Correspondence

	A PERSONALIZED JOURNEY Ceremony as a Way of Life will lead you into deep relationship with Spirit and the living Spirit in all life. You will learn how to create sacred space, heal old wounds and walk as a lighted being in companionship with the Creator and the Created as you perform sacred ceremony each day. Each day you can awaken the spirit within you and be in relationship with all life. The living circle within you can become part of the unbroken circle of past and future generations as you take your rightful place in the circle of life.
	YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN PERSONALIZED CEREMONY. You will learn ancient ceremony and prayer, the foundations and context for a life of wholeness, balance and joy. You will create your own medicine objects and form your own ceremonial bundle. You will birth a Medicine Wheel, the mandala of all life in the universe. You will learn the ways of indigenous peoples and remember through ceremony the indigenous mind that lives within you. You will learn how to channel the life force energy and find the sacred center, Spirit, that is part of all life.
	EACH PERSON HAS A UNIQUE DESTINY, an inner-council that is reflected in your personality. Within your inner Sacred Circle there are also spiritual guides and mentors waiting for you. Mother Earth is calling. She is calling her children to become part of the unbroken circle of past and future generations so that all of us can live in balance, making life choices which preserve our dignity and the quality of life for future generations. Knowledge of your inner-council enables you to create a life with aware self knowledge that honors your unique giveaway - a life where your actions are guided by truth, a loving heart, and a strong spirit.
	AS YOU TRAVEL THE ANCIENT WHEEL, you will learn to embrace the ways of vision, the heart, spirit, and manifest them into form (your journey during your Earth time). You will learn how you were imprinted by the ancient wheels, the Zodiac and the Medicine Wheel, at birth and receive a personal tape which tells you the place you were born on the wheels and how to travel around the wheel. This will help you consciously embrace and realize your personal destiny.
	RITES OF PASSAGE are the key to the doorway which leads us to the visionary, the teacher, the sage and the elder that are waiting to be realized in all people. Whatever age one embarks on this journey, these ancient rites of passage are each person's birth rite – your bite right – and can be experienced with devotion through prayer, ceremony and Earth meditation, thus opening the door of awareness for each person's spiritual path. Each doorway entered requires a ceremony to fully experience the support of Spirit world. You can reclaim your life by participating in ceremony which honors the years you have lived and commit to future rites of passage ceremony for the years you have
	Ceremony As a Way of Life returns the way of elder teacher who mentors those who come in a sacred manner. With each step you will be counseled and given personal meditations and prayers that address your particular place in life. You will be taught how to communicate with the elements, the plants, the stones and your own personal guides and spirit companions. Your teacher, Trishuwa, will provide monthly guidance by letter, tape or personal phone consultation.
	THE FORM – Ceremony as a Way of Life, An Earth-Centered Correspondence Course is divided into twelve sections. Each section is designed to be four to six weeks long. The course culminates in a ceremonial rite of passage with Trishuwa during a wilderness spiritual retreat at a previously determined location.
	THE COST of the course is $45 for the first section, $45 for Section 2 – 10 paid for three at a time ($105). The Vision Quest program, for those that are called, is an additional cost of $500 – $700, and the final Rites of Passage section is $45.
	For detailed course overview and enrollment form E-mail: trishuwa@gaianstudies.org