Fire By Friction
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Learn to court fire, both within and without, through the ancient skill of fire by friction with a bow drill!
This workshop will be a super fun half-day hands on class learning to use a bow drill to create fire by friction.
Workshop Description:
Fire is an essential element. Some say it is the first element. Without fire, there is no spark for life and creation. Without the fire of the sun, none of this would be here.
Learning to conjure, create and court fire is a practice ALL of our ancestors did. It is a phenomenal way to connect with them and their ancient wisdom.
In this 4-hour workshop, we will talk about the elements of courting fire, the tools of creating fire with a bow drill kit, how you can create your own kit, and get hands-on with creating your own coal and fire together!
Workshop Includes:
Elements of courting fire
The tools of creating fire by friction with bow drill
Practice the skill of fire by friction
How to create your own bow drill kit
Workshop Details:
$100-135 sliding scale
4-hour workshop in Boulder area, details to be disclosed after sign up
We will be working with knives and hot stuff, so be prepared for that!
We will also be sitting and kneeling on the ground for this workshop
Your Guide:
Mandy Bishop is a nature-based guide, mentor, and founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place where ritual art, ancestral skills, and Sacred Storywork weave together to bring us back into relationship with ourselves, the land, and the wisdom of our ancestors.
Mandy has a deep relationship with and apprenticeship to fire. She’s gotten to learn fire by friction from a few incredible mentors such as Callie Russel, Miriam Grace and the Hadza tribe in Tanzania. She’s continually humbled and expanded by the practice of courting fire, and she’s thrilled to share this with others.
Mandy’s work centers around coming back to Soul, remembering who it is we are, and who we came here to be. In all of her musings she is following a golden thread of relationship to self, land and spirit— apprenticing to the mystery and the old ways. She’s in service to the remembrance of our wild selves; to a partnership between nature, creativity and soul; and to the wisdom carried in our bones waking us up to what is most important in our lives.