Dream catcher by
Jane Lenoir
Join us this weekend as we shift from living in our heads to living from our hearts!
Friday Evening: Introductions & Opening Pipe Ceremony
Saturday Morning: Aggie Shuffle +:
Pamela and Brett will start the day with some fun activities to wake up your body, mind, and soul. Every journey begins with trust - come let down your armor by learning to trust in yourself, trust in others, and trust in the process.
Saturday Afternoon: Where Are Your Wounds?
We will use the Crystal Bowl, along with a guided meditation, to carry you into a space that will allow you to re-remember, identify, and "wear" your wounds as we move through the rest of the day.
Sweat Lodge Building Ceremony
Help prepare the scared space that will allow you to release the wounds and prepare you for the next step in your journey.
Rock-A-Bye
It is easy to talk about "letting go" of our pain, but harder to know how to actually do it. How can we forgive ourselves and others, how can we heal others and ourselves? A small story and a little nurturing will be used to begin this awakening in us.
Saturday Evening: Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Enter the womb of Mother Earth to release those things that no longer serve you and ask for the things that will. Prayers, stories, songs, and love are among the many things shared in the scared lodge.
Sunday Morning: Give-Away Ceremony, Feast, Clean Up
Facilitators
Cliff Buchanan: Cliff is a computer consultant in Odessa Texas and has led many Shamanic Journeys, Sweat Lodges and other types of ceremonies.
Pam Scheler: Pamela is a Pipe Carrier of the Rainbow Bridge Clan. She creates sacred space through song and ceremony. Pamela has her M.A. and is an Adoption Counselor in Temple TX.
Brett Messer: Brett has been a Pipe Carrier for nine years. In that time he has helped others find their own truths through the Purification Lodge and workshops.
Registration and Cost
Cost: Love offering. Generally 0 to 60 dollars. This is not about money.
Registration: You must let us know you are coming! Please let us know as soon as you think you might attend. Cliff Buchanan: 915-550-3302, 1404 Castle Road, Odessa, Texas 79762, E-mail WinterFox@gatheringofcircles.com
Basic Information
Do: Honor and respect the land and natural life on it as part of our family. Treat it as you would like to be treated.
Do not bring: Any alcohol or drugs.
Do bring: A "Give-Away" for the giver. Wrapped or in a paper bag. This should be something of significance (meaningful) to you, which you now want to "give-away" or relinquish your attachment to, and let pass on to a new keeper. The size or monetary value of this item is irrelevant but the more significant it is the better. It may be symbolic of something of yourself, which you have or are or wish to turn loose of so that your "hands" are freed up for your present pursuits. Listen to your heart in deciding what to "give-away" at this time. Your own food for meals and snacks and whatever it takes to prepare it for you, mess kit (each person will responsible for his own plate, cup, and utensils. Please limit disposable items. Potluck food for the community feast on Sunday. Clothing to cover up from the sun. It may be chilly. Insect repellent. Long pants, boots, long sleeve shirt, sunscreen, drinking water (2 gallons. water not available). Noisemakers (anything you have as a percussion instrument to join in the drumming) drums, rattles, click sticks, tambourines, etc. Toilet paper, large towel to sit on in the purification lodge, first aid kit.
Sleeping: We will be sleeping under the stars. Bring tent, sleeping bag, etc.
Optional: Journal to record your experience and share with. Stories, myths, poems you feel speak to your experience. Tarps or old blankets to cover sweat lodge. Wear appropriate clothing for the purification lodge.
Directions: To Cloudcroft: Take Hwy. 130 South out of Cloudcroft for 1.2 miles. Turn left at Sleepy Grass Campground for 0.7 miles. Turn right on 5661 for 3.9 miles. Turn left at 5661 marker, forked tree on right, then turn left again immediately and follow road.
Disclaimer: No ceremony we perform should be construed to be a traditional Native American ceremony.