Tuesday August 01, 2023
9am-3pm PDT / 12pm-6pm EDT / 6pm-midnight CET
Approximately 6 hours - each teaching is 1-2 hours
“We are all part of the ancient Sacred Circle of Life. The essential truth of this reality cannot be denied no matter how we look at it; it is simply an irrevocable truth. To embrace and reclaim our Indigenous relationship to all Life is to remember and lovingly celebrate our sacred relationship with our Mother Earth, all relatives of our One Human Family and our kinship with all Life.” ~ Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Indigenous Teachings hold the wisdom and the medicine to restore our right relationship with the earth, with one another and with all living things. We believe that these Teachings should be available to all people who are seeking them.
To honor and celebrate Mother Earth and the Indigenous Teachings of Turtle Island, we are inviting anyone who would like to attend this FREE day of Traditional Teachings and ceremony to join us. For the gift of receiving these teachings, we ask that all who participate offer one act of love and kindness to Mother Earth.
Please join us and feel free to share this invitation. See event details below. For those of you who are working or have other commitments, all sessions will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel after the event.
GRAND OPENING
With Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.
9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 6pm CET
Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is a world renowned Elder and member of the Dakota and Chickasaw Nations who has dedicated his life to the fulling the prophecy of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal and Eagle. As a Traditional teacher, community advocate, scholar and man who lives his life walking the Red Road, Chief Phil Lane Jr. is a honored member of the Indigenous Community from Turtle Island. In 1982, Chief Phil Lane Jr. co-founded the Four Winds International Institute. Chief Phil Lane Jr. has worked with Indigenous Peoples from the Americas, Micronesia, South East Asia, China, India, Hawaii and Africa. He served 16 years as an associate professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta in Lethbridge.
SACRED HERBS, PRAYERS AND LORE OF NATIVE AMERICA
With Mark Stonefish, Community Elder
10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 7pm CET
Mark Stonefish is a Sweat Lodge Conductor of Choctaw descent. At a very young age, Mark was initiated into the Hobichi (Choctaw Sweathouse) and the Native American Church of Mississippi. Mark is a Pipe Keeper of the Gator Clan Pipe from Houma Louisiana and a member of the Green Corn Dance Grounds in Porch Creek Alabama. Mark is known as a respected Elder within his community. Mark will speak from his experience in Southwestern and Midwestern Native America.
CATAWBA INDIAN NATION TEACHING
With Elder Monty, Medicine Woman Erika "She Who Walks Through Fire," and Elder Keith Littlebear
11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 8pm CET
Experience a look inside the Catawba Nation. The Catawba Indians live on their ancestral lands along the banks of the Catawba River from North and South Carolina into Southern Virginia. The Catawba have long understood the need to work together and adapt to ever-changing circumstances while also continuing to preserve the most essential parts of their culture. The Tribe still recognizes the reservation as their homelands and feel connected to the ancestors that preserved their Nation by living there and passing the land down from generation to generation.
NIISHAWSWEA AANIKWAADOON - MY PIPE AND OUR STORY
With Jay Bird, Knowledge Keeper and Jiisikaan Conductor
1pm PDT / 4pm EDT / 10pm CET
Jay Bird is a Jiisikaan (Shake Tent) Conductor. He is Bear Clan and from the Batchewana First Nations of Ojibways, Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. When Jay was four years hold he started attending ceremonies. Jay met his Elder and Teacher who provided him with years of ceremonies and guidance. In 2010 the Batchewana First Nation Chief and council gifted him the Sacred Pipe that he now carries. Jay further embraced his gifts to assist with healing and teaching in both his and other communities. Jay Bird is known as a respected teacher and Elder.
CLOSING
With Monica McWhirter, Indigenous Liaison for Shamans Directory
3pm PDT / 6pm EDT / 12am CET
Monica McWhirter is Metis and Algonquin. Monica is Bear and Buffalo Clan. She is a cultural teacher who lives life according to the 7 Grandfather Teachings. She has facilitated Talking Circles and Healing Circles for over a decade. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada. She is the Indigenous Liaison for Shamans Directory. Monica is known as an Auntie in her community.
We hope to see you there!
Shamans Directory Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
With Nate Long "Owl"
Saturday July 22, 2023
8am PDT / 11am PDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
Shamans Directory Member Nate Long is an Intentional Artist and community builder, who gains insight through meditative journey-work, and whose creations are truly a “made prayer” to address something bigger or deeper in the individual or in the greater world. There are many reasons to use journey-work as a tool. Journeying allows us (or Spirit) to change our perspective. It gives us a different angle from which to view an intention or situation, to better empathize and more easily find wisdom and solutions where previously we had thought there were none.
