SPECIAL SHAMANIC TRAININGS
The classes listed in this category are classes developed by the instructors listed on this website. These classes are not part of the teacher training curriculum as taught by Sandra Ingerman so they are grouped separately. Please contact the person offering the class for additional information. This page last updated May 10, 2012.
2012
May, 2012
6th Andover, Massachusetts
Course: Healing with Grandmother Ayahuasca
Taught by: Leontine Hartzell Website
To register, contact: Website
Cost/Times: $130.00. 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: You will be initiated into connection with the plant through special sacred songs used solely for this purpose and learn to heal with the plant navigating the light frequencies of the human energy field. There will be no presence of the physical plant or ingestion in this workshop.
6th Lansing area, Michigan
Course: Path of Open Heart Apprenticeship Series: Upper World Teachers/Guides
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail..com
Times: Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Stand alone classes (five total) provide basic foundation for beginner/intermediate practitioners, and advanced alike. In this session you will work with Teachers/Guides in the Upper World for direct inspiration, guidance, protection and more. See website for more detailed information.
12-13 Durham, North Carolina
Course: Evolving Shamanism: Creation and Transformation
Taught by: Mara Bishop, M.S., Th. M., C.S.C. Website
To register, contact: Mara Bishop mara@wholespirit.com (919)419-1074
Cost/Times: $225.00 of paid by April 1st; $250.00 thereafter. Saturday and Sunday.
Additional Information: Have you ever wondered how to tap your own ability to create more effectively, both with words, color and sound as well as what you envision for yourself and your life? We will work with crafting your dreams and bringing them into reality and work with the process of transformation to help let go of what isn't working and invite in what we need to thrive.
18th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Walking the Medicine Wheel
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Friday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
18-20 Louisville, Kentucky
Course: Two-Year Advanced Shamanic Initiations
Taught by: Barbara Bloecher Website and Dory Cote Website
To register, contact: Dory Cote dorycote@gmail.com
Cost/Times: $590.00 includes housing and meals. Arrive Friday at 11:00 a.m. and depart Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Additional Information: This is an intense program of shamanic initiations and is intended for those who have had substantial advanced work in shamanism. We will work in a safe environment with comfortable housing and delicious meals. To apply and acquire further information (including all meeting dates), go to our websites.
19-20 Bellingham, Washington
Course: Shamanic Training in Creativity
Taught by: Leslie Conton, Ph. D. Website
To register, contact: Genevieve Rose, 336 36th St. #233, Bellingham, WA 98225 gen@theshamanicrose.com Website
Cost/Times: $250.00 before May 4, 2012, $325.00 thereafter. Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Additional Information: In this workshop, based on years of research, participants will have the opportunity to enhance their creativity through the practice of shamanic methods. Selected historical and anthropological examples will illustrate connections between shamanism and creative abilities, and a variety of specific shamanic exercises will be taught that participants can apply to their personal lives.
20th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Sunday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light. 27th Sonoma, California
Course: Seeds for Earthkeepers: The Nine Initiations of Munay-Ki
Taught by: Meg Beeler Website
To register, contact: Meg Beeler (707)939-7961 earthcaretakers@earthlink.net
Cost/Times: Suggested donation, sliding scale $65.00 - $85.00. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Additional Information: In this series of transmissions of Munay-Ki, you will experience an immersion in the mystical side of Andean cosmology, and explore the use of intent, alchemy, reciprocity, and energy along with oral wisdom teachings, healing practices and tools for transformation, as we nurture these "seeds of homo luminous" given to us by the Q'ero/Inca people of the Andes.
June, 2012
2nd Laguna Beach, California
Course: Signs, Omens & Messages in Nature
Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay Website
To register, contact: Gretchen Crilly McKay (949)715-2227 gcmckay2@mac.com
Cost/Times: $115.00. 10:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Join Gretchen in this experiential workshop, working with the land to explore the power of nature to provide insight and wisdom.
2nd Denver, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Talking to the Four-Leggeds
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Meet at the Denver Zoo. Entrance fees into venues are included in the costs.
