The Basket, The Chalice, The Mantle - ICSS Calgary - The sweet sundance medicine path of beauty - A shamanic journey to personal growth personal healing and spiritual enlightenment taught using the wheels and keys from the sacred knowledge of the magickal Twisted Hairs tradition. <\title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="15"> <div align="left"> <table border="0" width="510"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#008000">The Basket, The Chalice, The Mantle</font></b> <div align="left"> <p><b><font color="#000080" size="2" face="Arial">A Series of Three Workshops</font></b></p> </div> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <div align="left"> <p><b><font color="#008000" size="2" face="Arial">The Basket</font></b></p> </div> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">As women we are connected to a larger body of energy - a healing, procreative, sustaining and fertile force - female in all her strength and beauty. In this workshop we gather from our own inner knowing the power, the beauty and the opportunity of our marriage basket - our wombs - and our ability to birth beyond the physical child. When we come to understand how we birth these children inside ourselves and truly touch our own intuitive self, then we can birth these children outside of ourselves and thus heal self, life and others.</font></p> <p align="left"><i><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">"I have thousands of years of anger and pain and abuse and degradation of the Sisterhood on this planet I call Home. It is unfathomable and unacceptable to me that this continue within my Home. As I work through the weight and molasses of shifting this pattern, I have encountered a desire for a map, a blueprint, some guidance and reassurance and a sense that I am not alone. I thank you for providing all that and more."</font></i><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><br> Golden Dove, Texas</font></p> <p><b><font size="2" color="#008000" face="Arial">The Chalice</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">With the rising of the feminine on the planet comes the need for the healing of the whole woman. In this workshop we explore the teachings of the Moon Kiva Lodge: the teachings of bleeding, birthing, and of the Wise blood time. We learn how to celebrate and honour our femaleness and our bodies in order to find the balance that allows us to feel the power of our moon time. Stepping into a place of authority for our own physical bodies as a reflection of taking authority in our own lives we learn in the old way, practical tools for bringing the body back into alignment with the moon through healing techniques, herbs, nutrition, ceremony and support.</font></p> <p><b><font size="2" color="#008000" face="Arial">The Mantle</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">To be woman is to innately know the rhythms and cycles not only of the moon, but of humankind itself. In this workshop we travel through the powerful ceremony of forgetting, learning, remembering, awakening...celebrating those passages yet uncelebrated and reclaiming the Rites of Passage for ourselves and our children. As each woman goes forward to claim the Mantle in ceremony for herself and goes inward to claim the inner Mask of the Goddess, she steps into the full flowering of herself as a woman, fully celebrated and acknowledged for her gifts and her abilities.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Each workshop incorporates teaching, healing, ceremony, purification lodges and time for personal creativeness.</font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"> <applet code="fphover.class" codebase="./" width="120" height="24"> <param name="color" value="#000080"> <param name="hovercolor" value="#0000FF"> <param name="textcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <param name="effect" value="glow"> <param name="image" valuetype="ref" value="back_off.gif"> <param name="hoverimage" valuetype="ref" value="back_on.gif"> <param name="url" valuetype="ref" value="women.htm"> <param name="target" value="_self"> </applet><br> <br> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="nldmain.htm">Home</a> | <a href="programs.htm"> Programs</a> | <a href="faculty.htm"> Faculty</a> | <a href="schedule.htm"> Schedule</a> | <a href="comm.htm"> Community Events</a> | <a href="family_album.htm"> Family Album</a> <br> <a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a> | <a href="sitemap.htm"> Site Map</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="1">Copyright 2002 Institute for Contemporary Shamanic Studies. <br> All rights reserved. Errors and omissions excepted</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </div> <p align="left"> </p> </body> </html>