Windwalker - Awareness, Spiritual Growth, and the Vision Quest

Awareness, Spiritual Growth, and the Vision Quest

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AWARENESS AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

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THE VISION QUEST

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The Awareness and Power programs of Windwalker are based on the understanding that realization of our potential in body and spirit can be attained through a personal and individual connection with the natural world. These programs teach and practice integrated philosophy and techniques for learning, exploring, and working in the realm beyond the physical. They are grounded in the spirituality of native peoples of North America. In particular, we acknowledge and honour the lineage of Tom Brown Jr. and Stalking Wolf.

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Awareness and Power programs are scheduled according to need. We will come to wherever there is a group of ten or more people ready for these teachings. Generally, a person who wishes to participate will organize these workshops and will be the contact for information and registration.
Participants supply their own food unless otherwise indicated. We usually prepare the food and eat together; most of the time we share or trade as well, maybe cookies for carrots.
As a result of a shift in my own consciousness, I will no longer indicate or ask for a fee for the spiritual teachings I offer. There may be an amount requested to offset travel, room rental, and other related expenses when applicable. Additional offerings and gifts in exchange for these teachings will be up to the individual student.
Because we in mainstream society are not accustomed to this way of exchange, it is expected that some will be asking for guidance about what kind or magnitude of gift is appropriate. In earlier times, and still to a degree today, gifts might include clothing, food, tools, beautiful or ceremonial objects made, hunted, or created by the person who received the teachings. In modern times, money is often the main and sometimes the only gift. Consider making your gifts for a two-day workshop comparable in value to the amount that you would normally be paid for one day of work.

NATURAL SHAMANISM - a Nature-Based Path of Spiritual Awareness and Power

The Natural Shamanism programs are seven- or ten-day courses. They are about developing higher levels of spiritual consciousness and power. They are designed to teach the power and techniques of native healers and shamans as well as ways to grow toward higher levels of consciousness. A variety of techniques drawn from Native American ways are used in the training to support the development of the person and the healer.
In these intensely experiential workshops you will develop both your spiritual consciousness and power, and a personal and intimate connection with the natural world. Your spiritual growth will be enhanced. Our time together will include an integrated series of exercises and personal experiences of both the spiritual and physical worlds.

See the descriptions of the Awareness and Power programs below for additional detail about the first few days of the Natural Shamanism workshops.

Participant comments:

"This course opened my mind to a universe that is much bigger than I ever imagined. It was done in with such ease and natural talent that it is difficult to grasp for a long time what happened. I am not finished understanding the depts and truth of this teaching. I am looking forward to deepening the truths about our wonderful life and all its potential."
Berit

"What makes this shamanic workshop so different is the way it is put together and built up - and especially the teacher, Wes Gietz. Just go to www.windwalker.ca/about and tune into the picture of Wes. Try to look at his picture and sense this wonderful spirit who has integrated so much knowledge, wisdom and experience from a great lineage of teachers. And futhermore has chosen to become a teacher himself and with a loving and compassionate heart share and give all he can to people from all paths of life. Even people like me who cannot or will not make it out into the wilderness. He takes the experiences and makes them applicable to a classroom gathering and in nearby nature. This means everybody gets a chance to learn this, so very valuable understanding of the importance of awareness in nature, even urban nature - and in the spiritual realms. To get experiences of both realms and the connections between them. Never before have I been able to get such a clear mental AND experiential understanding of the shamanic spiritual realms. The shamanic map of the Universe gives such profound meaning to my inner journeys also when I do them from other concepts or models than the shamanic. The practical ways of using this understanding stays with me and I use them ever so often. I am very grateful to the teachings and the teacher. Thank you."
Britt

"The course has expanded my contact with nature and increased my humility, care and respect for all living creatures. I experienced new openings to perceiving and sensing. And the possibility to check my observations with the other participants meant, that I could not just dismiss my experiences as something I just told myself. Wes's way of presenting this old tradition made this path credible and possible for me, although I did not have a prior contact with shamanism. I wish for others that they get to experience Wes's big heart, his solid grounding and extensive experience and not least his pleasure in sharing this wisdom with us."
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AWARENESS AND POWER, Level 1 (Two Days)

Note: The Awareness and Power programs have essentially the same content as the Natural Shamanism programs described above, presented in a series of shorter workshops.

In Level 1 you will expand your physical awareness, and use this expanded awareness to explore the transition from physical to spiritual awareness. Learn how modern science rediscovered what the ancients knew about brain waves and states of awareness. Learn the overview map of the spirit realm. Discover the richness of the spirit realm and create your own "good medicine place" there. Move into and communicate safely in the world of spirit. Learn the Shamanic Law of native healers.

Minimum age 19 years; younger with permission.
Maximum 25 participants.

AWARENESS AND POWER, Level 2 (Two Days)

Using the energy of the realm beyond the physical for healing is a powerful way to share or give back of the gifts we receive.

Extend the detailed map of the spirit realm. Build landmarks in the nonphysical realm for healing, strength, traveling in spirit, and communicating with physical and nonphysical beings. Learn directly from the plant people. Practise these skills. Learn about types of energy and use energy for healing.

Maximum 25 participants. Prerequisite: Awareness and Power 1.

AWARENESS AND POWER, Level 3 (Two Days)

Complete the map of the spirit realm. Continue to explore this realm; practise and improve inner vision; learn more ceremonies and tools for maintaining balance and bringing people together.

Maximum 25 participants. Prerequisite: Awareness and Power 2.

AWARENESS AND POWER 4 and beyond

There are currently thirteen two-day workshops in the Awareness series. All Awareness workshops are progressive.

THE VISION QUEST

With every thought of fear or terror set aside
May I recognize whatever visions appear as the reflections of mine own consciousness. -- Tibetan Book of the Dead

Our story is always unfolding. From the beginning to the present, growth and change have been both our constant allies and our challenge.Truth can always be found in those who are willing to face those challenges and enter birth-passages that lead to heightened awareness and kinship with all creation.

Historically, nature has always been the place for human initiation. The Vision Quest, the search for Inner Vision, is one of the ancient Rites of Passage to undertake this initiation.

Those who seek more deeply will find ancient mysteries of self-transformation, even as nature herself transforms:mysteries of poise and clarity, of self-reliance and faith, of dying and return, even amid times of chaos and devastation.

There is an element of perceived risk. Four days and nights alone in a natural place (solitude), fasting (emptiness), exposure to the elements (vulnerability), and self-reliance (self-trust), are the earmarks of old ways of learning. You can expect to invest a good deal of time watching yourself and your relationship to the earth and the rest of humanity, without undue dependence on "therapists" or "experts." You will be expected to live self-reliantly, to pitch your own tent, to cook your own food, to experience a multitude of emotions and feelings as personal borders are risked.

Understandings will be shared in councils where the right questions are often more significant than answers. An application for enrolment is required. It is necessary for you to know why you are participating.

"Awareness is the doorway to the world of spirit." - Stalking Wolf