CALENDAR FOR CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
The Following Classes and Workshops Offer opportunities for self-healing, awareness,
and empowerment through various processes such as: guided inner journeys, exercises to broaden self-awareness,
exercises to access natural healing energy, and ceremony.
2012
SHAMANIC JOURNING CIRCLE
Monthly Wednesdays Jan 18, Feb 15, Mar 14, 7 - 8:45 PM,
Dr. Marian Vitali, DC
Come with your drum or rattle to call your spirit teachers, angels, power animals or helping guides to come along for your journeying experience. These sessions help you access spiritual wisdom for your own transformational growth and health. We come together in a supportive group to build our medicine power and refresh our skills. This is for those with some journeying experience. Please bring a drum or rattle, eye cover, and notebook.
Register with Marian at 860 918-8703
Fee: $30 for 3 or $12 per class.
Location: Spirit Matters -A center for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
199 West Center St., Manchester, Ct.
www.spiritmattersct.com
MUNAY KI DEEPENING SERIES
Monthly 4th Fridays, Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 23, 6:30-9 PM,
Patricia Shannon, MS and Marian Vitali, DC
An Invitation to Deepen Your Connection to the Heart of the Condor
Open to: Munay Ki recipients who have received at least the 1 st
4 of the 9 Rites
The time is here - when the Condor of South America, and the Eagle of North America
will “fly together in the same sky”. This means that we join the power of our heart with
that of our mind so we can live more consciously and feel more alive, more
empowered.
Join our Friday night series to explore the heart of the condor and deepen your
connection to the Munay Ki Rites and your heart. Through sacred ceremony and
spiritual journeys, you will be guided to sense the joining of the Eagle and the Condor
within yourself and learn to fly wing to wing with Spirit .
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Call to register and to find out more. Patricia at 860-871-5467 patricia_shannon1@sbcglobal.net or Marian at 860-918-8703 or marianvitali@sbcglobal.net.
Fee: $75 for the series or $30 per class.
Location: Vernon
A Journey of Luminous Transformation:
Medicine Wheel Teachings and Munay Ki Initiation Rites
Monthly. 4 session Intensive: Feb 10-11, March 9-10, April 13-14,
May 18-19,
Fri: 6:30-9pm; Sat: 10am-5pm
Patricia Shannon, MS and Marian Vitali, DC
Join us this Winter and Spring, natural times for renewal and planting new seeds,
to receive the Munay
Ki rites and walk the Incan Medicine Wheel.
This intensive brings together the power of the Munay Ki Rites with the wisdom
of the ancient Medicine Wheel to guide us on a path of rapid transformation.
The Rites have been handed down for genrations by the Incan and Qero Shamans of Peru
to help us fully into lives of service, compassion, and power. The Medicine Wheel
is a sacred map showing us how our journey relates to all of
creation.
Powerful, these ancient teachings accelerate our personal healing and the
evolution of our consciousness.
Each session engages you in intuitive healing exercies, guided shamanic journeying
and sacred ceremony. As you walk the Medicine Wheel and receive the Rites,
you will acquire useful tools to help you live each day more consciously.
The core of the program will connect you to a spiritual lineage beyond any one culture
and center you in your heart.
Session 1 - Way of the Hero: Shed limiting thoughts and belief.
Session 2 - Way of the Warrior: Step beyond fear and violence.
Session 3 - Way of the Seer: Embrace our spiritual path.
Session 4 - Way of the Sage: Own our power as co-creators.
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As certified energy practitioners and full mesa carriers, Marian and Patricia meld
their individual paths, healing modalities, and spiritual practices to share a
common vision - to support the life journeys of those engaged in personal transformation,
earth awareness, and continued spiritual awakening.
Call to register and to find out more. Patricia at 860-871-5467 patricia_shannon1@sbcglobal.net
or Marian at 860-918-8703 or marianvitali@sbcglobal.net.
