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Schedule for Teach at the Beach,
Oct
2010
Sat. Oct. 9 - check in 3pm - 5pm
Early arrivals, optional Lecture/Discussion of Shamanism with Bekki and
Crow
Welcome, Meet and Greet - 7:30pm
Note that no class will run opposite another class, so you will be able
to study with all the teachers. Take as many or as few sessions as you
like.
Sun. Oct 10– Exercise, journaling, meditation – 7:30 am
Breakfast –
8 am
Lunch – 1 pm
Dinner-- 6 pm or whenever-- on your own, go out to a restaurant or cook
at the condo. We are discussing the possibility of an optional gourmet
feast by Crow on one evening. (All the other teachers are way in favor
of this!!!! As any of the students will be, who are familiar with his
chef skills.)
Monday and Tuesday Oct 11 and 12 – same as Sunday
Wed Oct 13 – No classes – This is the day to go see dolphins (if they
are willing), Kittyhawk, other touristy things
Thurs. Oct 14 – classes as above Samhain Ritual in evening ( maybe
on the beach)
Friday Oct 15 – wind up of classes,/feed back/ and so forth PARTY –
evening
Saturday Oct 16 –check out of units by 10:45
We can still hang out as long as you want.
Your payment of $350 will assure you of: formal and informal teaching
from four fascinating teachers! (see information below) +++sleeping
accommodations in a condo (shared)
+++6 continental breakfasts (Sunday thru’ Friday) +++6 hearty lunches
(Sunday thru’ Friday) +++ Hot-tubbing+++ AND all the classes you can
handle, as well
as personal time with these teachers. …. Weather, and other
things… permitting, we will have dinner and Samhain ritual on the
beach on Thursday evening. Additionally
the
teachers
will be available to work with participants privately:
Bekki : massage sessions, energy work, astrology readings, shamanic
healing
Crow: cranio-sacral healing, energy work, shamanic healing, shamanic
tattoos (by prior arrangement with
Crow only)
Elspeth: Tarot Consultations
Nybor: Life Drawing
In addition you may purchase Nybor art;
Elspeth’s new CD “Out of the Forest” (and maybe her new book!
“Gylantra’s Journey”); Crow's book on shamanic extraction healing
"Spirit Knife, Soul Bone" (see Publications links this page), and
Circle of the Ancestors, which will be published by Capal Bann
Full payment by Jan 15, 2009 - $ 315 (10% discount)
Jan.15 --May 1, 2009 -$350
50% deposit by March 1, 2009 – final payment by June 1,2009
After May 1, 2009 - $400 (if there is space)
Questions? Call 304-788-6440
or email <elspeth@mail.wvnet.edu>
Send Check or Money
order to:
Elspeth Odbert – 272
Spruce Drive, Keyser, W V, 26726 |
We
welcome a new teacher, Kirk White, to this year's Teach at the Beach.
Kirk's
offering for Teach at the Beach is entitled HEAL, HALE, HOLY:
Elemental Healer Training.
This class provides an dialectic and experiential introduction and
overview of:
1)Medical
Theories of the "Elemental" systems of Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine,
Greek humours and other healing modalities
2)Diagnostics,
3)Treatment
Strategies and Methods
This is a class
for current and aspiring energy healers looking to expand the type and
number of diagnostic and treatment skills available.
Every person has
within themselves the capacity to be whole and harmonious, and to live
a life that reflects their inner balance. The mission of the
healer is to help that person find their balance, unlearn unhealthy
patterns and ways of being, and move into their new lives.
Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a
healer, teacher and author. Trained in acupuncture/ Oriental medicine,
reiki (Master Teacher level 3), homeopathy, ayurveda, Chinese and
Western herbalism, various energy healing techniques, mental health and
addictions counseling, psycho-synthesis, Oriental diet and lifestyle
counseling and more, he has been in private practice as a licensed
Oriental medical practitioner for 16 years and psychotherapist for 15
years. For the last 6 years he has taught elemental and energy healing
and diagnosis to students across the United States.
