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June 25 – 30, 2012
Healing Camp Five Days of Traditional Huichol Shamanic Healing     with
Eliot Cowan, Jaime Velez, Justin Starting, Linda Felch & Scott Sheerin
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"On a friend’s recommendation and a recent cancer diagnosis [I] signed up. I felt tremendous physical, emotional and spiritual healing from Eliot and his team. … I’m still feeling the blessings weeks later. Wish every human being could experience Healing Camp."
We all yearn to be free of illness. And we long to feel connected… to our spirit, to each other and to the natural world, yet how often do we give ourselves time to nurture that heartfelt yearning? Our lives have become so busy and stressful! We know the pace takes a painful toll, which we try to remedy with healthy food, therapy, yoga classes or meditation. All these approaches help, yet still we wonder, could there be more?
Sometimes misfortune -- an accident, an illness, the death of a loved one-- opens us to look in new directions, to ask new questions:
COULD THE POTENCY AND MYSTERY OF ANCIENT HEALING TRADITION PROVIDE MEDICINE FOR THE ILLNESSES AND ALIENATION OF MODERN CULTURE?
Healing Camp is composed of five days of Huichol Shamanic Healing at the sacred ground of the Blue Deer Center. Through Eliot Cowan’s authentic training and apprenticeship with Huichol Indian shaman don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, you will discover that the medicine of the old cultures runs deep and exerts a powerful effect.
Eliot Cowan, a fully initiated Tsaurirrikame (Huichol shaman), has lead over 50 healing camps in the past two decades. Over the years he has gathered extensive experience working with the full spectrum of life events from birth to death.
Your stay at Healing Camp includes daily private sessions with Eliot, time for contemplation and reflection, gathering in community around the warmth of the fire, and opportunities to connect with the natural world under the guidance of Justin Starting and Marakame Scott Sheerin.
The Camp provides a rare opportunity to experience a temporary village created for the express purpose of bringing Huichol healing to you, because living even briefly within a healthy community contributes to your well-being.
The sacred land of the Center will support the Camp, where music and celebration will light up our days and nights, while our wonderful chef and staff ensure you enjoy the right conditions to open yourself to healing.
TESTIMONIALS:
"I cannot thank you enough for all your help…I am a HEALTHY PERSON now, and that is a phenomenal thing. Physically, the nerve pain I had in my arm is nearly gone, my blood pressure is normal, I no longer have to take a thyroid supplement and I have tons of energy. I feel WELL. I haven’t felt this way since I was, well probably since I was a kid. But emotionally I feel better than that. It is so much easier to operate without the weight of all that emotional pain…Thank you so much!!!"
"I have felt more comfortable in my own skin since attending Healing Camp than ever before. My inner life is forever affected."
Teachers
Eliot Cowan is the author of Plant Spirit Medicine, and a fully initiated Tsaurirrikame (shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition. He began the study and practice of herbalism in the 1960’s and completed a Master of Acupuncture degree with J.R. Worsley in England in the 1970’s. Eliot subsequently apprenticed with Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, a Huichol Indian Shaman. On the occasion of Don Guadalupe’s retirement in 2000, he ritually recognized Eliot as a guide to shamanic apprentices in the Huichol tradition.
Jaime Velez is a Marakame in the Huichol tradition and resides in Tepoztlan, Mexico. On rare and momentous occasions, he makes his way to Healing Camps at the Blue Deer Center to offer his skilled hands in the art of Mayan massage.
Justin Starting is an apprentice in the Huichol tradition. For many years he has taught the art of building relationships with the natural world through the practical skills of our ancestors. At camp he will offer his program entitled Touch the Earth.
Linda Felch is an apprentice in the Huichol tradition and a Plant Spirit Medicine℠ healer. As our Healing Camp coordinator she makes sure that everything runs smoothly in preparing for camp and while we are at the BDC.
Scott Sheerinis a Marakame (shaman) in the Huichol tradition. He practices shamanic healing in Victoria, B.C. He has been on the staff of Eliot Cowan's healing camps for 11 years. He is also a gifted musician offering healing and ritual music. His recordings are in use around the world helping to spread the energy of heart and fire wherever they are heard.