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Path Home Newsletter
Promoting personal empowerment and conscious living
Welcome to the Path Home Newsletter.
It is our mission and intent to bring you news of the latest writings, classes, performances and events to assist you on your journey toward more conscious and joyous living.
We are always open to contributions from our readers so if you have something to add or share please submit it for our consideration to touchin@findyourpathhome.com.
January 2006
Highlights This Issue:
Gwilda Wiyaka to be interviewed on TV
Who Are You Really? A talk by Gwilda Wiyaka
Gwilda's New Manifestation Class in February
Tom Cowan to Teach at Path Home in April 2006
Writings:
Changing Form
by Gwilda Wiyaka
Any time things change form, energy is released.
Soul loss by its very nature changes the form or frequency of the individual suffering the fragmentation. During this damaging process a person releases their right to a natural expression. In so doing energy is released much like the splitting of an atom.
This energy is in turn devoured by parasitical forms that have been coexisting with us since the dawning of our civilization. It is this symbiotic relationship that has created our fear-based culture, as we know it.
By keeping people in fear and victimhood the feeders are able to dine on the energy released during our trauma.
Everything expresses itself according to frequency. As long as we are kept at a low frequency we are easily manipulated through our fear of lack.
The human condition exists along a continuum of frequency. At the bottom of this frequency we find the person dressed in rags drinking from a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag scratching through dumpsters for his next meal. This man blames his fate on the rich bastards who have it all. He believes that in order to have one must take it from someone else, so by playing on the sympathy of others he panhandles enough coin to buy another bottle in which to drown the pain of his meager existence. When drunk he becomes a conduit through which the feeders can traumatize others creating more soul loss upon which to feed. The feeders work through his patterns and beliefs stirring his hatred of those who have more than he and justify the murder of a hapless passerby for his wallet.
Somewhere in the middle of this continuum we have our hard-working long-suffering citizens who sacrificed their lives to the system in order to scratch out a living until they can retire and died shortly thereafter. They also feel victimized by the system but believe if they just work hard enough the system will grant them the rewards they desire. The bumps, bruises and trauma they experience along their life’s path create soul loss that releases their energy to the feeders and drains away their lives.
This frequency continuum is not relative to how much money one has. The rich are subject to the system and as victimized by it as the poor. A wealthy man is often surrounded by people who are there for his money. Given the opportunity they would take it from him and leave him in the dust. Often the task of managing one's wealth and protecting his possessions is so all-encompassing and demanding that it creates isolation and paranoia. Because of this, soul loss is suffered and again no one really profits but the feeders.
As long as we believe we are hapless victims of random negative circumstances we remain at the mercy of the entities that exist on our personal power. We are in effect unconsciously agreeing to give away our life's force rather than reclaim it and the responsibility for our experience.
There is nothing here we have not co-created. We, as a culture, have been unconsciously co-creating with the feeders for millennium. Now is a time when we can become conscious of the invisible ebb and flow of energy and reclaim that which is ours. In so doing this newfound energy can be directed to create a world to our liking, rather than one of seemingly random acts of violence and misfortune.
At this point I have probably painted such a dark picture of our lives that you are about to suffer soul loss in the contemplation of it. It's important to realize, this entire system is something we chose to experience and learn from this lifetime. All experiences are just that, experiences, neither good nor bad. In fact, the recognizing and choosing to evolve beyond this current state of affairs is part of the next experience we have an opportunity to participate in.
Not all of us will make this choice. Some will choose to continue to experience the lower frequencies while others grow beyond them. This doesn't make people choosing the status quo all bad or lazy people, simply ones who've chosen a different experience this lifetime.
Everything expresses itself according to its frequency. When things of different frequencies are mixed together they combine frequencies and become a common denominator. Just like when we add slower vibrating or lower frequency cold water to rapidly vibrating higher frequency boiling water, we have water that is lukewarm. When we try to share our lives and time with people of lower frequency we find our own frequency dropping. It is so important to recognize where and with whom we belong during these volatile times of rapid transformation. We do this with loving discernment not judgment nor condemnation.
In the Bible it says, be ye either hot or cold for if you are lukewarm I will spew you out of my mouth. I think this refers to these times. It has become time to make a choice. There is no more room for sitting on the fence. It is time to either evolve or not. Dabbling is not an option, nothing but full commitment and faith can bring us out of this Babylon we have created.
