2008 six crows gathering and spiritual retreat

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August 21, 22, 23, 24 at Six Crows Earth Temple, Twin Lake, MI 2008 Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual Retreat Swimming with the Undines — Soak, Splash, Shape, and Shift International Chant Master Nancy Watters will provide information about where to obtain free Wonderful late breaking news! — What a downloads of some of her music. Nancy says she has treat! International Chant Master Nancy Watters will be had new music coming through this summer, which she joining us this year to lead the Friday morning music hopes to have posted by then, but in any case we will circle with Dawn Prayers and Chants. The Canadian be one of the first groups to hear it live! Learn more songstress and devout student of sacred song will about Nancy at www.sacredworldsong.com.offer us the sweet nectar of morning devotions at 8 am Friday. Drum circle/shamanic journey drum — Nancy’s presentations feature beautiful, melodic, On another musical note, we have lined up a leader world chants in nine languages, accompanied by for our drum circle in the person of Laura Mitchell, sonic tapestries created with Tibetan singing bowls, from Grand Haven. Laura will provide the drum beat native and African drums, ektara, and other world for Margret’s Shamanic Journey Friday night, and instruments. She willl facilitate a group experience of lead a drumming circle Saturday morning during GoS. improvised chant and sacred toning, using mystical We have a bonus in Laura in that she is a shamanic passages about love and unity from the Baha’i Writings. practitioner in her own right. She will be collaborating She will have some of her acclaimed CDs on hand and in Margret’s shamanic workshops this fall.Please note: The page adjacent is a late addition. Scroll down for the complete newsletter delineating the gathering.Schedule of Events The Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual Retreat August 21-24, 2008 This is an open assembly of seekers sharing a common interest in Earth-centered and esoteric philosophies, and creating sacred space without and within. This gathering is eclectic with Native American leanings, and invites profound reverence and affirming unity. It is strictly not-for-profit so there is no charge to attend, camp, share our spiritual gifts, or use the Trading Post. Comings and goings are discouraged. Even locals are encouraged to stay and camp. Breaking sacred circle is disruptive and disjunctive to both your own flow and that of others. Furthermore, some of the most profound experiences happen in sharings outside programming, i.e. Talking Stick or late night fireside chats. And there is nothing more profound than communing with the Sacred Fire on the night shift, the silence between the notes that makes our symphonies possible, the place between the worlds where all creation spawns, the space spirit needs to move through us. Don’t sell yourself short. Thursday, August 21 10 am S E T U P (Meals are independent) | Trading Post Open — Location Lower Lounge/Lower Deck 6 pm Opening Ceremony/Sacred Fire Awakened/Counsel of Deities/Business/Introductions — Location Medicine Wheel 8 pm Cerridwen’s Cauldron with Lady Bona Dea Lyonesse — Location Medicine Wheel Alt: Sweat Lodge Ceremony — Location Sweat Area 9:30 pm Talking Stick — Location Medicine Wheel (join the circle anytime with deference to the speaker) Friday, August 22 8 am-12 pm Gifts of the Spirit — Location Orchard 8 am Dawn Prayers and Chants with Nancy Watters — Location Medicine Wheel 12 pm COMMUNITY LUNCH 1 pm F R E E T I M E | Trading Post Open — Location Lower Lounge/Lower Deck 2 pm Medicine Wheel Teaching with Red Spider Weaving — 3:30 pm Making Ritual Evocations FUN! with Andrieh Vitimus — Location Medicine Wheel 5 pm COMMUNITY SUPPER 6:30 pm — 8 pm Shamanic Journey: Discover your Power Animal and Find Help for Immediate Concerns with Margret Bazany — Location Medicine Wheel 8 pm Alt: Sweat Lodge Ceremony — Location Sweat Area 9:30 pm Talking Stick — Location Medicine Wheel (join the circle anytime with deference to the speaker) Saturday, August 23 8 am-12 pm Gifts of the Spirit — Location Orchard 10 am Jest for Kids with Valrey Llewlaka — Location Lower Fire Pit 11 am Drumming Circle — Location Medicine Wheel 12 pm COMMUNITY LUNCH 1 pm Silent Auction Travel Fund last call/auction close, winners announced 1 pm F R E E T I M E | Trading Post Open — Location Lower Lounge/Lower Deck 2 pm Water’s Journey with Lady Bona Dea Lyonesse/Patricia DeSandro — Location Medicine Wheel 3:30 pm Releasing Judgment to Make Room for Abundant Joy, Grace, and Ease with Adam El David and Karen Teasdale David — Location Medicine Wheel 5 pm COMMUNITY SUPPER 6:30 pm — 7:30 pm Counsel of Deities — Location Medicine Wheel 9 pm Undine