2nd St. Louis, Missouri
Course: Healing what Grieves You
Taught by: Julie Lange Groth Website
To register, contact: Julie Lange Groth joolybooly@juno.com Website
Cost/Times: $95.00 if registered before May 18; $105.00 thereafter. 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: This workshop will use shamanic techniques to help you identify where you may be carrying grief and help you work with it on a spiritual level to bring healing in all areas of your life. Working within a circle of safety and openness, we will use shamanic journeying, rituals, ceremony and sharing to begin moving through the grieving process with intention and awareness.
2-3 Rochester, New York area
Course: Ancestors Among Us
Taught by: Cecile Carson, M.D.
To register, contact: Cecile Carson cecile@cecilecarson.com (585)271-5650
Cost: $215.00. 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. both days.
Additional Information: Held in a rustic setting, the course will focus on deepening our connection to Ancestors of both our physical and spiritual lineages, learning to clear ancestral weights and wounds, our place in our lineage and the gifts from them we bear toward our soul's work. We will draw on cultural traditions such as Mayan and Dagara that have heartful Ancestor connections and begin personal traditions to bring through to our descendants.
8-10 Borestone Mountain Sanctuary, Elliotsville, Maine
Course: Two-Year Advanced Shamanic Initiations
Taught by: Dory Cote Website and Barbara Bloecher Website
To register, contact: Dory Cote dorycote@gmail.com
Cost/Times: $625.00 includes housing and meals. Arrive Friday at 11:00 a.m. and depart Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Additional Information: This will be an intensive with work late into the evening and numerous initiatory experiences and journeys. Applicants must have advanced experience in shamanism and a strong desire to enhance their "becoming". Small intimate group, completely private setting in the woods. Go to websites for all meeting dates during the two years.
9th Lansing area, Michigan
Course: Path of Open Heart Apprenticeship Series: Divination-Methods of Shamanic Inquiry
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail..com
Times: Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: In this session, you will explore working with our spirit guides/teachers, power animals and other helping spirits to obtain helpful information to guide us in our lives. Shamans have journeyed into "non-ordinary' reality for thousands of years to help obtain answers to questions, both at the request of others and for oneself. See website for more detailed information.
10th Boulder, Colorado Course: Earth-Centered Plant Healing
Taught by: Ann Drucker
To register, contact: Ann Drucker (303)449-4061 drucker.ann@gmail.com Website
Cost/Times: $50.00. Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Discover the ancient connection between shamanic and herbal healing. Experience the plants as spiritual, emotional and physical healers. Work in harmony with nature and spirit. No experience necessary.
19th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Tuesday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
23rd Mayflower, Arkansas Course: Awakening Intuition
Taught by: Suzanne Day
To register, contact: Suzanne Day (870)363-4763 suzanneday@mvtel.net
Cost: $75.00 with lunch included.
Additional Information: This gathering offers an opportunity to awaken to a higher vibrational awareness and enhance this amazing gift in our lives. With the winds of change upon us, now is the perfect time to refine and define this gift even more for our future. June 23 - October 27 Sonoma County, California
Course: The Path of the Wisdom Keeper: Environmental Healing through Spiritual Transformation
Taught by: Stuart Dole and Anne Hatfield Website
To register, contact: Anne Hatfield info@annehatfield.com (707)570-0111
Cost/Times: $725.00 in 5 monthly payments of $145.00 each. Weekends, 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, plus field time. Dates: June 23-24, July 28-29, August 25-26, September 22-23 and October 13 & 27.
Additional Information: This course combines Nature Awareness, Medicine for the Earth, and other shamanic skills to work with actual site remediation.
24th Sonoma, California
Course: Seeds for Earthkeepers: The Nine Initiations of Munay-Ki
Taught by: Meg Beeler Website
To register, contact: Meg Beeler (707)939-7961 earthcaretakers@earthlink.net
Cost/Times: Suggested donation, sliding scale $65.00 - $85.00. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Additional Information: In this series of transmissions of Munay-Ki, you will experience an immersion in the mystical side of Andean cosmology, and explore the use of intent, alchemy, reciprocity, and energy along with oral wisdom teachings, healing practices and tools for transformation, as we nurture these "seeds of homo luminous" given to us by the Q'ero/Inca people of the Andes.
