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Shamanic Apprenticeship Program
Starting Spring 2012
Sacred Circle - Sacred Path
Finding our way home *
I started this Apprenticeship program last year and would like to offer it again this year.
The aim of the program is to help us grow in mindfulness:
- To achieve a deeper understanding of our connection to everything around us.
- To become a more loving and accepting participant in our own lives.
- To know, on a deeper level, our integral part in the unfoldment of our lives.
This is what a couple of students had to say about the program:
Maia's apprenticeship is a wonderful program and perfect introduction to the work of a shaman.
The class really brings you back to nature and the worlds around you. There are moments of pure magic
that can not be expressed in words.
It was a truly amazing, powerful, transforming, unique, magical, unexpected, life changing experience. What a gift.
Sarah
I took Maia’s Apprenticeship program and it has been a life changing event for me. Even though I felt I didn't have
enough background in this type of work, Maia made it all very accessible. It becomes a way of life, a whole new way of
looking at things and experiencing nature. I am most grateful for my cohort of colleagues, “paqos”, with whom we
develop a deep spiritual connection. – Debra
For those interested in learning more about the program I welcome you to a:
free, informative gathering
at Susan's Fine Salon, in East Haddam on
Sunday February 12th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
*) A One-Year program where we meet for four full weekends (with the option of a shorter Meetup in-between
classes). It includes "homework" and is based on the teachings and cosmology of the Q’ero Shamans of Peru. Included
in the program are rites of initiation in the lineage of these medicine people and the creation of a “Mesa” (medicine body).
The weekend classes are 14 hours long and the cost is $180/weekend.
The Meet-Ups generally take place outdoors (weather permitting). At these times we review the homework, answer
questions and do some form of work. The Meet-Ups are 4 hours long and the cost is $40/meetup.
PS. Last year I started off by calling the Program "To the Shaman the Cup is Always Full." Which turned out to be a
bit cumbersome. However there is great truth in that statement and I feel that it is at the heart of what Shamanism has
brought me... a sense that my cup is always full.
According to Shamanic beliefs everything has a spirit, and all spirits are of equal value. A cup is not half full, nor is it half
empty... it is always full. Half of the cup contains the spirit of the water, and the other half, the spirit of the air. There is
reverence and appreciation for all of life's expression. Acceptance and gratitude flows in where judgment and blame used to
dwell.
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