Shamanism

As the Spring Equinox approaches, I wanted to reach out with a brief update about our upcoming retreat. Our gathering, Threshold Medicine: Ritual, Writing, and Renewal — A Women’s Spring Equinox Retreat, is now almost full. We have two spaces remaining for the circle that will take place March 19–22 in the mountains of New…

Dear Friends, You are warmly invited to join me and the gifted shamanic practitioner Carolyn Romano for an intimate Spring Equinox gathering in the mountains of New Hampshire, near Brattleboro, Vermont. Together we will be holding a women’s retreat that we are calling Threshold Medicine: Ritual, Writing, and Renewal. We will gather from Thursday, March…

Has anyone else already been writing 2016 when they write the date? I have now done it several times. Others have mentioned making this same error. I don’t know what it means, but it feels like we are rushing into the future at high speed. Everything is heating up, literally and figuratively. These days we are…

From a modern Western perspective, the natural world, including the body, is viewed mechanistically. That is to say, it is determined and explained by physical processes alone. Over the past ten years, Mind/Body Medicine has become an increasingly accepted addition to mainstream health care in this country. Hospitals routinely offer workshops in meditation, and it is commonly…