This three-day introductory Equine Facilitated Learning workshop offers tools for thriving in the high-pressure atmosphere of today’s world. Designed for the multi-tasking individual seeking balance between life’s responsibilities and challenges and living a healthy lifestyle, this workshop explores the messages behind our emotions and ways of restoring the authentic self in business, family and personal relationships. With the horses as our teachers, we will learn the value of congruency, how to identify hidden fears that inhibit our progress, and how to use our energy to accomplish our goals. This introductory workshop qualifies you for advanced work at Loghaven or at the Epona Equestrian Center in Sonoita, AZ.

2012 Workshop dates:

November 2-4

Nine to five daily

Cost: $450; $100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; balance due 30 days in advance

Bring a friend and save $100 each! ($200 deposit for both must be sent 30 days prior to workshop to qualify.)

This 3-day introductory Equine Facilitated Learning workshop offers an opportunity for participants to seek the buried treasure that lies deep within our souls by experiencing the natural connection between horses and humans. Through exploration of the messages behind the emotions and recognizing the false self voices that govern reactions and behaviors, participants can begin to clear a pathway through life’s experiences and resulting limiting patterns to experience the freedom of living in the moment as who we truly are.

Activities will include meeting the herd, using the body as a sensing device, reflective round pen experiences, a cleansing and releasing ceremony, and shamanic drumming meditations. Each morning we begin with Svaroopa yoga sessions that open the body mind and spirit in preparation for a deeper experience.

This introductory workshop is a qualification for advanced work at Loghaven or with Linda Kohanov at the Epona Equestrian Center in AZ.

2012 Workshop Dates:

July  13-15

Nine to five daily

Cost: $450; $100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; balance due 20 days in advance

Bring a friend and save $100 each! ($200 deposit for both must be sent 30 days prior to workshop to qualify.)

Are you seeking a deeper relationship with your authentic self? Do you long for a deeper connection to Spirit and to the rhythms and cycles of the Earth? Are you ready to break the old agreements you have made with yourself and restore balance and harmony in your life? Then come and dream and dance with our horses at Loghaven in this four day retreat. The horses lead as we learn to engage with them in our dreams and dance with them as we explore movement, music and meditation on our way  to personal freedom.

Activities include Svaroopa Yoga, meeting the herd, active and reflective round pen experiences and dancing with the horses, shamanic journeying to the drum around the bonfire, and dreamwork.

Note: Optional reiki, massage, embodyment, yoga therapy and shamanic healing is available by appointment and for additional cost. Please call or email for information and to schedule.

2012 Retreat Dates

August 23-26

Nine to five daily

Cost: $600; $200 nonrefundable deposit reserves space.

Note: This popular retreat is limited to eight participants, so please reserve your place early!

Bring a friend and save $100 each with $400 deposit for both must be received 30 days prior to retreat.

This retreat includes all activities required in an introductory Equine Facilitated Learning Workshop and is a qualification for advanced work at Loghaven with Eve or with Linda Kohanov at the Epona Equestrian Center in Arizona.

Experience a deeper awareness of yourself, identify your personal roadblocks, and explore areas of bodily tension that inhibit your ability to reach your own true potential as you meet and engage with the Equine Magic Appaloosa herd. Allow your body, mind, and spirit to awaken and tranform in our changing world amidst shifting reality.

Through a series of specially designed activities in a group setting, you will receive a boost in self esteem and confidence that comes from learning how to establish boundaries as you engage and direct a thousand pound creature using mental focus, creative visualization and clarity of intent.

Prior experience with horses is not necessary, and all activities with horses are on the ground in this workshop.

Participants will engage in these skills and activities:

• Uncovering  messages behind emotions
•  Being congruent vs. incongruent
•  Identifying False Self and Authentic Self Voices
•  Establishing and maintaining clear and consistent personal space
•  Using the body as a sensing device to identify emotional and physical states
•  Holding sacred space
•  Experiencing reflective round pen work with horses
•  Understanding the Nine Essential Skills for building authentic community
•  An introduction to Svaroopa Yoga to assist the opening of body, mind and spirit.

This 3-day introductory Equine Facilitated Learning workshop is a qualification for advanced work in Equine Facilitated learning at Loghaven with Eve and with Linda Kohanov at Epona Equestrian Center in Arizona

2012 Workshop Dates:       May 25-27

Nine to five daily

Cost: $450; $100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; balance due 20 days prior

Bring a friend and save $100 each!  ($200 deposit for both must be sent 30 days prior to workshop to qualify.) 

Suggested donation: $10

Introductory workshop in Equine Facilitated Learning using the Epona Approach for those interested in integrating their Twelve Step Program work with horses as partners. Activities include meeting the herd, using emotion as information, accessing an authentic, creative presence, moving beyond conditioned behaviors and thought patterns, establishing and maintaining clear and consistent personal space, using the body as a sensing device, hands on activities with horses as guides, and developing essential skills for building Authentic Community. Meets Friday evening 7-9 and 9-5 on Saturday & Sunday.

2012 Workshop Dates:      September 7-9

Friday 7-9 pm and 9-5 Saturday & Sunday.

Cost: $175; $50  deposit reserves space; balance due 15 days prior (Financial aid available for those in need. Please call for details.)

Bring a friend and save $25 each!  ($100 deposit for both must be sent 20 days prior to workshop to qualify.) 

