WITCHY WOMAN WITH TANYA LEE
Our Witchy Woman Program offers a series of courses and experiences assembled for the study, practice and integration of ancient knowledge into modern life. The main purpose is to offer tools for inner strength, intuition, self awareness and actualization, connection, creativity and vitality. The small group environment empowers empathy and learning through sharing as each person modifies the material to fit into their unique life, needs, and goals.
All genders are welcome in this program. The name Witchy Woman came through Tanya Lee’s experience of “coming out of the broom closet” and publicly embracing her innate way of life. Through these courses, Tanya shares and explores essentials for developing personal rituals that align with natural cycles and universal concepts that root back to the cradle of civilization. And to times when magick was a normal part of everyday life – when alchemists and astrologers were the scientists.
Modalities explored in Witchy Woman include astrology, moon cycles, yoga philosophy, energy work, meditation, breathwork; and systems found within the western hermetic traditions, elements (fire, water, air, earth), planetary influences, tarot, and tree of life.
We are currently offering small group Neophyte level courses. The word Neophyte comes from the Latin ‘neo’ meaning ‘new’ and ‘phytos’ meaning ‘planted’, aka a person who is new to a subject, skill or system. You may not be new to some of these concepts, this just means that you are new to the Witchy Woman format of integration. You can arrive with experience, or with none at all. A beginner’s mind is a beautiful thing to behold.
While concepts of spirituality, manifestation and etheric awareness are explored – we aim to stay clear of dogmatic authority or right/wrong, good/bad impositions. Witchy Woman is not affiliated with any particular religion, but the practices may be used to enhance most religious or non-religious belief systems.
After all, your rituals are most powerful when you are empowered to walk your own unique path.
TANYA LEE
Hello, I am the founder and director of Body Art Motion. For the last 25 years I’ve been studying, implementing and sharing transformational mind-body practices. I have studied a wide range of disciplines, but continue to be drawn to the challenge and simplicity of integrating ancient knowledge into functional modern-day practices.
Witchy Woman was conceived circa 2005 just after I had closed the doors to my first Yoga studio and was completing my professional astrology certificate with the late Kelly Lee Phipps. Since then, the format has been forged in alchemical fires many times over and has been presented through various names.
I was raised on a cattle farm, engaged in high-level athletics, and studied/worked in law enforcement which had me apprehensive about being too “witchy-woo” out of fear of not being taken seriously by my peers. For example when I started teaching Yoga, there were more people in my small Canadian city who didn’t know what that was than there were who did. I often heard the response, “What’s this yoga, some kind of witchcraft?”. The unfortunate hard truth is that hundreds of thousands of innocent people were publicly tortured and legally burned alive for doing a lot less than yoga, astrology and moon rituals.
It took a lot of courage to get where I am today, but the more I started peeking out of the broom closet and talking to people about things like astrology and energy work, the more I was surprised at how many “normal people” actually really resonated with the work when presented with logic and functional modern applications.
Over the years, I ended up creating, practicing and teaching multiple applications of this work: from corporate productivity lunch n’ learns and professional athlete development; to dance programs, women’s transformation circles, and a yoga teacher training program. This version feels like home and what a trip it’s been getting here! I aim to do all that I can to harvest lessons from my mistakes, build on the successes, and serve this work and the people drawn to it, to the best of my ability. I feel like I’ve finally arrived at a place in my life where I care less about what the average person thinks about what I am doing and I’ve accepted and embraced that this is “witchy work” and I am, and have always been a “Witchy Woman”.
In true Aquarian fashion, I live life in constant experimentation. I have always had this unquenchable passion for study and practice – and the sharing of it with my friends. I am obsessed with the mysteries of life, the wisdom of nature and the cosmos, what lies beneath the surface, and the untapped power potential of the human mind and heart. I am beyond excited to share in this journey with you through the Witchy Woman program. xoT
"The cycle of the phases of the moon becomes thus legitimately the archetype of all cycles of relationships."