2020 Shamanic Training Program
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This program takes you on a journey of cross-cultural shamanic ideas and practices, linking the ancient with the modern. The aims of this program are to help you wake up to why you came into this life and learn how to more effectively navigate your journey with vision, strength and trust. The program offers you opportunities to take risks, open inner places that you know you want to open, and to hold, with balance and integrity, the contradictions of life in the human body. Under it all, this is a path of joy, gratitude, love and awe.
Deadline for Applying: December 15, 2019 |
Questions? Email: drummingthesoulawake@gmail.com
Welcome to Shaman School!
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I've designed this program to offer you a convenient schedule that combines at-home study with the power and support of being part of a safe and fun community of like-minded souls. We will meet one weekend per month (Friday night, all day Saturday, no Sundays). We will do some of the work in my South Minneapolis house/studio, and also be out in nature as much as we can.
Each month you will will build shamanic skills and power in you, layer upon layer as you solidify an embodied connection with Spirit (and spirits.) You'll apply healing to old negative patterns embedded in you by family, culture and experience, open direct connection to your true power, and take on practical spiritual practices, including some shamanic healing techniques you can use for the benefit of yourself and others, all in a safe and nurturing community. You'll leave this program with life-long skills, shamanic healing tools and a transformed inner life that will help you better navigate this tumultuous world. Along the way, you will have plenty of wondrous experiences, and, yes, laughs. This program draws from my direct training in Celtic and Peruvian traditions, augmented with cross-cultural mystical ideas and practices. I also draw on my formal theology studies in the Seminary. Please be sure to check me out. You'll be assigned reading about a month before each weekend meeting to give you time to absorb it. Reading involves mythic stories, poems, and various books and articles on shamanic practice. Some audio and video lessons are also part of the curriculum - mainly meditations and prayers to build your power that will solidify your daily practice. Check out free audios and videos here. You need no prior experience with shamanism to join this program, but you do need one thing: commitment. I ask that you don't register for this program lightly. The program will demand that you are willing to step into more personal spiritual power. There is plenty of doubt and fear involved in the work (everyone has it, not just you!) but the work will also be full of awe, joy, self-discovery and, yes, fun. This is a path of building power, love, and wisdom. I ask that you enter this work with dedication. You'll graduate from this program standing on a solid foundation for living shamanically in the modern world, knowing how to make personal ceremonies and prayers for yourself and others, and having a tool kit of core shamanic healing techniques. You will build your inner power and connection to Spirit and to nature as a living presence. You'll be part of a fun and loving spiritual community. |
Schedule
If you know this study is for you, I urge you to register as soon as you can. The first wave of readings and online study involves some powerful work to unravel old destructive thinking/behavior/ancestral patterns and lay a foundation for your year of study. The sooner you begin that work, the better your year of study will go.
Classes are held in my south Minneapolis home/studio, and out in nature as often as possible.
December and January: Before classes begin, you'll read a book by one of my teachers, José Luis Stevens: Transforming Your Dragons. You'll also receive other materials that will help you get started.
January: The Core Skills
We begin with core skills: the shamanic journey, working with Spirit Guides, techniques of psychic and energetic self-protection, and daily power meditations. Reading and meditations are also included.
February: Make Your Shaman's Rattle
It cannot be overstated how important the rattle is to shamanic practice, and how powerful it is for you. You'll make a lifelong tool, companion and teacher. Also, you'll dive into a deep study of the Celtic Goddess of Healing, Brigid, taking on a relationship with her that will help you for life.
March: The Medicine Wheel and Sacred Directions
As a prayer tool, as constant teachers, guides and healers, there is nothing more powerful than the medicine wheel. You'll have readings and audios to work with all month. You'll focus on the direction East.
April: Make Your Shaman's Drum
The drum is an indispensable power tool. Making your own drum is an amazing and beautiful experience. This night carries an additional $149 fee ($50 discount on usual drum making). If you already have a drum you have made, you can have $100 discount for the program.
May: Learning to Pray Like the Shamans Pray and The Celtic World
No classes in May because I'll be in Peru. You'll continue to deepen your practice with the drum, rattle and singing. Your reading (supported with audio instruction) will focus on learning to pray like the shamans (very different form church prayers) and on doing meditations that build power. You'll also have readings specifically in Celtic Shamanic practice, and work with the power of the direction South on the medicine wheel.
