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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

2008 Workshops & Events

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Introduction to Soul Retrieval, Ana Larramendi: July 10-13, 2008. Rockton, IL
Shamanic Extraction Training, Ana Larramendi: Aug. 29-Sept.1, 2008. Dodgeville, WI
Earth Mesa Apprenticeship #1, Ana Larramendi: Series begins Sept. 25, 2008. Dodgeville, WI
Wilderness Vision Quest, Ana Larramendi: Oct. 4-12, 2008
Exploring Shamanism, Ana Larramendi: Oct. 24-26, 2008. Northfield, MN
Luz Clara, Chilean Shaman, hosted by Jaes Seis: Oct. 31-Nov.2, 2008. Dodgeville, WI

 

2009 Upcoming Workshops & Events

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Crystal Healing Workshop, Herb Stevenson: January 8-11, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Herb Stevenson Workshop (to be announced): March 6-8, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Advanced Curse Removal and Space Clearing, Betsy Bergstrom: March 17-22, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Soul Retrieval and Working with the Mesa, Jose Luis Herrera: April 2-5, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Shamanism and the Wilderness as Healer and Teacher, Ana Larramendi: May 8-10, 2009. Dodgeville, WI

Caretaker Apprenticeship #2 Land Healing, Ana Larramendi: Series begins May 23, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
PERU TRIP! Shaman’s Dialogue on Land Healing and Journey to Ausangate, Led by Jose Luis Herrera with Ana Larramendi: July 13-24, 2009. Peru
Wilderness Vision Quest, Ana Larramendi: Oct. 3-11, 2009
Shaman’s of Peru, Jose Luis Herrera & Q’ero Shamans come to North America! Oct. 22-25, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Dragon Medicine, Herb Stevenson: Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2009. Dodgeville, WI

 

 

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.

Women’s Drum Circle takes place on the second and fourth Thursday evening 7-9pm Unity Church, 601 Tompkins Dr. Monona, WI. Check dates and meeting times. www.eagleforth.com/womens_drum_circle.html

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:
Every month
The Inipi (the Lakota word for sweatlodge) group meets on private property at Watertown, WI. This sacred ceremony is done with respect and integrity and it is FREE. Donations of firewood, stones, blankets, or tobacco are always welcomed and encouraged. Dates and times vary.
For a schedule, location and directions, contact Bob Nickel at: turtleteacher101@yahoo.com

 

2008 Workshops sponsored by The Hollow Bone

 

Introduction to Soul Retrieval
With Ana Larramendi, July 10-13, 2008
Hosted by Sharyn Gooder, Rockton, IL

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.
Soul loss is a natural survival mechanism to protect us from experiencing the full impact of a trauma. However, if this disassociated part does not return a host of emotional, physical and spiritual ailments may develop.
Soul Retrieval is a shamanic method of healing which compassionately returns and reintegrates the vital essence (or disassociated part) of a person who has suffered from trauma. In addition, by returning this vital essence, the shaman returns the spiritual gifts that are associated with that essence and reintegrates the client to a state of wholeness and grace.

 

In this training you will learn:

  • The anatomy of soul and spirit
  • Symptoms of soul loss and what causes soul loss
  • Meeting with your Soul Retrieval Teachers and Guides
  • How to track a lost soul part and return it with integrity
  • Compassionately dealing with soul thieves and perpetrators
  • Healing the wounded soul in non-ordinary reality
  • Unraveling spiritual contracts tied to soul loss and soul theft
  • Identifying the gifts of what was lost and reclaiming their essence
  • Healthy integration and soul retrieval aftercare

Cost: $295 includes instruction and 5 meals( lunches & dinners). $100 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $275 for early registrations postmarked by June 27, 2008.
Last day for registration is July 7, 2008. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early.

