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are experience-based. Not only do participants receive information
linearly through presentation, discussion and dialog, the primary
teaching modality is through exercises and personal experience of
the material.
Shamanic teaching and training is based on "experience first,
dialog after." In that way, participants have something to
relate to in discussions and a basis for questions.
Location
Most workshops are held at NiaSpace.
NiaSpace Mind Body Soul
3212 S Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78704
512-443-3013
Sponsor a Workshop at
Your Location
Workshops can be presented in most facilities that allow for music and
provide sufficient space for movement. The facility must have:
• sound system with line-in capability
• wood/uncarpeted floor preferred
• ability to be darkened
• comfortable floor seating
Contact Gerry with your interest and to discuss arrangments.
The Facilitator
Gerry Starnes, M.Ed., has facilitated events and workshops for more than
10 years. He is the Executive Director of Ravens Grove Foundation
for Healing, a Founding Member of the Society of Shamanic
Practitioners, and co-owner of NiaSpace in Austin.
As a teacher and facilitator, he holds regular classes and presents
a variety of workshops in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
He is among the most active and experienced TranceDance facilitators
in the US.
Gerry has experience in counseling, teaching and group facilitation.
He offers individual and group sessions and programs.
More
Information
Gerry Starnes, M.Ed.
Phone: 512-586-2736
On the Web:
• Ravens Grove Foundation
for Healing
• NiaSpace
• Society of Shamanic Practitioners
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Shamanic Passages
Shamanic Passages is a body of work based on contemporary shamanic practices
with roots in ancient culture and teaching at least 40,000 years
old. Classes and workshops are primarily experiential and include
elements of shamanic journey and TranceDance.
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Power
Animals Intensive & Series
This special program combines
the two primary workshops - Totem and The
Shadow - into a one-day intesive. Each part may be taken separately. |
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Power Animals
The Power Animals workshop provides an experiential learning process
through which participants learn about and encounter their own power
animals in a direct and personal way.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
Power
Animals: Totem
This workshop goes deeper into the realm of Power Animals to discover
and explore Life Totems, those animal and elemental spirits that are
relatively unchanging throughout one's life.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
• 1 day workshop with Power Animals
Power
Animals: Shadow
A haunting and powerful Spirit resides within each of us: The Shadow.
It is represented in mythology and shamanic tradition as a fearsome -
perhaps frightening - presence. Yet the gifts it brings are among the
most powerful.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
• 1 day workshop with Power Animals
Walk Of
The Ancestors
The Walk of the Ancestors experiential workshop allows individuals to
trace back through their Spiritual history and draw upon ages of accumulated
experience and wisdom to address current needs, helping to heal the connection
with Spirit. The dialog and exercises provide participants the structure
and context by which potentially to encounter ancestors through the 9th
generation.
• 3-4 hour workshop also can be presented as a 2-day 6-8 hour workshop.
Forgiveness
Journey
Clearing Ancestral Lines
This workshop completes the cycle begun with the Walk of the Ancestors.
Learn the Hawaiian practice of Ho'oponopono, which is a prayer of forgieveness.
Applied to the Walk of the Ancestors, this workshop offers a powerful
and compelling way to clear the ancestral lines and forge new relationships
with relatives living and past.
• 6-hour workshop also can be presented as a 2-day program in two parts.
Medicine
Wheel Journey of Life
This workshop allows participants to review their own Journey of Life – to
identify the source of blocks and breakthroughs, and ultimately to envision
the next stages of their Journey with the assistance of Spirit. Two TranceDances
and handouts are included.
• 7-10 hour workshop or
• 3-day co-facilitated retreat
Phoenix Rising
The Medicine Wheel Journey of Life considers one's entire lifetime evolution.
But where are you NOW? Phoenix Rising explores the transition from
your current to your future life story.
• 4 hour workshop
• 1 day workshop or retreat
Choosing
Your Tribe Retreat
You have natural, supportive relationships with other beings on the planet,
as well as relationships that develop over time that do not serve you.
By thoughtfully, mindfully and through your connection with Spirit choosing
which relationships to keep or eliminate, you can feel more open and
free to be who you are. This process can be seen as "choosing your
tribe."
This retreat provides a natural, insightful and spiritual
structure and context within which to intiate and begin this process. Participants
first identify their own "totem" or "tone," and then systematically
identify the totems of their relationships to identify which resonate and which
do not.
• 2-3 day retreat. |
