Workshops & Upcoming Events
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Eliot Cowan - Rekindle your connection to the Divine Natural World - Sept 1, 2013
Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge Nov 8-10, 2013
2014 Herbs and Botanicals Weekend - April 26-27, 2014ONGOING CLASSES: Click here for details on ongoing (weekly) BellyYogaChi - Beginners & Intermediate Yoga | Bellydance, Tai Chi, and monthly Drum Class.
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CANCELLATION POLICYLODGING options at Fire Om Earth (for workshop attendees)
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Rekindle Your Connection to the
Divine Natural World
a 1 Day Workshop with Eliot Cowan
Sunday Sept 1st, 2013
9am - 5pm
The Rekindle workshop is a day with Eliot Cowan, author of Plant Spirit Medicine and shaman in the Huichol Indian Tradition - a day of re-discovery of our connection with the divine natural world.
Eliot Cowan began the study and practice of herbalism in the 1960’s. In the 1970’s he temporarily set it aside to delve into Classical Acupuncture. He subsequently returned to plant medicine, determined to find a way to access plants’ ability to heal the human mind and spirit. This led him to rediscover a millennial healing practice which he calls Plant Spirit Medicine. His book of the same title was unprecedented in the Western World. Cowan undertook an apprenticeship with don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a marakame, or shaman of the indigenous Huichol people of Mexico. Don Guadalupe initiated Eliot as a marakame in 1997 and eventually recognized him as a guide to shamanic apprentices in that tradition. Mr. Cowan travels widely, teaching, healing, and promoting balanced relationship with the human and other-than-human world. He is the founder of the Blue Deer Center in the Catskills of upstate New York.
Eliot is a teacher who works to develop the connection to the divine natural world in an experiential way. The Rekindle workshop, held indoors, is from 9-5, with a 2-hour lunch. During lunch participants will have an opportunity to visit with the others in the workshop, talk to Eliot, or spend some time outdoors.
Eliot often holds a community fire circle and this event will be a Sacred Fire Circle Sunday evening beginning at 7pm, hosted by Melissa Clare at the Eureka Springs Sacred Fire Community site on Roark Road. The fire circle is open to everyone, even if they have not attended the Rekindle workshop. The fire will be a question and answer format. This is a time when Eliot can answer many of the deeper shamanic questions that may have gone unanswered during the workshop, as well as other questions.
During his visit to Eureka Springs, Eliot Cowan will be offering a limited number of individual healing sessions. For more information or to sign up for a session, please contact Melissa Clare at 479 253-8252
Cost to attend:
Workshop $85 (pre
registration by August 1)
Fire circle $15(pre
registration by August 1)
after Aug 1st: Workshop
$105 / Fire Circle $20
Click links above to register online
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Wolf
Clan Teaching Lodge
Weekend Events November 8 - 10, 2013
“Native Oral Tradition, in its very essence, is a heart teaching. When wisdom is shared from person to person, heart to heart, the message is sent out and received energetically from one heart to another. This is a direct path with no deviations.
“The most important aspect of our journey, as guides and teachers, is to touch as many individuals as we can, on our mission of Peace.”
WOLF CLAN TEACHING LODGE
SENECA INDIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.wolfclanteachinglodge.org
Native American Teacher Bob Nitsch and his wife Lee return to Eureka Springs to offer another weekend of inspirational workshops. The ancient Iroquois traditions they present are vitally relevant and immediately applicable in these changing times. The teachings offer powerful insights, along with effective tools to connect inwards with Spirit and with nature, to help you navigate a clear path forwards.
Bob, son of Grandmother Twylah Hurd Nitsch, was raised in the Seneca Tradition in the Family home on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation and follows in the footsteps of his ancestors. Lee’s gift as a Spiritual Teacher, counselor and creative artist makes her a great facilitator for personal growth and healing.
Drumming Evening
Friday, November 8, 2013
7:00 - 10:00 pm
Cost: $15/$10 earlybird (paid by Oct 10, 2013) Register Online
Introduce yourself to the wonderful world of indigenous rhythm around the Council Fire. Chant, Dance and Sing, Seneca Songs that will renew your spirit and bring smiles and laughter to all. Bring your own drum, or rattle or any percussion instrument and enjoy yourself in the welcoming atmosphere.
Sacred Space / Sacred Point of View - Workshop, Ceremony & Teachings
Saturday & Sunday, November 9-10, 2013
10:00am - 5:00pm
at Fire Om Earth Retreat Center
Bob and Lee have been sharing their teachings internationally for more than a decade, inspiring deep gratitude, remarkable insights and joy to many.
This year’s workshop will explore two of their most important teachings; the role of Sacred Space and Sacred Point of View in living a balanced, healthy and whole life. Participants will experience the strong connection and respect the Seneca Tradition holds in supporting beneficial growth for the wellbeing of All Our Relations.
Cost per day: $60/$50 earlybird (paid by
October 10, 2013)
Please bring a packed lunch.
The most important teaching we offer in our Seneca Iroquois Tradition is that of Sacred Space/ Sacred Point of View. It is the basis for living a balanced, healthy, whole life; the place where we can begin to understand how to support beneficial growth for the wellbeing of All Our Relations.
Participants will explore the role of Sacred Space and Sacred Point of View in restoring awareness, balancing growth potential, while creating harmony, and sustaining peaceful relations with others.
