Setting the stage for our training we will explore the similarities and difference between Yoga and Shamanism. We will study the chakra system, learn how they are connected to the endocrine and nervous system, and how to clear and balance the energy body. We will clarify Sanskrit words such as chakra, samskara, nadi, shakti, karma, and prana.
Chakra Illumination
The chakra clearing process
Microcosmic Orbit
The warriors breath / Your breath
Jaguar Initiation
Embarking on a healer’s path
Medicine Bundle
The serpent stone
Jaguar Moves
The awakening and expansion series
We will heal our past and nourish our future. Shamans are called Wounded Healers. We will transform our wounds and traumas into power and compassion.
Power Animals: November 6-7, 2010
Both the yogic and the shamanic traditions tap into the archetypes of power animals; as allies, advisors and protectors. We will study the Chakra totem and discover the animals and their symbolisms in Hindu mythology and yoga postures as well as the shamanic way of walking with your power animal.
Chakra Totem
The expansion series
Map and Compass
The Jaguar explores the underworld
Containing Energy
A shamanic journey
Ethics
The Jaguar healer's code of conduct
Jaguar Moves
The expansion series
As we move into the awareness of no internal conflict and inner peace, we let go of external grasping, projections, and energy struggles. As Jaguar Path healers we no longer experience life as a problem, but rather walk as part of the solution.
Shamanic Journeys: December 4-5, 2010
We will explore three profound shamanic journeys. We will benefit from their healing and empowering process, as well as learn how to lead others through them. We will experience deep Savasana (the corpse pose) coming to understand this posture as a portal to the underworld (the subconscious mind).
Kundalini Breathing
Kapalabhati
Savasana
Practive dying
Shamanic Journeys
Exploring the underworld
Jaguar Moves
The journey series
We will study the next set of “The Jaguar Moves", and learn how to access Kundalini energy to expand our energy body. We will step into the Jaguar spirit becoming warriors and healers moving from the state of "I need" to the consciousness of "what can I offer."
The Freedom of Discipline: January 15-16, 2011
In our fourth session, we will take our deepest dive into the science and philosophy of Yoga as a path of liberation. We will establish an understanding of the basic principles of Ayurveda, in order to be able to know more about our client's predispositions.
Patanjali's Yoga sutras
The eight limbs of Yoga
Namas and Niyamas
From the Shaman's perspective
Ayurveda
The basic principles
Jaguar Moves
The foundation series
We will take a look at Patanjali’s approach and understanding of human evolution and consciousness through the eight limbs of Yoga. We will study the yogi’s inner and outer disciplines and examine the Shaman’s take on the Yamas and Niyamas.
Warrior's Shield: February 12-13, 2011
We will learn the technique of clearing the body from intrusive entities, and crystallized energies. This practice allows us to liberate Prana from the energy body, making it accessible to us once again. It reinforces our immune system and is available for our everyday life and in the designing of our dreams.
Entities and Energies
Removing Blocks
Creating Sacred Space
The power of the six directions
Tabernacles of Light
Feeling and creating vortexes of energy
Jaguar Moves
The Warrior's Shield series
We will learn how to clear homes and businesses from negative energies, in order to allow for health and abundance. Through the powerful Warrior's shield, we will acquire an energy field that protects us as we walk in the world, and while working with clients.
Dear Advisor — Divination: March 5-6, 2011
Our sixth session is all about our sixth sense of insight, and the use of oracle techniques. We will take a look at the use of the Tarot deck to gain insight into our client’s past, present and future situation. In even more depth, we will explore the use of the I-Ching, and how to draw information from Taoist wisdom.
I-Ching
Sacred book of the Taoists
Tarot
Three card layout
Sand Painting
Our power on the energy field
Jaguar Moves
Magical passes
In this session we will discover that not only can we receive information from the future through divination, but we can also affect the outcome of events through the use of sand paintings. We can become the directors of our own life and future.
Tracking and Seeing: April 9-10, 2011
We will learn how to track information through our client's body language and aura. This helps us understand their condition, set priorities, and choose the appropriate tool for each session.
Meditation
The Shaman's foundation
Tracking
Receiving information
Tapping
Connecting glands
Ayurvedic Remedies
Home remedies for common ailments
We will learn the method of tapping to awaken the connection of the pineal gland with the heart and with the parts of the body that have been disconnected. As an important complement to the consultation process, we will learn some helpful Ayurvedic home remedies and food supplements to share with our clients.
Using the Passwords: May 7-8, 2011
Each client comes with a story and specific words that bind them. We will learn how to identify these words, which we will refer to as passwords. Offering new words to our clients, we assist them to release guilt and inhibitions, enabling them to rewrite their story.
Consultation Protocol
Priorities and methodologies
Passwords
How to identify and use them
Navigation tools
Setting a new course
Altar
Connecting to the Divine
We will provide our clients with a map to use in navigating a new course in life. We will also learn how to lead them into creating an altar for a spiritual life. We will learn the nuances of a Shamanic consultation and clarify priorities and methodology
Feathers, Rattles, and Drums: June 4-5, 2011
We will celebrate our graduation by dancing around the fire as a tribe. We will build a sweat lodge, and enter into our final purification as empowered healers.
Sweat Lodge
How to build and lead one
Drum Circle
Celebrating as a tribe
Fire Ceremony
Sacred circles
Practice Groups
Offering healing to visitors
We will learn the most auspicious times of the year to perform ceremony, how to lead men's circles, women's circles, and ways to honor the changing of seasons. We will dedicate our prayers to the healing of the planet, humanity, loved ones and ourselves.
