Each year several sacred journeys and pilgrimages are held to assist you in transforming your life experience. We encourage steps toward personal transformation and assist you in finding your particular Medicine Path of self -healing and integration as you develop your individual skills. These retreats are committed to the development of harmony in one's life, in our interactions with others, and in the care of our Mother Earth.

Finding Our Wings - A Retreat for Women

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Finding Our Wings - A Retreat for Women

Spiritual Wakening of the Shamanic Heart

Embrace your life with ceremonies. This five day/four night retreat is in the beautiful Mountains of Valle de Bravo, Mexico, on a large private ranch devoted to ceremony and celebration. Our teachers come from rich traditions to infuse participants in Shamanic practices of health and personal healing.

Transform your life with the power and wisdom of ceremony. Experience dreaming and creating your life by using pilgrimages and visionary art. Create gifts for Spirit, dream with the Goddess, and find a clearer connection with your inner goddess, helpers, guides and protectors.

This adventure with Mother Earth will deepen your respect. Our ceremonies will help you find a place of inner peace and harmony. You only need to enter in with an open heart and be willing to move away from a place of expectations, preconceptions and prejudices. This is a special place in nature that will assist you in gaining insight and reverence for Mother Earth. Many people have made this pilgrimage and have found this a power point, the perfect place to allow for transformations to happen. Please join us for this Shamanic gathering and give yourself this gift.

More About This Year's Women's Retreat:

We have been having the women's retreats in North Carolina for eight years. We move to Mexico for this year's adventure. This year's retreat will provide opportunities for communion and fellowship in the safety of like minded women. During this experiential intensive five day retreat, participants will be introduced to methods for creating your life in a new and powerful way.

All of our teachers and leaders have experienced deep self examination for themselves, and come from many different traditions. Participants will have an opportunity to bring themselves to a state of exploration for creative self-healing, as well as techniques for the healing of others.

During this retreat, you will have access to our entire faculty, whom we have gathered together from our travels. They all will be sharing some of their personal methods. Through ceremony you will have the opportunity to experience what was taught to them by their teachers and masters.

Shamanism:

Shamanism has many exercises to help you enter into non-ordinary realities for problem solving and healing. At this retreat particular emphasis will be placed on techniques for developing extra-ordinary journey work. Shamanism is one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind, throughout many cultures, to explore hidden universes, known mainly through myth and dream.

You will be initiated into journeying, aided by ceremonies of purification, body work, dance, drumming, art, and fire and water. You will experience alternative states of consciousness, awaken dormant spiritual abilities and advance further on your personal path. You will be shown techniques for connecting with your own helpers, guides and protectors. Participants will have many opportunities to create closer bonds with their indigenous nature, including a Pilgrimage to a sacred spring on the grounds of this estate. Each day will include mind, body and spiritual work to create a climate for the self-discovery of your native mind.

Each participant will be encouraged to find true expressions of personal authority and sovereignty, including the power to connect more strongly with your own helpers and guides in the physical world and non-ordinary realities. This is a classic step in the deep practice of Shamanism. You will learn how to utilize many different applications of journey work for divination and for the restoration of spiritual power and health for oneself. We are all here to come to a place of wholeness for ourselves and our planet. Please join us for this five day/four night intensive.

Specifics For The Retreat:

All people traveling outside of the continental United States must have a current passport - There will be no exceptions! (Currently there is a 3 month waiting list unless you request a fast track passport application).

Information about our accommodations:

Address: Rancho Ramon, Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

This site is located approximately four hours from the Mexico City Airport and one & half from the Toluca Airport. Ground transportation will be provided leaving the Toluca Airport at 12:00 noon November 5, 2007. Houston (IAH) has direct flights. You will be returning from the Mexico City Airport; do not book your return flight leaving before 10:00 PM November 9th, or you will need to provide your own transportation. Those coming from the United States to Toluca will be provided shuttle service to the Ranch, included in the retreat price. Registration ends on October 15 for the retreat.

Activities include:

• " Awakening the best in human spirit
• Shared Ritual, Wise Woman Teachings
• Creative Group Process
• Guided Experiential Practices and Dialogues of Discovery
• Labyrinths
• Western Traditional Tarot and The Native Mayan Divination of the Tzolkin - the sacred calendar of the Mexicans.
• Mystical Arts for women: Art Saves Lives.
• Temascal, sweat lodge
• Gifts for Spirit, The Dreaming Goddess
• Qi Gong
• Pilgrimage to ancient sacred spring
• Three centered ceremonies of Water, Earth, and Fire

What To Bring:

• Personal thermal cup
• No perfume or strong scented oils.
• Sleeping bag (optional use of bedding $5.OO USD)
• Skirts, Ceremonial clothes and Medicine Blanket for ceremony
• Personal Medicine pieces (example rattles, drums)
• Warm clothes (dress in layers) we will have warm to cool days and nights around a fire.
• Hats/bandanas
• Lamps/flash light
• White socks for sanctuary
• Comfortable shoes for out door living.
• Two towels
• Personal toiletries (soap, shampoo, sunscreen)
• Shoes for shower optional

Food During Retreat:

The food will be typical of Mexican homes with some accommodations for special guests needs. If you have food allergies, or require special dietary needs please advise us at pre-registration.

Networking Table:

Space will be provided to advertise your self, feel free to bring your business cards and brochures of different events that you are involved in 2007-2008.

Event Store:

A small store of forgotten items will also be available.

Registration:

All retreat events will be held at the Rancho of San Ramon.

Address: Carretera Los Saucos-Nevado 15 minutes from Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

How To Register:

Total cost of this 5 day 4 night event is USD $1,075.00. Pre register by August 15, 2007- Save $75.00 Space is limited. Pay Pal will be accepted on the internet web site or call Zoe Allison (828)284 0975 or email mayanrecordkeeper@hotmail.com

You will also find information on the Earth green Medicine Lodge site: www.Earthgreenmedicinelodge.com

Questions can be directed by snail mail to Zoe Allison 319 Twilight Way Burnsville, NC. 28714

At the time of pre-registration you will be sent CONFIRMATION. If you are unable to attend REFUNDS will be available up to October 15 but will not be sent out until November 30, 2007 with a USD$80.00 handling fee.

CANCELLATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER 22, 2007.

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