Life offers us a spectrum of experiences from physical and emotional traumas, to those that heal and sustain us with joy and love. For better and for worse, these things shape us into who we are. Deep journey work provides a unique way of engaging with our inner self, allowing us to explore the path to healing from different points of view. During this session, we will have an open discussion about recognizing and emphasizing the importance of perspective change as a part of our practice. To explore and deepen this idea a special flute and drum journey will be offered where you will be guided to meet your child self.
Stepping back to talk with your very young self provides you with the opportunity to explore who you were before any of your limiting beliefs were solidified. It’s a chance to listen to that child's story and provide advice, strength and love for them - perhaps even allow them to more easily navigate the things that are yet to come. This journey is not meant to fix or heal things in your past, but as an opportunity to simply sit, listen, and converse with this very unique and impressionable you.
Please join us and share this invitation
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
Learn more about Nate
https://shamansdirectory.com/
Visit Blue Eye Art
https://blueeyeart.com
With Chuck Wilson and Wakan Drums
Saturday July 08, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
In the Spring of 2019 Shamans Directory Member Chuck Wilson was given a vision of a specific sacred drum that would honor the Earth, the Tall People, all Tribes, and all of our Earth Relations and Cultures worldwide. In the last part of the vision, the Spirits asked him to create these drums. Presenting Wakan Drums at his first Powwow in August 2019, brought him tears of joy as many Elders knew what they were, thanked him for “bringing them to the Earth,” and gave the drums their blessings.
Wakan Drums are Sacred Drums. Unlike sacred ceremonial drums which are only brought forth for ceremony, or personal sacred drums that are kept much like a sacred pipe, Wakan Drums are to be shared by the Keeper with others so that many people can have the opportunity to “chat with Spirit” if that is meant to be. They are to be played, held, honored and protected as they are here to help many. Wakan Drums give a one-on-one spiritual connection with the person holding the drum. Having an intermediary hold the drum and interpret the visions or messages is not how Wakan Drums work. You hold the gateway over your heart and see what happens!
Today, Chuck’s work includes creating Wakan Drums for people who seek them, helping people journey and interact with Spirit as they hold a drum, conducting drum healing workshops to teach what he has learned, and helping people take their first steps onto the Red Road or expand their path as practitioners. His mission is to offer as many drums as he can to the world. His passion is to provide opportunities for people to hold these drums, connect to their Spirit Guides and Ancestors, and begin to understand that Sacred Drums are their own entities, and to know that Spirits walk with all of us, which is quite a surprise for many.
Hear Chuck's amazing call from Spirit, and learn about the spiritual aspect of sacred shamanic drums and drumming. If you have a drum, bring it with you. This session will surely deepen your relationship!
Please join us and share this invitation
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
Learn more about Chuck
https://shamansdirectory.com/
Visit Wakan Drums
https://wakandrums.com
Reclaim Your Cosmic Destiny With a Shamanic Roadmap
With don Oscar Miro-Quesada at The Shift Network
A free introduction to his 7 week course!
Saturday June 17, 2023
As our world continues to experience turmoil, even the most devoted spiritual seekers can find themselves feeling profoundly disconnected, from themselves, those around them, and Mother Earth.
Do you long to know more about the driving force behind what’s happening in our world? In his brand-new hour-long event, don Oscar will share how you can energize and expand your life’s vision through deep immersion in the cosmic pathway of Universal Shamanism, with your unique evolutionary soul map as your guide.
You will learn how the Taripaypacha prophecy
Don Oscar will also share practical tips for exploring the depths of this planetary shift without feeling overwhelmed. This will set you free to understand your soul’s unique evolutionary journey, and the self-actualization, clarity, love, and joy that comes along with it.
Join him and learn to navigate the multidimensional domains of human consciousness as a practitioner of Universal Shamanism — and celebrate the divine agency of healing transformation and personal growth as you align with your soul’s cosmic pathway.
Register Free
https://theshiftnetwork.com/
What Different Religions, Cultures, Faiths, and Ancient Texts Can Teach Us About Water
A Three Day Online Masterclass
With Veda Austin
June 3-5, 2023
Shamans Directory Ambassador Veda Austin is a water researcher, public speaker, mother, artist and author. Of Maori descent, her tribal affiliation is Tainui. Veda has dedicated over a decade to observing and photographing the life of water. She believes that water is fluid intelligence, observing itself through every living organism on the planet and in the universe. She sees water as Source rather than a resource, and considers all bodies of water to be sacred.
