with Luna Crow and Selene Rising
This Path explores the lived relationship between sovereignty and sacred submission—how authority over one’s own body, choices, and magic can coexist with devotion, receptivity, and freely chosen service. Grounded in embodied, earth-honoring practice, this Path approaches submission not as loss of power, but as a conscious orientation toward focus, devotion, and purpose.
Within witchcraft traditions, personal sovereignty is foundational: each of us remains the final authority over our body, our consent, and our magic. From that ground, many witches feel called toward practices of surrender and service—devotion to a deity, submission within consensual power exchange, or commitment to a sacred task or community. This Path explores how submission can arise from sovereignty rather than stand in opposition to it.
The focus of this Path is sacred submission and receptivity as spiritual practices and forms of leadership. While polarity and power dynamics are part of the work, this Path does not teach the skills of dominance. Instead, we center the submissive position as a site of discernment, devotion, energetic authority, and ethical responsibility—exploring how submission can move power, shape reality, and serve life when it is chosen, revocable, and anchored in self-knowledge.
Through ritual, guided visualization, discussion, and embodied practice, participants will explore offering and receiving, opening and shielding, attention and intention. We will reflect on worthiness, trust, personal codes of honor, and how submission can function as spell, prayer, and priestessing—particularly in times when false authority and coercive power are on the rise.
All practices are invitational and adjustable. Participants are encouraged to listen to their bodies, pace themselves, and opt in or out as needed; consent, nervous-system care, and aftercare are treated as sacred and integral to the work.
This Path welcomes witches of many traditions, bodies, identities, and relationship structures. You do not need to identify as submissive, kinky, or partnered to attend.
Please bring:
One sacred object representing your sovereignty
One sacred object representing your submission
A journal or Book of Shadows and a pen
Comfort items such as water, layers, and something to sit on
We come to this work not as theorists, but as practitioners whose bodies, relationships, and magic have been shaped by devotion, erotic truth, and the ongoing practice of choosing submission with eyes open and power intact.
Generating Eros
with Maze/Melanie Griffin and Lark Lyra Hill
Let's tap into our creativity and explore the erotic in our everyday life. Do you ever feel shy or embarrassed to admit what you fantasize about? Do you find yourself grappling with the cop in your head? Do you ever get bored of your stale old spank bank? Together we will practice generating and sharing fantasies so that we can feel more free to play and explore parts of ourselves that we hide in polite society.
In this workshop, Maze and Lark will introduce a number of exercises intended to stimulate our erotic creativity, process the larger forces that erect and depress our erotic currents, and muster the courage needed to share fantasies in the company of others. We will build a shared altar, co-lead a group trance, play silly games and end the weekend with a short story or skit to perform in front of others (if you want).
The Role of Play
with Robin Bean Crane and Cielo
Let’s bring more play into our play. This Path will focus on the art of the scene. We’ll build skills for deeper presence and creativity from the breath up, tending our nervous systems as we explore aspects of our inner landscapes. We are interested in welcoming “characters” who live inside you and might not usually get a chance to express themselves and their desires - perhaps ones who bring needs and challenges that want to be transformed, ones that are shy or repressed, ones that need more slowness or presence.
We’ll take time in solo exploration to find shape and give voice to a character, rooted in practices from the world of clown, drag, psychodrama, ensemble devising, and ritual theater. We’ll then bring these internal characters into the collective, working with guided improvisation and role play to put our characters into relationship with one another.
This trajectory culminates in co-creating elements of scenes that participants could choose to build upon in ritual play space later that evening and beyond. We believe scene work is a way to “rehearse our liberation” and build a world where all can thrive. No acting or performance experience needed, and there will always be multiple modifications to participate including witnessing.