Ana Larramendi Classes 2013

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Shamanic Craft  Weekend

Ana  Larramendi:January  25-27, 2013. Dodgeville,  WI

Many of us shamanic practitioners  have “projects” of medicine objects we have started to make, or are wanting to  make, but have not had the time, or knowledge to proceed. A number of you have  approached me asking for guidance and suggestions on how to make different  items. This has inspired me to create a weekend devoted to making medicine  objects, where you can be supported in a community of shamanic practitioners and  bring your object from the visioning stage to completion, and  empowerment.

Our weekend will begin Friday  evening with a wonderful home cooked meal at 6:00pm. This will be followed by  creating sacred space, and a series of journeys to bring visioning and clarity  about the objects you will be making. We will build a sacred fire to be tended  to throughout the weekend to keep us warm. We will eat, lodge, journey and work  together on our projects. Sunday afternoon we will finish our projects and  create an empowerment ceremony together to awaken the spirit of our completed  medicine objects.

Dates &  Times: Friday,  January 25^th. Check-in at 5:30pm Dinner at 6:00pm.

 

Michael Harner’s The Way  of the Shaman® Shamanic Journeying, Power,  and Healing The Basic Workshop in Core Shamanism  (Weekend)

February 9-10, 2013. Madison, WI FSS instructor- Timothy  Cope

During the Basic experiential workshop, participants are  introduced to core shamanism, the universal and near-universal basic methods of  the shaman to enter nonordinary reality for problem solving and healing.  Particular emphasis is on the classic shamanic journey, one of the most  remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe  otherwise known mainly through myth and dream. Participants are initiated into  shamanic journeying, aided by drumming and other techniques for experiencing the  shamanic state of consciousness and for awakening dormant spiritual abilities,  including connections with Nature.

Practice includes comparisons by participants of their  discoveries in shamanic journeys as well as being introduced to shamanic  divination and healing. They are also provided with methods for journeying to  meet and study with their own individual spirit helpers in nonordinary reality,  a classic step in shamanic practice. Participants learn how the journey is  utilized to restore spiritual power and health, and how shamanism can be applied  in contemporary daily life to help heal oneself, others, and the Planet.

Dates & Times: February 9 & 10, 2013. Class runs from 10:00am to 6:00pm both  Saturday and Sunday. Cost: $280. There is a reduced  rate of $260 for early registrations paid on or before January 21^st  2013.

To register, contact Gerrie Ordaz (608)  695-8620 morgan@avalonshamanic.com

Compassionate Depossession:

Betsy Bergstrom: April 16-19,  2013. Dodgeville, WI

Sometimes, a person who has  experienced soul loss or other traumas may find that they have become a host to  suffering beings or entities. These suffering beings may live off of a person’s  energy and influence them in a variety of ways. Illness, depression, substance  abuse, phobias, emotional problems, suicidal tendencies and other issues may be  in part due to the influence or overshadowing of beings that have attached to  the client. These beings are generally people whose own experience at the time  of death has become compromised in such a way that they did not successfully  make their own journey to the Light. Compassionate Depossession is a humane  therapy that benefits both the client and the attached suffering being, even if  that suffering being is reluctant to cross into the Light.

Dates &  Times: Begins  Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00pm. Class ends on Friday, April 19, at  12:00noon.

 

Advanced Compassionate  Depossession:

Betsy Bergstrom: April 20-23,  2013. Dodgeville, WI

This course is designed for  serious shamanic practitioners who are finding the need for advanced-level  skills in depossession and curse unraveling work. This 4-day residential  workshop includes extensive review, demonstrations, and practical experience.  This workshop builds on the foundation skills taught in the basic Introduction  to Compassionate Depossession. This class includes:

• Approaching Compassionate Clearing work  with a sacred intention and motivation
• Helping ourselves and our clients to  become “Sovereign” and remain that way
• Protocols for working with complex cases  of possession including multiple possession, sorcery and ancestral  patterns
• Power Stacking: merging with Allies,  including additional Allies of Light
• Lords and Ladies of Death…advanced  Compassionate Allies for advanced work
• Tahlten Extraction…Safe and effective  “Hands-on” extraction work for obsessions
• Advanced True Self work…effectively  setting the field for faster, more powerful clearing work
• Protection and Healing Fields…empower  your office, “waiting room” or workspace to be more powerfully  protected
• Personal “Light Building” to keep vibrant and less drained  by Middleworld work
• Clearing “Death Wishes” and various  contracts
• Tools to remain neutral, objective,  clear in accomplishing this profound work

Dates &  Times: Begins  Saturday, April 20, at 3:00pm. Class ends on Tuesday, April 23, at 12:00noon.  This residential includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and delicious meals  with vegetarian options.

