Vacation 2004: Sections of Festival

There was quite a number of different sections during the Festival. In principle, one could skip an of them and spend time on the beach or fishing. But most people attended some sections during the Festival. They included crafts, magics, physical excerices and rituals. Day usually began with Qi-gong or other excercises, time before and after lunch was reserved for bigger sections, after supper we danced and watched/played improvised performaces. Photos below are just showing some of the sections. More thorough report could be found in my personal photoalbum at foto.zlo.ee/johnny.



Ceramic section was one of the most popular. Spanned over the whole last week it was fun for the teacher, Vadim, and 23 interested learners. This was just one of crafts covered by festival. Another was making a personal bumerang. On the photo below you can see Aydar with his younger son and number of bumerangs.



Magic rituals included building and using deeply spiritual things [that I personally did not understand] like the Ring, the Spiral, the Labirynth (below) and the Gates. All of them pretty magical, of cause.



People were also drinking Yerba Mate (ritually), making their own Masks of Power, attended Shaman Practices section. I also was on one of shaman things, when teacher told us how to try to get more information through ears and fingers rather than eyes. I guess it was fun to see people roaming in the woods with theys eyes shut and closed by bands. One of the most enjoyed sections for me and lot of others was section called "Mystery of Sound". It wasn't too wise or esoteric - we just sat and listened to Sergei Gasanov. He is a musician from St. Petersburg, who is able to play quite exotic instruments.



Gasanov is on the right, on the left you can see Andrei Cherkashin, helping the maestro with second instrument.