SOULFIRE
Experiential Series in Group Healing
A 7-Part immersive group healing series weaving together embodied practices, earth hororning, the elements, and creative collective ceremony.
In this series Individuals will find vessels for profound personal healing as well as a rich platform for understanding how to weave techniques and methods that release trauma, invite connection and restore balance. We will engage in learning about and experiencing group healing by way of intuitive ceremony, collective ritual and practice.
Under the guidance of Bob Vetter and Luisa Harpriya, participants will have the opportunity to both give and receive healing and develop skills and offerings applicable toward personal healing and the collaborative process of group healing.
While each immersion is a stand alone course, it is best experienced as a whole, but available in parts. This immersive series is intended to support the work of facilitators, teachers, healers, and counselors who work with groups.
Care for the Wounded Healer
A Day of Integration, Inspiration and Rest
On this day of discussion and practice we will come together to understand how to continually restore our connection to the resources available to support our work in the world. By connecting or reconnecting to an embodied sense of support from the earth, our ancestors and our community of healers. What is a calling? How do we prevent or reverse burn out in the healing arts or in caregiving?
Creativity and Beauty
and the use of verbal and visual prayers and altars in daily life and the healing arts.
Learn to set alters and offer prayers that anchor, guide and support healing. We will explore altar making through various cultural and religious lenses. We will craft a collective mid-winter altar and investigate the benefits of this practice in our homes, communities and at specific moments of the year or a lifecycle. We will also come to understand how various traditions use prayer and orated well wishes. We will practice giving and receiving prayers of honoring for one another and ourselves.
Guided by the Whole
Honoring and building relationships with our Ancestors, Lineage, Teachers and Initiators
What does it mean to understand what medicine is yours to work with? How do you honor the sources of your healing methods or traditions in a way that is culturally appropriate and sensitive?
Sacred Grief
Methods and Medicine to work with a Grieving World
How do the rough initiations you have been through inform your work with others? How does your grief fuel your love for the world or your ability to hold space for others' grief?
Awakening to the Present
Rites of passage and ways of honoring initiations and thresholds for Individuals, couples and family members at all stages of life from birth to death.
We will explore the lifecycle and times in which we all need support and honoring from conception to death, how can we make sacred the moments of change and transition in our lives. How can we create threshold experiences for our own families, clients and communities? Examples include finding communal ways to acknowledge the loss of a family member, the becoming an elder, the marriage or commitment of two people or the start or ending of a project.
Spring Cleanse
Methods of cleansing the body, mind, home and relationships. Amends, Limpias and ways to find renewal in the season of rebirth. Working with sacred smoke, fire, cacao and botanicals (especially roses), we will learn to conduct simple cleansing rituals for our homes, bodies and the spirits of our relationships.
June 11- Change through Fire
On this day we will explore how to prepare a group for an initiatory experience such as a Temazcal (ancient Mesoamerican version of the sweat lodge). By preparing for, engaging in and integrating from this experience we will unpack how to best support groups in peak transformational experiences. The day is communal group experience that combines construction of the lodge with an introduction to the teachings and philosophy that underly the temazcal with an eye toward learning how to hold space and lead ceremony for spiritual communities and groups.
About
This nine-month advanced training will offer a vessel for profound personal healing as well as a rich platform for understanding and learning to weave techniques and methods to release trauma, invite connection, and restore balance. Wounded Healer creates and engages in group healing by way of intuitive ceremony, collective ritual and practice.
This course draws upon energy healing traditions such as medical (healing) qigong, curanderismo, sound healing and Native American medicine teachings (with Robert Vetter, M.A. Robert is an anthropologist and energy healer). (Luisa Harpriya’s) Healing circle offers space to share truths and heal afflictions of the body, mind, spirit and emotions. Together we will create sacred space and community, to receive healing/energy work. This is an ideal nurturing environment for those who need healing as well as healers.
Luisa/ Harpriya is the owner/founder of Dream, a home-birthing mama of three Aquarian children, a poet, a friend, a counselor and yoga therapist, a women in prayer. She runs women’s circles, holds ceremony and teaches Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Her annual retreat to India is the highlight of her year. Harpriya can be found at the leading Mamata, Sunday Service, and Ministry offerings.
Luisa/ Harpriya
Robert Vetter, M.A. is an anthropologist and educational consultant, with Native American Studies as his area of specialization. He began his ethnographic fieldwork among Native Americans in 1980 while a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to his work with children, Robert has also taught courses and workshops for teachers through SCOPE and Teacher Centers throughout Long Island. He has served as an instructor for courses taught at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Farmingdale, Southampton College, and the University of Oklahoma.
Robert Vetter
Location
Dream Sanctuary
Sea Cliff, Long Island
Dream sanctuary is a historic home situated on the north shore of Long Island, 20 miles east of Manhattan. Surrounded by mature pines and beside the Long Island sound it is a restful sanctuary for group gatherings, trainings and retreats.
Address available upon registration.
Pricing/ Registration
Full Training: $1200
By committing to the whole training, you will gain the tools and initiation to offer these practices to others in their fullness and depth. As a graduate, you will also have the ability to join the next cycle as an apprentice.
