“The Waters of Life: – Exploring Water Mythos, Divinity, Beings & Ecology”
May 5th and 6th, 2023 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Syracuse NY
Non-Member Registration Form Your registration includes live panels, presentations and workshops, lunch and snack breaks for both days of the conference, as well as access to recordings of the conference for six months.
Non-Member Live Streaming Registration Form This $150 option includes keynotes and all panels in the Main Conference room.
Non-Member Rates:
- Early Bird Rate–before February 5: $355
- Regular Rate–February 6 to April 28: $395
- Walk In Rate–after April 28: $450
NOTE: If you were a member your registration rates would be
- Early Bird Rate–before February 5: $290 (savings of $65)
- Regular Rate–February 6 to April 28: $350 (savings of $45)
- Live streaming rate $95 (savings of $55)
Annual dues for membership start at $30. Join now to take advantage of all benefits including discount rates for this conference. (Complete your membership sign-up here first, to be given access to the member registration page.)
More General Conference Information here
Optional Excursion on May 4
The day before the conference, we will have a bus tour to sites important in women’s history. We plan to include the Harriet Tubman Home and the National Women’s History Museum. The tour rate of $90 includes a box lunch, admissions, and transportation fee. You may register for the tour on the event registration form.
Lodging at Crowne Plaza Hotel
Use this link (also on your registration form) or call 315 479 7000 to reserve your room. Conference rates are $129/night plus tax and fees. If you call be sure to mention our conference in order to get the special rate.
The hotel has a complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport but you must arrange for your ride at the time you reserve your room. Parking in the hotel garage is discounted to $5 per day for conference attendees; you can ignore the $15 amount given on the registration form.
2023 ASWM Conference Contingencies
In 2018 I attended the Gatekeepers Conference on sacred sites & pilgrimage and made a personal pilgrimage to Avebury, Silbury Hill, Glastonbury, and other sites. EARTHSPEAK explores a mythic, historical, poetic and subjective response to these geomantically potent sites, in particular Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric monument in Europe, with research that suggests it was at one time a representation of the body of the Earth Mother. EARTHSPEAK also suggests that Geomantic reciprocity occurs as human beings bring intentionality to a particular place, making it a holy or sacred place. Numinous communion with “spirit of place” can become increasingly active as it accrues mythic power in the memory of the people, and in the land. Sacred places have both an innate and a developed capacity to bring about altered states of consciousness, especially if people come prepared within the liminal state of pilgrimage. 
Yoga Nidrā Śakti is a South Asian Goddess of sleep, rest, and liminal spaces between dreaming and waking. A key figure in The Greatness of the Goddess (Devī Mahātmyam, c600BC), her Sanskrit name literally means ‘power of sleep’. She features in many images and indigenous story rituals, all describing her power to send every being (including gods) to sleep; she restores right relationship to cyclical rhythms of rest that hold life in balance. Wherever she appears, Nidrā Śakti counters transgressions of those who refuse to sleep, returning all beings to right relationship with natural cycles. Yoganidrā is also a state of yogic rest that supports healing for out-of-balance human experiences such as insomnia, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Sadly, the presence of Nidrā Śakti has been marginalised and eradicated from commercial and traditional yoga schools profiting from methods of the popular practice bearing her name: yoga nidrā. Through stories and exquisite images, we explore the liminality of Nidrā Śakti as goddess of thresholds between sleep and dream. 
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