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Introduction to Shamanism with Eve Bruce
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Introduction to Shamanism in Ireland with Eve Bruce
October 15 – 17, 2010 Samhuin
February 4 – 6, 2011 Imbolc
Weekend introductory shamanic workshops overlooking Inch Beach on the Dingle peninsula. Find and deepen your connection to your ancestors, and to the spirits of the Earth, Sea and Sky. Enrich your life by calling upon your spirit guides. Learn to access assistance in living the life of your true dreams. For all of you beginners and seasoned shamanic journeyers alike who have a desire to walk the bones of your ancestors. Join me for a weekend filled with ceremony, drumming, journeying, and laughter.
Green Path Medicine ~ A Shamanic Practitioner’s Course
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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.
Voices of the Ancestors ~ Healing Your Family and the Wounds of the World Soul
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.
Shakti Rising ~ An Inner Marriage October 1 – 8, 2010 with Eve Bruce
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Shakti Rising ~ An Inner Marriage
October 1 – 8, 2010
with Eve Bruce
These are changing times when we are all – men and women – feeling the rise of the feminine shakti, at times overturning the status quo and leaving us floundering to find our center and balance.
In this workshop we will explore the rising feminine energies, looking inward to define and refine the changes that each of us are experiencing as individuals. We will learn to understand and embrace this energetic evolution, finding our balance and productivity, culminating in a ceremonial sacred marriage of these energies within each of us through a ritualized “hieros gamos”.
In ancient times before the patriarchal systems came into play, the feminine energies were understood to be the most powerful that exist in this earthly plane. It was thought that this is due to the fact that the female being has direct connection and experience with the grand forces of nature through her body’s cycles, and of divine creation through giving birth. In this way her connection with the divine is participatory, and her power source direct. The male does not have this built in direct connection, and must find his power through a less than direct connection with the divine by way of acquisition as he goes forward in the world through the “hero’s journey”.
Drum For Joy ~ African Drumming in Ireland with Jaqui MacMillan
Drum For Joy ~ African Drumming in Ireland
with Jaqui MacMillan
September 17 – 19 Weekend Intensive
September 17 – 24 Weeklong Workshop
$100 early bird discount if weeklong paid in full by July 7.
Drum For Joy!
Come for an intensive weekend or join us for the fun filled full week.
“If you can say it, you can play it” … These are the famous
words of Jaqui’s first drum teacher, Babatunde Olatunji, and also the foundation for all of her drum classes. The Drum For Joy in Ireland program will include classes where you will learn the language of the drum, basic technique and how to make your drum sing. Jaqui presents the drum songs in a way that make it fun and easy to learn. You will learn many rhythms, breaks, solo techniques and vocal parts throughout the program. We will also be exploring improvisation with with drums and percussion instruments, found sounds and working with the rhythms of nature in the beautiful environment around us. We will celebrate the coming of autumn, go to local pubs to hear Irish music and create spontaneous music magic together! No musical experience necessary/ all levels are welcome. There are a limited number of drums by request … please bring a drum if you can.
