"Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge,it is necessary to step through the Shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence."
~ Michael Harner, Ph.D. ~
UPDATE: This program has been combine with the "Awaken to your Magnifience", A Shamanic Personal Transformational program. Read the details below under registration.
starts October 27-31, 2010
Deadline to register: September 20, 2010
I am very excited to introduce my NEW Shamanic Training Program ~ Walking the Shaman’s Path! It is a unique and extensive, 3-year training program that includes all the basic teachings of the shamanic practice, but with so much more.
Holding the basic belief that, “No one can take another where they have not walked themselves,” you will be trained as a Shamanic Practitioner who has walked their own personal path of self-healing. You will develop mastery of the shamanic journey and communication in the shamanic realm. Learn several core shamanic techniques, as well as advanced techniques. Your training will include work with individuals, humanity, and the planet.
The program will also incorporate the modern sciences of anatomy, physiology and quantum physics to develop a greater foundation for more conscious work in the non-ordinary realities. Finally, you will learn and develop counseling and professional skills necessary to establish a successful practice.
Read below for more details. Call or email me to discuss this new and comprehensive Shamanic Training Program!
Read more: What is a Shamanic Practitioner
THE PROGRAM INCLUDES
THE STUDY OF SHAMANISM
In order to interact effectively in the parallel-reality of the Shamanic World, you need to be proactive, empowered, and have the confidence to seek direct information for healing in any given situation regarding a client, humanity, or the planet. This requires the practitioner to master the ability to enter, walk, interpret, and communicate within this realm, where all the answers and healing knowledge occurs.
In this program you will master the ability to enter the doorway of the Shamanic World. One of the basic forms that will be emphasized will be the shamanic journey. With the aid of drumming and other repetitive sound techniques you will learn to go into a state of consciousness that allows you to enter this mystical realm. After mastering this ability you will learn how to use the information and shamanic techniques to heal and problem solve at every level of your client’s mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual being.
Although Shamanism has many different practices from its world-wide traditions, there are several core shamanic techniques that are universally shared. In this program you will learn these basic core techniques such as soul retrieval, soul remembering, power animal retrieval, extraction healing, past-life healing, energy healing, ancestral healing and elemental healing. Integrated with these core techniques is a perceptive blend of hands-on-healing and shamanic techniques that I have developed through my own practice. They include: sound, cellular, quantum, creation, and destiny healings.
In all traditions of the shamanic studies there is the importance of accessing one’s own helpers in the form of power animals, nature spirits, guardian spirits, and the ancestors to aid the Practitioner in their healing work. In this program you will be supported as you develop these vital connections to your shamanic helpers.
THE PERSONAL TRANFORMATIONAL PROCESS
In the
process of becoming a Shamanic Practitioner, one must walk their own personal healing journey to truly be able to guide another. In this program you will be required to take this personal path of self-transformation and realization through the program’s main psychology/spiritual teaching, The Wheel of Awakening. This is a unique model that utilizes the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, Early Child Development, Transpersonal Psychology, and Eastern Spirituality. Through these teachings and transformational processes, your early childhood developmental foundation is strengthened, unhealthy false belief systems rewritten, and the divine truth of who you are is realized. The integration of personal process work with the training of basic Shamanism helps you become healthier, grounded,and more balanced with a stronger foundation of the lower chakra system and a clearer connection to your higher chakra system. By learning and experiencing the basic techniques in your own transformational/realization process, you learn how to walk your clients through their personal process. This gives the Practitioner a greater ability to heal and serve others.
THE STUDY OF MODERN SCIENCE
The true power of Shamanism is in the ability to walk in both worlds, with one foot in the present-reality, and one foot in the parallel-reality of the shamanic realm. By mastering this discipline, one has greater ability to create profound and lasting transformational shifts in their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being.
This program is solidly grounded in this discipline. It teaches students how to master the ability to enter and travel the parallel-reality of the Shamanic World utilizing its transformational and healing potential. While also teaching the studies of anatomy, physiology, quantum physics, epigenetics, and evolution, to solidly place our footing in present reality.
The marriage of scientific knowledge and the ability to travel in non-ordinary reality is unique and powerful for self-transformation and healing. This combination of studies and skills produces Shamanic Practitioners that are more solidly grounded in both worlds and more powerfully effective as conscious masters of creation.
COUNSELING AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
To be an effective Shamanic Practitioner it’s important to genuinely connect and know how to work with various personalities to be able to reach clients at a deeper soul level. In this program you will be taught the necessary skills to confidently give a personal interview, a collect case history, and evaluate your client’s characterology. With this information you will be better able to communicate and administer to your client.
You will also learn the basic skills of transference, listening with presence, and contact while holding healthy boundaries. At a higher level of contact you will learn how to directly communicate with your clients at a soul to soul level. This is an essential skill to receive the confidence of your client so that deeper forms of healing can occur.
Shamanism is sacred and powerful work that requires a high level of professionalism and ethics. Each participant will be taught and develop the basic professionalism and ethics necessary to hold the sacred trust of their client, humanity and the planet in performing this work.
Faculty Members
PATRICIA WHITEBUFFALO BS To learn more: About Patricia
Although I will be the main teacher for the program, I have invited several seasoned, knowledgeable, and well trained healing professionals, Amita, Joy Adler, Saudra Stephen, and Kate McPherson.They will be teaching specific segments within the program, and will contribute their own specialties resulting in the deepening of each students knowledge and experiences. I am grateful to them for joining me on this exciting adventure and welcome them wholeheartedly.
