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Workshops The Hollow Bone sponsors workshops on shamanism and related topics by various experts in the field. These workshops vary in length and cost and some require certain prerequisite classes or experience. The instructors are chosen for their expertise and integrity. In general, these classes are located in southern Wisconsin. If you would like to be notified of upcoming classes please request to be placed on the email list. Your name/email will not be sold or used for any other purpose than these notifications.
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Our best intentions have been put into scheduling the events in this calendar. Unforeseen circumstances occasionally arise that cause changes. Please call to confirm dates, times and location of classes that interest you.
Calendar of Events
Monthly Drumming Circles - Ongoing Drumming Circles: Drumming Circles are open to those who wish to practice Shamanic drumming and journeying within a small supportive group. No experience needed to attend these gatherings. Open to the public.
Good Harvest Drum Circle: (More instrumental than shamanic) Good Harvest Market is located at 1850 Meadow Lane in Pewaukee, WI. The 2-hour drum circles are held in the Community Room. And please note that we welcome all kinds of different drums and percussion instruments - this is what makes it interesting! Drum Circles & Ceremonies of the Earth Every 3rd Friday of the month, 6:30pm- 9:00pm. Brookfield/Milwaukee area 130th North Ave. Brookfield, WI. Suggested donation of $10 to cover space rental. Call to confirm. Tom Kotlarek 262-781-7115 The Viroqua Drumming Circle takes place on the second Thursday of each month. Contact Bill Humphrey at bill@essentialskills.org or 608-637-7600, Ext. 2. Quad Cities Drumming Circle takes place on the last Sunday of each month at 1:00 P.M. in the Black Hawk Lodge at Black Hawk State Park, 1510 46th Ave., Rock Island, IL Contact Steve or Angel at amlyle@mchsi.com or website www.rivercircle.org
2013 Upcoming Workshops & Events! Click title for more information
Soul Retrieval Training (private workshop)
Shamanic Craft Weekend
The Basic Workshop in Core Shamanism (Weekend)
Compassionate Depossession
Advanced Compassionate Depossession
Sacred Relationship and the Elemental World:
Seidr: Northern European Shamanic Tradition: Betsy Bergstrom: May 23-26, 2013. Dodgeville, WI
EDUCATION ABROAD-PERU -3 credits
Caretaker II: EARTH & SKY (Apprenticeship)
Shamanism, Dying and Beyond
HAWAIIAN HEALING WORKSHOP
Chöd Intensive; The Shamanic Ritual of Dismemberment
Altomisayoq Study Intensive-PERU TRIP
Shamanic Craft Weekend Ana Larramendi: January 25-27, 2013. Dodgeville, WI Back by popular demand! Many of us shamanic practitioners have “projects” of medicine objects we have started to make, or are wanting to make, but have not had the time, or knowledge to proceed. A number of you have approached me asking for guidance and suggestions on how to make different items. This has inspired me to create a weekend devoted to making medicine objects, where you can be supported in a community of shamanic practitioners and bring your object from the visioning stage to completion, and empowerment.
Projects may include: Our weekend will begin Friday evening with a wonderful home cooked meal at 6:00pm. This will be followed by creating sacred space, and a series of journeys to bring visioning and clarity about the objects you will be making. We will build a sacred fire to be tended to throughout the weekend to keep us warm. We will eat, lodge, journey and work together on our projects. Sunday afternoon we will finish our projects and create an empowerment ceremony together to awaken the spirit of our completed medicine objects.