Download full class description
For more information on this class contact
Ana Larramendi, 608-255-4333, email: inomoxo@tds.net
Sharyn Gooder: 815-629-2243 email:sgrk_mstr@yahoo.com

 


Shamanic Extraction Training
A diverse look at cross-cultural healing techniques
With Ana Larramendi
Residential workshop: August 29 to September 1, 2008. Dodgeville, WI

Extraction is an ancient form of energy healing that is practiced by shamanic cultures around the world. This healing process involves the removal of intrusive energies from the energy field of the body. Spiritual intrusions have various root causes. Negative thought forms, such as anger, grief or other unresolved feelings we hold within ourselves can create them, as well as psychic darts and arrows that we encounter when negative thoughts and feelings are directed towards us by others. Intrusions can also be caused by imprints in our luminous energy field from past-life traumatic injuries. There are also ancestral patterns of addiction, loss, poverty, and incest that have become woven into our luminous energy field and need to be extracted to free us from “curse-like” patterns in our lives. An intrusion can manifest as a phantom, localized pain in the body that can not be diagnosed medically, as well as repeated injuries to a specific part of the body, stuck energy, feeling nauseous, illness or depression. Left untended an intrusion can turn into a chronic illness. Intrusions often appear in situations where our Spirit has been weakened and made vulnerable by soul loss or power loss.
Spiritual extraction involves removing and releasing the intrusion and clearing the affected area.

 

In this class we will learn the nature of intrusions: How they form in our current life, past lives as well as ancestral curses. Many tracking techniques will be covered and participants will learn a wide range of cross-cultural shamanic extraction styles. This class will cover:

  • Developing personal protection through rituals and Spirit alliances
  • The cosmology of where intrusions come from and where they go
  • Signs that an intrusion is present
  • Tracking techniques to sense the presence of an intrusion
  • Spiritual removal of psychic darts and intrusive energies
  • Past-life injuries
  • Ancestral curse removal/cord cutting
  • Ukupacha (Peruvian lowerworld) extraction
  • Egg extractions

 

The nature of possession will be discussed in this class as it relates to extraction, however depossession techniques will not be taught. The Extraction Training workshop is designed for people who want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others. The training is not designed for people looking for personal healing.
Prerequisites: Participants should be experienced with journeying to teachers and power animals.

Times: Class Begins Friday, Aug. 29, at 3:00pm and ends On Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:00pm.
Cost: $395 includes instruction, 9 meals, and 3 nights lodging. $100 reserves your space. There is a reduced rate of $375 for early registrations postmarked by Aug. 15, 2008
Last day for registration is Aug 26. Payment can be made with check, VISA or MC. Space is limited so please register early.

Download full class description
For more information on this class contact
Ana Larramendi, 608-255-4333, email: inomoxo@tds.net


Earth Mesa Medicine Journey
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 #1 meeting dates:

Sept. 25-28, 2008. Jan. 15-18, 2009. Apr. 23-26, 2009. Sept. 24-27, 2009

 

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 $2100 or $525 per session.
This cost includes the teachings and room and board (3 nights lodging and all meals per session). Class size is limited to 14 students. To reserve a space send in a deposit of $100 with your application. There is a $50 discount off the first class for early registrations.

 

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Download Earth Mesa Application

 


 

Wilderness Vision Quest with Ana Larramendi and staff. September 22-30, 2007. Cost $795
with Ana Larramendi and staff. October 4-12, 2008. 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 Sept. 5, 2008. Limit 6 questers. Cost $795
Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 inomoxo@tds.net or go to: www.thehollowbone.com/quest.html

 


 

Exploring Shamanism
Facilitated by Ana Larramendi
A 3-day experiential workshop October 24-26, 2008
Northfield, MN. Sponsored by Starwalkers

Cost:$300 Includes lodging and food. There is limited space please register early!
Workshop Begins Friday, Oct. 24, at 3:00pm. Class ends On Sunday, Oct. 26, at 3:00pm.

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. We will explore How to integrate Shamanism in everyday life and empower ourselves to live a life of Spirit. If you are curious about shamanism and would like to have an opportunity to learn this ancient meditative practice, join us for a wonderful weekend of journeying and exploration!

