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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 levels of shamanic consciousness appropriate to your time of life. You gradually develop genuine femininst shamanic consciousness as you leave behind the misperceptions and wounds of childhood and puberty, preparing yourself to enter deeply into shamanic power as you grow towards feminine maturity. Meets first Sunday of each month from 1-5pm beginning Sunday, October 3, 2010. 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Animal Spirit Seminars In this six-part 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. Seminars meet monthly October - February and April - August. Cost of $450 per seminar includes your power animal retrieval ceremony. Limited to 6 students per seminar. Application and pre-registration. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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 a feminist shamanic apprenticeship, 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Special Workshop & Retreat Topics All workshops and retreats include lecture, discussion, talking circles, drumming & singing, meditation and feminist shamanic journeying. These particular workshops are content and experience dense, so require a long weekend to fully explore the content & experience the benefits of doing so. 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? - Using the Medicine Wheel Mandala to balance and stabilize yourself - Feminist shamanic journeys 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 - Women's Sacred Council Circle ~ Feminist Shamanic Goddess Archetypes and 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 Psychological and Spiritual Evolution - 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, very lively 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 containin 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, as well as the fifth direction, the Center. Choose this link to return to my home page.  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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