Retreats, Workshops & Circles
For specific dates and details of upcoming retreats, workshops and circles, visit the calendar.
Why we retreat
So we can step deeply into the work, thereby creating a healing experience that lives in our bones.
Drum Birthing Retreat
A drum is a powerful medicine or ceremonial tool, and it can be used for honoring the Great Spirit (my word, not necessarily yours), healing, clearing and generating energy. I will teach you the simple process to deliver into being your round 16" Elk, Horse, Buffalo, Deer, Cow or Moose skin shaman/frame drum, Sacred Medicine Wheel Drum and a beautiful beater. A one-day format is also available.
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Five Day Intensive Retreat
Offered to retreat and wellness centers all over the planet. We will birth a drum, and you will learn how to use your new sacred tool to shift consciousness, honor Spirit, and increase your intuition. We will also focus some time on the dynamics of forming your own sacred circles in your community.
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Personalized Healing Retreat or Vision Quest
Contact Cyndy to design this opportunity based upon your individual needs.
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An interesting word for a spiritual circle
All of these workshops have a shamanic feel, in that we connect with the elements, the Earth Mother, and all of her creature teachers, to inspire and deepen our experience.
Self-Healing Through Shamanic Journey
This experience is a prerequisite to entering the one-year shamanic apprenticeship. As you follow the heartbeat of the drum, we will explore the techniques to enter the shamanic state of consciousness, to seek guidance, insight and healing.
Learn more →Sacred Rattle Making
This two-day process (on two separate weekend days) offers you an opportunity to make a rawhide rattle in the way of the shaman.
Learn more →Sacred Crafting
We will do ceremony, vision our projects, create strategies for success, laugh, eat and celebrate the beauty that unfolds from our hands and hearts.
Reserve →Sound Healing or Sound Bath
During this one-day experience we will explore the principles, efficacy and healing potential of intentionally created sound. During the majority of our time together, you will simply relax and receive a continuous flow of loving vibrations.
Learn more →Sound Healing Masterclass
During this three-day masterclass we will explore the use of sound, vibration, and intention to facilitate a return to one’s state of wholeness and balance.
Learn more →How To Create And Live The Medicine Wheel
During this one-day workshop we will build a Medicine Wheel on your land in the way taught by the late Sun Bear, a powerful Chippewa elder.
Learn more →Why we circle
Folks have circled since time out of mind. Circles represent oneness, unity, harmony and balance. We hold love in the center of our circles. All traditions are welcome!
Drum Circle
We are inspired by the teachings of the Medicine Wheel while we use various forms of vibration, such as simple drum rhythms, rattles, Native American ceremony, and simple sacred dance movements, to create a shift in our consciousness. This circle is more contemplative and shamanic than musical. All are welcome!
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Shamanic Journey Circle
Journeying can serve as a powerful support for the many experiences we go through in our lives. As you follow the heartbeat of the drum, you will learn how to enter the shamanic state of consciousness to seek guidance, insight, and healing.
Sacred Pipe Circle Ceremony
This is a native way to pray. No mind-altering plant medicine is smoked in the pipe – just sacred herbs called Kinnikinnick.
Circle of Stones
A shamanic apprenticeship. In this circle we gather online approximately every other week to explore the Medicine Wheel from a shamanic perspective. A commitment is required, and the circle opens every season in March, June, September, and December.
The apprenticeship →