August 10-15; Menla Mountain Retreat; Phoenicia, New York
Masks of Illusion and the Authentic Self (5 days)
1: The Cycle of Transformation
- Finding your authentic, original medicine.
- Shamanic skills for getting out of your own way.
- Shedding the past to awaken your Inner Healer.
Open to beginners through advanced students.
Deposit: $200 due immediately to assert your commitment and reserve your space.
Cost: $1170 early registration includes tuition, shared room, great food, supplies and preparation. Early registration discount requires deposit of $200 by 1/13/08 and balance of $970 by 6/10/08. ($1,320 for late registration after 6/10/08 and before 8/3/08). Preparation materials sent when deposit received.
Download the registration form (PDF) to mail in payment
Pay early registration ($1170.00) in full through PayPal:
August 17-22, Hudson River Valley, NY, various locations
Book Talks and Evening Events up the Hudson River Valley.
Stay tuned as we plan the summer book tour and update the calendar.
Please come join us for lively discussion on "Why Shamanism now?" Explore why the ancient art of shamanism is exactly what we need today to make the quality decisions necessary to change our relationships with each other, our governments, and our environment.
Contact: or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586
to schedule a session.
August 24-29; Menla Mountain Retreat; Phoenicia, New York
The Sacred Feminine/Masculine Self (5 days)
3: The Cycle of Transformation
- Explore feminine and masculine energies and your access to Yin/Yang Power.
- Shamanic skills for balance, wholeness and embrace of the Trickster.
- Release from the fear of expressing your true nature and Divine Self.
- Learning to detach from outcome to awaken your Inner Teacher.
Pre-requisite: Dance of the Shadow Self
Deposit: $200 due immediately to assert your commitment and reserve your space.
Cost: $1245 early registration includes tuition, shared room, great food, supplies and preparation. Early registration discount requires deposit of $200 by 1/13/08 and balance of $1045 by 6/24/08. ($1,395 for late registration after 6/24/08 and before 8/3/08). Preparation materials sent when deposit received.
Download the registration form (PDF) to mail in payment
Pay early registration ($1245.00) in full through PayPal:
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September 6; Portland, OR.
The Shamanic Journey: Mastering Technique
Develop an effective and joyful working relationship with your spirit help, no matter what form it takes. You will learn the techniques to journey safely and navigate the spirit world skillfully. This is the most direct and powerful way to work with your helping spirits and power animals for clarity and guidance. This introductory class offers:
- Guidance for discerning intuition from spiritual guidance.
- Techniques to communicate directly with your power animals.
- Review for those who are uncertain about their journeying skills.
This class is the pre-requisite for the rest of the Mastery Classes. It is strongly recommended for those who what to join the monthly journey circle in Portland.
Each class stands alone, but the series builds the foundation. Come to one or all.
What to bring: a rattle or drum, bandana, notebook and pen, blanket or pad to lie on, light snack, and a small sacred object. Wear comfortable, warm clothing.
Cost: $88/class or $300 for the series. 9:00 registration, 9:30-5:00 PM
Contact: or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586
The art to shamanic journeying and all direct communication with spirit is crafting the question. The "right" question gets you an answer that is clear and effective in your life. The "magical" question is not only right, but it opens your unique path of spiritual development step by step. Come learn the Art of Crafting questions. These principles apply to all divination tools.
Pre-requisite: shamanic journeying experience.
Each class stands alone, but the series builds the foundation. Come to one or all.
What to bring: a rattle or drum, bandana, notebook and pen, blanket or pad to lie on, light snack, and a small sacred object. Wear comfortable, warm clothing.
Cost: $88/class or $300 for the series. 9:00 registration, 9:30-5:00 PM
Contact: or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586
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October 1 - 16th; New York, NY
Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing, Private Sessions
Also: Divination, Healing Ritual, Ceremony, Extraction, Cleansing, and Power Retrieval.
Shamanic Journey or Soul Integration sessions available.
Strongly recommended after soul retrieval sessions.
Please contact us now to schedule a shamanic healing
session.
Contact: or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586
October 10 & 11, East West Books, NY
Healing the Ancestral Lines
- Friday, October 10, Lecture/Discussion from 7-8:00 pm
- Saturday, October 11 Experiential Class from 10-5:00 PM
We are the dreams of our Ancestors... and they are also our
nightmares. The unresolved issues of your ancestors manifest as
family patterns of mental, emotional, or physical disease. To free
your health and well-being, you must free the ancestors. Come learn
more about this innovative use of ancient skills to begin healing
your ancestral line. The lecture will offer discussion and Q&A. The
class offers presentation, demonstration, and instruction in a
journeying process you can use to continue self-healing your
ancestral lines.
