Sacred Theatre Workshops for 2010
SOUL AND SPIRIT: A DIALOGUE THROUGH ETERNITY
–Rumi
This theme about the relationship of the Soul to the Spirit, and vice versa, has played around in my mind for the past several months. Then I became really inspired in October when I attended a lecture and workshop given by Michael Meade, the storyteller/mythologist/ shaman/poet/wiseman. He believes that our culture has become besotted with things of the spirit (the mind, the world of ideas, and the push to transcend) while ignoring the things of the soul (the world of the body and of feelings, of the earth, and the pull of immanence). Meade says this long-lasting imbalance accounts for many of the difficulties of our present time.
What is the Soul? What is the Spirit? How do they work together?
My focus for next year is to explore their differences, their similarities, their conflicts, their unions – in other words, the eternal relationship – between these two forces as we experience them in the sacred drama of our lives. Another way we will work with these forces is to feel the Soul as one aspect of the Divine Feminine, and the Spirit as one experience of the Divine Masculine. I believe they seek partnership within us, and can provide a sense of dynamic, ever-changing harmony, containing as they do all the energy and conflict of a great play.
Ashland, Oregon
February 11-14
Who exactly was St. Valentine?
April 1-4
from April Fool’s Day to the Resurrection, the journey of a life!
May 28-31
A Time for Memories, culminating in a party on
June 1
Publication Date for To Be and How To Be: Transforming Your Life Through Nine Powers of Sacred Theatre. Party to be announced.
September 3-6
Labor Day Extravaganza
November 4-7
O Wild West Wind
December 9-12
Winter Wonderland
Each of these is an individual seminar; you are invited to attend one or more.
Times: Evening of the first day to mid-afternoon of the last day.
Registration
Cost: Each Ashland weekend costs $325. This includes tuition, tickets to two, theatre events, supplies, and food (light supper Thursday evening, Continental breakfasts, snacks and a feast).
Multiple Choices:
If you sign up for three or four sessions, and pay before January 31, 2010, you may attend for $295 per workshop.
If you wish to register for five seminars, you pay a total of $1395 ($280 per session) before the date in January.
Sign up for all six by that date and pay a total of $1560, or $260 per session.
To register for these workshops, please send a check to Peggy Rubin, 323 Oak Street, Ashland, OR 97520, listing which workshops you wish to attend. Make checks payable to Center for Sacred Theatre. If any of your contact information has changed since you last attended, please be sure to mention that. You can email me with any questions at pegrub@aol.com.
One workshop in Ocean Grove, New Jersey:
October 14-21. Harvest Home: Soul, Spirit, and the Powers of Sacred Theatre. Register with Patti Kaufman at pattik.mac@me.com.
Book signing and one-day workshop Wheaton, Illinois:
September 30: Evening presentation & signing
October 2: One day workshop.
Contact Ruth Ann Fowler at programs@theosophical.org
