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Their prehistoric use has been lost in time, but medicine wheels have emerged today as a way for all peoples to come together within the power of the circle in nature. In this focused, reverent, powerful experience we learn and practice ancient, cross-cultural ways for working with spiritual energies and intention. Within our circle, we create a magnetic attraction which concentrates and consecrates the natural energies for the highest benefit of each participant and Mother Earth. We invoke powerful cosmic and earth healing energies for the benefit of all. How rarely today do we get a chance to work together as a tribe feeling how healing energies are magnified as we work as one for the benefit of all? Flowing together as a unit, each becomes a hollow bones for spirit to flow to the other. You bring your focus and energies to the circle as tribal peoples have done throughout time and leave feeling fresh inspiration and connectedness. We learn honoring ways to work with the stones, spiritual energies and each other. You may choose to be tenderly wrapped like a papoose in a blanket and laid on the earth to receive drum, earth and human vibrations for your renewed balance. Sound healing tools from shamanic cultures are used with clear intention to assist you in your realignment. Sandra works with spirit to hold the space and provide shamanic insights/energy work. Each participant is invited to bring the power of their focus and intention to the ceremony and to practice energy work by flowing universal love through your being to the ones in the wheel. In this flow people feel a clearing, a new sense of balance and surge of inspiration which carries into your life. We hope for each of you that you feel a sense, if even for a moment, of being connected to all of Creation--of feeling the stars inside of you. And that you will then go back home and create your own version of connection to the circle of life that is your unique expression. This circle of life is a symbol of our soul's journey home to our place of center. Archtypal forms of spirals, circles, labyrinths seen in rock art and prehistoric structures from around the world remind us of the importance of these powerful shapes. This cosmic design is seen too in the spiral form of galaxies. The circle or wheel in its many forms evokes an inner response because it touches our innate knowing of the power of the circle for manifesting life, death, rebirth, the seasons of the year and of our lives. Ceremony is the conscious use of symbols by humans combined with action. In this physical enactment, the symbol comes to life, movement is activated or acknowledged. The intangible becomes real, something we are part of. The ceremony is led by Sandra Cosentino who has a life long relationship with wild nature and over 25 years experience with group wheel healing circles. Bear is one of the powerful spiritual allies she has relationship with that assist Sandra in these ceremonies. Cross-cultural ancient ways of working with nature from the heart inspire this ceremony and the gifted teachings of Berniece Falling Leaves and other wise medicine people. Sandra uses her guidance, intuition and experience to bring these universal ways into a living, contemporary form for all people and are not copied from any of today's Native American tribal ceremonies. We are co-creating a new tribal way open to all people that is growing out each of our deepening relationship with the circle of life and evolving consciousness of life on Mother Earth. This is a time of opening the heart-mind and using the mental mind for higher purposes.   Physicist (Dan Winter) says, "Tribal ceremonies send heart energy out into the cosmos...these energies are amplified in an expanding wave and have the power to create stars."   Cost: Teaching-Ceremony sessions for 1 - 4 people: You receive a teaching on core elements of working with ceremony and a sound healing session (drum, Himalyan metals, gong) with shamanic insights/energy work. With 2 or more people, you will also experience drumming and being a channel of energy on behalf on the other person(s). $155 for 1 person, 2 hours $125 each with 2, $100 each for 3-4 people, 2 1/2 - 3 hours Group ceremonies out on the land: $120 pp with 5 or 6 $110 each for 7 or more 4 hours Group rates available for your group of 10 or more. Can arrange for a Hopi guide or other Native American to be part of the circle for group gatherings which enriches the spiritual experience for all. The wheel workshop/ceremonies are available year round and can be a private or any-size group healing/learning experience with options to add fire ceremony (depending on seasonal fire restrictions) or Mystical Nature Shamanic Journey seminar. 2-day Advanced Medicine Wheel Training can be arranged.   Auspicious times for Group Medicine Wheel Workshop/Ceremonies When ceremony is held with a group with shared intent on celestially auspicious events--full moon, new moon, seasonal turning points--or on holidays, the energies are magnified. These experiences can be scheduled any time of the year and any time of the day or night. 2008 May 19 Full Moon July 4 Celebrate freedom July 18 Full Moon Aug. 16 Full Moon Aug. --mid Persiod Meteor Shower--The Perseids come every year, beginning in late July and stretching into August--it is very inspiring to be out late at night under shooting stars. Sept. 22 fall Equinox Oct. 14 Full Moon Oct. 31 Hallowe'en Cross Quarter Days Half way point between season change have always been ceremonial times in earth based cultures: Feb. 9, May 9 or 10, Aug. 9 or 10, Nov. 9 or 10 Nov. 13 Full Moon Nov. 14-17 Leonid Meteor Shower Nov. 21 or 22 Thanksgiving mid-December Geminid Meteor shower Dec. 23 Winter Solstice 2009   Jan. 1 New Year's Day March 20 spring Equinox April 22 Full Moon/ Earth Day   updated April 23, 2008 "Aho, my name is David Singing Bear, Bear Who Sings, Singing Bear, Northern Cheyenne. There's a medicine wheel on my reservation is in northern British Columbia, in Squallix. It's the oldest medicine wheel we know of in North America. This medicine wheel dates back thousands of years. The medicine wheel was there before the people that we know of now. The medicine wheel represents the people and the universe. This medicine wheel is a reminder to the people to always live the way of the hoop, the way of the circle, the way of the people, the way of life. It was put down in a remembrance to remind people always that life is a circle that the universe is a circle, that what goes around, comes around and what we put out comes back to us. It is there to remind us to always be in balance and harmony with nature. It is there to remind us to find our place, our purpose in the universe and live this and then we are a whole person. This medicine wheel has been used for thousands of years in these ways."     "Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood. And so it is in everything where power moves." Black Elk, Ogalala Sioux (1863-1950   CD Available now : Circles of Power:  Medicine Wheel Wisdom and Guided Journeys for Renewed Balance and Vision with teachings on working with the the circle of life, wisdom from ancient cultures, a chakra balancing meditation and a guided shamanic drum journey by Sandra Cosentino; a Hopi chant by Paliquimana and, Star Prairie's original Wheel Song. $15 Circles of Power Meditation CD $ 2 shipping & handling To order, please send a check or money order to the address below. (International shipping add $4.