A
practicing Witch since 1973, past president of Covenant of the Goddess
(North America’s oldest and largest association of Witches and
Wiccans), and past director of the University of Vermont’s
Parapsychology Program, he also founded Cherry Hill Seminary, a
professional Pagan ministry program with faculty and students
worldwide, and co-founded the National Association of Pagan Schools and
Seminaries. In 2006, Wildhunt.org named him one of the “25 most
influential modern living Pagans today”. In addition to working as a
consultant with Pagan seminaries nationwide such as the Heronwood
Institute and the Aquarian Tabernacle Churches' Woolston Steen
Theological Seminary, he is a legal Pagan minister and popular public
speaker on traditional healing modalities, various magickal and
spiritual traditions, and models of Pagan leadership and
ministry. A contributor to “Exploring the Pagan Path: Wisdom from
the Elders” (2005), he is also author of “Adept Circle Magick: a Guide
for the Advanced Wiccan Practitioner” (Kensington Press 2006), its
companion volume “Advanced Circle Magick: Essential Spells and Rituals
for Every Season” (Kensington Press, 2008) and the forthcoming "Witches
Heal" (Llewellyn, 2010). For complete bio info, go to
www.revkirkwhite.co
Elspeth’s offerings
for Teach at the
Beach are entitled A NEW MYTHOLOGY.
For the past 2000 years, at least, the Great Myths have guided and
guarded western culture. The Greek and Roman myths, the Norse
myths, the Judeo-Christian myths, even tribal traditional tales and
children's stories - these are the messages which have pointed the Way
for our behavior toward the Divine, toward each other, and toward the
earth.
However, in this time we no longer regard them as "truth.". They are no
longer valid guides. We must find or create new myths. We will
shape our future by deciding how we want to be - make our new road by
walking it.
Definitions of "MYTH"
1) A pattern of beliefs expressing (often symbolically) the
characteristics or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture.
2) A traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to
unfold part of the worldview of a people, or explain a practice,
belief, or natural phenomenon.
This set of working classes is intended to begin the creation of
a New Mythology . There will be less lecture and more group work
on what and how and whyever!
Important:
Each student is to bring to class at least three pieces of legend,
myth, or story which carries some important or valuable message. You
may bring more than three.
We will examine these to find what makes them
useful at this time of our development. From these, and other
ideas which we evolve, we will make a Beginning. This work will
continue for a long time, perhaps years. Your contribution is for the
ages to come.
SACRED RITUAL - Elspeth will facilitate a three-evening series
(Sunday through Tuesday) on the nature and construction of Sacred
Ritual. This group will create a sea-side ritual to be held on
Thursday evening.
Teacher,
pastoral Counselor,
irrepressible storyteller - Elspeth is
an honored Elder in the Pagan community. She is co-founder of The
Haven Way: an eco-spiritual path of personal and planetary
transformation. Elspeth is a
living example of the messages she brings: a 78-year-old
great-grandmother who travels over the country in Harvey, the RV, to
teach her lessons. She carries native
blood and is a member of the Echota Cherokee
Tribe.
Elspeth holds the
Certificate of Shamanic Practitioner from The
Church of Earth Healing. All her other training is experiential, and
her learning received directly from the Source.
Her workshops
reflect her primary concerns: healing as a
multi-dimensional spiritual path, the unrecognized value of the older
woman, the integral relationship between humans and other beings, all
this combined with our power and ability to create a world of
compassion, justice and sustainability. Her teachings take
many forms: workshops at events, speeches,
postings on her online group “Elspeth’s Roadies,” You Tube videos, and
her meditation CD, 'Out of the Forest.' You may also access her
current information at her web site
When she is not
being Crone-on-the-Road, Elspeth is at home in wild
and wonderful West Virginia with her beloved Nybor and their fur friends
-Maggie and Max.
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Nybor's
offering for Teach at the Beach will be DIVINATION - THeory
and Practice
Beginning with a history of divinatory practices, we will examine some
traditional forms of divination; including Astrology, Crystal Ball,
Omens, Numerology, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, Tarot and Throwing Sticks,
and discuss how each system works and why.
During the week the group will have opportunities to make individual
sets of divining tools. In doing so each person will create their own
meanings for the colors, shapes, and directions. Materials are provided
as part of the class.
