Shamanism & Medicine for the Earth

Shamanism Canada is excited invite you and your friends to join our circle.

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For more information, contact Amanda at 1-888-383-8320 or email northernedgealgonquin@gmail.com

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Please view our latest edition of Medicine for the Earth by clicking the link below:

Medicine for the Earth: April 2011

In this edition:

• Upcoming Retreats
• Journey to the Grand Canyon
• Interview about the Ancestors Retreat with Martha & Maria Kaluza
• Grand River Walk 2011
• Shamanic Ecuador Journey 2011
• Interview of Martha Lucier By: Michele Bailey-Lessirard, Founder & Director Global Alliance of Shamanic Women Entrepreneurs.

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Medicine for the Earth: Solstice Greetings 2010

Gifts from the Spirit of Winter Greetings from Shamanism Canada As the winter winds blows in a new season, crystallized beauty dances in the air blanketing the Earth for the winter slumber. On cold winter nights we layer ourselves for warmth just as we winterize our gardens and homes while tucking away all that is precious. Like Bear we hibernate in our cozy dens and emerge in the spring having shed many layers, with a tremendous hunger to re-discover our forests. As the Spirit of Winter unveils her gifts and beauty we are invited to travel within our many layers to the light that warms us while discovering our hearts song and the light it brings. May the Spirit of Winter bring warmth to our hearts, families and communities as we prepare for the return of the light. Online Presentation & Book Signing December 16, 7pm Tim Yearington’s Online Medicine Wheel Teaching will be presented at the Blue Canoe on December 16, 7pm – 8:30pm. Enjoy an enlightening evening with Tim Yearington as he shares the basic teachings of the Medicine Wheel Way. Discover the nature and spirit of the Four Directions on a visual quest to the sacred location of the Pine Tree of Peace. Copies of Tim’s book THAT NATIVE THING available. For more information about Tim Yearington and the book he has written visit his web site. Another bridge built between the Eagle and the Condor Jan Beaver, a member of the Ishbaming Dungibah, 5th Advanced Shamanism circle shares her experience with the The Kogi on their Ontario Tour, from South America. As a talented writer, reading her story brings us into a journey to meet the Kogi people and be present at the Petroglyphs to receive the wisdom from our ancestors. We invite you to become a free member of our online circle to read the full story of a new chapter of the Condor & Eagle uniting. Winter Programs for 2011 Eat, Pray, Love: Partner’s Yoga February 11-13, 2010 $899/ couple (Includes 3 days, 2 nights, accommodations, meals, yoga classes, snow shoeing and x-country skiing). Yoga and the Zen of Winter March 4-6, 2011 $450/person (Includes 3 days, 2 nights, accommodations, meals, yoga classes, snow shoeing and x-country skiing) *NEW* Custom Log Cabin Getaways We’re looking forward to hosting your group of 4-12 for a memorable winter getaway at the Humble Hearth, our century-old log cabin. You’ll get Gregor and his amazing meals and even more amazing stories and the cabin all to your group. Choose a wintery theme and we’ll deliver the memories: * NATURE: outdoor adventure: snowshoeing, skiing, ice skating, kicksledding, dogsledding (all equipment provided) * NURTURE: dream time for wellness and comfort with yoga, reflexology, dream time experiences Gift Certificates Available Give someone you love an experience that will be remembered forever. We help people rediscover, feel empowered with community and feel closely connected to the Earth. With home cooked meals, and a healthy daily routine, this is truly a gift from the heart! Call or email Amanda for a gift certificate to be emailed to become a Stocking Stuffer!! 1-800-953-3343 northernedgealgonquin@gmail.com Edge Community Network – Cycber Circle – Free Membership The Edge Community Network is a place to connect with other like minded people, share stories and events related to Edgy stuff. We are about to upload Wendy Martin’s first online yoga class, and we hope to have regular classes available online to help people stay connected. Tim Yearington’s presentation as mentioned above will be available as an archived file, and more exciting presentations will be presented through this site. Sign up, it’s FREE… stay connected! ©2010 Northern Edge Algonquin | 100 Ottawa Ave, South River, ON, Canada, P0A 1X0

