Laura Tempest Zakroff's Offerings (2024)
Art, Magic & Divination
Visual Alchemy – From Creation to Connection
Since the beginning of time, humanity has made art as a way to affect, influence and seek order in the seen and unseen world. In turn, art has initiated civilization, crafted community, and created culture. Art is (and should be) accessible to all, helping us to explore ourselves while collaborating with others. In this lecture we’ll explore art as essential magic – not only as a tool for tapping into our own power, but also how we can connect and collectively build common ground together.
Recommended time: 90 minutes to 2 hours.
Tech needs: students will be drawing on letter-size sheets of paper, so room for them to do this and to move around.
The Art of Sigil Witchery
Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Explore a fresh, innovative and intuitive approach to crafting your own designs. Tracing through history, art, and culture, we’ll look at the basic elements that make up all symbols, consider meanings, and see how to safely and respectfully incorporate them into your own personal practice. Bring a writing implement and notebook.
Recommended time: minimum 90 minutes, ideally 2 hours
Tech needs: requires the use of whiteboard/poster pad/easel, projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
Advanced Sigil Witchery
Ready to refine your sigil-making practice? If you’ve taken “Sigil Witchery” from LTZ before or have read their book, then you’re ready to take this workshop. We will delve deeper into key design elements, incorporating ritual processes, and collectively creating sigils for groups & shared magic applications.
Recommended time: minimum 90 minutes, ideally 2 hours
Tech needs: requires the use of whiteboard/poster pad/easel, projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
The Witch’s Art
Artist, designer, and author Laura Tempest Zakroff will share with you the processes behind the creation of her art and the items she designs, and where it merges with magick, spellcraft, and devotional work. She will also guide you through how to consider integrating art and design into your own practice. Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: requires projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
Tarot by Number: Meaning, Movement, & Magic
Discover the power and energy present in numbers and the profound magic of math to help guide you through both the Major and Minor Arcana in a way that is both fun and memorable – even if you think you are not good at math! With over 25 years of practice rooted in merging movement, magic, and art, Tempest’s unique approach to the Tarot helps to open up its mysteries in new ways for any level of practitioner and can be applied to multiple kinds of cartomancy.
Recommended time: minimum 90 minutes, ideally 2 hours
Tech needs: requires the use of projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
Tempest’s Tips for Tarot
Do you find Tarot intriguing but overwhelming to learn? Tempest’s unique approach to the Tarot can help open up its mysteries, make it more accessible, and get you on your way to understanding how to read it more effectively. Through the lens of Modern Traditional Witchcraft, we will look at easy to follow spreads, break down the patterns, symbols, and their meanings, as well as establish key basics that every reader should know to build a solid foundation. It is recommended that you have a deck on hand for the class that you want to work with, but not required. In preparation for the workshop, order your deck from 0-21, and ace to king for each suite.
Recommended time: 2-3 hours minimum
Tech needs: requires projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
Witchcraft & Spiritual Practice
Weave The Liminal: Crafting Authentic Witchcraft
What does it mean to be an authentic Witch? Who or what sets the bar for authenticity? How can it define or impede your path? How do you find what is the best practice for you? Discover the Modern Traditional Witch’s RITES: Roots, Inspiration, Time, Environment, and Star. These make up a dynamic system that centers around key elements essential for crafting an effective practice that works for you. Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Exploring the Anatomy of a Witch
Discover the five essential organs or systems that enable a Witch to more fully embody their magic and develop their personal practice. From symbol to synergy, we will use the metaphysical body of the Witch as a guide to tapping into the greatest and most powerful tool in our possession – our own physical bodies. Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: can have an accompanying slideshow if space allows, otherwise not necessary.
The Witch’s Art and Craft of Ritual
Ritual is an important but often misunderstood tool in Witchcraft. In this workshop we’ll explore the many diverse facets and types of ritual that you can utilize in your regular practice. We’ll also delve into how to design ritual that’s powerful and effective – whether you’re looking for something for your personal practice or creating ritual for groups.
Recommended time: 90 minutes to 2 hours
Tech needs: requires projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
The Business of Witchcraft
One of the key lessons to learn from Witchcraft is that there’s always an exchange of energy involved. Time and effort spent is a kind of currency, whether you’re meditating, performing rituals, making offerings, crafting spells, gathering wisdom, or tending to people, places, and things. In this workshop we’ll explore what happens when money enters into the magical equation including: vocational framing, energy exchange, personal values, presentation, finances, goals, client needs, health, boundaries and more.
