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SUMMARY:October Shamanic Retreat Zoom Preview Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Tonight we gather on Zoom to discuss the October Toltec Shamanic Retreat with information and questions. \nThere will be Vision Questing and deeper healing in the process. Leave with experiences\, tools\, and new positive focus in your life. \nIt is my calling and love to support people on their healing spiritual journey. This weekend answers to what many have asked for. I have reduced the price to accommodate couples and students. \nEmail me Janet@Bethemedicine.com with your cell phone in case something changes. \nAlso\, see the full write-up on the October 22-24 dated event. Early Bird Discount by 8/15. See full event. at https://bethemedicine.com/event/healing-toltec-wisdom-retreat/ \n“To have a true teacher who can communicate to everyone from different backgrounds the “truth” of “love\,” loving ourselves and loving each other is a rare and miraculous gift. She knows when you have a question and need to express yourself\, even if you might be afraid to. Janet kindly helps you reframe your words about yourself\, your feelings\, and others to be more aligned with love and truth. What a genuinely amazing experience and teacher.”
URL:https://bethemedicine.com/event/october-shamanic-retreat-meeting-zoom/
LOCATION:Be The Medicine\, Chester\, NJ\, 07930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ego Healing,Energy Medicine,Healing,Healing Circle,Mindfulness,Mitote,personal mastery,Retreat,Self Healing,Shamanism,Spiritual Healing,Toltec Shamanism,Vision Quest,Wisdom Circle
ORGANIZER;CN="Janet StraightArrow":MAILTO:Janet@Bethemedicine.com
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SUMMARY:Spring Toltec Shamanic Mitote Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We gather in a safe loving sacred space in nature in Western Morris County NJ to awaken more clarity\, peace\, joy\, and love in your life. \nHEALING OURSELVES. \nThis is a powerful weekend of transformation and opens a new level of healing for you. \nThis weekend we learn deeper teachings and tools to support us.  \nAre you going through big changes and looking for deep healing\,  transformation\, and new beginnings on a higher level? \nWe will enjoy ceremonies and learn profound practices\, tools\, and teachings of healing and awakening mind\, emotions\, body\, and spirit on this Shamanic Retreat. \nThe Mitote is the core ceremony that we expand in this weekend. This healing and illuminating experience is completed on Saturday night after some beautiful learning and healing. Then\, Sunday\, we have some private time to process and gather to celebrate and share our group experience. \nA Mitote Ceremony purifies us on all levels\, breaking up stuck patterns and energy and raising our energy and awareness. The Gayatri Mantra is chanted throughout the ceremony by the smaller group rotating in the center at the fire during the main part of the ceremony. \nYou move deeper into your process and understanding as I guide you through a higher level of energy and wisdom to have love and compassion for you as you open the doorways to deep release and resolution—inspiration\, love\, and clarity to help you move forward. \nWorking with a Shaman accelerates our healing and learning. This is my honor and calling to provide for you. \nOnce you sign up\, emails will begin the journey and prepare for this overnight retreat. \n$325. Limited to twelve participants. \nSign-up with full payment. Email me at Janet@Bethemedicine.com with your phone and preferred email address for correspondence and further information. \nVenmo Janetstraightarrow@gmail.com – janet-straightarrow \nZelle Janetstraightarrow@Gmail.com 973-647-2500 \nCredit cards add 3 % on www.PayPal.me/JanetStraightArrow  \n“Janet StraightArrow provides an unparalleled opportunity to bring you to the real you. It’s a well-worn path for her\, and she knows every part of this amazing journey. Janet emanates love\, respect\, and\, most of all\, joy in this great adventure. So\, if you are ready to walk the path back to you – there is no better guide\, teacher\, mentor\, and friend than Janet StraightArrow.\n\n\nAn important step of my journey has been the Toltec work I studied for many years. This work integrates into all I offer. I began my Toltec study in the 1990s and found that I resonated and lived the higher teachings. More questions led me to work with a Toltec Nagual Shaman for two years. It was a profound experience that broke through many layers of me. My spiritual healing journey accelerated very quickly. I traveled with this teacher and group to the Southwest\, Peru\, and Mexico in new understandings of Shamanism and our spiritual journey. I later worked twice a week with another Shaman to deepen my journey. \nLearn “how to” live the Four Agreements and begin to step into personal mastery. I recommend reading “The Mastery of Love.” my favorite Toltec book by Don Miguel Ruiz. \nThe Mitote Ceremony is a Way to challenge Limiting Beliefs of Possibility.\nThe Mitote ceremony is a sacred ritual in dreaming performed through the night. It has been passed down through the various Toltec lineages to transform one’s personal dream. It impacts the participant on multiple dimensions.