with TRISHUWA
Healing with the Ancient Powers
of the Elementals, Herbs, and Spirit Keepers
May 19 & 20, 2012
With TRISHUWA
Other Teachers:
Lena and David Welker and Scott Harshman
Location: Wildcroft Hollow Botanical Sanctuary
and Blue Heron Outdoor School, Amherst County, Virginia
You can register for Saturday or Sunday or both days. One day is from 10AM to 4:30PM
Both days overnight camping is available
JOIN YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS:
Every time you participate in Sweat Lodge it is a unique experience. Sweat Lodge is about relationship. This cleansing and renewing ceremony has been embraced in thousands of circles. Circles that love Mother Earth and all of her relations. Circles that believe that we are all related, that the circle of life includes all life.
 PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Healing with Herbs in Lodge
Spirit Keepers of the Four Directions
Spirit Keepers of the Land
Ceremonial Dinner
PARTICIPANTS FOR TWO DAYS WILL EXPERIENCE:
Sacred Fire Making
Sacred Pipe
Sacred Stones
 MOVE INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ANCESTORS THAT HAVE HELD THIS TRADITION FOR GENERATIONS, INTO A GENUINE, LIVING SACRED TERRAIN.
In Sweat Lodge meaning is demonstrated by our willingness to humble ourselves, crawl into an ancient womb, sit in the dark, sweat and pray, cry, laugh, sing, give and receive. The blending of the seen and unseen, human and non-human, join present time with tradition. The alchemy of tradition, the combining of the elements, stones, herbs, the sacred fire, the tree ribs of the lodge, the labor of ceremony and so much more create a vibrant, living experience.
WE TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER IN LODGE. We are related. We are in relationship with the body, the spirit and the heart of one other and all that is part of lodge. There is love, acceptance, an ordinary yet infrequent experience in many daily lives. Everyone is welcome.
…the interior of the sweat lodge as representing the womb of Mother Earth, its darkness as human ignorance, the hot stones as coming of life, and the hissing steam as the creative force of the universe being activated. The entrance faces east, source of life and power, dawn of wisdom, while the fire heating the rocks is the undying light of the world, eternity.
–SWEAT by Mikkel AAland
COST: $75 for One Day
$200 for Both Days - Camping available.
A $100 NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT IS REQUIRED
TO HOLD YOUR PLACE IN THE PROGRAM. FOR TWO DAYS.
A $25 NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT FOR ONE DAY.
for more information:
Trishuwa, 8 Pioneer Road, Silver City, NM 88061
575-538-5498 • trishuwa@gaianstudies.org
David and Lena Welker. 1083 Sardis Road, Amherst, VA 24521
434-946-7020 • ogichidaquay@hotmail.com
Accommodations: camping. Although, if you wish to stay in a nearby motel, a list will be provided upon registration, along with our suggested camping list. Ceremonial meals will be provided as well as snacks, tea and juice. Two day participants will need to bring food for breakfast and one lighter evening meal.
We enter the lodge in humility, crawling on hands and knees, a severing from the social or daily world. We enter the world of the invisibles. In darkness we open our hearts and body to this invisible world, the elemental dance of water poured on stones heated in the sacred fire and the herbs sprinkled on the stones.
Architecturally, the only permanent shrine in Oglala religion is the sweat lodge. It stands, sometimes wavering in the wind… a dome made of willow saplings stuck into the ground, bent over, and tied in place with cloth strips or rope…The sweat lodge reflects the Oglala principle of austerity and simplicity: The entire universe is a cathedral: everything is permanently sacred unless desecrated by human foibles that cause disharmony between human and the rest of nature.
-YUWIPI, Vision & Experience in Oglala Ritual by William K. Powers
Developing a Sweat Lodge Medicine Bundle:
Bring four herbs four, small stones,.
One for each round that will hold the power of each direction.
THE NATURE OF EACH DIRECTION
EAST—SELF AND INSPIRATON FOR LIVING, LIFE: WABUN, GOLDEN EAGLE
SOUTH—FAMILY, COMMUNITY, TRIBE: SHAWNODESE, COYOTE
WEST—MATURITY, LEADERSHIP, DESTINY, SOUL: MUDJEKEEWIS, GRIZZLY BEAR
NORTH—EARTH, MATERIAL WORLD, BODY, ELDERS: WABOOSE, WHITE BUFFALO
TRISHUWA for more information: http://www.gaianstudies.org/Trishuwa.html
 SCOTT HARSHMAN Ordained Practitioner of the Church of Gaia and Ceremonialist healing with the Sacred Pipe and Sweat Lodge to his community and has been a Vision Quest guide for 17 years. He studied with Dhyani Ywahoo, with Stephen Buhner in Sacred Plant Medicine, and Earth Ceremony with Trishuwa. He is a Pipe carrier and has combined plant medicine and ceremony as a life path.
 DAVID & LENA WELKER are herbalists who work with edible and medicinal plants, David has been in the outdoor education filed for many years. Blue Heron Outdoor School is dedicated to preserving and disseminating the skills and understanding to live in cooperation with the natural world offering classes in Plant Identification, Cordage and Basketry, Tracking, Firemaking and Toolmaking. Lena is a teacher of Sacred Plant Medicine, a ceremonialist and gifted artist.
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