Fee: $330, a 10% discount is available to seniors and holistic practitioners
Location: held in Vernon and Ashford, CT
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING: BEGINNERS' INTENSIVE
Saturday, January 28, 1 – 5 PM - Dr. Marian Vitali, DC
Welcome newcomers to the journeying experience where we will explore the beginning yet essential practices
to access the world of spirit. Shamanic journeying helps you connect to spiritual wisdom for your
own transformational growth and health. This class provides an introduction to the journeying process,
experiential journeying to both the lower and upper worlds, and retrieval of both your power animal and
a helping spirit teacher. Suggested book for preparing:
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide by Sandra Ingerman. Please bring a drum or rattle,
eye cover, and notebook.
To register call Marian at 860-918-8703
Fee: $40.
Location: Spirit Matters -A center for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
199 West Center St., Manchester, Ct.
www.spiritmattersct.com
SPRING EQUINOX: BIRTH YOUR POTENTIAL An Intermediate Intensive
Wednesday, March 1, 7-9 PM - Marian Vitali, DC & Lisa Burch, LCSW
The Spring Equinox is a natural time of year for the “Greening” of our potential.
There is a surge of new growth well supported by the earth, wind, rain, sun, and moon.
In this workshop, we partake in this wave through guided meditation/journey,
singing bowls, and ceremony to give growth
to our consciousness intentions. Discover your inner planting tools.
• Create an intention that you want to spring forth.
• Relax and bring your senses into your intention.
• Release your potential through all the elements.
• Feel the singing bowls carry your intention.
• Spring yourself free.
Bring a rattle/drum, notebook, and a “green heart”.
notebook.
Fee: $20. Register by Sunday March 18 th. with Marian at 860-918-8703.
Location: Spirit Matters -A center for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
199 West Center St., Manchester, Ct. www.spiritmattersct.com
DREAM CATCHER: SHAMANIC JOURNEYING & DREAMING An Intermediate Intensive
Saturday, March 31, 9:30 AM -12:30 PM - Marian Vitali, DC
This workshop is for those with shamanic journeying experience.According to
the shamanic view, all realities are dreams and in every moment we are dreaming our world into being.
It’s a practice to bring “right action, relationship, and vision” into every moment.
This class will journey about what dream to include in our evolving spiritual consciousness.
To help support this we will make simple dream catchers and bless/empower them in class.
Prior to class journey/dream about what is the essence to include in your dream catcher.
Suggested book for class: Awakening To The Spirit World by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman. Please bring simple materials to make your own dream catcher, bring a drum/rattle, eye cover,
and notebook.
Register by Wed. March 28 th with Marian at 860-918-8703.
Fee: $30.
Location: Spirit Matters -A center for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
199 West Center St., Manchester, Ct.
www.spiritmattersct.com
2012 APPRENTICESHIP: A Call To Wholeness
A mentored program through a shamanic medicine path: to open your heart to spiritual wholeness, authenticity,
and the power of nature.
Find out more 860-918-8703.
Sample of Previous Classes and Workshops
Please call if you would like one of these classes presented to your group or organization.
RECONNECTING TO THE WEB OF LIFE: Indigenous Perspectives and Practices for Well-being
Marian Vitali, DC
The Program will integrate a few shared mind-body-spirit principles and practices based on cross-cultural indigenous wisdom.
There will be an experiential component, key to opening the heart of well-being.
Come and experience a healthy dose of diversity, wellness education, and fun!
Location: This program took place at Integrative Health Services at Windham Hospital
A JOURNEY OF THE HEART: A Journey of the Heart: strong>
The Munay Ki Rites and Medicine Wheel Teachings
- Patricia Shannon, MS and Marian Vitali, DC
Join us this Spring, a natural time for renewal and planting new seeds, to receive the Munay
Ki rites and walk the Incan Medicine Wheel. This Intensive brings together two powerful and
ancient teachings to accelerate our personal healing and the evolution of our consciousness.
These rites have been handed down for generations by the Incan and Qero Shamans of Peru
and The Medicine Wheel is a sacred map showing us how our journey relates to all of creation.
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SHAMANIC JOURNEYING
Come with your drum or rattle to call your spirit teachers, angels, power animals or helping guides to come along for your journeying experience.