Nybor is an artist,
healer, teacher, pastoral counselor, theorist, self-taught ritual
magician and, with Elspeth, co-founder of the Haven Community. His art
has appeared in Science Fiction and Pagan publications. He has been
named Pagan Artist of the Year several times. He has recently completed
the Nybor Tarot Deck, a 30- plus year project to produce a divination
deck more in line with modern society and thought. His next project is
a illustrated book of Goddesses.
As
a
ritual magician he is working on a theory of spiritually,
revealing a new way of looking at the world that incorporates all
systems of Magick.
He
has
been named Elder in several communities as well as for
various Guardian groups, and as such is available to the community as a
resource. He lives in West Virginia with his wife and soul mate
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Crow's
offering for Teach at the Beach is Shamanic
Cosmologies.
We will begin with a ceremony of the cosmos,
centering us together at the place where we will do this work of
exploration, experience, and learning.
Following the ceremony will be a period of
description and discussion including looking at several tribal
experiences of the universe, and a chance to talk about our own
personal perceptions of the cosmos as they have come to us in
journeying, in ceremony, and in ordinary life.
As the day develops, we will do a great deal of
shamanic journeywork to explore ways of experiencing the cosmos
different from those we are accustomed to. Each journey will be
accompanied by the key question: "How is this new perception useful to
me?"
The day will end with a closing ceremony to ground
and bring us back to center.
This teaching is based on recent research by Crow as
reported in the Church of Earth Healing Newsletter, Special Edition Shamanic
Cosmologies, January 2010.
Students are requested to read the Newsletter
material in preparation for the teaching; hardcopy of this material
will be provided on site. Also useful is Nybor's material from Teach at the Beach 2009, for this
material contact <nyborart@comcast.net>
To fully enjoy this day together requires prior
knowledge and experience with shamanic journeying, especially to Upper,
Middle, and Lower Worlds. If you plan to attend this day with
Crow and do not know how to journey shamanically, please contact him
immediately at crow@church-of-earth-healing.org
Crow
Swimsaway, PhD, is an experientially based, academically trained
shamanic practitioner and teacher, and an artist, activist and
ritualist. He has taught shamanism with Bekki since
1982 at universities, conferences, religious institutions, festivals
and gatherings throughout the Midwest and Eastern U.S., and Great
Britain.
Crow's
degrees (Chicago and London School of Economics at London University)
are in Social and Cultural Anthropology. He has
traveled and studied extensively in the U.S., Mexico, Europe and the
Far East.
Crow
has published one Book on Shamanism (Spirit
Knife,
Soul
Bone, Seventh
Direction Press, 2005), an exhaustive study of shamanic extraction
healing. He has written a book on shamanic ancestor work, due to be
published in September by , and is preparing another on shamanism and
the
spirit lover phenomenon, to be published late this year or early next
year.
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Bekki's offering for Teach at the Beach is Feeding The Mother of All Things
In earth-spiritual traditions both ancient and
modern, the power and divinity of nature is honored; the earth
and the waters of the earth in their female aspect are often seen as
our mother.
Using ritual, lecture and discussion, shamanic journeywork and other
means we explore our relationship to this life-giving feminine force
and our role as caregivers to the Creation which gave us birth and
sustains life.
In journeying we engage with the world of the ancestors to effect
healing of the human disconnection from nature and our wounds of
disempowerment. We celebrate the ancestors and the Mother of All Things
through ceremony, seeking ways to heal the earth.
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS WORKSHOP. IF
UNFAMILIAR WITH THIS TECHNIQUE, CONTACT BEKKI :
bekki@church-of-earth-healing.org
Bekki
Shining
Bearheart, LMT is an intuitive who has been guided by her
relationship with Mother Earth since age 2. She is a practicing
astrologer (40 years'
experience), shamanic healer, and energy healer. Since 1980 she has
been exploring spiritual realms via earth
religions and shamanism. Her
degrees are in Art and Art Education; she continues a lifelong
involvement in the arts, by crafting, and teaching others to craft,
shamanic tools and music.
Bekki is also
a licensed massage therapist
specializing in Structural Therapy.
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