Morning Star Workshops
Morning Star will be travelling around the world from 2008, sharing a sacred approach to creation with simple skills, earth teachings and wisdom in the following workshops.
Materials included in all workshops
Participants will need to bring a pair of scissors and a hole punch
Workshop 101 - Basix
Knowledge of skins, leather and fur, how it is obtained, how it is cut, its structure, cutting with minimum wastage, tools and their use, needles, threads and construction techniques - 1 day. $100 - includes making a medicine bag!
Workshop 102 - Medicine Bags
Create beautiful leather medicine bags in different sizes, learn how to cut, sew, fringe and decorate leather, to make your own functional medicine bags and pouches. 3 hours of play - choose the size that's right for you small - $35 medium - $50 or Large - $70 or spend a day and make all 3 sizes for $120
Workshop 103 - Animal Medicine Journey
Create a simple no sew medicine bag, receive and understand the various medicines of nature and the animal kingdom plus their medicine stories. Journey to become different creatures in a channelled meditation. This class can also be tailored for children, schools and groups $25 - 2 hrs
Special rate for classes and children
Workshop 203 - Animal Medicine Advanced
Delve deeper into the world of Animal Medicine and discover for yourself the Stargates of Information the creatures of the earth are and their amazing gift of knowledge. Includes making a medicine bag, 4 hours - $52Workshop 104 - Ceremonial Drum and Rattle Making
A fun weekend workshop full of play, storytelling, meditation, ceremony, healings, creation and earth teachings, learn about rawhide from its beginning and recieve an entire skin to bless and create from, learn the best places to cut for drum and rattle pieces, as create your own medicine drum, drumbeater and rattle. $295 for 2 full days.
104a - Rawhide Rattle - learn to work rawhide into a functional rattle for healing and music, plus how to use it and the addition of animal medicine to enhance its medicine use, $75 over 2 x 2 hours for rattles to dry.
Bring along your own handle of wood, antler etc
104b - Rawhide frame Drum & beater- weave your energies into a beautiful rawhide drum, rawhide both sides, with the drum tie, one continuous peace, cut from the same skin as the drum head - 1 day $195
Workshop 105 - Feathers as Medicine Tools
Learn 3 different techniques of making a leather handle for your Smudge Feather. Learn how to cleanse to remove feather eating mites and to use for personal healing and space clearing. Bring your own feather orаfeathers can be supplied, decorate with smaller feathers, fringing, beads and paint.
1 feather for $30 (1.5 hrs), or make all 3 styles for $75 (4hrs)
Includes all raw materials
Workshop 107 - Making rawhide Runes and leather pouch
Make your own rawhide runes as they were made in ancient times, bring along your own scissors and knife to carve the symbols, meditating on each one as you imbue it with your energy. Then create a soft leather pouch to contain them when they dry and harden. 4 hours - $75
Includes all raw materials
Workshop 108 - Make a leather case for your Tarot/Animal/Angel Cards
Make a pouch to protect your precious cards from outside energies, wear and tear. Bring along your cards to make pouch to size, scissors and hole punch. 2 - 3 hours - $55 includes leather, needle & thread
206 Create with Snake and 205 Working with Wings
These advanced classes are for those who discover dead snakes and birds on their journey through life - Contact Morning Star via email for instructions as to preservation etc or keep your snake or bird in the freezer until Morning Star is in your area. Classes by arrangement, also how to use these medicine items for healing and their care.