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Throughout time, human beings have looked upward for answers. This is why so many of our mythologies bring us to high places: The Shinto priests of Japan scale Mount Fuji; Turkey's Mount Ararat is revered by the Kurds; in India, Mount Arunachala is considered the...
The momentum tunnel is the main channel of our time line, charting the events of our past, present, and future; in fact, 99 percent of our future possibilities can be extrapolated from the direction of its flow. These are the strands that lie inside the...
The Laika tell us, "When we can walk on the snow and leave no tracks, when we cast no shadow, we don't disturb the ripples of time." Walking on the snow without leaving tracks means that we tread so lightly that we leave no trace...
Our oldest myths claim that we all enter the world with a calling in our souls. Carl Jung believed that when we don't heed our calling—and this is not a call to greatness, but a call to meaning—then a life is wasted. Likewise, when we...
The past few blog posts have focused on power animals. This week you will learn how to journey to the invisible realm of the Lower World to call for a power animal to accompany you back. Quite often, this will be one you haven't foreseen, perhaps...
The beauty of soul retrieval is that Spirit will provide you with whatever power animal you need without you having to figure it out, because it isn't a rational process. You simply have to work with what's given to you and explore the animal's attributes as...
Elise Kost has devoted two decades to guiding individuals and groups to claim courage and fully personify their beauty and joyful vitality of body, heart-mind, and spirit. She is a passionate poet, life coach, energy medicine practitioner, master certified Four Winds graduate, and lead faculty of The Light Body School. Greatly influenced by Nature and devoted to the Mystery, Elise helps others discover the Sacred, deepen their sense of trust, self-compassion, empowerment, and love for the transformational journey of creating a conscious life of wisdom, peace, and inspiration.
Karen Johnson was called to study shamanic energy medicine following a spiritual awakening and ensuing desire to teach others the way beyond death and how to dream their world into being. Karen is a graduate of Georgetown Law Center and holds master’s degrees in Public Health and Public and International Affairs (JD, MPH, MPIA). A retired federal administrative law judge, she practiced criminal and energy law for over 30 years, is a former hospital administrator and Fulbright Scholar in Afghanistan. Today she is a happy nomad who practices shamanic healing along the Way.
Ruby Parker’s career in the healing arts spans over 20 years and includes work as a massage therapist, Reiki master, personal counselor, and Energy Medicine practitioner focused on the connection of mind, body and soul. Ruby is Assistant Director of Alternative and Complementary Health at The Sanctuary at Sedona. A graduate of the Four Winds with master certification in Energy Medicine, she is also part of the faculty of the Light Body School.
Ruby Parker’s career in the healing arts spans over 20 years and includes work as a massage therapist, Reiki master, personal counselor, and Energy Medicine practitioner focused on the connection of mind, body and soul. Ruby is Assistant Director of Alternative and Complementary Health at The Sanctuary at Sedona. A graduate of the Four Winds with master certification in Energy Medicine, she is also part of the faculty of the Light Body School.
Trained by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Karen Hoza is a graduate of The Light Body School, holds a Masters Certification, and works as a teaching assistant and academic advisor for the Four Winds Society. She is gifted at creating and holding safe sacred space for rites of passage, ceremony, personal transformation, and self-empowerment for groups and individuals. Deeply connected to the Divine Feminine, Karen is inspired to share creative wisdom with all those ready to experience transformation in their lives.
Marcel Heyder explored many spiritual traditions and healing techniques before finding his life purpose in shamanism. For over a decade he has worked with groups and individuals in Germany, finding deep satisfaction in supporting others as they grow, discover true freedom and reclaim their sacred energy. He has enriched his personal experience with frequent travel to Asia and the Amazon and feels a deep connection to nature and the wisdom, light, and energy of the sacred medicine of the Amazon.
Moritz Reimann is a graduate of the Light Body School who works with groups and individuals around the world. His spiritual journey began 20 years ago, and he is driven by a fascination with how consciousness shapes reality. His calling is to help others release all impediments to living their full potential and to help clients navigate these times of change with grace and ease.
Elise Kost has devoted two decades to guiding individuals and groups to claim courage and fully personify their beauty and joyful vitality of body, heart-mind, and spirit. She is a passionate poet, life coach, energy medicine practitioner, master certified Four Winds graduate, and lead faculty of The Light Body School. Greatly influenced by Nature and devoted to the Mystery, Elise helps others discover the Sacred, deepen their sense of trust, self-compassion, empowerment, and love for the transformational journey of creating a conscious life of wisdom, peace, and inspiration.
