Bekki Shining Bearheart will be teaching her new Advanced Ancestor class, Diving Deep Into Ancestral Waters: Ancestral Healing for Ourselves, Our Families and Mother Earth, Saturday and Sunday, January 11-12, 2025 from 9:30 am to 5 pm, EST. This is a hybrid class- on line or in-person in Ithaca NY.

This workshop deepens the work undertaken in the “Circle of the Ancestors” workshop, which Bekki began teaching in 1994. That workshop is a prerequisite for this advanced work. Participants must have strong and established connections to one or more ancestors, using the protocol Bekki was given by her helping spirits. The protocol from “Circle of the Ancestors” for introduction to the ancestors involves specific steps for working with ancestors and totemic allies. The advanced work in “Diving Deep…” begins where “Circle of the Ancestors” ends. This workshop includes lecture; discussion; journaling; and journeying to our ancestors and allies, including some partner and group work: and ritual as appropriate.

The primary goal is to examine deeply entrenched family issues, and work on healing them. We will also look at family and tribal karma contributing to our own pain and suffering; at areas of our lives that are extremely challenging for us; and at the many current challenges our world is facing. We will examine these through the lens of shamanism, and the lens of other traditional systems of healing in our lineages, as guided by the Ancestors we encounter in our journeys.

We will examine the role of curses, shamanic intrusions and soul loss in the spiritual illness of ourselves and our ancestral and living people.

Bekki will also be teaching her Fundamentals of Shamanism workshop on January 18-19 2025 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm as a hybrid class, on line or in-person in Ithaca NY. This is an in-depth introduction to shamanism and shamanic journeying. Bekki has been teaching this workshop since the early 1980s.

More workshops will be posted soon…