Our World is Crying Out for a Return of the Women Healers
There was a time when it was every woman's birthright – and responsibility – to nurture and express her own deep wisdom and intuitive powers to love, nourish and heal herself and others. The feminine ways of healing are rooted deep in the great Mystery of birth and death, and often cannot be brought to full fruition within the more rigid confines of organized systems. Masculine power is a strong and expansive energy that thrives within structures, goals and linear patterns. Feminine power, in harmonious contrast, expresses itself in spherical, cyclical patterns, and flourishes in the rich soil of the unknown and unknowable. It does not fear unanswerable questions, but rather welcomes and embraces them, choosing to live within the fluidity of questions rather than striving for absolute answers.
In this training we will explore and cultivate these powerful ways of feminine healing, diving deep into the vast waters of our own unique spirits, hearts and psyches, as well as the communal wellspring of wisdom, love and courage of thousands of generations of healers that have paved the way before us.
The Journey Into Our Source
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We will call on the ancestral guides of many spiritual and healing traditions, including Tantra yoga, the African Orishas Yemaya and Oshun, Vajrayana Buddhism, Taoist healing, Reiki and other energy systems, Enneagram, shamanic traditions, among others. In a deeply immersive setting we will have the opportunity to face our most pressing questions, challenge old assumptions and core beliefs about who we are, and reclaim our purpose here.
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Each participant will be mentored toward the fufillment of their highest calling here in this life. Through intensive training in the pratices of yoga, meditation, intuitive healing, ceremony, chant, dance, deep internal reflection and group insight sharing, you will come to tap into your own center of limitless wisdom, through a partnership with the universal flow of Divine Love. From this place of partnership with the Source, you will learn how to facilitate and guide others through sometimes gentle and peaceful, sometimes powerful and paradigm-shifting cathartic experiences of confrontation with their deepest fears and self-limiting beliefs that have created the blockages in energy that are at the root of all mental, emotional, spiritual and physical dis-ease.
Whether you are already working as a healer or yoga teacher, or dream of moving into this path, or are just interested in learning how to deepen your own yoga and spiritual practices and bring more healing into your life and the lives of those around you, this training will support you in finding your unique style of expression.
The Healing and Rebirth of the World
It is the growing belief of many evolutionary thinkers that the time has come to create a new paradigm of spiritual healing and transformation – one that draws on the best aspects of all of the world's spirit and wisdom traditions, while having the courage and vision to let go of those aspects that are no longer serving humanity. Our world has moved into a period of unprecedented and previously unimagineable expansion and accelerated evolution. It is now time to move past rigid boundaries of “this system versus that” and build a new world based on the combined forces of thriving community power, and fully realized unique individuals.
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For this leap to be successful, the support and guidance of the Feminine as spiritual midwife and guide is crucial. This is truly a co-creative journey, where women are called to reclaim their role at the center of the heart of creation. It's time to step fully into your power as a woman who is ready to joyfully participate in the healing and rebirth of our broken-hearted world. |
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The Immersion Training
TRAINING DATES
On Sabbatical for 2015/16
Check back for 2017 dates
On Sabbatical for 2015/16
Check back for 2017 dates
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The training consists of three modules: Two 9-day sessions (the first held at The Farm in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of Upstate NY; the second on the lush island of Culebra, off the southern coast of Puerto Rico). In the embrace of the great voluptuous Feminine in her physical manifestations of mountains, rivers, forests and seas, we will have the opportunity to retreat from the incessant demands of our daily lives in order to surrender fully to the call of the spirits of healing. These settings, along with the small number of participants (groups are capped at twelve) provide a beautifully intimate container for our experience together.
These longer sessions will be held in August and January/February. Between these longer modules, there will be a 5-day session in Brooklyn, New York, in October. Our experience together will culminate in a beautiful, moving rite-of-passage ceremony of initiation at sunset on a secluded Caribbean beach.
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification -
Yoga Alliance Registration
When all sessions plus the additional requirements listed below are fulfilled, you will be eligible for 200-hour yoga teacher certification through Yoga Alliance, as well as a certificate of completion of the multi-traditional energy healing training course.
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Additional Requirements:
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The yoga teaching may be completed as a substitute teacher at Shambhala Yoga & Dance Center in Brooklyn, or at another venue. If you will not be applying for yoga teacher certification, or have already completed another 200-hour yoga teacher training and have since been teaching regularly, the six yoga class teaching requirement will be waived.
Pre-Requisites
~~ A longing to live a life of deep meaning and authenticity
~~ Willingness to surrender to the process of powerful self-transformation as the training ground
for the path of deep healing and ecstatic rebirth
~~ A pre-registration interview, to explore whether this is the training best suited for you
~~ A consistent yoga practice of at least 2 years, for those interested in receiving the 200-hour
yoga teacher certificate for Yoga Alliance registration (this is open to interpretation,
and will be discussed in the pre-registration interview); for those who are interested in the
yoga as an additional part of a larger training as a healer, but are not planning to apply for
certification as a yoga teacher, this requirement may be modified.
~~ There will be required reading of several books to be completed before the training begins, as
well as additional reading throughout the year of the program.
~~ Willingness to surrender to the process of powerful self-transformation as the training ground
for the path of deep healing and ecstatic rebirth
~~ A pre-registration interview, to explore whether this is the training best suited for you
~~ A consistent yoga practice of at least 2 years, for those interested in receiving the 200-hour
yoga teacher certificate for Yoga Alliance registration (this is open to interpretation,
and will be discussed in the pre-registration interview); for those who are interested in the
yoga as an additional part of a larger training as a healer, but are not planning to apply for
certification as a yoga teacher, this requirement may be modified.
~~ There will be required reading of several books to be completed before the training begins, as
well as additional reading throughout the year of the program.
Gathering the women to Celebrate the Call
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