Metta Knowledge For Peace, LLC

There was a time in human history when different versions and teachings of the Medicine Wheel were exchanged and shared as a tool to develop and honor our intimate relationship with Mother Earth and to read and learn from her sacred text of insight, wisdom, power and love.  The four cardinal directions–East, South, West, and North–represent and hold the energies of the four elements that make up the physical world–Water, Fire, Air, and Earth.  Each direction also teaches us about the walk of Mother Life in the human body as we negotiate and integrate the workings of mind, emotions, soul, and spirit.  As we approach 2012, prophesied by many Native peoples as a time of great change in human consciousness, all over the world we see evidence of both further turmoil and powerful promise for a new Earth. Therefore, in these workshops, we will join a growing movement worldwide to resurrect and spread the power and promise of healing and planetary transformation of the Great Wheels.   There is no time like the present to build both individual and community Wheels of Peace and Healing.  In these workshops, we will co-create, explore and learn:

• How to create a Great Medicine Wheel on the Earth and dance it to life.
• How to create personal and community ritual in service of personal and planetary healing and peace.
• How to connect more deeply with Mother Earth and to understand her messages to us and to assist her in the planetary transformation of 2012.
• How to read and understand our Light Body and the energy centers in service of self-knowledge and personal healing.
• How to merge the rational mind and intuition in service of walking with love and soul force in our lives.
• How to build and use our own personal altar, medicine bundle, or mesa, for self-healing in alignment with the Earth Wheel.
• How to heal the wounds of childhood and other lifetimes in the present.
• How to harness creativity and beauty in service of healing and wholeness.
• How to use stone, fire, song, prayer, smoke, art, and meditation to hold the space of balance in our daily lives.
• How to use the Medicine Wheel as a tool complementing other spiritual and religious paths.
• How to plant and cultivate the seeds of a new vision for the future.

The Medicine Wheel of the New Earth belongs to all of us and is Big Enough to partner with every spiritual and religious teaching in the world to spread healing and peace for all. In this spirit, Rachel will integrate the teachings of the new Native American spirituality and shamanism in the West, Buddhism, and the Ancient Mystery Schools of the Himalayas into the work of the Wheel. The ancient indigenous Wheels of both South and North America also will inform our reading and experience of this tool for self-reflection. She invites everyone of every faith, philosphical and wisdom tradition to come to the great table of compassion of the Earth Wheel in service of dissolving all appearance of conflict between them.  The Wheel will also be created in service of healing Mother Earth herself as she moves through the shaking and quaking of her physical body in these times.

Join us in singing this ancient and wise tradition into life where the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountain Spirits of Virginia meet near Timberville, Virginia.

In February, we will be exploring the West direction as we travel around clockwise in alignment with the seasonal cycle.  Participants may start in any direction. They may also want to do only one, two or three directions in a single cycle and/or spread out their entry into each direction over a longer time.  Each person’s journey through the Wheel is different.