EMBODY YOUR MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP
An immersive introduction to psycho-spiritual alchemical embodiment healing tools for the perpetual learner and healing practitioners, inspired by teachers who shared the medicine, transmitted by their teachers, continuing ancient and modern lineages of earthwise well-being.
Map your medicine in this 13 Moon journey and in-depth download of information - teachings, transmissions, practices, ancient wisdom and traditions rooted in the field of healing, psychotherapy and spirituality.
Focus of Study
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Spirituality
Psychology Mind-World Relationship Energy Alchemy Sacred Plant Allies Womb Awakening Immersion |
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Content Summary
Spirituality
Buddhist Psychology is an ancient way of being in relationship to suffering which allows you to be an observer of yourself from the macro perspective of your spiritual being. With this understanding and practice, you will enable yourself and others detach from the pain that comes with grasping desires and the inability to let go as changes occur. From this perspective, you will feel yourself connected to something greater than yourself and more aligned with the natural cycles of existence. This will bring you greater peace and balance.
Distant Healing and Active Prayer will be explored in different applications. Learn the power of conscious visualization, thought forms and intention setting.
Group Healing Techniques are exponentially powerful with the collaboration of people and their ancestors working collectively with intention to heal. Powerful healing is channeled through sound-song, drum, rattle, laying-on of hands and other energy healing practices, and movement-dance.
Meditation engages your mind in a way that is centering and deepening, allowing you to enter into a place of stillness and expansive consciousness which allows you to feel the spaciousness of time and presence, and to see clearly the myriad opportunities to manifest expression that you are able to choose from. Meditative discipline is the foundational support for any practice as a facilitator of healing.
Altered States of Consciousness, Unseen Realms and the Multidimensional Universe allows personal access to the Divine. You will experience your co-creative relationship with your ancestors, animal and other spirit guides and the Mother-Father-Birther of All Creation. You will retrieve the gifts and creative power of your natural birthright. Open your awareness and expand your consciousness beyond the confining matrix you have been steeped in. Modern science is only beginning to fathom the possibilities of reality.
Shamanic Healing Techniques are ancient ways of knowing and healing the body and spirit through ritual, ceremony, and journey in altered states of consciousness.
Invocation of the lineages of your ancestors, guides, archetypical goddesses, and energies that call to you for the purpose of healing will support an individual or group by creating a sacred multi-dimensional circle of support and protection. Tools used for shamanic techniques will also carry the vibration of intentional prayer. Altars focus the energy of your intention. Explore ways this has been done for thousands of years all over the world and tune into your own way of weaving.
Sacred Dance as a journey of healing and as ritual offering.
Psychology
Developmental Psychology is the study of personality from birth to death and how humans relate, love, and work in each of these stages. Several models are utilized including Object Relations Theory, the Core Conflict model from Core Energetics, Core Wounding and Native American Medicine Wheel teachings from both North and South America.
Diagnosis and Treatment utilize Eastern and Western methods of diagnosing and treating human suffering.
Dream Interpretation includes Jungian and Gestalt techniques and the work of Arnold Mindell.
Gestalt Psychology is about being in the here-and-now and taking responsibility for one's feelings and actions. Through this you will learn to understand emotional processes.
Body-oriented psychology works with blocked, repressed energy. The goal is to free the individual to live a fully embodied and conscious life. You will learn how to identify patterns of blocking in the body and apply techniques developed to help release these blocks thus allowing the individual full access to and energetic expression of the sexual and social self.
Upaya is the skillful or expedient means of applying action in wise and compassionate way at the right time and place. This subject encompasses learning to develop an ability to create a compassionate holding environment, to make skillful interventions, to manage boundary issues, and much more.
Mind-World Relationship
Modern Hypnotic Methods are useful for facilitating a deepening of the client-therapist relationship to support a healing process of awakening and re-aligning the client with the healing power that lives within. In understanding how hypnosis works we also deepen our understanding of how layers of "hypnotic" conditioning of belief systems has interfered with how they function in the world and the actions and choices that are made as a result of these beliefs. These gentle nurturing techniques will enable you to help yourself and others rewire and transmute negative conditioning in a ways that do not prompt defensive self-protective responses. A relaxed nervous system is a more fertile seed bed for healing and growth..
Shamanic Journeying enters us into alternate realities, using drumming, rattling, and power objects, in order to obtain information, find guides, and meet power animals.