Betsy is a full-time Shamanic  Teacher and Practitioner living in Seattle, WA who has been trained by Sandra  Ingerman and Michael Harner as well as a number of indigenous shamans and  healers in the Americas, Asia, European shamans and healers from many cultures.  She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and  Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic  healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she  has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and  Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in  partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the  dead.

Sacred Relationship and the  Elemental World:

Marko Pogačnik: May 8-12, 2013.  Dodgeville, WI

The life around and within us could  not exist in its abundance without the busy hands of innumerable elemental  beings and nature spirits. But who are those beings in their essence? Which  cosmic dimension is their home? Who are their masters and teachers? Marko will  lead us into the causal sphere of the elemental world, called also the  “devic”.  Then he will teach how to  experience the fairy worlds in their archetypal dimension and to understand  their cosmic order.

This residential class will take  us deep into the world of Nature Spirits and Elemental beings in order to help  us develop our sacred relationship with the land and her many archetypal  dimensions. The Author will lead the group to several places in this Driftless  Region of Wisconsin that bear the mark of the Universal Mother’s presence. There  we will train ourselves in communication with her cosmic presence. He will also  show exercises that can be used in the daily practice to stay in touch with the  cosmic feminine in us and around us.

Marko  Pogačnik: www.markopogacnik.com

Born 1944 in  Kranj, Slovenia, and graduated as a sculptor in the  Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana  1967, Marko lives with his family in Šempas, Slovenia. He creates geomantic art  and is active in the fields of ecology, geomancy, social movements and  individual spiritual development. Marko is the author of numerous books in  German, many of which have been translated into English including: Nature  Spirits and Elemental Beings (1996), Healing the Heart of the Earth  (1998). He teaches geomancy on the School for Geomancy “Hagia Chora”,  Germany, runs courses on wholistic  ecology, geomancy and personal development in many countries worldwide, and  provides counseling on the issues of urban development and landscape design.

 

Weather Shamanism  (Practicum): 

Nan Moss and David Corbin: May 22-26,  2013. Dodgeville, WI

A  Spiritual Path of Personal Growth and Global Healing

Weather is a primary tool of  Creation. Weather makes and remakes our world. An expression and force of  Nature, weather creates, nurtures, shapes – and reconfigures – the Earth. We are  all touched by the weather as it continually affects our physiological and  emotional well-being. Weatherdancing  is weather shamanism at its best. Its core is an ethical alliance between humans  and the spiritual forces of Nature and her weathers. As a spiritual path and  practice dedicated to healing our world and our hearts, weatherdancing requires  respectful interactions between humans and all our relations. There is no room  for personal gain. There is no intended harm to others. This is neither a path  nor a relationship of “power-over.” It is never about controlling the weather.  Weatherdancing is about the right use of power. As such it is a collaboration  with compassionate beings on behalf of all life on Earth.

Nan  Moss and David Corbin, www.shamanscircle.com Nan and  David teach the spiritual aspects of weather, they have been teaching and doing  research on this topic for more than 10 years. In addition they are faculty  members of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

 

Caretaker II: EARTH & SKY(Apprenticeship)  Dodgeville, WI

Ana  Larramendi, Nan Moss & David Corbin:

August  30-September 6, 2013 (first meeting of 4-part  apprenticeship)

This  is the second time I will be teaching my land healing apprenticeship; Caretaker of the Earth.

I am excited to include Nan Moss  and David Corbin as part of the teaching team of this apprenticeship, as it is  clear to me that working with climate change and the weather spirits is an  essential aspect now to Earth Stewardship. Substantial changes and new teachings  will be offered in this training based on new information I have received since  the last time I taught this. Our times have changed, and my focus on what is  important to address in this class is at a new level.

This  training includes:

• Personal  healing work
• Nature  knowledge and awareness
• Relationship  building with the Spirits of Earth and Sky
• Building  a mesa specifically for earth healing work
• Ethics  in Earth Healing work
• Working  with the elements and building relationships with compassionate elemental beings
• Weather  spirits and Weather work
• Communicating  with Spirits of place for land healing

A commitment to the entire 4-part  Apprenticeship is expected.

Dates &  Times: First meeting begins Friday, August 30,  2013 at 1:00pm. Ends on Friday, September 6 at 12:00noon. This residential  training includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and all meals.

Session 2, May 2014/ Session 3,  Sept. 2014/ Session 4, Spring 2015. All sessions will be 7 days  long.

