HIDDENWINE presents		Winter 2002
	Martín Prechtel’s Winter Writer’s Retreat Writing for the Indigenous Soul
	Ecstasy, Grief, Irony and Magic: Keeping the seeds of our Indigenous Nature alive in a time of numbness, fire and rubble February 17-24th, 2002 at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico If stories are what can keep the world from burning down, then it is the magical which can keep the seeds of life’s tree-like heart viable and hopeful when the world burns. When a culture refuses to use it’s technology, art and ingenuity to make sacrifices of Beauty to what it can’t see, then the culture itself becomes the sacrifice: minds close, grief goes to revenge, imaginations harden, feeling helpless we bathe in numbness in order to bear it all, while our souls long to run away with the magician. But, that one inside us who makes the magic, the Natural one, the one I call our Invisible Soul, remains undaunted, unwilling to flee away from life wanting only to be at home right where we stand. Alive and courageously in love with living in every condition, the Invisible Soul is the one who cultivates the seeds of magical words and the grief watered use of eloquent language in such a way that our forgotten Indigenous roots are inspired to re-grow a viable tree of culture and possibility right out of the dust and rubble that the world’s addiction to a cynical literalism has left us with. This year at the Winter Writer’s Retreat at Ojo Caliente, our annual Behind the Eyes of Sleeping Bears Writing Conference, I would like to continue with storytelling and story writing, Miss Rosie, metaphor, the literacy of nature, writing as a gift to the Holy and of course the understanding of ancestral prejudices as opposed to the Indigenous Soul, while concentrating more on the writing of magical realism which includes the recognition of Irony whose one foot might be grief and the other ecstasy. It seems to me, now more than ever, as a kindness to our souls and to those subtle churning forces that give us life, that we should come together and with our failures, fears, hopes, loves, beauty, dreams and magic to form strings of words that give courage to our hearts to continue speaking and writing the world back into life. –Martín Prechtel
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	Come join the winter writer's workshop, February 17-24th, 2002, with Martín Prechtel, author of Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart . Possible subjects covered by Martín at his Winter Writer’s Workshop: Letter writing to Gods, Lizards, and Lovers Hearing the Earth's speech, animal talk Finding the language of our Nature to speak back to Nature Making gifts of words to feed the Holy, making failures into spiritual food Story listening, story speaking, story writing Plot lines from nature, the ancestors and the recent life Rhythmic prose Musicality of words Writing and community/togetherness and diversity Learning from ancient writing of the diasporas, and not so ancient writing for today's spiritual diasporas Learning to see out of the eyes of the trout, the tree, the house, the car, the bee, etc. Wrestling the dragon of the verb "to be" Proper usage of adjective pile-up Fencing with Death: the flowering sword of metaphor Language of visionary experience: hunter language, shaman language, codes of the Spiritual	Martín Prechtel For the last couple of years Martín Prechtel, author of “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar” and “Long Life, Honey in the Heart,” has been conducting very successful creative writing workshops where the prose writer, non-writer, poet, and lovers of spiritual literacy can all come together, learn from each other and Martín. Martín Prechtel, an author, teacher, and shaman, was raised in New Mexico on a Pueblo Indian reservation. In 1971 Nicholas Chiviliu, an aging Mayan shaman from Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala called Martín to become his student. Martín lived with Chiviliu for years, was initiated as a shaman and after his teacher’s death, succeeded him, healing and shamanizing among 30,000 Tzutujil Mayans in his new found village. After 1978 Martín became chief initiator and a public leader, guiding the young men through long ceremonies.
	Workshop Details Links Cost is $495.00 $150 deposit due with registration. Refundable until Jan.15th, 2002 less $25 handling fee Space is limited to 60 participants. Please register early. For registration & refund policy see below... Workshop cost DOES NOTinclude lodging and food. Transportation For our out-of-town guests transportation will be available for $60 RT to transport you to and from Ojo Caliente and the Albuquerque airport. Please schedule your flight to arrive before 3 pm on Sunday, Feb 17th , and to leave after 4 pm on Sunday, Feb 24th For more information about Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort visit: http://www.ojocalientespa.com For more information about Hidden Wine events: Call 860-923-6987, or call . E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com/ For more information about Martín Prechtel's Year 2002 Schedule visit: http://floweringmountain.com Workshop Schedule Workshop will begin at 7:30 pm Sunday Evening, Feb 17th , and registration starts at 5 pm in the conference center. Workshop will end no later than 11 am on Sunday, Feb 24th Schedule: Martin will teach for several hours each day - but the times will vary. However there will be plenty of time to enjoy the Hot Springs and natural beauty of the area. Lodging and Food We have reserved all of the cottages and hotel rooms at the Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort at greatly reduced rates. The cost for a cottage is $80/night ( single or double occupancy) plus tax for workshop participants. Hotel rooms are available at $54/night plus tax for single occupancy, $70/night plus tax for double occupancy. Cottage and hotel guests will receive unlimited access to the hot springs and private baths plus a daily wrap ( $20/day value). Call 1-800-222-9162 to reserve your lodging. Make sure you tell them you are registered for the Hidden Wine workshop and if you wish to share a cottage with another participant when reserving your room. They accept all major credit cards. There is a very good restaurant at the hotel, and several others within walking distance. Participants are responsible for their own meals. More information is on the web at http://ojocalientespa.com	Martín resides in New Mexico and works as an author, painter, musician, storyteller, teacher and always, a spiritual activist. Praise for “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar” and "Long Life, Honey in the Heart" "It's a precious thing, this book. I've never known another like it. It's a great encyclopedia of beauty... Like some poems of Neruda's, it is a treasure house of language, in service to life." —Robert Bly "Perhaps most remarkable is the luminous eloquence of Prechtel's language-the book is written in a style that carries something of the flavor of the indigenous oral tradition, a style worthy of the reverence accorded by most oral peoples to the beauty of living language. It's a landmark text...Don't miss it." —David Abram (author of "The Spell of the Sensuous") "Prechtel...shows us how to infuse language with spirit and a sense of the sacred without sacrificing its sensuousness... how a trained bard of a traditionalist society might attack a writing project- with all 20 layers transparent and tingling!" —Steven Larson, for Common Boundary "The Mayan Gods, who hold eloquence above all else, must surely be pleased with this soul, who in this lifetime is named Martín Prechtel." —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run With Wolves "A lyrical, haunting memoir of one man's spiritual rebirth... "Long Life, Honey in the Heart" is a cry from the heart — a lonely yearning for an ancient, beautiful culture now gone forever." —Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking "Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence, wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are."—Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield
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	“Northern New Mexico is one of the most spiritually alive, mysterious and spectacularly beautiful places on Earth. Native Peoples since forever have occupied the forested canyons, all red, yellow, pink, purple, blue, maroon, white, banded and stained, full of caves, and cliff dwelling ruins.	Ojo Caliente Centered in the most strikingly beautiful part of Northern New Mexico, Ojo Caliente hot springs was in use by the native peoples of the area for millenia, and first appeared on Spanish maps in the early 1600's. Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs was established in 1860 and is the oldest health spa in North America. Renowned throughout the world for its healing properties, Ojo Caliente is the only place in the world where the remarkable combination of five different types of mineral waters come streaming to the surface at a rate of more than 100,000 gallons per day. Ojo Caliente, translated from Spanish, means "hot eye"- referring to the hot eye of the spring..
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