Honor Those
Who Try
To Rid Themselves Of Any Lying,
Who Empty The Self
And Have Only Clear Being
There.
Rilke
What you need to know
about shamanic healing and soul retrieval
Alida Birch,
Introductory & Advanced Trainings in Shamanism
Paula
Denham,
The Six Month Self Healing Circle: Working Shamanically with Chronic
Illness in our Modern Society
February 2007
E-mail: AlidaBirch@yahoo.com
There are many people today suffering from chronic illnesses, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and other persistent and prolonged ailments, both physical and emotional. For most of these people, a single or even several shamanic healing sessions will not provide lasting relief. In the traditional shamanic culture the family, the village, and the relationships with the environment all support the process of healing set in motion by the shaman and the shaman's helping spirits. But today, people leave their healing sessions and return to the same living and work conditions that fostered their illnesses. They don't know how to participate in their own healing process. Often they feel isolated in their spiritual beliefs. The 6 month self healing circle is a series of 26 weekly "self-healing" sessions with Spirit prescribed journeys and activities, designed to serve people suffering with chronic disease - physical or emotional. It provides the venue, the time, the support and the guidance to bring about the changes in lifestyle and deeply rooted belief systems that will help them sustain and continue their own healing process. It is the result of a collaborative effort with the Spirits to adapt shamanic practices to help people with modern afflictions and modern circumstances.
In past Circles, people who were suffering with various chronic diseases have shown dramatic improvement in both their physical and emotional states. Some of the conditions addressed have been fibromyalgia, primary biliary (non-alcoholic) cirrhosis, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, Paget-Schroeder's syndrome, chronic fatigue, chronic insomnia, chronic accidents (broken limbs, broken ribs, sprains, strains, bruises), chronic deprivation, debilitating resentment, and chronic depression and self-loathing.
Content: in this workshop you will learn through a combination of lecture, written material and journeys how to form and lead a Six-Month Self-Healing Circle.
40 people maximum
February 2nd - 4th, 2007
Start Friday evening though Sunday 5pm
Tuition $220 (early registration discount $205 postmarked
by January 15th)
To secure your spot in this workshop, please mail a check
made payable in the above amount to Alida Birch, PO Box 121 Eugene,
OR 97440. Directions & additional information will be sent upon
receipt of tuition.
CANCELLATIONS received by January 15th, 2007 will be refunded in
full less a $25 handling fee. Cancellations received after January 15th:
There is no refund available.
Please call 541-686-1610 or
e-mail AlidaBirch@yahoo.com
for more information.
Paula Denham has been practicing shamanism for 15 years. Her busy practice includes shamanic counseling, healing work, teaching two apprenticeship circles, various other shamanic services and occasional workshops. She is a founder and Director of the Sacramento Shamanic Center, and a Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth Church. She says, "This work is the great joy of my life. It fills my heart every day."