Her primary area of focus is photographing water in its ‘state of creation’, the space between liquid and ice. It is through her remarkable crystallographic photos that water reveals its awareness of not only Creation, but thought and intention through imagery. She loves to reconnect children to the living water systems inside and outside of their bodies, believing that the 'tamariki' (children) are the water bearers of the future. She also spends a lot of time doing interviews and podcasts where she shares her findings and inspiring perspectives. When not traveling the world, Veda makes her home in New Zealand.
Veda offers only one Masterclass a year, each with a unique and specific theme. This month she is offering her first ever 3-day event. Join her and an incredible line up of speakers from all around the world as they share their wisdom and knowledge. If you have ever wanted to dive into the deeper spiritual meaning of water, this is the masterclass for you! From science, culture, religion, and philosophy, they are linking Water, God and Spirit together in ways that will not only expand your heart, but also your relationship with the life force energy that we call water.
All recordings from the 3 days will be made available to registrants, regardless of whether you are able to attend the live online event. No prerequisites are required.
Learn more and register
https://www.vedaaustin.com
Traditional Talking Circle Honoring the Ancestors and Magnified Healing Crossing Over Ceremony
With Monica McWhirter and Consuelo Marroquin
Saturday June 23, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 3 hours
Topic: Restoring and Healing Our Relationship with the Ancestors.
The traditions of the Anishinaabe Peoples and other First Nation communities across the world are rich with teachings that honor and celebrate the ancestors. It is a common practice in these communities to have ancestor altars, to feast them, and to communicate with them regularly.
It has been said, that one of the reasons for the extent of pain and discomfort that we are experiencing on the earth at this time, is that we have neglected our ancestors. There are ancestors who have vital wisdom to share and are waiting to be heard, and others who are still suffering in this realm, unable to move on, due to trauma that they experienced in their lifetime with no one to assist them. This Talking Circle and Crossing Over Ceremony is an invitation to heal and restore our walk with those who have gone before us.
The Ancestors are speaking. Are you listening? What do they have to say? Are you aware of wisdom or suffering that has gone unanswered? Are you ready to answer their call? There will be two rounds in this talking circle where you will have the opportunity to share your current relationship with the ancestors and your promise going forward.
This session will end with a Crossing Over Ceremony for all of the ancestors who are ready to let go of their earthly suffering and move on to a higher vibration of pure Love, Light, and Freedom.
Talking Circles are traditionally offered by a skilled facilitator and an Elder who is working within their community. As we are a global platform, we are privileged to have Monica McWhirter an Algonquin and Metis Woman, a cultural teacher who lives life according to the 7 Grandfather Teachings facilitating the Talking Circle and Conusulo Marroquin, a seasoned practitioner of Magnified Healing, Reiki and Shamanic Energy Medicine guiding the Crossing Over Ceremony.
Please join us and share this invitation
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
Learn more about Monica
https://shamansdirectory.com/
Learn more about Consuelo
https://magnifiedhealing.com
Lecture followed by Special Shopping Benefit
Center for Traditional Textiles, Cusco
With Nilda Callanyoupa
Saturday June 10, 2023
8am PST/ 11am EST / 10am PERU / 5pm CET
Andean textiles lecture 1 hour
Shopping benefit approximately 3 hours
The history of Andean textiles stretches back thousands of years, to the first people who settled along the coast of what is now modern-day Peru. Long before a system of writing was developed, textiles were valued as the primary form of aesthetic expression and communication. Ancient weavers gave life to the stories and traditions of their people through original styles, motifs, and techniques that developed throughout the desert coasts and mountain highlands of the Andean region.
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, Founder and Directory of the Center for Traditional Textiles in Cusco Peru was born in the small community of Chinchero. Like many other children she was responsible for taking care of her family’s flock of sheep and spent her time learning to spin and weave with her friends. As she learned more complex designs, she could see there was a powerful history behind the art of her people. Seeing that the art was slowly being lost, she embarked on a journey that would change the fate of Cusco textiles. The first person from her community to attend college, she went on to become one of the founders and now the Director of CTTC. An award-winning author, international speaker, and expert in Cusqueñan textiles.