30th Eugene, Oregon
Course: Plant Spirit Medicine
Taught by: Leia Hart, M.S. Website
To register, contact: Leia Hart (541)844-2805 Website
Cost/Times: $72.00. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. We will be working with the spirit of the plants, spirits of the land as well as shamanic dreamwork, to reconnect with nature to create a sense of balance, harmony and healing. July, 2012
8th Lansing area, Michigan
Course: Path of Open Heart Apprenticeship Series: Spirits of Nature, Augury, & more.
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail..com See website for more information.
Times: Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: In this session, you will meet and merge with Nature Spirits, to learn about the teachings they have for us. You will explore plant spirit medicine, augury, and learn a basic healing method in partnership with the four elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water). We also will participate in classic gratitude ceremony- Despacho, in gratitude for Mother Earth.
14th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Talking to Bristlecone Pines
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $25.00. Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Meet in Northglenn to carpool to Mt. Evans. Bring a sack lunch. Entrance fees into venues are included in the costs.
19th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
22nd Sonoma, California
Course: Seeds for Earthkeepers: The Nine Initiations of Munay-Ki
Taught by: Meg Beeler Website
To register, contact: Meg Beeler (707)939-7961 earthcaretakers@earthlink.net
Cost/Times: Suggested donation, sliding scale $65.00 - $85.00. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Additional Information: In this series of transmissions of Munay-Ki, you will experience an immersion in the mystical side of Andean cosmology, and explore the use of intent, alchemy, reciprocity, and energy along with oral wisdom teachings, healing practices and tools for transformation, as we nurture these "seeds of homo luminous" given to us by the Q'ero/Inca people of the Andes.
26-29 Borestone Mountain Sanctuary, Elliotsville, Maine
Course: Shamanic Retreat and Ceremony
Taught by: Dory Cote Website
To register, contact: Dory Cote dorycote@gmail.com
Cost/Times: $625.00. Arrive on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. Depart on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Cost includes housing, meals and all programs.
27-29 Boulder, Colorado
Course: Earth-Centered Shamanism
Taught by: Rachel Weitz Website
To register, contact: Rachel Weitz shineyourbrightlight@gmail.com (303)579-5414
Cost/Times: $200.00. Friday 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Saturday all day. (ceremony in the evening), Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Come play, dance and sing with the spirit of this very special land as we deepen our relationship with the spirit of the land. We will practice divination, shamanic journeying, healing and will have a ceremony, amongst other earth-based activities. We will be camping on the land and there will be a few land preparation classes leading up to the weekend. E-mail for more details.
28th Lansing area, Michigan
Course: Path of Open Heart Apprenticeship Series: Working with Ceremony and Power
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail..com See website for more information.
Times: Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: In this last session of the series, you will explore the power of ritual and ceremony, and community focus and intent. Power is the ability to use energy. Ritual helps focus our intention. Ceremony provides a powerful primordial connection to the ALL, empowering our intent and helping to support success in your work/healing/ and every day life.
28th Michigan Nature Conservancy, Bath, Michigan
Course: 5th Annual Shamans' Walk & Transmutation Healing Circle
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. and Stephanie Tighe, MSW Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)543-6754 SpiritWeavers@gmail.com
Times: 1:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. See website for registration. (Early registration discount).
Additional Information: With this "Walk", we celebrate our connection to each other and all things with intense drumming, dancing, journeying, sharing and networking. You are welcome to come with an open heart and a desire to experience the ecstasy of a large Shamanic Community. Included in our day is a Community Healing Circle based on Sandra Ingerman's Transmutation work.
August, 2012
11th Boulder, Colorado
Course: Spirit of the High Country
Taught by: Ann Drucker
To register, contact: Ann Drucker (303)449-4061 drucker.ann@gmail.com Website
Cost/Times: $85.00. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Spend the day in the high country. Nibble on wood betony and make an herbal tincture. Learn new and ancient ways of working with the spirit of the land. Listen to the joyful song of the mountain stream. Relax in a grove of Osha flowers.
16th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Talking with the Element of Air
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Saturday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
17th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Friday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
17-19 Mayflower, Arkansas
Course: Spiritual Awakening
Taught by: Suzanne Day
To register, contact: Suzanne Day (870)363-4763 suzanneday@mvtel.net
Cost: $290.00 with meals included.