\nThe Intent of the Mitote \nThere are multiple intents woven together in this ritual designed to push and pull an individual along their transformation. \nThe first intent of the Mitote ceremony is to become lucid in the dream state. Each time we go to sleep\, the mind passes from the waking dream to the sleeping dream. Each time that the mind passes through this dimension of dreaming\, we have an opportunity to become aware that the mind is dreaming. This is often referred to as lucid dreaming. When we become aware that the mind is dreaming\, we can take control of the dream. We can start to change and influence the dream. In this way\, the dreamer can practice changing the dream instead of reacting to the dream. Mastery of this aspect of dreaming has many benefits. It especially has benefits in the waking world of our daily life. One of the easiest ways to become aware that we are dreaming is in the moment that the body falls asleep and the mind continues to dream. We can become aware in other ways\, but this is one of the easiest. \nDuring the Mitote\, there are multiple opportunities to take advantage of this window as we wake periodically during the night and then lay down to sleep again. The mastery of this requires a high degree of awareness. \nThe second intent is the breaking of patterns and routines. Most of our actions\, thoughts\, and emotional responses are patterned routines. These patterns are programs that keep us repeating the same dream. We could say that our actions in this state are unconscious. We do not exercise our free will in choosing our actions when we are in a patterned reaction. This is the same behavior we often experience in a dream where things are just happening\, and we are just reacting. We find ourselves just doing things in the dream in reaction and not consciously choosing an action. We could say that in this experience\, we are not exercising our free will. In that place\, we do not even see a choice. To make a choice\, one must first see a choice. \nThis is similar in the waking dream when we are just reacting or behaving in a patterned routine. For example\, did we choose the path that we drove to work? Or did we take the same route that we usually take? Our personal power is invested in these patterned routines. Inhabits\, we lose our opportunity for choice. By breaking the routine\, we can recover the personal power that we have invested in it. When we have recovered our personal power\, we do not have to react. The routine no longer dictates our behavior; and instead\, we can choose. \nOne of the fastest ways to recover this personal power is breaking up the patterns that routinely run our lives. One of the biggest of these is the habit of sleep. We have a lot of agreements about sleep. We believe them\, but they are not necessarily true. We can change them. When we change them\, we can recover the investment of our personal power in that belief. In the Mitote\, we consciously intend to break up the sleep pattern and recover our power in agreements about sleep. \nWhen you practice this aspect in the Mitote\, you can become much more aware of other places where our personal power is invested in routines that don’t serve ourselves or others. Once you realize that you can break up the patterns around sleep\, it gives us more confidence and personal power to break other patterns in our life that we want to change. \nThe third intent is the energetic work of an experienced guide in the dream state. We are multidimensional beings. We perceive in many dimensions. However\, from the time we were very young\, the world trained our attention to focus on a limited number of these dimensions. In the dream state\, our awareness is still working to evolve whether we are conscious of our dreams or not. During a minute\, an experienced guide can work with individuals in the dream state towards this transformation. This evolution happens in realms that we are often not consciously aware of. \nThe general format of the Mitote ceremony: The Mitote is done with a group and should be lead by an experienced guide. Each one will take on its individual characteristics but follows a similar outline. If possible and convenient\, the group gathers for a ceremony at sunset to connect themselves with the light of the sun. Afterward\, the group will gather to perform the dreaming ceremony. \nThe group will generally break up into smaller groups which will be assigned a sequential order. The first group will hold the energy for the others through meditation and/or chanting\, generally in the center of the room. The rest of the groups will lay down to dream and sleep. At intervals throughout the night\, the smaller group will wake the next group. Each group will take a turn meditating and consciously holding the larger group intent. This continues until sunrise. \nThere are no guaranteed results from a Mitote ceremony. Each person’s experience will be different according to their point of view. Some people have had extraordinary Mitote experiences and remember many dreams\, only to remember nothing in their next Mitote. One of the lessons I have learned in the Mitote ritual is not to have expectations. We set our intent\, but don’t expect that things will turn out as we have intended. We must leave room for Spirit to intervene and co-create with us in Its divine way.\n(Written by Gary van Warmerdam) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://bethemedicine.com/event/healing-toltec-mitote-retreat/
LOCATION:Be The Medicine\, Chester\, NJ\, 07930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Be Your Own Guru,Ceremony,Chanting,Clear Mind,community event,Ego Healing,Energy Medicine,Healing,Healing Circle,Mindfulness,Mitote,personal mastery,Retreat,Shamanism,Spiritual Healing,Toltec Shamanism,wisdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Janet StraightArrow":MAILTO:Janet@Bethemedicine.com