 

Shamanism as a Personal Spiritual   Practice:

Ana  Larramendi: September 19-22, 2013. Dodgeville, WI

How do we live a life of  Spirit?  How do we integrate  Shamanism in everyday life? This class is for those who are exploring shamanism  as a personal spiritual practice. Here we will delve into learning many  fundamental practices of shamanism as they apply to everyday life. Class begins  on a full moon and ends on the Autumnal Equinox for heightened ceremonial  power!

Teachings will  include:

• Learning  various traditions of the sacred directions and calling sacred  space
• Elements  of creating sacred space– personal altars, rituals &  Ceremony
• Creating  personal fire ceremonies
• Working  with Auspicious celestial times: Moon cycles,  solstices/equinoxes.
• Different forms of  divination
• Working  with the natural world as a Teacher—Spirit Walks, speaking with nature spirits, and  reading signs and omens
• Choosing  or creating power objects or Medicine objects. How to imbue them with  power
• Journeys  for protection and personal healing
• Basic  Meditation, and Grounding techniques
• Learning  discernment between helping and non-helping spirits

Dates &  Times: September 19-22, 2013. Class  begins Thursday at 3:00pm and ends Sunday at 4:00pm.

HAWAIIAN HEALING  WORKSHOP

Bringing together Ho’oponopono & Lomilomi

Kahuna  Harry Uhane Jim, and Sila Lehua Bray Jim: October 4-7, 2013.  Dodgeville, WI

The Hawaiian Culture has concepts  and skill sets that co-create Balance and Abundance. They have evolved a  practice of managing trauma and transforming chaotic patterns into shapes and  vistas of order and peace. The profound is presented in an  interactive and trance breaking experience.

HO’OPONOPONO- (the Hawaiian  Shamanic healing practice of Forgiveness) dedicated to setting aside focus  skills based on pain and shame and guilt, and embracing a skill set to bring  focus skills of joy and presence. We engage the tri-une truths that align us  with the beauty of this universe: It’s about discovery, relationships, and  service…In that order and in that current of your personal Divine presence. Animate  your authority to transform and lift , depressive and exhausting energies from  land buildings, people dead or alive.

Kahua Harry Uhane  Jim: www.harryjimlomilomi.com 

Harry  Uhane Jim, Kahuna, healer, teacher. Author of: WISE SECRETS OF ALOHA. He  was born and raised on Kauai, Hawaii.  He has been doing the work for  many years, and has been trained in the traditional apprentice style by the best  known native Kahuna’s of the last 7 decades-most gone now. His presentations  carry authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit  and laughter. He evokes the Hawaiian experience of healing by raising  your vibration.

 

The  Shamanic Ritual of Dismemberment:

Betsy  Bergstrom: October 10-14, 2013. Dodgeville, WI

From  the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Lama Wangdu  Rinpoche.

Chöd is an  ancient ritual practice dating from the 10th century and translated to modern  times. While retaining it’s power, intention and meaning, through the practice  of authorized lineage transmission, Chöd traces it’s origins to Machik Lapdron  of Tibet and Padampa Sangye  of India. Passed from teacher to  practitioner, Chöd has been practiced as a personal spiritual practice and as a  healing practice for centuries in both the Buddhist and Bon  traditions.

The Chöd  ceremony focuses on tantric practices empowering a practitioner to safely offer  their body as blessed food to compassionate allies and “demons”. The purpose of  the offering of one’s own body in a ritual way is to cut through fear, to pacify  the “demons” which could be either internal or external and liberate them and to  free one’s own ego or mind in order to know the true nature of reality. This  nature of reality is consistent with the shamanic knowledge of the  interconnectedness of all. The outcome of this practice is peace, healing  and sometimes depossession.

His Holiness,  the Dalai Lama authorized the renowned Tibetan yogi, Lama Tsering Wangdu  Rinpoche, to share this practice in the West. Lama Wangdu graciously and  generously taught this Buddhist version of the Chöd practice to me, and gave me  the authorization to teach and transmit this lineage practice to those who are  interested. Though Chöd has previously been a rare and rather secret practice,  perhaps because of the shamanic elements and tantric power of it, the Dalai Lama  thinks that this is an important practice for our  time.

Betsy Bergstrom, www.betsybergstrom.com

Betsy is a full-time Shamanic  Teacher and Practitioner living in Seattle, WA who has been trained by Sandra  Ingerman and Michael Harner as well as a number of indigenous shamans and  healers in the Americas, Asia, European shamans and healers from many cultures.  She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and  Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic  healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she  has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and  Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in  partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the  dead.

Dates &  Times: Begins  Thursday, October 10, at 7:00pm. Class ends On Monday, October 14, at  12:00noon.

All Classes Register or  Questions:  Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com

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