Additional Information: This gathering will offer life altering experiences to powerfully and radically awaken, heal and transform yourself and your life. Once upon a time long ago your soul had a dream for you before you were born. Is it time now to step into your Soul's dream of an excellent quality of life? Maybe you will find yourself living an even more vibrant, healthy and empowered life.
22-26 Estes park, Colorado
Course: Wake Up Conference presented by Sounds True
Presenter: Sandra Ingerman, M.A. Website
For more information, contact: Sounds True Website
Additional Information: The theme of the conference will be transformation and Sandra Ingerman is one of the presenters. Some of the other presenters will be Jack Kornfield, Carolyn Myss, Adyshanti, Michael Bernard Beckwith, David Whyte, Gangaji, Coleman Barks, Rick Hanson, Matthew Fox and more.
25-26 Phoenix, Arizona
Course: Shamanic Dreamwork
Taught by: Melissa M. Dawahare, NMD Website
To register, contact: Melissa M. Dawahare, NMD (480)993-8249 or register online at website.
Cost/Times: $225.00 if received before October 3, 2012, $250.00 thereafter. Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore the nature, meaning and use of dreams among shamanic peoples, with dream work practices from a range of cultures. Subjects covered include shamanic dream theory and big dreams, as well as dreams and the soul, spirits, shamanic journeys, the Dreamtime and the vision quest.
25-26 Eugene, Oregon
Course: Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature
Taught by: Leslie Conton, Ph.D. Website
To register, contact: Marta Boyett marta@epud.net (541)935-8080
Cost/Times: $250.00 if received before August 1, 2012, $325.00 thereafter. Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Additional Information: By learning from nature, shamans have always helped their communities live in harmony with the universe. In a world now out of balance, these ancient shamanic methods teach us how again to respect nature, our Planet, and its inhabitants at a deep spiritual level. Working through direct experience in nature and shamanic journeys, we learn how to work in ordinary and non-ordinary reality to restore and maintain a living earth.
26th Sonoma, California
Course: Seeds for Earthkeepers: The Nine Initiations of Munay-Ki
Taught by: Meg Beeler Website
To register, contact: Meg Beeler (707)939-7961 earthcaretakers@earthlink.net
Cost/Times: Suggested donation, sliding scale $65.00 - $85.00. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Additional Information: In this series of transmissions of Munay-Ki, you will experience an immersion in the mystical side of Andean cosmology, and explore the use of intent, alchemy, reciprocity, and energy along with oral wisdom teachings, healing practices and tools for transformation, as we nurture these "seeds of homo luminous" given to us by the Q'ero/Inca people of the Andes.
September, 2012
8th Boulder, Colorado
Course: Shamanic Divination
Taught by: Rachel Weitz Website
To register, contact: Rachel Weitz shineyourbrightlight@gmail.com (303)579-5414
Cost/Times: $70.00. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Expand your skills in shamanic journeying. Connect more deeply with your helping spirits. Practice ancient techniques of receiving information for yourself and others for physical, spiritual, and emotional evolution. Journey experience needed.
9th Boulder, Colorado
Course: Shamanic Doll Making
Taught by: Ann Drucker
To register, contact: Ann Drucker (303)449-4061 drucker.ann@gmail.com Website
Cost/Times: $85.00. Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Come create a doll from socks, fabric, yarn, beads and magical herbs. Children over 10 welcome with adult. No art experience necessary.
9th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Talking to the Element of Water
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Meet in Northglenn to carpool to Boulder Canyon.
15th Louisville, Kentucky
Course: Part 1 of 4 of Year of the Soul Series 2012 - 2013
Taught by: Barbara Bloecher Website
To register, contact: Barbara Bloecher Justb2b@aol.com (502)261-9863
Cost/Times: $75.00 each session or $250.00 for all 4. 1:00 - 6:30 p.m. Other dates are December 15, 2012, March 16, 2013 and June 15, 2013.
Additional Information: Following the rhythm reflected in Nature, and using those energies properly, creates what is called a "Year of The Soul". This is a year of concentrated growth and change resulting from understanding, aligning with and utilizing the natural energies available at the Autumn Equinox, Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, and Summer Solstice. Held at Sanctuary in the Woods.