AMITA
Over the past 30 years, Amita has taught Intuition Development, the Enneagram of Personality, Women’s Retreats, Shamanic shield making, Art and Meditation. She has a private practice in Madrid New Mexico, where she works with individuals on their relationship to themselves, others and the Universal Consciousness called God. Her training includes: Alchemical Hypnotherapy with David Quigley. This form of hypnotherapy combines shamanism, meditation, intuition, and hypnosis techniques to guide individuals into discovering old patterns, helping them find answers from their own intuition. Enneagram of Personality with Helen Palmer. The study of non-dual reality through the Path of Siddha Yoga. Through this path she developed and deepened her love and devotion through the guru-disciple relationship, meditation, and chanting the names of God.
JOY ADLERS
Joy Adler uses her knowledge and training of psychology, energy and the arts to assit others in working though their physical, emothinal or artistic blocks to express their greatest longings in their lives, careers, rlease truma and to attain optimal health. She is also an award-winning singer/songwriter and sound healer and integrates her experience with holistic health into her musical healing. She is a graduate & former faculty member of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, The Center for Intentional Living, & enjoys teaching Wellness & Emotional Growth at The Center for Natural Wellness. She has practices in NYC and Albany, as well as long distance.
SAUNDRA STEPHEN MA
Saundra received her Shamanic training as one of a Council of Elders from Jane Wynote Ely of
the Micmac tribe. She is a former faculty member and graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of
Healing and currently works with the student healers in a process and supervisory role. Her other intensive studies include: The Center for Intentional Living, The School for Enlightenment and Healing, Hypnotherapy and Quantum Healing. In addition, Saundra is a motivational & Spiritual Life Coach, an Iyengar Yoga teacher and maintains an in-person and long-distance healing practice from Dublin, Ireland. A gifted teacher, Saundra brings her warm heart, keen perceptual skills, deep listening abilities and great sense of joy and humor to her work.
KATE MACPHERSON MS RN
For last 15 years Kate has integrated her 25 years of nursing experience in Critical Care, Trauma, Post Op Cardiac Surgery, with her training as a hands-on-healer and therapist. Adjunct training includes: Barbara Brennan School of Healing graduate; senior and graduate studies teacher. Core Energetics Institute,John Pierrakos; student of Tu Moonwalker, Apache Medicine Woman; a Society of Souls Kabbalistic Healing, Jason Shulman; Buddhist/Shamanic training with Dona Monterrelli.
Registration open! First Training Class Starts
Walking The Shaman's Path ~ A Training & Personal Transformational Program
*BEN LOMOND CALIFORNIA ~ starts October 27-31, 2010
Deadline to register: September 20, 2010
(Changes have been made to this program check below)
*ALBANY NEW YORK PROGRAM ~ Starts April 2011
Deadline to register: March 1, 2011
*MUNICH GERMANY ~ Starts June 8-12 2011
Deadline to register: May 1, 2011
Ben Lomond California Program Details
I’ve decided to combine both programs, “Awaken to Your Magnificence” A transformational program and “Walking the Shaman’s Path” A training program. Along with my California programs, my European and New York programs will consist of two concurrently taught tracks of learning. In addition to enabling me to reach more students, by combining both courses participants will benefit from a rich intensive training and transformational experience.
Years 1 and 2 will consist of a total of three 4-day class sessions along with 8 teleconference sessions per year. The third year consists of one 4-day class session with 2 teleconference sessions, with two optional graduate programs:
- A week-long vision quest at the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California.
- Two 4-day courses with 6 teleconference sessions, for those who wish to deepen their Shamanic training for the purpose of becoming Shamanic practitioners.
This is a 3 years program designed to work progressively each year, however you are only obligated to sign-up for 1 year at a time.
Note:
• Upon completion of this program graduates will receive Certification of Completions and be listed on Patricia’s site as referred Shamanic Practitioners .
• This program will combine Training and Personal Transformation through shamanism as it's focus. If you wish to recieve a Cerification of Completions to be refered as a Shamanic Practioner more will be required of you through out the program. Call or email for more detail.
The Program will begin with:
~ Three 4 day Training Classes a year with 8 Teleconference Courses between Training Sessions.
~ Classes Dates: Oct. 27-31, 2010/March 9-13, 2011/June 29-July 3, 2011
(Classes start on Wednesday at 6pm and end on Sunday at 3pm).
~Payment plan, Work-trade or a scholarship towards tuition available.
~ To request for a brochure and application contact Patricia at:
(831) 457-4056 / pwb@cruzio.com
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Location of the Program:
Quaker Center Ben Lomond, California
The Program will be held at the Quaker Center—80 acres of redwood forest in Ben Lomond, California. 20 minutes outside of Santa Cruz & one hour from San Jose airport. It is a magical place with a Redwood Circle Cathedral, 50 ft outdoor labyrinth, miles of hiking trails, and plenty of space to commune with nature. The Redwood Lodge will be our meeting hall for all activities & dining. Only steps away from the lodge are the overnight facilities ~ you are also welcome to camp under any of the redwoods trees on the property. www.Quakercenter.org
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