Shamanic Practice and Sacred Breathwork Series, Year One
All workshops at Crows Nest Center for Shamanic Studies have a strong component of sacred ceremony and rites, chanting, ecstatic drum dancing, and medicine lodges, and community support. The descriptions of the workshops listed below focus on content and purpose of each workshop. Crows Nest EUROPE WORKSHOPS are listed here. To view dates of all upcoming workshops please visit our Calendar page. Register here.
Themes in the next 2-year cycle of Workshops at Crows Nest
“The approach to the numinous is the real therapy,” said C.G. Jung. The Sacred is at the heart of it, for the Jungian psychotherapist and the shamanic healer. Retrieving the Sacred, means retrieving the most powerful force of healing there is. The Shaman is a ritual elder, able to locate or invoke the presence of the Sacred, and effectively contain it and channel it for healing purposes. Black Elk said the “Great Spirit is in the heart of each creature.” Heart-centered and earth-honoring shamanism accesses that inner “axis mundi” for healing. All Crows Nest teachings and ceremonies actualize this philosophy.
Imagine this Curriculum: Cartographies of Psyche and Cosmos, Active Dreaming Groups, Rites of Passage, Ritual Leadership, Shamanic Journeying, Indigenous Heart Psychology and Counseling, Therapeutic use of Sacred Music, Worship, Dance, and Art; the power of non-ordinary states to induce transformation, healing, and heart openness. Imagine learning how to safely activate the deep unconscious and explore the heights and depths of the collective unconscious intentionally and safely. Imagine beginning your own Red Book of visions and painted dreams to document your journey, like C.G. Jung did. Imagine learning how to assess psycho-spiritual crises and support their healing in a powerful, non-suppressive healing ritual process. Imagine a ceremony so powerful that soul recoveries and removal of energetic spontaneously occur. Imagine supporting such a sacred ceremony with shamanic journeying and heart-centered counseling? All this, and much more, will be amongst the recurrent themes woven into a tapestry of ritual wisdom during the two-year cycle of teaching and experience at Crows Nest USA and Europe. The heart-centered and earth honoring path of the heart provide the grounding philosophy as we develop skills in various forms of soul healing. Shamanic Practice and Sacred Breathwork is the theme of this series. You may take the workshops for your own enrichment and professional development, or you may wish to seek Crows Nest Certification as a Facilitator in Shamanic Practice and Sacred Breathwork™ Those who seek certification will have an additional intensive workshop each of the two years, as well as a program directed readings, discussion and demonstration of skill and group processing of sacred breathwork events.