JUNE 2009

6th Annual “Journey of the Open Heart”
Becoming a Person of Power and Wisdom

June 14, Sunday  2009   (time may be changing to 10am-4pm)

 closed group-Final Session

MAY 2009

Shamanism:  path of empowerment & healing

    with Kate Durda, M.A. and Stephanie Tighe
May 16, 2009, Saturday 11-5pm  (NOTE:  this is DATE CHANGE... )
Grand Ledge, Mi (near Lansing): directions will be sent upon receipt of registration!

$50 pre-registration if received by WEDNESDAY May 13th only) --
after 5/14, cost is $60 at door ( if space available-please call to register late)
 

May 17th, 2009   
-ongoing closed group-

Medicine for the Earth: restoring health to self & earth
Based upon Sandra Ingerman' work and book, MEDICINE for the EARTH.  Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
with Kate Durda, M.A  & Stephanie Tighe,MSW
May 30-31, 2009    
Michigan Nature Conservancy, Bath, MI near Lansing 
Saturday 10am - 5pm,  Sunday 9:30am - 4pm 
Cost:   pre-registered is $100,  At door $120 if space available..

April 2009

6th Annual “Journey of the Open Heart”
Becoming a Person of Power and Wisdom

April 4, 2009  11am-5pm     
-ongoing closed group-
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Celtic Shamanism: Two-Year Training Program 
with Tom Cowan  "REUNION"
This program is only open to those who completed the Michigan Training
April 24-26 at Kellogg Biological Station
" CELTIC TREE LORE "
for direction to Kellogg visit here: http://www.kbs.msu.edu/directions/

 MARCH 2009 

6th Annual “Journey of the Open Heart”
Becoming a Person of Power and Wisdom

March 14, 2009    11am-5pm
-ongoing closed group-
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February 2009

Drumming Circle
Wednesday Feb, 18 at 6:30 pm.
 We meet at Sparrow Professional Building (across the street from the hospital)
Suite 130 (Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities & Well Being
6:30 pm until about 8:30 pm
Contact us if you wish to be placed on our monthly reminder list for  Circle dates. 
This is a Shamanism Journey group - open to all who know how to Journey!
Pre-requisite is knowledge of how to journey (see intro class below)

Shamanism:  path of empowerment & healing

with Kate Durda, M.A.
February 7, Saturday 11am- 5pm
at Sparrow's Center for Health, Humanites & WellBeing
1200 E Michigan Ave, Sparrow Professional Bldg, Suite 130

JANUARY 2009

January 24, Saturday (Noon- ~4pm)

* note -correction:  registration requested by Wednesday January  21st!!

Mid-Winter SHAMANS'  DANCE 
  At mid-winter, BEAR rolls over
marking the beginning of the return of the Sun.

At this auspicious time, we will share:
The RELEASE JOURNEY - to review and learn from our Past Year
The RENEWAL DANCE  -  to call forth WHO We Are BECOMING

We host this DANCE with the dream of it being a wonderful coming together of the shamanic community!  With this "DANCE", we honor the Spirits by deeply connecting and paying attention to both Who We Have Been and stepping into Who We Are Becoming.

We will come together to journey deeply, and dance passionately- with intense drumming, sharing, feasting, and socializing as the shamanic kin we are!  If you desire to desire to experience the ecstasy of your Shamanic Community,
please join us this day!

Location: at Michigan Nature Conservancy, Bath, Michigan  http://www.miwildlife.org

Schedule:
12 noon -1:00pm. Please arrive early to meet and greet! Browse the Shamans’ Bazaar and share a cup of tea, hot chocolate or coffee!  ***If you wish to sell your crafts, books, drums/rattles, and other shamanic supplies please contact us to reserve a table - given space, only those who reserve a table will be included in the SHAMAN's BAZAAR!

1:15 - 3:00   CEREMONY- Journeying, Dancing, Drumming
3:00 – 4:00  FEASTING!!!  Sharing stories, feedback about the day!

PLEASE BRING: A dish or beverage to share for the feast at the end of the ceremony!  Finger food is best… (plz bring tableware if you need it for your dish)
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IMPORTANT:  This event is limited to 50 participants, and this Summer's Shamans' Walk filled quickly. We will refund those who come in after 50.
 You Must be pre-registered for this gathering due to space limitations.

There will be NO REGISTRATION at the DOOR **UNLESS you have called us and we CONFIRM that there is room! Only then we can accept your attendance. There's always the case that someone may have cancelled at last mintue and made a space available, so don't hesitate to call.

At  1pm, the Entry Gate to the Nature Conservancy will be locked, and we'll be 'in session'. You can still park just outside the gate and walk in, but will not be able to park by the facility.  However, please note that if you cannot stay the entire time, you are able to leave when you want to. 
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Once we receive your registration, we will EMAIL you to let you we received your registration, and will send you an email with what to bring, and final information about the event. Directions to the retreat center, Michigan Wildlife Conservancy is at  http://www.miwildlife.org  

To Register:
 Registration must be received by Wednesday January 21st
Send registration check for $35  and form completed below.
made out to  ** Kate Durda **
                    Mail to :   kate Durda, Box 539, Grand Ledge, MI 48837
                                         for each person registering, please list:
Name____________________________________ 
Address (inc Zip code ) _____________________________________________________
Phone (h)______________________(cell)_________________
Email_______________________________________________

                      THANKS!  We hope you join us!!! 

December 2008

Shamanism:  path of empowerment & healing

with Kate Durda, M.A.
December 6, Saturday 11am- 5pm
at Sparrow's Center for Health, Humanites & WellBeing
1200 E Michigan Ave, Sparrow Professional Bldg, Suite 130

Bring a water bottle, LUNCH/Snacks, journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them (I have extras if not!)  Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.   Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.  Bring a sack lunch.

November 2008

Feast for the Dead
Saturday Nov. 1, 6pm

contact Stephanie for more information, stephanietighe@gmail.com or 517 242-3927

August 2008
Introduction to Shamanism:  How to Journey
August 2nd, Saturday Noon - 5pm 
with Kate Durda, M.A.

at Sparrow Center for Health,Humanities & WellBeing
Suite 130, Sparrow Professional Bldg, 1200 E Michigan Ave
 *THIS CLASS is a pre- requisite for all advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.

 Please pre-register to assure space in training. Space limited. Call ahead if you plan on registering at the door to be sure there is room.

Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”. Groundbreaking work in fields such as the 'new biology', quantum physics, and alternative medicine are validating what shamans and other wise spiritual healers knew and practiced  thousands of years ago. We know that the mind/body/spirit connection is of vital importance not only in helping us to heal from illness, but beyond that, to truly 'thrive' and live in a state of 'wellness'. 

 This will be an experiential workshop. You will learn a practice to shift your your brain wave activity into more optimal states for healing. The benefits of one type of brain activity, the alpha brainwave, are the ability to relax and keep the mind on idle when not focused on specific task, heightened feelings of well-being and euphoria, increased creativity, and deep emotional healing.  Yet it has been found that 20 % of the population does not engage in alpha brain waves. Also, Another benefit of shamanic practice  is that it allows us to engage in deep levels of self-healing, particularly on the subconscious level.You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a water bottle, LUNCH/Snacks, journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them (I have extras if not!)  Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.   Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.  Bring a sack lunch.
 

Faery Doctoring:
A Five-Day Residential Training Program
with Tom Cowan  from New York  see his website -www.RiverDrum.com
August 6-10, 2008  (starts with dinner at 6pm on Wednesday, and ends approx 3pm on Sunday)
Pre-requiste:   Shamanic Journey ability as taught by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies or someone trained in the FSS core shamanic approach. Contact us if you wish to discuss this.

Faery doctors are men and women in rural Ireland and other Celtic lands who treat people suffering from illnesses and misfortunes attributed to faery influence. In the past, faery doctoring was strongest in areas without western medical care and where the presence of the Otherworld was recognized as one of the realities of daily life. As modern ways of life encroached on these traditional societies, faery doctoring was looked upon as superstition, and much of the old wisdom was lost. And yet, like shamanism, it is undergoing a revival. The faery doctor -- like the shaman or the druid -- re-appears in every age to meet the needs of the times. Every age must, therefore, come to its own understanding of the faery world and its relationship to it.

Working as a faery doctor means allying yourself, your shamanic practice, and other areas of your life with that realm of the Otherworld that some Celtic people call the Sidhe (pronounced "shee" and meaning both the faery world and the faeries themselves). It requires working with middle-world spirits according to our shamanic three-world scheme. Like all shamanic practices, faery doctoring requires working with and for the spirit world as much as seeking its help for ours. In fact, being a faery doctor may require living more closely with -- and between -- the worlds than what many people consider their usual shamanic practice. It requires new levels of commitment.

This five-day training program is structured so that participants can "partner up" with the faery world and learn traditional faery doctoring methods, such as healing ritual, prayer, gift-giving, song and music, love-talking, life-force rescuing, using elemental power objects, and other activities. But faery doctoring is more than just a collection of practices. It is actually a way of life, a shamanic way of living as faery allies who continue, even after the five days, to discover and create ways to promote health, beauty, love, vitality, and a relationship with the Sidhe based on cooperation, friendship, and affection.

There is a growing realization that the faery world and ours must live, work, and play in greater harmony than they currently do. The epidemic of illnesses with traditional faery-related symptoms -- such as tiredness, depression, listlessness, low enthusiasm for life, and an inability to focus attention that suggests partial soul loss -- is one manifestation of this disharmony. The Sidhe are taking energy and vitality from humans to restore and re-balance the life force that we consume wastefully, selfishly, and in great quantities. Modern exploitation of Earth's resources weakens Earth's ability to sustain diversity of life, including the life of the Sidhe.

The Sidhe need human allies and human energy to help them preserve Nature's vitality, just as we need their cooperation to heal individuals suffering from faery-related illnesses.