Dean Taraborelli has traveled to sacred sites in over 30 countries to study and experience the wisdom of ancient cultures. His interaction with people from many nations has given him insight into world religions, beliefs, mythology, rites of passage, rituals and spiritual healing. Dean is the founder of the Sanctuary – A Life Transformation Center in Sedona, AZ., where he is actively and daily engaged as an energy medicine practitioner.
Lynn Berryhill is an acclaimed artist whose paintings are featured in collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lynn has taught creativity classes, is an active energy medicine practitioner, and loves to teach. Her creative spirit lets her easily take students into the realms of the soul to learn to work with destiny.
Marcela Lobos M.A., has been initiated in the healing traditions of the Amazon and the Andes. She was born and raised in Chile where she worked with shamans that belong to a matriarchal society that holds the wisdom of the feminine and the passion of Mother Earth. Marcela is dedicated to helping women by crafting “rites of passage” that allow them to find their power, grace, and wisdom.
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 30 years. At San Francisco State University, he directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease. He is also the founder of the Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to bridging ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology.
Since 2006 Scott Wheeler has trained in and worked with the ancient healing practices of the medicine peoples in South America, Northern India, and Russia. An experienced shapeshifter, moving from Special Operations flying Combat Search and Rescue, IT consultant, solar energy pro, to a Technician of the Sacred, Scott is experienced in creating and embracing change. He is intimately familiar with healing trauma, PTSD, soul loss and intrusive energies, facilitating his clients’ well-being and recovery of their sovereignty and life force. Scott is committed to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on Pachamama. http://scottdwheeler.com/
DYING CONSCIOUSLY TEACHER TRAINING
Taught by Ruby Parker, Four Winds Faculty
In modern society, death is often a source of fear and anxiety. Many die in great distress, with unresolved issues weighing heavily on themselves and their families. As Shamans, we know that death is the ultimate journey of liberation and we know it is possible to enter death with serenity and anticipation of the great journey ahead. Help others understand the process of death with dignity. Learn the steps to make this journey as cleanly as possible and the techniques to teach others how to assist in dying consciously.
Prerequisites: Open to all
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DYING CONSCIOUSLY TEACHER TRAINING
Taught by Ruby Parker, Four Winds Faculty
In modern society, death is often a source of fear and anxiety. Many die in great distress, with unresolved issues weighing heavily on themselves and their families. As Shamans, we know that death is the ultimate journey of liberation and we know it is possible to enter death with serenity and anticipation of the great journey ahead. Help others understand the process of death with dignity. Learn the steps to make this journey as cleanly as possible and the techniques to teach others how to assist in dying consciously.
Prerequisites: Open to all
REGISTER ONLINE HERE:
Marcela Lobos M.A., has been initiated in the healing traditions of the Amazon and the Andes. She was born and raised in Chile where she worked with shamans that belong to a matriarchal society that holds the wisdom of the feminine and the passion of Mother Earth. Marcela is dedicated to helping women by crafting “rites of passage” that allow them to find their power, grace, and wisdom.
Shamanic healer Jo Bowlby will assist Marcela Lobos during the Amazon One Spirit Journey. Jo spent 35 years studying ancient spiritual disciplines and modern psychology, focusing on bringing together their core teachings. In her practice, she shows clients how to flourish in life by understanding and directly applying these insights and techniques. Jo divides her time between her practice in London and operating customized healing journeys.
ADVANCED DIVINATION
Taught by Lynn Berryhill, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Deepen your shamanic skills and align yourself even further with the signs presented by nature, randomness and chance events. You will learn how to master the shaman’s art of tracking and seeing, and how to create maps on the level of the soul for individuals and for the entire world. You will learn the art of the medical intuitive – how to read inside a person’s body to examine organs, systems, tissues, and to diagnose spiritual disease. Experience the power that your language has on healing, working from a place of pure stillness and deepest integrity.
Deeply rooted and experienced in helping people remember their true voice and personal power, Bridghe McCracken holds an advanced practitioner certificate from the Light Body School. She works with balancing energy systems for adults, children, animals, and the land through Illuminations, Soul Retrieval and Extractions. Bridghe is strongly called to work with the body to attain its highest vibration through a combination of food, lifestyle, and energy work. Her 20 years of experience in organic farming, creating pollinator habitat, restoring native ecosystems, and designing sacred spaces informs and inspires all her work.
HEALING THE DARK SIDE
Taught by our founder
Alberto Villoldo PhD
Discover how to bring the darkest shadows to the light, transform demons into allies, and help clients who are caught in tangled PSYCHIC webs. Psychology denies the existence of supernatural forces, but shamans know otherwise. We realize there are toxic and dangerous energies that can wreak havoc on our physical and mental health and beatific ones that bring wisdom and healing. In this class, you will learn about the dangers and opportunities offered by extradimensional and intergalactic powers. You will gain tools that will be of value in your healing practice and everyday life.
