NOX: a night soul-journey
PROGRAM DETAILS
This ritual and workshop are an intensive run over one day, from 1pm until midnight with an optional free darshan on a follow-up day or evening. We provide a detail workshop to explore the techiques used in the ritual practicum. It also covers aspects of the rites Qabalah, it's mythology and work on trance-dance. The follow-up darshan is a chance to explore your experiences from the NOX ritual and learn new techniques for exploring your magickal practices.
SYDNEY: The workshop and ritual will be run on Saturday, 20 March 2010, from 1pm until midnight, with a dinner break between the two parts of the event. The following day you are invited to join us to explore indepth your experiences at private location, in the late morning. To secure your booking please register as soon as are sure you can make this next date! See SYDNEY Booking > info for the NOX
MELBOURNE: A second workshop and ritual is now to be run for Melbourne people on Saturday, 27-28 February 2010, from 1pm until midnight. The following day you are invited to join us to explore indepth your experiences at private location, in the late morning. To secure your booking please register as soon as are sure you can make this next date! See MELBOURNE Booking > info for the NOX
The NOX ritual workshop is available to a limited of number people, so we encourage you to register as soon as you can to avoid disappointment. These events are run only as time permits and so we can't guarantee future dates at this stage.
REGISTERING TO COME
The cost for this one-day workshop is $80 and covers refreshments, the afternoon workshop and evening ritual. Those returning to further their practice and reimmerse themselves in the NOX are encouraged to attend and register for $20. The evening meal is not covered, but will be taken at one of the one of the inexpensive cafes in Ultimo. The workshop fee also covers your NOX handout and other ritual materials. Please read through the full details below and complete the 'Registration' process in two steps.
STEP 1
You can register by making a direct debit deposit of the whole fee $80 or a part deposit of $50. Returning Ritualist pay only $20. The balance must be paid a week prior to the event. Please note all deposits are non-refundable.
Sydney deadline 3 day before Saturday 20 2010.
Melbourne CLOSED.
BANK: WESTPAC BSB 032024 A/C 603929
Account name: Victoria Collins/Tim Hartridge
Description: 'Your name'
*IMPORTANT: Please email us once you make a payment and include the transaction number so we can attribute your payment. Thank you.
Step 2
Your next step is to register your contact details with us. It is also a chance to tell us something about yourself and your interests. This information will be kept confidential.
NOX workshop Registration Form – Sydney >
NOX workshop Registration Form – Melbourne >
NOX was a truly transformational and healing experience.
...I experienced energy so powerful that it racked my body back and forth like a serpent, drum rhythms I've never played before, then I turned into a cat!!!! I feel like I've been to voodoo land and back!” – Clare
SYDNEY DATE: Saturday, 20 March 2010
We recommend you arrive 30 minutes before the workshop. The Ultimo Covenstead will be open from 12.30pm with the workshop starting promptly at 1pm.
WHERE:
ULTIMO covenstead.
The gallery is entered from a back street, Henry Avenue. Come straight up, checking in with Tori, slip-off your shoes and have a cup of tea or freshly brewed coffee.
For details on directions - see this MAP link to the covenstead >
Also see the bottom of the page for Transport information.
ACCOMMODATION:
For those visiting Sydney and wishing stay overnight or for the whole weekend, the Lord Wolseley Hotel also some rooms available.
Please go to this link for the Lord Wolseley Hotel >
At a following session we hold a sharing of insights to our experiences from the NOX ritual. Tim will also introduce particiapnts to the techniques of symbol incubation, reimmersion and embodiement of trance experiences. Location to be advised.
MELBOURNE DATE: Saturday, 27 February 2010
We recommend you arrive 30 minutes before the workshop. The Abbotsford Convent will be open from 1.00pm with the workshop starting promptly at 1.30pm.
WHERE:
Contact us for details. info@witchesworkshop.com
For those coming to the darshan (a discussion, sharing and symbol immersion session) the following morning at about 11am, in which we welcome the sharing of insights to our experiences from the previous night's ritual. Tim will also introduce particiapnts to the techniques of symbol incubation, reimmersion and embodiement of trance experiences. Location to be advised.
It was so great to be among so many good people. It was an experience I will always remember and treasure. I enjoyed each and every workshop and ritual I participated in. I know one thing for sure, the NOX raised my Kundalini and we all raised Baphomet.” – Kay
DAY WORKSHOP
The NOX ritual is a highly stylised rite, incorporating a number of practices drawn from the Middle-East as well as the Western Mystery Traditions. These include dances from the Sufi (also called Dervish), a practice of whirling as well as chanted mantra inspired from the Thelemic magickal text Liber AL.
The Sufi call the whirling dance-rites samâ, which strictly means listening. In the early part of the day we will practice listening, while learning to play the zaar drum rthythm and intoned NOX mantra. We will then proceed to the techniques of the whirling-Dervish dance, followed by the ritual practicum of the NOX.
Throughout the afternoon we'll examine the Qabalah of the NOX rite, including it's many Tarot and Gematria attributes. We will explore the use of other practical elements such as the magickal correspondences of incense, colour, animal totems and ritual tools.
We will break for dinner around 6pm, using one of the inexpensive local cafe-restaurants for a relaxed meal. Afterwards we will head back to the ritual space eith at Ultimo (or the Sylph gallery when held in Katoomba) to prepare for the ritual.
I have just returned from Euphoria (retreat) and found it so empowering with the Rituals and workshops. I came with an open mind and gained so much with the intiation into NOX and finding the Goddess within and the wild beast in the Baphomet Ritual, not forgetting new and special friends.” – Garry
NIGHT RITUAL
The night is dedicated to the immersion into the NOX rite, as well as a special induction ceremony. You are first admitted to the membership of the Circle followed by a celebration, sharing sheesha, fruits, wines, water and dance. As the zikr ('remembering way') hour arrives, our camp-fires are dowsed revealing the Night.
This ritual event will be a chance to take this night soul-journey via ritual magick and trance work practiced earlier in the day to profoundly deeper levels. From an oasis of soma we will enter the sacred spaces of NOX.
From our experience in group ritual work, these practices are purposely designed to help trigger an inner transofrmative experience necessary for psychic development and true Initiation.
This weekend has been a mind-blowing, life-changing event. The energy in the rituals was beyond the scale of anything else I have experienced before; the loving, caring community environment made me feel at home.” – Rebecca
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BRING:
Most of your practical needs are taken care of so all you need to bring are items of a more personal nature. This is a robed ritual so you will need a robe or other magickal attire and a grimoire (your notebook) – these are the only two essential items. However, if you have any drums, rattles, or manjira (Indian ankle bells) please bring these. In addition, if you enjoy bellydance please bring shimmy, zills, and head-scarfs.
SYDNEY NOX Registration – please fill in this form >
MELBOURNE NOX Registration – please fill in this form >
Your workshop Sydney Facilitators are Tim Hartridge, Tori Collins, Lisa Mason, Will Smith and Pip Moore.
Your workshop Melbourne Facilitators are Tim Hartridge, Hawthorn, Sheila Reynold, Rebecca Sonkkila and Rachel Gleeson.