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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.
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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 Inipi (sweatlodge) group:
2010 Upcoming Workshops & Events! Click title for more information Shamanic Journeying, Ana Larramendi: February 14, 2010. Madison, WI Compassionate Depossession, Betsy Bergstrom: March 2-5, 2010. Dodgeville, WI Advanced Compassionate Depossession, Betsy Bergstrom: March 6-9, 2010. Dodgeville, WI Caretaker Apprenticeship with Ana Larramendi, Begins May 7-13, 2010. Dodgeville, WI Weather Shamanism: Taught By Nan Moss and David Corbin May 28-30, 2010. Dodgeville, WI Wilderness Vision Quest, with Ana Larramendi and staff. October 2-10, 2010. Dodgeville, WI Soul Retrieval, Ana Larramendi: Oct. 20-24, 2010. Dodgeville, WI
2010 Workshops & Events (Some of these classes are in their planning stages. Please contact the workshop organizer directly for correct information)
Shamanic Journeying, Ana Larramendi: February 14, 2010. Madison, WI Sunday, February 7, 2010. 10:15am to 5:30pm. At the T’ai Chi Center 301 S. Bedford Suite 219, Madison, WI The practice of shamanic journeying is an ancient method of accessing spiritual wisdom by developing a means of communication with helping spirits and animal allies. These tools can be used for personal growth as well as healing of the self and others. If you are curious about shamanism and would like to have an opportunity to learn this ancient meditative practice, join us for a wonderful day of journeying and exploration! This class will include:
Cost: $90 in advance, $100 at the door. Payment can be made with cash, check, MC or VISA For more information contact Ana Larramendi: 608-255-4333 or email: inomoxo@tds.net
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Begins Tuesday, March 2, at 7:00pm. Class ends On Friday, March 5, at 12:00noon. This 4-day residential includes dormitory-style sleeping quarters and delicious meals with vegetarian options.
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.
Prerequisites: Participants should have extensive experience with shamanic journeying to attend this training. Please contact Ana Larramendi if you have questions about this.
Advanced Compassionate Depossession, Betsy Bergstrom: March 6-9, 2010. 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.
Learn about Betsy: www.betsybergstrom.com
Prerequisites: The Introduction to Compassionate Depossession basic course taught by Betsy Bergstrom (formerly known Heart Centered Shamanic Depossession) is a required prerequisite. Please contact Ana if you have questions about this
Cost: $760 includes instruction, all meals, and 3 nights lodging. $200 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $710 for early registrations postmarked by Feb. 5, 2010 Last day for registration is Feb 25, 2010. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC.
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Walking the 4-fold path towards Grace and Wisdom An apprenticeship of shamanic initiation for personal growth, healing and transformation. Facilitated by Ana Larramendi and staff in Dodgeville, WI
Apprenticeship #2 meeting dates; South: Apr. 22-25, 2010. West: Sept. 23-26, 2010. North: Jan. 2011 & East: Apr. 2011 (TBA) The purpose of the Earth Mesa Medicine Wheel is to do deep personal healing work in combination with learning spiritual philosophies that you can apply to everyday living. This training will also help you build a strong personal foundation to any healing practice you wish to be in. While I will include teaching the ‘Illumination’ process of healing, this class will primarily be about your personal healing journey and your personal work. I believe that whether we work as healers or engage in any type of work where we interact with people or are in service to others, having our personal act together makes us better, happier and more whole people for ourselves, our families and our world.
The focus of this training is to develop an Earth-Centered spiritual practice. This is a deeply personal journey where we find oneness with the Great Mystery, by claiming our spiritual relationship with the Earth and the Divine. The 4-fold principles of this training mirror a personal medicine wheel journey which will give participants the skills to begin moving towards wholeness, and continue it beyond this class. The insights and philosophies that are experienced through personal healing and awareness create a template of how to live life in a mystical way, with practical feet. Students of these teachings say that their relationship with life and people becomes gentler and easier. They are less reactive and see the matrix of interactions in a spiritual and philosophical way. They also become better trackers of discordant energy and can avoid or not engage with toxic situations. These teachings strengthen and help balance us to our very core.
This 4-meeting Apprenticeship focuses on the shamanic principles of Andean cosmology as well as other shamanic traditions. Our activities will consist of spiritual teachings, personal healing work, as well as transmissions and rites of passage. Individuals will each build an Earth Mesa (medicine bundle) as an anchor for their spiritual work..