Recommended time: 90 minutes to 2 hours
Tech needs: requires projector set-up for PC laptop presentation
Luminous Numina & Strange Bedfellows:
Working Effectively with Diverse Deities in Witchcraft
The place where Witchcraft and the Divine intersect can be a complicated and confusing place to sort out. What does it mean to work with Gods? How does one initiate such a relationship? Are we supposed to connect with the divine strictly defined by genetic markers running through our veins? What does that even mean or work when we come from a mix of cultures or may not even know our roots? What if our spiritual roots call to deities beyond our DNA and immediate cultural contexts? Can you choose your own pantheon? Do you even need deities for your practice to work? In this workshop we will tackle all these tough questions and explore how to work with different gods in order to have a (relatively) peaceful pantheon and personal practice
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
We Are Aradia – Empowerment Workshop & Ritual with Tempest
#WeAreAradia reminds us: “These are the times we were made for.” The Goddess Diana saw her people were suffering from tyranny. She sent her daughter Aradia to earth to teach us the secrets of witchcraft so that we could rise up. We don’t need a savior. We must save ourselves. We need to be the Witches the world needs. This presentation will have two parts: first the workshop/discussion, followed by a ritual. In the workshop section, we’ll cover some history (ancient and modern), look at practical witchery (offensive and defensive), discuss resources and ideas to fortify your practice. In the ritual part, we will invoke Aradia to once again bring her wisdom to us – to protect, guide, and strengthen: to empower everyone who needs it.
Recommended time: 90 minutes to 2 hours.
Custom workshops and ritual can be
created for special events and offerings as well!
Dance & Movement-Oriented Offerings**
Activating the Witch’s Body
In this body-focused workshop, we will be exploring the 5 symbolic systems of Witch’s Anatomy (Lungs, Heart, Serpent, Bones, Weaver) through movement so that you can animate your magical practice in new and simple but effective ways – for ritual, spellcraft, divination and beyond. While this is a movement-oriented class, it is not a “dance” heavy experience and is accessible to all genders, ages, body types, and abilities.
Stirring The Cauldrons
In this ritual-meets-workshop, we’ll use the mythology of the Cauldrons of Poesy as a guide to experience how simple movements, altar work, and visualization techniques can invigorate our magical practice regardless of age, ability, experience, or tradition. These Cauldrons help us connect the mind, body, and spirit, aiding us to become more present in our physical and emotional selves – which in turn empowers our magical practice.Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker, live music support if applicable
Into the Labyrinth: Change Through Movement
Life is a labyrinth: we are constantly moving through layers to reveal ourselves. In this workshop, we will work with physical movements that will aid in uncovering the various layers of our psyche (playing with age, identity, ability, and roles), as well as help us to connect with the journey of others. Discover sacred and ecstatic movement that you can incorporate into your own practices and rituals. Comfortable clothing is recommended.
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker
Merging Movement with Ritual
Ritual is a dynamic union of self and spirit, above and below—so why should it be static? Learn to incorporate movement into your ritual with focused intention and discover a much more powerful experience. We’ll look at the parts of various rituals from start to end, and how different sacred movements (gestures and dance steps) can be applied –for groups as well as solitary practitioners.
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker, live music support if with band
When you dance, are you just going through the motions, or are you connecting to your movements at a deeper level? Learn how to bring meaning and expression to your dance from the inside out. Discover the energy and meaning behind core dance moves, shapes, and patterns – which will help you create more meaningful and impactful dance work – whether building a choreography or improvising in the moment.
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker, live music support if with band
Hekate At The Crossroads Ritual
In honor of the goddess Hekate, we shall meet at the Crossroads, engaging in a ritual that combines live music, sacred dance, and embodied movement to allow us to see where we have come from, where we are at, and where we are going- individually and as a community. Tempest and Nathaniel Johnstone will present an ecstatic rite that fuses together elements of Modern Traditional Witchcraft, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Dance, Inspired World Music, and Ritual Performance. You will be welcomed to participate at your own level of comfort, no dance or ritual experience necessary.
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker, live music support
A Revel for Pan – Music & Dance Ritual Experience
Come to a revelry for Pan – satyr-shaped Greek god of nature, wild things, border places, and music. Pan is a mixture of mayhem and melancholy, merriment and mysticism. A vessel of wisdom in his own way, Pan pushes those who encounter or call upon him to experience life more fully, and more intimately. Tempest and Nathaniel will lead the evening through improvisational music and dance that fuses together elements of Modern Traditional Witchcraft, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Dance, Inspired World Music, and Ritual Performance.
Recommended time: 1 hour to 90 minutes
Tech needs: line-in to speaker, live music support
**Please note that all movement/dance offerings require stable flooring, room for participants to move about freely, and all have live music accompaniment except “Into the Labyrinth” unless otherwise requested/determined