Join us as Nilda guides us on a journey into this rich textile tradition that continues today through contemporary Andean weavers who proudly continue in the path of their ancestors brining forward their magnificent symbols and patterns in communion with spirits of the nature beings of the land.
Join us for either or both parts of this event
Shopping benefit begins at 9:15am PST / 12:15pm EST / 6:15pm CET.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
Traditional and modern apparel including bags, backpacks, ponchos, blankets, table runners, vests, traditional hats (including Chullos), mastanas, dolls, earrings and special Pre-Columbian designs will all be available for purchase. Prices will range from $20-$700 USD with 100% of proceeds going to supporting the traditional weavers of Cusco, Peru who are working hard to preserve the beauty of these Ancestral textile techniques and pass them on to current and future generations.
Although you may register at the event, registering in advance for the shopping event will make it much easier for the women at the Center for Textiles to prepare for the event. Once registered you will receive a customer number to use for making your purchases.
Learn more
https://www.textilescusco.org/
With Roberta Boyce
Saturday May 27, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
A “Sensitive” from childhood, Roberta Boyce honed her gifts at the Prestigious College of Psychic Studies in London and deepened her Psychic abilities through courses in London and Egypt with The New Consciousness School.
Roberta is the founder of Essential Sacred Self, a system that interweaves Shamanic technologies, Crystalline networks, and Expanded consciousness to invite connecting and embodying Potential. Through concentrating on refining her knowledge of Meditation and Energetics with physical and spiritual energy practices, Roberta continues her own expansion in order to help other's with theirs.
By entering altered states through Guided Meditation, Roberta invites you to feel your body as an interface between the Heavens and Earth, a point of contact between subtle energy realms and the 3D realm we inhabit. As you become a conduit for this flow, a relationship is established between the Self as a point of navigation. A home for the sovereign sense of who you are is created, enhancing how you stand on this Earth, and what comes through you. The Infinite is your resource, relating to you, informing you, and supporting you.
This interplay of energy helps to open and seed Potential, which we come to know is right for us when we attune to Spiritual Guidance. Awaken and align with higher consciousness. Integrate, embody and express your Essential Sacred Self. All are welcome.
Join us: Zoom link
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
With Eva Tree Blum
Saturday May 13, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EST / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
Please join Shaman’s Directory Member Eva Tree in a co-created hummingbird gratitude ceremony. In reverence and sacred play, we will honor and celebrate our courageous and mighty pollinators and their vast contribution to humanity and the web of life.
In tribal legends across the Americas, hummingbird is portrayed as a Spirit being who connects us with the ancestral realms and often plays the important role of messenger from the afterworld. The ancient Mayan’s believed that the hummingbird was the “sun in disguise” appearing in hummingbird form to court the moon. Today Hummingbird is a clan animal in some Turtle Island (North American) cultures including the Pueblo of New Mexico and some Northwest Coastal tribes as well.
In addition to being the star of magic and mythology, hummingbirds also play a vital role in the physical realm as amazingly adapted and vital pollinators. Their long, slender bills and tube-like tongues drink up to two times their body weight in flower nectars per day; moving from plant to plant, pollinating native wildflowers and seasonal gardens; while eating mosquitoes and other tiny insects in mid-air for protein along the way!
Together, we will embark on a guided journey to celebrate our beloved pollinators who flutter, forage and creep from plant to plant. Activate your body temple with buzzing and song. Become more spacious and alive as we deepen our roots and blossom with our inner garden. Be in greater sacred reciprocity with Pachamama and our pollinator kin. Add our prayers and intentions towards the web of life and a vibrant future with Mother Earth.
Join us: Zoom link
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
With Tricia Bennett
Saturday April 22, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 2 hours
"We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within." ~ Rumi
Guardian Angels, Guiding Stars, Helping Spirits, Nature Beings, and all the names we use to call on the unnamable - the Cosmos, God, Great Spirit, Higher Power, OM, the Tao, the Universe, Wakan Tanka, the Collective Unconscious, these are just some of the names that we give to the voices that speak to us in times of stillness, confusion, and change.
Most of us are familiar with these voices and can recount, in detail, the times when we had the courage to listen and take a leap of faith or suffered the consequences of not listening when we knew better. The fact is, despite the profound and lasting impact these moments have on our lives, most of us don’t listen to these “voices of Spirit” until we are in a pinch and desperate enough to listen to a voice other than that of our own.