Our four meetings consist of: South: We initiate our journey by shedding and clearing from our energy fields some of the core wounds we carry in this lifetime. By making Medicine of our past, we begin to look upon ourselves, our struggles and the suffering of others from a place of love and compassion. We cultivate the skill to move out of a reactive state of hurt, into the witness state of grace. Drawing from the Archetype of Amaru, (the sacred serpent) we shed the past and reveal our beautiful wholeness beneath. This is the Healer’s Journey. West: We continue our healing journey into the realms of shadow and what is hidden. Here we learn to meet the death that stalks us by tracking to the imprints of our ancestral lines and past-life traumas. By unwinding the trapped, unbalanced energies of fear, rage and power from our lineage, we begin to embody the luminous warrior—the one who walks the path of light and love. Drawing from the archetype of Chocachinchay, (the rainbow jaguar) we will learn how to track what is unseen in the Spirit realms. This is the journey of the Luminous Warrior. North: As we move beyond healing we move into deepening our relationship with the Great Mystery. We learn about timelessness, invisibility and fluidity. Here we shed our identity and attachment to the roles and the places that keep us fixed and stuck. We learn how to embrace the energy of change and awaken the sacred “Now” that contains the past, present and future simultaneously. For this medicine we draw from the collective pool of Wisdom and Knowledge of the ancestors and the archetype of Siwarkintay (The Hummingbird) who embodies joy and fluidity. This is the journey of the Wisdom–Keepers and Teachers. East: In our final exploration, we move into the realms of Destiny, Vision and who we are becoming. This is the realm of “dreaming the world into being”. We learn the art of changing our world by changing our perceptions. By letting go of control, removing our projections, and clearing our path, we leap into the future, not only in this lifetime, but for future lifetimes. In the East we learn to surrender, so we may become luminous, and have no attachment to outcome. We are able to show up, and let the universe happen. We awaken to seeing the interconnectedness to everything…We are the mystery. We draw from the archetype Apuchin/Anka (condor/eagle) who gives us the gift of expansive seeing. This is the journey of the Visionary.
Cost: This is a residential training. Total cost for the series is $2200 or $550 per session. For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net
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Caretaker Apprenticeship #2 Series begins May 7, 2010 A 4-session Shamanic Land Healing Apprenticeship Facilitated by Ana Larramendi and staff.
This is a unique in-depth training, which weaves together many traditions of shamanism and applies them to healing the planet. In this apprenticeship we will study the anatomy and cosmology of earth energy systems from a spiritual perspective. We will learn how the earth is a complex living organism woven with an energetic matrix of vortexes, ley lines, energy fields and multiple dimensions which all work in harmony to support and nourish life on the terrestrial level. We will discover how earth trauma manifests, how it is created and how to prevent it. By developing specialized shamanic skills, we will learn to identify an imbalance and create an intervention to bring a place back into balance.
Human activity on the land leaves not only a physical imprint, but an energetic imprint as well. Human activity (both physical and energetic) that is done in harmony with the land maintains the sacred balance of place and can actually raise the vitality and carrying capacity of the land. In addition to imprints caused by trauma, this class will explore how to work with the earth’s energetic matrix to revitalize weakened energy centers, ley lines and sacred sites that have lost vitality, been disrupted or are out of balance.
Shamanic Earth Healing is the co-creative process of working with the natural world and the Divine and balance the Earth’s energetic matrix and heal the heavy imprints left from unbalanced human activity. Cost: $4800 for the series. $1200 per session. There is a $200 discount off the first meeting for early applications postmarked by April 9, 2010. Meeting Dates: First session: May 7-13, 2010 (begins at 1:00pm Friday, ends at 12:00noon Thursday) Second session: Sept. 3-9, 2010 (begins at 1:00pm Friday, ends at 12:00noon Thursday) Third and Fourth sessions in spring and fall of 2011 (dates not set) This is a residential class. The price includes tuition for the class, 6 nights lodging, delicious homemade meals and transportation to off site study locations. For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net
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Weather is a primary tool of Creation. Weather makes and remakes our world. An expression and force of Nature, weather creates, nurtures, shapes - and reconfigures - the Earth. We are all touched by the weather as it continually affects our physiological and emotional well-being. We relate to weather through every moment of our lives on this beautiful planet. Our ancestors managed to thrive for tens of thousands of years, without the use of modern technology, by adapting to a wide variety of environments and climatic changes. The key to their success was an intelligent, aware, respectful, and resourceful relationship with Nature. During those earlier times people practiced community ceremonies to honor the weather. Certain individuals felt inspired to relate more intensively with the elements of weather and dedicated their lives to this calling. These were the weather shamans. Weather shamans held the responsibility of working with the elements on behalf of their communities. Through intense dedication to their calling, some of those practicing weather shamanism are said to have demonstrated unusual - and even miraculous - powers. These individuals were recognized for their abilities to call in rain, or to stop rain, and to work with wind and storm. Like weather shamanism, Weatherdancing, a path of compassion, is based upon a spiritual collaboration that supports the balance and vitality of our world. It is an intentional alliance with the spirit world that humans can seek and are capable of creating - something that we can offer to the living Earth and those of her realms - as we aim to enlist the help, the willingness of the helping spirits to enter into an active relationship with us. Weatherdancing is weather shamanism at its best. Its core is an ethical alliance between humans and the spiritual forces of Nature and her weathers. As a spiritual path and practice dedicated to healing our world and our hearts, weatherdancing requires respectful interactions between humans and all our relations. There is no room for personal gain. There is no intended harm to others. This is neither a path nor a relationship of “power-over.” It is never about controlling the weather. Weatherdancing is about the right use of power. As such it is a collaboration with compassionate beings on behalf of all life on Earth. As weather shamans we can harmonize our connections with the elements - bridging earth and sky for love of the world.