Dates & Times: Friday, January 25th. Check-in at 5:30pm Dinner at 6:00pm. Ceremony and journeys begin at 7:00pm. Class ends on Sunday, January 27th at 3:00pm. This residential gathering includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and 6 meals. Cost: $195 includes meals and lodging. A $50 deposit reserves your place. Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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(Michael Harner's Foundation for Shamanic Studies) www.shamanism.org February 9-10, 2013. Madison, WI
Michael Harner’s The Way of the Shaman®
Shamanic Journeying, Power, and Healing The Basic Workshop in Core Shamanism (Weekend) During the Basic experiential workshop, participants are introduced to core shamanism, the universal and near-universal basic methods of the shaman to enter nonordinary reality for problem solving and healing. Particular emphasis is on the classic shamanic journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream. Participants are initiated into shamanic journeying, aided by drumming and other techniques for experiencing the shamanic state of consciousness and for awakening dormant spiritual abilities, including connections with Nature. Practice includes comparisons by participants of their discoveries in shamanic journeys as well as being introduced to shamanic divination and healing. They are also provided with methods for journeying to meet and study with their own individual spirit helpers in nonordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Participants learn how the journey is utilized to restore spiritual power and health, and how shamanism can be applied in contemporary daily life to help heal oneself, others, and the Planet. Completion of this workshop with an authorized FSS Faculty Member qualifies participants to take more advanced FSS workshops.
This training also satisfies the prerequisites for many of The Hollow Bone workshops. Dates & Times: February 9 & 10, 2013. Class runs from 10:00am to 6:00pm both Saturday and Sunday. Cost: $280. There is a reduced rate of $260 for early registrations paid on or before January 21st 2013. Payment can be made with check or PayPal. Space is limited so please register early.
To register, contact Gerrie Ordaz (608) 695-8620 morgan@avalonshamanic.com
This class is nearly full. Please call or email to confirm there is still space before sending in a registration.
Betsy Bergstrom: April 16-19, 2013. Dodgeville, WI Sometimes, a person who has experienced soul loss or other traumas may find that they have become a host to suffering beings or entities. These suffering beings may live off of a person’s energy and influence them in a variety of ways. Illness, depression, substance abuse, phobias, emotional problems, suicidal tendencies and other issues may be in part due to the influence or overshadowing of beings that have attached to the client. These beings are generally people whose own experience at the time of death has become compromised in such a way that they did not successfully make their own journey to the Light. Compassionate Depossession is a humane therapy that benefits both the client and the attached suffering being, even if that suffering being is reluctant to cross into the Light. This training will teach students spiritual protection as well as methods for compassionate depossession. Examples of what will be learned include:
Dates & Times: Begins Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00pm. Class ends on Friday, April 19, at 12:00noon. Cost: $850 includes instruction, all meals, and 3 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. Last day for registration is April 12, 2013. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early. Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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*************************************************************** SPECIAL PRICE FOR BOTH OF BETSY’S CLASSES!!! Take Compassionate Depossession & Advanced Compassionate Depossession together for a reduced price:
Cost: $1680: April 16-23, 2013. 8 days total includes Lodging and meals for both classes AND 1 free day of lodging and meals for our day off. $200 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $1580 for early registrations postmarked by March 15, 2013
Advanced Compassionate Depossession: This class is nearly full. Please call or email to confirm there is still space before sending in a registration.
Betsy Bergstrom: April 20-23, 2013. Dodgeville, WI This course is designed for serious shamanic practitioners who are finding the need for advanced-level skills in depossession and curse unraveling work. This 4-day residential workshop includes extensive review, demonstrations, and practical experience. This workshop builds on the foundation skills taught in the basic Introduction to Compassionate Depossession.
Dates & Times: Begins Saturday, April 20, at 3:00pm. Class ends on Tuesday, April 23, at 12:00noon. This residential includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and delicious meals with vegetarian options. Cost: $850 includes instruction, all meals, and 3 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $795 for early registrations postmarked by March 15, 2013 Last day for registration is April 12, 2013. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early.
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
Download full class description with registration information Betsy is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner living in Seattle, WA who has been trained by Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner as well as a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, European shamans and healers from many cultures. She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the dead.