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SUMMARY:Spring Toltec Mitote Shamanic Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We gather in a safe\, loving sacred space in nature in Western Morris County\, NJ to awaken more clarity\, peace\, joy\, and love in your life. \nHEALING OURSELVES. \nThis is a powerful weekend of transformation and opens a new level of healing for you. \nThis weekend we learn deeper teachings and tools to support us.  \nAre you going through big changes and looking for deep healing\,  transformation\, and new beginnings on a higher level? \nWe will enjoy ceremonies and learn profound practices\, tools\, and teachings of healing and awakening mind\, emotions\, body\, and spirit on this Shamanic Retreat. \nThe Mitote is the core ceremony that we expand in this weekend. This healing and illuminating experience is completed on Saturday night after some beautiful learning and healing. Then\, Sunday\, we have some private time to process and gather to celebrate and share our group experience. \nA Mitote Ceremony purifies us on all levels\, breaking up stuck patterns and energy and raise our energy and awareness. The Gayatri Mantra is chanted throughout the ceremony by the smaller group rotating in the center at the fire during the main part of the ceremony. \nYou move deeper into your process and understanding as I guide you through higher levels of energy and wisdom to have love and compassion for you as you open the doorways to deep release and resolution—inspiration\, love\, and clarity to help you move forward. \nWorking with a Shaman accelerates our healing and learning. This is my honor and calling to provide for you. \nOnce you sign up\, emails will begin the journey and prepare for this overnight retreat. \n$325. There are a few spots available. Limited to 12 participants. \nSign-up with full payment. To complete registration send me an email at Janet@Bethemedicine.com with your phone and preferred email address for correspondence and further information. \nVenmo Janetstraightarrow@gmail.com or @janet-straightarrow 973-647-2500 \nZelle Janetstraightarrow@Gmail.com 973-647-2500 \nCredit cards add 3 % on www.PayPal.me/JanetStraightArrow  \nChecks email me Janet@Bethemedicine.com \n“Janet StraightArrow provides an unparalleled opportunity to bring you to the real you. It’s a well-worn path for her\, and she knows every part of this amazing journey. Janet emanates love\, respect\, and\, most of all\, joy in this great adventure. So\, if you are ready to walk the path back to you – there is no better guide\, teacher\, mentor\, and friend than Janet StraightArrow.\n\n\nAn important step of my journey has been the Toltec work I studied for many years. This work integrates into all I offer. I began my Toltec study in the 1990s and found that I resonated and lived the higher teachings. More questions led me to work with a Toltec Nagual Shaman for two years. It was a profound experience that broke through many layers of me. My spiritual healing journey accelerated very quickly. I traveled with this teacher and group to the Southwest\, Peru\, and Mexico in new understandings of Shamanism and our spiritual journey. I later worked twice a week with another Shaman to deepen my journey. \nLearn “how to” live the Four Agreements and begin to step into personal mastery. I recommend reading “The Mastery of Love.” my favorite Toltec book by Don Miguel Ruiz. \n\nWhy Experience the Mitote? \nA Ceremony of Healing and a Way to Challenge Limiting Beliefs of Possibility. \nDear Friends\, \nI have held these Ceremonies for 19 years. In retreats\, Vision Quests\, and Mitote’s from 12 hours\, to one to three days. I chose 24 hours in April to have a full experience for all. We are in a private home with comfort\, a full kitchen\, and all we need. \nThe Mitote moves us deeply to energize\, be aware\, and release illusions in our mind and life. I am holding this April Mitote for 24 hours. We will sleep and dream\, chant\, journey\, meditate\, and be in nature. Ceremony with Sunset\, Sunrise\, and in between. Our second Mitote is a part of our Vision Quest in August. \nThis Ceremony comes from the Don Miguel Ruiz lineage. I studied with one of his first apprentices\, Dona Bernadette\, for two years in the US\, Peru\, and Mexico. \nYou will bring bedrolls-sleeping bags and pillow and whatever you need to sleep and sit in a circle. Comfortable clothing. Journal or notebook and pens. Everyone will have plenty of rest. Each person brings their own food to eat and/or share. \nWe have a big space for our central activities and Ceremony. Air Doctor Air Purifier is running as well. We have five separate rooms to take naps and sleep between the Ceremonies and the beautiful land outside. bring an air mattress if you need extra padding under your bedroll or sleeping bag. (A bedroll is blankets and sheets made up as a bed on the floor. We do have carpeting and heat to be warm. \nThis is a wonderful Spring ritual to awaken new beginnings in our lives. Any further questions see the description and event below and call me. Janet 973-647-2500. \n“The Mitote ceremony is a sacred ritual in dreaming performed through the night. It has been passed down through the various Toltec lineages to transform one’s personal dream. It impacts the participant on multiple dimensions. \nThe Intent of the Mitote \nThere are multiple intents woven together in this ritual designed to push and pull an individual along their transformation. \nThe first intent of the Mitote ceremony is to become lucid in the dream state. Each time we go to sleep\, the mind passes from the waking dream to the sleeping dream. Each time that the mind passes through this