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 At Sosyete du Marche, we grow all our own Vodou herbs on the property. Chemical free, sown with love and dedicated to the spirits, our gardens are lush fragrant islands that offer a cool respite from the summer heat. In August, the herbs are bursting with their final energies. This is the right time to harvest them spiritually and to employ them for a very intense weekend of work, scent and trance.
Although we grow everything from medicinal to spiritual, it is the visionary garden that is the most coveted and the most used. Here you will find the herbs we employ throughout the year in our service work - mugwort, wormwood, calea and salvia. Through dedication, knowledgeable use and proper administration, we have developed a close relationship with these plants and have gained intimate knowledge of how to work with them in service.
This third class is dedicated to the use of herbs for Vision Questing - the method of contacting the spirit world that has a firm history in the annals of herbology. Vodou herbs are commonly used in service - for bathes, for cleansing and to bring forth the right energies of the Lwa. They are the Visionary Herbs of the green world. The use of herbs as aromatics for travel is well documented. The Omeira of Santeria and the 21 bathes of the Holy Kanzo in Vodou are designed to remove you from this world and place you in the next, temporarily. Cultures all over the planet have used herbs as a method of out of body travel for ages.
 We will be studying and working with some of the more important herbs of Vodou, employing them for sacramental use as purification, nourishment and enlightenment. You will learn names, taste, use and storage methods. We will employ our distillation still, to create hydrosols from herbs that will be used in the evening vision quest. And we will create one essential oil to be kept by you for vision questing on your own.
The evening ritual will feature astral herbs for use in projection, travel and inner vision. You will be expected to give a full medical history prior to registration. Preexisting conditions such as cardio, asthma or allergies, prescribed medications and other issues will be taken under consideration before administering the brews of the Quest. The Vision Quest is an overnight experience of scent, immersion and ingestion of the herbs, all designed to create trance through which you will find the answers to age old questions. Participants will sleep over night in our temple, so that they can be monitored through out the evening for comfort and safety.
Sunday is dedicated to the practical side of the aromatic arts of Vodou herbs. We will distill several blends of hydrosols for magical use. You will receive at least three compounds created specifically for astral travel. And if we have enough herb, we will distill several essential oils as well. Along with the distillation, you will be instructed on how to created Vodou based brews, bathes, tinctures and washes for your personal use.
You will receive fresh, chemical free herbs, freshly brewed hydrosols and a 300 page book of material to keep. This class is open to everyone who wishes to explore new methods for working with herbs, learning about distillation, hydrosols and the use herbs in a more sacramental mode.
Vision Quest is a two day program, and third in the classes of the Four Circle Program. Anyone may take this class - Four Circle students receive a discount, reflected in their total tuition for the year. Saturday is dedicated to herbal lectures, questions and discussions; harvest and storage methods for the herbs; practical preparations, applications and administrations; the Visionary Dinner and the Vision Quest. Sunday is Distillation, hydrosols and essential oils. The cost for this weekend is $250.00 all inclusive. We accept Paypal, Mastercard, Visa and checks. If you are under contract for the Four Circles program, your fee is stipulated in your contract. Directions, information on what to bring and what to wear will be sent to registered attendees. For questions, please contact Mambo Vye Zo.
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