Open to: FWS Graduates and Students only.
MASTERY OF TIME
Taught by Lynn Berryhill, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Dance at the razor’s edge where there is no clock time – at the place of infinity. In this powerful experiential class you will learn skills to master dream time, sacred time, and linear time – and learn how the future can reach back to the present like a giant hand to guide us, and our clients, to a desired destiny. You will work with your personal timeline to source your life from your Destiny. You will also work globally, at the level of the collective, using tools such as sacred drama and an archetypal mesa, which you will build during the training.
Prerequisites: North direction or graduates
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MASTERY OF TIME
Taught by Lynn Berryhill, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Dance at the razor’s edge where there is no clock time – at the place of infinity. In this powerful experiential class you will learn skills to master dream time, sacred time, and linear time – and learn how the future can reach back to the present like a giant hand to guide us, and our clients, to a desired destiny. You will work with your personal timeline to source your life from your Destiny. You will also work globally, at the level of the collective, using tools such as sacred drama and an archetypal mesa, which you will build during the training.
Prerequisites: North direction or graduates
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ADVANCED SHAMANIC SKILLS
Taught by Dr. Peter Bonaker, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Acquire advanced techniques for working with complex energy medicine issues practitioners often face, including complex psycho- spiritual dynamics, past-life karmic dramas, intrusive spirit entities, psychic attack, and ancestral karma. In this class you will learn to differentiate what is part of your client’s unconscious and what are toxic environmental or spiritual energies. You will learn advanced shamanic interventions and the new mythic maps to healing that will allow your clients to navigate skillfully through their crisis into a flourishing life.
Prerequisites: Open only to graduates
ADVANCED SHAMANIC SKILLS
Taught by Dr. Peter Bonaker, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Acquire advanced techniques for working with complex energy medicine issues practitioners often face, including complex psycho- spiritual dynamics, past-life karmic dramas, intrusive spirit entities, psychic attack, and ancestral karma. In this class you will learn to differentiate what is part of your client’s unconscious and what are toxic environmental or spiritual energies. You will learn advanced shamanic interventions and the new mythic maps to healing that will allow your clients to navigate skillfully through their crisis into a flourishing life.
Prerequisites: Open only to graduates
LIGHT BODY SCHOOL REVIEW
Meet our faculty and other Light Body School graduates and students in person. Work on your technical excellence under the guidance of Four Winds Senior Faculty, master the healing practices in your training and get feedback on your client cases, and join your Four Winds Ayllu in fire ceremonies. This in-person review is offered tuition free to all our students and graduates.
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LIGHT BODY SCHOOL REVIEW
Meet our faculty and other Light Body School graduates and students in person. Work on your technical excellence under the guidance of Four Winds Senior Faculty, master the healing practices in your training and get feedback on your client cases, and join your Four Winds Ayllu in fire ceremonies. This in-person review is offered tuition free to all our students and graduates.
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THE RITES OF THE MUNAY-KI
Taught by Karen Hoza, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Receive the seeds of ancient rites of initiation. Awaken your power to dream a new world into being, and become a steward of the universe. These nine rites of initiation are energetic transmissions that transform and upgrade your luminous energy field, heal the wounds of the past–the karmic and genetic programs or beliefs you inherited–and re-inform your DNA, enabling you to grow a new body that ages, heals, and dies differently.
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THE RITES OF THE MUNAY-KI
Taught by Karen Hoza, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Receive the seeds of ancient rites of initiation. Awaken your power to dream a new world into being, and become a steward of the universe. These nine rites of initiation are energetic transmissions that transform and upgrade your luminous energy field, heal the wounds of the past–the karmic and genetic programs or beliefs you inherited–and re-inform your DNA, enabling you to grow a new body that ages, heals, and dies differently.
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TamanGa liegt in der Region Steiermark in Österreich, südlich des Ortes Gamlitz. TamanGa ist umgeben von Wäldern, Weinbergen und einem eigenen Bio-Garten, was ein Gefühl von tiefer Ruhe vermittelt. Die friedvolle Umgebung und die minimalistische Einrichtung schaffen den Raum für die energetische und physische Balance. Tiefe, bewusstseinserweiternde Selbsterkenntnis wird so unterstützt. Um mehr über TamanGa zu erfahren, Übernachtungsoptionen kennenzulernen oder eine Reservierung vorzunehmen, bitte die Website besuchen untern: https://www.tamanga.at
Located near the southern Austria village of Gamlitz, TamanGa is surrounded by forests, vineyards and its own organic garden, imparting a sense of poignant tranquility. Its peaceful environment and minimalist furnishings foster physical and energetic balance and promote deep, mind-expanding self-awareness. To view the property and lodging options, visit www.tamanga.at/zimmer.
