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Greetings Folks,

Singing Wolf Center usually hosts a number of workshops throughout the year, so please scroll down if you're interested in seeing what's happening and where. There are also a number of workshops we've created that can be held anywhere with enough lead time. Examples of these include, "Sacred Mysteries of the Medicine Wheel: Symbolic Journey of Self-discovery, with Patrick Price and Kristi Cowles, M.A., based on the book "Icons of the Mythic Self" where participants create their own deck of personal icon cards. Patrick and I need a minimum of eight people in order to teach this workshop. Myron Eshowsky is usually willing to teach shamanic workshops, as well as Helen Bond, drumming, when she's not in West Africa. These, to give you an idea, yet we love to create and are always open to suggestions.

On the "Past Presenters" page, you will find a good sample of workshops hosted by Singing Wolf Center since 1990. We remain honored that these workshop presenters have graced our stage, so to speak. Some names you might recognize are as follows: John Broomfield and Jo Imlay (now residing in New Zealand), John Travis and Meryn Calander (authors of "Wellness for Helping Professionals"), Ed McGaa (author of many books, including "Rainbow Tribe" and Native American Wisdom"), Myron Eshowsky, Christina Baldwin, Z. Budapest, Selena Fox, Herb Stevenson, Michael and Justine Toms (New Dimensions Radio, and authors of "True Work"), Nancy Hill, Raj Alwa, Jim Ehmke, Helen Bond, Brooke Medicine Eagle, and Judyth Weaver -- to name just a few. Their workshop descriptions are also visible on that page.

So please feel free to explore www.singingwolf.com, as there is lots to view, including our mission statement. Also, Kristi Cowles now has produced four music CDs, which are always for sale (see the music page for titles and descriptions).

On that note -- may you thrive and find peace wherever you go, may you walk gently upon this fragile planet of ours, and may you always follow your heart.

Kristi Cowles, founder of:
Singing Wolf Center
Singing Wolf Productions
Pederson Victorian B&B

PS: If you're politically oriented (actually, this is way beyond politics) and curious about the stolen presidential election, please have a look at this website for a list of other websites and articles on the fraud that occurred on Nov 2, 2004: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html

If you're curious about what we've had going on in the last year or so, we have begun keeping a history of past workshops, called, strangely enough, Past Presenters at Singing Wolf Center, where you can browse through descriptions of previous events. Many of these people will be returning to Singing Wolf Center in the near future.

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Singing Wolf Center Calendar of Events Fall, 2006

Thursday Night Meditation
Raj Alwa

Dates: Every Thursday night beginning on January 11, 2007
Times: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Fee: Heart Donation Limited seating: 16 people

The sitting method Raj uses consists of three rounds of sitting stillness, with two rounds of walking stillness interspersed in the three rounds of sitting -- a method which has a long tradition in Zen and Buddhist meditation practices.

About the Presenter:

Raj Alwa is a holistic health-care practitioner in practice for over 25 years, more specifically

trained as a cranio-sacral therapist. He describes his work using the acronym FLOW: Food, Love, Oxygen, Water and believes that by attending to the cellular dimension of these four elements, one can affect profound systemic healing.

In the early 1970's he studied yoga with Swami Rama at the

Himalayan Institute, at which time he was introduced to meditation. Later, he added Zen and Zazen meditation to his practice, working with Roshi Phillip Kapleau at the Zen Center in Rochester, New York. Raj has been sitting ever since, plus for the past 10 years, has facilitated weekend retreats at the DeKovan Christian Canter in Racine, Wisconsin.

For fifteen years during the '80's and 90's, Raj also worked along side his mother, Dr. Rathna Alwa, at the Alwa Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In this holistic medical practice, he functioned as a therapist, patient liaison, technician, and bio-oxidative therapist. Together they developed ways to use ozone in order to greatly assist folks to heal chronic diseases, including cancer.

The extraordinary healing work accomplished at the Alwa Clinic inspired Raj to continue using oxygen to eliminate hypoxia, or cellular oxygen deprivation -- one of the most crucial present day challenges to our physiology. Hence, he continued to refine the Aerobic Bath -- a means by which anybody, young or old, fit or unfit, lazy or motivated, can achieve significant aerobic conditioning. His website is: www.aerobicwaterworks.com. Raj is also a musician, his main instrument, drums in all shapes and sizes.

