The Sacred Directions: A series of four weekend-workshops designed to be taken in sequence throughout the year. Each weekend of the West, North, East, and South teaches the lessons of the direction, then moves you to the next part of the wheel. These can be taken individually or as a whole course. These courses are kept small in order to build community and individual support from Sarah.
The Enthios Guild Apprenticeship: $2000 (pre-paid). This includes the four Sacred Directional retreats, seven week night monthly mentoring circles and three private sessions. (or 3 payments of $700, or 6 payments of $375). Individual Directional Retreats $425 per workshop.
The teachings for this course were received through the spirit and the ceremony of my vision quest in 1996, and have been taught for 14 years consecutively. They come as a bridge of communication, healing and help. For many of us raised in the Western culture where time is at a premium, and our old perceptions are not holding true, we are drawn to community while we bravely step into new ways of doing and seeing that are interconnected, alive and reciprocal. Every time these classes come forward they are different and new. This is because each group defines the direction of how the community of the class wishes to navigate their wheel.
The courses are a fusion of ancient teachings, new research, scientific breakthroughs, new vocabulary, and ceremony. Each day the scientific paradigm refers to and describes a world that has more and more in common with what the Ancients spoke of. We are now coming into a deeper understanding of accountability, leading us to humanitas—a world of beings, united. Together we are heading towards uncharted waters where humanity has never been before. This series is about preparing us to navigate these times in excellence.
Sacred Directions 1: The West: Grandmother Cells and Our Sacred Feminine
October 1-2, 2011
We dive into our unconscious waters and go deep sea fishing for our murky monsters. This workshop births us fearlessly into our intuitive knowing and healing. We deepen our understanding of our emotions, learning to use them as our allies and courageous messengers of truth. It is here that we meet our matriarchic line, the sacred circle and the teachings of the feminine. This is also the place of our joy and enthusiasm.
Charged and alive we head for our Northern Star amidst effervescent bubbles of ideas that pulse and arise through the waters of our unconscious. We will journey together in community and stand bold in our knowing.
Sacred Directions 2: The North: The Art of Paradigm Skating
January 14-15, 2012
We explore the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious world, meet our saboteur, our ancestors, and our first breath. We come together in community to share our dreams and wisdom as we explore our blueprints and the power to transform the lives that came before us into brilliant new solutions for the future seven generations. We are the ones they dreamed into being to make these changes in a time of fast-cycle universal change. We are here to be the transformation of consciousness. The North is the land of conscious intent and lucid dreaming, where the raindrop solidifies into the snow flake. Are we carving the ice sculpture or are we the frozen ice?
Sacred Directions 3: The East: Awakening the Dragon
April 28-29, 2012
Now we turn to greet the rising sun. It is here that the winds of integrity fan our hearts and our adventurer, with the courage to step out. As we face this direction we are supported in our integrity to stand in our truth and walk the kinder and more compassionate solution. Our adventurer and the warrior of our heart awaken the slumbering dragon of creativity, inspiration, imagination and dynamic action.
During this weekend we will learn from and share our grandfathers and our relationship to the true and magnificent sacred masculine. We will celebrate the springing into action with fire and song. We will come together in community to explore protection and provision as we clear away the shadowy world of lies and projection. Together we will extract the good out of our patriarchy and contribute to building our new inclusive and heart-intelligent world with fresh new eyes.
Sacred Directions 4: The South: Resolutions, Results, Respect and Caterpillars
July 14-15, 2012
We come to greet all of our relatives in celebration and joy. We engage with our physical body language, share in community, and play. We learn about the sacred midwife, explore and touch our physical world with ceremony and laugh at ourselves and with each other. Often it is the experience of being tricked into our greatest lessons with caring humor that teach us: we greet the coyote who engages with us for this purpose. In the South we harvest our world with gratitude and song, boldly step out along the genuine path of forgiveness, accountability and into our brave, new world vision. This is the direction where the expression, mitakuye oyasin, all our relations, is a reality and our gift.