Current Retreats     

LEARNING THE WAYS OF THE INCAN SHAMAN - SPECIAL ONE-DAY CLASSES offered
by Holly Gray Schuck (Sacred Journeys of Wisconsin) at THE LAKE HOUSE B&B:

The STONES are Talking
This one day workshop starts at 9:00 (check in at 8:30) and ends at 4:00 and will use the stones as a centerpiece to aid in personal discovery and planetary healing. Pat Burdy from The AMANAE and F.O.B. center in Minneapolis and Holly Gray Schuck will facilitate this one day workshop using their combined skills and practical knowledge. Cost: $ 125. and includes lunch.

A Weekend INTENSIVE with AMANAE
AMANAE is a bodywork process that assists you in bypassing mind/ego to help you shift out deep emotions and trauma and connect with the direct experience of your divine self. Cost: $ 695.with all lodging and meals.(Dbl occ.)This workshop uses individual practitioners working with participants.

PERSONAL SHAMANISM
This is the first of a year long study that taps into the ancient knowledge of the Incan shaman priests and priestesses. All of us are in different places on our journeys. This personalized set of four workshops uses the ANDEAN Medicine Wheel as the hub to claim your divine path of transformation and change. The rites of passage, initiations and practical hands-on skill development will strengthen and aid in seeing your divine self more clearly. (other dates are tentatively scheduled for:

SOUND HEALING with LUZCLARA
This one day workshop starts at 9:00 (check in at 8:30) and ends at 4:00 and will highlight LUZCLARA (a ceremonial leader who specializes in sound healing from the country of CHILE). Cost: $ 145. and includes lunch.

An overview of the Andean Medicine Wheel
Using the medicine wheel as a tool for transformation, this class describes the Incan Shaman traditions. Activities include: awakening the connection to nature, using guided imagery to connect with your power animals, working with the charkas and energy work using the Andean healing techniques used by Incan Shaman priests of Peru.

Examining the Shadow Side-Soul Retrieval
Using the Shaman’s cosmology of transition and change, this class will help participant’s find the power in the their shadow side. Activities include: using guided imagery to seek out past lives and reconnect with parts of ourselves that have been lost to this fast paced life.

The Ways of the Shaman-Using Positive Rituals
We will explore the architecture and creation of power tools used by the Incan Shaman in sacred space and ceremony. Activities include: Work with medicine bundles, creation of despachos and experiences with the essential aspects of ritual as it becomes a conduit for healing.

The Shaman’s Altar
The Incan Shaman’s altar is the living embodiment of the mysticism found in his or her collection of power objects. This class explores the process or personal journey that takes place as a Shaman builds a personal altar. Activities include: discovering your own personal power objects to build your own altar and a look at the rites of passage used by Incan Q’ero priests.

Soul Retrieval Intensive
Soul Retrieval is an experiential journey to non-ordinary reality--to alternate realms of consciousness that one may access through various shamanic techniques, primarily the shamanic journey. This allows the participant to explore their own subconscious terrain with a guide, and access their own answers.  The goal is to retrieve those aspects of the self that may have been "lost" due to trauma, patterns of dysfunction, illness or pain and suffering.  Soul Retrieval can reconnect and revitalize our luminous spirit that may have been damaged or trapped due to trauma or loss.

Dates:  Call for Dates

Individual Sessions Available

The Andean Medicine Wheel Program: Mapping the Transformational Journey
Highlights:
Creating and building a "mesa" or sacred medicine bundle.  This bundle becomes a healing tool in the shamanic practitioners array of techniques to access alternate realities and effect healing on spiritual, emotional, mental and physical levels.  It connects one to sacred power places on Earth and to those things we have healed in ourselves thus transforming our "lead" into "gold" in the ancient practice of spiritual alchemy.   
Dates:  Call for Dates

Personal Growth and Healing
Shamanic Journeying and Guided Meditation. 
Introduction to the Eagle's Breath and /or other Breathwork
Morning yoga/exercise
Power places on the earth: personal and planetary
Sacred Geometry
Developing the Medicine or Jaguar luminous body of Light
Clearing, Healing and Protection Work
Honoring the Shadow
Rites of the Pampamesioque or Rites (karpays) of the Keepers of the Earth

Introduction to the Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel is a metaphor and a tool for the transformational journey of consciousness.  The structure of this special one-day session will include:

Developing our talents and gifts through use of the medicine wheel
Shedding our past history
Embodiment of nature and energy work on a practical level

Dates:  June 17, 2006   Use link at top of this page to register on line
COST:  $115 includes lunch  - Special rate or $95 if registered by May 8. 2006

Advanced Medicine Wheel Apprenticeship Program
Rites of Passage, initiations and experiential training leads to paradigm shifts and perceptual shifts -this is a Living Body of Knowledge passed on through thousands of years: Living Light transmitted by ancient shamanic techniques - participants should already have assembled a full mesa and received some of the karpays or initiations of light, experienced the shamanic journey, and are working on their own Jaguar Body or Medicine Light Body - leads to the karpay of initiation of Light of the alto mesioque, or Keeper of the Apus (mountains)

Group II:  South Direction
This study is the mapping of our own Transformational Journey. Our in-depth exploration will include guided imagery, ceremony, energy work with the luminous body, working with power animals and Andean Healing Energy techniques. This study leads to the initiation rites of passage of the Q'ero, Inca Shaman priests of Peru, with the Cuyas or sacred stones.
Dates:  May 19-20-21, 2006
COST:  $495 includes session, lodging and all meals except Friday Night (Double Occupancy).

Group II:  West Direction
Dates:   October 27-28-29, 2006
COST:  $495 includes session, lodging and all meals except Friday Night (Double Occupancy).

Group II:  North Direction
Dates:  January 12-13-14, 2007
COST:  $495 includes session, lodging and all meals except Friday Night (Double Occupancy).