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6th Advanced Shamanism Training begins soon! Click here to watch the video. November 19 – 21 is the first gathering for the next Advanced Shamanism Training at Northern Edge Algonquin. We are still accepting applications. Are you ready to answer the call to deepen your Spiritual practice of Shamanism? We invite you to watch the video of current shamanism circle members sharing how this training has affected them. Please contact our office, where Amanda is available to listen and help answer any questions you may have about the 2 year training, 1-800-953-3343. Ceremony for Remembering and Honouring By Members of the Peaceful Heart’s Circle A few weeks ago our Peaceful Heart’s Circle gathered with the intention to ‘recognize and respect our ancestors as we evolve on our authentic path’. Weaving together the information from our journeys we entered into ceremony to acknowledge, respect, and recognize our ancestors, while honoring their stories and restoring their honor where it had been tarnished. The intention included soldiers and their families who have been affected by war. We moved forward, guided by Spirit, along the evolving authentic path that each of us is walking step by step. Under a starry night, we gathered around a beautiful fire, placing into the flame that which was ready to be released, baring ourselves as we bared our alter of the beautiful collection of leaves, feathers, berries and flowers that we had gathered. We danced under the stars with eyes closed, listening to the stories that the Spirit of the Land held for us and shared these stories that wished to be heard, recognized and honoured. We prepared ourselves to step onto our authentic path with a blessing from one another and the Spirit of water. On the next day, the children who were present taught us a beautiful song of ‘Remembering’. We continued our ceremony by singing the song while walking along an old path lined with trees and rose bushes that had been planted by the ancestors, who silently stood listening while baring witness to what was unfolding. There was an army of soldiers marching behind as the youngest child led us singing the song of Remembering. They were marching with us as we drummed and rattled behind her. The army of soldiers grew and grew. They were marching in rhythm, with pride, and singing a song that lifted their Spirits and honoured their courage and their best intentions. They were moved by our invitation to restore the sense of their own worthiness, even as the pain of everything that has transpired in reality was not thrust aside. We arrived in an area where we started to gather in a circle. An acorn was placed on the ground in the centre of our circle. Then one of the soldiers placed his rifle in the centre of the circle. Another added his, then another and another. A huge tipi of rifles, a kind of swelling pyre of rifles started to grow as each soldier stepped forward and then stepped back. A mast arose amidst the gathered rifles and a peace flag was raised slowly and with patience. The flag was picked up by the wind, rustling and sweeping its message of peace. Then the acorn was buried in the ground. The youngest child did this, with the assistance of one of our ‘peaceful warriors’. As the acorn grows into a beautiful oak, it holds the name: “The Oak of Peace”. We were all conscious of the families whose brothers and fathers never came home. And we were also conscious of those soldiers who came home so pained that they were never the same. All through this weekend, we had been honouring our ancestors, their stories and the stories held by the spirit of the land. This ceremony was the culmination of our time together. At this time of Remembering, may we acknowledge the stories within and all around us, offering gratitude to those who walked before us. Song: Canadian Soldier He was a brave Canadian soldier And he was young and he was strong He never shied away from danger Some say it’s right, some say it’s wrong His noble heart would not surrender The night grew fierce, some hid, some cried Come morning light, will they remember? The way he fought, the way he died. In foreign lands, the wind is sighing The rain has come and washed away The tears that fell while he lay dying A mother’s child has passed away So bow your head, and stand in silence Then lift your eyes and sing the song About a brave, Canadian soldier The gift he gave, the life that’s gone. He was a brave Canadian soldier And he was young and he was strong He never shied away from danger Some say it’s right, some say it’s wrong. Join our FREE Community Circle to view: The Condor of the South once again shares the sky with The Eagle of the North Gail Beech and Walter Cooke share their experience at Northern Edge Algonquin recently. We were privileged to host one of the largest spiritual gatherings ever held at The Edge with don Martin Pinedo Acuna (“El Condor”, the condor shaman) and Marco Nunez Zamolloa (shaman and teacher) who were visiting from the Cuzco district of Peru. Please visit our new gathering space circle.northernedgealgonquin.com to read more. Sounds of the Solar System with David Hickey Click here to view David Hickey’s performance on our new media & gathering site. ©2010 Northern Edge Algonquin | 100 Ottawa Ave, South River, ON, Canada, P0A 1X0

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Sandra Ingerman about her new book ‘How to Thrive in Changing Times’.  I invite you to give a listen to the deep wisdom Sandra has to share about the times we are experiencing.

Audio Interview with Sandra Ingerman on ‘How to Thrive in Changing Times’

“I know in every cell of my being that we can shift the challenges on the planet today by working together to bring forth the invisible energies into the visible. And as a global community we can manifest a world filled with harmony, peace, health, love, light, abundance, and joy for all. We must move out of defeatist ways of thinking and keep our focus on the vision of the world we wish to live in.”
~ Sandra Ingerman

http://www.sandraingerman.com/booksaudiovideo.html

http://www.sandraingerman.com/aboutsandraingerman.html

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At the Edge, we are delighted to welcome Julie Kuiack as the program and services coordinator of Shamanism Canada. Julie will support the vision of an expanding circle through enhancing the advanced training programs, developing new shamanic training opportunities (i.e. online programs) and organizing a wide variety of shamanic events both at the Edge and abroad.

What this means is Julie will be available to listen to the needs and the suggestions of the circle while inviting your participation in a way that you desire to contribute to the circle. She will assist in coordinating and co creating opportunities for expansion with your inspiration and guidance from the Spirits. This will provide me with an opportunity to expand my work as well!

You can contact Julie with questions and suggestions and where you see a need that is required at Julie@ShamanismCanada.com.com. I invite you to join me in giving thanks to Julie for her willingness to step into this role, so the circle can continue to grow and expand.

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In June 2010, I began what would turn out to be a 13 day, 189 km walk of the Maitland River. The Maitland is my home river, and for months I had been planning this walk.

