All indigenous peoples honored our sacred collective connection, with the Element of Air for they knew without it, our world would cease to exist. This tutorial teaches you how to give voice to your truth by learning how to listen and speak with Right Communication. You will also learn how to contact and shamanically work with the Air Elementals.
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Shamanic Apprenticeship ~ Elemements & Elementals Tutorial
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012Shamanic Apprenticeship: Year Two
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011Want to work with me but feel the first year is too elementary for you? That’s fine, just contact me and we can work something out. Like I said before, everyone works at their own pace, and has had different life experiences. Here is a look at the second year’s Tutorials.
Resurecting the Old Ways: Walking the Land & Honoring the Spirits in Right Relationship
Second Year’s Tutorials
- Spirit of Place: The Landscape & Spiritual Development
- Axis Mundi, The World Axis
- Spirit of Place: Planetary Magnetics & Blood Mysteries
- Spiritual Significance of Mountains & Trees
- Medicine Wheel I: A Cutural Introduction
- Medicine Wheel II: The Four Cardinal Directions
- Medicine Wheel III: Totems & Earth Astrology
- Medicine Wheel IV: Construction
- Medicine Wheel V: Putting It All Together
The main focus that flows throughout this cross-cultural, apprenticeship is to help the student become aware of, and work with the spirits all around us. By learning how the Ancients and Indigenous peoples perceived reality and connected with the land, you will be able to transform your attitudes and lifestyle.
Please, consider letting the momentum of this program, transform your life, so you can Walk in Balance with All Our Relations in our unprecedented changing times.
The Earth is calling out to us,
to learn her secrets now!
If you are interested in this apprenticeship,
or have any questions, please let me know.
I’d love to hear from you.
(919) 942-7754
Shamanic Apprenticeship Update: March 2011
Saturday, March 5th, 2011Resurrection the Old Ways:
Walking the Land & Honoring the Spirits in Right Relationship
Born from a year of spiritual retreat in 2009, the final steps of completing the development of my cross-cultural, shamanic apprenticeship program has been a longtime coming. Although it probably won’t be on my website by the Spring Equinox, the apprenticeship will be available to those of you who want to begin your first year. I am finished with writing the Tutorials, and am now in the throws of adding the pictures I have collected. And I have also figured out the program’s basic structure and tuition, plus I am now accepting deposits of 1/3 the tuition, the balance to be paid when you actually begin the program.
After looking at all my Tutorials, 27 in all, I decided it was way too much information for two years of study. So, now the suggested time is 3 years. I say suggested, because it is after all, independent study, and we all work at a different pace. Named appropriately, the years are Foundational, Intermediate, and Advanced, and will be cut into quarters, with a special Activation or Clearing taking place with each turn of the wheel. Spiritual Advancement sessions will be given twice a month, (in person or long-distance) to enable you to expand your consciousness and embody the teachings, plus 2 hours of personal, one-on-one time with me will be given monthly. (phone or in person) Integrating everything I offer into one complete package, I’ve tried to keep the tuition as reasonable as possible, and still have a win, win, for both of us. In doing so, I’ve given price breaks on my usual fees for session work, personal time, and tutorials. So here’s the break down for the first year.
Selection #1
First Year Foundational Apprenticeship Tutorials
- Tutorials are $20 each, with a total of $160
- Spiritual Autobiography/one-on-one time, $100
- Astrology Profile is $95
- Spiritual Advancement Sessions are $60 each , with a total of $1440
- Private One-on-One time $40 hr, with a total of $960
- Activation/Clearings fees $00 each, with a total of $400
Total Tuition: $3155
Selection #2
The student elects not to have Spiritual Advancement Sessions. Private One-on-One time increases to $60 hour, with a total of $1440.
Total Tuition: $2195
Two payments will be an additional 10% and Quarterly payment with be an additional 15%. Special offer: 1/3 deposit now, with the rest paid when you begin the program, without any additional charges. (offer ends 3/31/11)
First Year Tutorials
- Spiritual Autobiography
- Astrological Profile
- Creating Sacred Space with the Seven Sacred Directions
- Smudging
- Altars: Returning the Sacred to Our Daily Lives
- The Medicine Bag: Gateway to Empowerment
- Secrets of the Drum and Rattle
- Art of Dreaming
- Labyrinths
First Year Apprenticeship Activations & Clearings
- Deepening Your Connection with the Sacred Directions
- Releasing Karma & Aligning with your Soul’s Purpose
- Deepening Your Connection With Mother Earth
- Activating an Auric Shield to Transmute Unwanted Energies
Everything learned during your first year, will become a way of life, and serve as useful, ongoing, skills, for the duration of your apprenticeship. Each Tutorial includes history, background, topic focus, exercises and additional resources, within a weaving of my own personal experiences from the past 30 years, plus the time-honored, shamanic traditions of the Celts, Australian Aborigine, Native American, Norse, Vedas and Tibetan Buddhists.
Please consider letting the momentum of this program transform your life,
so you can Walk in Balance with All Our Relations in our unprecedented changing times.
If you are interested in this apprenticeship, or have any questions, please email me from my website. I’d love to hear from you.
Talking to the Deer Spirits
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Every year I usually go to some type of Spring Equinox celebration, and this year was no exception. I attended a small labyrinth gathering on the beautiful property of a friend of mine. We did a group walk in her 40 foot, well cared for, labyrinth and afterward, toured her manicured, all year round herb and vegetable gardens. I enjoyed looking at the greens growing in her greenhouse, and picking up some gardening tips, along the way. Of course, most of her garden was surrounded by a 7 foot fence to keep the deer from eating her crops.
Having no known predators where I live in North Carolina, deer are overly plentiful. So it’s not unusual gardening conversation, to have folks comparing deer stories and ways to keep them at bay. Most people I meet convey much frustration about deer eating whatever they plant around their house. They have tried everything to keep them away; spraying plants with “deer off”, hanging “Irish Spring” soap in the trees, urinating to mark their property, (Yes, really!), using dogs to bark them away, growing plants that deer don’t like, and of course, fencing them out. Nothing usually works, except for the fences.
Most people always seem astounded when I tell them that I’ve never had deer problems where I live. Sure, I see them walking in the woods during their morning or afternoon strolls, but they know better than to come into my yard. And when they do, I go out, bang on a pot, and chase them away. It’s a real clear message that says, “You’re trespassing here! Go away!” However, these actions are only a last resort. My real secret, is having the Guardians of the Directions (east, south, west, north), intercede for me, by simply asking the deer spirits to stay away. And if that fails, they surround my property with Panther energy.
The reactions are usually the same. “The Who? Guardians? Who or what are they?” In Native American circles, The Guardians of the Directions are sometimes called Spirit Keepers. They sit at, and are in charge of, the energies of each Cardinal Direction. They are real Divine Beings, that symbolize four archangels in the Judeo-Christian belief systems. (Gabriel in the East, Micheal in the South, Raphael in the West, and Uriel in the North). In fact every ancient culture worked with the Guardians in some capacity. Today, they are only known to indigenous peoples, and those of us who work shamanically or follow the old ways.
It is through years of working in Right Relationship with Spirit and all of my relations, that the Guardians of the Directions have volunteered to speak to and work with other spirits in my behalf. However, you too, can have such a relationship by opening your hearts, shifting your perceptions, and committing to a life of Right Relationship, where all life is sacred, and everything is interrelated. When we walk our talk in this way, a whole new world opens up to us.
If you are interested in learning how to connect with the Guardians of the Directions, let me know. We can work together in my seminar Creating Sacred Space.
Do you talk to the Spirits? Let us know about your experiences!
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