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Fall Offerings
September 17, 7-9
A Workshop on Shaking Down Trauma
Body Mind Spirit
923 Preston Avenue
Charlottesville, VA
Click here for info.
September 23
Teleconference
Does Shamanic Healing Really Work and How?
To sign up, click here.
October 9, 23 and November 6
2-5 p.m.
Creating a Medicine Bundle for Self-Healing
To sign up, click here. |
Wicala (believe)
Wicala is owned by my friends, Liz and John Olmstead. They make and sell beautiful soapstone boxes and memorials and dance horse sticks for deceased loved ones. As they put it:
A long time ago, we buried our loved ones on our own land and there they remained in our lives and our consciousness. We talked to them and about them with others.
Today, we bury our loved ones in public cemeteries or church yards, where we are unable to personalize their memorial ~ and often we live or move hundreds of miles away. We have lost a valuable connection. With WICALA honor boxes, you can bring your loved ones home again. You can create a sanctuary that is completely reflective of the person or pet you are honoring. With WICALA horse dance sticks, you can remember your horse or honor all horses with a personalized memorial to have and to hold. 
For more information, click here.
Or call:
434-249-3095
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Greetings, friends.
Welcome to the Fall issue of Shamanism in a New Age. The summer in Virginia has been extremely hot and dry. It has occasionally required a great deal of stamina to get through each day. Therefore, I have been thinking about human resilience. In the media and medical establishment, we hear more about trauma and PTSD than about what helps humans survive difficulties--and survive well. In my personal life, I myself am guilty of sometimes over-focusing on the harder side of life than on what works. Yet the reality is that all of the work I do--whether in private sessions with clients, teaching workshops and in university classrooms, or doing consulting with organizations working to solve problems of violence--I am fundamentally passing on what I know builds resiliency and hope. Therefore, this issue's article focuses on what we can learn from indigenous societies about how to foster strength and optimism and how to more quickly recover from traumatic events. As you read this, I invite you to consider joining me at the beautiful and restful Bridge Between the Worlds Retreat Center for my workshop Shaking Down Trauma to learn methods adapted from the shamans of Peru and Africa to build trust, faith and peace in your life. You don't have to suffer from PTSD or to even consider yourself a trauma survivor. All you need is your innate human capacity for facing challenges and coming out on top!
Yours warmly,
Rachel Mann
Founder
MettaKnowledge for Peace
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 Resilience
In my last newsletter, I spoke about the shaking medicine of the
Bushmen of the Kalahari and about the wisdom of the rattle and stone
for healing trauma. While it is important to be aware of how traumas
can affect us, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we all possess
natural resilience in the wake of traumatic events. Indeed, studies
have shown that up to 75-85% of individuals experiencing a traumatic
event will not develop long-term symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, but will go on to live balanced, healthy lives. What creates
the conditions for resilience in individuals? Indigenous cultures
around the world prior to the arrival of Europeans possessed clues to
answering this question and are even now offering us their wisdom
through teachers who are stepping forward to teach others.Click here for more.
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 Shaking Down Trauma, Finding Peace:
A New MettaKnowledge Workshop
Do you feel stuck in old patterns related to childhood trauma? Are you caught up in ongoing cycles of conflict in your family, place of work or community? Are you disturbed by the violence that seems to permeate our world? Are you a professional who works with clients and in fields where trauma is an everyday reality? Do you suffer from chronic illness or pain and want to find a new source of healing for body and mind?
Join Rachel Mann at the beautiful Bridge Between the Worlds retreat center in rural Virginia to shake down our individual and collective trauma and learn how to dance peace in our lives. Using ancient techniques from some of the oldest shamanic cultures on Earth, including the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Q'ero of the Peruvian Andes, we will transform pain and suffering into peace, laughter, and ecstasy.
During the weekend, we will explore how our bodies and minds reflect patterns of trauma extending back through time in our ancestral lines and in the world as a whole. We will meditate, make art, work with the forces of fire and earth, and dance to shake off patterns that leave us feeling overwhelmed and depleted. By the end of the weekend, we will have planted seeds of resilience and joy in our bodies and minds that will leave us available to ecstasy and an enduring peace.DATES: Friday-Sunday, October 29-31 LOCATION: Bridge Between the Worlds, Keswick, VA (20 minutes outside of Charlottesville) COST: $275 if you register before September 30; $300 after October 1. For more information or to register, click here. |
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Resilience
....find your innate strengths, connect with deeper meaning, and play with sound, movement, and life. There will always be time to take care of business. Give yourself some time to explore how to deepen wellness and peace. In munay, Rachel |
Contact Info
MettaKnowledge for Peace, LLC
Rachel E. Mann
434-227-0538
rachel@mettaknowledge.com
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