Classes
2025 Workshops - November - December
Here are the latest classes and events.
Around mid-November, I'll be scheduling into 2026.
Candle Magick
Sunday, November 2, 2-4 pm
RitualCravt
7700 W 44th Ave
Wheat Ridge CO 80033
Real-world challenges?
Magical leverage can unsnarl them.
Candle magick is a luscious way of working that engages heart, head and all of our sensory awareness. Using a candle as focal point, you’ll learn practical techniques and some big secrets for performing successful spells.
Especially, we’ll look at how to custom-design beautiful and effective spells, from start to finish, including the follow-through: Getting results you can use.
Abracadabra, indeed. (Aramaic : Abraq ad habra = “I will create as I speak”)
This session includes:
— My book Candle Magick
Fee: $34. This link takes you to Ritualcravt's info and registration page.
Monthly Journey Drumming Circle
Saturday, November 15, 2-4 pm
RitualCravt
7700 W 44th Ave
Wheat Ridge CO 80033
By whatever name – trance, shamanic journeying, inner council work – if you’re already familiar with drum-driven journey practices, please join us for ceremony, journeying, explorations, drumming, and community. Hone your skills and visit with your Guides, within a circle of like-minded, supportive humans.
This is a circle, not a class, and beginning-to-advanced journeying ability is required. We’ll generally have time for several journeys: first on a theme of your own choosing, then others with varying intentions, applications, and styles of working. The options for exploration are unlimited!
You're welcome to bring:
— a drum or rattle
— journaling materials
— a small blanket or yoga mat
— an "eye-curtain," bandana or other eye-covering
— mainly, bring your own good intentions. All other items are optional.
Please take note: This is drum- and rattle-driven journeying. Our policy is that this gathering is not the place for sacred plant practices or any consciousness-altering substances. Your participation will be taken as your agreement to honor this policy.
Fee: $8. Please sign-up in advance through Ritualcravt.
Facilitated by Renna Shesso. “I’ve been guiding journey groups since 2007, and offering other styles of ceremonial gatherings for longer than that. These practices – deeply personal though they are – were born and flourished within communities – humans gathering together in united energies and intentions, through hundreds of generations, in all times and places. When we circle together, we’re a continuing part of that.”
Beginning Shamanism Weekend Workshop
Saturday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025,
10 am to 5:30 pm both days.
This in-person workshop is held in a private, small-group location in the Denver-metro area.
This training offers two full days of journey practices and explorative exercises, including lots of journeying, shamanic divination and Power Animal retrieval. There will also be plenty of how-to and trouble-shooting, designed to help you step clearly onto this amazing spiritual path. You’ll leave with knowledge and new skills to move forward.
You'll meet your personal power animals and spirit guides, and learn how to journey with them for guidance, connection and enhanced well-being. We'll also talk about the ethics, protocols and creativity of this practice, and look at the uses of shamanism in healing.
The workshop is a prerequisite for advanced trainings — Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Extraction of Misplaced Energies, Shamanic Death and Dying Practices, and more — that are used for healing work with individuals and communities. This workshop and the subsequent studies are intensive, deep, living-changing and - best - joyful.
Sliding scale fee: $175 to $225 (Please see the notes on Sliding Scale on my F.A.Q. page.) Click here to pay the $95 deposit using PayPal. For Venmo, enter Renna-Shesso to send $95, and definitely email me - I need your email address so I can send you the class information packet.
If you'd like another payment option, please contact me. The remaining portion of the class fee is due the first morning of the workshop.
Tarot and Astrology: Tapping the Roots
TWO DATES, Distance-learning and in-the-classroom!
Pick the one that suits you:
VIRTUAL: Tuesday, December 2, 6:30-8:30 pm
happening where-ever you are,.
or
IN-PERSON: Sunday, December 7, 3-5 pm
at
RitualCravt
7700 W 44th Ave
Wheat Ridge CO 80033
With the prevalence of the Smith-Waite tarot deck, many of us have only met Tarot’s astrology associations through the lens of its Golden Dawn lineage, even if we aren’t using that deck.
Surprise! In fact, through the centuries, tarot-astro connections have wandered throughout the sky, pairing the planets and constellations in completely different ways. We’ll look at several key decks-of-old – Etteilla, Wirth, Falconnier, and Picard – for unique astro-associations, perspectives, insights and knowledge in each.
An awareness of these roots helps deepen our capacity to bring sky-knowledge down to earth, enriching our own wise tarot-usage, no matter what deck you work with.
Especially if you’ve puzzled over the Smith-Waite/Golden Dawn’s astrology, or found you just don’t resonate with it, please join me. The sky is wide open!
Please have on-hand:
— Your own preferred tarot deck
— Note-taking materials
— Optional: your own astrological birth chart. At least, know your Sun-sign.
Fee: $34 - The price is the same for each class. Choose and click the appropriate highlighted words to register and you'll be redirected to Ritualcravt's registration portal.
Virtual class, Tuesday, Dec. 2, click VIRTUAL-ASTRO
or
In-Person, Sunday, Dec. 7, click ASTRO-IN-PERSON
Presenter: Renna has been playing with the Tarot’s astrological associations since first encountering in Papus’ Tarot of the Bohemians. More recent studies while researching for her own book Planets for Pagans (Red Wheel-Weiser) brought her back around over the last decade to in-depth work with Oswald Wirth’s astronomical approach, and then down other adjacent research rabbit-holes. All this and life-long star-gazing have led to a fluid and expansive sky-and-tarot approach in her own work, for this class, and for a book-in-progress.
Monthly Journey Drumming Circle
Saturday, December 20, 2-4 pm
RitualCravt
7700 W 44th Ave
Wheat Ridge CO 80033
By whatever name – trance, shamanic journeying, inner council work – if you’re already familiar with drum-driven journey practices, please join us for ceremony, journeying, explorations, drumming, and community. Hone your skills and visit with your Guides, within a circle of like-minded, supportive humans.
This is a circle, not a class, and beginning-to-advanced journeying ability is required. We’ll generally have time for several journeys: first on a theme of your own choosing, then others with varying intentions, applications, and styles of working. The options for exploration are unlimited!
You're welcome to bring:
— a drum or rattle
— journaling materials
— a small blanket or yoga mat
— an "eye-curtain," bandana or other eye-covering
— mainly, bring your own good intentions. All other items are optional.
Please take note: This is drum- and rattle-driven journeying. Our policy is that this gathering is not the place for sacred plant practices or any consciousness-altering substances. Your participation will be taken as your agreement to honor this policy.
Fee: $8. Please sign-up in advance through Ritualcravt.
Facilitated by Renna Shesso. “I’ve been guiding journey groups since 2007, and offering other styles of ceremonial gatherings for longer than that. These practices – deeply personal though they are – were born and flourished within communities – humans gathering together in united energies and intentions, through hundreds of generations, in all times and places. When we circle together, we’re a continuing part of that.”
Are there classes you'd like to see back on the schedule? Please, let me know. You can email me through this contact page. Please check the listings under classes; when dates are scheduled, I'll post them there.
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Thanks!