Karen Johnson was called to study shamanic energy medicine following a spiritual awakening and ensuing desire to teach others the way beyond death and how to dream their world into being. Karen is a graduate of Georgetown Law Center and holds master’s degrees in Public Health and Public and International Affairs (JD, MPH, MPIA). A retired federal administrative law judge, she practiced criminal and energy law for over 30 years, is a former hospital administrator and Fulbright Scholar in Afghanistan. Today she is a happy nomad who practices shamanic healing along the Way.
Moritz Reimann is a graduate of the Light Body School who works with groups and individuals around the world. His spiritual journey began 20 years ago, and he is driven by a fascination with how consciousness shapes reality. His calling is to help others release all impediments to living their full potential and to help clients navigate these times of change with grace and ease.
Patricia Iris, MD, MPH is a western-trained medical doctor whose holistic approach includes Ayurveda, Yoga, Energy Medicine and Functional Medicine. She integrates Eastern tools and practices with Western techniques to optimize health. As a shamanic energy medicine practitioner, Dr. Iris provides a personalized healing experience that assists her clients to achieve mental clarity, physical vitality, emotional equilibrium, and spiritual growth. By holding sacred space, she supports each individual to attain wellness through discovery of the true self.
A tracker of subtle energies, lost soul parts, and old blockages, Steffen Büffel is an intuitive listener who supports his clients in crafting new mythic maps for their lives. A former media and communications consultant, he offers his gift of service to the world as a digital shaman. Based in Germany he works remotely with clients all over the world, as well as in-person. He is fluent in German and English.
ADVANCED JOURNEYING
Taught by Lynn Berryhill, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Explore the timeless realms accessible through journeying. Discover new ways to expand your knowledge and use of alternative spheres we are familiar with, and discover new places to work beyond your current experience. Learn how to access guides and resources that can enhance your personal wisdom as well as your work with clients. As we experience higher frequencies while journeying, we begin to understand how the brain, stillness practice, and sound might impact our ability to access previously inaccessible realms.
Prerequisites: Open only to graduates
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ADVANCED JOURNEYING
Taught by Lynn Berryhill, Four Winds Senior Faculty
Explore the timeless realms accessible through journeying. Discover new ways to expand your knowledge and use of alternative spheres we are familiar with, and discover new places to work beyond your current experience. Learn how to access guides and resources that can enhance your personal wisdom as well as your work with clients. As we experience higher frequencies while journeying, we begin to understand how the brain, stillness practice, and sound might impact our ability to access previously inaccessible realms.
Prerequisites: Open only to graduates
REGISTER ONLINE HERE:
ADVANCED WALKING WITH PROTECTION
Taught by Dr. Peter Bonaker, Four Winds Senior Faculty
This advanced class will help you work with the difficult cases that a healer runs into in his or her shamanic practice. The class is designed for active practitioners and persons seeking to refine their skills in soul and destiny retrieval, in advanced techniques for cutting cords and psychic entanglements with others, and in setting people free from their history by creating new and more original stories for themselves. Building upon the skills you bring, we will practice surrogate death rites to enhance your proficiency in assisting the dying, and those who are caught between the worlds. This is a hands-on and let’s get on to the juicy-work class, in response to the need to work at the deepest level with ourselves and with our clients.
Prerequisites: West direction or Walking with Protection
REGISTER ONLINE HERE:
RITES AND INITIATIONS
Taught by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, founder of the Four Winds Society and Light Body School
Explore the great initiations of shamanism and deepen your understanding of this path of energy and enlightenment in this Master-level class. Journey through the Medicine Wheel as you revisit each transmission of energy in the classic form in Rites and Initiations. Learn the passages that mark puberty, womanhood, manhood, and our sage years. Let the language of the Laika flow through you, inform you and guide your way as you experience anew the truth within each ritual.
Prerequisites: South, West, North or 300-Hour Part 2
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RITES AND INITIATIONS
Taught by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, founder of the Four Winds Society and Light Body School
Explore the great initiations of shamanism and deepen your understanding of this path of energy and enlightenment in this Master-level class. Journey through the Medicine Wheel as you revisit each transmission of energy in the classic form in Rites and Initiations. Learn the passages that mark puberty, womanhood, manhood, and our sage years. Let the language of the Laika flow through you, inform you and guide your way as you experience anew the truth within each ritual.
