Our sense of wonder has got to go into what our hands can do. It can't just stay in our heads. The hands are so holy. What they make is just as eloquent as what our tongues can speak. And when the hands are done speaking, you have a beauty you can handle!
~ Martín Prechtel
In all the years I studied with Martín Prechtel, nothing struck me more deeply than his fierce, heart-rooted knowing: our hands—and the beauty they create—can lead us into true reciprocity with the Land and into the bone memory of our ancestors.
At the core of this program is the understanding that mythology is an ancestral guide, carrying timeless wisdom that connects us to the rhythms and stories of our inner homelands. Myths are seed jars, storing the knowledge of generations and offering guidance in the journey of Soul and Initiation.
This program brings the wisdom of myth into conversation with the sacred practice of creating beauty with our hands. Through handwork, participants will create offerings to the Land, to the Holy in Nature with Copper and Bone. These acts of creation deepen our connection to ancestral stories and invite us into a relationship with the sacred land.
Art becomes prayer, and myth guides our hands into deeper belonging.
By merging mythic exploration with handwork, Copper and Bone offers a soul-rooted journey to ancestral wisdom, beauty making, and sacred reciprocity.
When: May 3rd, 2025
Time: 10am-5pm
Where: Cedarsong Centre for Wild Belonging
Cost: $126
Stephanie MacKay is the founder of Myth Club and Co-founder and Director of Fianna Wilderness School. She specializes in ancestral knowledge, earth-based skills, ceremony and myth. She has a degree in literature, and her work is informed by over 15 years of practice and study through Animas Valley Institute, Haven Institute, Wilderness Awareness School, and 12 years of study with Martín Prechtel.
She is a fiercely compassionate facilitator, mentor and guide in search of perspectives and practices to deepen the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Stephanie is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of old European mythologies, within our own bodies, and within our ancestral memory.