Second in a series of building core shamanic skills, this gathering continues where "Meeting the Compassionate Spirits" leaves off. In this workshop you'll become familiar with the landscape of the Middle World, which in shamanic terms is the unseen aspect of the world we live in. You'll gather some new allies that empower you to work with middle world dynamics. Those being:

• Gatekeeper: This helping spirit helps you maintain the integrity of your spirit gates, the portals of your energetic perceptions. Your gatekeeper also is a translator in that s/he can help you have clarity about what you receive in a journey, even if you don't understand a language or image, etc. Your gatekeeper will also help to maintain your personal boundaries.
• Body Protector:  Your body protector is just that; an ally who merges with you and maintains the safety and boundaries of your physical and subtle bodies. This enables you to move in the middle world with your sovereignty intact while also helping with the equilibrium of your nervous system
• Emotional Body Protector:  Your emotional body protector maintains your empathic receptivity to a degree where you can maintain understanding and compassion but where you do not become personally activated by what you might experience in a journey. Sometimes there are experiences we witness in non-ordinary reality (NOR) that can trigger our own pain, or elicit responses of shock, disgust, anger, etc. Your emotional body protector knows you, and will know how to help you maintain a loving sense of safety and care while you are journeying.
• Power Place:  Your place of power is a crucial ally for all your journeys. This is a "place" in non-ordinary reality from which you begin most of your journeys and it is where you feel completely at ease; stimulated while also relaxed; alive, curious, and deeply connected to your essential nature and to your helping spirits.
• Benevolent Ancestor:  Regular attunement to one of your ancestors who mastered a good life and a good death will increase your radiance and equanimity as you move within the Middle World so you can relate from a position of sovereignty.

With these new allies as part of your council of Helping Spirits we will then meet some of those beings with whom we share this planet; the nature spirits, devas, benevolent fae, the hidden folk, elementals, animal spirits, etc. We'll learn how to make contact with them, how they envision us living in harmony with them, and how we can evolve together cooperatively and creatively. We'll stick our little toe---briefly!!-- into our relationship to the construct of Time, as well as explore our relationship with the sun, moon, stars and with the living, radiant heart of Mother Earth. As we do this, we will continually set an intention to explore NOR from the question "Who Am I?" as well as ask for help in maintaining our balance, mindfulness and spiritual power amidst rapid and profound changes.

Cost: $285