During the planning of this walk, I had been dreaming about a sacred container that I could carry water from the Maitland around in, so that I had some of the beautiful water with me from the beginning of the walk to the end. This container would be a glass jar,and I was planning on creating a beautiful knitted piece to hold this glass jar. The jar would be connected to my backpack, or to my clothing somehow.

Well, time went by, and I realized that while I had been making other preparations, I had not had time to create this knitted piece, or to find a proper jar to hold this lovely water in. So, I quickly created a piece, that was nothing like what I had hoped it would look like, and I found a jar, that didn’t look anything like what I had hoped it would look like.

When June 13th, the first morning of the walk came about, I saddled myself up with all my travelling goodies, including this jar of water that I brought from my home, and along with my friend, Marie, we began walking the Maitland River. For the first 5 days, I carried this bottle with me, though I could not figure out why this just did not seem right. Somehow, the jar just wasn’t fitting in with this walk the way that I had thought it should.

I tried different things with the jar, placing it differently in where it was being carried,or adding sacred items that I found along the way, but nothing seemed to change the feeling that something was not working well with this jar of water. So, finally, I decided to ask. It may seem a little behind schedule, but I hadn’t journeyed on this particular aspect of the walk yet, and thought that perhaps, it was time. One of my helping spirits is quite a joker, and during this journey he quite happily asked, “Do you not realize that you have been carrying sacred water for a very longtime?”

I asked what he meant, and he told me that my body was the sacred water container,and that there had been no need to create a container outside of myself. I was carrying the sacred water from the beginning, and before, to the end and beyond. I laughed as I realized how simple this idea is. I drink from the Maitland River, so my body carries the Maitland River. I am the Maitland River. If I love, and am thankful for the water that is in my body, then the water that goes out to the Maitland river is loved water.

During my walk, when I met up with people, I would ask them to imagine that their water had a voice, and could speak. Then, I asked them what they think that their water would say.Now, I ask you to close your eyes, and to connect with the sacred water that you carry around that is your body. If your water had a voice and could speak, what do you think it would say?

Heidi Burrowes is a graduate of the 2 year Advanced Shamanism program. Check out Heidi’s blog: www.thedancingpelvis.blogspot.com

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Don Martin Pinedo Acuna (El Condor, the Condor Shaman) and Marco Nunez Zamolloa (Shaman and Teacher) bring us the wisdom teachings and medicine ways of the Andes of Peru. Don Martin and Marco share their vision, wisdom, and energy with us during a full program of workshops and healing sessions at Northern Edge Algonquin and at healing sessions in Toronto.

We are honoured to have these great healers with us in the North to share their ways of the South. They come to us in fulfillment of the Inca prophecies that speak of the time when the Condor (South) once again shares the sky with the Eagle (North). This is a powerful time of growth and transformation for all who share the Earth and is a time long awaited by all who have knowledge of the ancient prophecies.

Join us for this incredible opportunity and bring the Inca wisdom teachings into your life to deepen your spiritual journey. Come hear the sacred message of the Condor to the Eagle.

We are invited by these acclaimed shamans to re-connect our hearts and spirits and our great Mother Earth through sacred ceremony, wisdom teachings, and journeys that have been known for millennia by the Inca of Peru.

Enveloped by ayni (perfect reciprocity) and munay (right love), the guiding principles of the Inca, we will re-connect to our true centre; our hearts. As we come into ayni, munay and balance, we walk the Earth in greater beauty, love and joy than we ever thought possible. We do this to heal not only ourselves, but to create space for a new Earth, new Humanity and new Paradigm to take hold.

Be present to fulfill the ancient prophecies — come into ayni, engage the world through munay, and balance Yanatin-Masintin (the univeral energy forces that reside in us and all energy of the universe).

Come experience the prophesized flight of the Condor and the Eagle for yourself! Learn more about Peruvian Shamans at the Edge

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In July, just after returning from a Vision Quest I had a dream. I was in Algonquin Park with a circle. I saw gaps between people in the circle and was doing my best to let the circle know it was important to close the gaps. Everyone’s attention was directed at something else and they did not hear me. I repeated my concern several times, as I looked out beyond the trees and landscape.

Suddenly, I saw a black wolf coming towards the circle. I stomped the staff that was in my hand to get the attention of everyone, and with my strongest voice I called the circle to close. The gaps in the circle closed as a black wolf encircled us.

We have arrived at the times of big change. All around us is enormous fear, envy, despair, anger, jealousy, conflict, sadness, illness, disease and confusion.

As the circle expands the potential for bringing about positive change on our
planet also expands. It is very important for the ‘gaps’ to be closed and for the space inside to be kept clean, clear and sacred. It is the ‘shadow’, within ourselves and others that looks for openings to enter the circle causing division, separation and fragmentation.

The dream inspired these journey questions. What is needed to close the gaps and mend the fabric that connects us all? How do we maintain the integrity of the circle?

It is the power of love that heals and fills the gaps in the circle. May our circles continue to expand and strengthen with the power of love at our center.

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