As of December 1st

That means that we will be scheduling the Open House and making announcements for the start of registration for the February session of Level One.

Check out the REGISTRATION page to reserve your place.

Sneak peak: New Session of Level 1 moves to Fridays 6-9pm

Please note that Level 1 only accepts a max of 5-8 students.

Students in the Community

CMS Students are organizing community activities.

- Healing on Saturdays 1-4pm
- Drumming twice a month Tuesdays 6:30-9pm
- Full Moon esbats
- Fun board gaming Sunday once a month

Check out the calendar here: http://mtl-sacredspace.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html

Level 2 Students Offer Spiritual Healing

Adora Nightingale and Silver Jaye Vienneau will be volunteering their time at the studio on Saturdays between 1pm and 4pm for the month of October. Donations for their services are appreciated to cover rent for the space.

Offered are: Active listening, spiritual guidance, reiki healing, energy sensing, guided grounding, sharing circles, moments of peace.

Suggested donations $5 - $20.

https://www.facebook.com/events/577167115728564/

September 2014 Week 1

Thursday Sept. 4th: Level 4

• Intro to Level 4
• Required & Suggested Books
• About Keeping Records
• Intro to Leadership

Friday Sept. 5th: Level 2

• Intro to Level 2
• Required Readings
• Loading USB keys
• On doing research
• Stone Lore

 Upcoming Events This Month

• Mon. Sept. 8th @ 7pm @ Scarlet's: Katana Moon Full Moon Ritual
• Thurs. Sept. 18th @ 7pm @ Studio: Public Mabon Ritual
• Wed. Sept. 24th @ 7pm @ Studio: Public Dark Moon Esbat
• Sat. Sept. 27th @ 8pm @ Scarlet's: New Moon Momiji Ritual
• Samhain Planning Sessions

Registration & Open House Weekend

Crescent Moon School has run its courses in magic and paganism since 1995. This year is no different as it opens its doors to new students for the Fall 2014 sessions.

Saturday & Sunday
August 30 & 31
11am-6pm

Come meet the teachers and students.
Come see what students in the past have done.
Enjoy a presentation about Scott Cunningham.

Sacred Space Studio
30 Milner #202, Montreal West, Quebec, H4X 1J1
(Bus 162 from Villa Maria)
http://mtl-sacredspace.blogspot.ca/p/contact.html

Students wishing to bring some items for display, or to help set up, should arrive Friday, August 29th.

Registration will be held during the Studio Sacred Space Open House Saturday & Sunday, August 30 & 31, 11am through 6pm.

Scott Cunningham presentation: 2pm

Students registering for a session, please bring cash.

Level 1 (with T. Scarlet Jory)
Wednesdays 6-9pm - Starting September 10th for 20 weeks
$450 divided into 3 equal payments of $150 every 6 weeks (Includes 3 workbooks & a reading pack)

Level 2 (with Scarlet)
Fridays 6-9pm - Starting September 5th for 24 weeks
$450 divided into 3 equal payments of $150 every 8 weeks (readings and supplies extra)

Level 4 (with Scarlet)
Private timing
$450 divided into 3 equal payments of $150 every 8 weeks (readings and supplies extra)

Navel / Sacral Chakra

Navel/Sacral Chakra: Svadhisthana (sweetness)

This chakra is about Water, being fluid and adaptable, about pleasure, and about the Right to feel. You have the right to feel the way you feel, to be give and receive pleasure.All emotions have a right to be felt.

I FEEL

Location: womb, pelvic basket, bladder, genitals, kidneys, lower back
Element: Water
Energy State: Liquid
Color: red, peach, orange
Instrument: strings that are plucked or hammered (piano, harp, guitar), copper/metal drums
Metals: copper
Stones: carnelian, coral, pearl, orange calcite
Herbs / scents: orris, clove, vanilla, orange, citrus, jasmine, ylang ylang, copal
Foods: water, citrus fruit juices, orange tea, rooisbos tea, milk (almond or coconut), soups, oranges, canteloup, watermelon, melons, butternut squash, carrots

This chakra is associated with: female sexual energy, sexual passion, pleasure, emotions, change, creativity, joy, fertility, desires, procreation, sex, attraction, movement, balance.

This chakra is cluttered and blocked up by: a sense of guilt (feeling like you have done something wrong/criminal/against the laws or norms)

Yin & Yang are an excellent analogy of the fluidity and balance of this chakra. The attraction of opposites, the movement and dance they engage in, the fact that there is a little of the other in each one.

Please invites us to expand, while pain generally makes us contract. What brings you pleasure? What hurts you?

The word "emotion" comes from emote which means to move out or to express.

While sex, sexual or sacred union, and sexuality are aspects of this chakra, so is nurturing. Caring for the needs of the body, loving the body, touching the body, feeding the soul.

You have the right to feel, the right to feel the feelings you have.

~ MOVE / TOUCH / PLEASURE ~

Please yourself. Touch and be touched. Care for and love the body you inhabit. Nurture it and celebrate it.

Affirmations:

I feel.

 I am alive and joyful.

I am in the flow of my life.

I am in tune with my emotion.

I love my body.

