Classes
2024 Workshops - September - December
Beginning Shamanism:
Trance-Connection and Spirit-Guide Training
Weekend Workshop
Saturday, Nov. 30 & Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024
10 am to 5:30 pm both days. Please note that this is Thanksgiving weekend.
Held at a private location in the Denver-metro area
Here we are, post-election, and many of us are wondering "What can I do?"
My own answer, at the moment, is to commit to teaching this material frequently and affordably.
When we grow and strengthen our inner resources, our potential to effect change expands. One of the great beauties of shamanism is that by nature it exists in community, both within ourselves and as we come together in learning groups.
Let's grow that.
How can we better embrace life with heart and spirit? We each have a personal direct-line to Spirit, but may need some help to reawaken it. Shamanism - the trained spiritual practices of Animism - is still here, and it still works. If it’s ready to reawaken within you, please read on.
This workshop covers the initial steps of a path with ancient roots and wide contemporary applications. Throughout many cultures and by many names — Medicine-work, Seidr, and Shamanism are just a few — variations on such work are known and used around the world. Each version is unique to its own people, place and particulars, but all have the common factor of Spirit, which is our focus.
You’ll discover the connections with your own Guides, and learn how to move into Their space, communicate with Them, and then return to our here-and-now so you can put Their wisdom to use.
This intensive 2-day workshop covers a wide range of key practices, including
— Creating ceremony and sacred space;
— Using sound- and intention-based journey practices, with drums and rattles;
— Meeting your spiritual guides and allies;
— Journeying to the Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds;
— Building good alliance with your spiritual guides and helpers;
— Exploring Spirit-directed divination;
— Connecting with your personal ancestral roots to help work more deeply;
— Working in connection with others: the first steps towards Spirit-directed healing work;
— Learning ethics and protocols of these practices, and exploring their traditional uses in healing.
Building strong alliances with our own healing and helping Spirits helps bring in guidance, connection, and enhanced well-being.
For some, this training will be complete in itself as a personal path, but the workshop also serves as a prerequisite for more advanced practices into Spirit-allied modes of healing — Soul Retrieval, Shamanic Extraction of Misplaced Energies, Shamanic Death and Dying Practices, and more — that are used for healing work with individuals and communities.
We work in a small-group setting, so every participant can receive plenty of personalized attention.
Post-election, more-accessible pricing.
Sliding scale fee: $125 (or more if you choose). Please refer to my F.A.Q. pages for information on Sliding Scale pricing. Click here to pay a $95 deposit which reserves your place (it's part of that $125); the remaining money is due the first morning of the workshop. If you have questions, please email me so we can talk before you register. This fee - $125 - matches what I paid for the Beginning workshop in 1989.
Instructor Renna Shesso: Since learning the practices called “core shamanism” in the late 1980s, I've been melding that direct-spirit information with my own practices of the Craft. My primary teacher throughout the years has been Sandra Ingerman, though I find many of the most profound lessons come from the Guides that I’ve encountered within the journey. I’ve been teaching this workshop since 2005.
Quintessential Tarot - a five-session Tarot series - will return in 2025.
Are there classes you'd like to see back on the schedule? Please, let me know. You can email me through this contact page. I'm also easing back into weekend workshops in Shamanic practices. Please check the listings under classes; when dates are scheduled, I'll post them there.
Or request an add to my email list via the Subscribe button just below, at the very bottom of this webpage - that will give you the earliest notice when new workshop dates are scheduled.
Thanks!