Shapeshifting Ritual with Andrieh Vitimus — Location Medicine Wheel 10:30 pm Talking Stick — Location Medicine Wheel (join the circle anytime with deference to the speaker) Sunday, August 24 9 am Trading Blanket — Location Medicine Wheel 10:30 am Closing Ceremony/Sacred Fire Put to Sleep/Wraparound TWMA — Location Medicine Wheel 12 pm CLOSING FEAST AND SACRED BUFFALO STEW 2 pm… T E A R D O W NRegistration Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual Retreat August 21-24, 2008 Name(s): Address: Tel(s): Email: Gift of the Spirit No Yes Describe Children? No Yes Ages Previously Attended No Yes How did you learn about the gathering? Additional information you would like to share about yourself Mail to: Linda Margaret Ritz White, 3646 Hart Rd., Twin Lake MI 49457 or Email info to: [e-mail] Registration Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual Retreat August 21-24, 2008 Name(s): Address: Tel(s): Email: Gift of the Spirit No Yes Describe Children? No Yes Ages Previously Attended No Yes How did you learn about the gathering? Additional information you would like to share about yourself Mail to: Linda Margaret Ritz White, 3646 Hart Rd., Twin Lake MI 49457 or Email info to: [e-mail]August 21, 22, 23, 24 at Six Crows Earth Temple, Twin Lake, MI 2008 Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual Retreat Swimming with the Undines — Soak, Splash, Shape, and Shift Enter 2008 — treading water won’t do anymore! Tap into the Unconscious Universe of the water, is responsible for the vitality within all Last year, we had fire in our bellies. This year, liquids, so they play an essential role in the lives we’re all about integrating water, and we’ll be of all our relations: the plants, the animals, and swimming with the Undines. the humans. Graceful and gracious, sympathetic Our fifth annual Six Crows Gathering and Spiritual and loving, they are friendly to humans, and in Retreat aims straight for the heart of the matter, fact, the most human in appearance of all the tapping into the unconscious universe, the seat elementals. Undines are also seductive, and their of our hopes and habits; dreams and illusions; presence has a strong influence on our emotional passion, pride, and prejudice; vision; well-being, particularly in matters — An annual assembly of and personal power. Some of love and friendship, desire seekers sharing a common of the themes we’ll explore and lust. interest in Earth-centered include emotionality; sexuality, (Of course, all elementals are and esoteric philosophies, sensuality; balance; release balanced within their, well... creating sacred space of obstructions such as elements, i.e. water nurtures judgment, attachment, and the without and within. This is and adapts, but it also ravages past; forgiveness; invocation and stagnates. See Page 3, a not-for-profit event, and and evocation; generating Oh Those Seductive Undines, attendance, camping, trance states; non-traditional to learn more about theseTrading Post are free. banishing methods, personal elementals of the water.) peace; and the restoration of joy and innocence. Andrieh’s ritual will lead us in a merger with an Undine for elemental assistance in personal areas Enter the Undine of water need and/or desire, and to facilitate the This year’s featured presenter, Frater Andrieh invocation of desirable water attributes. Remember Vitimus, Asogwe level Houngan in Haitian Vodou, that Undines are present in everything comprising Usui/Karuna Reiki master, teacher, hypnotherapist, water, and we humans certainly are largely water; life coach, and long-time magician, is designing a also Undines are able to a great extent to control Saturday night Shapeshifting Ritual that promises the course and function of the water element, so to entice the Undines in all their allure. we should have a lively and powerful session. Mind you,... continued: see Soak Page 3The activity of Undines, those captivating creaturesPage 2 Six Crows Gathering Greetings Friends; Event Standards What a crazy and wonderful year it has been in Gifts of the Spirit (GoS)our neck of the woods. A lot of change, but all Friday and Saturday mornings we share our talents as good stuff. Our beautiful new home is pretty gifts to one another. We have had an incredible variety well complete, and we’ll be settled in by the of exchanges over the years, including stone, Tarot, time this newsletter is in your hands. hands-on, and Peruvian medicine bundle divination; Exciting changes are underway for The Gathering massage; Reiki and assorted other healing modalities; this year too. Last year, I asked you all for aura cleansing; yoga; manicures and pedicures; Hootchie suggestions and the big one was, more free time. Mama’s temporary tattoos; fire cleansing; music therapy; oil essence therapy; crystal therapy; etc. etc.So we’ve pushed back the opening