16th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Sunday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
21-23 Templeton, California
Course: Journeying with Horses
Taught by: Wendy Ohnstad-Smith and Chetna Lawless Website
To register, contact: Phone: Dial out code from your country 44 (0)1297 444680 admin@vision-voyages.com
Additional Information: See Website for further details.
23rd Sonoma, California
Course: Seeds for Earthkeepers: The Nine Initiations of Munay-Ki
Taught by: Meg Beeler Website
To register, contact: Meg Beeler (707)939-7961 earthcaretakers@earthlink.net
Cost/Times: Suggested donation, sliding scale $65.00 - $85.00. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT.
Additional Information: In this series of transmissions of Munay-Ki, you will experience an immersion in the mystical side of Andean cosmology, and explore the use of intent, alchemy, reciprocity, and energy along with oral wisdom teachings, healing practices and tools for transformation, as we nurture these "seeds of homo luminous" given to us by the Q'ero/Inca people of the Andes.
October, 2012
5-7 Nyack, New York
Course: Ancestral Healing with Family Constellation
Taught by: Chetna Lawless Website
To register, contact: Phone: Dial out code from your country 44 (0)1297 444680 admin@vision-voyages.com
Cost/Times: For your personal constellation with ancestry work $325.00 before July 20th, $345.00 thereafter. For joining as a representative, with ancestral work $125.00 before July 20th, $145.00 thereafter.
Additional Information: Please note: This workshop has space for six personal constellations, on a first come, first serve basis. A deposit of $150.00 non-refundable secures the place for your constellation on the workshop. See Website for further details.15th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMInistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Monday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
19th Pierce Cedar Creek, Hastings, Michigan
Course: Shamanism Without Boarders - National Training (Society for Shamanic Practitioners)
Taught by: Kate Durda, M.A. and Stephanie Tighe, MSW Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail..com See website for more information and registration. (Early registration discount)
Times: Weekend residential. Friday Evening - Sunday 3:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Society for Shamanic Studies is sponsoring 5 international retreat/trainings in 2012. Join us in shamanic activities that will address the suffering of land, animals, and people and provide hope, compassion, comfort and healing. Includes pilgrimage to Kalamazoo River, site of oil spill in 2010, for healing ceremony.
20th Boulder, Colorado
Course: Power of Osha
Taught by: Ann Drucker
To register, contact: Ann Drucker (303)449-4061 drucker.ann@gmail.com Website
Cost: $100.00
Additional Information: Come to the sacred osha grove. Learn directly from our Rocky Mountain power plant. Dig in the old ways and discover the many medicines of osha root.
October 22nd for five Mondays Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Revealing Your Inner Totem Pole
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: Kathy Wood (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $150.00. Held on 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, and 11/19/. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Additional Information: Want to replace that committee in your head with a supportive, loving council? Discover the power animals who reside in each of your chakras and how to work with their spiritual guidance. Balancing and clearing the chakras is also part of the class. Ability to journey required.
24th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Talking to the Element of Fire
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Wednesday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
November, 2012
3rd Laguna Beach, California
Course: Healing Your Ancestral Lineage: Reveal, Release, Transform Family Patterns
Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay Website
To register, contact: Gretchen Crilly McKay (949)715-2227 gcmckay2@mac.com
Cost/Times: $115.00. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: This is a powerful experiential workshop where participants will explore family patterns and subconscious limiting beliefs that need to be released, for the past, the present, and the future.
3-4 Phoenix, Arizona
Course: Shamanic Divination Training
Taught by: Melissa M. Dawahare, NMD Website
To register, contact: Melissa M. Dawahare, NMD (480)993-8249 or register online at website.
Cost/Times: $225.00 if received before August 1, 2012, $250.00 thereafter. Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Participants in this workshop have the opportunity to engage in divination journeys for each other as well as themselves in order to obtain answers to questions. They learn how to converse with plant and animal spirits, how to learn about the use of quartz crystals and how to seek and receive revelatory knowledge from visionary sources.
6-27 Santa Rosa, California
Course: Divination: Unlocking the Secrets of the Spirits
Taught by: Stuart Dole and Anne Hatfield Website
To register, contact: Anne Hatfield info@annehatfield.com (707)570-0111
Cost/Times: $125.00 up to a week in advance; $145.00 thereafter. Four Tuesday evenings, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Additional Information: Explore different ways of receiving the knowledge and wisdom of the spirits. Learn to work with omens, see patterns, and listen to the messages around you. Shamanic journey skills required.