So as the old year leaves us and the new one begins, may we lovingly release ourselves and each other from relationships and circumstances that no longer serve. May we reclaim our soul parts, our power and our birthright. May we walk forward in faith and joy to find and embrace our soul teams and together change the form of our world.
In loving friendship,
Gwilda Wiyaka
Gwilda Wiyaka, author and singer/song writer, is the founder of Path Home Spiritual Healing Center and Path Home Shamanic Arts School. http://findyourpathhome.com/mg_bio.html
School News:
New Classes:
Manifestation: IMBOLC (see in workshop section below) If you have interest in working with the currents of the seasons to consciously manifest your life, Gwilda's new Manifestation Class is not to be missed. This section will not come around again until next year at this time so sign up soon as space is limited.
Tom Cowan to teach at Path Home:
Tom Cowan is a shamanic practitioner specializing in Celtic visionary and healing techniques. He combines universal core shamanism with traditional European spirit lore to create spiritual practices that can heal and enrich one's own life and the lives of others. He is an internationally respected teacher, author, lecturer, and tour leader. He has taught training programs in England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy; and most recently he was the first American shaman to teach in Slovakia.
Tom is the author of Yearning For The Wind, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit, Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life, The Pocket Guide to Shamanism, The Book of Séance, The Way of the Saints: Prayers, Practices, and Meditations and Wending Your Way: A New Version of the Old English Rune Poem.
The Cauldrons of the Soul
(a Path Home “Gathering of Shaman” featured class)
Instructor: Tom Cowan
April 22 & 23, 2006 10:00a 5:30p Boulder
Primal Celtic mysticism views the soul as a shapeshifter that can wander through the elements and the natural world. At the same time, the soul energizes key centers in the body and mind in subtle and mysterious ways that empower us to live fully as human beings. Together these characteristics of the soul help us to realize our essential oneness with the Divine Consciousness woven throughout Creation. In this workshop we learn prayers and practices that can be used on a daily basis to stay mindful of our souls and their relationship to both the sacred and secular environment around us.
We use the shamanic journey to discover the mysteries of the three cauldrons of the soul - the Cauldron of Warming, the Cauldron of Calling, the Cauldron of Knowing. With these we can live more compassionately and empathize more intimately with others, listen more deeply, connect to animals, pets, the land we live on, and participate more fully in the seasons of the year.
This workshop is an initiation into Celtic mysteries that offers participants the opportunity to learn about and embody dana, a rich Celtic term that can refer to the primal energies of the universe. It is dana that characterized the People of the Goddess Dana, also known by their ancestral title Tuatha De Danann. And it is dana that gave certain groups of people such as druids, seers, poets, and healers the power that we today recognize as shamanism. By allowing our souls to drink from the rich springs of dana, we can become the modern equivalents of those Celtic mystics and shamans known as aois dana and representatives of the "Shining Ones."
Prerequisites:
Skill at journeying into nonordinary reality http://findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#lowerworld
and working with power animals. http://findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#pa
Tom is a Path Home Certified Instructor and his class will qualify as an elective for the Path Home certification program. For more information or to reserve a spot in his class contact us:
touchin@findyourpathhome.com or 303-775-3431
Clinic News:
Rates
Gwilda's rates for 1.5 hour private sessions will be $150.00 for all clients as of January 1, 2006. Path Home Certification Program students may apply their student discount to the new rate.
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Performances:
Gwilda Wiyaka will be interviewed on "The Light at Night" show on Comcast Cable TV station channel 54, Thursday, January 5, at 8:00 pm.
She will be discussing what spiritual illness is, and the results of the lack of shamanic healing in our culture over generations. She will also discuss how she is training her students to take the ancient principles and apply them to create a modality that better suits the people of our time, as well as what this can mean for the future of our race.
Talks:
Who Are You, Really?
by Gwilda Wiyaka
How Shamanism can help us heal into more whole individuals, uncover our gifts and our Path Home, and assist our evolution into a new age of peace, prosperity and abundance.
When: Thursday January 12th, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Path Home 4700 Sterling Dr. #K Boulder
Cost: Suggested donation, $10.00 at the door, Seating is limited for this event
Programs:
Path Home Shamanic Arts School:
Shamanism: Powerful healing practices of our ancestors for the peoples of today!
Become a certified shamanic practitioner.
