Toltec Shamanic Mitote Ceremony Yogic Chanting - Dreaming.
2024-03-09 18:00 - 2024-03-10 10:00 UTC | Be The Medicine, Chester, NJ, 07930, United States
Overnight Retreat Ceremony and Celebration. (Don Miguel Ruiz Tradition.)
New Beginnings. Healing is Love.
Join 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.
Receive a deep spiritual experience offering transformation, awakening, and healing.
In Person Saturday, March 9, at 6 PM TO Sunday, March 10, at 10 AM. Chester, NJ.
A Unique, Gentle, and Powerful Toltec Mitote Ceremony from the Don Miguel Ruiz Lineage (The Four Agreements)
You will have time to sleep and dream during this overnight ceremony. Allow Sunday to integrate and relax into your new self.
It is a perfect opportunity for leaders, teachers, therapists, healers, and seekers to move through fears and raise their consciousness.
Practices 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.
Release 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.
This 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.
As 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.
We 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.
This Mitote will have an additional practice to help us awaken and release the illusions so we can see them inside and outside us.
We move into the Mitote, Chanting and Dreaming, and awaken at Sunrise to rebirth ourselves. We welcome the New Year and then have breakfast together.
Bring a bedroll, layers of clothing, toiletries, a notebook, pens, healthy snacks, dinner, and breakfast to share.
Janet 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.
We 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.
This Mitote will have an additional practice to help us awaken and release the illusions so we can see them inside and outside us.
We 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.
Bring a bedroll, layers of clothing, toiletries, a notebook, pens, healthy snacks, dinner, and breakfast to share.
Janet 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.
Enjoy this opportunity to remember, learn, and heal in alignment with your best self and possibility.
$ 300. Limited to 12 people. Still some spaces available.
For Registration. Send payment and email me with your name and phone number.
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Held at a private home in the Chester area. Directions on sign up.
Janet’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.
Testimonials
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”

A Shamanic Vision Quest Retreat with Toltec Mitote Ceremony
2025-07-18 15:00 - 2025-07-20 14:00 | Art Farm, Fawn lane Accord NY, NY, United States
Receive, Vision, Dream, Be, and Relax in a Natural Setting.

Sign Up Today to secure your space.
Join us for spiritual experiences, ceremonies, and ascension.
Take 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.
You 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.

Janet 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.
“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.
People 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.
“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.

FOR YOU.
You 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.

We 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

THE WEEKEND:
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.

OUR RETREAT SPACE:
Art 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.
OUR GUIDE

Janet 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.
Janet loves working with people to accelerate their journey.
“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
COST
Tuition and Lodging. $800. Limited to 8 people. Save $100. for both of you when you bring a friend.
Are 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.

“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

Professional Shamanic Healers Training
2025-10-26 10:00 - 17:00 | NJ
Ongoing Training

Professional Shamanic Healers Training
2025-12-07 10:00 - 17:00 | NJ
Closed Class

Toltec Overnight Retreat - Spring Equinox -A Favorite Don Miguel Ruiz Ceremony
2026-03-21 15:00 - 2026-03-22 10:00 | Be The Medicine, Chester, NJ, 07930, United States
Registration is closed for this Event. Please join us this summer at our retreat house.
Join us this summer in the Catskill Mountains, Accord, NY, for the next Mitote as part of the Vision Quest. July9-12
CLEAR OLD PATTERNS, ENERGY, AND EXPERIENCE RAISED ENERGY, VISIONS, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
THIS 18-HOUR CEREMONY IS POWERFUL. WE MOVE THROUGH PHASES OF AWAKE, ASLEEP, AND DREAMING.
The reason for this is to allow us to break through patterns and awaken spiritual experiences and advancement.
Join 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.

Photo from Kundalini Yoga. We have a similar setup, chanting around a fire, in our own clothing.
A 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.
The 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.
We 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.

StraightArrow has led many of these ceremonies in 5 states over the years. It is a favorite among her students.
“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.”
Bring your pillow, a bedroll, with cushioning for your lucid dream time—a transcendent experience timed to awaken your life.
TESTIMONIAL
“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.”
YOUR SHAMAN GUIDE

Janet 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.
Since 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.
Janet is also adding this ceremony to the July Vision Quest as preparation for Vision Quest Day on Earth.
You 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.
SIGN UP DETAILS.
A quick call with Janet to be sure this is correct for you.
Cost of the Experience is $333. Keeping old pricing.
Tuition is $333 by March 10. Small group, so sign up early.
$25. Off each if you bring someone. We bring food to share.
Janet provides coffee, tea, cocoa, and water. Space is limited, so it’s good to sign up in advance.
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Checks; contact janet for details.

Vision Quest Catskill Retreat – A Sacred Rite of Passage in Nature
2026-07-10 15:00 - 2026-07-12 13:00 | Art Farm, Fawn lane Accord NY, NY, United States
A WEEKEND OF CEREMONY AND SAFE GENTLE SPIRITUAL PROCESSES TO ENSURE A PROFOUND EXPERIENCE TO ASSIST YOU IN MOVING INTO THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR LIFE.