Participants should be seriously committed to shamanic living and be interested in adapting their current shamanic practice to middle-world work with the Sidhe. This is an advanced program, and participants need strong shamanic skills and some degree of commitment to using shamanism to learn faery doctoring so they can serve the needs of the human world, the faery world, and the Earth that is our common home.. Hopefully, we will become a new generation of faery doctors.

The Location:  
This training will be held at Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Conference Center situated on beautiful Gull Lake in southwest Michigan. The Conference Center (see www.kbs.msu.edu/Conference), is located on the former W. K. Kellogg 34 acre estate, which includes more than a quarter mile of Gull Lake shoreline, a beautiful wooded and gardened area. Ancient beeches and cedars, a marsh pond abounding with wildlife, herons and bald eagles will be some of our companions in our journeywork.
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Medicine for the Earth: restoring health to self & earth
with Kate Durda, M.A  & Stephanie Tighe,MSW
August 16-17  Location to be determined  
Saturday 10am - 5pm,  Sunday 9:30am - 4pm 
Cost:  sliding scale*  preregistered is $100 by August 13th;  At door $120 if space available..
(* sliding scale- more if you can, less if you can't. You decide.)
Repeat entire workshop for only $35!
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while coffee, tea and water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you.
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration

JULY 2008

Summer Shamanic Gathering!

COMMUNITY HEALING CIRCLE
             &
       SHAMAN'S WALK

This program is an opportunity to acquire and hone shamanic skills in a Celtic context, using traditional Celtic practices mixed with core shamanic techniques. The program is part of the worldwide revival of shamanic lore and customs. By means of ongoing study and practice we adapt the Old Ways of Celtic and European peoples to the modern world. We recover and utilize shamanic wisdom found in folk customs, fairy traditions, ancient myths and rituals, and traditional healing and visionary methods. On-going practice at home is expected between sessions which occur in the spring and fall of two consecutive years.

Celtic shamanism is a forest tradition in which seership, shapeshifting, poetry, and participation in the life of the elements of nature play important roles for the shaman and healer. A major element in Celtic shamanism is poetry, for poets had shamanic healing and visionary skills, so we will explore ways to use poetry in healing and ritual work.

The training also includes working with the cauldrons of the soul and key Celtic gods, goddesses, and other spirits when appropriate for shamanic work, especially the spirits known as the Sidhe, the People of the Goddess Danu.

As presented in this program, Celtic shamanism is a living tradition that comes from older practices and folklore combined with modern shamanic techniques that can be used in healing sessions with clients or solely for one's own spiritual and personal development.

We use seasonal rituals and ceremonial activities to align ourselves with the old Celtic calendar. At Samhain we engage in the Wild Hunt, a form of ritual battle against the coming forces of death and destruction most prevalent in the winter months.

In the spring we learn a healing ritual called the Beheading Game, based on a Celtic tradition similar to the practice in other shamanic cultures where the shaman takes on an illness or problem in order to transmute it.

We will also practice some Celtic-based meditation techniques that do not require drums or rattles. And we will learn ways of entering nonordinary reality that are closer to the Celtic understanding of the Otherworld as being present here in ordinary reality. At our last meeting we use the Celtic shaman's initiation found in a Welsh myth to complete our training.

One of the benefits of an ongoing program is to participate in a stable community of shamanists. We all gain insight and wisdom from each other, and as the program progresses, the support of a familiar community enriches our shamanic practice. Guided by our helping spirits, the program will acquire its own unique life, punctuated with surprise and discovery as we go along.

This will be a three day residential program (Friday am thru Sunday afternoon) held at the Kellogg Biological Station Conference Center situated on beautiful Gull Lake in southwest Michigan (see www.kbs.msu.edu/Conference). 

If you are interested in this workshop please click here and you will be taken to the application page. 

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Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda  in Grand Ledge, Michigan (near Lansing)
May 21, 2006 Sunday   1:00 -5:00pm
$50 pre-registration (received by May 18th,Wednesday); $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a water bottle, snacks, journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them (I have extras if not!)  Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.   Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.

TO REGISTER  click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

April 2006

Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe
4th Session  April 19-23   2006
Last two sessions are October 18-22  2006, and April 18-22  2007       
This residential workshop will be held at the Leaven Center near Portland, Mi. 
This program involves intensive, extended training in progressively higher levels of advanced shamanism and shamanic healing, including rare methods and little-known principles.
CLOSED (Note: new 3 yr program starts in Fall 2006!)
 

Shamanism : Personal Healing and Empowerment
April 30th,  Sunday 1-5pm     with KATE DURDA,  M.A.
Creative Spirit Arts Center
1517 Bayliss Street, Midland, MI
Cost $65  ($5 discount for Creative Spirit Center members;) 
** If you participated in the Feb.19th class, cost is only $15 to Repeat!!!  ;  )
Pre-registration requested.

To register:  call Creative Spirit Arts Center  (989) 837-1885

** This introductory class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered or sponsored.* We are planning further advanced work in Midland area as well. 

Note: Midland Women's Journey Circle was initiated after the Feb.19th Intro we did. This April 30 training is pre-requisite for joining the CIRCLE, if you are interested! Call kate 517 543 6754 for more info.

The Shamanic Journey - “the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”. 

Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. Science is now confirming what the Shaman always knew…and quantum physics, medicine, and ancient spiritual traditions are finally finding common ground.

 Shamanism is a powerful spiritual practice that restores the YOU in your life. Come heal, become more empowered, and get in touch with your passions! This will be an experiential workshop, based on the “core shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and central to all Shamanic practice).  You will receive an introduction to Shamanism, and will begin to learn how to incorporate Shamanism into daily life.  You will be provided with methods for “journeying” to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. 

*Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them. (we will have extras for those who do not have these items). Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, and bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with. 

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March 2006

Shining Light in the Darkness:

...a 21st century approach to ghosts, possession, curses, and all that dark and scary stuff!

with Betsy Bergstrom,  from Seattle
March 24 Friday  7pm-9pm 
LOCATION:  Michigan State University Student Union Building,  IOWA Room (3^rd floor) Abbott RD S.E. Corner of Abbott & Grand River Ave, East Lansing, MI  Union Bldg Info     517 355 3489
For maps and driving directions,  see  http://www.msu.edu/maps/documents/driving.pdf

$10 pre-registration/  $15 at Door

Join Betsy Bergstrom of Seattle, Wa. for an investigation into the unknown (mostly) and the unusual that we all hear about and that some of us have experienced. Science, especially quantum physics, is showing us that no longer does the maxim “I will believe it when I see it!” apply in quite the same way. A lot more is going on than meets the eye. Haunted houses, ghosts, deceased relative’s spirits appearing- learn more about these phenomenon.  Also more than an esoteric curiosity, for example, curses and thought-forms, both intentional and unintentional, abound in this world that we live in. Many of us live lives that are overshadowed by non-positive beliefs, thought-forms and outright curses (some inherited from our ancestors!)  that limit us from achieving our true potential.  

Shining Light in the Darkness is an informal and informative talk about some of the unusual things that can and do happen AND what we can do about them. Ms. Bergstrom helps to demystify and defuse fear about the unusual, without taking away the wonder of it all, and is adept at handling difficult problems of possession, haunting and curses.  Betsy is a sensitive, healer, teacher and shamanic practitioner and speaks from extensive experience. Please join us!  This talk kicks off the beginning of a series of three training workshops Betsy will teach in Lansing this year!

To Register,  please send check made out to Kate Durda, and include your name, email address , and phone number . Mail to Kate Durda, Box 539, Grand Ledge, MI  48837.
We must receive this by Friday in U.S. mail for the early discount. 

FOR MORE INFO: Contact Kate at 517.543.6754;  or email us at  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner and Medium from Seattle, Washington, who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures. As a small child she was recognized and taught by Hawaiian kahunas. As a teenager, she was recognized as a spiritual healer and medium by ministers of the Spiritualist Church.  In her 30´s and 40`s, she has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers from many cultures. Her own practice of depossession healing work incorporates her own native heritage, and a heart-centered caring approach to deceased  and other spirits.  Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and with the dead.

Unraveling Curses, Negative Beliefs,

& Thought-forms: A two day healing methods workshop.
with Betsy Bergstrom,  from Seattle -see www.BetsyBergstrom.com
Saturday/ Sunday March 25-26, 2006 in Lansing, Mi.
Registration is $255 (if received before March 22, cost is $235)
Times: Saturday 9:00(registration) -6pm;  Sunday 9am-4pm.
   Curses and thought-forms, both intentional and unintentional, abound in this world that we live in. Many of us live lives that are overshadowed by non-positive beliefs, thought-forms and outright curses that limit us from achieving our true potential. Whether simple or complex, personal or lineage, curses and thought-forms can have very real power in our lives.
    Unraveling Curses is a 2 day workshop that provides and in-depth opportunity to identify the nature and fundamental elements of curses and offers practical means and techniques with which to safely dismantle them. In this class, we learn to safely navigate the non-ordinary realms of our world. We meet and work with spiritual allies who are specialists, protectors and healers in what some shamanistic cultures call the Middleworld.  We learn and practice techniques and methods for unraveling curses and thought-forms that may have negative impacts on our lives. The skills and practices in this class are a great contribution to any shamanic practice and can be safely practiced for oneself.
     Note:  This workshop is a prerequisite for any of Betsy's other workshops (See June and July 2006).
   Prerequisite: good shamanic journeying skills

Workshop is a prerequisite for Betsy's other workshops coming in 2006: Heart-Centered Depossession in June & Mediumship in July.

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner and teacher who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures.  She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-Year Program and teaches nationally.  Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and the dead.   Visit her new website:  www.betsybergstrom.com

LOCATION:  Michigan State University Student Union Building,  IOWA Room (3^rd floor) Abbott RD S.E. Corner of Abbott & Grand River Ave, East Lansing, MI  Union Bldg Info     517 355 3489
For maps and driving directions,  see  http://www.msu.edu/maps/documents/driving.pdf

For information on hotels in the area, click here.
For information on location of this workshop, click here.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda near Lansing, Michigan
March 19th, 2006 Sunday   12:00 noon -  5:00pm
$50 pre-registration (received by March 14); $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a water bottle, snacks, journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them (I have extras if not!)  Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.   Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.

