Jewish Shamanic Healing Learning Program

June 6-11 and October 10-15, 2010

California

Simi Valley

Dates now set for our 4th   2-Year, 4-Week Program on Jewish Shamanic Healing With Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Rabbi Miriam Maron, B.S.N., R.N., M.A. At the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, situated on 3,000 acres of pristine wilderness in the scenic Santa Susana Mountains of Simi Valley, in Southern California. Easy commute from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara (LAX or Burbank Airports). Cost: $1425 per Week ($1200 for returning JSH students) Cost includes private a/c room with your own bathroom, all-kosher meals, and tuition. Commuter Cost: $750 (includes tuition and meals only)  To Pay by Credit Card click here, as follows: (A 9% additional charge applies) To submit your deposit of $856 for all four sessions, click here For the total amount of $1,553 per session week, click here For the total amount of $1,308 for returning JSH participant per session week, click here  Dates for the first two weeks: Sunday evening June 6 through Friday morning June 11, 2010 Sunday evening October 10 through Friday morning October 15, 2010   To register, send a check or money order for $800 ($500 is your basic deposit and $300 is your deposit toward the remaining 3 sessions) To: Walking Stick Foundation 1336 North Moorpark Road, Suite 289, Thousand Oaks, CA  91360 (805) 795-2996 Please indicate your email address, phone number, and any dietary restrictions For more information, email: elkmesa@walkingstick.org or call 805-795-2996  Ancient Jewish mystery wisdom considered illness a major opportunity for personal life shifting and unfolding. Healing is not about fixing but about directing the flow of the ailment toward the restoration of balance in the dynamics between soul and body. Rituals include prayers and incantations that called upon forces active in the spirit realms, various plants, incense smoke, the ram’s horn, planetary influences, and stones. Some ceremonies also involve drawing a circle on the earth with specific mystical symbols, and many such rites require chanting and drumming. Often, the purpose of these rites is to clear the body’s own channels of impediments and resistance to enable the smooth flow of the life force within each of us.  During this rare opportunity to explore the lesser-promulgated body of Jewish tradition, Rabbis Miriam Maron and Gershon Winkler will familiarize participants with ancient and medieval Aramaic and Hebraic source texts as well as oral traditions from which this long-neglected body of wisdom originates.  These two mavericks of contemporary Judaism will also guide us through practica of ceremony, guided imagery, chant, and movement toward experiencing these teachings and drawing them deeper within ourselves, beyond the intellect, and into actual practice.  The program includes studies in realms of the Jewish mystery wisdom about animal, tree and stone spirits, totems, the four winds (or four directions), and shamanic journeying – Jewish-style. ___________________________________ “With wit and wisdom, Rabbi Gershon renders user-friendly the more cryptic teachings of lesser-known Kabbalistic source texts and oral traditions in order to inspire and inform our lives.” —Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Healing and Eating Well for Optimum Health     “Rabbi Miriam’s teachings and chants are spirit medicine. They take me up into mysterious oceans of time and space. They weave me through infinity. They connect me to the oneness of creation. In a word, they are holy. Or as we say in Choctaw lingo: ho’lito’pa!” -- David Carson, author of Crossing into Medicine Country, and co-author of Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, and of Oracle 2013