June: Working Shamanically with the Moon (Two Friday nights this month)
The moon is a dramatic helper and teacher. You'll experience two beautiful moon ceremonies for healing and intention setting. You'll learn prayers and songs for the moon, you'll learn the techniques of the peruvian "despacho" - a dramatic way of making offerings. You'll learn how to keep the moon present to you as a helper at all times. This month also focus on techniques for "manifesting intentions" and working with the "quantum field" as well as other energy fields.
July: Working With Plants of Power
The shamans say "Medicine is everywhere." We will work with the gifts of mother earth, learning to communicate with the plants.
August: Working with the Web of Life and the Earth Mother
In this time of the first harvest, we will learn techniques for working with the earth for cleansing our pains, you'll learn techniques for healing distressed earth, and how to heal distressed land. We will work with Celtic stories and techniques for divination, and we will work with visionary plant medicine.
September-October: The Old Bone Mother of the West, releasing, and the bid for power
No classes in September because I'll be in Scotland. In September your at-home reading and audios will focus on the direction West, and Celtic tales of the Dark Mother of transformation and initiation.
October: Shamanic healing techniques: Cleansing Hucha, ritual healing songs, calling in the Power of Awen.
Working to clear ancestral patterns is one of the most important things you can do to open your own authentic power.
November: Working with the North and formal close of the 2020 program
Working with the direction North on the Celtic Medicine Wheel. You will begin working with the Old Bone Mother as an ally for clearing and developing the strength and endurance needed for the dark of the year.
Special Opportunity in December: Reindeer Training
As a participant in the 2020 program, you'll receive a $100 discount on the annual Reindeer Spirit Training workshop if you choose to participate. Through drumming, shamanic journeying, ceremony-making, chant and shamanic trance dance, you'll form your own unique bond to the reindeer as a spiritual guide, protector, initiator, healer and blessor. This workshop allows you to participate as a "Reindeer Blessor" in the annual Winter Solstice Ceremony.
Classes are held in my south Minneapolis home/studio, and out in nature as often as possible.
December and January: Before classes begin, you'll read a book by one of my teachers, José Luis Stevens: Transforming Your Dragons. You'll also receive other materials that will help you get started.
January: The Core Skills
We begin with core skills: the shamanic journey, working with Spirit Guides, techniques of psychic and energetic self-protection, and daily power meditations. Reading and meditations are also included.
- January 10-11: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday 10AM - 8 PM): Class time focuses on an overview of shamanic cosmos and on the Shamanic Journey to the Spirit World. We complete the day with Saturday night Community Feast of Pleasure, Ribaldness, Boasts, Poems and Bountiful Friendships. This is a potluck feast to help us build the fire of friendship.
February: Make Your Shaman's Rattle
It cannot be overstated how important the rattle is to shamanic practice, and how powerful it is for you. You'll make a lifelong tool, companion and teacher. Also, you'll dive into a deep study of the Celtic Goddess of Healing, Brigid, taking on a relationship with her that will help you for life.
- February 7 and 8: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday 10AM - 5PM): Make your shaman's rattle. This also includes teachings in how to make offerings with tobacco to the earth, spirits, ancestors and teachers. You'll learn songs to sing with your rattle and receive recordings and text to work from. You'll also learn how to shed any fear you may have of your singing voice. (If you want an antler handle, there will be a $20 fee.)
March: The Medicine Wheel and Sacred Directions
As a prayer tool, as constant teachers, guides and healers, there is nothing more powerful than the medicine wheel. You'll have readings and audios to work with all month. You'll focus on the direction East.
- March 6 and 7: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday 10AM - 5PM.)
April: Make Your Shaman's Drum
The drum is an indispensable power tool. Making your own drum is an amazing and beautiful experience. This night carries an additional $149 fee ($50 discount on usual drum making). If you already have a drum you have made, you can have $100 discount for the program.
- April 10 - 11: (Friday evening 6:30-11PM, Saturday 10AM - 5PM.) Make your drum under the full moon. Next day, learn to work with it in a prayerful way. You'll learn more songs as well as ritual rhythms, plus how to care for your drum as spiritual companion.
May: Learning to Pray Like the Shamans Pray and The Celtic World
No classes in May because I'll be in Peru. You'll continue to deepen your practice with the drum, rattle and singing. Your reading (supported with audio instruction) will focus on learning to pray like the shamans (very different form church prayers) and on doing meditations that build power. You'll also have readings specifically in Celtic Shamanic practice, and work with the power of the direction South on the medicine wheel.
