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Shamanic Living Immersion
a medicinal journey through the year aligning with the rhythms of nature ~ together in Squamish
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Summary:
During our year together you have access to:
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Immersion Syllabus *subject to minor change
**CURRENTLY UNDER RECONFIGURATION**
We are moving from monthly gatherings to 4 full immersion weekends, the syllabus below is being restructured as to timing of certain aspects
October: Connecting to Spirit, Opening the Dialogue
On the Wheel: Twighlight, Autumn, Bedding the Garden, Letting Go
Workshop: Introduction to Shamanism & Journeying ~ learn about shamanism, the differences & similarities between a shamanic practitioner and living a shamanic lifestyle, learn to journey for insights, wisdom, healing, and support, receive your Power Animal and begin a personal relationship with Spirit. 5 hrs
Seasonal Gateway: Samhain
Group Video Call
Solo Work given online: Spirit - Ancestral Honouring 3+ hours
- Ancestral honouring, shrines & altars
- Establish your personal journey practice
- Balancing Mind, Body & Spirit
Journey Circle: Cultivating your soul garden 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
November: Learning to look, looking to learn
Group Video Call
Solo work given online: Observation, Journaling, and Omens 3+ hours
- Journaling - Submit one entry on the last day each month for year-end review and accountability.
- Establishing & opening to Spirit through Omens.
- Observing what has become a hindrance to your connection to Nature.
- Consciously crafting positive vibrations and subconscious messaging
- Learn your personal Moon rhythms
Energy Body Movement: Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi etc - committed to and done on your own, 3 hours
Journey Circle: Turning inward, stepping into the Void 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
December: Feminine Intuition, Dreaming, Clearing, Resting and the Void
On the Wheel: Midnight, Winter, Stillness, Darkest Before the Dawn
Seasonal Gateway: Winter Solstice
Solo work given online: The Descent 3+ hours
- Facing your biggest challenge
- Tree medicine.
- The balance of defining and letting go.
- Self-care and being present to pleasure.
January: Compass Creation & Orientation - Where am I? Where am I going?
Shamanic Living Gathering: The Medicine Wheel ~ Universal Seasonal & Personal Culture 3+ hours
Group Video Call
Solo work online: Land & Home 3+ hours
- Personal sacred space - dedication and the medicine
- Bringing the Sacred into the Mundane
Journey Circle: Journey to the earth mother & working with spirit in tangible ways 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
February: Morning Birth & Sprouting Seeds
On the Wheel: Morning, Spring, Midwifery of New Life, Labour Pains
Seasonal Gateway: Imbolc ~ Introduction to Divination Techniques Workshop 5 hours
One on One Sessions: Online Divination & Healing Session 1.5 hours
Group Video Call
Solo work given online: Air 3+ hours
- Natural divination tools & your sacred space.
- Journey exploration of your personal divination tools and method
- Deepening this relationship
Journey Circle: Meet the East, Sprouting Seeds 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
March: Human Doing or Human Being?
Group Video Call
Seasonal Gateway: Equinox
Solo work given online: Balance 3+hours
- Rice & Plant Experiment
- Balance inner & outer worlds, Mundane and Spirit
Energy Body Movement: Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi etc - committed to and done on your own, 3 hours
Journey Circle: Self Care & Action, Cultivate relationships with Natural Elements 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2+ hours
April: Sacred Tools
Online Workshop: Rattle Making 5 hours
Group Video Call
Solo work given online: Deepening relationships 3+ hours
- Establish a relationship with your rattle
- Deepen your Journey practice
- Energetic & Spiritual "slow cooking"
Journey Circle: Journey to the Elements & Directions for healing & balancing 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2+ hours
May: Sacred Feminine & Divine Masculine Unity
Seasonal Gateway: Beltaine
One on one sessions: in person shamanic + reiki session 2 hours
Group Video Call
Solo Work given online: Cultivation 3 hours
- Self-Care & Earth-Care
- Earthing
- Medicinal water creation
- Report on Rice or Plant Experiment
Journey Circle: Crystal Healing, Passion, Transformation 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2+ hours
June: Masculine Action, Manifestation
Seasonal Gateway: Summer Solstice
Group Video Call
Solo work given online: Fire 3+ hours
- Nature Immersion in your day to day
- Inspiration & Resistance.
- Mindfulness, Presence and Pleasure, the Balance between Spirit & Body
- Connecting to Source for healing self, community, & earth.
- Radiating, expressing & sending.
- Tending to the land.
- Healing songs
Journey Circle: Personal Ritual 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
Community Ceremony: Fire Ceremony & Water Blessing 5 hours
July: Break, Rest, Integrate the spirit realm while vacationing and summer-doing.
Solo Work given online: Sensitivity 3 hours
- Nature medicine
- "Home Work"
- Elixir & Medicinal water creation
August: the Harvest, Passion, Heat
On the Wheel: Mid-Day, Action, Harvest, Reaping what has been sown since Winter dream time.
