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West Power Workshop: Integrity and Power
Do you want to feel more joy and sense of purpose in your life? Do you grapple with depression, anxiety, and other uneasy states of mind? Are you seeking to connect more deeply with your inner self? Do you want to feel a greater connection to Nature? Do you want to harness your personal sense of power and agency in the world?
In the West direction of The Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth, we journey to discover the path to freedom from the limitations of human emotions and ego. In the West direction, we are called to enter the Underworld of our consciousness to seek the source of our true power. In these times, with so much change in the world, we must find this power so that we may walk in balance and service. Beloved Kutchka, the Raven Spirit, and Grandmother Moon assist us on this journey into the unseen world with joy and skillfulness. There we visit the places of our most ancient ancestral woundings and find the beautiful gifts of power that have long been hidden from view. In this workshop, we will revisit the Wheel we built in the South direction and will develop the following skills:
- How to journey through the Wheel into the Underworld in search of healing and gifts.
- How to use the Violet Flame Meditations to purify heavy energies and emotions.
- How to use soul talk and shaking medicine to access the primordial energy of Mother Earth for the development of intuition and spontaneity.
- How to honor the darkness through earth crafts, fire, and community ritual in service of uncovering the shadow in service of healing the community.
- How to create a personal mesa or medicine bundle to carry the teachings and energies of the West direction of the Earth Wheel into our daily lives.
- How to pray, dance, and sing with the Great Earth Wheel to send healing to Mother Earth and the planet, as a whole.
You may start in the West direction if you have not attended the South.
DATE: Friday, September 30, 3-9 p.m., Saturday, October 1, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday, October 2, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
LOCATION: Broadway, Virginia at the home and land of Larry and Charlsie Baer (30 minutes north of Harrisonburg)
COST: $295 if registered and paid by 9/12 OR $350 after that; see note above if you wish to pay for all 4 workshops of the Great Medicine Wheel series. Fees include refreshments, Saturday lunch and dinner, and Sunday lunch, and on-site campsites (motels are available within 30 minutes of the site).
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