Sacred Relationship and the Elemental World: Marko Pogacnik: May 8-12, 2013. Dodgeville, WI
The life around and within us could not exist in its abundance without the busy hands of innumerable elemental beings and nature spirits. But who are those beings in their essence? Which cosmic Through his 1993 book “Elemental Beings and Nature Spirits (Findhorn Press) Marko has inaugurated a new step in relationship with the fairy worlds that is characterized by direct perception of their presence in nature and in urban environments and communication with the elemental consciousness. This workshop is based upon his latest research of the devic background of the elemental world, published only in German in his 2011 book on “Synchronic Worlds”. This residential class will take us deep into the world of Nature Spirits and Elemental beings in order to help us develop our sacred relationship with the land and her many archetypal dimensions. The Author will lead the group to several places in this Driftless Region of Wisconsin that bear the mark of the Universal Mother’s presence. There we will train ourselves in communication with her cosmic presence. He will also show exercises that can be used in the daily practice to stay in touch with the cosmic feminine in us and around us. With this awareness we will learn how to work with the land for bringing our relationship with the Earth into balance. Class will be held on 500+ picturesque acres of ancient cliffs, prairie and woodland, with field trips to local sacred sites.
Examples of activities:
He teaches geomancy on the School for Geomancy "Hagia Chora", Germany, runs courses on wholistic ecology, geomancy and personal development in many countries worldwide, and provides counseling on the issues of urban development and landscape design.
Watch Marko in this short Vimeo interview:
Dates & Times: Class begins Wednesday, May 8th at 3:00pm. Class ends On Sunday, May 12th at 12:00noon.
Cost: $925 includes instruction, all meals, and 4 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. Save $75! There is a reduced rate of $850 for early registrations postmarked by April 5, 2013. Last day for registration is May 6, 2013.
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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Seidr: Northern European Shamanic Tradition:Betsy Bergstrom: May 23-26, 2013. Dodgeville, WI
Northern European and Scandinavian shamanic tradition that includes shamanic journeying, oracular work, shamanic mediumship and healing Seidr is an ancient form of shamanism and mysticism that was practiced by people in Norse, British, Saami and Northern European traditions. The true mystical core of Seidr is inseparable from nature. It was a practice that incorporated singing, staff-work and ecstatic trance and was used by solo practitioners for journeying, as well as practiced in community settings for a wide variety of purposes. Divination, oracular question and answers on behalf of communities, weather-working, shape-shifting and healing are but a few of the reasons that Seidr was practiced. Seidr was mentioned numerous times in Viking age Icelandic sagas, though the origins of Seidr go back much further in time to early shamanic Scandinavian, Saami and Germanic fertility cults. A key aspect of Seidr is that it offers practitioners skillful and immediate ways of accessing and dealing with power. This mystical and practical power has its origins in the wildness of nature. Seidr offers practitioners an immediate way to connect with and work with this power in a good way.
Join Betsy Bergstrom in a 3 day workshop exploring this ancient Seidr tradition brought into modern day ecstatic, shamanic practice. Together we will experience the power of the Norse helping deities, the staff, the songs and the Seidr High Seat tradition. We will explore the ethics and applications of Power Seidr. This workshop will be conducted both indoors and outside in the forests and fields of Wisconsin’s Driftless Region. The purpose of our journeys together will be to deepen our clarity of purpose, to transform, to heal and to seek visions of the future on our own behalf and for the community.
Prerequisites: Good shamanic journey skills.
Dates & Times: Begins Thursday, May 23, at 7:00pm. Class ends on Sunday, May 26, at 12:00noon. This residential includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and delicious meals with vegetarian options. Cost: $725 includes instruction, all meals, and 3 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $650 for early registrations postmarked by April 22, 2013 Last day for registration is May 20 2013. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early.
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
Betsy Bergstrom, www.betsybergstrom.com Betsy is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner living in Seattle, WA who has been trained by Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner as well as a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, European shamans and healers from many cultures. She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the dead.
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EDUCATION ABROAD-PERU -3 credits
Sponsored by MATC (Madison Area Technical College)
Traditional Healing and Service in a Cross-Cultural Context: June 10-23, 2013 Guides/instructors-Amy Nicholson & Ana Larramendi with Native medicine healers. Pisac, Cusco and Machu Picchu.
