One
of the great pleasures of our work is the opportunity to meet and study
with people of like mind and similar interests. Such connections allow
us to
occasionally invite our friends and teachers to teach for us at Dragon
Waters.
In
recent years we have been honored to present workshops by Dr.
Chris Forester, Sarangerel
Odigan, Ramon
Lopez, Arawn
Machia and Mary
Pat Mann.
Please check the
current Schedule for listings of
workshops by these gifted teachers.
Dr.
Chris Forester
Dr. Chris
Forester is an Oxford valedictorian
with degrees in
philosophy,
theology and
psychoanalysis. He owns Chrysalis,
one of the UK's largest therapy training colleges, and is a Certified
Shamanic
Practitioner of the Church of Earth Healing.
In
2004 he taught two weekend workshops at Dragon Waters. In the spring he
presented the wonderfully helpful Nourishing
Work,
a shamanic approach to prosperity and right livelihood. Every student
in the workshop reported dramatic
improvements in their
prosperity within a few weeks. In
the fall he taught The Dreaming Shaman, using journeywork to
visit dreams
and to enhance dreamwork, exploring the nature of dreaming and symbol.
Chris' shamanic dreamwork is informed by his study of Jung and other
dream theories as well as his personal shamanic explorations.
Sarangerel Odigan
Sarangerel Odigan
was the noted author of Riding
Windhorses
and Chosen by the
Spirits. (See
our reading list under Shamanic Intensive.) She was of Buryat,
Hungarian
and Scots ancestry and, in recent years, and spent much time as an
active shaman
in Buryatia in Siberia. Sarangerel visited Dragon Waters many times,
doing healing work,
leading
ceremonies and teaching about Buryat/Mongolian shamanism. She also
taught
shamanism in Europe and around the US.
Sarangerel joined
her ancestors on February
28, 2006. There is a memorial
page for her on the Circle of Tengerism web site. For more
information on Buryatia
and
Buryat shamanic practice see our Links page.
Ramon Lopez
Ramon Lopez is a
native of Puerto Rico with
deep personal
involvement in, and
anthropological
knowledge of, the shamanic traditions of that island, the Caribbean and
South
America. A gifted artist and musician with a devotion to the spiritual
practices
of his homeland and a capacity to weave these arts through his shamanic
practice, Ramon is a Dreaming Shaman and has special interests in
crystals as
Spirit Houses. He has taught on both
topics at Dragon Waters as well as
sharing teaching with Crow in Chicago (where they met). He is a
Certified Shamanic Practitioner of the Church of
Earth Healing.
Arawn Machia
Arawn Machia is a
healer, psychic consultant,
psychotherapist,
and spiritual counselor
extensively schooled in both ancient magickal practices and modern
behavioral sciences. He has studied with internationally
recognized
shamans and psychotherapists in the United States and
Europe.
According to Who's Who in the World, Dr. Machia's "noteworthy
achievements are of lasting value to humankind."
Having
served as the director of counseling and adjunctive therapies for a
large
Florida consortium, Dr. Machia chose to redirect his work to
successfully
functioning personalities who desired to improve the quality of their
lives,
relationships, and communication. He holds university degrees in
theology, education, and
psychology and has done post-doctoral work in Princeton. Arawn is
a Reiki
master, a Strege high priest and elder, and an ordained minister. He
uses Tarot, past life
regression, dream interpretation, and magickal technologies to raise
the
consciousness of each individual, resulting in the improvement of the
mass-consciousness. His work is devoted to sharing and
teaching
techniques that have transformed him so that others can create the
changes they
want in their lives.
Arawn
teaches courses, seminars, and training in life skills and topics in
psychology,
New Age science, and Indo-European shamanism. He has taught Dragons:
Magick
and Lore, a workshop derived from Strege practices and
knowledge.
Mary Pat Lynch,
PhD
Mary Pat dreams,
journeys, teaches and writes
about
the Imaginal Realm, where all things are possible. She offers
workshops and individual consultation on dreamwork and loves
to explore mythology and story, women's lives and goddess spirituality,
ecology
and environmental issues, and her Irish heritage.
Mary Pat draws on
the work of
dream
teachers Robert Bosnak, Robert Moss, Jeremy Taylor, Jill Mellick, and
Arnold Mindell as well as the insights
of depth psychology. She studies shamanic journeying through the
Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the Church of Earth Healing (where
dreaming
shaman Ramon Lopez first showed her how closely dreams and journeys
were
connected).
Her essays,
short fiction and
poetry have appeared online in Mytholog,
Earthsongs, and the Rocky Mountain Dream Journal, and in print in
Parabola,
Pangaia, SageWoman, Buffalo Woman's Vision, and the poetry collection,
The
Pagan's Muse. She has
taught Three
Cauldrons in Every Person, shamanic work based in ancient
Irish
lore, and Dreaming the
Journey, a shamanic
dreaming workshop.
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