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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees
In Association With
Dancing Freedom
The Universe
Facilitators
Samantha Sweetwater
Jay Ma
Lauren DuBois
Rebecca Elswit
Support Staff & Special Guests
The Invitation
We invite you to join us in Mount Shasta to co-create this most personal, powerful, integral and gentle of soul-ceremonies integrating dance, sweat-lodge, Peruvian medicine sacrament, community circle and soul-dialogue with solo-questing in nature.
Come to the land in humility and beauty to open, to listen and to receive. The "Quest" is a universal expression of the human longing – and need – to come face to face with the Truth, to align our lives with Purpose, to heal suffering and fear, and to step forward in our lives from a point of initiated clarity and self-trust.
When you pray in this way, you receive the True Voice of soul and spirit that is awakens when you whole-heartedly give thanks, when you deeply own what you most want, and when you ask for help - surrendering to that which is greater than yourself.
What is VISION?
VISION is ceremony: a non-ordinary space of revelation, inspiration and fortification, a space where everything supports you to have an authentic dialogue with Self, Nature & Spirit to empower Soul-level transformation for your life.
It's a BIG PRAYER to manifest what you most want for yourself and All of Your Relations. It's a BIG PRAYER to listen to what the world is calling forth from you so that you can truly contribute your greatest service, vision and purpose to the tribe.
The expression of your soul is the primary prayer you came here in this life to pray – the perfect purpose embedded within you as a unique expression of god's intelligence.
Spirit - formless - flows through everything, weaving our oneness, our unity, our sameness and non-separation. Soul is the aspect of spirit that makes each of us unique, individual, able to have and to create beauty, experience and expression. Because the universe is an animate intelligence, a dance of soul and spirit, every aspect of Nature is soul, has soul, is an expression and a reflection of soul.
When you pray in this way, you make yourself naked to the wilderness - both within and without. You open to genuine communion with ALL THAT IS. You open to the total interconnectivity and intersubjectivity of the universe. Inevitably, your "stuff" is revealed to be healed, and you receive true reflections of your most essential gifts and passions. In receiving such Vision, you are empowered to BE FREE, and to return to the world to give the one gift only YOU can give – the unique expression of our soul’s purpose.
Cry for the Vision of your Life.
This is an open doorway.
A true opportunity.
A ceremony of soul-return.
This is the invitation we offer you.
Awaken Your Body. Open your Heart. Love your shadow. Expand your light. Heal. Grow. Connect... Glow.
Suggested Reading
Soul Craft by Bill Plotkin
and/or Love Without End by Glenda Green
Contact
Samantha Sweetwater: email: Trainings@dancingfreedom.com
Living Mandala: education@livingmandala.com
phone: 707-634-1461
VISION
An Ancient/Contemporary Soul Quest
July 30 - Aug 6, 2012
Mount Shasta, California
* CHOOSE YOUR LIFE
* MAKE YOUR PRAYER
* LIVE YOUR YES
Investment in Self
Space is very limited. A deposit is required to guarantee your
* Investment in self (cost): $1295.
* A $250 non-refundable deposit reserves your space.
Registration includes camping, all ceremony support, and wonderful, healthy meals on the mountain. It does not include transportation to or from the ceremony.
Capacity
Space is limited to 15 participants. This retreat is already near capacity. If you do not get in, let us know if you would like to be listed for our next VISION retreat.
Details
VISION is open to the general public. (Registration followed by a brief interview for confirmation). It is also one of three core modules of the Dancing Freedom Facilitator Training Series. Participants must be ready TO BE THEMSELVES. We will spend a solid week together in pristine Nature laying fertile grounds for consciousness through community ritual, dance, depth work and play. We will spend time ceremony, in sacrament, and fasting on the mountain ~ going alone for 1-3 nights to pray and listen in the wilderness. We take the final days to harvest and reflect the wisdom each of our journeys has gifted, gaining tools and perspective to translate our experience into daily life.
Note: this is not a “Native American” Vision Quest in a traditional sense. VISION is the braiding of the contemporary way of questing that comes through Samantha Sweetwater and Dancing Freedom, and the collected wisdoms of Deep Nature Connection and Soil Questing work through time across various traditions. It is a soul-ceremony held in the intelligence of universal pattern, the light of Spirit and over 20 years of collective experience of the facilitation team. Deep inspiration from the work of Bill Plotkin. We offer this to you in the best way we know how - with humility and gratitude.
Dancing Freedom
Dancing Freedom is an invitation to be more fully alive. It is a free-form ecstatic, somatic & shamanic movement prayer ~ a community oriented method of dance therapy, a sacred practice & a soul return ~ friendly for all ages, abilities and bodies.
INSPIRATION
LIBERATION
PARTICIPATION
Join us. Ignite Your Soul!
* We are truly honored and humbled to be offering this Ceremony to you.
The world benefits as we love ourselves, listen to God, and grow together.
Samantha Sweetwater
Samantha invokes the integral wisdom of body, mind, heart and spirit. She ignites the passion of the soul’s true purpose, and reflects the Beauty Way of Evolutionary Enlightenment - the marriage of Source connection with grounded actions, whole relationships and living communities. In her travels, she has inspired thousands to embrace living tools for radiant health, authentic expression, joyous wholeness, planetary regenesis and awakened heart. Through the Dancing Freedom Embodied Mystery School, Samantha is training a community of facilitators to spread Peace-embodied around the world. She is constantly exploring angles through which the soul level epiphanies of the dancing experience can galvanize the WE in sustaining communities, relationships and actions. She is currently part of the organizing team for State of the World Forum and the Global Transitions Initiative.
Lead Facilitator
Jay Ma
Support Facilitator
Plus Additional Support Staff and Special Guests
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