Prerequisites: Participants should have good shamanic journeying skills.
Nan Moss and David Corbin, www.shamanscircle.com Nan and David teach the spiritual aspects of weather, they have been teaching and doing research on this topic for more than 10 years. In addition they are faculty members of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and are certified by the Foundation as shamanic counselors. Their new book, Weather Shamanism, was released in March 2008. Nan and David have also studied with indigenous healers from various cultures, including Siberian, Tuvan, Saami, Chinese, and Native American.
Cost: $375 includes instruction, 5 meals, and two nights lodging. $100 reserves your space.
Last day for registration is May 25th. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC.
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For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net
PERU TRIP: Shaman’s Dialogue on Land Healing and Questing at Apu Ausangate with Jose Luis Herrera, (co-sponsored by Ana Larramendi and Carol Parker) July 4-16, 2010
For those who wish to serve and support the Pachamama, here is a unique opportunity to learn the sacred dialogue of medicine people and the land. This trip will include meeting with shamans and sharing their understanding of working with the earth and healing the land. We will experience dialoguing with the Mountain Spirits or Apus led by ceremonies conducted by Altomesayoks. We will follow the footsteps of High Initiation of Mountain Shamans receiving karpays at Waka Wilka. Then we will journey for a 4-day stay at Apu Ausangate over 21,500ft, and camp at the base amidst the crystal turquoise glacial lagoons. Here at this sacred location, we will undergo Rites of Passage as we bathe at the Jaguar lagoon beneath the mountains and blue skies. At our base camp the shamans and medicine people will share deeper teachings and karpays. Participants will have a day of Vision Questing: alone time for explorations, prayers and communion with this most sacred Holy Mountain. Master Q’ero, Paqareqtambo, Vilcabamba, and Cusco ceremonialists will travel with us and teach us the Andean ways to personal power and attainment of perfect Ayni. An experienced mountain team, gourmet meals, and excellent camping equipment will make our experience comfortable. Excursion limited to 24 participants. (For Mesa carriers)
Ana’s Caretaker of the Earth Apprenticeship students and Earth Mesa students have first priority pick to this special journey. If you are not a part of these trainings, please contact Ana Larramendi for admission. For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net
COST: $3195 US DOLLARS
Early Registration Prices:
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Wilderness Vision Quest, with Ana Larramendi and staff. October 2-10, 2010. Dodgeville, WI. Cost $795 (This 9-day journey includes Spiritual teachings, personal healing work, a 3-day solitary fasting time for spiritual awakening, a loving staff and nourishing vegetarian meals before and after the fasting time.) The Vision Quest is the great mythic inner journey that pushes our edges and takes us beyond ourselves. Every indigenous culture has incorporated elements of the vision quest into spiritual seeking, either as a form of initiation, or an impassioned search for inner truth or God. From Jesus to Buddha, Native Americans to Aborigines, the vision quest is the profound search, the archetypal journey to wholeness, healing, truth and wisdom which is done alone, in the remote wild and has been with us for thousands of years.
Many contemporary people quest when they are facing momentous life transitions. Events such as marriage or divorce, loss of a loved one, facing ones death, a spiritual crisis, moving to a new location, loss of a job, or a deep dissatisfaction with ones life, can bring a person to an emotional edge which calls them to seek the answers found in the solitude of a Vision Quest. Questers come from all walks of life and backgrounds. The quest is open to adults of all ages and levels of physical ability.
The wilderness is a powerful teacher and healer. In our modern lives we have lost the connection to the wild which was such an integral part of spiritual, emotional and physical vitality to our ancestors. We are so overrun with busy schedules, noisy environments, emotional and psychological stresses, that we have stopped knowing how to listen to our inner voices and truths. In the great beauty and silence of the wild, many people rediscover a wholeness they had lost long ago. Last day to register is August 27, 2010. Limit 6 questers. Cost $795 For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net or go to: www.thehollowbone.com/quest.html
Soul Retrieval, Ana Larramendi: Oct. 20-24, 2010. Dodgeville, WI When a person suffers from a physical or psychological trauma, an aspect of that person’s vital essence can leave the body to find a safe haven in non-ordinary reality. Modern psychology calls this disassociation, but long before our modern times indigenous shamans around the world have known this condition as soul loss. In this training you will learn:
Final details and costs of this event have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event, please email: inomoxo@tds.net and write “Soul Retrieval” in the subject line. For more information Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 or email inomoxo@tds.net
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Compassionate Depossession, Betsy Bergstrom: March 2-5, 2010. Dodgeville, WI
Earth Mesa Medicine Wheel: Series begins April 22, 2010. with Ana Larramendi
Weather Shamanism: A Spiritual Path of Personal Growth and Global Healing (Level 1) Taught By Nan Moss and David Corbin May 28-30, 2010. Dodgeville, WI