dimension of dreaming\, we have an opportunity to become aware that the mind is dreaming. This is often referred to as lucid dreaming. \nWhen we become aware that the mind is dreaming\, we can take control of the dream. We can start to change and influence the dream. In this way\, the dreamer can practice changing the dream instead of reacting to the dream. Mastery of this aspect of dreaming has many benefits. It especially has benefits in the waking world of our daily life. One of the easiest ways to become aware that we are dreaming is in the moment that the body falls asleep and the mind continues to dream. We can become aware in other ways\, but this is one of the easiest. \nDuring the Mitote\, there are multiple opportunities to take advantage of this window as we wake periodically during the night and then lay down to sleep again. The mastery of this requires a high degree of awareness. \nThe second intent is the breaking of patterns and routines. Most of our actions\, thoughts\, and emotional responses are patterned routines. These patterns are programs that keep us repeating the same dream. We could say that our actions in this state are unconscious. We do not exercise our free will in choosing our actions when we are in a patterned reaction. This is the same behavior we often experience in a dream where things are just happening\, and we are just reacting. We find ourselves just doing things in the dream in reaction and not consciously choosing an action. We could say that in this experience\, we are not exercising our free will. In that place\, we do not even see a choice. To make a choice\, one must first see a choice. \nThis is similar in the waking dream when we are just reacting or behaving in a patterned routine. For example\, did we choose the path that we drove to work? Or did we take the same route that we usually take? Our personal power is invested in these patterned routines. Inhabits\, we lose our opportunity for choice. By breaking the routine\, we can recover the personal power that we have invested in it. When we have recovered our personal power\, we do not have to react. The routine no longer dictates our behavior; instead\, we can choose. \nOne of the fastest ways to recover this personal power is breaking up the patterns that routinely run our lives. One of the biggest of these is the habit of sleep. We have a lot of agreements about sleep. We believe them\, but they are not necessarily true. We can change them. When we change them\, we can recover the investment of our personal power in that belief. \nIn the Mitote\, we consciously intend to break up the sleep pattern and recover our power in agreements about sleep. \nWhen you practice this aspect in the Mitote\, you can become much more aware of other places where our personal power is invested in routines that don’t serve ourselves or others. Once you realize that you can break up the patterns around sleep\, it gives us more confidence and personal power to break other patterns in our life that we want to change. \nThe third intent is the energetic work of an experienced guide in the dream state. We are multidimensional beings. We perceive in many dimensions. However\, from the time we were very young\, the world trained our attention to focus on a limited number of these dimensions. In the dream state\, our awareness is still working to evolve whether we are conscious of our dreams or not. During a minute\, an experienced guide can work with individuals in the dream state towards this transformation. This evolution happens in realms that we are often not consciously aware of. \nThe general format of the Mitote ceremony: The Mitote is done with a group and should be lead by an experienced guide. Each one will take on its individual characteristics but follows a similar outline. If possible and convenient\, the group gathers for a ceremony at sunset to connect themselves with the light of the sun. Afterward\, the group will gather to perform the dreaming ceremony. \nThe group will generally break up into smaller groups which will be assigned a sequential order. The first group will hold the energy for the others through meditation and/or chanting\, generally in the center of the room. The rest of the groups will lay down to dream and sleep. At intervals throughout the night\, the smaller group will wake the next group. Each group will take a turn meditating and consciously holding the larger group’s intent. This continues until sunrise. \nThere are no guaranteed results from a Mitote ceremony. Each person’s experience will be different according to their point of view. Some people have had extraordinary Mitote experiences and remember many dreams\, only to remember nothing in their next Mitote. One of the lessons I have learned in the Mitote ritual is not to have expectations. We set our intent\, but don’t expect that things will turn out as we have intended. We must leave room for Spirit to intervene and co-create with us in Its divine way.”\n(Written by Gary van Warmerdam) I found this on the internet it offers some depth to the Ceremony. \nThe next Mitote ceremony is at our Vision Quest in August see more below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://bethemedicine.com/event/toltec-shamanic-retreat/
LOCATION:Be The Medicine\, Chester\, NJ\, 07930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ceremony,Chanting,community event,Energy Medicine,Healing Circle,Mindfulness,Mitote,personal mastery,Retreat,Self Healing,Shamanism,Toltec Shamanism,Vision Quest
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SUMMARY:Toltec Shamanic Mitote Ceremony Yogic Chanting - Dreaming.