NOTE: this process is designed for journeyers, but can be adapted as
a meditative process.
October 17, 18 & 19, The Open Center, NY
Urban Allies: Shamanic Solutions for the Challenges of City Life
Friday, October 17, Cultivating Urban Allies, an experiential evening
Sat/Sun, October 18/19, Urban Allies, an experiential class, 10-5:00 pm
Contact: www.opencenter.org or 212-219-2527 for more information and
registration for both events.
10/17: Altars for Everyday Life: Cultivating Urban Allies
Altars create a physical place for the sacred to live with us in our
daily lives. The physical objects, or power objects, on our altars
give specific energies a home so that we can work with them each day.
Thus a "working altar" allows us to engage with the sacred with focus
and on purpose. Through our altar practice we call in the life we
want to live in and work directly with spirit to co-create personal
protection, direction for our spiritual growth, and the manifestation
of our desired future.
This evening we will explore the structure of an effective altar for
transformation in a contemporary world. Altar structures vary with
purpose, tradition, and personal preference, but the most important
thing remains universal. The altar must work. As we explore efficacy
with working altars we will keep in mind that when they truly work an
altar is a threshold between the worlds.
Please bring a journal and pen, scarf or something to cover the eyes,
rattle (can be beans in a vitamin bottle) or drum, and a small sacred
items for the altar.
10/18-19: Urban Allies: Shamanic Solutions for the Challenges of City
Life
City life comes with unique opportunities and challenges. One of the
great mysteries of urban life is how to continually rebalance
resources and time to deal with stress, anxiety, fatigue, and the
little addictions that help us cope. Shamanism, with its blend of
spirit inspiration and crazy logic with human cleverness and
intelligence, is uniquely suited to solve that mystery.
In this weekend you will cultivate three shamanic allies who can help
you to get out of your own way. Through the ally Shadow you will
gain access to the root of your habits, addictions and those annoying
patterns that keep you from manifesting your true excellence. This
ally is particularly effective in helping you to manifest your dreams
in ways your therapist would never imagine.
Through the Void you gain an ally to deal with stress, tension, and
anxiety. This ally gives you the strength to see though your own
illusions and reach into the heart of your fear. There you can
distill the lesson it brings about love. Applied this is your unique
medicine for stress.
Through Darkness you gain access to that which restores and
replenishes all things. With this ally you will learn to live
without fatigue by cultivating the actions of deep self-care and self-
love that still fit into a busy, urban day. This includes a 5-stance
form of ancient chi gong that can be practiced 20-minutes daily to
revitalize your procreative chi.
The relationships with these allies, once cultivated, are yours to
use for a lifetime. They are here to help you to express your
authenticity, heart, and power. The practices offered this weekend
can be repeated again and again in your everyday life to restore
balance and well-being to your life.
While these topics are often assumed to be scary or "a lot of work."
The use of shamanic tools renders this work deep AND exciting, funny,
and joyful. This workshop is dynamic, filled with humor and
Tricksters, and ultimately, a reunion with Self.
Please bring a journal and pen, scarf or something to cover the eyes,
rattle (can be beans in a vitamin bottle) or drum, and a small sacred
item for the altar. Please dress comfortably for moving and lying on
the floor.
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November 1; Portland, OR
The Mastery Classes III: Interpreting Symbolic Language
All communication with spirit is interpreted truth. We all have
access, but no one of us has absolute access to absolute truth.
Instead we must learn to interpret our symbolic language in our night
time dreams and our shamanic journeys to get guidance from spirit.
Your symbolic language is both unique to you and universal. Come
learn how the nature of your relationship with the universe can
clarify or completely obscure your guidance from spirit...and what
to do about it!
Each class stands alone, but the series builds the foundation. Come to one or all.
What to bring: notebook and pen, light snack, and a small sacred object. Wear comfortable, warm clothing.
Cost: $88/class or $300 for the series. 9:00 registration, 9:30-5:00 PM
Contact: or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586
November; Dates TBA; Portland, OR
Apprenticeship: Group 2
Year One: Love and Power
Pre-requisite: Full Cycle of Transformation
Place in Apprenticeship program considered only after completion of The Cycle of Transformation. Aptitude and cleverness in shamanic work AND courage and efficacy in personal work are both required for acceptance into this challenging four-year program.
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