TO REGISTER  click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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February 2006

Shamanism : Personal Healing and Empowerment
February 12th,  Sunday 1-5pm     with KATE DURDA,  M.A.
Creative Spirit Arts Center
1517 Bayliss Street, Midland, MI
Cost $65  ($5 discount for Creative Spirit Center members) 
Pre-registration requested.
To register:  call Creative Spirit Arts Center  (989) 837-1885

** This introductory class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops
offered or sponsored.* We are planning further advanced work in Midland area as well.

The Shamanic Journey - “the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind
 to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”. 

Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore
spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. Science is now confirming what the Shaman always
knew…and quantum physics, medicine, and ancient spiritual traditions are finally finding common ground.

 Shamanism is a powerful spiritual practice that restores the YOU in your life. Come heal, become more
empowered, and get in touch with your passions! This will be an experiential workshop, based on the
 “core shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and central
to all Shamanic practice).  You will receive an introduction to Shamanism, and will begin to learn how to incorporate Shamanism into daily life.  You will be provided with methods for “journeying” to discover, and study with your own
 individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. 

*Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them. (we will have extras for those who do not have these items)
Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, and bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Since often people prefer to
journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with. 

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January 2006

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda near Lansing, Michigan
January 22, 2006 Sunday   1:00 -5:00pm
$50 pre-registration (received by January 20); $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a water bottle, snacks, journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them (I have extras if not!)  Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.   Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.

TO REGISTER  click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
Meets one Saturday a month:
Noon-5:30pm January 28,  February 11,   March 18,  April 29,
and Noon-8pm May 20(note: this is an double session-all day!)
held in Lansing area, Michigan        
Pre-requisite: Intro Shamanism training; ability to do shamanic journeying (if you don't know how to journey, but still are interested in the apprenticeship, please contact me so we can discuss this).
    
This apprenticeship program is for those of you who know how to journey, but want to really learn how to work with Shamanism as a spiritual 'practice' in your life!  You will experientially learn about Shamanism, deepen your spiritual practice, and may discover more of your your true selves in this program.  Through Shamanic practice, we  ‘re-member’ who we really are….And we remember, therefore, our true soul’s purpose.  Through this process of remembering, and deepening our understanding and self-knowledge, we can regain our passion for life, our purpose, and we  learn to live/work/create from a balanced, powerful, and deep place of love, personal power, and connection… The journey of the open heart.
      By remembering and healing our ‘selves’, we become part of the larger process of remembering and healing each other, and the environments around us.   “As within, so without".  Shamanism is a spiritual  practice of restoring and maintaining balance, harmony, connection and love…Shamanism is a Path of Healing.
     This program will provide a safe and supportive community for your work. During our on-going training, the same group will meet one Saturday a month for 5 months , and will deepen shamanic journeying skills and other shamanic practices.  

In this program, I will guide you in deepening your shamanic practice and experiences,  and will introduce a lot of experiences including, but NOT limited to:
        Various  methods of journeying
        shamanic self-healing,
        other healing methods such as Tuvan drum healing, and word doctoring
        divination methods
        working with nature spirits
        shamanic practices from other shamanic cultures
        use of power objects such as rocks and crystals,  masks, amulets,
        use of ceremony, ritual, prayer, song, movement, meditation,
        dream work, journaling, etc.

            Each Saturday will include some lecture, lots of experiential work, individually/with partner/ in group. There will be ceremony, dance or song,  and outdoor work at times.  Also, I will support focused time for individual spiritual quests and exploration. Spirituality is about who you are becoming, so the time you spend on your own personal work is very valuable. In addition, there will be group discussions and time for question/answer. 

TO REGISTER or for more information: click here  
OR  Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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December 2005

Medicine for the Earth: 
Personal and Environmental Transformation                          
with Kate and Stephanie in the Lansing, Michigan area
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
December 3-4, 2005 
Cost:  sliding scale  $125  to $200 by November 23, 2005; $150 -$250 at door, space available..
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while coffee and water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you.
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
December 10, 2005 Saturday   Noon to 5 pm
$50 pre-registration (received by December 7); $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.
Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

November 2005

Peacemakers Reunion
November 18, 19, 20
at the Leaven Center in Lyons, Michigan

Weekend available only to persons who participated in the Peacemakers Intensive in Michigan.

October 2005

SHAMANIC HEALING METHODS SERIES:  SOUL RETRIEVAL  TRAINING
Stephanie Tighe near Lansing, Mi.
October 8-9, 10 am - 9 pm  Saturday and 10 am - 5 pm Sunday
Cost:  $150 - $250 (sliding scale based on ability to pay) by September 15, 2005 after that date the cost is $200-$250.
Soul Retrieval is one of the three primary healing techniques used by Shamans around the world.  It is an ancient technique, which has been rediscovered and revitalized by Sandra Ingerman (author of Soul Retrieval; Welcome Home; and other books).  In this workshop we will examine the issue of soul loss from a shamanic perspective; learn signs and symptoms of soul loss; learn the technique of soul retrieval; and will learn how to assist someone in making lasting changes in their lives after receiving a soul retrieval.  This workshop is not recommended if you are only seeking a personal healing (you can contact Kate or Stephanie and schedule an appointment for this), it is recommended for persons who want to bring healing to others. 

It is important that you be available for all of the days of this workshop!!  Pre-requisite is the ability to journey as taught by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies,  Kate, or Stephanie.  You must have a good relationship with your power animals/teachers.

Stephanie has been trained by Sandy Ingerman to teach this workshop and have been doing soul retrievals since 1995.  This will be a small and intimate training.

Click here for the application form.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe
October 19-23  2005,    April 19-23   2006
October 18-22  2006, and April 18-22  2007       
CLOSED

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
First Session begins October 8
Meets one Saturday a month for 6 months:
also November 12, December 17, January 21, February 11, and March 18
12:00 noon to 5:30 pm
held in Lansing area, Michigan        
Cost $350 for entire program if paid in advance, $390 if using payment plan
Pre-requisite: Intro Shamanism training; ability to do shamanic journeying.
    
This apprenticeship program is for those of you who want to learn about Shamanism, deepen your spiritual practice, and find your true selves.   Through Shamanic practice, we  ‘re-member’ who we really are….And we remember, therefore, our true soul’s purpose.  Through this process of remembering, and deepening our understanding and self-knowledge, we can regain our passion for life, our purpose, and we  learn to live/work/create from a balanced, powerful, and deep place of love, personal power, and connection… The journey of the open heart.
      By remembering and healing our ‘selves’, we become part of the larger process of remembering and healing each other, and the environments around us.   “As within, so without".  Shamanism is a spiritual  practice of restoring and maintaining balance, harmony, connection and love…Shamanism is a Path of Healing.
     This program will provide a safe and supportive community for your work. During our on-going training, the same group will meet one Saturday a month for 5 months , and will deepen shamanic journeying skills and other shamanic practices.  

In this program, I will guide you in deepening your shamanic practice and experiences,  and will introduce a lot of experiences including, but NOT limited to:
        Various  methods of journeying
        shamanic self-healing,
        other healing methods such as Tuvan drum healing, and word doctoring
        divination methods
        working with nature spirits
        shamanic practices from other shamanic cultures
        use of power objects such as rocks and crystals,  masks, amulets,
        use of ceremony, ritual, prayer, song, movement, meditation,
        dream work, journaling, etc.

            Each Saturday will include some lecture, lots of experiential work, individually/with partner/ in group. There will be ceremony, dance or song,  and outdoor work at times.  Also, I will support focused time for individual spiritual quests and exploration. Spirituality is about who you are becoming, so the time you spend on your own personal work is very valuable. In addition, there will be group discussions and time for question/answer. 

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Unraveling Curses
with Betsy Bergstrom
October 15-16, 2005 in Lansing, Mi.
$225 early registration by September 14, after that date the cost is $245
     Curses and thought-forms, both intentional and unintentional, abound in this world that we live in. Many of us live lives that are overshadowed by non-positive beliefs, thought-forms and outright curses that limit us from achieving our true potential. Whether simple or complex, personal or lineage, curses and thought-forms can have very real power in our lives.
    Unraveling Curses is a 2 day workshop that provides and in-depth opportunity to identify the nature and fundamental elements of curses and offers practical means and techniques with which to safely dismantle them. In this class, we learn to safely navigate the non-ordinary realms of our world. We meet and work with spiritual allies who are specialists, protectors and healers in what some shamanistic cultures call the Middleworld.  We learn and practice techniques and methods for unraveling curses and thought-forms that may have negative impacts on our lives. The skills and practices in this class are a great contribution to any shamanic practice and can be safely practiced for oneself.
   Prerequisite: good shamanic journeying skills

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner and teacher who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures.  She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-Year Program and teaches nationally.  Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and the dead.   Visit her new website:  www.betsybergstrom.com

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

September 2005

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
                 with Kate Durda near Lansing, Michigan
September 10 SATURDAY  Noon - 5 pm
$55 pre-registration by September 7th; $65 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre-requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

August 2005

Peacemaking:  Shamanism, Peace, and Healing
with Kate Durda at the Northern Edge Algonquin Lodge in Canada
August 26-28, 2005
Conflict offers a sacred opportunity to  be peace makers.  Being a peace maker leads us to explore ourselves and create connections.  We live in a world of separation. The greatest wound is the illusion of separation from the great web that connects us all. This is the origin of fear and confusion.

Our challenge is to take what we know, to deepen our collective learning, and become the peacemakers and healers of our times. As peace makers we begin to heal a long history of trauma that spans the generations and whose seeds live in the soil we on which we stand

This weekend workshop explores peace, justice, harmony, balance and spirit from a variety of  traditions. We discover what they can teach us about healing conflicts and bringing spiritual peace to our times.