These sessions help you access spiritual wisdom for your own transformational growth and health.
We come together in a supportive group to build our medicine power and refresh our skills.
This is for those with some journeying experience. Please bring a drum or rattle, eye cover, and notebook
ONENESS BLESSING
Come learn about the Oneness or Deesha Blessing that initiates a process of Awakening to Oneness.
Receive this direct transfer of sacred intelligent energy that opens the heart, heals relationships, quiets the mind and opens
doors to higher states of awareness. Patricia Shannon and Marian Vitali, DC
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING - BEGINNERS INTENSIVE
Welcome newcomers to the journeying experience where we will explore the beginning yet essential practices to access the
world of spirit. Shamanic journeying helps you connect to spiritual wisdom for your own transformational growth and health.
This class provides an introduction to the journeying process, experiential journeying to both the lower and upper worlds, and
retrieval of both your power animal and a helping spirit teacher. Suggested book for preparing:
Shamanic Journeying A Beginner's Guide by Sandra Ingerman. Please bring a drum or rattle, eye cover, and notebook
SHAMANISM IN TODAY'S BACKYARD: AN INTRODUCTION
SHAMANISM is no longer underground; more and more the wisdom of shamans, sages, and medicine people is being recognized
and drawn upon all over the world. Are you wondering why this is so and how you might access this wisdom to empower your life a
nd reconnect with your own destiny, community, and planet? If so, this introductory session is for you! There will be a presentation of
some basic features of Shamanism, an intuitive exercise, and a closing ceremony. Bring your curiosity and open heart - and lift your spirit.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN "VALENTINE": A JOURNEY TO YOUR OPENING HEART
Come for an evening guided shamanic journey and learn from the world of spirit how to love yourself.
As you may have heard, ?You are the one you have been waiting for?.
Bring a sweet food, poem, or something of your choice to share.
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: THE FEMALE ARCHETYPE
Bring a female icon, goddess, grandmother, etc. image, story, and/or song.
We will celebrate the Feminine Archetype in her many diverse forms through sharing.
For men and women.
FALL EQUINOX: DISCOVER IT'S WISDOM AND METAPHORE IN YOUR LIFE
Come for an evening to celebrate and discover how harvest can be a daily inspiration.
Where is the ripe sumptuous harvest in your life? What might you be releasing like the tree and
leaf parting? How are you transforming this seasons rich colors into your new palette?
We will use guided imagery, sharing, and ceremony. Please bring something to share e.g., a photo,
a poem, a song, a story, a fruit.
NEW MOON SHAMANIC JOURNEYING
We come together at the New Moon time, a natural cycle, to explore the guidance available
through this heavenly body. This will be a guided middle world journey.
You will call for your spirit teachers, angels, power animals or helping guides to come along.
These two sessions help you access spiritual wisdom for your own transformational growth.
Please bring a drum or rattle, eye cover, and notebook.
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING CLASS
For newcomers and for those with journeying experience, we come together in a supportive group.
You learn to connect to your power animal and spirit guides or to experience a deeper connection
to the ones you have. These sessions help you access spiritual wisdom for your own personal
growth and health.
RECALIMING YOUR WHOLENESS
Have you ever put light-hearted and self-awareness together?
Reclaiming Your Wholeness offers you just that opportunity: to release limitations,
rekindle your passions, and reconnect to your potential. This class provides a light-hearted
approach to self-discovery through creative playful exercises, ceremony, guided imaging, and reflection.
You can lighten the load through your intuition, nature?s voice, and shamanic wisdom.
Bring a rattle (if you have one) and a bagged lunch.
INTUITIVE DIVINATION
Bring a notebook, your curiosity and a light heart to practice stretching your intuitive muscles.
We will access whats known as the shamanic way of seeing (divining, sensing, tracking) to connect
with our spirit-animated world. Our greatest tools will be quieting the mind, opening the heart,
trusting our own experience, setting intentions, connecting to nature, and taking ourselves more
lightly.