What to expect:

  • An overview on the history of shamanism and understanding the cosmology of
    the spiritual realm from a shamanic perspective.
  • Discussion on creating sacred space and ceremony.
  • Guided journeys to meet your power animal and Spirit teacher.
  • Learning your personal journeying style.
  • Learn how to decipher symbols and messages in your journeys.
  • Practice simple divination journeys for a partner.
  • Explore journeys for spiritual protection and simple healing methods.
  • Learning various traditions of the sacred directions and calling sacred space
  • Choosing or creating power objects or Medicine objects. How to imbue them with power
  • Journeys for protection and personal healing
  • Communicating with Nature
  • Preparing a Fire ceremony

Questions? Rose Ann Steenhoek At Starwalkers: 507-645-6414.
www.starwalkers.org/programs
or contact Ana at 608-255-4333 or e-mail: inomoxo@tds.net inomoxo@tds.net

 


 

Luzclara, Chilean Shaman, hosted by Jaes Seis: Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2008. Dodgeville, WI
Time: Start, 5:00pm Friday Oct. 31- ends 3:00pm Sunday Nov. 2

Are you experiencing change in your personal life, beginnings, endings, in-between, feeling stuck, ready to transform your life? Women, Come Celebrate Change and Transformation with International Medicine Woman Luzclara and Jaes.

  • Women’s Power, Wisdom & Mysteries
  • Kultrun (Drum) Ceremony of Initiation a rare opportunity in the US
  • Machitun Transformational Healing
  • Sound Healing Ceremony
  • Laughter, Tears, Love, Joy, Dance
  • Teachings of the Earth Traditions
  • Death & Rebirth

Chilean Mapuche healing traditions: Luzclara is an internationally known Chilean Medicine Woman, ceremonial leader, ritual dancer and sound healer. Her work is dedicated to awakening the sacred feminine.
This will be an opportunity to meet and work with Luzclara while she is in the USA.
Friday Evening Gathering only $45. Includes dinner
Workshop Fee: $465. Early discount price of $425. for payments made by Oct. 21st
Price includes 2 nights lodging and 6 meals at a retreat in Dodgeville, WI

Download full class description and registration

Contact: Jaes Seis P O Box 931 La Crosse, WI 54602 isis@mwt.net 608-519-1666

 

2009 Workshops & Events:
(Many of these classes are in their planning stages. Please contact the workshop organizer directly for correct information)

Crystal Healing Workshop, Herb Stevenson: January 8-11, 2009. Dodgeville, WI.
Final details and costs of this workshop have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event, Contact Marie Smith for the details at marie@hawkrdg.org or hawkridge@mwt.net

 

Herb Stevenson workshop (to be announced): March 6-8, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Final details and costs of this workshop have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event,
Contact Marie Smith for the details at marie@hawkrdg.org or hawkridge@mwt.net

 

Advanced Curse Removal and Space Clearing, with Betsy Bergstrom
March 17-22, 2009. Class begins Tuesday at 7:00pm, ends Sunday at 12:00noon. Dodgeville, WI
I’m very excited to bring Betsy Bergstrom back for another wonderful class. This “advanced” class will include a basic review of curse removal, so you may attend this training even if you have not taken Betsy’s Curse Removal training.
Final details and costs of this workshop have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event, please email: inomoxo@tds.net and write “Betsy’s 2009 class” in the subject line. 

 

Soul Retrieval and Working with the Mesa, with Jose Luis Herrera
April 2-5, 2009. Class begins Thursday at 1:00pm, ends Sunday at 12:00 noon. Dodgeville, WI
This class will explore the Peruvian tradition of Soul Retrieval. For mesa carriers only.

Final details and costs of this workshop have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event, please email: inomoxo@tds.net and write “Peruvian Soul Retrieval” in the subject line. 