Intuitive and Psychic States as a mode of relating to the web of connectedness is a vital, though often unexplored aspect, of our being which ancient and still living cultures have raised their kids with but which we in the west have lost our connection with over many many generations. It is both ordinary and sacred — ordinary magic — that opens the way to guidance, supports resourcefulness and in its skillful practice awakens an awareness that nourishes wisdom. Intuition informs us about our inner dynamics: relationship issues, health, work and, at the deepest level may provide us with a connection to our soul's pattern. It is a skill that can be taught so that its natural presence evolves.
Energy Alchemy
Core Energetic Exercises are powerful techniques for moving energy and for emotional release.
Healing Touch is learning to identify and work with the body's auric fields and currents of energy for the purpose of bringing the body into balance and health.
Sound Healing uses the human voice as a tool for healing.
Shamanic Energy Work introduces ways of working with the luminous body including: illumination, soul retrieval, and death rites.
Intuitive Gestalt Energy Work is an energetic approach to Gestalt Therapy. All healing takes place in the context of life energy. By using this Universal Source one can directly potentiate deep therapeutic work by creating a healing chrysalis between therapist and client where in the moment sensory, emotional and energetic experience can be accessed and healed within our core.
Embodiment Movement Union explores different ways of tracking, moving and transmuting energy blocks through movement and further deepens your understanding and felt experience of the alchemical union and psychology of body-spirit.
Mineral Healing engages the vibratory resonance of body energy using relational healing to re-align our selves with the pure unadulterated energy of our mineral ancestors.
Sacred Plant Allies
Healing Plants offer us the gift of nutritional remedies to restore physical health from numerous ailments while supporting physical and spiritual processes. Explore different plants and parts used in different ways for different purposes, from anointing oils and ayurvedic recipes to sleep aids and smudge sticks.
Metaphysical Plants are worked with to deepen our connection to our spirit, to integrate our selves with our soul's purpose and to divine our ancestors' guidance and support while on our spiritual path embodied in this incarnation. Read about and discuss who, what, where, when and how of this medicinal healing way - with the utmost respect for these sacred plant spirit guides.
Womb Awakening
Principles and Benefits and Theories of this holistic approach to body-mind-spirit healing and well-being will examine the ways of female shamanism, to embrace and honor our nature as sacred. View menstruation, sexuality, conception and gestation through the lens of conscious co-creation and cyclical shamanic processes which repair the separation between us and vast stores of information encoded within the feminine brain - the cerebellum - our feminine consciousness, and the akashic records of our history and the matrix of life birthed from the cosmic womb we are part of and connected to through our sacral center of creation. You will be introduced to key maps, concepts and core theories of Womb Awakening.
Practice areas will offer you gnosis of Womb Awakening body prayers/body practices, rituals/ceremonies, and shamanic journey/invocations used in the womb awakening tradition.
Buddhist Psychology is an ancient way of being in relationship to suffering which allows you to be an observer of yourself from the macro perspective of your spiritual being. With this understanding and practice, you will enable yourself and others detach from the pain that comes with grasping desires and the inability to let go as changes occur. From this perspective, you will feel yourself connected to something greater than yourself and more aligned with the natural cycles of existence. This will bring you greater peace and balance.
Distant Healing and Active Prayer will be explored in different applications. Learn the power of conscious visualization, thought forms and intention setting.
Group Healing Techniques are exponentially powerful with the collaboration of people and their ancestors working collectively with intention to heal. Powerful healing is channeled through sound-song, drum, rattle, laying-on of hands and other energy healing practices, and movement-dance.
Meditation engages your mind in a way that is centering and deepening, allowing you to enter into a place of stillness and expansive consciousness which allows you to feel the spaciousness of time and presence, and to see clearly the myriad opportunities to manifest expression that you are able to choose from. Meditative discipline is the foundational support for any practice as a facilitator of healing.
Altered States of Consciousness, Unseen Realms and the Multidimensional Universe allows personal access to the Divine. You will experience your co-creative relationship with your ancestors, animal and other spirit guides and the Mother-Father-Birther of All Creation. You will retrieve the gifts and creative power of your natural birthright. Open your awareness and expand your consciousness beyond the confining matrix you have been steeped in. Modern science is only beginning to fathom the possibilities of reality.
Shamanic Healing Techniques are ancient ways of knowing and healing the body and spirit through ritual, ceremony, and journey in altered states of consciousness.