YOUR INNER WELL
Your Inner Well is a class that guides you through a self healing practice with imaging and breathing. You learn and practice an energy releasing and renewing process by simply using your hands, breath, intention, universal love, and an open heart. It helps restore balance, passion, and a lightness of spirit in your life. These can be taken as stand alone classes or you can dip into your own inner well over and over again.
Lecture and Mini Demonstration of
SHAMANIC ENERGY HEALING
Luminous Body Healing
Soul Retrieval Healing
Divination as Healing
The wisdom of traditional medicine people, shamans, and sages is being recognized and drawn upon all over the world. Are you wondering how you might access this wisdom to begin to empower and heal your life? How to reconnect personal, community and planetary well-being? These lectures and demos integrate energy medicine and spiritual healing practices from indigenous wisdom.
Give yourself the chance to remap a vision of wholeness starting from right where you are.
Come enjoy the lecture, some voluntary participation, and mini demo!
INNER PRANIC WELL
This year align your energy with your vision of a more healthy life. Every time you dip into your "Inner Pranic Well", you give yourself an opportunity to restore
balance, release stagnant energy, access your potential, and cultivate a lightness of spirit.
In this workshop you:
- learn about three powerful energy centers in the body that store the key to renewal;
- outline your vision;
- practice an energy releasing and renewing process by simply using your hands, breath, intention, universal love, and an open heart.
EARTH, MOON, and SUN: Awakening Your
Life's Journey
An eight class series we meet two times a month
for four months!
We come together-in a medicine circle, where listening and sharing supports each of our dreams and journeys. In this class you have the opportunity to step into your wholeness; by releasing old wounds, rekindling your passion for life, and reconnecting to your potential and destiny. How is this self-awareness and self healing done? through shamanic spiritual wisdom and practices. These engage your intuition, perception, and imagination. For example one exercise would be to: write the highlights of your life story then write it again as if it were a river. This can help you start to detach from the story and begin to understand how your river of life flows, as well as connect you to the energy held within the story. A few months together allows each person to delve into restorative practices and integrate personal growth into everyday consciousness. You will also be given practices to do outside of class. Wear comfortable clothing, bring a rattle, a notebook, and a sense of adventure.
YOUR UNIQUE SELF HEALING with Guided
Meditative Practices, Yoga, and Intuition
You hold the guiding key to create healing changes! In this rejuvenating and self-affirming afternoon workshop, we will use the dynamic quartet of guided breath, relaxation, movement, and inner-sensing communication (intuition). You may be surprised to find that the source of what ails you can also be a healing gift. This workshop will guide you through several meditative exercises, inner dialogue while in a relaxed state, a few modified yoga postures, and a home-coming celebration. You will leave with experiential information and resources to access the healing wisdom within. Wear comfortable clothing, bring something from nature (rock, shell, feather), and a notebook.
SHAMANISM IN TODAY'S BACKYARD:
An Introduction and Ceremony
SHAMANISM is no longer underground; more and more the wisdom of shamans, sages, and medicine people is being recognized and drawn upon all over the world. Are you wondering why this is so and how you might access this wisdom to empower your life and reconnect with your own destiny, community, and planet? If so, this introductory session is for you! There will be a presentation of some basic features of Shamanism, as well as an experiential despacho (gifting back to Earth) ceremony, and a fire ceremony.
SACRED SELF : SACRED SPACE
ARE YOU A PRACTITIONER IN THE HEALING ARTS? MEDITATOR? SPIRITUAL EXPLORER?
In all of these, preparing ourselves and our space are fundamental. In this class, we begin to reclaim the sacred within; explore models of who/what composes sacred space; and put into practice creating sacred space. Our class will participate in exercises, guided journeys, ritual, and a fire ceremony. Shamanic practices will be woven into the class. When creating Sacred Space, we call; spirit comes. Within the heart of this dynamic source, extraordinary shifts in consciousness and healing are possible.
Please bring a sacred symbol or object of your own, a notebook, flashlight, rattle(will provide if needed). Wear clothing comfortable for both in/outdoors (umbrella if needed).