10-11 Falmouth, Maine
Course: Tuvan Shamanism - Under the Shaman's Tree
Taught by: Evelyn Rsydyk & Allie Knowlton, MSW, DCSW Website
To register, contact: Spirit Passages (207)846-6829 or online by clicking the calendar listing link.
Cost/Times: $200.00.Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: In this experiential workshop, we will be sharing the teachings of the late, Ai Churek who is remembered as Tuva's "most powerful female shaman." You will be making protective ehrens, and learning the Tuvan way to make spirit offerings. Weather permitting, enjoy a traditional shamanic fire ceremony. Prerequisite: Working Knowledge of the Shamanic Journey Process.
11th Boulder, Colorado
Course: Primicia Ceremony
Taught by: Ann Drucker
To register, contact: Ann Drucker (303)449-4061 drucker.ann@gmail.com Website
Cost/Times: Donation. Sunday 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Additional Information: Participate in a sacred Maya Primicia Ceremony. Receive a blessing or a healing and give gratitude. Wear white. Bring a festive dish for the potluck feast. All donations go directly to the Maya Education Scholarship Fund. 13th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Tuesday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
16th Freeport, Maine
Course: Peruvian Whistling Vessels Ceremony
Taught by: Evelyn Rsydyk & Allie Knowlton, MSW, DCSW Website
To register, contact: Spirit Passages (207)846-6829 or online by clicking the calendar listing link.
Cost/Times: $35.00. Friday, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The Peruvian Whistling Vessels' extraordinary vibrations encourage an expanded state of consciousness offering a slightly different approach to the shamanic journey. Shamanic journeys may be taken while the vessels are producing sounds and may also be embarked upon in the sacred silence that follows the vessels' work.
Prerequisite: None required however a working knowledge of the Shamanic Journey Process is beneficial.
18th Denver, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: Finding the Truth
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00.Sunday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Meet at the Denver Art Museum. Entrance fees into venues are included in the costs.
December, 2012
1st Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Middle World Connections: 2012 Celebration
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $20.00. Saturday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
8th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: Relinquish Toxic Patterns
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: Kathy Wood (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMInistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: $75.00. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Additional Information: This class will explore the seven deadly sins and how they show up in our lives. We will do ceremony to replace these toxic patterns with love. Ability to journey needed.
13th Northglenn, Colorado
Course: New Moon Healing Circle
Taught by: Kathy Wood Website
To register, contact: (303)452-7265 VibrantTreeMinistry@comcast.net
Cost/Times: Free. Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: The New Moon Healing Circles are a monthly time to step into service to the planet and to fellow seekers. We will do a healing pod journey each month to work with the web of light, and we will do healing journeys for one another. Pre-requisites: Beginning Shamanic Journeying and Healing with Spiritual Light.
21st Falmouth, Maine
Course: Solstice 2012: Drumming in a New World with the World Drum
Taught by: Evelyn Rsydyk & Allie Knowlton, MSW, DCSW Website
To register, contact: Spirit Passages (207)846-6829 or online by clicking the calendar listing link.
Cost/Times: Sliding fee: $35.00. Friday evening, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Additional Information: Drum your intention for the New World! The World Drum is a symbol of the circle of life and that we all are connected. The vision is to bind people together across race, religion, borders, cultures, ethnicity, colours or political conviction in a common struggle for humanity and Mother Earth. Prerequisite: None required however a working knowledge of the Shamanic Journey Process is beneficial.
2013
January, 2013
26-27 Hastings, Michigan
Course: 5th Annual Shaman's MidWinter Ceremonies: Community Gathering!
Taught by: Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe Website
To register, contact: Kate Durda (517)667-0694 SpiritWeavers@gmail.com
Cost/Times: See website. Additional Information: This is a cozy and powerful residential gathering. Winter is a time to go inward, a time of reflection, a time for deep ceremony. Includes personal and community healing, journey work, and Power Dance. Held at Pierce Cedar Creek Nature Institute. See website for all info.
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