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The Standing Bear
Center for Shamanic Studies

Workshops & Retreats

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          Feminist Shamanic Training

for Young Women Ages 21-29

This ongoing training introduces you to levels of shamanic consciousness appropriate to your time of life. You gradually develop deepening femininst shamanic consciousness as you leave behind the misperceptions and wounds of childhood and puberty, preparing yourself to enter deeply into shamanic power while growing towards feminine maturity.

Meets first Sunday of each month from 1-5pm 

Cost: $195 per seasonal quarter. Application process and pre-registration. You can enter the training at the beginning of any seasonal quarter: December 21, March 21, June 21 or September 21. Pre-registration.
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Animal Spirit Seminars

 
In this six-week seminar you learn the differences among power animals, animal spirit helpers and totem animals, and how to safely interact with them in shamanic reality. You begin the seminar with a private power animal retrieval by Scarlet, and continue on with group study. You learn shamanic ways of meditating, dancing and singing, as well as  safe femininst shamanic journey methods.

Four seminars per year, starting in October, February, May and August.  Each seminar consists of five  workshops that meet weekly on Friday evenings and Saturdays.   
Cost of $250 per seminar includes your private power animal retrieval ceremony. Pre-registration.
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Other Shamanic Workshop Opportunities


I also occasionally offer special workshops and retreats at the Center and elsewhere upon request.   Such events are designed for people who may not feel called to undertake ongoing feminist shamanic training, but who are nevertheless interested in experiencing a taste of feminist shamanic consciousness. 

All of the workshops listed below can be made available at your location as well. I can also design a workshop that addresses your group's specific issues or interests. Please get in touch with me, using the contact info below, to discuss the particulars of arranging for a special workshop or retreat at your location. Cost varies depending upon locale and content.
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             Special Seminar & Retreat Topics
These content and experience-dense workshops and retreats include lecture, discussion, talking circles, drumming & singing, meditation and feminist shamanic journeying. When offered at the Center, such workshops begin early Friday evening and conclude early Sunday evening.

~ The Relevance of Feminist Shamanism in Today’s World
    -What is the role of feminist shamanism in today's world?
    - How can you use feminist shamanic concepts and perspectives in
      your daily life?
    - Working with the Medicine Wheel Mandala to balance and stabilize
       yourself
    - You learn very safe eminist shamanic journeymethods to discover
      where you are on the spiraling path of the Medicine Wheel Mandala,
      and to seek guidance regarding how to move forward from there
    - You learn to participate in a Feminist Shamanic Council Circle

~ Feminist Shamanic Goddess Archetypes & Mythology
    
   -There are many levels of shamanic goddess archetypes residing
      within the Medicine Wheel Mandala, and each has her own
      mythology, skills and talents, and is available to assist you with
      particular kinds of issues.
    - Using feminist shamanic journey methods, you encounter and
      interact with four shamanic goddess archetypes, each
      "belonging" to a particular direction within the Medicine Wheel
      Mandala.
    - We end the workshop with a Shamanic Goddess Council, in which
       participants may ask women representing each of these four
       goddess archetypes to journey to the goddess to seek guidance for
       them.


~ The Archetypal Symbolism 
   
of the Medicine Wheel Mandala
    - Archetypes are psychic energies and potentials that express
      themselves as images.
    - Specifically shamanic archetypes are found within the psychic
      container of the  Medicine Wheel Mandala. They take the forms
      of seasonal landscapes, celestial bodies, spirit guides in animal
      and human form, elements, and even weather phenomena such as
      thunder and lightning, rain, tornadoes, etc.
    - You learn to journey directly to various archetypes within the
      Medicine Wheel Mandala and seek knowledge about their
      symbolic meanings directly from the archetypes themselves.

~The Medicine Wheel Mandala:
   Mythic Pathway to Feminine Psychological Growth
   
- The realms of myth and shamanic experience are intertwined, and
      cannot be separated. All of the content of the Medicine Wheel
      Mandala is mythic in nature, and so a feminist shamanic path is
      steeped in mythic meaning.
    - The Medicine Wheel Mandala is most often depicted as a two-
      dimensional image. However, when visited in shamanic reality, it is
      found to be a living three-dimensional reality existing
      independent of physical reality, yet bound to it by threads of mythic
      meaning. Each of the five directions within the Medicine Wheel
      Mandala contain clues and guides to help us along our path to self
      realization, or the feminist shamanic "awakening".
    - You learn to use feminist shamanic journey methods to explore the
      mythic meanings of each of the Five Directions within the Medicine
      Wheel Mandala. 

   
                                                        
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Standing Bear Center for Shamanic Studies
52 Bear Springs Lane · PO Box 272
Surry, ME 04684
1.207.664.0752 · toll-free: 1.877.664.0752
scarlet@thestandingbear.com

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© Scarlet L. Kinney, MA