How might we approach ourselves and the world from a place of clarity, curiosity and love? Join us in October for a five-weekend series of shamanic journeying, Internal Family Systems work and ancestral healing to clear the space between us and other.
This is the work of the Hollow Bone, which makes us better healers and better humans – it leads to more wise and loving connections with the world in all its realms and also within ourselves.
Dates of Workshop:
Five-weekends spanning October 14th, 2023 - February 25th, 2024. Full date details below.
Price: $1,800 for series
The cost for the workshop does not include meals.
Prerequisite:
Good journeying skills and a strong, trusted relationship with at least one compassionate spirit ally. This series is also a prerequisite for application to the Windhorse Shamanic Apprenticeship offering in 2024.
Group Size:
Maximum: 9 students
Location:
The in-person portions of this series will be held in a spiritual retreat cabin in Pownal, Maine, on 48 private conservation acres that have received and facilitated shamanic work for over twenty years.
Cancellation Policy:
Due to the small number of participants the fee for the training will only be refunded if your vacated seat is filled at least two weeks before the training. Should Windhorse Circle need to cancel the training for any reason, you will receive a full refund.
Covid Policy:
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Hollow Bone Portion of the Series:
October 14th – 15th, 2023: Full Days, In-person
(October 28th: 9:30 – 12:00, Zoom Homework Circle)
November 11th – 12th, 2023: Full Days, In-person
(Zoom Office Hours TBA)
December 2nd – 3rd, 2023: Full Days, In-person
Ancestral Healing Portion of the Series:
January 13th – 14th, 2024: Full Days, Hybrid Circle (Farmhouse in-person or Zoom)
(February 3rd: 9:30 – 12:30, Zoom Homework Circle)
February 24th – 25th, 2024: Full Days, Hybrid Circle (Farmhouse in-person or Zoom)
Hollow Bone work is a spiritual path in itself. For healing work, Hollow Bone is the philosopher’s stone that turns a trained practitioner into a loving, power-filled healing presence. As my friend Christina Sillari says, “If people aren’t there, they’re nowhere.” So true.
If we approach our spirit council looking through the eyes of a part of ourselves, we will interpret through the perspective of that part. If we approach in Hollow Bone, we can receive the wisdom of our guides with nothing in the space between us. Hollow Bone work makes us better healers and, quite honestly, better humans – it leads to more wise and loving connections with the world in all its realms and also with ourselves.
The Hollow Bone path begins at Windhorse Circle with bravery, discipline and heart – qualities held by the spiritual warrior, who transforms enemies into friends. I believe it takes these qualities to shine a warm, compassionate light into the dark, angry, sad and lonely places within us – there are parts of us there who want to be heard and understood, who need help healing and finding their true place within us. In this series, we will be redrawing and expanding the maps of ourselves and our world through experiential practices, shamanism, Internal Family Systems work, small circle work and yes, homework!
Then in January 2024 our primary focus will shift from Hollow Bone to blood and bone — ancestral healing — inspired by the brilliant model developed by Daniel Foor. This model is especially appealing to me due to Dr. Foor’s training with people who have maintained unbroken ancestral reverence. Through shamanic journeying contained by the grounded gifts of ancient wisdom we will ask for reconnection to and healing for at least one of our lineages that has been left effectually untended, probably for many centuries. My experience with this protocol is that it yields safety, compassion and effectiveness.
The importance of this work cannot be over-estimated. Intergenerational trauma lives within the descendants of those lineages that have not been able to resolve their troubles. The contact with the well and wise is usually broken, the lineage gifts are obscured and we lose the circle of well and power-filled ancestors who carry strong wisdom traditions.
As you might have guessed, ancestral healing is deeply interwoven with Hollow Bone work. Let’s take care of this, reconnect with the ancient well and wise and ask for help transforming the legacies of our people — past, present and future.
Who might benefit from this series:
- Those hoping to become shamanic practitioners (it’s a pre-requisite for the Windhorse Circle Shamanic Apprenticeship)
- Anyone working as a shamanic practitioner, counselor, social worker, psychologist, energy healer, body/somatic therapist or any other health practitioner
- Anyone who wants to do deep soul work in a community committed to open-heartedness, safety and energetic hygiene
- Anyone who wants to draw closer to wholeness and their True Self
- Anyone who wants to walk a path of wisdom and appropriate spiritual power regardless of their work in the world
“I cured with the power that came through me. Of course it was not I who cured. It was the power from the outer world, and the visions and ceremonies had only made me like a hole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.”
Black Elk quoted in Fool’s Crow: Wisdom and Power, by Thomas E. Mails