An experiential weekend workshop that grounds participants in ancient practices of the Toltecs that lead to  peace and serenity amid the chaotic phenomena of 2012.  The Toltecs were known as Artists of the Spirit who taught that we are born whole, perfect and complete as  luminous eggs.  Then life experiences penetrate our eggs, inserting elementals and leaving holes that allow our essential energy to leak away. We can  return to wholeness as we embark on the Path to Freedom by practicing the Masteries of Awareness and Transformation as presented in this workshop.  Meets 9-5 each day.

2012 Workshop Dates:      August 11-12 and November 10-11

Nine to five daily

Cost: $250; $100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; balance due 15 days prior

Bring a friend and save $50 each!  ($200 deposit for both must be sent 20 days prior to workshop to qualify.) 

Participants will engage in activities based upon Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements: Being impeccable with your word; Taking nothing personally; Making no assumptions; Always doing your best.  The Masteries of Awareness and Transformation., including recapitulation, will be presented as tools for personal growth and transformation. Meets each day from 9-5, lunch included.

Nine to five daily

Cost: $250; $100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; balance due 15 days prior

Bring a friend and save $50 each!  ($200 deposit for both must be sent 20 days prior to workshop to qualify.) 

This program is for those on a path of personal growth who wish to explore the ancient practice of shamanism as part of owning their own spiritual authority and to help others find solutions to personal and community problems.

Some participants will focus on their own healing, personal growth and spiritual evolution, while others will seek to add tools to their kit that will enhance their efforts to aid individuals and the larger community in restoring health, harmony and balance.

In this intensive, participants will learn basic and advanced shamanic skills in four group sessions, share journeys in monthly conference calls, and have four one hour individual sessions with Eve, in person or by phone. Each participant will have the opportunity to participate in their own Visionquest on sacred land in a safe and supported setting.

Each participant will receive shamanic healings and learn how to access healing, empowerment and spiritual guidance for themselves and others in the traditional shamanic way. Shamanism teaches that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit, that we are spiritually interconnected with all of life and with the earth itself. Through shamanic practice we reconnect with nature, its rhythms and seasons, and thus restore balance and harmony. Shamanic work is always performed for the highest good and for the benefit of all life. It is based upon direct experience and not a belief system. It is a practice of spiritual autonomy, giving back to all the right to “see” for oneself through the technique of shamanic journeying and the interaction with Helping Spirits as one seeks healing and information on behalf of oneself or others.

As outlined by Angeles Arrien in her classic book The Four Fold Way, the shamanic path may encompass the way of the warrior, the healer, the visionary, or the teacher. Which of these directions calls to you? Some on the shamanic path are called to all of these, while others to one or two. if Ghandi’s words speak to your soul: “You must be the change you want to see in the world,” join us for this journey together.

This year-long apprenticeship is divided into four Gatherings, with an initiation at the concluding session. Participation in Visionquest during the fifth session is strongly encouraged but optional. Those choosing not to quest may hold sacred space with the fire tenders and may participate in the Sweat Lodge Ceremony which concludes the traditional Visionquest. Monthly conference calls are an integral part of the program and included in the cost.

*Eve B. Lee is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three-Year Program, and has completed advanced work with the Foundation. She has been trained in core shamanic practice by Michael Harner, and in soul retrieval by Sandra Ingerman. As a certified shamanic practitioner since 1993, Eve has performed the traditional role of healer and “innovator,” assisting individuals and communities in making transitions that maintain or restore health, harmony and balance in times that demand

change.

Gatherings:

1. Introduction to Shamanic Practice                                     cost: $500

July 26-29, 2012 at Loghaven

       2.  Shamanic Experience and Practice                                       cost: $500

November 15-18, 2012 at Loghaven

       3.  Shamanic Journeywork, Power Objects and Ceremonies

April 25-28, 2013 at Loghaven

      4.  Advanced Shamanic Practice                                                          cost: $500

July 25-28, 2013  at Loghaven

      5. Visionquest  (optional)                                                                   no charge; donations accepted to cover expenses only

October 3-6, 2013

Total cost is $2000

Note: The Certificate of Course Completion for Shamanic Path Apprenticeship is not intended to convey that a person is a shaman, a shamanic practitioner, or a shamanic healer. This course is intended only as an introduction to shamanic journeywork. We cannot certify that a person is a shaman — it is successful results in shamanic healing that make a person recognized by his/her clients as a shaman or shamanic healer, and even that status can change at any time according to a practitioner’s relationship with the Helping Spirits

What is shamanism?

Shamanism is a path of knowledge and a process of seeing with the heart for the purpose of accessing spiritual guidance, healing, and information. Shamanism teaches that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit, and that we are spiritually interconnected with all of life and the earth itself. Through shamanic practice, we can reconnect ourselves with nature and its rhythms and seasons, and restore balance and harmony. It has no doctrine or belief system.

What is core shamanism?

Core shamanism is the universal or near-universal principles and practices of shamanism not bound to any specific cultural group or perspective, as originated, researched, and developed by Michael Harner, with whom Eve B. Lee has studied since 1993.

2012 Workshop Dates May 12-13, 2012

2012 Workshop Dates October 13-14 2012

Nine to nine Saturday and Sunday, with breaks

Cost: $250 including lunch both days and dinner Saturday

$100 nonrefundable deposit reserves space; $150 balance due 30 days prior to workshop

Bring a friend and save $50 each! ($200 deposit for both must be received 30 days prior to qualify.)