Prerequisites: South, West, North or 300-Hour Part 2
REGISTER ONLINE HERE:
A passionate shamanic energy medicine practitioner, Barbara Haussener chose the path of dreaming the world into being early on. She offers consultations in German and English and is skilled at supporting others to bring back lightness, color and joy of life. Barbara lives in Switzerland, where she follows her passions in deep union with Mother Earth. She is a teaching assistant with the Four Winds Society.
Die diesjährige Vor-Ort Ausbildung in Deutschland wird erstmals komplett in deutscher Sprache unterrichtet.
Das Jonathan Seminarhotel liegt in der wunderschönen Chiemsee-Region in Bayern, am Rande des idyllischen Örtchens Hart. Das Bauernhaus aus dem 19. Jahrhundert ist umgeben von Gärten und Feldern, und ist eingebettet in eine atemberaubende Landschaft mit Bergen, Wäldern, Seen und Flüssen. Genieße die direkte Verbindung zur Natur in Kombination mit dem traditionellen Flair der Voralpen im Herzen Europas.
Deine Buchungsanfrage und alle weiteren Fragen zum Hotel, den Unterkünften, Verpflegung und Gegebenheiten vor Ort, stellst Du bitte direkt an das Team des Jonathan-Seminarhotels unter: www.jonathan-seminarhotel.de oder telefonisch unter: +49 (8669) 79090.
“Parallel zu meiner zu meiner bisherigen Karriere in betriebswirtschaftlichen Managementpositionen praktiziere ich seit Jahren komplementärmedizinische und mediale Heilarbeit. Die Ausbildung an der Lichtkörperschule war nicht nur Krönung in der Ausbildung meiner schamanischen und energiemedizinischen Fertigkeiten, es war ein Dimensionssprung für mein eigenes Leben. Ich habe tiefe Einsicht in mein eigenes Dasein erhalten. Meine erweiterten Fähigkeiten befruchten die Qualität meiner Heilarbeit ebenso wie mein Managerleben. Ich kenne keine höherstehende Ausbildungsmöglichkeit für moderne Energiemedizin und ich schätze das angebotene, internationale Graduierten-Netzwerk sowie die Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten. Diese Ausbildung verdient fünf Sterne!“
Valentin Lüthi
„Die Lehren, die ich an der Lichtkörperschule der Four Winds Society vermittelt bekommen habe, ermöglichen mir mein Dasein und die Interaktionen mit dem Umfeld und der Natur zu erforschen. Mit einem neuen Bewusstsein und letztendlich einer neuen Perspektive, resultierend aus jahrhundertealten Erkenntnissen, empfehle ich es Jedem für sich selbst auszuprobieren.“
Flavia Pais
„Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Kurs in die tiefsten Schichten meines Selbst vorgedrungen ist. Durch die Lehren und Übungen wurde ich auf der Reise durch das Medizinrad in meine verschiedenen Teile zerlegt, um am Ende wieder bei mir selbst anzukommen – größer als zuvor. Die Ausbildung hat den Grundstein dafür gelegt, dass ich auf meinen weiteren Weg gut beschützt und für diese wundervolle Arbeit gewappnet fühle. Meine Perspektive auf das, was möglich ist, hat sich unendlich erweitert und ich bin Dr. Villoldo und all den Schamanen, die ich im Rahmen des Kurses treffen durfte, für ihre einfühlsame Begleitung und demütige Weisheit dankbar.“
Sandra Schenk
Don Juan Apaza Flores ist Q’ero Schamane aus den Hochanden und bringt die Weisheitslehren der Q’ero in die Welt. Die Q’ero sprechen Quechua und leben im mittleren Süden der peruanischen Anden. Wie alle Q’ero trägt Don Juan die Botschaft der heiligen Prophezeiung namens „Pachakuti“ weiter. Pachakuti beschreibt eine Zeit des tiefgreifenden Wandels, in der die Erde wieder in Balance kommt, Harmonie entsteht und aus Chaos Ordnung erwächst. Don Juan Apaza Flores wird in der ersten Woche der Ausbildung in Deutschland vor Ort sein.
Barbara hat sich schon früh in ihrem Leben für den Weg entschieden, ihre Welt zu erträumen. Sie ist eine naturverbundene und leidenschaftliche schamanische Energiemedizinerin und bietet Sitzungen in deutscher und englischer Sprache an. Ihre Gabe besteht darin Leichtigkeit, Farbe und Lebensfreude in das Leben zurückzubringen. Barbara lebt in der Schweiz, wo sie in tiefer Verbundenheit mir Mutter Erde ihren Leidenschaften folgt. Sie ist Lehrassistentin bei der Four Winds Society und bietet Beratungen auf Deutsch und Englisch an.
