Schedule Of Events

Time

Wednesday Evening

06:00 to 07:30 

Welcome and introductions – Brett Messer - You will also be smudged with sage and sweet grass to prepare for the weekend of ceremony.

07:30 to 09:00 

Pipe Ceremony - Brett Messer - Brett was passed the GOC pipe from Pamela Lightsong Scheler in Odessa TX in 2009.  Brett is now the Pipe Carrier for the Rainbow Bridge Clan.  He creates sacred space through ceremony. He will be assisted by other pipe carriers, as is our tradition to open the weekend ceremonies.

Thursday Morning

08:00 to 09:00  

Brett will continue introductions for people who did not make the circle Wednesday night. Smudging again.

09:00 to 10:00 

Welcome words from WinterFox (Cliff Buchanan). Here is where we acknowledge the coordinators, which are responsible for organizing the various activities of our weekend. Each workshop presenter will say a few brief words about their workshop. Also, any special announcements and reminders will be made here.

Virginia "Nightsun" Viles - Sacred Gratitude
We all have been taught that giving thanks is essential to living in normal society, but many of us don't know how far gratitude extends even out into the world of the four leggeds and other creatures of the universe. Come learn how gratitude will expand your life. 

Thursday Afternoon - Workshops

01:30 to 03:30 

"Conscious Communication" - Susan Murray and Ken Shaw

Thursday Evening - Sweat Lodges

04:00 to 05:00 

Children’s Sweat Lodge - Shawna Mitchell

07:00 to 07:30

08:00 to 10:00 

Women’s Sweat Lodge - 

08:00  to 10:00 

Friday Morning

04:30 to 07:30

 Co-ed Dawn Sweat Lodge - 

Friday Morning - Workshops

09:00 to 11:00 

"A Discussion on Music as a Healing Modality" - Sarah Starkey

11:00  to 01:00 pm 

"World Famous Pancakes" - June Baldwin - (Odessa Texas)

Friday Afternoon

02:00 to 03:00

03:30 to 06:00 

Dave Arneson - Preparation for the Sweet medicine Dance  – 

Everyone pitches in to prepare the dance circle. 

Dusk to 11:00 

Time to dance your dance of life and find your own Sweet Medicine. Gather for the processional, which will enter the dance circle from the four cardinal directions. Choose your direction or... let it choose you. Trust in Spirit to guide you this night to find what your soul needs. Dress your best, paint your face, wear your mask or not, find your center and dance your best.

11:00 to 01:30 am

Co-ed Sweat Lodge  - 

Saturday Morning & Evening

08:00 to 09:00

09:00 to 11:00 

“Talking Stick and Give a Way” – Vickie Vaughn and Steve Kirby

Bring a gift wrapped in a paper bag for the “give-a-way.” This should be something of significance (meaningful) to you, which you now want to relinquish your attachment to, and pass on to a new keeper. The size or monetary value of this item is irrelevant but the more significant to you the better. It may be symbolic of something of yourself, which you have 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-a-way” at this time.

11:00 to 01:00 pm

“Feast” Bring “pot luck” dish and share the fellowship at June's kitchen!. Please stay as long as you can to help take down the sweat lodges and police the campsites.

01:00 to 1:30 pm

08:00 to ???

Sunday Morning

8:00 am - 03:00 pm