Basic Workshop in Core Shamanism
The Way of the Shaman with Myron Eshowksy

Dates: March 10 & 11
Times:Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m, Sunday: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Fee: $210.00 ($75 nonrefundable deposit)
Location: Michael Fields Institute, East Troy
Click here for a map to the Michael Fields Institute.

This workshop is the prerequisite for all Foundation for Shamanic Studies workshops and training programs.

During this experiential workshop, participants are introduced to core shamanism, the universal and near-universal basic methods of the shaman to enter nonordinary reality for problem solving and healing. Particular emphasis is on the classic shamanic journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humankind to explore the hidden universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream. Participants are initiated into shamanic journeying, aided by drumming and other techniques for experiencing the shamanic state of consciousness and for awakening dormant spiritual abilities, including connections with Nature. Practice includes comparisons by participants of their discoveries in shamanic journeys as well as being introduced to shamanic divination and healing. They are provided with methods for journeying to discover and study with their own individual spirit teachers in nonordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Participants learn how the journey is utilized to restore spiritual power and health, and how shamanism can be applied in contemporary daily life to help heal oneself, others, and the Planet.

Please bring a rattle or a drum if you have one. Wear comfortable clothing, warm socks, and bring a bandanna, cushion and/or blanket (if the sponsor does not provide cushions), a rough-surfaced rock the size of a grapefruit, and a pen and notebook to record your journeys.

Completion of this workshop qualifies participants to take more advanced workshops and training courses with Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman, and the other faculty members of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies

About the Presenter:

Myron Eshowsky has taught shamanism throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe since 1987 and is a teaching faculty member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. He is the founder of Community Shamanism; an organization dedicated to community healing and peacemaking, as well as a journal on the integration of shamanic methods to healing our times. He has published extensively on the use of shamanic methods to work with a number of issues and many of them can be found on the internet. Further questions on shamanism or this workshop, email Myron at: myron@mwt.net, or visit his website, http://www.communityshamanism.com/

Myron is also the founder of Pathways Foundation for Peace and Healing (website: www.peacehealing.org), a not for profit peace making and spiritual healing organization based in the the midwest.

Nine Gateways of the Medicine Wheel:
A Winter Exploration of the Sacred
Patrick Price

Date: March 24 & 25
Time: Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m
Fee: $195.00 ($75 nonrefundable deposit)
Limited Space: 12 people (pot luck supper on Saturday night)
Location: Singing Wolf Center

Winter is the season to slow down, pull back from the frenzy of life, and quietly examine our personal connections to the Great Mysterious. In this workshop we will begin our journey through am exploration of the nine gateways of the Medicine Wheel, each of which represents a different self (e.g., visionary, caregiver, leader, creator) that helps us to maintain personal integrity and a divine relationships with all things. On Saturday, a nature walk will help us to connect with our totem guides for each of these nine selves.

Honoring the perennial sacred truth that each being is mirrored in every other being, we will journey deeper into the mysteries through silent meditation, storytelling, and drumming to embrace the wheels of life contained in each gateway. These circles within circles will help us understand, appreciate, and express the nine universal vibrations that motivate us to approach the Medicine Wheel through a specific self; the nine evolutionary phases of each self; and the nine sacred lessons contained therein.

Our weekend journey will end by uniting with the global nurturing power of Earth Mother (upon which the Medicine Wheel rests) with the universal guidance of Sky Father (to which the Medicine Wheel is exposed). A prayer ceremony to honor our connections to the gateways of the Medicine Wheel will conclude the workshop.

About the Presenter:

Patrick Price is a gifted teacher and storyteller who shares his Native American ancestry with the Anishinabe (Ojibwa) people. He has been a spiritual counselor for the past decade in the Milwaukee area, teaching Native American Spirituality, meditation, and healing techniques involving the Medicine Wheel and other sacred tools of ritual. He currently teaches at Cardinal Stritch College, the Telesis Institute of Alverno College, and the Singing Wolf Center in Lake Geneva. Patrick is co-author of the circle art book, Icons of the Mythic Self: Journey Into the Realm of Personal Symbols, with Kristi Cowles.

Last updated February 2, 2007

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