather the nourishment of our time together and thank all of the presences of support throughout this journey. Gentle guided ritual to support our stepping back out into the world.