Classes
A list of Feri initiates
offering their skills as teachers of Feri craft.

Updated 10/12/2011

"Our Pagan community is growing and showing much bright promise. The Craft is a tough weed that will grow many strange flowers and bear strange fruits, so we must try and tolerate different ways of practicing it. Learn from what we see and if we cannot use it, let the others try, even if they eat bad fruit and go balls up!"

—Victor Anderson,
Green Egg, Vol. XXVI, No. 100, Spring 1993

Being listed here is in no way an endorsement of a teacher's practices.
Use your own better judgment when choosing a teacher.

F(a)eri(e) Tradition

The teachers listed here practice and teach various forms of the Feri tradition passed down from the teachings of Victor and Cora Anderson. While there may be even significant differences in their approach and practice, they are listed together to reflect their common initiatory lineage.

Anaar (South Bay Area, CA) Long-time student and initiate of the Andersons, also had some early training with Bloodrose. Named Feri Grandmaster by Cora Anderson. Artist and owner of Tombo Studio. Emphasis on the creative arts as a gateway to Feri.

J'té Argent (Boulder Creek, SF Bay Area, Monterey Bay Area, CA, Long Distance and Travel) FireDrakeFeri, developed by J'té Argent & Alison Harlow, combines the teachings of Wings of Vanthi, Grandma Julie of the Tower family, Underworld/Overworld workings and connective magick of the Great Redwoods. Emphasis on personal union with Elemental Beings and Guardians; deep rapport with the Dark Goddess; direct intercourse with the Earth; profound relationship to Feri Gods (all Gods are Feri Gods); folkloric compact of the Fae; consistent use of the Feri Pentacles and basic Feri Practices. Courses taught in Boulder Creek take place in a Great Redwood Grove year-round.

Jenya T. Beachy (Santa Cruz, CA, Long Distance and Travel)  Shapeshifter Line ~ In Practice and Teaching,  we focus on:  Engaging and aligning the Three Souls for Poetry, Wisdom and Magick;  Keeping Kala for self-healing and empowerment;  Walking as ethical Warriors in all the Worlds, with the primary goal of Living in Accordance with Our Divine Will.  Early and intermediate training offered locally and at a distance.  More information here.

Chas Bogan (Walnut Creek, CA, and Long Distance) Co-creator of FeriTradition.com, production designer for Witch Eye magazine, an artist and craftsman for Carnivalia, and with his husband Storm Faerywolf runs the store The Mystic Dream. His creativity was born from his work in Feri, and is a focus of his training. In person and long-distance, he teaches a lineage of Feri that is focused on the individual, accomplishing the Great Work through Feri's eccstatic practices.

Karina BlackHeart (Northeast, Long Distance, and Travel) BlackHeart line. Feri Initiate offering early training in person or over distance.  Advanced training in person.  Available for workshops and intensives.  Strong emphasis on the ecstatic embodiment of Feri lore and practice.

Georgia Midnight Crow  (West Sussex, England) Reclaiming-Feri initiate. Offers a two and a half year intensive training in foundational witchcraft skills core to the Reclaiming and Feri Traditions. Uses the creative arts, devotional practices, and integration of Reclaiming-Feri spiritual/magical lore. Teach in a class structure and one on one.

Dominic Elemirion (Albany, CA)

Storm Faerywolf (Walnut Creek, CA, Long Distance, and Travel) Originally trained and initiated in the BloodRose line, he continues his studies with several branches of the tradition, which he incorporates into his own line of Feri, BlueRose. He holds the Black Wand, is the co-creator of FeriTradition.com, and is the editor of Witch Eye: A Journal of Feri Uprising. Classes focus on ecstatic practice, working with spirits, traditional lore, artistic expression, folkloric faery practices, and queer mysteries. Teaches using the class and apprenticeship models.

Anne-Marie — Bríghde Éire (Buckinghamshire, England) Feri initiate, adopted into the Reclaiming Tradition. Offers a two and a half year intensive training in foundational witchcraft skills core to the Reclaiming and Feri Traditions. Uses the creative arts, devotional practices, and integration of Reclaiming-Feri spiritual/magical lore. Teach in a class structure and one on one.

Deborah Oak (SF, CA) Teaches core classes in Reclaiming tradition magic, takes on individual Reclaming Feri students, does workshops in the integration of the traditions; Reclaming Feri. Her blog can be found at: branchesup.blogspot.com

Jenny Sill-Holeman (San Francisco Peninsula, CA) An experiential approach to the cosmology and practices of Feri, plus inner personal work to prepare to handle Feri power and do effective magic. Students are also expected to do assignments outside of class.

Kaeli Singer (Seattle, WA) Initiated in 1995 into Nightwing, a Feri coven based in Seattle. Emphasis on scholarship and musical expression. All teaching is one on one rather than in classes.

StarChild (San Diego, CA) "I have studied with Dominic for 9 years, and was initiated in 2003. I teach as it was taught to me. To which I have added my own splash of queer shamanism, guidance from personal spirits, divine intervention, and Zen influences."

Kathryn Tinuviel (San Diego, CA) Was brought before the gods of Feri after 9 years of study and practice with Dominic Elemirion. Classes will lead you deep into yourself where you will discover the darkness filled with a million stars.

Valerie Voight (Palo Alto, CA) Studied with Victor and Gabriel; Works in formal ritual style derivative of Bloodrose. Emphasis on scholarship, discipline, and practice; and, like Vanthi line, incorporates techniques from Julie Tower. Regards Feri as Witchcraft, but not Wicca.

Valerie Walker (San Francisco, CA) Feri: A toolkit for approaching Self and Others in and between the worlds. Constantly evolving and changing, Feri plays with paradox. Don't like the Lore? Go out and make some of your own.

 

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Branches of the Feri Tradition

There is much diversity within the larger body of the Feri tradition. Even more if you take into consideration the many branches or paths that have been inspired from Feri power and practice.

What follows are some variants of Feri that utilize many of the tools and practices of the Mother tradition, while offering a unique initiatory lineage. Teachers listed here have indicated that they also offer an initiatory lineage in the Mother tradition as well as that of the particular branch they represent. Contact individual teachers for more information about their practice and lineage.


The Third Road

The Third Road™ was begun by Feri initiate Francesca DeGrandis in an effort to provide the tools of Feri in a way that is safe for the student. Much emphasis is placed on personal healing and Goddess spirituality. Contact individual teachers for more info.

Carrie Vadnais-Barraco (Auburn, NY)

Laura Gail (Greenfield, MA)

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