Saturday workshop – Sacred Space
- Register
Online
Sunday workshop – Sacred Point of View - Register
Online
Click
here to register for all 3 events
- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - $135 / $110 earlybird
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Herbs and Botanicals Weekend 2014
April 26-27, 2014
3
workshops for the Weekend, plus included in the weekend offerings are time
for:
- Meditation walks - trails or labyrinth
- Morning Yoga or Tai Chi 8.30 - 9.30am
The Saturday & Sunday Retreat Packages
3 workshops - $145 (Steven Foster Sat event plus Melissa Clare and Lorna Trigg on Sunday
2 workshops - $110 (Steven Foster on Saturday and choose either Melissa Clare or Lorna Trigg on Sun)
you may optionally attend any one session
Backyard Medicinals:
Into the Wild with Steven Foster
Saturday, April 26, 2014 10am - 4pm
An informational and explorative day with Steven Foster, renowned author and photographer of Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Petersens Guide, National Geographic)
Steven will cover the subject "The Forager's Seasons - Foraging and Wildcrafting" incorporating a hands-on Walk in the Woods with Plant Identification.
Spring is our best season for wild foods,the time when we get dandelion greens, wild onions, pepper grass, plantain, pokeweed, and purslane, among others and a good time of year to enjoy edible flowers such as violets and elderflowers.
What to look for and where to find it: The Ozarks have over 3,000 species of plants, which includes about 2000 that are edible and perhaps upwards of 500 that are medicinal plants. It is helpful to understand that different plants occur in different habitats. We will look at which plants you might find in a specific habitat.
“That botany is a useful study is plain;
because it is in vain that we know betony is good for headaches, or self-heal
for wounds unless we can distinguish betony and self-heal from one another.”
John Hill, The Family Herbal, 1812.
Plant Names: Names are reference points, symbols — vehicles for communicating and distinguishing one thing from another. You don’t have to be a botanist to appreciate and use scientific plant names. Not only do they clarify and distinguish one plant from another, they may also give us some insights in to the appearance, habits, uses, and history of a plant. There are no set rules for pronouncing plant names. Think of them as a communication tool which may be pronounced differently by people from various regions or countries. It is only important that you are understood by the person with whom you are talking. Rolling the names over on your tongue a few times is just another taste treat!
Plant Classification: Botanists have estimated there are between 200,000 and 800,000 species in the plant kingdom. To conveniently study such a great number of organisms, the plant world is divided into smaller groups based on natural relationships. Major taxonomic groups of the plant kingdom include divisions, classes, orders, families, genera, species, and several groups below the rank of species. The family, genus, species, and subgroups of species serve as the most useful reference points for understanding how to use wild plants. We will briefly explore the concepts of plant evolution so that you can begin to see the trees through the forest, with hands-on work on taking a plant through a key to properly identify it, and learn basic characteristics of the most useful plant families to know, and how to begin to see and make sense of the patters of a plant family.
"My mission is to serve the human-plant relationship. Recognizing that plants are vital for food, wellness, medicine, flavor and fragrance, I offer information and imagery on the source of plants of human experience. In doing so I strive to introduce you to the plants in a way that inspires growth." Steven Foster
Bring a journal/note taking book, camera, hiking boots
$75 (early bird, after March 1 is $95) for the days events - bring your own bag lunch
Register online for this event (or the full weekend)
Retreat Lodging Options - Online Reservation for lodging
Plant Spirit Communications
with Melissa Clare
Sunday, April 27, 2014
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Melissa Clare is a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and Fire keeper in the sacred Fire Community. She trained with Eliot Cowan, author of Plant Spirit Medicine and Shaman in Huichol tradition. Melissa is also influenced by the work of Dorothy McLean (To Hear the Angels Sing and the Findhorn Garden Book) whom she met through their mutual Sufi connections in the 1980's.
We will enter into a respectful relationship with the plant world, exploring both a meditative and shamanic approach. We will invite friendly input as well as artistic inspiration from the from the plant spirits, offering our gratitude. This session will include dream journeying as well as group sharing.
Participants should bring color pencils, notebooks a blanket/pad to lie on. We will be sitting in nature so bring a groundsheet or cushion to sit on, and if the weather is inclement bring raingear.
Fee: $35 (early bird-after March 1 is $55) (bring a bag lunch if you plan to stay for the afternoon session of Creating a Medicine Wheel Garden)
Register online for this event (or the full weekend)
Retreat Lodging Options - Online Reservation for lodging
Creating a Medicine Wheel
Garden
with Lorna Trigg
Sunday, April 27, 2014
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Hands on and discussion:
"What is a Medicine Wheel"
"How to use a Medicine Wheel"
The Circle symbolizes many ideas for different people and provides healing, too. Creating sacred space in which to pray, fast, seek visions, focus on group needs, was natural for people living close to nature in earlier times.
Lorna has been creating a Medicine Wheel Garden, with a space that showed itself to her here on the Fire Om Earth property a few years ago. Lorna's Medicine Wheel will hold plants that relate to the four directions and that have healing properties, creating a type of outdoor sacred “room”; a healing space filled with good energies and favorite plants.
Lorna will share insights and learned knowledge on topics:
- Where to establish your Medicine Wheel
- How the four directions relate to certain types of plants for particular healing uses.
- Ideas for Native Plant Medicine and their uses, from Wise Elders of the Inca, Cherokee and Lorna's own discoveries.
- How to create ceremony and connection to all our relations.
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