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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.
The Celtic Wheel ~ Beltaine 2010
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The Celtic Wheel ~ Beltaine 2010
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth has awakened from it’s rest and gestation. Trees are budding, flowers blooming, calves are nursing. All is fresh and new. Creativity and sexual drive is in the air.
May Day is the time when we celebrate the coming summer. In our collective consciousness, we seem to fuse historical practices of the Beltaine fire festivals and Maying practices. All of these rituals are concerned with the observance that the wheel turning to a time of fertile abundance and vitality, and the notion that at this time the veil is particularly thin. Faeries abound, witches play, and the Otherworld joins with Everyday world ~ the mystery of easy passage between the worlds.
We can imagine that rituals would vary depending on whether this thin veil brings about joyful play in a community, or fearful searching for protection.
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.
