Friday workshops

Oracle of Charms

by Nicole

Having facilitated numerous tarot workshops throughout the years, Nicole sometimes ends with some icing on the cake: the Oracle of Charms. As accurate and straight to the heart as the tarot, she found out that working with these simple symbols of life is both fun and revealing. Why not put your hand in the bag and pull out some new insights? This workshop is to discover more about your current situation and together we can make a plan how to make some changes to make life even happier. Do you dare to look into that mirror?

 

Maximum 8 participants (Dutch & English spoken)

Nicole Maessen is an Obod Druid and Tarot Mediator. Co-organizing the New Bards Day as well as the Druid Cafe, I love connecting with and facilitating Bards, Ovates and Druids to meet. Within and outside Obod I facilitate tarot readings,  tarot workshops and Oracle of Charms workshops, in which we reconnect with our intuition and work on personal development. During these ‘magical encounters’ for private individuals and companies, I guide them into the realm of the Druids and the world of Tarot.



Ceridwen's Cauldron

by Sian

A journey into the Womb Space


This workshop is made for women or nonbinary persons with a female body. It´s a journey into Ceridwen´s cauldron and on a very personal level, also into your own womb space. Often we feel disconnected from our womb space or it might feel neglected in the rush of our lives. So this time is meant to be yours, to connect with and dive into your womb space and its inherent power. We will also connect as a circle of women beyond borders with this power and hopefully radiate it into our lives. You´ll need a blanket to sit and lie on and please wear a long (or semi-long) skirt or dress.



Divination sound journey

by Eli Beelen

I´m Sian Lang from Berlin, Germany, an artist, shamanic practitioner and naturopath, teacher for Qigong and shamanic and feminine healing ways, a witch and a druid of Obod. I studied shamanic healing ways of the Americas, Tuva and norse shamanism, and druidry is like a wide riverbed taking in lovingly all I´ve learned and helps me to stay connected with our beautiiful planet and all its magnificent beings. My healing path is one of opening my heart to life and assisting others in doing so, too.



Welcome to dive into a journey with tree portals and sigils, have ritual with sacred stones, guided with magic sounds and Galdr in subtility. 


Bring a yoga mat, blanket, or whatever needed to have a comfortable journe. Also bring 2 stones, doesn't have to be gems but 2 stones that call out from the region you live in. Also know that those 2 stones will be staying elsewhere and not return to you at home, so keep that in mind when you look for them.

Eli Beelen fromI from Belgium. He is a troubadour, treefriend, 'Soundbrewer' and GaldR fan, Chacapa creator, Runes adept, sigil painter, dancer of life, river of emotions and firey passionate. Wondering and wandering through the forests, collecting little findings along my path with a warm heart to be moved by open encounters'

Geomancy

by Gertraut Mockel

Seeing with our inner eyes


We will start with different basic geomantic excercises (connective and perceptual). Later we will visit one or two energy places in the nearby forrest and we will go into resonance with the deeper level and perceive the special quality of this place. Here we can practise the techniques we learned before. After an exchange of our personal experience we will close with a small final meditation.

Gertraut Mockel is an ovate and with Obod since 2012. Loving nature and being in the woods a lot I feel myself gifted as the sites and places are calling to me for more than 25 years. From 2003-2013 I trained in geomancy with Ana Pogacnik /Slovenia. Since 2014 I am giving workshops and walks to power places in various regions. It is an honour for me to give the 'instruments' of perception to people and share the messages of powerplaces and healing energies with them.


Crossing Borders Relax Lyre Concert

by Ingeborg

Let’s have a rest and experience the magic of the pentatonic lyre. Embedded in the land the sound gives us peace and harmony. Lucia Lyra and Calluna le Fay will take you to the realms behind the landscapes. Listen to the voices within the sounds and hear what nature has to tell us. Music speaks in a different language on a different level. We love to bring to you some of the songs and musical pieces the Awen granted us during our travels through Europe. Make yourselves comfortable and just let go….



Ingeborg joined Obod 2004 and is in the Druid Grade. Over the years I participated in a lot of Camps, Rituals, Gatherings and Eisteddfods in the Netherlands and abroad, alone and together with my husband Nico with guitar, harp and song. Perhaps you know me already from “The Celtic Circle with Calluna”, “Memories of Avalon”, “Harpsongs and Fantasies”, the ”Ingeborg & Friends” music initiative or the Dryade online Eisteddfods. After Nico and I had our own group The Owlclan we are since a few years member of Seedgroup De Witte Raven. I am very fortunate and happy that we can live the Druid life together.