The Way of the Shaman: Nature, Power, and Healing (FSS)

Led by: Nan Moss & David Corbin

January 31 - February 5, 2010
Big Sur, CA
Contact address: Esalen Institute, Highway 1, Big Sur CA, 93920.
Contact phone: 831-667-3005
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To the shaman's eyes, the world around us is alive and inspirited. In this introduction to core shamanism, you can learn to see with those eyes, to explore the hidden worlds and to access the timeless wisdom known to our ancestors.

Through initiation into the shamanic journey, you will learn skills of divination and healing, and experience the shamanic state of consciousness to help awaken spiritual awareness.

You will be provided with methods for journeying to discover and study with your own spiritual teachers in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. You will also learn how to restore spiritual power and health, and how shamanism can be applied in contemporary daily life to help heal oneself, others, and the Planet.

The course also provides an opportunity for advanced work with the spirits of nature in Esalen's beautiful and powerful setting. By learning from the rocks and mountains, the wind and waters, and from sun, moon and stars, shamans helped their peoples live in harmony with the universe. In a world out of balance, the way of the shaman can teach us once again how to respect nature, the Earth, and its inhabitants at a deep spiritual level.

This workshop includes two Foundation for Shamanic Studies courses, "The Way of the Shaman" and "Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature". Participants are qualified to take advanced trainings with Michael Harner and the faculty of the Foundation.

This is a unique opportunity to experience these powerful workshops in one of the most beautiful places on the Planet. Esalen Institute, well known for its role as one of the first centers for the human potential movement, is situated on the cliffs of Big Sur, CA, overlooking the Pacific ocean. Famous for its natural sulfur hot springs, and the groundbreaking minds who have taught there, Esalen is truly a special and sacred place.

The Way of the Shaman & The Spirits of Nature (FSS) A special 5 day workshop incorporating the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Basic workshop, plus Shamanism and the Spirits of Nature, an advanced workshop. February 29 - March 5, 2004 Led by David Corbin and Nan P. Moss Big Sur, CA Contact: Esalen Institute Highway 1, Big Sur CA, 93920 (831) 667-3000