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Healer's Journey
Healer's Journey
SOUTH
Medicine Wheel:
November 6 – 8, 2023
Yoga Intensive:
November 8 – 10, 2023
Warrior's Journey
Warrior's Journey
WEST
Medicine Wheel:
January 26 – 28, 2024
Yoga Intensive:
January 28 – 30, 2024
Teacher's Journey
Teacher's Journey
NORTH
Medicine Wheel:
March 24 – 26, 2024
Yoga Intensive:
March 26 – 28, 2024
Visionary's Journey
Visionary's Journey
EAST
Medicine Wheel:
June 23 – 25, 2024
Yoga Intensive:
June 25 – 27, 2024
Join us in 2023/24 for the awakening of a lifetime
This year, we are offering our experiential and immersive Shamanic Yoga Teacher training as a 4-part series, running October 2023 to June 2024. Spend 4 experiential intensives on retreat together on Gambier Island or attend virtually, with the support of a team of online mentors.
Our 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training curriculum is truly cutting edge: we are pioneering experiential education through shamanism, tantric practice, and expressive arts. What sets this training apart is the inclusion of Shamanic Yoga Institute’s foundational Medicine Wheel course, which takes place inside of a yoga teacher training. The work is deep and requires a soul who is called to rise.
Lead Teachers
Assistant Teacher: Gin Perry
Training
This Yoga Teacher Training is unique to any other! It purposely takes you deep into the personal healing work necessary to take the seat of the teacher. It does not stop there, it travels the medicine wheel and the yogic koshas through transmissions of the land and sacred scriptures and ceremonies. The experience is the teacher, this training has been refined to provide portals and holding spaces for the revelations of grace and reclamation of shadow for all learning styles. Our teaching framework has always been based in indigenous ways of learning, coming back to the land, to circle, to story, to community and to service. You will sing with devotion, dance, laugh, play, create and learn so many energetic shapes with your body, mind and spirit. No stone will be left unturned, dismantling conditionings, seeds are sown, essence is re- membered, every participant shapes the evolution of this work. Together we dive deeply into the living tradition of Yoga and Shamanism, inquiring with the arts and ceremony, and truly being with.
Our current texts we source from for the 300Hr Shamanic Yoga Teacher Training is the beautiful Non-Dual Tantra teachings from the Vijnana Bhairava, the Upanishads, Devi Mahatmyam, the Bhagavad Gita, Pratyabijnahrdyam and the Yoga Sutras.
Intention
This program will help you to transform your practice, gather tools to facilitate your connection to nature and spirit, your relationship to self, transmute your fears and limitations into love and help you learn how to truly be with yourself and deepen the heart of your yoga.
Ultimately Yoga Teachers are space holders, we cannot hold space for our students unless we have walked through the fire of personal transformation. This is what makes this course unique. By combining the work of the Medicine Wheel with a Yoga Teacher training, you will go beyond instructing postures into the realm of teaching with the potential to facilitate deep personal transformation because you have done the work yourself. You will be able to teach from direct experience instead of an understanding that comes from the experience of another.
Definitions
Shamanic Yoga is the ancient practice of Yoga placed in an opening of shamanic sacred space. This invites and invokes transformation and deepens the heart of our spiritual practice. Nature and landscape are woven into the dialogue, invoking the students and the natural world to co-create their relationship to one another and thus to power and unity. Breathing techniques, asana, mantra, song and energy work are all used along with journeys and visualizations to invite a conversation with the unknown throughout classes. Shamanic yoga is concerned with connection, fluidity and proper framework as guiding principles of the work. The vision of Shamanic Yoga is to take the power of both yoga and shamanic practices together to create a strong venue for transformation.
To participate fully in one’s life is the promise of Shamanic Yoga.
The Medicine Wheel teaches the ancient ways of the Q’ero Medicine People of Peru, South America in an Expressive Arts architecture created by Christine Selda. Processes are used that medicine people have passed on orally since the beginning of time. Informing and enriching, the Medicine Wheel guides participants on their personal healing journey and re-connects
them with nature. Some of the various techniques include: ceremonial fires, journey to meet power animals, learning Incan healing techniques and shamanic breathing. As a participant in this transformative energy work you will work extensively with nature and invite a dialogue with her, receive ancient Rites of Passage and develop a Mesa: a personal power bundle and a medicine bag of healing stones.
By the end of this Shamanic Yoga Medicine Wheel Yoga Teacher Training you will: + Be a certified teacher of Shamanic Yoga :
Yoga Siromani- Jewel on the Crown of Yoga- Teacher of Yoga
+ Complete a Mountain Shamanic Medicine Wheel
+ Be a full Mesa carrier from a timeless, living lineage
Sample Daily Schedule
This is the projected rhythm for our days together. Each session is unique and is crafted to meet the needs of the group.
7:30 – 7:50 am – Outside space before we gather to visit sandpainting, pray, set intention for
your day, cultivate an awareness of impact
8:00 – 10:00 am – Shamanic Yoga Practice: chanting, meditation, pranayama, asana, nidra
10:00 – 11:00 am – BREAK
11:00 – 2:00 pm – Energetic Practice, lecture, discussions, expressive arts processes, talking
circle, practice teaching
2:00 – 4:30 pm – BREAK
4:30 – 9:30 pm – Evening Practice includes both contact and non-contact elements such as
satsang, kirtan, and self-led ceremony (expect on average a 2-hour online component).
This is the projected rhythm for our days together. Each session is unique and is crafted to meet the needs of the group.
7:30 – 7:50 am – Outside space before we gather to visit sandpainting, pray, set intention for
your day, cultivate an awareness of impact
8:00 – 10:00 am – Shamanic Yoga Practice: chanting, meditation, pranayama, asana, nidra
10:00 – 11:00 am – BREAK
11:00 – 2:00 pm – Energetic Practice, lecture, discussions, expressive arts processes, talking
circle, practice teaching
2:00 – 4:30 pm – BREAK
4:30 – 9:30 pm – Evening Practice includes both contact and non-contact elements such as
satsang, kirtan, and self-led ceremony (expect on average a 2-hour online component).
OPTION 2:
JAGUAR
Payment of non-refundable, retreat investment: $2050 – $5950 for course in two payments
OPTION 3:
SERPENT
Payment of non-refundable, retreat investment: $2050 – $5950 for course in three payments
OPTION 4:
HUMMINGBIRD
Payment of non-refundable, retreat investment: $2050 – $5950 for course in four payments