Native American Lifeways and Spirituality

This is an overview talk that addresses some of the practices of Native America coming more into mainstream awareness.
Subjects touched on include Prayer as Commitment, Inipi (sweatlodge),
Language, Medicine Shield, and Medicine Wheel. Learn from a unique worldview that will help
you understand a philosophy that not only creates inner peace and happiness, but has given Indigenes
the ability to withstand the history of the last 500 years.
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010,
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $20

Medicine Shields Workshop

Life brings many challenges, some we meet head on, some we avoid, often to only wish later that we hadn’t. It is possible to understand our patterns well enough to make changes that will improve our lives, such as dismantling procrastination, learning better money skills, using fear, even uncertainty, to our advantage. The Medicine Shield is a tool that can help you understand your life patterns, especially those that work against you. Once you understand the underlying cause of any given behavior, and decide what you do want in your life, you then establish a working relationship with one or more Animal Medicine Helpers. This information is built into a physical shield, which you learn how to use to achieve your goals.
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tuition: $75 (includes all materials and 68 page manual)
Class size: Limited to 12 participants

Journey With the Drum

Of the many uses of the hand drum, the journey with the drum is one of the lesser known. To journey with the drum is experiential, but it is not ceremony. We will ask for protection, smudge, and do the Hollow Bone before starting. A single drum in the background sets a slow and easy pace to begin the journey, a few words are spoken, loosely guiding you out of the material world, closer to the veil, where you will then take off on your own. But you will be safe at all times, the drum ensures that.
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $20

Understanding Animals as Medicine Helpers

Native American teachings, traditions, and lifeways can also help us understand the complex relationships between humans and nonhumans. You will learn how to observe and interpret animal behavior, and then extend that into metaphor in order to understand what the deeper meaning, or teaching from the animal is.
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Tuition: $20 (full tuition credit towards the Medicine Wheel Workshop for paid attendance to this lecture)

The Pipe

The Pipe is a sacred tool that is the cornerstone of ceremony. Given to the People so long ago nobody knows for sure, to be the keeper of a pipe for the people is a sobering responsibility. This talk touches on:
· Pipe care
· Kinnick-kinnick, tobacco
· Who can "carry" a Pipe, and what does the term actually refer to
· When is a Pipe used
· How did the Pipe come to the People
· What is a "pipe ceremony"
· What is the symbolism of the Pipe
The purpose of this talk is to educate people so that they will learn to respect the pipe, not seek to own one to "play Indian," to impress friends, or to boost the ego, but to learn how to conduct themselves around the Pipe and Pipe carrier so that they will get the maximum benefit from it.
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Tuition: $20

Dreamcatcher or Rattle Workshops

This is two separate workshops that run simultaneous. Starts with Rattles, then Dreamcatchers. Participants choose only 1.
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010
Time:
Rattles: Start at 6:00 p.m.
Dreamcatchers: Start at 7:00 p.m.
Tuition: $35 EACH (includes $5 in materials)
Class size: Total class size limited to 10 participants

Drumming and Drum Healing Circle

This is ceremony OPEN to all. Bring your HAND drums and rattles. After we come into One Mind, those who choose to are invited to step into the Circle to receive a drum healing. Songs are sung in Native languages--no English or non-Native songs.
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Tuition: Donations only (no fee or "suggested donation")

Medicine Wheel Workshop

This is a full two day, highly experiential workshop that teaches the principles and concepts of what the Medicine Wheel is really about--a personal Life mirror and guide of exceptional accuracy. It includes a detailed 40 page manual, and each participant works a Personal Healing Wheel in the class. Class size is kept small to maximize your experience and learning. No previous knowledge of anything Native American is necessary to learn the Wheel.
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, October 2 and October 3, 2010,
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuition: $250 ($230 for Understanding Animal Medicine Helpers paid participants)
Class size: Total class size limited to 10 participants
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Rick McBride, formally was passed the name Cante Lute (Lakota) in ceremony (Adanvdo Gigagei in Tsalagi), which means Red Heart. Rick is mixed-blood Tsalagi, or Cherokee, that's been active in ceremony for over 25 years and is a sundancer, properly trained and authorized to conduct inipi (sweatlodge) and other ceremonies, and has dedicated his life to learning and teaching the Lifeways.

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