This was our program for 2011.

Eliot Cowan

Are We The Weavers?

• A boy who suffers from hay fever can grow up to be an herbalist.
• An isolated brainiac can grow into a community leader.
• An agnostic rebel can become the holder of a sacred tradition.
• A Chicago Jew can be initiated as an elder shaman of a First Nations people in Mexico

Are we the weavers or the woven? Eliot Cowan speaks about his life.

Why The Huichols Walk Counter-clockwise Around the Fire

Only we human beings tear the Great Weave and get ourselves into trouble. How does this happen? Where does trouble come from? How can
we deal with it?

In a ritual setting, Huichol Shaman Eliot Cowan shares a sacred story that tells how humans discovered trouble, how we got into it, and how we get out of it.

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Nancy Sherwood

Moving With Change: Shapeshifting for our Present Time

Shapeshifting is a traditional shamanic skill that comes down to us from ancient times: We see evidence of it drawn on the cave walls of Lascaux, France and in many petroglyphs around the world. What does it have to do with us now?

Nancy Dancing Light Sherwood will take us through an experience of shifting perception, shifting body, to merge with the rich world of support for our lives now. By learning to shift, we encounter the diversity of existence and can embody the essence of the shift we wish to invite. This means making a relationship to other beings and being open to sharing heart space with them. This session is for anyone, whether able bodied or disabled.
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David Hickey

The practice of using sound to heal and achieve balance from within has existed for centuries.

Many cultures recognize the importance of music and sound as a healing power by using bells, chimes, bowls or gongs.

To accompany you on your journey of remembering who you are, Crystal Journey will offer you a unique experience – a live performance of a completely improvised composition by Canadian musician David Hickey, using over ten various Crystal Bowls, Planet Gongs, Santoor and Vibraphone. The intent is to offer you soothing and meditative music as you “journey into healing”.To learn more about David Hickey’s music and work in Canada and in the world, please visit him at www.crystaljourney.ca.

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Eileen O’Hare

September 23rd
1:30-4:00

A Sound and Healing Journey

A Sacred Circle Devoted to All That Is Sound.

Beginning with breath and ending with bells, we explore varied levels of engagement with sound, riding on the powerful vibrations that call to us. The drum takes us deeper. Singing bowls spin and twirl and dance with us. Gongs and tuning forks make waves that move us. Toning, chanting, om-ing, droning, we journey together into places our soul has yearned to go for lifetimes.

Come and become one with sound and experience the freedom exploring frequencies brings you.

September 25th
10-12

Sound and Healing

A Sacred Circle Devoted to Sacred Chanting

We explore making sound on the breath leading into making specific language sound on the breath. We will hum and tone and drone and chant from various spiritual traditions together. Native chant. Hindu Chant. Hebrew Chant. Honoring the Masculine. Honoring the Feminine. Our intention is upliftment of our personal and Planetary energy. We will offer our practice first for our own health and well being. And then we will offer our practice for the health and well being of the world.

Come and experience sound frequencies flowing healing energy into every cell and the space between every cell that we are in the Body of Creation.