Lizard Medicine & Feminist Shamanic Dream Healing One of the women at the Intensive, who deals with a challenging family history on an ongoing basis, reported having recurring nightmares related to that history, and it soon became clear that…
Month: July 2015
Notes on a Women’s Shamanic Intensive in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains: Part Four
PART FOUR: Sea Turtle Goddess Teachings In Feminist Shamanic teachings, Sea Turtle’s home is at the Center of the Medicine Wheel Mandala, where she holds the entire archetypal content of the mandala in perfect stability and balance, a metaphor for…
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Notes on a Women’s Shamanic Intensive Retreat in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains: Part Three
Part Three: Mother Light Opening Smudge Ceremony Feminist shamanic workshops, circles, and Intensives are begun with a Mother Light Smudge Ceremony, during which we connect with the feminine energy of the Earth in the specific place in which we’re gathering,…
Posted in 2015 In Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains
Notes on a Women’s Intensive Retreat in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains: Part Two
PART TWO: Inner Practice & Outer Expression We had arrived at the farm in a state of discouragement about the events of the past year, and the future of our small, scattered community of women. Because our discouragement was so…
Posted in 2015 In Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains
Notes on a Women’s Shamanic Intensive in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains: Part One
Part One: Into the Mountains It wasn’t the first time I had met them at the isolated farm, reachable only by driving down a dangerously steep gravel and shale road in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains; we had gathered here three times…