RELEASE AND RENEW: GUIDED BREATHING AND ENERGY SELF-CARE
SOMETIMES OUR BELLY, HEART, OR HEAD CAN USE AN "ENERGY MAKE-OVER". There are times when we experience accumulated dense energy in our body, feelings, or thoughts as rigid, stuck, or sluggish. Other times we may experience our energy as scattered or fragmented. In this class we will practice moving energy with our breath, through our body, to connect with essential energy from nature. We learn how to simply release, balance, and newly imprint.
Uniquely Yours: SELF HEALING through Guided Meditative Practices and Intuition You have what it takes to create healing changes!
In this 4 week class, we will use the dynamic trio of guided breath, relaxation, and inner-sensing communication (intuition).
You may be surprised to find that the source of what ails you - can also be a healing gift. This class will guide you through several meditative exercises, inner dialogue while in a relaxed state, and a ceremony to release and renew energy. It will also offer information and resources to access the healing wisdom within.
Intuitive Shamanism
Stretch your intuitive muscle, whether it's currently active or dormant, in this 4 week experiential sampler. Each week we practice what's known as the shamanic way of seeing (divining, sensing, tracking) to access our spirit-animated world through different practices. These practices are rock reading, journeying, energy body release and renew ceremony, and earth painting. Our greatest tools will be quieting the mind, opening the heart, trusting our own experience, setting intentions, connecting to nature, and taking ourselves more lightly.
So bring a light heart, a notebook, a rattle (there will be a few to share if needed) wear comfortable clothes, and bring 2 rocks that attract you from nature to the first week.
Deepening Intuitive Shamanism
Stretch your intuitive muscle in this 3 week experiential sampler. Each week we practice what's known as the shamanic way of seeing (divining, sensing, tracking) to access our spirit-animated world through different practices. Our greatest tools will be quieting the mind, opening the heart, trusting our own experience, setting intentions, connecting to nature, and taking ourselves more lightly. So bring a light heart, notebook, and wear comfortable clothes. 1st week Read the energy of your personal story through three tarot cards.
2nd week Further your shamanic journeying experience. (If you have no prior experience call.) 3rd week Maintain a healthy energy body with simple practices and a ceremony.
ANCESTOR CEREMONY
A MYRIAD OF RELATIONSHIPS we have with those that have passed on: loving, deeply missed, forgotten, bittersweet, and incomplete - from family, friends, animals, to archetypical ancestors of this land. Come all, come all, we invite them. This afternoon will unfold through guided journey, ceremony, and together creating an ancestral altar, to release "old business", honor, and celebrate. In a "village" way we will respectfully hold sacred space for each other and for the "invited". In honoring our ancestors, we bring a gift of healing and wholeness - to them, ourselves, our families, and future generations.
Bring photo or remembrance of ancestors, which you will place on a shared altar for the evening. If you can, please bring flowers for the altar, a simple snack or beverage to share with each other in a closing celebration.
MEET THE ELEMENTS: Seed a Shamanic Connection
REVITALIZE YOUR BODY AND ITS LUMINOUS ENERGY FIELD. The natural elements - earth, air, water, fire, spirit - flow through both our body and our world. Let's get connected! This refreshing remembrance and celebration of an oft-neglected connection is an act of healing, love and power. Our session will be an experiential one with indoor and outdoor exercises, visualizations, movement, and a ceremony in which each participant receives a luminous imprinting of these essential elements. These imprinted seeds are for us to grow.
Applied Posturenomics
A workshop with a chiropractic wholistic perspective on posture, stress reduction, and well-being In relation to sitting and standing, our most common postures. This workshop will demonstrate and provide an opportunity to experience key approaches to:
Aligning one's posture in sitting and standing positions
Simple accessible stretches
Stress reduction through breath and imagery
The workshop's three-fold approach develops awareness of everyday postures and of the empowering steps that can reduce physical stresses and strains.
(The workshop is not intended to provide treatment of particular individuals and all participation is voluntary.)