Moritz ist Absolvent der Lichtkörperschule und arbeitet mit Gruppen und Einzelpersonen in aller Welt. Seine spirituelle Reise begann vor 20 Jahren, angetrieben von der Faszination, wie Bewusstsein unsere Realität formt. Sein Ruf ist es anderen dabei zu helfen, alle Blockaden loszulassen, die sie daran hindern das volle Potenzial ihres Lebens zu leben und die Zeiten des Wandels mit Würde und Leichtigkeit zu meistern.
Marcel hat sich mit vielen verschiedenen spirituellen Traditionen und Heiltechniken beschäftigt bevor er seine Lebensaufgabe im Schamanismus gefunden hat. Seit über einem Jahrzehnt arbeitet er mit Gruppen und Einzelpersonen in Deutschland. Er zieht tiefe Zufriedenheit aus seiner Tätigkeit Menschen in ihrem Wachstum zu unterstützen, ihnen den Weg zu wahrer Freiheit zu aufzuzeigen und ihre ureigene heilige Energie wiederzuentdecken. Seine persönlichen Erfahrungen hat er durch regelmäßige Reisen nach Asien und der Amazonsregion erweitert und vertieft. Er fühlt sich tief verbunden mit Mutter Natur sowie der Weisheit, dem Licht und der Energie der heiligen Medizin des Amazons.
A modern-day shaman, Maria Clara Castaneda helps people leap fearlessly into the unknown and thrive. Following many changes in her own life, and having lived in various countries on different continents, Maria Clara is an experienced diver into the unknown, and a bridge between the worlds. Her effusive soul gives her a special talent for empowering women, supporting growth, self-care and love. She is a teacher and academic advisor at the Four Winds Society, as well as ambassador for Los Cuatro Caminos. She lives in Germany and offers consultations in Spanish, English, and German.
A passionate shamanic energy medicine practitioner, Stephen Feely supports individual clients and organizations as they take their healing journey and begin to live forth into the abundance of their dreams with grace, empowerment and wisdom. His expertise as a biodynamic organic farmer and environmental educator allows him to guide clients into a deep connection with the healing forces of nature. He is a senior teacher at The Four Winds Society, leads yearly expeditions to Peru, and operates his own healing practice, Pure Revitalizing Energy. Stephen also shares his talents as an acclaimed poet/writer.
Trained by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Karen Hoza is a graduate of The Light Body School, holds a Masters Certification, and works as a teaching assistant and academic advisor for the Four Winds Society. She is gifted at creating and holding safe sacred space for rites of passage, ceremony, personal transformation, and self-empowerment for groups and individuals. Deeply connected to the Divine Feminine, Karen is inspired to share creative wisdom with all those ready to experience transformation in their lives.
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 30 years. At San Francisco State University, he directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease. He is also the founder of the Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to bridging ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology.
Dean Taraborelli has traveled to sacred sites in over 30 countries to study and experience the wisdom of ancient cultures. His interaction with people from many nations has given him insight into world religions, beliefs, mythology, rites of passage, rituals and spiritual healing. Dean is the founder of the Sanctuary – A Life Transformation Center in Sedona, AZ., where he is actively and daily engaged as an energy medicine practitioner.
Marcel Heyder explored many spiritual traditions and healing techniques before finding his life purpose in shamanism. For over a decade he has worked with groups and individuals in Germany, finding deep satisfaction in supporting others as they grow, discover true freedom and reclaim their sacred energy. He has enriched his personal experience with frequent travel to Asia and the Amazon and feels a deep connection to nature and the wisdom, light, and energy of the sacred medicine of the Amazon.
ADVANCED WALKING WITH PROTECTION
Taught by Dr. Peter Bonaker, Four Winds Senior Faculty
This advanced class will help you work with the difficult cases that a healer runs into in his or her shamanic practice. The class is designed for active practitioners and persons seeking to refine their skills in soul and destiny retrieval, in advanced techniques for cutting cords and psychic entanglements with others, and in setting people free from their history by creating new and more original stories for themselves. Building upon the skills you bring, we will practice surrogate death rites to enhance your proficiency in assisting the dying, and those who are caught between the worlds. This is a hands-on and let’s get on to the juicy-work class, in response to the need to work at the deepest level with ourselves and with our clients.
Prerequisites: West direction or Walking with Protection
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The Residential Energy Medicine Training in Germany is in German language only.
Johanthan Seminarhotel is located in the Chiemsee region of southern Germany, at the edge of the charming village of Hart, amidst a stunning landscape of mountains, forests, lakes and rivers. Gardens and fields surround the historical nineteenth-century farmhouse, enhanced to provide beautiful accommodations. Connect with nature while basking in the rich culture of old Europe.
