Hey everyone, welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft. I'm your host Ashley, and today I have on special guest to Ellie to help discuss a static practice.

Welcome Ellie to the show. Please introduce yourself. Hi, my name's Ellie. I'm a gardenarian high priestess in London, and I have been interested in ritual and effective ritual and ecstatic practice for about the last 12 years.

And for quite a long time before I had kids, I ran open rituals in London for about three years once a month, which was great.

And since then I've been experiencing and working with and playing with and really doing a deep dive into how ecstatic practice is so

central to witchcraft and particularly to my gardenarian craft and I'm really excited to kind of

share that with everybody. Amazing. Thank you so much for coming on. I'm so excited to talk about

this topic. I think a static practice is something that I want to get better at doing. So I'm so excited to talk about this topic. I think a static practice is something that I want to get

better at doing. So I'm really excited to see what knowledge you have to share about this topic.

And for the listeners, something Ellie and I discussed before we started recording is that this topic

is going to be aimed more for solitary practitioners, which I think is fantastic. I feel like

thinking of a static practice, which we should probably go into what that is in a moment, but I tend

to think of like a group of people. So I was really excited to hear that we were able to, or that this

was going to be tailored for a solitary individual. I think that that's fantastic. But yeah,

Ellie to start, what is a static

practice for those who don't know? So ecstatic, it comes from the Greek, and it's ecstasis, which means

to stand outside. So ecstasy is about taking a step outside of yourself, a half step outside of yourself and standing apart.

So it's really those altered states of consciousness.

And I sort of usually talk about two kind of halves of that where you've got the up and out or down and in.

Because for me, ecstasy encompasses trance practice and meditative practices

or they can be ecstatic. They can take you ecstasis outside of yourself. But people often kind of

think of those more meditative or trancey things as something slightly different from the

ecstatic bit, which they think is a lot more frenzied. But actually, I'm going to be covering

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