Voices of the Ancestors ~ How to Release and Heal Spirits of the Departed
with Roger J Woolger, PhD
April 15 – 17, 2011
Most non-western cultures have rituals and practices to facilitate the safe passage of departing spirits to the other side after death to ensure that they literally don’t hang around the living, draining energy and invisibly influencing us. Celtic wakes for example, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead were both designed for this purpose and to protect the psychic health of the community.
For the most part, however, our culture has few such practices for releasing the dead with the result that many of our energy problems, obsessive issues and persistent complexes often turn out to be old or ancestral spirit energies trying in vain to speak or act through us to resolve unfinished issues not of our, but their making.
In his many years of working in regression therapy and shamanic healing Roger has frequently encountered and removed unwanted and unhappy spirits. Some spirits originally attached to us in childhood, some after a family member’s death. Others have been with us for many lifetimes.
In this workshop Roger will share his findings, then demonstrate simple and safe methods to release ancestral and past life spirits. Roger principles and approaches derive from Jungian, Buddhist and European views of spirit entities and differ in many respects from Spiritualist ways of working with obsessors. He aims to demystify misleading superstitions about “possession”, the demonic and “evil” by showing how all so-called “dark” and vengeful entities all respond to loving and compassionate treatment.
Green Path Medicine ~ A Shamanic Practitioner’s Course
Traditional Healing Techniques of the Andes and Amazon
with Ipupiara Makunaiman, Jenny Clay Toscano and Eve Bruce
September 3 – 10, 2010
We are living in times of great change, times that have been foretold by indigenous peoples for millennia.
It has been said that this will be a time when red, yellow, black and white people will come together again, as they were in the beginning of time, each bringing their unique medicine gift to the coming New Earth of harmony and peace.
Green Path Medicine was created by Ipupiara Makunaiman, an indigenous shaman from the Brazilian Amazon, Jenny Clay Toscano, an indigenous shaman from the Peruvian Andes, and Eve Bruce, a white woman devoted to bringing back the Earth based medicines. Our vision is to use Green Medicine – in healing and in teaching indigenous healing methods so that you can walk this path and heal others. We have been teaching shamanism together for over a dozen years, and our intent is to facilitate each person’s deepening connection to spirit and to Mother Earth, helping you find that inner indigenous person devoted to walking softly on Mother Earth with honor, connecting with all our relations, and walking the Green Path to find your own unique “medicine” or gift that will help the greening of our planet.
Join us in the hills of southwest Ireland for a week of teachings, ceremony, healings and connecting with the elements. Find your root in this richly alive land. Journey to your ancestral guides, and find your medicine, your song to the Earth. Learn techniques for healing from South American tribes of the high Andes and Deep Amazon. These powerful healing techniques can be the bridge over which your spirit can walk to find your unique shamanic practice which you can take with you into the world to heal self and other.
