Workshops

The Andean Medicine Wheel

The Andean Medicine Wheel is an ancient path of power and knowledge from South American which can be used for self-transformation and self-discovery. It is also used to create a shaman's mesa or sacred altar of medicine stones for use in everyday living and for healing.

Join me for an experiential workshop in which we will discuss the four cardinal directions of the Andean Medicine Wheel - the South or Serpent Path of personal healing; the West, or Jaguar Path of the peaceful luminous warrior; the North, or Hummingbird Path of the ancestors' wisdom; and the East, or Condor Path of the visionary - and their relationship to the shaman's mesa and the Karpays, the Great Rites of Passage as given by the Q'ero Indians of Peru, the descendants of the Incas.

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The Shamanic Journey: A Direct Encounter With Spirit

An essential part of the shaman's path is the shamanic journey, or travelling into the world of our helping spirits in order to receive wisdom, power, or healing; to help other people or the planet; and to connect with Nature.

This ancient method is easy to learn and very helpful for everyday life questions and challenges and for personal healing and growth.

During this workshop, we will journey to the Lower World to meet our power animal or ally; journey to the Upper World to meet a teacher in human form; and journey to the Middle World to meet an ancestor spirit ally.

Participants are asked to bring a bandanna for covering their eyes, a cushion, a blanket, and a notebook and pen to record their journeys.

Time and Place to be announced.

Preregistration is required.

Basic Concepts of Shamanism and Shamanic Healing

Join me for an evening in which we will explore and demystify together some of the basic concepts of shamanism including the shamanic journey, shamanic healing, extraction, soul retrieval and past-life regression. The benefits and indications of the shamanic approach will be discussed.

Participants will have an opportunity to do a simple shamanic journey into the middle world to meet an Animal ally, guided by drumming.

Every first Monday of the month, in my office at 16 Center Street, Suite 523, Northampton, MA 01060, from 7 pm to 9 pm, EXCEPT HOLIDAYS.

Participants are asked to bring a pillow to sit on. FREE. Donations optional.

The Andean Despacho Ceremony: An Offering to the Pachamama, Mother Earth

The Andean Pachamama Despacho Ceremony is an ancient Earth-honoring ceremony also known as "The Gathering of Prayers" and "The Dispatch." Join us in this powerful ceremony in which we will honor Pachamama (Mother Earth) with an offering of sweets, sugars, grains and flowers and simultaneously weave and cleanse the luminous threads of our energy bodies to create reciprocity or Ayni, a sacred principle of the universe. This is both an opportunity to give back to Pachamam and to ask for what we need in life.

Participants are asked to bring three bay leaves and a red carnation.

Time and Place to be announced.

Shamanic Tips for Better Living

In this experential workshop, we will discuss Peruvian Shamanism and some of its ancient techniques to attract love, luck, health and money, and how to protect oneself from negative energies in the world today.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Price: $45
AwenTree, 102 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA  01027
(413)527-3331

Shamanic Power Animals

In the shamanic tradition, Power Animals or totems are natural helping
forces of Nature that are given to us at birth to guide us, protect us and
help us.  Each of us has one or two Power Animals that are crucial to our
life's path and our personal development.  In this experiental workshop,
will use a simple shamanic journey to meet our Power Animal and we will
then begin to build our relationship with our Animal through journey, dance,
song, writing and the creation of simple art pieces that connect us more
deeply.  Participants will undergo a simple initiation ceremony with their
Power Animal.

Participants are asked to bring a bandanna for covering their eyes, a cushion, a blanket, and
a notebook and pen.

Saturday, September 20th, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Price:  $90
Awentree, 102 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA  01027
(413)527-3331

The Shaman's Altar (Mesa)

The shaman's altar or mesa is an ancient way of connecting to the power and
wisdom of the Pachamama (Mother Earth), the Apus (Mountains) and the
Viracocha (Creator/Creatress) in Peruvian and other cultures.  Join us in this
experiential workshop in which we will discuss mesa cosmology and begin in
the creation of our personal mesa.  Participants will create their own simple
mesa or altar, receive a simple initiation ceremony and learn the beginning
work of using their mesa. 

Participants are asked to bring a small (8" X 8") sacred cloth, four small stones,
and two sacred objects to use in their mesa.  Participants are asked to also bring
a cushion and a notebook and pen.

Saturday, October 18th, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Price:  $75
Awentree, 102 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA  01027
(413)527-3331