In Western societies we are taught to be self-sufficient and to rely on ourselves alone. This is tragically limiting from a shamanic earth-based view of our planet and the cosmos where everything is alive with wisdom to share. In these communities, children learn to listen to the wind and speak to the Spirits of the mountains and the streams from the time they are born. These voices guide them throughout their lives and are sacred and critical allies, offering a vast body of wisdom that extends far beyond our human limitations.
What could and would be possible for you if you allowed yourself to have regular and ongoing access to the wisdom and support of these living energies? In this session we will learn a daily practice for learning to listen and be guided by the voices of Spirit. We will see how this daily connection deepens with time and how, if allowed to expand, will guide you to the most authentic expression of yourself and the profound peace, confidence, and certainty of knowing that you are living out the destiny that you came here to fulfill.
Join us: Zoom link
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
About Tricia
Tricia Bennett comes from a European lineage of healers who taught her to listen to Spirit (and follow instruction), that we are not separate from nature, and that most all of the wisdom we seek is already within us. An addiction and trauma specialist by trade, Tricia spent 35 years guiding children, young people and adults of all ages to move from suffering to joy, to pursue their dreams, and to live lives that they truly love. In 2015 she was called to shift her practice to focus on supporting the healers of the world, who take care of us all, to cultivate joy and balance in their lives, trust their gifts, and expand their capacity for healing.
Learn more
https://shamansdirectory.com/directory/tricia-bennett/
With Monica McWhirter
Saturday April 08, 2023
8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CET
Approximately 2-3 hours
We are all medicine people. What are you doing with yours?
Talking Circles are a place to address topics of importance and urgency within a community, and to listen and learn from one another in the traditional way of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the U.S.A. There are many prophecies across the earth telling us that the time has come to gather together and make better choices. Although their wordings may differ slightly, their message is the same - humanity is at a crossroad.
If you are reading this, you are standing with us at that crossroad. Your life experience, ancestral lineage, or pure curiosity has led you here - and you have wisdom to share. We are all here to make a difference. Some of us are clear about the difference that we are here to make, others know there is "something more" for us to do, but we have not yet fully defined it, and many more are just waking up and experiencing the feeling that they are going to be a part of a great change that is coming. Where do find yourself in terms of claiming your medicine and sharing it?
This Talking Circle will be an exploration for all of us into the heart of that conversation. Voice your opinions. Allow yourself to learn from and be inspired by others. Discover and define the wisdom that is unique to you. Clear away the stories and energies that prevent you from fully trusting and manifesting your gifts. Further your knowledge as to why Indigenous Healers and Teachers from across the globe are joining Shamans Directory.
Please join us. Chi Miigwetch!
All are welcome.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87896480661?pwd
Meeting ID: 878 9648 0661
Passcode: 743958
About Monica
Talking Circles are a Traditional offering. Monica McWhirter, an Algonquin and Metis Woman, is a cultural teacher who lives life according to the 7 Grandfather Teachings. She has facilitated Talking Circles and Healing Circles for over a decade. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada.
Learn more
https://shamansdirectory.com/directory/monica-mcwhirter/
Play, Pray, and live in Ayni-Sacred Reciprocity.
Shamans Directory Member Eva Tree Blum is a seeker and lover of life, who is passionate about nature, healing, mysticism, art, poetry, animals, human relations, and The Living Energy. Eva has been a professional in the healing arts in private practice for over 23 years. She offers Shamanic Cranial-Sacral Therapy, Andean Energy Healing, Embodied Voice Alchemy, Somatic Mentorship and Coaching, and Ancestral Lineage Clearing. All these aim to deeply empower and increase vibrational frequencies for healing and harmonizing body, mind and spirit.
This March Full Worm Moon ceremony is the first of series that will continue through June. During this series we will co-create activated prayers and ceremony while deepening our connection with Ayllu-community. We will learn practical tools for limpia-clearing, ceremonial offerings, teachings of the three worlds, animal allies, Mesa Mysteries-Medicine bundles, and much more!
At the heart of this series is a deep love and commitment for PachaMama (Mother Earth). We will offer prayers for all those in the global community that need support in these times, offering support through the Container of Ceremony. This will be a time to connect, share, learn, and inspire one another. Let’s playfully practice what we know to be true in our hearts!
Winay Saminchay! Infinite Blessings!
Zoom link sent out upon registration
https://www.treestarhealth.com/full-moon-prayer-circle
Learn more about Eva Tree
https://shamansdirectory.com/directory/eva-blum/