Methods used in the workshop include but are not limited to: 

§         Practices to bring internal peace and healing;

§         Elements and how they can be used to promote peace and healing;

§         Conflict resolution rituals for healing;

§         Models of circle justice;

§         Role of place and history in larger conflicts;

and Use of emotional release to resolve conflicts. 

Requirements:  Prior experience with shamanic journeying is helpful but not required.
What to Bring:  Blanket and pillow, Drum and Rattle (if you have them), Journal for personal notes, A desire to create Balance and Harmony, An open heart, Dress comfortably

For more information on this workshop click here:  http://www.shamanismcanada.com/upcomingevents.htm
or Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net

July 2005

Advanced Heart Centered Shamanic  Depossession Training and Unraveling Curses
with Betsy Bergstrom in East Lansing, Mi. 
July 15, 16, & 17, 2005  Friday and Saturday 9 am - 6 pm, Sunday 9am -  4pm
Cost:  $285 early registration by June 15, after that date cost is $310
note:  this is not a residential workshop - click here for hotel information
The Advanced Depossession training is a three day course that is designed to deepen the skills, techniques and understandings gained in the Basic Heart Centered Depossession Training. This Training includes a day of intensive review and demonstrations of the clearing process and extensive question and
answer periods. We will strengthen our connection to our True Selves and learn how to summon it in others, including suffering beings. We will look at the complexities of multiple possession, curses, and dark force suffering beings and energies. We will work with clearing death wishes to aid in working with clients with serious illness and health issues. The clearing and curse unravelling work is deepened in this workshop which will work with ancestral possessing spirits, curses and family legacies.  There will be additional practices taught to help the practitioner to remain objective, compassionate and safe and to receive the most clear information while doing this work. We will deepen our connection to our helping spirits and learn
about ways to keep the depossession and clearing practice in balance in our lives, practices and homes.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

June 2005

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
June 12,  2005 SUNDAY  12 Noon - 4pm
$50 pre-registration by June 7th; $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $15.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

SHAMANIC HEALING METHODS SERIES:  SOUL RETRIEVAL  TRAINING
Stephanie Tighe and Kate Durda in Lansing, Mi.
June 3  6:30-9:30 pm, June 4  9:30 am- 9:00 pm, June 5  9am - 4pm,  July 9 10am-9pm
Cost:  $175 - $250 (sliding scale based on ability to pay) by May 27, 2005 after that date the cost is $200-$250.
1st in 4 part series over 2 years. May be taken separately; recommended and discount for enrollment in entire series. Extraction Training ; Psychopomp & working with the Dying; and Cultural Healing Methods .
Soul Retrieval is one of the three primary healing techniques used by Shamans around the world.  It is an ancient technique, which has been rediscovered and revitalized by Sandra Ingerman (author of Soul Retrieval; Welcome Home; and other books).  In this workshop we will examine the issue of soul loss from a shamanic perspective; learn signs and symptoms of soul loss; learn the technique of soul retrieval; and will learn how to assist someone in making lasting changes in their lives after receiving a soul retrieval.  This workshop is not recommended if you are only seeking a personal healing (you can contact Kate or Stephanie and schedule an appointment for this), it is recommended for persons who want to bring healing to others. 

It is important that you be available for all of the days of this workshop!!  Pre-requisite is the ability to journey as taught by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Myron Eshowsky, Kate, or Stephanie.  You must have a good relationship with your power animals/teachers.

Stephanie and Kate have been trained by Sandy Ingerman to teach this workshop and have been doing soul retrievals since 1995.

Click here for the application form.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

May 2005

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
 February 5, March 5, April 9, May 7, 
held in Lansing area, Michigan         Cost $325 for entire program
CLOSED

Medicine for the Earth: 
Personal and Environmental Transformation                          
with Kate and Stephanie in the Lansing, Michigan area
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
May 14-15, 2005   
Cost:  sliding scale  $100 to $150 by May 1; $120-$150 at door, space available..
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while Coffee and Water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you.
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

April 2005

Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe
April 27-May 1  2005,  October 19-23  2005,    April 19-23   2006
October 18-22  2006, and April 18-22  2007       
Base price for this workshop is $450 per session, if you are able to afford to pay more to begin a scholarship program, all contributions would be welcomed.
Fee includes tuition, room and board. 
This residential workshop will be held at the Leaven Center near Portland, Mi. 

CLOSED

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
 February 5, March 5, April 9, May 7,  & one day to be determined
held in Lansing area, Michigan         Cost $325 for entire program
CLOSED

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Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
April 10, 2005 SUNDAY   10:30am -3pm   
$50 pre-registration by March 30; $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $20.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them.
Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

March 2005

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
 February 5, March 5, April 9, May 7,  & one day to be determined
held in Lansing area, Michigan         Cost $325 for entire program
CLOSED

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
March 6, 2005 SUNDAY   1pm - 5pm  
$50 pre-registration by March 30; $60 at the door, if space available
For those who wish to repeat this class, reduced registration cost of $25.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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February 2005

Heart Centered Shamanic  Depossession Training and Unraveling Curses
with Betsy Bergstrom in Lansing, Mi. on the campus of Michigan State University
February 18-20, 2005 - Friday and Saturday 9 am - 6 pm, Sunday 9am -  4pm
Cost if registered by 2-1-05 is $275, after that date the cost is $300
Pre-registration: to hold place without full payment $50.00 deposit (non-refundable).

Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth, says, "Betsy is the one I would train with in Depossession.  I think she is a brilliant teacher of Depossession."

The clearing of possessing spirits has a profound impact on the person suffering from the problem, as well as on the practitioner who facilitates the clearing.  Heart Centered Shamanic Clearing is a form of basic shamanic depossession and clearing work that incorporates the partnership of the Light of the Creator and the Heart Light of the Practitioner, along with the Helping Spirits to safely and respectfully free human beings from possession by suffering beings of all kinds.  This training is for all practitioners who are interested in the recognition of possession, techniques for clearing and protocols for protection.

MATERIAL COVERED:
* Nature & fundamentals of possession and multiple possession
* The nature and possibilities of the Middle World
* Middle World protection and Allies                 * Recognition of possession and multiple possession
* Techniques for clearing the suffering beings, including live demonstrations
* Importance of clearing for the suffering being’s themselves
* Post-clearing protocols, aftercare for clients
* Required healing for client’s nervous system and psyche
* Personal protocol and care for self, before and after doing this work
* How to recognize curses and sorcery             * Unraveling curses and creating preventatives

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner from Seattle, Washington,  who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures. As a small child she was recognized by Hawaiian kahunas and was made aware of her Helping Spirits and Totem Animals. As a teenager,  she was recognized as a spiritual healer and medium by ministers of the Spiritualist Church. In her 30´s and 40`s, she has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers from many cultures. Her own practice of depossission incorporates many Middle World elements that are not part of core shamanism and the Foundation`s program. She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-Year Program, and has also taught Depossession through the Foundation Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and with the dead.

Betsy says; "The feedback from my classes has been that the teaching defused much of the fear that some people felt in approaching the work of clearing and depossession."

Prerequisite: Basic Shamanic Journeying using the method taught by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.   If you are not sure if you know this technique or have questions please contact us.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

For information on hotels in the area, click here.
For information on location of this workshop, click here.

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda,
Workshop was delayed due to snow in January:  FIRST SESSION Starts Feb 5!
 February 5, March 5, April 9, May 7,  & one day to be determined
held in Lansing area, Michigan         Cost $325 for entire program
Pre-requisite: Intro Shamanism training; ability to do shamanic journeying.
    
This apprenticeship program is for those of you who want to learn about Shamanism, deepen your spiritual practice, and find your true selves.   Through Shamanic practice, we  ‘re-member’ who we really are….And we remember, therefore, our true soul’s purpose.  Through this process of remembering, and deepening our understanding and self-knowledge, we can regain our passion for life, our purpose, and we  learn to live/work/create from a balanced, powerful, and deep place of love, personal power, and connection… The journey of the open heart.
      By remembering and healing our ‘selves’, we become part of the larger process of remembering and healing each other, and the environments around us.   “As within, so without".  Shamanism is a spiritual  practice of restoring and maintaining balance, harmony, connection and love…Shamanism is a Path of Healing.
     This program will provide a safe and supportive community for your work. During our on-going training, the same group will meet one Saturday a month for 5 months , and will deepen shamanic journeying skills and other shamanic practices.  

In this program, I will guide you in deepening your shamanic practice and experiences,  and will introduce a lot of experiences including, but NOT limited to:
        Various  methods of journeying
        shamanic self-healing,
        other healing methods such as Tuvan drum healing, and word doctoring
        divination methods
        working with nature spirits
        shamanic practices from other shamanic cultures
        use of power objects such as rocks and crystals,  masks, amulets,
        use of ceremony, ritual, prayer, song, movement, meditation,
        dream work, journaling, etc.

            Each Saturday will include some lecture, lots of experiential work, individually/with partner/ in group. There will be ceremony, dance or song,  and outdoor work at times.  Also, I will support focused time for individual spiritual quests and exploration. Spirituality is about who you are becoming, so the time you spend on your own personal work is very valuable. In addition, there will be group discussions and time for question/answer. 

     If you are interested in this program, please email SpiritWeaver@voyager.net  or call
Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…and I will  send further information about how to apply for this program.

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Teachings on the Four Agreements
with Stephanie Tighe, MSW in Lansing, Mi.
at Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities and Well-Being
Wednesdays, February 2-23, 7:30-9 pm
cost $50 per person
This course is based on the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz.  The Four Agreements offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements has the potential to help you move your attention from what the world thinks you "should" do or be to what you know is right for you, reclaim scattered personal energy and power, and open up to a deeper intimacy in personal relationships. According to don Miguel Ruiz, everything we do is based on agreements we have made ― agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.  In this 4-week course we will spend one week discussing each of the agreements and also discuss the changes that are beginning in our lives.
Pre-registration required, call 517 364-2764 (Sparrow) or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...

