The Four Winds Newsletter - September 2008
Equinox - Creating Balance

The Inka Prophecy announces a time of upheaval, turmoil, and opportunity that started in the year 2000 and peaks on December 21, 2012. This coincides with the time frame of the prophecies of the Maya and Hopi. The prophecies are very detailed; the Aztec talk about seven heavens of decreasing choice and nine hells of increasing doom, each 52 years in duration. The Maya have a precise calendar that ends on this date, when a new cycle of time begins. read more >


Celebrate Your Life
Scottsdale, AZ
Nov 7 - 10
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East-West Books
Mountain View, CA
Nov 14 & 15
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Kripalu
Stockbridge, MA
Dec 5-7
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Open Center
New York, NY
Dec 12 & 13
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The Shamanism and Sexuality Conference
Jan 23 - 27, 2009
Santa Fe, NM
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An essential practice for any transformational process is stillness. Breathing techniques are used around the world as a tool to guide us into this deep place of stillness -  the place where we can touch infinity. As the world spins with confusion and fear, it is important to spend time each day connecting in stillness and silence. In this place, we touch infinity, where we are no longer bound to the painful stories from our past, and our future is no longer scripted by our history.

This month's featured CD, Morning Meditation and Breathing Exercise, guides you step by step through the breathing practice that is taught in our Healing the Light Body School.

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Mastery of Time
Joshua Tree, CA
Nov 1 - 6
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Reading the Signs of Destiny
Toronto, Canada
Nov 2 - 7
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HLB West
Joshua Tree, CA
Nov 6 - 12
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HLB East
Joshua Tree, CA
Nov 7 - 13
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HLB South
Orangeville, Ontario, CAN
Nov 8 - 13
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Walking with Protection
Park City, UT
Dec 1 - 6
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Munay-Ki Mentoring
Park City, UT
Dec 7 - 12
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Working with the Sacred
Park City, UT
Dec 7 - 12
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“The man of power has no past,
no history that can claim him.
He has cast aside his shadow
and learned to walk in the snow
without leaving tracks.”

This quote by Alberto Villoldo beautifully illustrates the topic of this month’s newsletter. We are entering into a time of preparation in order to learn the lessons that we are here to learn. On or around November 11, we begin the cycle known by the Mayan calendar as the "Dawn of the Sixth Day". It is now, the darkest hour before this dawn that we must re-examine and re-evaluate our belief structures and prepare for renewal and rebirth by learning how to walk without leaving tracks.

In this newsletter, we share some ideas that you can use to help transition into the Sixth Day. We have listed specific steps for transformation in our featured fire ceremony section and invite you to connect in stillness with our breathwork and meditation CD. We are delighted to introduce you to our private consultation staff, who are available for consultations and phone sessions. Our featured class this issue is the HLB South, where you learn how to prepare for the new by shedding your personal past.

No matter where you live or what language you speak, now is the time to go within and find that place of stillness where we are all one; it is there that you will find those pieces that need to be released into the fire. We encourage everyone to hold a fire ceremony on November 11. To stand at the fire, let go of the past and step in beauty into this new Day.

In Peace, The Four Winds Staff


Shamans tell the story of two worlds that live side by side. One, they say, is a world of bondage with “masters and slaves”. The other, a world of freedom and immense power, inhabited by creators. Those living in freedom can see the other world but choose to live and source from a place of service to the world, powerfully creating.

The Healing the Light Body School teaches you the very specific processes to leap from the world of bondage into that of freedom. This month's featured class, “The South”, or session one, is the first step on this new journey towards living in a world of power and knowledge.

The South takes us through the first step of the wisdom teachings, a very ancient and legendary journey of initiation to become a person of knowledge. At the energetic level, the South teaches us how we can shed the stories of the past - not just each old story or belief individually but all of them at once, as a snake sheds her skin. In the process, you will cease to be a victim of what has happened to you and instead will turn your wounds and old beliefs into sources of power by reconnecting back to the garden of life, where all of life is abundant. In this session you will also receive the rites of initiation to awaken God-consciousness or the "Divine' brain and experience the specific processes that allow you to reinvent your life and step into a place of your "becoming".

In these times of tremendous acceleration, taking the leap into a new world of abundance and freedom is no longer discretionary or a luxury. Each of us is being called to make a quantum leap from wherever we are to dream our world into being.