Shamanism and the Wilderness as Healer and Teacher, with Ana Larramendi
May 8-10, 2009. Class begins Friday at 3:00pm ends Sunday at 3:00pm. Dodgeville, WI
This is one of my favorite classes to teach, and this will be the first time I have offered it in 4 years. I have new material to introduce to students and, as always, the magic of the land will make this a transformative experience!
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Caretaker Apprenticeship #2 Series begins May 23, 2009
A 4-session Shamanic Land Healing Apprenticeship Facilitated by Ana Larramendi and staff.
This advanced level two-year apprenticeship is for students of shamanism who seek to develop the skills necessary to facilitate Earth healing and the healing of place. 
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. 
The Earth holds the stories of everything that has happened on its soils, in its waters and in the air. If a place holds trauma that imprint directly impacts those who live, work or interact with that place. To heal ourselves, to find peace, to create wholeness we must also heal the earth and our relationship to it.

  • When we see a place on a highway or at an intersection where one fatal accident after another has occurred—there is an imprint.
  • When a building, home or place has an unusual, chronic history of fire, or lightning strike—there is an imprint.
  • When we see a neighborhood in a city collapsing under a repetitive cycle of crime and violence---there is an imprint.
  • When a region has seen battles or has been war torn for decades…or centuries and no peace seems to come---there is an imprint.

When a place has been used for ritual abuse or violent acts and anyone living in or passing through that place feels emotionally ill or angry—there is an imprint.

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. 
Similarly, an activity that is out of balance with natural law and is destructive physically or energetically to wholeness will create an imprint that is out of balance. An imprint in the land will recreate cycles or patterns in the area that replicate aspects of the original trauma.
 
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 24, 2009.
Meeting Dates:
First session: May 23-29, 2009 (begins at 1:00pm Saturday, ends at 12:00noon Friday)
Second session: Aug. 28- Sept. 3, 2009 (begins at 1:00pm Friday, ends at 12:00noon Thursday)
Third and Fourth sessions in spring and fall of 2010 (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.

Download Caretaker Application

Download complete Caretaker class description

 

 

PERU TRIP: Shaman’s Dialogue on Land Healing and Journey to Ausangate with Jose Luis Herrera, (sponsored by Ana Larramendi)
Ausangate, Waka Wilka and Machu Picchu

July 13 – 24, 2009

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 Altomesayoqs. 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 alone time for explorations, prayers and communion with this most sacred Holy Mountain. After we descend from our journey to Ausangate our last visit will be to Machu Picchu, the most prized indigenous sacred site of Peru. On the tour our guide, Jose Luis, and the medicine people will bring together the archeological and spiritual mysteries of this ancient city that, hidden in the clouds, remained undiscovered for centuries.
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.
 
This trip will cost between $2800-$3200, with final prices set in January 2009 (price estimate does not include airfare, single occupancy, or other extras not included in travel package)

Final details and costs of this trip have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event, please email: inomoxo@tds.net and write “send Peru Trip updates” in the subject line.

 


Wilderness Vision Quest, with Ana Larramendi and staff. October 3-11, 2009. 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 Sept. 4, 2009. Limit 6 questers. Cost $795
Contact Ana Larramendi 608-255-4333 inomoxo@tds.net or go to: www.thehollowbone.com/quest.html

 


The Medicine People of Peru with Jose Luis Herrera. October 22-25, 2009. Dodgeville, WI

I am working with Jose Luis who is in the process of trying to see if he can bring the medicine people of Peru to the USA in the autumn of 2009. More details will be available in January of 2009.  Jose Luis Herrera will be our guide and translator. This will be an extraordinary chance to meet Altomesayoqs, Pampamesayoks and share their unique medicine, ceremonies and teachings. For Mesa carriers.
 
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 “October Shamans in USA” in the subject line.

 

 

Dragon Medicine, Herb Stevenson: Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2009. Dodgeville, WI
Final details and costs of this workshop have not yet been set. If you would like to be notified of updates for this event,
Contact Marie Smith for the details at marie@hawkrdg.org or hawkridge@mwt.net