Restoring Our Connections:  
Practices and Teachings for Healing Ourselves, and Our relationship with Nature
with Kate Durda, MA in Lansing, Mi. at Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities and Well-Being
Thursdays, February 3 and 17, 6-8 pm
cost $35 per person
Step into a new level of being, with exercises and methods that allow us to establish and maintain a state of being in harmony and balance.
Pre-registration required, call 517 364-2764 (Sparrow) or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...

January 2005

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program :
Journey of the Open Heart
with Kate Durda, MA
*SEE FEBRUARY 5th.. This training program was delayed due to snow storm on January 21/22nd.
   
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Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shaman's Way
with Kate Durda at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan
January 29,  2005   Saturday  12:30pm--5pm  
$50 pre-registration by January 20th; $60 at the door, if space available
* Please let me know if coming, so I can have drums and rattles available for your use!.

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice.  We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
January 8, 2005 Saturday  12noon-5pm  
$55 pre-registration by November 22nd; $65 at the door, if space available

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

The Biology of Emotions: Love, Appreciation and Living the Good Life
with Kate Durda, MA in Lansing, Mi. at Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities and Well-Being
Thursdays January 13 -27, 6:30-8:30 PM
cost $60 per person
Spiritual practrices and scientific research clearly show that our thoughts and feelings strongly and directly influence our health and well-being.  Includes a combination of guided meditation, visualizations, and shamanic journey work. 
Pre-registration required, call 517 364-2764 (Sparrow) or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...

December 2004

Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
December 1, 2004  Wednesday
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.

Medicine for the Earth: 
Personal and Environmental Transformation                          
with Kate and Stephanie in the Lansing, Michigan area
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
December 4-5, 2004    
Cost:  sliding scale  $100 to $150 by November 30th; $120-$150 at door, space available..
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while Coffee and Water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you..
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

November 2004

Annual Feast for the Dead
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe in Lansing, Michigan
November 2, 2004   6 - 8 pm   *Free
Many cultures around the world take time once a year to celebrate their loved ones who have passed.  Please join us in this annual gathering as we celebrate our ancestors.  This is a time to share stories, laugh, eat, and enjoy life.  Bring a dish to pass (preferable one that your ancestors/deceased loved one enjoyed) and you are also encouraged to bring stories and/or photos of your loved ones to share with the group.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
November 11, 2004  Thursday
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
November 27,  2004   Saturday  12noon-5pm  
$55 pre-registration by November 22nd; $65 at the door, if space available

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. We will discuss shamanic healing methods, and application to your everyday life, including working with Spirits of Nature, healing self, healing the land, etc.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Year long Peacemaking, Shamanism and Healing Intensive Reunion
November 19-21, 2004 
CLOSED

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October 2004

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan at Sparrow Center for Health
Friday evenings:  October 1, 8, 15, 2004 from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$90 Preregistration is required!!

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
October 7, 2004 Thursday
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.

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Wisdom and Wellness Expo
Visit Kate and Stephanie on October 9th at the Women's Wisdom and Wellness Conference in Lansing, Michigan!! 
Kate Durda, Presenter
Lansing, Michigan at the Lansing Center
Saturday, October 9 from 10 am until 7 pm.
Admission price $8, children under 5 get in free!
 ($1 off coupon –Healing Garden Journal.. with Ad across from Page 1)
Kate Durda will be presenting from  6:-6:30 pm on the Mystic Family stage

Visit our BOOTH!  We will be selling our handmade spiritual crafts! Come do your holiday shopping!    
We will have:

     Rattles  -many sizes- made with moose, elk, deer and cowhide!

    Spirit Bags…personal medicine bags with totems, crafted by Stephanie

    Beaded colored bracelets… to satisfy your need for shiny things!

    Sweet Grass Braids from our garden

    Used Spiritual Books.

    And other items of spiritual interest!

The Wisdom & Wellness Expo is focused on holistic and preventative health, family-friendly services, personal and spiritual growth, and ecological awareness.  This is a wonderful event with presentations and booths and fun folks! For more information see their website at:  http://www.wisdomandwellnessexpo.com/  or call us at 517 543 6754.

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Soul Retrieval
with Stephanie Tighe in Lansing, Mi.
October 8-10 AND October 30th, 2004
(friday evening from 6:30-9p, both Saturdays from 9:30-9 pm, Sunday from 9:30-3:30 pm)
$200 if registered by 9-7-04, after that the cost is $250.   If you are able to afford to pay more to begin a scholarship program, all contributions would be welcomed.
This class will teach the Soul Retrieval method that has been taught by Sandra Ingerman. During the first weekend of this training participants will learn about the shamanic perspective of soul loss and will learn the technique of soul retrieval by doing for each other.  You will learn about the process of soul retrieval including techniques to allow a deepening of the experience and how to create healthier lives for ourselves after the healing has taken place.  During the interval between classes you will be expected to do at least one soul retrieval for another person, to write up your experiences and to be prepared to fully discuss when we meet again. 
Soul Retrieval is one of the primary shamanic healing techniques and this course is intended for persons who plan to use the technique to bring healing to others.
Prerequisite is the ability to do the Shamanic Journey as taught by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and having good relationships with your power animal and teachers.  If you have not previously worked with us you may be asked to complete a questionnaire.
Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her Teacher Training in Soul Retrieval methods.
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

The Four Agreements
with Stephanie Tighe
Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan
Four week class on wednesday evenings beginning 10-20-04
For more information on this class please contact Stephanie at stephanie@voyager.net or call 517 371-2077.

Three Year Program in Advanced Shamanism
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe
October 20 -Oct 24  2004,    April 27-May 1  2005,  October 19-23  2005,    April 19-23   2006
October 18-22  2006, and April 18-22  2007       
Base price for this workshop is $450 per session, if you are able to afford to pay more to begin a scholarship program, all contributions would be welcomed.
Fee includes tuition, room and board. 
This residential workshop will be held at the Leaven Center near Portland, Mi. 
This program involves intensive, extended training in progressively higher levels of advanced shamanism and shamanic healing, including rare methods and little-known principles.   This program provides persons who truly want to go to a deep place with their spirituality, the opportunity to do so.  Are you willing to take risks? to try something new? to go to that deep place?

We will meet as a clan for 3 years, working and growing together.  This type of learning provides incredible opportunities to create relationships that support our spiritual growth as well as creating community. We will meet twice a year  (April and October) for three years, with practical assignments between meetings. The program is devoted to the objective of advancing the participants' knowledge and practice as far as possible during the three years. Enrollment is limited.
Prerequisite is the ability to journey and have connection with your Power Animals and/or Teachers.
To apply for this workshop and for additional information click here.

September 2004

Shamanism:  A Spiritual Practice for Everyday Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
September 12, 2004   Sunday        1- 6 pm     $55 pre-registration requested

Class is a pre- requisite for all other advanced Shamanic training and workshops offered.
 
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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August 2004

International Youth Peacemaker Conference
The Consciousness of Peace: Transcending Fear, Revenge and Victimization
August 5-8, 2004     Cleveland, Ohio                  
sponsored by Pathways Foundation for Peace and Healing
(click here for more information) 

Abstract of Youth Peacemaker Conference workshop:
Being “ONE WITH”  - presented by Kate Durda, M.A.
Practices and Teachings for Healing our Relationships with Each Other and Nature

We will explore and work with basic spiritual principles of connectedness, and health.  Major premises are that all things are connected, and all things have a ‘spirit’.  Thus, when war takes its toll on people, it also takes a toll on the land.  Everyone, and everything suffers.  Life is degraded, decreased, energy and vitality and balance are lost.  War could not be conducted if people saw themselves as intimately connected to the ‘other’. Similarly, people could not degrade the environment with pollution and destruction if they knew and felt their interrelationship on the deep level upon which we  are connected !    

In this experiential workshop, we will explore the experiences of  ‘separation from’ others and Nature, and how to heal from this separation, including ‘healing the land’ where conflict has happened.   Using guided imagery, shamanic drumming, and other exercises, participants will learn how to establish and  maintain a state of being ONE with all things.

The presenter will be drawing from her training as a developmental psychologist, as well as her spiritual healing training. She has been a teacher, healer, and researcher for over 25 years.  She conducts workshops on Shamanism and  Shamanic healing methods, has presented at conferences, including the 1st  U.S. Conference on Children's Spirituality , Oct 4-7,2001 in Atlanta,Ga.

An Evening with Sandy Ingerman
August 18, 6:30-8:30 pm     $10 in advance ($15 at the door)
Sparrow Hospital Auditorium, Lansing, Mi.
Sandy will be discussing her latest material from her book Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins. The evening will be experiential and informational.  For those of you who haven't been able to attend her workshops due to cost or distance this is a rare opportunity too meet with her.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...

As the causes of illness today are different than in ancient times, our healing methods must be updated to deal with modern day illness. So much of the illnesses we see today such as the epidemic rate of cancer and the increase in immune deficiency problems are a direct result of the chemical pollution in our environment.

The focus of this training will be on learning new methods of healing that can be integrated into your shamanic healing practice. We will explore the use of transfiguration (shapeshifting into your own divinity, also known as the Medicine for the Earth work) as well as methods of merging with helping spirits to go beyond traditional healing methods and open us to the power of the universe that knows how to heal and transmute illness.

For more information or to register for this workshop, click here.
For list of Medicine for the Earth workshops and teachers please consult the website:  www.medicinefortheearth.com

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Teachings and Healings in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
August 27-29
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe
Kate and Stephanie will be in the Upper Peninsula (Keewanau area) teaching classes and being available for healing work by appointment.  If you are interested in a class or Healing work while we are there, please let us know.  Additional details regarding the specific class and location will be posted soon!
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...

