2024 Offerings
Update...
Due to some very unforeseen circumstances, a couple of teachers on our original team can't make it to camp this year.
We whole-heartedly respect their needs to take care of themselves and their families in whatever ways they see fit!
We are witches and we weave spells of flexibility and resourcefulness as we navigate our way to a new fantastic teaching configuration. Stay tuned for more info!
In 2024, Pleasures of Beltane will offer 3 paths over 2 days, described below.
Campers will select one path for both days.
Kink Still Life Drawing with Shel Stefan
In this path, folx will be guided in inclusive and introductory lessons from an experienced teacher, witch, and nurturing Dom. Basic skills in drawing will be explored and housed in adoration of altar items which highlight fetish, kink, pleasure and leather sacred objects.
The goal is to feel camaraderie in a magical and creative positive environment. All supplies will be provided and no previous experience in drawing is necessary.
Jynx & Rachel
Altar of My Body, Temple of My Mind: Radical Ritual of Pleasure and Pain to Tend the Magic in the Mundane
“I want to worship
at the shrine of everywhere,
want to know every inch
of this earth as an altar –
every walk, a pilgrimage.
Every step, a step
from holy to holy
to holy.”
~ Sacred Ground, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
We are, all of us, living & breathing altars. We are “the Universe experiencing itself”, “spiritual beings having a human experience”, “stars with people names”…
And…it can be hard to remember this truth, let alone to feel it in the depth of our bones. Modern society has increasingly undervalued the human instinct to ritualize our lives, particularly through the egregores of Capitalism, Hegemony, Perfectionism, and Normativity. The world each of us was born into has left little room for the neurodivergent, the aging, the ability-impacted, the queer. How can we tend to our Craft - whether that be spiritual, leisure, vocation, or pleasure - when we barely have time to care for ourselves? And - perhaps even more juicily - how can we practice radical acceptance of the transformative and potentially empowering reality of pain, without losing hope of what might lie on the other side?
This workshop is an opportunity to seek and find ways to infuse pleasure and magic into our everyday routines, whatever they may be. From the smallest act of habitual maintenance - such as brushing one’s teeth, showering, taking our medications, making our tea - to the most dedicated and deliberate ceremonies - sex magic, masturbation rituals, and more - this is a call to make our every act sacred, if we so choose.
What to bring: Check back closer to camp for more info.
Flame
Sex with Nature
Air
I need to feel you
suck you from my lovers mouth
and fill them up again with you
Air
suspire away my shame as I contain you until it is almost to late
then release
Air
to re-spirit
Let’s gasp gulp and giggle
Let’s to snore, sneeze snort and sniffle
air with you I pant, whisper and heave Guardians of the watchtowers of the East feel our body prayers of bliss and resistance know we conspire to respire with you
help me catch my breath
Fire
I need you
to feel my heat
friction of bark on skin- sand on skin- fur on skin
Fire let's snap, crackle and pop my desire before breakfast at the rest area
with a hot being in my mouth
in this room right now
Fire teach me of your ways to burn and fuck
spark - flame- embers - ashes
Guardians of the watchtowers of the South
feel our body prayers a blaze with glitter and irreverence
know we alight to insurrection
with you into a trance journey exploring sexual energies and nature, plants and the animals, trees etc.,
Water
I need you
in all of your forms of dripping
disambiguation
Water let’s drool
splash and spray
steam and sprinkle
Water let’s run off together
Dam it
drop by drop by drip by drip
I am learning your preciousness
Guardians of the watchtowers of the West
feel our salivating, lactating squirting prayers for you we are becoming clear in our protection of you
with you
Earth
I need to feel you
under me, on top of me an in me
To stick things in you and to stick your things in me
I surrender to the weight of you sometimes
Earth I need your mud in the folds of me
the taste of berries in my mouth and your poison oak on my ass
This body needs to be soiled, muddied and casted in the evening sun Earth my beloved finds you in petrified form and you fuck us apart together
Guardians of the watchtowers of the North
Feel us listen for you and to you
Feel us touch
with you
Spirit
feel our bodies call to your bodies which are your body and our body you are we are our body are you your body our body
we are you
In sacred space, witches will begin with exploring consent, boundaries and being with nature. On day two, the invitation is to connect to nature by listening and exchanging sexual and sensual energies for the betterment of this site. Both days will end with fire pit dancing and raising energy.
What to bring: item for collective altar, clothing to be comfortable outdoors, journal + pen or art supplies, outdoor seat.