Workshops - Crystal Castle | Tourist Attraction Byron Bay

^{Enrich Your Spirit Workshops}Welcome to a series of experiences to enrich your spirit. Enjoy a creative and relaxed time at the Crystal Castle, exploring Spritual Art, Shrine Making or Shamanic Journeys.

Check out the half day and full day workshops below, spaces are strictly limited so if you feel drawn to participating in any of these experiences, please book now.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon, and allowing the deep peace of this sacred ground to nourish you.

Workshop #1

Spiritual Art

Awaken your Creative Spirit – with Irena Kirpichnikova

You will complete an exquisite painting of your Spiritual Being, even if you have no previous art experience. Irena will take you through a very unique process which awakens your creativity. It’s easy, it’s fun and everyone can do it.
Your painting will bring out emotions, tell you stories and heal you with colours. You will have breakthroughs in yourself as you challenge your illusions. You will let go and find something really special in yourself you didn’t think you had.
This experience offers the opportunity to take home two inspired paintings and they will be so good you’ll want to frame them!!

Facilitator ~ Irena Kirpichnikova is an inspired artist. She is particularly gifted in opening peoples creativity and ability to see, and belief in themselves and their talent. With a background as a professional speaker and trainer to both corporate and education for over 20 years she brings all of her skills together to magically take people through a fun process to produce masterpieces in just a few hours.

When: Saturday 26th May 2012
Time: 9.30am to 4pm
Cost: $135 + $20 materials
Numbers are limited

Workshop #2

Shrine Making

with Claudia Gyr

People have created shrines for thousands of years to celebrate and honor connection to Spirit, nature, significant people and important life events; in short, anything which holds meaning and deserves remembrance such as:

• Worship & Prayer
• Love & Gratitude
• Mindfulness & Meditation
• Healing & Wellbeing
• Birth
• Death
• Relationships
• Creative Visualisations

Our lives have become so busy that we often forget and/or have difficulties making space for what is meaningful and important in our lives.
In this workshop you get to explore what really matters to you whatever that may be and create your own personal shrine to bring that into focus.

You will learn how to create a beautiful shrine from a pre-cut cardboard template which is quick and easy to assemble. You will be guided with choosing color, symbols and imagery to make it uniquely yours so you can take it home with confidence and continue to embellish and decorate your own personal shrine as you like.

Shrine building is a creative process which will inspire you, to bring focus and to remember, and engage with your hearts voice. These shrines can easily be repainted and redecorated again as your focus changes.

Facilitator ~ Claudia Gyr is a trained Artist and qualified Art Therapist using Art for Personal Development and Wellbeing. As a visual artist Claudia has been teaching different creative modalities to children and adults in Switzerland and Australia over the past 30 years. She ran her own gallery and studio in Australia for many years and has exhibited her work in Australia and Overseas.

When: Saturday 2nd June 2012
Time: 9.30am to 4pm
Cost: $135 + $25 materials
Numbers are limited

Workshop #3

Beginners Guide to Shamanic Awakening

with Peter Bowden

An experiential introduction to Shamanic Awakening that will provide participants with the tools to start bringing Shamanic Awareness into their daily lives. This includes daily prayer, practice and meditation. Shamanic practices are easily learnt and help create a deeper connection to our intuition, for use in guidance and healing. Guidance can be helpful in addressing challenges and resolving issues. Healing is at a spiritual level and usually has profound positive effects with people becoming more self-confident, alive, and physically healthy.

Share a connection to Mother Earth and Earth based Medicine Teachings as you participate in a Shamanic Journey that awakens and expands the consciousness. A Shamanic Journey can guide people to levels of deep understanding, truth and empowerment. As a result of these experiences people surrender and let go into deeper states of Healing Consciousness for themselves and all Beings.

Facilitator ~ Peter Bowden’s interest in Native American Culture has been since childhood. He met his first Traditional Teacher 22 years ago when and made his first Drum. Peter has walked his spiritual path for more than 22 years, sharing teachings of a spiritual nature from the Cree people in Canada and from the Apache people in New Mexico and teachings from Elders in Australia.

When: Saturday 9th June 2012
Time: 1.30pm to 4pm
Cost: $69 + $10 materials
Numbers are limited

Workshop #4

Meet and Journey with your Power Animal/Ally

with Peter Bowden

When practicing Shamanism, people work with guides and allies, sharing with them during Ceremony, Celebration, Healing and Journeying. One of the most integral parts of Shamanic Journeying is to share with your Power Animal/Ally. Animal Allies assist you through times of Healing, in Soul Retrieval work and when people feel a lack of energy or are unwell. You can call on your Power Animal for strength, guidance and empowerment and to help you with your healing practice.

Through intuitive processes the individual’s Power Animal can be awakened. The Power Animal/Ally is met in a Shamanic Drum Journey and brought to life through dance and movement. Once you have connected to your Power Animal/Ally you can call on them at any time you wish.