We have a number of upcoming South programs starting in Sweden, Eastern US, Western US, Canada, United Kingdom and Mexico (Hage un “click” aqui para detalles de Mexico en Espanol).

Please click on any of the classes listed above for detailed information. For more information on session one, or to register, please contact:

Judy McCarthy
Associate Dean of the Healing the Light Body School

Dannielle Bryan
HLB South Program Coordinator


As things continue to accelerate exponentially, it is imperative that we work now to shift all of our old stories and limiting beliefs. The transformation that occurs in a private consultation can change in a few sessions what psychotherapy can take years to shift. Experiencing a private consultation with one of our staff members will remove the imprints from the Luminous Energy Field that keep us stuck in old patterns and will provide us with a new map to live abundant and fulfilling lives. The methods utilized in these sessions are the same techniques that are taught in the Healing the Light Body Program and are an excellent way to experience firsthand the incredible transformation that this work provides.


Alberto Villoldo, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and psychologist who has studied the spiritual practices of the Amazon and the Andes for more than 25 years. Founder of The Four Winds Society, he instructs individuals throughout the world in the practice of energy medicine. Alberto sees private clients on a very limited basis, focusing on sessions with advanced practitioners and destiny retrieval work.


Linda Fitch is the Executive Director of the Four Winds Society and Dean of the Light Body School. Recently, she has focused her efforts on developing the Four Winds non-profit project and accompanying DVD, Dying Consciously, a free service dedicated to helping people die consciously. A passionate teacher, Linda works at the level of the soul to go beyond the place of words alone to look at the larger mythic patterns which can shape the way we perceive the world. Linda also offers private consultations and life coaching.


When "Wake" introduced himself to the Q’ero of Pisac, in the Sacred Valley of Peru, the weavers responded: “Wayqi” which means "Spirit Brother" in the Quechuan language. He aspires to embody this name in his work and life. Wake blends emerging shamanic principles and practices into his energy work.


Deidra (Dee Dee) Fite was told at a young age she had the heart and hands of a healer. Being good in math and science, she didn't live these words until much later. Spirit called, and when she finally answered, the path of the shaman unfolded. Dee Dee’s passion is following her soul's journey as well as facilitating others to shape their own. She has journeyed on several occasions to Peru to hold healing ceremonies with the Q’ero shaman. Dee Dee brings deeply transformative techniques to her clients.


Healing the Light Body School assistant Oliver Cooperman gratefully walks the path of the heart in the Earthkeeper tradition. Trained as a psychiatrist and medical acupuncturist, Oliver now practices energy medicine with his wife Corrie, who is also a graduate of The Four Wind's Light Body School.



We are delighted to welcome Sadie George, who has recently joined our staff here in the Four Winds office. As the Private Consultation Coordinator, Sadie schedules all sessions with our consultation staff and can also refer you to our senior staff practitioners in your area. For more information or to schedule a private consultation contact Sadie >

 




11/11 POWER AND ETHICS

The Mayan Prophecies speak of the time around November 11th, 2008 as a time of great emergence, of moving into the "Sixth Day". This new day will be a very fruitful time in preparation for the great galactic alignment of 2012. We are currently in the very darkest hour of the night before the breaking of the dawn. We must be vigilant and attentive without engaging the world with drama. Now is the time to heal ourselves and our culture, to reevaluate and reexamine all belief structures, to cull what needs to be shifted and to allow ourselves to be renewed and reborn with this approaching new day.
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By Linda Fitch
Healing the Light Body School Dean

We have chosen the Fire Ceremony as this month’s featured ceremony because it allows for rapid transformation. Fire provides the avenue to let go of the old story and drama, to transform, to renew and to be reborn. Through fire ceremony, you honor your lessons and old belief structures by placing them in the fire and turning them over to Spirit. By releasing these old patterns and beliefs into the fire, you heal deeply at the level of the soul without having to experience them at the literal and physical levels.
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"Learn what you came to learn, or your story will greet you like a shadow, attaching itself to you every time you step into the sunlight.”"

Alberto Villoldo

LINDA'S ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CAKE

In the pursuit of living fully and enjoying the fruits of the autumn harvest we are recommending Linda’s amazing zucchini cake. Taste tested by the staff, we have given it our highest approval rating – yum, yum!

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I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed - goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Dawna Markova

"...we have not come here to take prisoners or to confine our wondrous spirits, but to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and Light!"Hafiz

 




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