DESCRIPTION:Overnight Retreat Ceremony and Celebration. (Don Miguel Ruiz Tradition.) \nNew Beginnings. Healing is Love. \nJoin us for this unique opportunity to awaken and release anything holding you back from being the amazing human you are and dive into the wonder of you. \nReceive a deep spiritual experience offering transformation\, awakening\, and healing. \nIn Person Saturday\, March 9\, at 6 PM TO Sunday\, March 10\, at 10 AM. Chester\, NJ. \nA Unique\, Gentle\, and Powerful Toltec Mitote Ceremony from the Don Miguel Ruiz Lineage (The Four Agreements) \nYou will have time to sleep and dream during this overnight ceremony. Allow Sunday to integrate and relax into your new self. \nIt is a perfect opportunity for leaders\, teachers\, therapists\, healers\, and seekers to move through fears and raise their consciousness. \nPractices and teachings in this overnight Mitote Ceremony Saturday night into Sunday allow deep healing and the opportunity to break through stuck places in preparation for the rest of your life. \nRelease the old and bring in the new with renewed awareness\, intention\, and silence. This sacred Ancient practice adapted to today will include lucid dreaming\, chanting\, and meditation. \nThis group experience is powerful and life-changing\, resetting you on a solid path for yourself. Janet has facilitated this ceremony and process in groups in five states for twenty-two years with excellent results. \nAs a Shaman\, Janet raises and opens your energy and helps you breakthrough illusions\, enabling you to make changes in your life aligned with your truth. \nWe open the circle of community to awaken us to new possibilities with a ceremony to bring in all of the directions and circle of life\, honoring this crossroads for all of us into the New Year. \nThis Mitote will have an additional practice to help us awaken and release the illusions so we can see them inside and outside us. \nWe move into the Mitote\, Chanting and Dreaming\, and awaken at Sunrise to rebirth ourselves. We welcome the New Year and then have breakfast together. \nBring a bedroll\, layers of clothing\, toiletries\, a notebook\, pens\, healthy snacks\, dinner\, and breakfast to share. \nJanet StraightArrow holds a space of love and healing for all who participate. This experience will assist you in being free to be fully yourself and live from your center. \nWe open the circle of community to awaken us to new possibilities with a ceremony to bring in all of the directions and circle of life\, honoring this crossroads for all of us into the New Year. \nThis Mitote will have an additional practice to help us awaken and release the illusions so we can see them inside and outside us. \nWe move into the Mitote\, Chanting and Dreaming\, and awaken at Sunrise to rebirth ourselves. We welcome the New Year and day in a local park and then have breakfast together. \nBring a bedroll\, layers of clothing\, toiletries\, a notebook\, pens\, healthy snacks\, dinner\, and breakfast to share. \nJanet StraightArrow holds a space of love and healing for all who participate. This experience will assist you in being free to be fully yourself and live from your center. \nEnjoy this opportunity to remember\, learn\, and heal in alignment with your best self and possibility. \n$ 300. Limited to 12 people. Still some spaces available. \nFor Registration. Send payment and email me with your name and phone number. \nVenmo janet-straightarrow janetstraightarrow@gmail.com \nZelle Janetstraightarrow@gmail.com \nPayPal for credit cards add 3% www.PayPal.me/janetstraightarrow \nJanet StraightArrow 973-647-2500  Janet@bethemedicine.com \nHeld at a private home in the Chester area. Directions on sign up. \nJanet’s extensive training in Shamanism\, Holding Space\, Healing\, and Teaching and directly working with a Nagual Shaman from Don Miguel Ruiz’s lineage bring you a wonderful experience. \nTestimonials \n“This healing space is not hard\, or fearful\, there are gentle transitions that you can feel and sense that are mirrored with your companions-hearing their stories validates you. Your struggles are not so different – different faces and places\, the essence of being human\, are shared in a safe space with no judgment. Janet makes it fun\, lighthearted\, and no big deal. StraightArrow accurately reads where you are and speaks the words that bring insights that change your landscape and give you new perspectives about all the people in your life. Everyone feels included and supported\, all of the pieces of the space\, place and time are honored.” \n“We just finished a Mitote weekend retreat with Janet StraightArrow. We were in an amazing space\, but it would not matter where we were. Janet brings the safe container\, and then we build upon it. By safe container\, I mean a safe place to explore your true self\, cut out the illusion\, and discover who you really are. We were able to experience the love within and integrate it to bring it back into the world more whole and stronger and resolved to be our true selves and abide in our true nature. Janet’s StraightArrow approach is loving and keen as it cuts through the BS and helps you to heal. Janet can see each person as they are and kindly\, lovingly\, move them into their truth. Thank You\, Janet; I love you.” \n“Janet is a midwife who holds each soul in love and bliss\, helping them to surrender and be known. Every word that flows out touches everyone\, clearing limiting beliefs and rebuilding perfect mental\, physical\, and spiritual health. She is a blessing to all.”