Seasonal Gateway: Lughnassad
Shamanic Living Gathering: Medicine Pouch Creation 3 hours
Group Video Call
Solo Work given online: Spirit 3 hours
- To wonder at beauty
- Land tending in advance of local festivals and construction sites
Journey Circle: Journey to grain-mother or harvest king - the Harvest. Create Corn Dollies 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
September: Twilight
Shamanic Living Gathering: Drum Making ($250), Potluck Farewell 7 aprx hours
Group Video Call
Solo work given online: Water - Reflection 3+ hours
- Observation
- Review
- Moon water creation
- Attuning the waters of our bodies with the waters of the planet for healing.
Journey Circle: Wisdoms of the birth/death cycle - the germination, planting, tending and harvest. Salmon, returning home. 3 hours
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces: 1-2 hours
Additional Notes:
Energy Body Movement ~ Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi
Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong etc are fabulous methods of shifting dense energy, rejuvenating, sweating your prayers and connecting with community while embarking on personal work. These are long standing methods and provide a superb environment for this. The entry fees are not included in the Shamanic Living Immersion financial commitment.
Some options include:
Sweat Lodge
"Just Dance" every second Friday in Kitsilano from 9pm to 12 - 1am (carpooling is available) $20
"Dance Divine" Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings.
You can also be connected to a regular "5 Rhythms" event in the city.
The Yoga Co-op here in Squamish offers Thursday morning yoga by donation for women.
As long as it establishes a regular movement of physical & emotional energy - it counts.
Sacred Places, Solo Spaces:
Fostering and repairing our personal relationship with Nature is a major component of shamanic living. These Free gatherings occur once a month on the Sunday morning at 10:45am following Shamanic Journey Circles. A group of like minded people take turns leading us to a natural sanctuary where we can then take our personal spaces to replenish, commune and connect with the healing energy of the place, leave offerings, sing our prayers, or otherwise work with spirit. A gentle and powerful way to support and integrate your solo work, and facilitate your connection with the natural world while still feeling held by the group.
Online Component:
The online portion of our year together allows you to dedicate to creating sacred space in your home and life schedule, privately dive into personal work, and creates a forum for accountability. The content is released on the thinkific platform on the 1st of each month with a reminder email containing a link to the online course site. Each month includes pre-recorded audio files, documents, videos etc that you can always revisit and deepen your experience. Please respect my work by keeping these files solely for your personal use.
There are monthly submissions tracking your inner process and outer life events that will be collected for your year end review. This serves a threefold purpose, creating a comprehensive, left brained method to witness the healing shifts that are made while identifying areas that may require more attention for your clarity, as well as letting me know where you are at on your path. These submissions will be done via an online form.
Support and discussions between gatherings will be done within the secret facebook group.
Workshops, Events & Supporting Information from other practitioners:
Calling in the medicines and wisdoms of other practitioners brings in a freshness and a variety of methods to your practice. I will periodically share various events held by others. When there is interest, we will aim to carpool and travel together. These entry fees have not been included in your Shamanic Living financial commitment, and range from approximately $15 to $60 each. Only the workshops and events listed here in the syllabus and held by myself have been included in your financial commitment. Additional gatherings and events will come up throughout the year as dates are announced. Attendance would be recommended but is optional.
Additional Reading & Audio Lectures
You are invited to take your shamanic living practice even deeper by reading from the list of recommended books, audio lectures, interviews and podcasts listed on the Recommended Reading page. Many of these are available free online.
Shamanic Journey Circles, Workshops & Community Events
- Private SLI Shamanic Journey Circles are offered on the second Saturday of each month in Squamish.
- Should you miss the private journey circle you are welcome to purchase a spot in the community inclusive circle on the third Saturday of each month. The topics listed above are a general theme we follow, but as always each journey circle is based on where we are in the cycle of the season, medicine wheel, moon phase and in response to what the community tribe is experiencing, and the common elements that have been brought into my awareness. Those aspects of course are dynamic and can not be totally planed for, but without them we would lose vital medicinal opportunities for ourselves, our community and the land around us.
- The workshops listed above are online but closely coincide with public in-person offerings. You are welcome to purchase a spot to attend in person for a deepening of the work and to enjoy the group experience.
Supports available to you
- I am available via email to offer private support through your personal processes as they relate to the program. Each SLI member has an allotment of up to 5 hours available for one-on-one support, if more is needed Shamanic Consultation Sessions can be booked.
- There will be 10 group video support calls via Zoom, a free conference call program. These calls will take place on a weekday evening and will be recorded for those unable to attend. You are welcome to send in questions ahead of time to help ensure those topics will be covered.
- An essential component is our private Shamanic Living facebook group. While we are in-between gatherings and journey circles a cohesive connected group forms online, tailored solo work may be given, energetic and celestial updates shared to keep aware of as you move through day-to-day life. It is a place for sharing, asking questions, posting photos, and a beautiful method of holding space for each other. Shamanic Living gathering dates to remember are posted there and will be announced as they approach, plus other supports beneficial to the group will also take place there.
- Journey circle, Sacred Places, Solo Spaces, and Seasonal Ceremony dates that are open to the public will be posted in a separate group as well. "Medicine Gatherings & Online Support hosted by 3 Fold Balance"