To learn more about the property, view available lodging options and book your accommodations, visit www.jonathan-seminarhotel.de or call +49 (8669) 79090.
THE THREE MASTERIES
Contact our office to inquire on upcoming class dates.
ADVANCED SOUL AND DESTINY RETRIEVAL
Deepen your skills in the art of soul and destiny retrieval. Learn how to assist others who have been derailed from their destiny at the time of trauma or exceptional challenge. Help them reconnect with the essence of life that they lost sight of, and to embody it in their experience. Work outside of linear time in the realm of the infinite – in sacred time. Influence events that occurred in the past to help others step into their greatest destiny. Learn to work from a place of absolute non-attachment and compassion.
Prerequisites: North direction or graduates
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ADVANCED SOUL AND DESTINY RETRIEVAL
Deepen your skills in the art of soul and destiny retrieval. Learn how to assist others who have been derailed from their destiny at the time of trauma or exceptional challenge. Help them reconnect with the essence of life that they lost sight of, and to embody it in their experience. Work outside of linear time in the realm of the infinite – in sacred time. Influence events that occurred in the past to help others step into their greatest destiny. Learn to work from a place of absolute non-attachment and compassion.
Prerequisites: North direction or graduates
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Nestled in Chile’s coastal mountain range and adjoining a World Biosphere Preserve, Los Lobos Sanctuary is a health spa and shamanic monastery that offers the unique opportunity to receive your training at our founder’s private retreat center. Inspiring views, crystal-clear skies and breathtaking sunsets are the backdrop for guests to enjoy the intimate luxury and serenity of the grounds and the delicious local and organic fare.
To view the different lodging options and special rates negotiated for our students, visit https://thefourwinds.com/los-lobos-sanctuary-rates/. To book your accommodations, please email Hila Dekel at hila@thefourwinds.com or Deborah Stucchi at deborah@thefourwinds.com. You can also call our main office at (877) 892-9247. For international calls, please dial +1 (435) 647-5988.
Julie Hannon lives her dream of bringing true health and the power to heal ourselves as an energy medicine practitioner. She teaches and inspires her clients and students to connect with their own essential truth and their unique connection to the divine. It is her honor to support the world’s changing consciousness through shamanic work and ceremonies, bringing peace to individuals and to our planet.
Lynn Berryhill is an acclaimed artist whose paintings are featured in collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lynn has taught creativity classes, is an active energy medicine practitioner, and loves to teach. Her creative spirit lets her easily take students into the realms of the soul to learn to work with destiny.
Set on 250 acres, the Omega Rhinebeck Campus is considered a premiere travel destination for holistic studies in New York’s Hudson Valley. Perched on a hill and surrounded by trees, the Sanctuary is the spiritual heart of Omega’s Rhinebeck campus. A space of beauty and tranquility, it is open for meditation, reflection, prayer, or quiet contemplation. Omega’s gardens offer appealing dashes of color, its 80-acre Long Pond Lake is a serene haven for recreation and wildlife, and the campus’ Labyrinth provides a meditative space to walk and follow the winding path to find your center.
To learn more about the property and view available lodging options, please visit https://www.eomega.org/rhinebeck. To book your accommodations, please call (800) 944-1001 or +1 (845) 266-4444 for international calls.
Jim Dewell A native of Southern California, Jim Dewell is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology, and of The George Washington University, School of Medicine. He was board certified in Family Medicine, which he both taught and practiced. In 1992, he left the practice of western medicine. A graduate of the Four Winds Society, he maintains a shamanic healing practice in Southern California.
Peter Bonaker received his Ph.D. in the field of education from the University of Denver in Colorado where he is currently an adjunct professor. In 2009 Peter founded the Institute for Spiritual Advancement in Denver where he is an energy medicine practitioner with clients from around the world and is the Institute’s Program Director.
Amina Meineker is a business economist with more than 20 years experience in finance, strategy and business development. She loves the clarity, elegance and efficiency of the energy medicine taught by Dr. Villoldo. Amina is half-Indian, half-German and is someone who builds bridges between worlds. She has a private practice, teaches, and is a business consultant. Her passion is to unfold the great potential of each human being and organization with which she works.
Chris Prietto, RN, has been a registered nurse for 37 years and has vast experience in Pediatric Oncology, Emergency Room and Surgical nursing, Myofascial Release and Cranio-Sacral body work. Chris is one of the lead teachers in the Dying Consciously Program, a program providing a long overdue opportunity to help people from all walks of life assist their patients, friends and family members make their greatest journey one of peace and dignity.
