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Shamanic Training Level Two , 2012

Neil Schapera

2013 Dates : Friday October 4, Sat 5, Sunday 6

Friday 6 - 9 pm Sat 9 -5 pm Sunday 10 - 3 pm

$390 Eligible for 3 month payment plan Repeats and HCP students half-price

Only students who have completed Shamanic Training Level One may attend.
This advanced weekend will progress students deeper into Shamanic Healing practices and ceremony.

1. Please be on time
2. Bring food/drink/snacks for yourself
3. Bring notebook and loose paper and pens and a few colored pens/crayons
4. Bring about twelve smallish crystals/stones/rocks
5. Bring a larger stone/rock/crystal suitable for stone divination ( ie. with interesting shape/texture/color )
6. Bring eye cover,mat, pillows, knee bolster if you like.
7. Bring some items you would like energised/blessed (e.g.stones/figurines/amulets etc.)
8. Bring some important questions and requests to possibly Journey on.
9. Bring a relaxed attitude.
10. Of course, bring shamanic drum and rattle.

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FourWinds Academy Shamanic Training

With

Neil Schapera

 

Spiritual development is as important now in our technological world as it was when we were preliterate hunter-gatherers. Through shamanic training you can reclaim your birthright as a spiritual being. The Spirits  lovingly await the sacred moment when you connect with their realm. In this shamanic training you can learn how to:

 

• Tap into the collective unconscious
• Contact your ancestors
• Engage with the wisdom and healing energy of the spirits

 

Shamanic Skills

 

FourWinds Academy’s shamanic training teaches you:

 

To access the Spirit Realm through shamanic journeying

To induce the altered state of consciousness called a shamanic trance

To navigate the Spirit Realm, consisting of the lower world, upper world and middle world

 

So that you can:

 

Act as an intermediary between ordinary reality and the spirit realm

Reliably and intensely communicate with the spirits

Generate a basic structure and map for journeying to the spirits

Appreciate and comprehend the meaning and role of “what it is to be a shaman”

 

Purpose

 

By developing your relationship with the Spirit Realm, you can help your self, you can help others and you can help your community. In shamanic training you learn how to use your relationship with the spirits to access the following:

• Dispel spiritual ignorance
• Spiritual education
• Guidance
• Protection
• Healing

 

 

Three Levels of Shamanic Training

 

Traditionally a shamanic training consisted of a long apprenticeship to an experienced shaman. Whilst the techniques for journeying can be learned reasonably quickly, time and experience continue to be important ingredients in achieving the depth and level of detail necessary to becoming skillful. Consequently, FourWinds Academy offers 3 sessions for the basic shamanic training, giving you the opportunity to progress through a series of essential “core” journeys which take you systematically from a “basic” to “educated” skill level.

 

Level 1 The Healing Drum: Learn how to journey, create a basic structure and map, meet your spirit helpers, retrieve your power animal, appreciate the significance of the shaman and animate your drum through sacred ceremony.

 

Level 2 Healing Techniques: Continue developing your relationship with the spirits, experience more core journeys, expand your map of the spirit realm, learn how to do extractions, access guidance, insight and healing.

 

Level 3 Advanced Techniques: Having learned the basics and had time to practice a shamanic lifestyle, level 3 offers the opportunity to integrate your knowledge and flesh out your relationship with the Spirit Realm. In level 3 you complete the series of core journeys necessary to your training and learn how to access more detail in your journeying. In the same way as your relationship with a long-standing friend is different from your relationship with someone you have just met, and the kind of requests you make of a long-standing friend are different from the requests you make of an acquaintance of short duration, so it is with the spirits.

 

The most frequently asked question: What if I’ve done another shamanic training?

 

Can I go into Level 2, or do I still need to do Level 1? It is important to speak to the instructor, Neil Schapera, to find out whether equivalent Level 1 core journeys have been done, and whether you have animated your drum. It might be possible that a preparatory session with the instructor will allow you to make up missed syllabus.

 

Is this training going to offer me something new? Once again, by speaking to the instructor, and telling him what you have learned in the other training, you will both be able to ascertain whether this training offers you new experiences and skills.

Since the training’s intention is to develop an ever-deepening relationship with the spirits, asking this question is somewhat like asking whether spending more time with a friend you’ve already met is going to be worthwhile.

 

About the Instructor: Neil trained in Shamanism with Michael Harner of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies ( http://www.shamanism.org/ ) and with Sandra Ingerman.( http://www.sandraingerman.com/ ) He teaches Shamanic Journeying and various Shamanic practices and initiations including Shamanic Healing and Soul Retrieval. Neil is on the Board of FourWinds Academy for the Healing Arts & Sciences, for whom he teaches regular classes, including the Shamanic Training and The Healer Certification Course.

 

Neil has been active in the healing arts for over 35 years, since training in Psychology at the University of Cape Town.  Neil is co-director of the Alexander Technique of Cincinnati training course, and works in private practice as a teacher of the Alexander Technique and as a Shaman.

 

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