Friday-Sunday AM is preparation for your 6 hours on the land Sunday, sunrise to noon, in a sacred spot to Vision, Dream, Receive Messages and Signs in Nature, connecting you to your divine source. Resolve personal questions and conflicts. Coming back and integrating prepares us for our return to the world.

RECLAIM YOURSELF, DREAM, ENVISION, WANDER, HEAL

RELEASE WHATEVER IS HOLDING YOU BACK.
“I feel like I am twenty years younger since my Vision Quest with Janet in July 2024. I reclaimed myself and found new strength, peace, and joy. I feel like I have a new beginning to an exciting life. I am profoundly grateful to Janet for providing this space and opportunity to live my true self, who is quite wonderful.” CC, I loved it so much I came back to Quest again in 2025 and took the Soul Shamanism retreat in August..

Take time away from everyday life to connect with your true nature and call forth a vision for the next phase of your life. A powerful, transformative, and transcendent experience in which healing and awakening continue for at least a year, and continue unfolding the remainder of your life’s journey.
A Sacred Invitation

A time for you. A beautiful natural space to relax and connect.
Pause and go inside to discover your authentic voice, needs, choices, and inner wisdom as a gift you give yourself. You find that this experience offers deep Healing on all levels, and you feel free to be yourself.

Are you preparing for a new chapter in your life?
Are you moving through a significant change this year?
Come for a powerful weekend of ceremony, Journeys, transformation, and rebirth with Janet StraightArrow. Awaken clarity, life purpose, and joy as we break through illusions, fears, and ego. This is a gentle yet powerful life-changing weekend.

We begin the journey with emails leading up to the retreat, preparing you for your experience. Before you sign up for the quest, you call Janet to speak, set expectations, and clarify the process.

“A retreat with Janet is coming home. Janet’s teachings emerge from a place of unconditional love. You come away, your life forever changed. Choosing to work with Janet is giving yourself the most beautiful gift in the world.” Beth Lieberman Mund, Medium, Channel, Healer.

We enjoy the gift of letting go of daily routines and comforts to experience living in a private retreat space in a natural setting, where there is little to no interference from the world, which is always quite enlightening.
We become present for the big and the little things in our lives. Nature nurtures us and reveals beauty and wonder in every moment. In our sacred time, we remember who we are and listen and learn more clearly.

Significant changes are often made before or after the Quest, as you are about to go through a new phase or rite of passage, or you are just ready to go deeper on your journey and learn more.
Our Sacred Space at Art Farm Recording

We 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.
Art 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. Your choice of accommodations.
We each provide our food and have an ample, fully equipped modern kitchen, along with indoor and outdoor seating options. It is suggested that we prepare something simple to make the most of our time.
“Janet StraightArrow provides an unparalleled opportunity to bring you to the real you. It’s a well-worn path for her; she knows every part of this amazing journey. Janet emanates love, respect, and, most of all, joy in this great adventure. If you are ready to walk the path back to you – there is no better guide, teacher, mentor, and friend than Janet StraightArrow.” Christine, Therapist, Shamanic Practitioner

This three-day retreat, from Friday to Sunday, allows a deep process and experience. Significant healing and becoming continue long after the Quest.

This is a life-changing experience that deserves space and time before and after the event to prepare and process. Keep healing and awakening to who you are, breaking patterns, healing karma, stepping into your power, and visioning your next steps and future.

Janet has been a practicing Shaman for 34 years. She holds a powerful, loving spiritual energy as a container for the group, allowing each individual a space to connect with the divine and achieve their best during this retreat.
Regestration
Tuition, $667. Lodging $130. Deposit to hold your place: $250.
The tuition and lodging balance is due in full by July 1, 2026.
Space is limited, so sign up as soon as you are ready to join. The journey begins as soon as you sign up.
3 Days 2 Nights, Follow-up Zoom Class for integration and completion.
I Love teaching on retreat as everyone has space to relax, receive, enjoy, and process.

Call Janet to see if this is for you and get more details—973-647-2500 — or text to set up a time to speak. Janet provides a list of suggested items to pack.
Payment options for you.
ZELLE 973-647-2500 Janetstraightarrow@gmail.com
Venmo Payments @janet-straightarrow 973-647-2500
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Email Janet for info and address to pay by check.

From Janet: When I attended my first Vision Quest, I knew this was an essential part of my calling to offer to others. For twenty-four years, I have been holding sacred space for participants in a variety of locations. We create wonder-filled experiences as I guide you on your inner journey. As a Shaman, I begin building the container as soon as it is scheduled. Dedicated to helping people become who they truly are is always an honor. I find it rewarding to witness participants leave for home feeling empowered, clear, and excited about their next phase of life. More information is given in the email preparation packages.