Dirk Zschocke is a graduate biologist, naturopath, shaman, therapist for psycho-energetic bodywork and holistic massage, and one of the few certified Tian Yan Nei Gong teachers in the world. Dirk is the founder of the “Center for holistic, healthy life, expression and creativity – URgesund” and the “Tian Yan Nei Gong Center“ in Giessen, Germany. It is his great joy to see how clients and students develop new flexibility, vitality, joy of life and personal freedom.
Joshua Tree Retreat Center is the oldest and largest retreat center in the western United States and a unique architectural landmark, with most of the buildings built by world-renowned architects Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd. A river runs under the retreat, producing an intriguing magnetic effect on those who enter this ancient and sacred space for learning and healing.
To learn more about the property and view available lodging options, visit www.jtrcc.org. Special rates have been negotiated for our students. To book your accommodations, email Debbie Willey at dwilley@jtrcc.org or call (760) 365-8371 (email preferred).
Amina Meineker, a shaman and an economist, she has been a senior teacher at the Light Body School since 2007. She is passionate about helping her clients to live amazing, happy and successful lives filled with love, truth and freedom. In her work she is committed to opening new doors to all that is possible. Amina lives in Berlin, where she works with corporations (www.corporatepassion.com) and gives private consultations in German and in English.
Dirk Zschocke is a trained biologist, artist and world citizen. Building from this scientific and creative background, he entered into the field of healing work, starting with holistic massage. From there he thoroughly trained and experienced all levels of healing – from the physical to the energetic, including body psychotherapy and Gestalt therapy before joining the Four Winds in 2011. Besides working in his own healing practice and teaching with the Four Winds Light Body School, he dedicates his work to land, nature and the collective, based on intuition, trust, love and compassion.
Set on 325 acres in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, Menla Mountain Retreat is surrounded by thousands of acres of forest preserve. The property itself is the site of the oldest known meteor impact crater on Earth, approximately 1.5 to 2 miles beneath the surface of the earth. Due to lack of solid bedrock, the gravitational field here is 0.2% less than in the surrounding areas. Year round, guests enjoy fresh mountain air, unspoiled beauty, abundant wildlife, and rushing streams and rivers.
To learn more about the property and view available lodging options, please visit www.menla.us. To book your accommodations, please call (845) 688-6897 ext. 7507.
Named the top yoga destination spa in the world, Blue Spirit is located in Nosara, perched on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile white sand beach that is protected as a turtle refuge. The pristine nature, subtropical climate, dedicated staff, and healing energy of the Nosara community create the ideal environment for an unforgettable and deeply nurturing experience.
To view the different lodging options and special rates negotiated for our students, click here. To book your accommodations, please email Angie Alvarado at angie@thefourwinds.com or call our main office at (877) 892-9247. For international calls, please dial +1 (435) 647-5988.
Julie Hannon is passionate about supporting her clients to discover their gifts and step into the fullest expression of themselves and their potential to heal. Her background and training in psychology, and 25+ years working in Human Resources, coupled with her yoga (YTT), shamanic, and Buddhist studies allow her to weave a rich tapestry and journey with the grace that comes in working with energy healing; facilitating peace and wellness.
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Alberto traded his laboratory for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon—determined to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope, from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that he had been taught was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life. Scattered throughout the remands and Amazon were a number of sages or “Earth Keepers” who remembered the ancient ways. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets and met with scores of medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that every village had brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still survived.
For more than 10 years, Alberto trained with the jungle medicine people. In healing his own soul wounds, Alberto walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame to sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto trekked the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor that depict power animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe lagoons in the North, home to the country’s most renowned shamans. Then, in Lake Titicaca – the Sea on Top of the World – Alberto collected the stories and healing practices of the people from which, the legends say, the Inka were born.
Through it all, Alberto discovered a set of technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and the way we die.
These ancient teachings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF) surrounds us and acts as a matrix or blueprint that maintains the health and vibrancy of the physical body.
Alberto is founder of the world-renowned Four Winds Society and of the Light Body School. In his teachings and writings, he shares the experience of infinity and it’s ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the temporal chains that keep us fettered to illness, old age and disease.
Alberto is the author of numerous best-selling books, several of which are available in many languages: Power up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment (with David Perlmutter, MD); Shaman, Healer, Sage; The Four Insights; Mending The Past & Healing The Future With Soul Retrieval; Illumination: The Shaman’s Way of Healing; Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being; The Four Winds: A Shaman’s Odyssey into the Amazon (with Erik Jendresen); Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel (with Erik Jendresen); Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel (with Erik Jendresen); Yoga, Power, and Spirit: Patanjali the Shaman; The Realms of Healing (with Stanley Krippner Ph.D.); Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism (with Stanley Krippner Ph.D.); Skeleton Woman; The First Story Ever Told (with Erik Jendresen)