Invocation of the lineages of your ancestors, guides, archetypical goddesses, and energies that call to you for the purpose of healing will support an individual or group by creating a sacred multi-dimensional circle of support and protection. Tools used for shamanic techniques will also carry the vibration of intentional prayer. Altars focus the energy of your intention. Explore ways this has been done for thousands of years all over the world and tune into your own way of weaving.
Sacred Dance as a journey of healing and as ritual offering.
Psychology
Developmental Psychology is the study of personality from birth to death and how humans relate, love, and work in each of these stages. Several models are utilized including Object Relations Theory, the Core Conflict model from Core Energetics, Core Wounding and Native American Medicine Wheel teachings from both North and South America.
Diagnosis and Treatment utilize Eastern and Western methods of diagnosing and treating human suffering.
Dream Interpretation includes Jungian and Gestalt techniques and the work of Arnold Mindell.
Gestalt Psychology is about being in the here-and-now and taking responsibility for one's feelings and actions. Through this you will learn to understand emotional processes.
Body-oriented psychology works with blocked, repressed energy. The goal is to free the individual to live a fully embodied and conscious life. You will learn how to identify patterns of blocking in the body and apply techniques developed to help release these blocks thus allowing the individual full access to and energetic expression of the sexual and social self.
Upaya is the skillful or expedient means of applying action in wise and compassionate way at the right time and place. This subject encompasses learning to develop an ability to create a compassionate holding environment, to make skillful interventions, to manage boundary issues, and much more.
Mind-World Relationship
Modern Hypnotic Methods are useful for facilitating a deepening of the client-therapist relationship to support a healing process of awakening and re-aligning the client with the healing power that lives within. In understanding how hypnosis works we also deepen our understanding of how layers of "hypnotic" conditioning of belief systems has interfered with how they function in the world and the actions and choices that are made as a result of these beliefs. These gentle nurturing techniques will enable you to help yourself and others rewire and transmute negative conditioning in a ways that do not prompt defensive self-protective responses. A relaxed nervous system is a more fertile seed bed for healing and growth..
Shamanic Journeying enters us into alternate realities, using drumming, rattling, and power objects, in order to obtain information, find guides, and meet power animals.
Intuitive and Psychic States as a mode of relating to the web of connectedness is a vital, though often unexplored aspect, of our being which ancient and still living cultures have raised their kids with but which we in the west have lost our connection with over many many generations. It is both ordinary and sacred — ordinary magic — that opens the way to guidance, supports resourcefulness and in its skillful practice awakens an awareness that nourishes wisdom. Intuition informs us about our inner dynamics: relationship issues, health, work and, at the deepest level may provide us with a connection to our soul's pattern. It is a skill that can be taught so that its natural presence evolves.
Energy Alchemy
Core Energetic Exercises are powerful techniques for moving energy and for emotional release.
Healing Touch is learning to identify and work with the body's auric fields and currents of energy for the purpose of bringing the body into balance and health.
Sound Healing uses the human voice as a tool for healing.
Shamanic Energy Work introduces ways of working with the luminous body including: illumination, soul retrieval, and death rites.
Intuitive Gestalt Energy Work is an energetic approach to Gestalt Therapy. All healing takes place in the context of life energy. By using this Universal Source one can directly potentiate deep therapeutic work by creating a healing chrysalis between therapist and client where in the moment sensory, emotional and energetic experience can be accessed and healed within our core.
Embodiment Movement Union explores different ways of tracking, moving and transmuting energy blocks through movement and further deepens your understanding and felt experience of the alchemical union and psychology of body-spirit.
Mineral Healing engages the vibratory resonance of body energy using relational healing to re-align our selves with the pure unadulterated energy of our mineral ancestors.
Sacred Plant Allies
Healing Plants offer us the gift of nutritional remedies to restore physical health from numerous ailments while supporting physical and spiritual processes. Explore different plants and parts used in different ways for different purposes, from anointing oils and ayurvedic recipes to sleep aids and smudge sticks.
Metaphysical Plants are worked with to deepen our connection to our spirit, to integrate our selves with our soul's purpose and to divine our ancestors' guidance and support while on our spiritual path embodied in this incarnation. Read about and discuss who, what, where, when and how of this medicinal healing way - with the utmost respect for these sacred plant spirit guides.