July 2004

Peacemaking:  Shamanism, Peace, and Healing
with Kate Durda at the Northern Edge Algonquin Lodge in Canada
July 24-25, 2004
Conflict offers a sacred opportunity to  be peace makers.  Being a peace maker leads us to explore ourselves and create connections.  We live in a world of separation. The greatest wound is the illusion of separation from the great web that connects us all. This is the origin of fear and confusion.

Our challenge is to take what we know, to deepen our collective learning, and become the peacemakers and healers of our times. As peace makers we begin to heal a long history of trauma that spans the generations and whose seeds live in the soil we on which we stand

This weekend workshop explores peace, justice, harmony, balance and spirit from a variety of  traditions. We discover what they can teach us about healing conflicts and bringing spiritual peace to our times.

Methods used in the workshop include but are not limited to: 

§         Practices to bring internal peace and healing;

§         Elements and how they can be used to promote peace and healing;

§         Conflict resolution rituals for healing;

§         Models of circle justice;

§         Role of place and history in larger conflicts;

and Use of emotional release to resolve conflicts. 

Requirements:  Prior experience with shamanic journeying is helpful but not required.

What to Bring:  Blanket and pillow, Drum and Rattle (if you have them), Journal for personal notes, A desire to create Balance and Harmony, An open heart, Dress comfortably

For more information on this workshop click here:  http://www.shamanismcanada.com/upcomingevents.htm
or Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
July 6, 2004           6-9 pm     $40
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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June 2004

Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
June 9 and 23, 2004
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda, M.A.  at Metaphysical Church of Christ in Lansing, Mi.
June 24th , 2004 Thursday         6:30 -9:30  pm      $40 in advance, $45 at door
Pre- Registration Requested.
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential  session,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will begin to learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice.

Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.  Please bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with. 

Information about further study will be shared,.. for those who wish to pursue this spiritual practice.

TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…
Send check for $40 made to Kate Durda and  mail to Box 539,, Grand Ledge, Mi 48837 by June 21st ^.  Or pay $45 at door. 

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Metaphysical Church of Christ
Kate Durda, guest speaker  in Lansing, Mi.
July 27, 2004   Service at the Church begins with Healing Time at 10 am and the service beginning at 10:30 am.
The Church is located at 230 Holmes St. in Lansing.  Their website is:  www.lansing-mcc.org   Their phone number is 517 484-2360.   

May 2004

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
May 4, 2004             6-9 pm     $40
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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12th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution
7& the First Annual  Ecology of War and Peace: International Youth Conference
St. Petersburg, Russia
May 9-19, 2004
Co-Sponsored by the Association of Humanistic Psychology/Common Bond Institute &
the Russian Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling(HARMONY)

Abstract of Eocology of War & Peace workshop:
Being “ONE WITH”  - presented by Kate Durda, M.A.
Practices and Teachings for Healing our Relationships with Each Other and Nature

We will explore and work with basic spiritual principles of connectedness, and health.  Major premises are that all things are connected, and all things have a ‘spirit’.  Thus, when war takes its toll on people, it also takes a toll on the land.  Everyone, and everything suffers.  Life is degraded, decreased, energy and vitality and balance are lost.  War could not be conducted if people saw themselves as intimately connected to the ‘other’. Similarly, people could not degrade the environment with pollution and destruction if they knew and felt their interrelationship on the deep level upon which we  are connected !    

In this experiential workshop, we will explore the experiences of  ‘separation from’ others and Nature, and how to heal from this separation, including ‘healing the land’ where conflict has happened.   Using guided imagery, shamanic drumming, and other exercises, participants will learn how to establish and  maintain a state of being ONE with all things.

The presenter will be drawing from her training as a developmental psychologist, as well as her spiritual healing training. She has been a teacher, healer, and researcher for over 25 years.  She conducts workshops on Shamanism and  Shamanic healing methods, has presented at conferences, including the 1st  U.S. Conference on Children's Spirituality , Oct 4-7,2002 in Atlanta,Ga.

April 2004

Medicine for the Earth:  Personal and Environmental Transformation                          
with Kate and Stephanie at  Bengel Wildlife Center near Bath, Mi.
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
April 3-4, 2004    Cost:  sliding scale  $100 to $150 by March 20. ($120-$150 after the 20th)
Preregistration by  MARCH 20 is graciously requested.
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while Coffee and Water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you..
     TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
April 14, 2004            6-9 pm     $40
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Medicine for the Earth: Harmony Within, Harmony Without  
Instructor:  Kate Durda, M.A., Esoteric Healer, Shamanic Practitioner, Psychologist
Mondays April 19, 26, and May 3, 2004  6-8 PM, $90 per person
It is who you become, not what you do, that changes the world.  You will explore and learn personal spiritual practices that will begin to help you work with your emotions  and actions in order to open your heart, free your mind, and heal your body, and align with your soul’s purpose.  We will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, visualizations, and Shamanic journey work. Some material  based on the groundbreaking book of Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.  For more information about Sandy Ingerman and the teachers she has trained to to www.medicinefortheearth.

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March 2004

Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday March 9  in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Note:  this circle will be an outdoor fire ceremony at the home of Tina S. for directions
call (517) 322-2308
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday March 23  in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call/email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
March 24, 2004       6-9 pm     $40
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER or for more information: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or click here  or e-mail  SpiritWeaver@voyager.net...Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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February 2004

Shamanism: Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
with Kate Durda, M.A.
February 2, 9, and 23 from 6-8 pm in Lansing, Mi.   Cost $65
One of the definitions of spiritual is "of, concerned with, or affecting the soul".  This workshop is for those who are interested in exploring the role of spirituality in their life, health, and overall well-being, and in how to develop or deepen your spiritual life.  We will be focusing primarily, but not exclusively on the practice of Shamanism, which is the oldest, recorded form of spirituality known.  It is a personal spiritual practice, and a healing practice, not a religion.  You will receive instruction in the practice of the Shamanic Journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe of Spirit.  We will utilize drumming to shift our consciousness, and we will also incorporate ceremony, affirmations, song, movement, prayer, and other spiritual practices to deepen our spirituality.  Bring a blanket and eye cover.  Pre-registration is required, call Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities  & Well Being  517 364-2764. 

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday February 10, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call /email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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Shamanic Extraction Training
with Myron Eshowsky, in Lansing, Mi.   Cost $195
February 21-22, 2004  Note: this includes Saturday evening session  
Participants will be initiated into the extraction method of healing, including how to see, sense, and remove localized spiritual illness and pain. They will also learn a classic method of awakening their own spirits and discovering their songs and dances. The Extraction Healing Training workshop is designed exclusively for people who want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others. The training is not designed for people looking for personal healing. Will include an extensive review of the use of extraction including scanning/seeing into the body, a number of extraction methods including use of eggs for extraction and divination, the importance of songs/dances in doing the work, and review of the nature of different types of intrusions that shamans extract.   Pre-requisite: Strong Journeying Skills.....Before enrolling in this workshop, please make sure that you have been having success in contacting your power animals and/or teachers on your  own and that you feel confident about your journey skills.   

TO REGISTER (click here): Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net

For those who register,  further information will be sent to you via e-mail.

For  MAPS and DIRECTIONS   (click here), we will be meeting in the Union
 

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday February 24, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call /email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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January 2004

Shamanism Apprenticeship Program
January 10, February 7, March 27, April 17, June 5 in Lansing, Mi.
Cost $325
     This apprenticeship program is for those of you who want to learn about Shamanism, deepen your spiritual practice, and find your true selves.   Through Shamanic practice, we  ‘re-member’ who we really are….And we remember, therefore, our true soul’s purpose.  Through this process of remembering, and deepening our understanding and self-knowledge, we can regain our passion for life, our purpose, and we  learn to live/work/create from a balanced, powerful, and deep place of love, personal power, and connection… The journey of the open heart.
      By remembering and healing our ‘selves’, we become part of the larger process of remembering and healing each other, and the environments around us.   “As within, so without".  Shamanism is a spiritual  practice of restoring and maintaining balance, harmony, connection and love…Shamanism is a Path of Healing.
     This program will provide a safe and supportive community for your work. During our on-going training, the same group will meet one Saturday a month for 5 months , and will deepen shamanic journeying skills and other shamanic practices.  

In this program, I will guide you in deepening your shamanic practice and experiences,  and will introduce a lot of experiences including, but NOT limited to:
        Various  methods of journeying
        shamanic self-healing,
        other healing methods such as Tuvan drum healing, and word doctoring
        divination methods
        working with nature spirits
        shamanic practices from other shamanic cultures
        use of power objects such as rocks and crystals,  masks, amulets,
        use of ceremony, ritual, prayer, song, movement, meditation,
        dream work, journaling, etc.

            Each Saturday will include some lecture, lots of experiential work, individually/with partner/ in group. There will be ceremony, dance or song,  and outdoor work at times.  Also,  I will support focused time for individual spiritual quests and exploration. Spirituality is about who you are becoming, so the time you spend on your own personal work is very valuable. In addition, there will be group discussions and time for question/answer.

         Meals will be on your own.. and I will encourage ‘brownbagging’ it.  The location where we will meet has a refrigerator, microwave, even an oven.  Coffee , Tea, and water will be provided .   At times, I may l have a shamanic video for those interested to watch at lunch time.   

     If you are interested in this program, please email SpiritWeaver@voyager.net  or call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…and we will put you on this list of those interested, and send further information (content, meeting dates, costs, etc. ) about the program. This info should be available in early December.

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday January 13 and 27th, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call /email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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January 2003

Bringing Spirit, Peace and Healing to the World
with Myron Eshowsky in East Lansing, Michigan
January 30th, 6-8 pm    *Free
Unitarian Universalist Church
peacehealing.org

Year long Peacemaking, Shamanism and Healing Intensive
with Myron Eshowsky
January 31-February 2  (Course is FULL.)

