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You are invited to participate in any of the following Animá events, Herbal and Shaman Path Intensives at the Animá Sanctuary in the wilds of S.W. New Mexico, and the Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference outside of Santa Fe. Go to the Animá Sanctuary Page for a full description of the canyon workshop setting, and to read about the available cabins please turn to Lodging. Please also take the time to download some of the event flyers on our Spread The Word page – to post in appropriate places, and help get the word out about this place and these opportunities. -----------------------------------
(for both women and men) Taught by Kiva Rose with Loba & Jesse Wolf Hardin
You are invited to an exquisite three day long herbal intensive at the Animá Botanical Sanctuary in beautiful southwestern New Mexico. This powerful set of classes are specifically designed to encourage, inspire and inform both aspiring and practicing herbalists and medicinal plant enthusiasts. We will be focusing on foundational spects of the Animá Tradition of Herbalism, a vitalist approach to Traditional Western Herbalism, including sensory-based herbal energetics, medicine making, defining and recognizing basic constitutional types in the human body, discovering our plant allies and so much more! Wonderful, nourishing feasts including many wild and local foods will take place twice daily. Each day will be themed around a specific wild Canyon herb and the lessons they hold for us. A joyful immersion in wild plants, authentic being and earthen wisdom! You can help spread the word by printing and posting a Animá Herbal Intensive Flyer ------------------------------------
Never in my life have I been so whole-ly received as a person by a group, a community. I look forward to the real and lasting relationships that will emerge as a result of this Shaman's Path Weekend. As if the experience couldn't go any further, it does. Just being in a wild, sustainable, inspirited place creates yet another relationship that cannot be overlooked. Each day, I woke to song of nature calling me back home in myself. The way this wild place opened itself to me and showed me its spirit was profound. It speaks in a way that cannot be denied or overlooked. I would wake to song birds every morning with the urge to hop out of bed and immerse myself as deeply as i could in hopes of not missing any single moment that might be presented to me. A 4 day intensive held not in a classroom but an ancient Place Of Power. Taught by Jesse Wolf Hardin with Kiva Rose, the focus is on realizing a deep and experiential understanding of empowered self, and on redefining the role of the contemporary shaman in terms of envisioning possibilities, bridging the worlds, and healing personal and societal imbalance. Specific topics will depend on the needs and desires of the participants, but may include: • Developing conscious hyperpresence, hyperawareness, hypersentience, precognition and intuition, tapping primal instinct • Sensing, connecting with, drawing energy and discerning lessons from the various manifestations of the earthen Animá. • Recognizing and learning from our kindred spirits, including our animal totems • Reshaping perception • Plant medicines and teachers • Moving energy, and the Animá principals of healing • The Animá Medicine Wheel • Reincorporating the scattered or denied parts of our whole selves. Reintegrating mind, body, heart, spirit and earth. Together participants walk through the portal of the feeling heart, to enter into deeper connection with the daily miraculous… taking responsibility as potentially powerful, artful co-creators of our world and our reality. Those wishing, have the option of spending a night or more out on a mini-quest, or otherwise customize your weekend experience to best meet their needs. You can help spread the word by printing and posting a Shaman Path Flyer And please see Jesse's essay: "The Shaman: Awakening the Powers Within” “The change of direction can be accomplished only through what Carl Jung has referred to as ‘an obedience to awareness’.”
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15 featured speakers and teachers, two nights of live music. For more information and to register go to the Traditions in Westerns Herbalism Conference Site.
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“Our experience of nature is in many ways a silent one,” Jesse Wolf Hardin tells us, “or at least its songs are free of words as we know them, its sublime poetic moments recited in a language of ruffling feathers as much as avian melodies, in stillness as well as the wind, in our own anxious flesh and telling bones.” And yet some of us feel called, implored, impelled to translate nature’s poignant imploring, lessons and tales. For us, Jesse’s insights into the craft – and sharing our works and ideas with others – can inspire and empower “the artful translation of forest and feeling, matrix and meld, into words that roll rocks from the page, that sprout melodic rivers and dangle soil scented roots.” The emphasis will be on writing not “about” nature, but “from” that place where we know nature and our natural selves as one... our hearts, speaking from the heart of Gaia. The event will include: • 4 hours per day of teaching, plus one-on-one assistance • Morning guided and solo walks, practicing tools for awareness and observation • Evening readings, or question and answer • Completing a piece, inspired by your experience here • Suggestions and advice from Jesse as you progress on your piece, if you like • And reading or sharing your work with others, should you so choose
Hardin is the author of 5 published books and over 500 published articles, fiction and nonfiction, on subjects from spirituality to Old West history. Topics he may cover include: • Passion and commitment, the writer’s heartful investment • Writing as if every word matters, and regardless of whether you know anyone will ever read it • Why nature needs translators, champions and celebrants now more than ever before • The need to awaken, enliven, deepen and stir rather than to comfort, entertain or decorate • Learning to describe nature in new ways, and making the spirit, lessons and benefits of nature somehow accessible to a largely urban and often insular or distracted population • Evoking the natural within urban settings and plots, evoking the timeless in whatever time period you are working with • Exploring our authentic human/creature nature • Deepening and expressing “sense of place” • Movement, cycles, timing and rhythm • Developing an individual, discernible style • The different roles of the essay, article, novel and poem • The power of and inferences in metaphor, and the importance of not overusing them • Seeing through the five senses, employing intuition and primal instinct • The eros of nature • Getting the natural science right, without losing the sentiment and magic • Integrating the subjective human experience, making your nature writing personal even when not in first-person • Common ground, creating bridges, drawing in and including the reader • Avoiding polemics, while inferring a message or lesson • The importance of “the twist,” the ironic or unexpected that contributes to balance • The importance of what you leave out, and making use of mystery -----------------
Learn the philosophies and techniques of rivershed restoration, while actively assisting in the repairing and rewilding of our river. Animá Sanctuary is a textbook example of riparian recovery, a 24 year project that has since become a U.S.F.W.S. affiliated wildlife refuge. An expert in stream morphology and riparian ecology will sometimes contribute his wealth of information, as we work to improve the meander of the channel, plant willow slips, and arrest erosion. Loba, Wolf & Kiva will tell tales about their years learning how to reinhabit this ancient canyon spiritually as well as physically, heeding the lessons and will of the land.... "healing ourselves, as we heal the earth.” |
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