Program fee is approximately $3950 Cost Includes:
Additional costs:
Informational meeting: 5:30-7:00pm. Monday, January 28, 2013. Room 334 MATC Downtown Campus
Application Deadline is March 8, 2013, or until course is full.
Contact: Amy Nicholson (608) 258-2321, or ACNicholson@madisoncollege.edu
Caretaker II: EARTH & SKY (Apprenticeship) Dodgeville, WI Ana Larramendi, Nan Moss & David Corbin: August 30-September 6, 2013 (first meeting of 4-part apprenticeship)
This is the second time I will be teaching my land healing apprenticeship; Caretaker of the Earth. I am excited to include Nan Moss and David Corbin as part of the teaching team of this apprenticeship, as it is clear to me that working with climate change and the weather spirits is an essentialaspect now to Earth Stewardship. Substantial changes and new teachings will be offered in this training based on new information I have received since the last time I taught this. Our times have changed, and my focus on what is important to address in this class is at a new level.
A commitment to the entire 4-part Apprenticeship is expected.
Dates & Times: First meeting begins Friday, August 30, 2013 at 1:00pm. Ends on Friday, September 6 at 12:00noon. This residential training includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and all meals.
Session 2, May 2014/ Session 3, Sept. 2014/ Session 4, Spring 2015. All sessions will be 7 days long.
(Closed to new participants after 1st meeting) Exact dates will be posted as they become available.
Cost: $1825 per meeting includes instruction, meals and lodging. There is a $200 discount (1st class $1625) off the first meeting for applications with deposits postmarked by July 1, 2013. A $400 deposit reserves your place. Discounts available for camping.
To Register: To request and application, Please contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
FSS instructor- Timothy Cope: September 14-15, 2013. Madison, WI
Participants learn how to deal with the issue of dying and the destiny of souls from a shamanic perspective. The workshop is both for those who wish to learn for themselves, and for those who wish to help others who are in terminal situations or who have already passed on. Experiences to be undertaken include learning how to become experientially familiar with the after-death realms, tracking a person using shamanic journeying, completing unfinished business, helping a person to cross over, and classic psychopomp work. Prerequisite: the FSS Basic Workshop, The Way of the Shaman®, with an authorized FSS Faculty Member.
Dates & Times: September 14 & 15, 2013. Class runs from 10:00am to 6:00pm both Saturday and Sunday. Cost: $280. There is a reduced rate of $260 for early registrations paid on or before September 5, 2013. Payment can be made with check or PayPal. Space is limited so please register early.
To register, contact Gerrie Ordaz (608) 695-8620 morgan@avalonshamanic.com
Shamanism as a Personal Spiritual Practice: Ana Larramendi: September 19-22, 2013. Dodgeville, WI How do we live a life of Spirit? How do we integrate Shamanism in everyday life? This class is for those who are exploring shamanism as a personal spiritual practice. Here we will delve into learning many fundamental practices of shamanism as they apply to everyday life. Class begins on a full moon and ends on the Autumnal Equinox for heightened ceremonial power! Teachings will include:
Dates & Times: September 19-22, 2013. Class begins Thursday at 3:00pm and ends Sunday at 4:00pm.
Cost: $495 includes instruction, 9 meals, and 3 nights lodging. $100 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $450 for early registrations postmarked by Aug. 23, 2013
Last day for registration is Sept. 16th. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early. Camping will be available. If this is your preference take $25 off the registration fee.
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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Bringing together Ho’oponopono & Lomilomi
A special opportunity to apprentice with Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim, and Sila Lehua Bray Jim. The Hawaiian Culture has concepts and skill sets that co-create Balance and Abundance. They have evolved a practice of managing trauma and transforming chaotic patterns into shapes and vistas of order and peace. The profound is presented in an interactive and trance breaking experience. HO'OPONOPONO- dedicated to setting aside focus skills based on pain and shame and guilt, and embracing a skill set to bring focus skills of joy and presence. We engage the tri-une truths that align us with the beauty of this universe: It’s about discovery, relationships, and service…In that order and in that current of your personal Divine presence.