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February 2003

Living the Good Life
     Opening our Hearts:  Freeing our Minds:  Healing our Souls
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe in Lansing, Michigan
Thursdays, February 6 to March 13
6 pm to 7:30 pm
This course is offered through Sparrow Hospital.

Shamanism:  Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
February 8, 9 am - 4 pm
This course is offered through Sparrow Hospital.

Personal and Environmental Transformation: Medicine for the Earth
with Kate and Stephanie in Lansing, Michigan
February 22-23, 9 am - 9 pm on Saturday, Sunday 9 am - 5 pm
This workshop is based on the work of Sandy Ingerman in her most recent book, "Medicine for the Earth". Kate and Stephanie were trained by Sandy to teach this work (refer to website).
www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html

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March 2003

Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
March 11th and 25th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.
 

Join Evelyn Rysdyk, author of Modern Shamanic Living for a brief talk examining how the seemingly different worlds of quantum physics, medicine, psychotherapy, and ancient spiritual traditions are finally finding common ground.  A powerful guided imagery will be a part of this program and she will be signing copies of her book after the presentation. 
************************ Schuler Books and Music in Okemos, Michigan     Thursday, March 20  at 7:30PM

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 The Way of the Shaman
with Myron Eshowsky in Lansing, Michigan
March 1-2   9 am - 5 pm both days.
This workshop is prerequisite for Foundation for Shamanic Studies Advanced Workshops
Cost is $180.00
In this workshop , participants are introduced to core shamanism and initiated into shamanic journeying.
Note: this is prerequisite for all advanced FSS training.
See www.shamanism.org or http://www.communityshamanism.com

“Seeking Peace in a Time of Fear”, a one day Conference on Peace and Healing
with Myron Eshowsky, Stephanie Tighe, Kate Durda, and others in Cleveland, Ohio
March 8, 2003     Cost:  donations gratefully accepted
Children Welcomed
peacehealing.org

April 2003

Shamanic Journey Circle in Lansing, Michigan
April 8th and 22nd, 2003
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost  $donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Call or e-mail for location.

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
April 12, 2003  9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost is $55 if registered before April 6th, after that the cost is $65
One of the definitions of spiritual is “of, concerned with, or affecting the soul”.  This workshop is for those who are interested in exploring the role of spirituality in their life, health, and overall well-being, and in how to develop or deepen your spiritual life.  We will be focusing primarily , but not exclusively on the practice of Shamanism, which is the oldest recorded form of spirituality known.  It is a personal spiritual practice, and a healing practice, not a religion.  You will receive instruction in the practice of the Shamanic Journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe of Spirit. We will utilize drumming to shift our consciousness, and we will also incorporate ceremony, affirmations, song, movement, prayer, and other spiritual practices to deepen our spirituality.  Bring a blanket and eye cover.  Upon registration you will receive directions to workshop location. 

MAY 2003

Shamanism: Spiritual Practice for Daily Life (Introductory workshop)
with Stephanie Tighe, in Lansing, Mi. at Sparrow Center for Health Humanities and Well Being
Saturday, May 3, 2003   10am to 4pm 
$60/person  Pre-registration is required :Call  517.364.2764 (Sparrow)
One of the definitions of spiritual is “of, concerned with, or affecting the soul”.  This workshop is for those who are interested in exploring the role of spirituality in their life, health, and overall well-being, and in how to develop or deepen your spiritual life.  We will be focusing primarily , but not exclusively on the practice of Shamanism, which is the oldest recorded form of spirituality known.  It is a personal spiritual practice, and a healing practice, not a religion.  You will receive instruction in the practice of the Shamanic Journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe of Spirit. We will utilize drumming to shift our consciousness, and we will also incorporate ceremony, affirmations, song, movement, prayer, and other spiritual practices to deepen our spirituality.  Bring a blanket and eye cover.  This workshop is being held at the Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities and Well Being in the Sparrow Professional Building, Suite 111,  1200 East Michigan Avenue, Lansing

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Year long Peacemaking, Shamanism and Healing Intensive
with Myron Eshowsky
May 30-June 1, 2003  (Course is FULL.)

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June 2003

Visit Kate and Stephanie on June 14-15 at the Women's Wisdom and Wellness Conference in Lansing, Michigan!! 
Kate will be leading an introductory workshop about shamanic journeying at 4:30 pm on Saturday.  For more information on the conference visit the website at www.mystic-family.com.   His Holiness Gayuna Cealo will be present on Sunday from 3-5 pm.

NEW! June 14-15, 2003

Personal and Environmental Transformation:
Medicine for the Earth                            
with Kate and Stephanie in Lansing, Michigan 
June 14-15, 2003
$95 by  June 1 ($110 if registering after June 1).
Two day experiential workshop is based on the work of Sandy Ingerman in her most recent book, "Medicine for the Earth" (recommended reading prior to participating in this gathering).  Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and  were trained by her to teach this work.  For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com

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June 2003

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
June 30, 2003             6-9 pm     $35
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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July 2003

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
July 8, 2003             6-9 pm     $35
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH: Transmuting Personal and Environmental Toxins
with Kate Durda in the Upper Peninsula (Hancock Area) of Michigan
July 19-20, 2003  Cost:  $95
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation
     The training includes learning about working in cooperation with all the elements earth, water, air, fire. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     The great power of visioning will be explored and there will be a powerful ceremony with fire used to manifest visions. In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
TO REGISTER: Contact Nancy Gagnon  at 906 482 9847 (or 1247) or negagnon@wildmail.com

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JOURNEY CIRCLE : How to Start One
with Kate Durda in the Upper Peninsula, Marquette, Michigan
July 23 or 24th,   6:00-8:30pm  Cost - Donation/Love offering
Prerequisite: Knowing how to do shamanic journey
 What we will do/discuss:
What is a JOURNEY CIRCLE ?   It is a gathering of those who wish to support each other in deepening your practice and experience of Shamanism. Typically the focus is on Shamanic Journeys for self and community /earth etc healing and information. Many circles also gather at certain other times of ceremony such as Solstice, Feast of the Dead, Equinox celebrations.
     A shamanic journey circle  can offer a ‘core’ spirituality experience for those who are from and of many spiritual and healing traditions.  And provide a comfortable circle experience for meeting and sharing.
     This evening will include presentation of   information useful for starting a community “drumming circle”.  Drumming circles are typically intended for  those who have learned how to journey, and wish to deepen their experience with the shamanic journey and practice, with support of others,  what they learned in the Intro training.   Establishment of a solid relationship with your Spirit Allies (teachers and power animals) is essential before entering into training for any healing work.
     In Drumming Circle, participants will work with their spirit helpers to learn how to deepen their connection with them, to improve their  practice of divination and healing methods taught in the intro workshops, and to learn how to bring the wisdom of shamanism home into their everyday lives.
TO REGISTER:  Contact  Roslyn McGrath at 906 226 2097

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Introduction to Shamanic Journeying 
with Kate Durda  in Republic , MI. (Upper Peninsula)
Saturday, July 26th    Cost $55 if registered before July 12,   after that date the cost is  $65
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER: Contact Kate Durda 517 543-6754 or after 7/ 12-Mariangela Formolo  906 376 2691

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie and
Pipe Ceremony with Barb Cowles
Tuesday July 29th, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 9 pm.
NOTE:  This is a different day and location from our regular circle.
We will be meeting at Tina's home.  For directions please contact her at 322-2308.
Barbara Cowles, one of our circle members, will lead us in a Pipe Ceremony this month, if the weather allows us to be outdoors.  She is a pipe carrier, and worked with the late Evelyn Eaton.
We had a great time there last month, with a fire outdoors in Tina's very beautiful and secluded back yard... We journeyed to the beat of our new POWWOW drum... and sang songs...etc
If good weather reigns , we will have a fire outside again... if not, we will meet inside.   We will journey, after the pipe ceremony.
Please let us know if you plan to attend.
... If you want to bring some food, snacks or beverage to share..please do....  but no requirement

Personal and Environmental Transformation:
Medicine for the Earth                            
with Kate and Stephanie at Bengel Wildlife Center near Bath, Mi.
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
August 2 and 3, 2003    $95 if registered by July 18, after that the cost is $110
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (available on amazon.com and major book stores).
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while Coffee and Water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land and the setting as a peaceful interlude to the work together in circle.  Thank-you..
     TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…
 

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Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
August 6, 2003             6-9 pm     $35
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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August 2003

Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday August 26, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 9 pm.
NOTE:  This is a different day and location from our regular circle.
We will be meeting at Tina's home.  For directions please contact her at 322-2308.
We had a great time at Tina's last month, with a fire outdoors in Tina's very beautiful and secluded backyard.  We will be journeying, so please bring blanket or mat for lying on the ground and bandana/eye cover.  Please RSVP to Tina or us if you plan to attend.
... If you want to bring some food, snacks or beverage to share..please do....  but no requirement

Midwest Shamanic Gathering in Wisconsin
August 29 - September 1, 2003
For more information on this gathering please visit their website:  http://www.mwt.net/~pachamama/riverislands03/index.html

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September 2003

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
September 17, 2003             6-9 pm     $35
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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 Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature
with Myron Eshowsky at the Bengel Wildlife Center near Bath, Michigan
September 20-21, 2003
On Saturday registration begins at 9 am and the workshop at 9:30 am, the day ends at 5:30 pm.  Sunday we will meet from 9 am until 3:30 pm.
Cost is $175.00 if registered by September 3, 2003, after that the cost is $195
From ancient times, shamans have worked with the spirits of Nature for healing, survival, and knowledge. By learning from the plants and animals, from the rocks and mountains, from the winds and waters, and from the sun, moon and stars, shamans helped their peoples live in harmony with the universe. In a world now out of balance, the way of the shaman can teach how again to respect nature, our Planet, and its inhabitants at a deep spiritual level. As our ancestors everywhere once knew, our own survival depends on the survival of the other species. By working together intensively through shamanic journeys and other spiritual experiences, we will dedicate ourselves to working in both non-ordinary and ordinary reality to restore and maintain a living Earth. Prerequisite: the Basic Workshop (The Way of the Shaman).
See www.shamanism.org for an introductory workshop in your area.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday September 23, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   With this circle we will again be meeting inside.  Many thanks to Tina for hosting Circle at her home this summer.  Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.

