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Still Time to Register for Shaman Bradford Keeney Shaking Medicine in New York
March 22, 2009
Bradford Keeney offers what is being called the wildest and most transformative teaching on Earth! Rather than talk about spirituality, growth, and change, he brings it forth. He hosts the presence of spirit and the birthing of previously unimagined creative possibilities. In his sessions, anything can happen. Quite literally, light bulbs have exploded, fire alarms have gone off, speakers have exploded, microphones have caught fire, and lightning has struck the building. More importantly, people have experienced radical transformations that point the way toward vibrant spirited living, initiating an exhilarating entry into one’s destined journey. Using music, rhythm, and what he calls “N/om Talk” (kundalini-inspired expression) and the “Life Force Theatre,” Keeney steps out of the way and kicks open the door for spirit to enter. He has been called prophetic, raw, politically incorrect, controversial, and absolutely wild. He also has been called gentle, humorous, uncommonly and absurdly wise, therapeutic, and loving. Suffice it to say that he embraces the opposites, dances the contraries, and shines the light on the syncopated truths.
Of this you can be certain: Keeney’s teaching is unlike any experience you know. It will shake everything up – your assumptions and beliefs about anything whether it regards spirituality, healing, love, dieting, exercise, everyday living, personal development, or success.. As Keeney says, almost all pop teachings (spiritual, psychological, and self-help) are semantic waste product that makes us further lost and comatose. Prepare to be shocked, laugh yourself silly, get tripped over what used to be the ground of your being, and find freedom outside all the boxed views. Come rock, roll, shake, and bake the whole of your mind-body-heart-soul. This radical alternative to all the spiritual babble and psychobabble is rooted to the world’s oldest healing tradition. It aims to stir things up, help you jump out of your mind, fire up more imagination, awaken your deepest feelings, and release your creative know-how regarding how to be fully alive. It is his privilege to introduce us to what he has learned about shaking medicine in this weekend workshop at the beautiful Menla Mountain Retreat Center in Phoenicia, New York.
DATES: Thursday, April 2 starting at 6 p.m., Friday, April 3, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Cost: $475.
For more information and to register, click here. Or email Karyn Armstrong.
Register for lodging & meals directly with Menla Mountain Retreat Center: Single, double and dorm style options as well as commuter available. A list of alternative lodging arrangements will be sent upon registration.
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D., has been called “an all-American shaman, the Marco Polo of psychology, and an anthropologist of the spirit” by the editors of Utne Reader. Elders of indigenous traditions throughout the world – including the Kalahari Bushmen, the Caribbean Shakers of St. Vincent, the Guarani Indians of the Amazon, and leaders of the Japanese healing tradition of Seiki Jutsu – have embraced Keeney as an elder and spokesperson for the old ways of ecstatic shaking. Following an academic career as a systems theorist and psychotherapist, he spent over a decade traveling the globe, living with spiritual teachers, shamans, healers, and medicine people who trusted him to share their words with others – modern cultures in need of Elder wisdom.
The result of Keeney’s work is one of the broadest and most intense field studies of healing and shamanism, chronicled in the critically acclaimed book series, Profiles of Healing an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world’s healing practices. His autobiography, Bushman Shaman, tells how he became a n/om-kxao (healer) with the Kalahari Bushmen. Megan Biesele, Ph.D., former member of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group, writes: “There is no question in the minds of the Bushman healers that Keeney’s strength and purposes are coterminous with theirs. They affirmed his power as a healer.” Keeney presently conducts his clinical work at the Center for Children and Families, Monroe, Louisiana. He also serves as Professor of Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and founding director of the Bushman (San) N/om-Kxaosi Ethnographic Project, Institute for Religion and Health, Texas Medical Center, Houston.
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