Photos from vison quest retreats in Sedona and Canyon de Chelly, Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation--retreat with: Navajo and Hopi leaders and cross-cultural guide/teacher, jeep tour, archaeology, canyon hikes, sweat lodge, vision quest, connecting with your soul in nature, make a shield portraying your inner vision, fire ceremony, shamanic ways, dream time awareness, camping, soul retrieval, ancient ways of working with the power of the circle, becoming one with nature, campfire circle, coyote howls, mythology, drumming, sacred sound, creating your own medicine songs.

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Putting medicine into an object requires connecting with your intention, energies, and spirit helpers. Then you let that flow move through your hands as you do the actual creation of the object. Whenever see or use that object, it invokes the connection to Source engendered by the experience. For those of us in Western culture we need to release tension and self doubt about our "artistic" ability and just let the feeling flow into our creation while we are fresh in the midst of the special experience.

Shields:
Sean and Tracy took shield making to a new art going to a trading post
and getting additional items of significance to their journey and decorating both the back and front.

Details of shields by Sean (top row) and Tracy,
May 2007. When I look at them, I can just sense the vibrancy of their Sedona vision quest experience and the care they put into creating them.

 

Photos from May, 2006 and 2007 Earth Medicine Retreat in Canyon de Chelly:


photo by Shannon Silver, 2007

 

 


photo by Shannon Silver, 2007


photo by Shannon Silver, 2007


photo by Shannon Silver, 2007

More photos posted by Terry Petrenchik from 2006 retreat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37878042@N00/sets/72157594183003480/

updated Jan. 11, 2010


Earth Medicine Vision Quest Retreat, Sedona, Hopi, Canyon de Chelly
Sedona Vision Quest Retreat

 

Nature, Soul and Vision Article
"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. 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.

article...The Power of Sound to Heal,
to Create New Life

"The very air seems to shiver and vibrate as a multitude of harmonic tones reaches out into an infinite universe. The essence of your cells -- your very being -- reacts, reorganizes, and harmonizes. "

article: The Patterns in the Stars are Patterns in Us.
Here in the Colorado Plateau country, a magical region lifted to the sky, the stars are a constant, abiding presence. High altitudes, transparent atmosphere, wide spaces of crystalline rock bring the stars into our nightscape. Comforting, reassuring, tantalizing, felt as an essential part of our inner landscape. The patterns in the stars are patterns in us--ancient wisdom from this land whose meaning I have sought for years.

Native Healing Wisdom article


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