LOMILOMI
Tools:
Kahua Harry Uhane Jim: www.harryjimlomilomi.com Harry Uhane Jim, Kahuna, healer, teacher. Author of: WISE SECRETS OF ALOHA. He was born and raised on Kauai, Hawaii. He has been doing the work for many years, and has been trained in the traditional apprentice style by the best known native Kahuna's of the last 7 decades-most gone now. His presentations carry authenticity and are known for unveiling profound ancient truths with wit and laughter. He evokes the Hawaiian experience of healing by raising your vibration.
Dates & Times: Class begins Friday, October 4, at 10:00am. Class ends On Monday, October 7, at 5:00pm.
Cost: $1095 includes instruction, all meals, and 3 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $995 for early registrations postmarked by September 9, 2013.
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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Chöd Intensive; The Shamanic Ritual of Dismemberment:
From the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Lama Wangdu Rinpoche. Chöd is an ancient ritual practice dating from the 10th century and translated to modern times. While retaining it's power, intention and meaning, through the practice of authorized lineage transmission, Chöd traces it's origins to Machik Lapdron of Tibet and Padampa Sangye of India. Passed from teacher to practitioner, Chöd has been practiced as a personal spiritual practice and as a healing practice for centuries in both the Buddhist and Bon traditions. Containing strong shamanic elements that include:
The Chöd ceremony focuses on tantric practices empowering a practitioner to safely offer their body as blessed food to compassionate allies and "demons". The purpose of the offering of one's own body in a ritual way is to cut through fear, to pacify the "demons" which could be either internal or external and liberate them and to free one's own ego or mind in order to know the true nature of reality. This nature of reality is consistent with the shamanic knowledge of the interconnectedness of all. The outcome of this practice is peace, healing and sometimes depossession.
Requirements: Good shamanic journey skills and a compassionate outlook. Recommended: Basic Compassionate Depossession--This will deepen your experience and allow for greater comprehension, familiarity, and comfort.
Betsy Bergstrom, www.betsybergstrom.com Betsy is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner living in Seattle, WA who has been trained by Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner as well as a number of indigenous shamans and healers in the Americas, Asia, European shamans and healers from many cultures. She comes from Coastal Salish and Saami heritage combined with Scandinavian and Scottish ancestry. Betsy is an international teacher of Middleworld shamanic healing practices including heart-centered Compassionate Depossession, which she has taught for more than a decade. She also pioneered Shamanic Mediumship and Curse Unraveling classes for shamanic practitioners. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Compassionate Allies, to help the living and the dead.
Dates & Times: Begins Thursday, October 10, at 7:00pm. Class ends On Monday, October 14, at 12:00noon. This 4-day residential includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and delicious meals with vegetarian options. Cost: $1150 includes instruction, all meals, and 4 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. Save $100! There is a reduced rate of $1050 for early registrations postmarked by September 9, 2013
Last day for registration is October 7, 2013. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early.
Download full class description with registration information
Register or Questions: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
Altomisayoq Study Intensive-PERU TRIP Adolfo Ttito Condori with Translation and Trip Guide Ana Larramendi: October 25 to November 9, 2013 Private group study for advanced students (Invitation only) Prerequisites for this trip: Mesa carriers and students who have taken Adolfo’s Level 1 class on the Celestial Mesa in the USA.
For questions or registration: Contact Ana Larramendi (608) 255-4333 coyote@thehollowbone.com
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FSS instructor- Timothy Cope
dimension is their home? Who are their masters and teachers? Marko will lead us into the causal sphere of the elemental world, called also the “devic”. Then he will teach how to experience the fairy worlds in their archetypal dimension and to understand their cosmic order.
Marko Pogačnik: 
