Holistic Environmental Education
LEARNING
CONNECTING
CREATING
HEALING
ACTIVATING
LEADING
WITH EARTH
Holistic Environmental Education
LEARNING
CONNECTING
CREATING
HEALING
ACTIVATING
LEADING
WITH EARTH
Earth-Spirit-Dreaming: A Shamanic Ecotherapy Immersion
Led by Liz Meacham, PhD,
www.elizabethmeacham.com
This course is full. We'll run it again in 2019.
Location: Lake Erie Institute Retreat Cottage, 1714 Sudbury Rd. Gates Mills, OH
Dates and times:
There will be six Thursday evening meetings, and one 60-minute private session with me each month.
Thursdays, October 4 and 18, 6 to 9 pm
Thursdays, November 1 and 15, 6 to 9 pm
Thursdays, December 6 and 20, 6 to 9 pm
Dates and times:
There will be six Thursday evening meetings, and one 60-minute private session with me each month.
Thursdays, October 4 and 18, 6 to 9 pm
Thursdays, November 1 and 15, 6 to 9 pm
Thursdays, December 6 and 20, 6 to 9 pm
Course Description:
This course is a shamanic development intensive, which will result in a deeper relationship and direct communication with your spirit helpers. I emphasize careful preparation, which requires patience, commitment, and consistent practice over time.
Ecopsychology/ecotherapy is where my own shamanic path began (it took me 20 years of ecopsychology practice to realize this), and where I start this course. Ecopsychology offers ideas and practices from Western thought for re-indigenizing Western mind-body-spirit-hearts. As we re-indigenize, we discover ancient sensitivities to the deep mysteries and magic of life. Opening these pathways, that ground us deeply to the Earth, is an essential step of preparation for accessing gateways to the imaginal realms and the worlds of shamanic experience.
To help you reach these goals, I will teach the Earth-Spirit-Dreaming shamanic ecotherapy method that I’ve developed over many years of teaching, scholarship and personal practice. The steps, worked through in order, can open channels to a direct experience of the intelligences of the Earth and Spirit realms. I call these three steps Earth-connecting, Spirit-connecting and Dream-connecting. This is the first time that I will teach this method, which will be released in my book next year.
Earth-connecting practices help us develop an awareness of our embodied entanglement with the many beings in the life-world of the Earth community. Earth-connecting practices can open doorways to what we think of in Western culture as “altered” states of consciousness, or extra-sensory perception. These states of connection, that revive senses lost to us in our hyper-rational culture, expand into the next step in the process, which is Spirit-connecting.
In this context, Spirit-connecting means opening into something broader than our separate, individual selves. From this state of awareness, we can experience webs of connection perceived as subtle energies, or vibrations. It’s important to realize that what we define in our culture as “energy,” or spiritual reality, was not an abnormal perception for early humans. In indigenous cultures, perception of “spirits” often means something different than it does in Western cultures. Spirit can be a way of explaining an energetic, yet still normal, part of experience, rather than a different form of reality. This “spirit” realm is, in part, an expression of aliveness: a sensitivity to the energetic imprint of other beings.
Dream-connecting practices help us enter the symbolic and imaginal realms of experience. Dreaming, in the context of this method, can be understood as a form of visioning and co-creating the world. Through the dream-connecting practices, we relate to the imaginal realms in ways that are often limited by a focus on rational thinking. The dreaming, or visioning, practices help us to begin shifting our lives and the world from a state of clarity that comes from grounding deeply to Earth and Spirit. Through this process, we rediscover the mystery and deep magic surrounding us in every moment of life.
Earth-connecting practices help us develop an awareness of our embodied entanglement with the many beings in the life-world of the Earth community. Earth-connecting practices can open doorways to what we think of in Western culture as “altered” states of consciousness, or extra-sensory perception. These states of connection, that revive senses lost to us in our hyper-rational culture, expand into the next step in the process, which is Spirit-connecting.
In this context, Spirit-connecting means opening into something broader than our separate, individual selves. From this state of awareness, we can experience webs of connection perceived as subtle energies, or vibrations. It’s important to realize that what we define in our culture as “energy,” or spiritual reality, was not an abnormal perception for early humans. In indigenous cultures, perception of “spirits” often means something different than it does in Western cultures. Spirit can be a way of explaining an energetic, yet still normal, part of experience, rather than a different form of reality. This “spirit” realm is, in part, an expression of aliveness: a sensitivity to the energetic imprint of other beings.
Dream-connecting practices help us enter the symbolic and imaginal realms of experience. Dreaming, in the context of this method, can be understood as a form of visioning and co-creating the world. Through the dream-connecting practices, we relate to the imaginal realms in ways that are often limited by a focus on rational thinking. The dreaming, or visioning, practices help us to begin shifting our lives and the world from a state of clarity that comes from grounding deeply to Earth and Spirit. Through this process, we rediscover the mystery and deep magic surrounding us in every moment of life.
Learning Schedule
October: Earth-Connecting
To begin, we will work on grounding deeply with the Earth. Through extension of our embodied awareness, we will engage in relationship with Earth beings as we discover new and ancient ways of sensing and knowing.
November: Spirit-Connecting
This month will focus on learning to feel, navigate and actively affect change in the vibrational realms. Working directly with our energy bodies, we will clear blocks and consciously reorient for healing and transformation. No experience necessary!
December: Dream-Connecting
During our last month together, we will work on dreaming, or visioning, from a place of deep grounding and connection with the Earth and Spirit realms. This month will include guided visualization, vision boards, mandala work and shamanic journeying. Also, no experience necessary!
October: Earth-Connecting
To begin, we will work on grounding deeply with the Earth. Through extension of our embodied awareness, we will engage in relationship with Earth beings as we discover new and ancient ways of sensing and knowing.
November: Spirit-Connecting
This month will focus on learning to feel, navigate and actively affect change in the vibrational realms. Working directly with our energy bodies, we will clear blocks and consciously reorient for healing and transformation. No experience necessary!
December: Dream-Connecting
During our last month together, we will work on dreaming, or visioning, from a place of deep grounding and connection with the Earth and Spirit realms. This month will include guided visualization, vision boards, mandala work and shamanic journeying. Also, no experience necessary!