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October 2003

 Peace Healing and Community:  Living Together, Living with Spirit
presented by Pathway for Peace and Healing
with Myron Eshowsky, Kate Durda, Stephanie, the Midwest Peacemakers, and others
October 4, Noon to 6 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, East Lansing, Michigan
Cost:  Pay what you can afford, all are welcome!!
     Please join us for a day of teaching and sharing.  Workshops will include teachings and alternative methods of conflict resolution and peace keeping from different cultures.
     There will be workshops for children and teenagers as well as adults.  The day's event will conclude with a Community/Healing Drumming Circle and a Ceremony for Peace. 
     Tea and snacks will be provided.  For more information or to register:  call Kate Durda at
517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
For Directions to church click here

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Working with the JOURNEY: Intro Shamanism II
with Kate Durda  In Negaunee, MI
OCTOBER 11-12, (Sat, Sat evening, Sunday)  
Cost  $95  If registered by  Oct 4th. ( after that will be $110 depending on availability).
 Prerequisite: Knowing how to do shamanic journey
     This training is for the individual who has learned to journey, and want to pursue the practice of Shamanism further. Emphasis will be placed on deepening your relationship with your known Spirit Allies (teachers, and power animals) and ongoing exploration of new allies.
     Will involve deeper experiences with journeying for different intents.  In order to connect with Spirit fully, we must learn to be the ‘hollow bone’ … to let Spirit flow through us without bias of our egos, personalities, wants, desires. This training introduces various approaches to personal healing  through journeys and ritual. Also included are initial experiences with  divination journeys,  vibrational healing methods, and alternative jouney forms…(postures, ‘dancing the journey’, use of masks for trance, etc.) 
     This training is a prerequisite  before healing methods training can be undertaken. In addition, we recommend individual journey experience….and/or participation in a drumming journey circle…. In order to prepare yourself for the level of experience required for any advanced work.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday October 14, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   With this circle we will again be meeting inside.  Many thanks to Tina for hosting Circle at her home this summer.  Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday October 28, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   With this circle we will again be meeting inside.  Many thanks to Tina for hosting Circle at her home this summer.  Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.

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Pre-requisite is Part I, OR other Women and BearMedicine Introductory training.

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November 2003

Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
November 1, 2003      10 am - 5 pm     $65
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
To register, call Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities  & Well-Being  517 364 2764

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Feast for the Dead
with Kate Durda and Stephanie Tighe in Lansing, Michigan
November 1, 2003   6 - 8 pm   *Free
Please join us in this annual gathering as we celebrate our ancestors.  Bring a dish to pass (preferable one that your ancestors/deceased loved one enjoyed) and you are also encouraged to bring stories and/or photos of your loved ones to share with the group.
TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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Harmony with Nature: Within and Without
Transmuting Personal and Environmental Toxins
Kate Durda,M.A. & Stephanie Tighe, MSW in Lansing, Michigan
NOTE:  These are different dates as of 9-18-03   Wednesdays,  November  5, 12, & 19   6:30pm-8pm 
$60  person

This workshop is based on the groundbreaking work of Sandra Ingerman. Kate and Stephanie have completed the teacher training for this workshop and worked extensively with Sandra Ingerman.

 From cross-cultural legends of shamanic cures to biblical accounts of seas parting and water transforming to wine, many spiritual traditions are rich with stories about unexplainable miracles. The ancient healing art of "transmutation" is mentioned in all great spiritual traditions, including Hinduism and Taoism.

Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.

We  will  use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony as we explore learning how to transform physical,  emotional and mental issues that hinder our health and growth, and the health of Mother Earth.

This training is for you if...

·         You want to foster your own healing and transformation

·         You would like to support balance and health of the earth

·         You believe in miracles

·         You are feeling motivated to do something in the wake of world events and need for peace

·         You want to experience the spiritual practice of  Shamanism or deepen your abilities and practice

You are encouraged to read Sandra Ingerman's Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.  Also see Sandra Ingerman’s Websites at  www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html  and  www.medicinefortheearth.com. 
To register, call Sparrow Center for Health, Humanities  & Well Being  517 364 2764

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Medicine for the Earth:  Personal and Environmental Transformation                          
with Kate and Stephanie at  Bengel Wildlife Center near Bath, Mi.
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm,  Sunday 10 am - 4 pm 
November 8-9, 2003    Cost:  sliding scale  $100 to $150 by Oct. 15th, $120-$150 after the 15th
Preregistration by October 15 is graciously requested.
     This weekend experiential  training is based on the information in Medicine for the Earth . We experience  how to transform personal and environmental pollution by learning how to transmute negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy which is generated by emotions.  Transmutation works on the principal "As within, so without. As above, so below." Using a specific spiritual methodology, we will work together to restore harmony and balance in our exterior environment by creating positive change within ourselves.
During this experiential training, we will use a powerful combination of guided meditation, shamanic journey work and ceremony, our work will focus on learning to  transform physical,  emotional and mental toxins that negatively affect our health and the health of Mother Earth.
     The process continues with learning how to work in cooperation with helping spirits and the spirits of the land as well as getting in touch with our own internal divine nature to create healing and transmutation. Other key elements and spiritual practices will also be explored which can be easily incorporated into daily life. These methods are necessary and helpful for transforming and transmuting environmental and personal toxins.
     In addition to shamanic journeying, meditation, toning , singing and movement  will be utilized to help change states of consciousness and raise awareness. The work done as a group in collaboration with community and the spirits is truly a life transforming experience.
     Kate & Stephanie have worked with Sandra extensively and have completed her MFE Teacher Training to present this  work.   For info about Sandy Ingerman and/or Medicine for the Earth, see www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html and http://www.medicinefortheearth.com
     It is recommended  that you read Sandra Ingerman's  Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.
     Note: this is NOT a residential workshop.. and while Coffee and Water will be provided, please bring a bag lunch for yourselves, and any snacks you want.  We’re sure you will enjoy the beauty of the land  as a peaceful setting for our work together in circle.  Thank-you..
     TO REGISTER: Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…
Click here for information on hotels.

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Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday November 18, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $ donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.   Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call /email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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Shamanism Apprenticeship Program
Note:  now scheduled to begin in January 2004
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Year long Peacemaking, Shamanism and Healing Intensive
with Myron Eshowsky
November 21-23, 2003  (Course is FULL.)

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December 2003

RATTLE MAKING WORKSHOP!!! with Kate
Monday December 1st and Thursday the 3rd in Lansing, MI.  6:30-8:00 pm
Cost:  $55 (includes supplies for one cowhide rattle) -
Additional kits available:  $20 cowhide, Elkhide or Moosehide ($30 small; $35 medium)         Note: Pre-registration Required due to space and material constraints. Must attend BOTH sessions, no makeup dates.

In this workshop you will learn how to make a rawhide rattle and will finish it by the end of the second session. 

Rattles are very important shamanic tools, used for ceremony, calling the Spirits, healing and journeying. Making your own tools for spiritual practice is very powerful, and a wonderful way to strengthen your connection to the Spirit World.  Interest in making a rattle for your own spiritual use is prerequisite for this workshop  

TO REGISTER (click here): Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754 or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

Shamanic Journeying Circle with Kate and Stephanie
Tuesday December 2, in Lansing, Mi.   6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Cost:  $2 or other donation 
This Circle is open to all persons who know how to journey.    Bring a drum or rattle if you have one, an eye cover,  blanket or mat, and journal and pen.  If you are new, call or e-mail for location.
Be sure to check this website or call /email us for any changes /cancellations to confirm date and times, even if you are a regular.  We occasionally move things around a bit.  (517) 887-5237.

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Shamanism:  Introduction to the Shamanic Journey
with Kate Durda in Lansing, Michigan
December 3, 2003      6-9 pm     $40 
( Note: To repeat this course, cost is only  $15,  --if you have taken Intro with us before, based on space available)
Shamanism is an ancient and powerful spiritual practice utilized throughout history and still today to restore spiritual and physical health and obtain self-knowledge. The Shamanic Journey has been called one of the “most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream”.   This will be an experiential workshop,  based upon the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.Shamanism.org) “Core Shamanism” approach (those aspects of Shamanism that were common cross-culturally, and  central to all Shamanic practice). You will learn methods for journeying to discover, and study with your own individual spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice.

 Bring a journal, frame drum or rattle if you have them.   Please wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, & bring a bandanna or eye cover.  Bring rattles/frame drums if you have them. Since often people prefer to journey while lying on the floor, you may want to bring a mat to lie on and a blanket to cover up with.
TO REGISTER (click here): Call Kate Durda at 517 543 6754…or e-mail SpiritWeaver@voyager.net
Directions and further instructions will be given to you upon receipt of registration…

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2002
partial list

1st  U.S. Conference on Children's Spirituality 
Oct 4-7,2002 in Atlanta,Ga.
The 1st U.S. Conference on Children’s Spirituality sponsored by the ChildSpirit Institute and the Department of Psychology, State University of West Georgia with support from Fetzer Institute.

Conference Title:
HOW CAN WE NURTURE THE SPIRITUALITY OF OUR CHILDREN?
WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF CHILDREN REALLY LIKE?
 

Kate Durda, presenter:  Shamanism and Children

Spirit Weavers...
providing experiential training in Shamanism and offering Shamanic healing.
Stephanie Tighe. M.S.W.,and Kate Durda, M.A.
P.O. Box 539, Grand Ledge, MI 48837
517 543 6754 Spiritweaver@voyager.net
Our website is www.SpiritWeavers.net



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