SOUL JOURNEY Retreat

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Modern society is full of distractions, busyness, watching life on TV, instant gratification, noise, intellectual stimulation. Moving fast, living in our head, we seem to have lost touch with direct knowing of the heart, of trusting our own instincts. Subtle signs come to us constantly. From nature, in our dreams, in the words of friends and co-workers. Do we slow down enough to listen? If I slow down I will have to be with me. That's too frightening. So we keep dancing on the edge of an unlived inner life that calls to us. To heed the call of our wild heart or that big dream will take us outside our comfort zone around a bend from which there is no return. Does a mountain doubt itself? Was that sudden swirl of wind that appeared when I stated my intention a sign? Wild beings, trees, canyons, streams and every cell of our body has a consciousness that communicates with us in dreams, vision and daily life in a thousand energetic patterns or resonances. When your heart issues that call to pilgrimage and you answer and go to a place with great natural energy and power, you receive cellular level stimulation, awakening of latent fires of inner creative expression. Entering with a child-like sense of awe, heart wide open, in reverence and prayer opens the door. This is really a pilgrimage to your own heart-- an act of great love and courage to just be with you. Being our authentic self is our gift to the world. Develop inner journey, self-reclaiming and dream awareness skills as a support to help you continue your soul retrieval process on a daily basis. You will find that the veil between the waking and dreaming worlds are very thin. As you gain practice in staying present with all that you are, a profound level of inner peace and knowing emerges with each day. We quit leaking energy into the past or into future projections and are vibrantly alive right now. Healing Dreams are soul force, truth medicine. Such dreams disturb us because of their utter refusal to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. They often require us to live our questions rather than furnish instant answers. But even a purely exhilerating dream stirs a different sort of unease--That we may harbor an unrealized greatness, a potential that, if we dared fulfill it, would bring an end to ordinary life. In the end, the task of an examined life--the task Healing Dreams set vividly before us--is ours alone to reject or embrace; which way we choose makes all the difference in the world." from Healing Dreams by Marc Ian Barasch Nature is a gateway to our own soul; all are expressions of consciousness manifesting as form. Natural forms, however, have a more direct connection to Creation, unfiltered through the dominating mind. As a Peruvian shaman told me years ago: "see the difference between an eagle and a chicken." Or as Toltec shaman Don Miguel Ruiz says, "Dare to live the undomesticated dream." The medicine wheel is a multi-dimensional form with no boundaries, a mirror of ourself and the worlds within and around us. We call on the Directional Beings of the East, West, South and North and the elemental forces of Nature to flow into us as we work with intention, focus in a powerful drum healing ceremony. Each person receives personal shamanic healing energies and insights. We use intuitively guided shamanic journey and solo time in nature to create pathways to inner knowing and release tension and blocks. This is a treasure hunt for clues to your soul's code and activating your heart's yearnings. Simply being alive and fully present in the moment opens a direct connection to all of Creation which shamans call a state of ecstatic union. Also experience healing support and direct access to the plant kingdom through use of essential oils and plant essences in combination with the medicine wheel wrapping ceremony and shamanic journey or optional massage work. These skills-experiences can be carried back into your daily life in the waking and dream time creating more space for you to be inspired directly from your soul source. please see related Nature, Soul and Vision Article FACILITATORS "Spiritual energies of the universe flow in a powerful, direct way from Source through Nature. She resonates in every fiber of my being and is calling me, calling each of us, to be more than we know we are. The earth, the sun and the galaxy are shifting frequencies and on a cellular level we humans need to keep up, do our part in this co-creation." Sandra Cosentino Sandra Cosentino works with earth energy, intuition, shamanic and sound healing, soul retrieval, ancient earth wisdom, east-west awareness practices, ceremony and over 17 years of experience facilitating circles of people from many cultures and lands. She holds a powerful, heartful and honoring space for people to connect with their vision and to make relationship with the energies of Creation present in Wild Nature.

Ceremony & Medicine talks with songs, oratory, drumming For the Dec. 29, 2008 - Jan. 1, 2009 only Uqalla is a universal medicine person, able to speak of spirit to all peoples. An orator and a seer, he carries a deep connection to the ancestral presence, knowledge and teachings of his people. He models respect for all mingled with his warm humor. His chants and prayers touch a deep chord inside us of ancient knowing. He is from the Havasupai tribe.