Shamanic Workshops

Long before the rise of our state level societies, our indigenous ancestors discovered powerful methods for mastering the capabilities of the human body-mind-spirit complex. Today, there is a resurgence of interest in the ancient, time-tested ways of the shaman for entering mystical states of consciousness for healing and problem solving. Shamanism has emerged as a major thrust of the modern mystical movement.

Visionseeker Level I: The Mystic Path of the Shaman

This retreat includes elements of the weekend workshops, but in greater depth. We will utilize the classic shamanic journey method to establish connections with our spirit helpers and teachers, ancestral spirits, and possibly descendants.

We will begin to examine the nature of health, illness, and healing from the perspective of the traditional shaman, and the week will conclude with a powerful healing ritual. This workshop provides a clear introduction for those less familiar with the shaman's path and will enhance the practice of more experienced inner travelers.Read more

Visionseeker Level 2: Spirit Medicine

In the Western world today, interest in complimentary and alternative therapies is on the rise, and increasing numbers of healthcare practitioners and laypersons alike are discovering the ease with which the healing modalities pioneered by the indigenous peoples can be learned and practiced.Read more

Visionseeker Level 3: Shamanic Cosmology

This is a powerful 5-day retreat for those wanting to create a more intrimate relationship with both their Higher Self/Oversoul as well as their Guide – their Oversoul's teacher. This retreat focuses primarily upon shamanic cosmology – where we use investigative shamanic fieldwork to explore the sacred dimensions where all mysteries, great and small, may become known. Our connections with our oversoul, as well as our committee of elder spirit teachers, will be deepened and broadened, fine-tuning our ability to do divination work among other things. Read more

The Mystical Nature of the Self

A weekend experiential workshop in which participants explore the three principle aspects of the self, the nature of reality, as well as the nature of the soul cluster from the perspective of the Hawaiian kahuna mystic. We also focus on the 'aumakua, the immortal, ancestral spiritual aspect of the self and examine its relationship with the physical body and the energy body with relation to healing and personal evolution.

Ancestral Spirits

An experiential workshop in which participants utilize the principles of core shamanism to reconnect with their ancestral spirits to further the well-being of the self and the family. We will be reconnecting with the ones who function as protectors and guardians as well as teachers. The gathering will include medicinework specifically oriented toward ancestral healing and will conclude with a healing ritual.

Working with the Elemental Spirits

In this workshop we investigate how to use our body and our mind as a bridge between the visible and the invisible worlds, allowing gifts to flow from the hidden spiritual realms into ours. As gatekeepers, shamans know that we tend to have a special relationship with one of the elemental spirits through which specific gifts may be conveyed. It is also known in many indigenous cultures that we are born embodying one of the elementals as part of our essence and that the gifts that we receive through them may determine the shape of our own unique genius.Read more

Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation

Hank Wesselman Ph.D, anthropologist and author of the SpiritWalker trilogy, invites you to join him for a discussion of the newly published, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (Sounds True Publishing, 2010) which he co-authored with Sandra Ingerman.Read more

Book Signing – Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation

Hank Wesselman Ph.D, anthropologist and author of the SpiritWalker trilogy, invites you to join him for a book signing of the newly published, Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (Sounds True Publishing, 2010) which he co-authored with Sandra Ingerman.Read more

The Modern Mystical Movement

We live in a time in which increasing numbers of us are leaving our mainstream religions in droves, discarding archaic and outdated belief systems that no longer have meaning to us in our modern world. Yet this is not an atheistic movement. Quite the contrary. We are searching for reconnection with the archetypes that the mystics of the past have always sought out—the authentic transpersonal forces, who are poised and willing to help us and who want the best for us. This seems to be part of a progression forward (and upward) toward a new spiritual complex that is quietly taking form.Read more

The Re-Emergence of the Shaman

Long before the rise of our state level societies, our indigenous ancestors discovered powerful methods for mastering the capabilities of the human body-mind-spirit complex. As we approach the year 2012, a time prophesied by many indigenous cultures as the end of our current cycle, there is a resurgence of interest in the ancient, time tested ways of the shaman. Shamanic methods for entering mystical states of consciousness to heal and to solve problems have become the precursors to contemporary methods of guided imagery and visualization therapies.Read more