URL:https://bethemedicine.com/event/lunar-new-year-toltec-shamanic-mitote-ceremony-and-dreaming/
LOCATION:Be The Medicine\, Chester\, NJ\, 07930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advanced Healer,Be Your Own Guru,Ceremony,Channeling,Chanting,Clear Mind,community event,Ego Healing,Energy Medicine,Healing,Healing Circle,Mindfulness,Mitote,Self Healing,Shamanism,Toltec Shamanism
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SUMMARY:A Shamanic Vision Quest Retreat with Toltec Mitote Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Receive\, Vision\, Dream\, Be\, and Relax in a Natural Setting.\n\n\nSign Up Today to secure your space.\nJoin us for spiritual experiences\, ceremonies\, and ascension. \nTake time out of your life to relax\, let go\, and open to more. This retreat allows you to take a break from everyday life and the world\, reflect on yourself\, and see the real\, wonderful you.\nYou may have a full plate of responsibilities at home as you lead\, support\, and help people. Givers need to receive and reflect. You may be on a profound spiritual journey\, seeking a deep experience and personal growth.\n    \n  \nJanet has blended this powerful Vision Quest and Mitote retreat and shared it with people for twenty-three years. She masterfully guides you throughout the weekend with purpose\, universal wisdom\, ceremonies\, and practices to open you to experience your highest wisdom and healing. These ceremonies\, journeys\, and practices help us go within\, let go of the past that no longer serves us\, and raise our energy as we receive direction\, resolution\, and clarity on any questions we may have. Janet aligns with the group’s needs regarding how we navigate the weekend and which practices we work on. You will also have the opportunity to spend personal time alone\, journaling\, walking\, and sitting in nature.  \n“A retreat with Janet is coming home. Janet’s teachings emerge from a place of unconditional love. You come away with you\, and your life is forever changed. Choosing to work with Janet is giving yourself the most beautiful gift in the world.” Beth Mund\, Master Healer-Teacher-Channel.\nPeople often embark on Vision Quests when they are ready to rebirth their lives in a new way. This rite of passage is a carefully developed retreat that offers guidance and support to help you move through life transitions and new beginnings. It is gentle\, safe\, and inspiring. Toltec Shamans have used the Mitote Ceremony to heal the past and transform one’s dreams. It impacts each participant on multiple dimensions\, opening us spiritually to receive our messages and healing.\n“I attended the 2024 Quest and feel twenty years younger. I’ve let go of the past and am now experiencing a brand-new life. I love my life and feel whole in ways I never thought were possible. Thank you\, Janet\, for your caring guidance and holding a sacred space for all of us to move through our processes. I already signed up for this year’s quest\, knowing I will receive even more from this weekend.” CC.\n \nFOR YOU.\nYou have time and space to explore and get to know yourself better\, connect to nature\, the land\, spiritual guides\, teachers\, and your highest self\, and move through transitions and transformations as you go inside to listen\, ask\, and learn more about yourself and your life. You can call for a vision\, symbols\, or words to assist your forward movement. This is a perfect summer to retreat and deepen your spiritual connections. We are all navigating deep spaces within ourselves\, coping with myriad changes both on the planet and within ourselves. These retreats are designed to support you on your journey\, accompanied by a small group of participants. At every stage of life\, we undergo transformational changes. We may change jobs or partners\, the needs of children\, parents\, and ourselves may evolve\, we may retire\, or we may enter new phases of life. We are reclaiming ourselves\, undergoing personal changes both inside and out. Join us to unwind in nature and rejuvenate your body\, mind\, and spirit in a serene\, natural setting.