Womb Awakening
Principles and Benefits and Theories of this holistic approach to body-mind-spirit healing and well-being will examine the ways of female shamanism, to embrace and honor our nature as sacred. View menstruation, sexuality, conception and gestation through the lens of conscious co-creation and cyclical shamanic processes which repair the separation between us and vast stores of information encoded within the feminine brain - the cerebellum - our feminine consciousness, and the akashic records of our history and the matrix of life birthed from the cosmic womb we are part of and connected to through our sacral center of creation. You will be introduced to key maps, concepts and core theories of Womb Awakening.
Practice areas will offer you gnosis of Womb Awakening body prayers/body practices, rituals/ceremonies, and shamanic journey/invocations used in the womb awakening tradition.
Structure |
*This course is currently being offered on a customized 1:1 basis via Zoom and in some cases in-person. Group apprenticeships in the format outlined below will resume at a later date. However, you may read through the structure for general information, benchmarks and inspiration.
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Offerings will be shared online (in some cases in-person) for 13 months. Immersive teaching days and process-oriented psychotherapy group work (worldwork/deep democracy) will be held at each quarterly transition, ending with a final initiation journey, ceremony and celebration. Study structure will flow in cycles of ritual, ceremony, transmission, theory, practice, immersion and the integration periods during the phases following new and full moons. The program will include free downloadable journeys, rituals, ceremony, transmissions and teachings, and additional reading resources (posted here on my Sharing the Medicine blog page).
There are approximately 87-113 hours of total time commitment, including Reading Materials, Daily Rituals and Practices, Immersive Process and Teaching Days, Student Client Sessions, Student Therapist Sessions, and Supervisory Sessions. Homework includes reading materials and process notes from your client/therapy sessions. You will set your own pace for how often you do the daily practices and rituals in each of the four cycles, listening deeply to your body to do what feels right for you.
New Moon and Full Moon online journey, ceremony and transmissions will require 1hr of your time, twice a month.
The four 4hr in-person immersion days will be held on a Sunday between 3pm and 7pm online or possibly sometimes at an outdoor location in northern New Jersey (near NYC) if all apprentices are locally situated.
For monthly homework you will be required to submit your notes after each student client/therapist session, where you will apply the tools you've learned in class into your private one-on-one practice:
One 1-hour session per month with you as therapist to another apprentice.
One 1-hour session per month with you as client to another apprentice.
Two Supervisory Sessions will include an evaluation of:
The final initiation ceremony and celebration will also be held on a Sunday from 3pm to 7pm online or at a location to be determined - retreat location, or locally outdoors depending on location of apprentices enrolled.
For those of you being called to further initiation, there will be a second spiral of apprenticeship offered following the first year, as well as additional opportunities to deepen your embodiment of these teachings in workshops and teacher trainings offered throughout the year and on an ongoing basis.
There are approximately 87-113 hours of total time commitment, including Reading Materials, Daily Rituals and Practices, Immersive Process and Teaching Days, Student Client Sessions, Student Therapist Sessions, and Supervisory Sessions. Homework includes reading materials and process notes from your client/therapy sessions. You will set your own pace for how often you do the daily practices and rituals in each of the four cycles, listening deeply to your body to do what feels right for you.
New Moon and Full Moon online journey, ceremony and transmissions will require 1hr of your time, twice a month.
The four 4hr in-person immersion days will be held on a Sunday between 3pm and 7pm online or possibly sometimes at an outdoor location in northern New Jersey (near NYC) if all apprentices are locally situated.
For monthly homework you will be required to submit your notes after each student client/therapist session, where you will apply the tools you've learned in class into your private one-on-one practice:
One 1-hour session per month with you as therapist to another apprentice.
One 1-hour session per month with you as client to another apprentice.
Two Supervisory Sessions will include an evaluation of:
- The quality of your commitment to the human spirit and soul
- Your relationship to your self and commitment to your personal process
- Your ability to be with others and commitment to relational healing
- Your integration of the conceptual and practical material
The final initiation ceremony and celebration will also be held on a Sunday from 3pm to 7pm online or at a location to be determined - retreat location, or locally outdoors depending on location of apprentices enrolled.
For those of you being called to further initiation, there will be a second spiral of apprenticeship offered following the first year, as well as additional opportunities to deepen your embodiment of these teachings in workshops and teacher trainings offered throughout the year and on an ongoing basis.