 Exercises & Activities:

1. Water cleansing: bath/shower, wash things in your environment
2. Drink water
3. Swim
4. Yoga Goddess pose
5. pelvic rocking
6. Hoolahoop
7. Scissor kicking while on back
8. Massage of lower back, buttocks, and abdomen
9. Have sex: solo or with someone else
10. Emotional release: laugh, yell, cry
11. Dance

Psychology:

• Initiative vs Guilt
• Industry vs Inferiority
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Love and Belongingness

Things to think about and journal:

1. Can I do this? Do I need help?
2. How moral am I? Are my feelings right or wrong?
3. Am I good at what I can do?
4. What is pleasure?
5. What brings me pleasure and joy?
6. What changes have happened in my life?
7. How do I feel?
8. How do I identify and connect with Water?
9. What undermines my sense of self-worth?
10. What do I feel guilty for? How have to committed wrongs or who have you wronged?
11. What do you need to forgive yourself for?
12. What does it mean that you have the Right to Feel?
13. How can you bring joy into your life?
14. What can you do to increase passion, sensuality, and pleasure in your life?

Spiritual Lesson: 

Lessons of the Personal Creativity 

Go Fund This Community Space

Root Chakra

Root Chakra: Muladhara (Root Support)

This chakra is about the Earth, being grounded, and about the Right to be and to have. You have the right to have what you need, to be who you are, and to be where you are. You have the right to exist.

I AM

Location: Base of spine, perinium, lower male genetalia, hip ball joint, legs, knees, feet, bones
Element: Earth
Energy State: Solid
Color: Black, brown, deep red
Instrument: deep base sounds: base, cello, mostly though the drum
Metals: Lead, iron
Stones: Hematite, onyx, obsidian, jet, tourmaline, smokey quartz, red jasper, garnet, ruby
Herbs / scents: Black earth, oakmoss, Irish moss, patchouli, vetivert, cedar, red sandalwood, sytax/storax, myrrh
Foods: dark beverages (black tea, coffee), dark red fruits (raspberries, dark cherries, pamegranate), beets, heavy grain breads, proteins, root vegetables, red meat, thick earthy matcha tea

This chakra is associated with: survival, needs, security, self-preservation, physical identity, grounding, stability, male sexual energy, instincts, primal self, safety.

This chakra is cluttered and blocked up by: fear (whatever triggers the fight/flight/freeze response)

Working with this chakra means you are focusing on your physical self and your base needs for survival. Those base needs are: SAFETY, SECURITY, FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, CLOTHING. You are striving for a sense of safety, security and stability. A sense of groundedness. Strong foundations in your life from which to build yourself up on.

Set your personal limits. Draw that line in the proverbial sand regarding what you will not tolerate, At what point is it "crossing the line" and infringing on your sense of safety; when is it invading your "right to have and be?

Simplify aspects in your life.
Explore ways of managing and coping with stress.
Rest. Be STILL. There is clarity in stillness.

~ BE STILL ~

 Take care of your body. It is the only one you have. This is the wake up call to listen to your body's needs and address them.

Affirmations:

I am.

 I am grounded and connected to the earth.

I am willing to accept myself and others.

I am open to trusting myself.

 Exercises & Activities:

1. grounding meditations
2. laying on back, draw knee to chest
3. yoga bridge pose
4. laying on back with feet in the air
5. tense and flex for deep relaxation
6. sitting legs out, bend to touch head to knees
7. sitting feet together, draws them close, bend to touch brow to floor
8. yoga elephant stretch
9. yoga downward dog
10. martial arts horse stance
11. stamping your feet
12. earthing: walking in rich earth or on sand or soft grass
13. bouncing on your toes
14. running and jogging
15. resting, giving yourself permission to 'do nothing"
16. pedicure
17. foot massage
18. sleeping

Psychology:

• Trust vs Mistrust 
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Physiological & Safety Needs

Things to think about and journal:

1. what is your personal gorunding method?
2. what does stability mean to you?
3. how/when do you feel safe and secure?
4. consider your most basic instincts and practice trusting them
5.  how do you identify/connect with the earth?
6. what is fear?
7. what do you fear?
8. how can you come to terms with your fears?
9. what does it mean: you have the right to have?
10. how can you simplify?
11. how do you feel about the management of your finances?

Spiritual Lesson: 

Lessons of the material world 

Chakra Healing Series

Mondays, July 7th through August 25th, 7-9pm
$300 for all 8 classes (saving $100 if prepaid in full) or $50 per class
Location: Espace Yama Naka (4063 St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec H2W 2M7)

Welcome to this weekly in-depth exploration of the chakras. Each week will focus on a different chakra with the first class being a cleansing of the auric bodies. Learn about blocks and how to release them, correspondences to help you tap into the chakra energies and cleanse your own chakras, and exercises to help you become more in tune with each chakra.

*Please bring a cup for tea at the start of each class, wear comfortable yoga clothing (first class, try to wear red, brown or black) and bring a yoga mat and cushion.

(Maximum 8 students for Series)

Please contact Scarlet at scarletcougar@gmail.com

Payments can be arranged privately through her or sent via paypal to to the same email address.

Also, you can join the FaceBook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/670556166366001/

New Site for the School

Welcome to the new website for CMS. Most of the core information pages are up. Some will receive additional information over the coming week. And others have yet to get information. Please be patient and enjoy!

Let me know any suggestions you might have.