Greetings, Body Art Fans!

Now here's something I don't do every day... I'm headed to San Francisco the weekend of April 10th to do an ecstatic body ritual workshop with Fakir Musafar. He's the man who is pretty much the reason there is a modern primitive and body art movement these days. The workshop will involve some lectures and then all of us attending will be doing a hook pull ritual. This was one of those "now's my chance and I've always wanted to do it" moments. Keep an eye out for reports in the future as to how the workshop went and what my experiences were.

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Rae
Body Art Editor
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