\n \n  \nWe enjoy walks in the woods\, bonfires at night\, a star-filled sky\, an outdoor soaking tub\, visiting horses\, and a nature-spirit-filled property. Janet also leads us through advanced Shamanic practices from the Toltec\, Celtic\, and Native American traditions. “To have a true teacher who can communicate to everyone from different backgrounds the ‘truth’ of ‘love’\, loving ourselves and loving each other\, is a rare and miraculous gift. She knows when you have a question and need to express yourself\, even if you’re afraid to do so. Janet kindly helps you reframe your words about yourself\, your feelings\, and others to be more aligned with love and truth. What a genuinely amazing experience and teacher.” Claudia Barish Teicher\, Yoga Teacher\n\nTHE WEEKEND:\n We gather Friday afternoon\, settle in\, and enjoy a communal dinner. Friday night’s welcome ceremony marks the start of the weekend. On Saturday\, we explore the farm\, find our space\, and prepare for the Mitote and Sunday’s Quest. The Mitote is a ceremony Saturday night that raises our energy\, clears and heals what is in our way\, and allows us to receive information in lucid dreaming. Raising energy\, letting go\, and receiving visions allow transformation and transcendence. On the Vision Quest\, we are in our sacred space on the land\, sitting still to hear our heart and soul speak. We are reborn as we return to the main cabin\, process\, eat lunch\, and find our way home by mid-afternoon.\n  \n \nOUR RETREAT SPACE: \nArt Farm is a farm converted to a retreat space in the Hudson Valley in the Catskill Mountains\, west of New Paltz\, off the NY Thruway and Route 209. Janet rents the cabins and acres of property for privacy. We have a main cabin and smaller cabins\, each equipped with linens for sleeping and working together. A pine forest campground has a flush toilet and an outdoor stone-lined hot shower for tent campers. We provide our food and have an ample\, fully equipped kitchen\, along with indoor and outdoor seating options. It is suggested that we prepare something simple to make the most of our time.\nOUR GUIDE\n\n\n\n\n\nJanet StraightArrow Shaman\, Healer\, Sage\, has studied spiritual\, personal\, and healing Mastery since 1967\, when she decided to heal herself from a dire diagnosis. Her studies have been an extensive adventure\, exploring many known and unknown methods with Masters\, Shamans\, Gurus\, Medical Doctors\, and renowned teachers. She sought complete healing\, spiritual and Personal Mastery\, while uncovering her life purpose\, gifts\, and Shamanic Calling. With over 30 years of professional experience in teaching and healing\, Janet brings extensive understanding\, support\, and a genuine joy and love.\nJanet loves working with people to accelerate their journey.  \n “We just finished a weekend retreat with Janet StraightArrow. We were in an amazing space\, but it wouldn’t have mattered where we were; the experience would have been the same. Janet brings the safe container\, and then we build upon it. By ‘safe container\,’ I mean a safe space to explore your true self\, cut through illusions\, and discover who you are. We were able to experience love within and integrate it\, bringing it back into the world to make it a more whole and stronger place. We were determined to be our true selves and live by our true nature. Janet’s StraightArrow approach is loving and keen as it cuts through the BS and helps you to heal. Janet can see each person as they are and kindly\, lovingly guide them into their truth. Thank You\, Janet.” JS Healer-Teacher\nCOST\nTuition and Lodging. $800. Limited to 8 people. Save $100. for both of you when you bring a friend.\nAre you new to working with Janet? Call 973-647-2500 to speak with her before signing up to ensure this is correct for you. Text or email her to schedule a phone or Zoom meeting. Janet will provide a payment link\, information\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“My weekend with Janet was about opening my mind\, heart\, and soul. She created the space with her gentleness\, insight\, and warmth\, allowing this opening to unfold naturally. I appreciate how she could cull ancient practices’ wisdom and apply it to each student’s experience.” Chris L. Coach and Healer
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LOCATION:Art Farm\, Fawn lane Accord NY\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Toltec Overnight Retreat - Spring Equinox -A Favorite Don Miguel Ruiz Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Registration is closed for this Event. Please join us this summer at our retreat house.\nJoin us this summer in the Catskill Mountains\, Accord\, NY\,  for the next Mitote as part of the Vision Quest. July9-12\nCLEAR OLD PATTERNS\, ENERGY\, AND EXPERIENCE RAISED ENERGY\, VISIONS\, AND CONSCIOUSNESS\nTHIS 18-HOUR CEREMONY IS POWERFUL.  