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April 12 – 17, 2011
Healing Camp Five Days of Traditional Huichol Shamanic Healing     with
Eliot Cowan, Justin Starting, Linda Felch & Scott Sheerin
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Communities once worked and played together around the fire. People felt connected to each other and to the natural world around them. Healers helped with individual maladies and also maintained the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of the entire village. The medicine of the old cultures was deep and effective. It was more holistic than anything we dream of today. Despite all that modernity has undone, the Huichol people of central Mexico have kept alive their humor, their communities, and their profound medicine. At the Blue Deer Center, Healing Camp provides a rare opportunity to experience a temporary village created for the express purpose of bringing Huichol healing to you.
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.
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.
Details & Pricing
- Begins with dinner on 4/12, and ends late in the afternoon on 4/17
- Cost: $1850
- Early registration deadline: 3/22/11
- Registration Deadline: 3/29/11
