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July 2 – 5, 2012
Advanced Plant Spirit Medicine   with
Alison Gayek & Eliot Cowan
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"Without the guidance of Eliot's teachings and the time with my colleagues, I may have actually given up. Instead, I made a commitment to my learning..."
“Once again, I deepened my skills and understanding of our medicine by getting feedback on my pulse taking, emotion testing (and color, sound, and odor), ability to assess CF and the all important area of client management. Without the guidance of Eliot's teachings and the time with my colleagues, I may have eventually given up. Instead, I made a commitment to my learning and have attended every clinical and Advanced Class I could possibly attend.”
--A 1999 Graduate
“I graduated in July 2003 and after I presented a client and passed the pulse test I was given the authority to go out and practice this medicine. Whoa!!... I was truly a bit overwhelmed and feeling that I might not really have what it took to offer this medicine to people… I go to Advanced Class because it is such a great support to see colleagues who are just beginning and colleagues who are seasoned come together and share the same types of successes and insecurities. It is great to come and be reassured by our teachers that we are exactly where we are suppose to be.”
--A 2003 Graduate
As healers working with Plant Spirit Medicine, you have embarked on a great endeavor to deliver the balance of the natural world back to your people. Whether advanced, intermediate, or just beginning, you are cordially invited to deepen your work in this advanced workshop experience.
Is your practice going well and are you ready for even more? Or are you feeling stuck as a “healer”? Unable to move forward in this field you know is your heart work? Through immersion once again into the timelessness of the 5-Element approach to the world, this course is designed to newly inspire you, to help you discover a new resonance with something old.
Just as no two seasons are the same, there are no two people in need of healing who are exactly alike. Discover and exercise your abilities to provide your clients with the healing they need. Have those pressing questions about how this work weaves through your life answered in a collegial format, with time also for individual study and contemplation in the natural surroundings of the Blue Deer Center.
Scheduled to coincide with the Plant Spirit Medicine Conference, you will be able to make your travel plans to allow attendance at both programs.
The Advanced Class will include topics not limited to:
• Pulse Diagnosis
• Assessment of CF
• Client Management
• Treatment Planning
• Dream Journey work
• Plant Studies
• Individual Questions
• Furthering our Effectiveness with PSM
Teachers
Alison Gayek has been teaching Plant Spirit Medicine℠ with Eliot Cowan since 2002. She began studying with Eliot Cowan in 1997 and graduated from the PSM course in 1999. Since then, Alison has maintained a strong effective PSM practice. As a teacher, Alison teaches the PSM Practitioner Training Course, graduate clinicals and skills courses, and also works to teach, mentor, and support new graduates as they start their own practices. In addition, she is a qualified clinical supervisor and provides clinical supervision for students and graduates.
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.
Details & Pricing
Program price with room and Board: $770
Commuter Price: $635