WE MOVE THROUGH PHASES OF AWAKE\, ASLEEP\, AND DREAMING. \nThe reason for this is to allow us to break through patterns and awaken spiritual experiences and advancement. \nJoin us to experience a profoundly transformative process used by Toltec Shamans to release long-held energy\, beliefs\, and patterns that block you. The second phase of the ceremony allows us to raise our energy to high levels of consciousness as we chant in rounds and experience lucid dreaming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPhoto from Kundalini Yoga. We have a similar setup\, chanting around a fire\, in our own clothing. \nA Mitote is a transformative\, high-energy\, and focused Toltec Shamanic ceremony that purifies us\, raises our vibration and light\, and offers a release of illusions and past hurts to awaken higher wisdom and truth—perfect preparation for our new beginnings\, with messages and visions for the next stage of life. \nThe intent is to let go and allow rebirth. This unique and profound ceremonial event raises your energy vibration\, breaks through stuck places\, and awakens a new vision. A beautiful blend of Shamanism and Yogic Chant\, we gently birth ourselves into the next phase of our lives. \nWe experience our own purification on all levels. We chant the Gayatri Mantra\, a high-vibration mantra\, throughout the early evening ceremony by a smaller group rotating in the center. You are either chanting or dreaming on the outside of the circle. You raise your energy and allow lucid dreaming visions and inner movement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStraightArrow has led many of these ceremonies in 5 states over the years. It is a favorite among her students. \n“Janet is a midwife who holds each soul in love and bliss\, helping them to surrender and be known. Every word that flows out touches everyone\, clearing limiting beliefs\, rebuilding perfect mental\, physical\, and spiritual health. She is a blessing to all.”  \nBring your pillow\, a bedroll\, with cushioning for your lucid dream time—a transcendent experience timed to awaken your life. \nTESTIMONIAL \n“We just finished a Mitote retreat… We were in an amazing space\, but the truth is\, it would not matter where we were. Janet brings the safe container\, and then we build upon it. By ‘safe container\,’ I mean a safe place to explore your true self\, cut through the illusion\, and discover who you are. We were able to experience the love within and integrate it to bring it back out into the world whole and strong\, resolved to be our true selves and abide in our true nature.” \nYOUR SHAMAN GUIDE \n \n  \nJanet StraightArrow found her soul calling as a Shaman in 1992. After significant study with several Shamans and an apprenticeship\, Janet was called to work with Dona Bernadette\, one of Don Miguel Ruiz’s first apprentices and also a Shaman\, in 2001-2003. Don Miguel is best known for The Four Agreements. During Janet’s two years working with Dona\, she traveled and participated in Ceremonies throughout Peru\, Mexico\, and New Mexico as a part of her training. The Mitote\, an overnight ceremony\, is a way to assist people in healing and awakening through a high-energy\, focused ceremony. \nSince that training\, Janet has held these ceremonies at least once a year to provide a fantastic experience for those who attend. Janet has continued offering these ceremonies because of the transendent healing experience they provide. \nJanet is also adding this ceremony to the July Vision Quest as preparation for Vision Quest Day on Earth. \nYou will receive preparation emails and speak with Janet before the event. We meet in the mid-afternoon on Saturday and begin preparing for the midnight ceremony. We share a light dinner and rest or sleep early in the evening. At midnight\, we awaken\, start a round of chanting\, watch the indoor fire\, and engage in lucid-dreaming cycles. We sleep again\, awaken at Sunrise\, share experiences in a circle\, have breakfast together\, and go home. Plan a light Sunday afterwards with alone time if possible. \nSIGN UP DETAILS. \nA quick call with Janet to be sure this is correct for you. \nCost of the Experience is $333. Keeping old pricing. \nTuition is $333 by March 10. Small group\, so sign up early. \n$25. Off each if you bring someone. We bring food to share. \nJanet provides coffee\, tea\, cocoa\, and water. Space is limited\, so it’s good to sign up in advance. \nZelle Use phone number 973-647-2500 \nVenmo @janet-straightarrow \nwww.PayPal.me/janetstraightarrow \nChecks; contact janet for details.
URL:https://bethemedicine.com/event/toltec-overnight-retreat/
LOCATION:Be The Medicine\, Chester\, NJ\, 07930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Advanced Healer,Be Your Own Guru,Ceremony,Chanting,Clear Mind,Ego Healing,Energy Medicine,Healing,Healing Circle,Healing for Healers,Mindfulness,Mitote,personal mastery,Retreat,Shamanism,Toltec Shamanism
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