June: Working Shamanically with the Moon (Two Friday nights this month)
The moon is a dramatic helper and teacher. You'll experience two beautiful moon ceremonies for healing and intention setting. You'll learn prayers and songs for the moon, you'll learn the techniques of the peruvian "despacho" - a dramatic way of making offerings. You'll learn how to keep the moon present to you as a helper at all times. This month also focus on techniques for "manifesting intentions" and working with the "quantum field" as well as other energy fields.
- June 5: (Friday evening 7-10PM.) Full Moon plant bath healing ceremony.
- June 26: (Friday evening 7-10PM.) New Moon manifesting ceremony.
July: Working With Plants of Power
The shamans say "Medicine is everywhere." We will work with the gifts of mother earth, learning to communicate with the plants.
- July 10-11: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday 10AM - 5PM): Working with Sage, Cedar, Tobacco, Sweetgrass, Willow and others.
August: Working with the Web of Life and the Earth Mother
In this time of the first harvest, we will learn techniques for working with the earth for cleansing our pains, you'll learn techniques for healing distressed earth, and how to heal distressed land. We will work with Celtic stories and techniques for divination, and we will work with visionary plant medicine.
- August 21: (Friday evening 7-10PM)
- August 22: (Saturday 10AM - 5PM) All day medicine walkabout.
September-October: The Old Bone Mother of the West, releasing, and the bid for power
No classes in September because I'll be in Scotland. In September your at-home reading and audios will focus on the direction West, and Celtic tales of the Dark Mother of transformation and initiation.
- October 1-4: Weekend retreat (Thursday evening through Sunday noon) at the awesome Crow Wing Crest Resort near Akeley Mn (about 4 hours north.) This weekend carries a $200 charge for lodging. This is a weekend-long ceremony working with the Dark Mother of initiation. The weekend includes an opportunity for you to be ceremonially buried.
October: Shamanic healing techniques: Cleansing Hucha, ritual healing songs, calling in the Power of Awen.
Working to clear ancestral patterns is one of the most important things you can do to open your own authentic power.
- October 23-24: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday 10AM - 5PM.) This weekend will include an ancestor healing ceremony and learning techniques for clearing negative energy from yourself and others.
November: Working with the North and formal close of the 2020 program
Working with the direction North on the Celtic Medicine Wheel. You will begin working with the Old Bone Mother as an ally for clearing and developing the strength and endurance needed for the dark of the year.
- November 13: (Friday evening 7-10PM)
Special Opportunity in December: Reindeer Training
As a participant in the 2020 program, you'll receive a $100 discount on the annual Reindeer Spirit Training workshop if you choose to participate. Through drumming, shamanic journeying, ceremony-making, chant and shamanic trance dance, you'll form your own unique bond to the reindeer as a spiritual guide, protector, initiator, healer and blessor. This workshop allows you to participate as a "Reindeer Blessor" in the annual Winter Solstice Ceremony.
- December 4 and 5: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday evening 6-10PM)
- December 11 and 12: (Friday evening 7-10PM, Saturday evening 6-10PM)
The awe, joy, and wonder this program has brought into my life have helped heal wounds that years of therapy couldn't touch. The community that Jaime has helped my fellow participants and me create is the most nourishing, accepting, and loving community I've ever been a part of. The readings, teachings, stories, and ceremonies have helped me become stronger and more grounded in my values and spiritual beliefs. This is an amazing program for anyone looking to build up their own personal practices and beliefs rooted in Celtic and/or shamanic traditions." - CB
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Cost: $1200 if paid upfront. $1400 if paid in four installments. See payment options in the downloaded application.
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2019. The program requires a minimum of 7 students, and maximum of 12.
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2019. The program requires a minimum of 7 students, and maximum of 12.
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"My growth during the Year-Long Program has been surprising, impressive, and a great satisfaction to me. I had read a couple of books on shamanism and it was clear what I was missing was EXPERIENCE. Some of my experiences in this program have been profound. Jaime is not only a knowledge-bearer of a wide and diverse collection of shamanic lore, he is a wonderful storyteller, sharing his own life stories of repeated journeys from doubt to wonder. Plus, even beyond what he has words for, Jaime embodies --lives-- the shamanic path and I have learned valuable lessons he could not have "taught," just watching him do his best to share this path with us over these many months. Jaime's introduction to animism and shamanism has filled me with gratitude for my living relationship with spirits. Spirits of the land, the plants & animals, my ancestors and the wisdom flows through it all, connecting everything." (-- RF, 2017 student)