the Flying Swastika

Spiritual Rites
(Yin-Yang)

Good friends, freaks and the enlightened,

Now it's time to gather, feel free (body and mind) and make the rituals happen.
we come together 6/7 oct. 2007 to celebrete the new moon of autumn.
it will b a full on ritual suspension gathering, so please subscribe in advance.
the people attending can follow a diet to increase the
spiritual experience, like it was ment to be...

During the meeting there will be several meditation sessions to prepare
the group to become one. next to the suspension ritual, there will also be other forms
to express one's feeling to the earth. there's a possibility to make a
kavadi (sitting) ritual and permanent modifications like
traditional tattoo's (hand-poked) and scarifications.

during the weekend spiritual reiki masters will guide the energy flow, to bring
strong power to the people to awaken and strengthen the spiritual soul.
giving blood to mother earth will let her know that we remember the spirits.
yin-yang. she can give us the power and energy
we need for the upcoming times.

like the other events, all the food (vegan) and drinks (non-alcohol) are provided.
bring your own blanket/sleepingbag.

costs:
visitors 20,- euro
suspension 150,- euro

contact:
raoul
flyingswastika@gmail.com
0031-(0)6-30450334

location:
Villa Vendex
het rondeel 24
6219 pg Maastricht

The Flying Swastika is founded to bring ancient traditions back to life.
People from different nations, travelled around the world
to gather information and develope new ideas, to keep the old traditions
up to the modern standards of hygiene and safety, exposing this to the wolrd
in a form of cultural body art and modification,
combined with mind expanding rituals.

The Flying Swastika
lokated in Maastricht (the Netherlands), traveling around the globe, to bring
Bodypiercing,
Traditional Tattoo and
Suspension
to the people.

To "pierce" the body, penetrading the skin with a sharp object and insert a jewelery
to gain higher personal strength or showing your social status within the tribe or communitie.
 
For thousands of years, all over the world, regardless of the culture and the color of the skin,
people have worn, and still do, many different kinds of body jewelery. In history there are
many different places and materials that have been used for adorning the body:
wood, bone, horn, nuts, stones, plastic and many different kind of metal,
like bronse, silver, gold, surgical steel, titanium and niobium. All these decorations, body-
modifiactions, were done to have a "permanent" reminder.

All these cultures, beliefs, materials, places on the body, jewelery and ideas are so different,
but one thing is the same, everybody was doing it.
Nowadays people see it as a fashion statement, but that is only because they don't know the meaning
anymore where it originaly stood for. Without the meaning it's just your personal choise to decorate
yourself the way it pleases you. So understand what a body-decoration can do or mean for u, and
go for it...

After learning and working for 6 years, in several good running bodypiercing studios,
i mainly use my techniques for marking the body for tattoos and suspension and of caurse for putting the hooks in.
u can still find me working in several piercing studio's in holland and germany. check the link page for details.

an acient technic that has long gone?
wrong...it is still practiced by native people and tought to others to bring the knowledge into the world.
in the places where u can still find the original "tatau" it's mostly considered as old fashioned and the people there want "western style" tattoos.
what happens is, that the locals make "machines" out of scrapyard materials and tattoo people with old western designs.
the old techniques dissapear as well as the disigns, with all the meanings of the real tatau.
by working with "hand tools" i try to show the world, how the tattoo is originated and how importand it is to have a good disign and meaning to decorate your body.

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