This gathering will help you fall ever more deeply in love with your very human body as a source of trust, joy, wisdom, pleasure, grace, communication, power, understanding and intimate connection with the rest of life. We'll explore sensory based ways of re-envisioning our bodies to be our greatest ally: we'll experiment with different ways of communicating with the vast, communal consciousness of our bodies and how to recognize and trust what is received. We'll consider the genetic, environmental and conditioned belief patterns that have formed how we experience, view and relate to our bodies and our innate intelligence and then create ways to heal what is no longer supportive while cultivating inspiring, joyful and balanced ways of living as the beautiful and wondrous beings we are.
Throughout our time together you'll have many opportunities to connect with your own great nature, your personal spiritual allies, the spirits of nature, the ancestors and other benevolent beings of the unseen world. This will often be done through the method of the shamanic journey, but we'll also combine the shamanic journey process of inspiration and guidance with other ways to inquire, heal, create and learn. Some of these will likely include working with breath, movement, music and sound, envisioning, creative expression, meditation, inspired dialogue, intimate encounter with self and other, and ceremony.
For this gathering I am limiting the space to women only. If there is future interest, I will be happy to do otherwise for those who are comfortable exploring some of the issues around trust and intimacy in a mixed gender group.
Some shamanic journeying experience needed for this gathering. Please contact me if you're interested in this gathering, have no shamanic journey experience, but do have a tested, reliable process for communicating with what you relate to as the spirit world that can integrate comfortably with drumming and the shamanic process so we can decide together if it would be a pleasing fit.
Cost: $285
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