Path Home is a trade school certified by the state of Colorado: http://findyourpathhome.com/school_about.html
Contact us for more information:
303-775-3431 or touchin@findyourpathhome.com
Workshops:
SPIRITUAL COUNSELING
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: Saturday, January 14, 2006, 10:00am - 5:30pm, Boulder
Our culture has been so long without shamanic healing that many clients have difficulty making sense of a soul retrieval after they have one, or may even suffer a form of identity crisis as they strive to integrate their work.
This class is designed to teach skills of stewarding clients through this sometimes challenging time. http://findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#spiritualcounseling
Prerequisites:
Lower World Shamanic Journey
Upper World Shamanic Journey
Beginning Soul Retrieval
Pattern Tracing
RHYTHM & MOVEMENT
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: Sunday, January 15, 2006, 10:00am - 5:30pm, Boulder
The drum is the best friend of the shamanic practitioner. Drumming grounds us, takes us on our journeys, focuses healings and integrates spiritual work into our bodies. The trick is playing it and walking at the same time!
This class is designed with that very dilemma in mind. The side benefits are an unexpected left brain right brain integration and a stretching of what we think is possible for us rhythm wise. http://findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#rhythm
Prerequisites:
None
BEGINNING SOUL RETRIEVAL
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: Friday, January 27 (4:00pm) through Monday, January 30 (1:30pm)
Prerequisites:
Lower World Shamanic Journey
Upper World Shamanic Journey
Power Animals and Helping Spirits
Sacred Space
"Soul Retrieval is the foundation of shamanic healing. It is through soul retrieval that we regain wholeness, integrity and personal power." Gwilda Wiyaka
This 3-day intensive program is designed to teach the skills needed to perform soul retrieval healings, as well as power animal retrieval, to be used in the treatment of the spiritual illnesses known as soul loss and loss of power, respectively. Methods of dealing with soul stealing and essence exchange will also be covered. http://findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#beginningSR
MANIFESTATION: IMBOLC
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: February 11, 10:00am-5:30pm February 12, 10:00am-5:30pm
Prerequisites:
Lower World Shamanic Journey OR
Upper World Shamanic Journey
Imbolc is the time to come out of the darkness out of the empty and make plans for our coming year, a time of innocence and new beginnings.
It is a time of leading with the truth, which has evolved through our experiences of the past year.
In deep gratitude to our teachers and guides that have directed us wittingly or unwittingly to our present state of evolution, we now have the opportunity to step forward in innocence to create a matrix for something new to manifest in our future.
In this two-day non-residential program we will learn to set our intent and plant our future. By cooperating with the currents moving in this time of year we will use the energies present to accelerate and support our manifestation process. We will discuss what has not worked well in our past, and how to transmute the energy through healing our belief systems and focusing our intent into something that powers our chosen future.
We will create ceremonies to perform with our personal altars to continually affirm, refine, and promote that which we choose to create.
This class is a 2-day non-residential class to be held in the Studio in Boulder. http://www.findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#manifestation
LOWER WORLD SHAMANIC JOURNEY
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: Saturday, February 25, 10:00am - 5:30pm
Prerequisites:
None
In this experiential workshop you will learn the ancient method of entering the shamanic journey trance. Each participant will locate a power animal and be instructed on the journey to lower world. Basic divination will be covered and time will be spent on interpretation and basic understanding of the metaphors of the shamanic journey. This class serves as a prerequisite for Path Home Shamanic Arts School's advanced courses and Practitioner trainings. http://www.findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#lowerworld
POWER ANIMALS & HELPING SPIRITS
Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
When: Sunday, February 26, 10:00am - 5:30pm
Prerequisites:
None
A consistent and reliable working relationship with your Power Animals and Helping Spirits is the backbone of all shamanic practices. In this workshop we will explore our personal style and develop sound methods of relating and cooperating with these most precious friends. http://www.findyourpathhome.com/ws_main.html#pa
Drumming Circles:
Announcement:
In order to give ourselves time to recuperate from the holidays, the January 4, 2006 drumming circle will not be held. We will resume our monthly drumming circles on Wed., February 1, 7:30 - 9:00pm
Gwilda Wiyaka and Cody Wigle hold a drumming circle the first Wednesday of every month, held in the Path Home conference room/book store. Our next one:
When: Wednesday, February 1, 7:30pm - 9:30 pm
(and the first Weds. of each month thereafter)
Where: Path Home, 4700 Sterling Dr Suite K, Boulder, CO
Cost: Free/Donation
Questions or need directions? Email touchin@findyourpathhome.com or phone 303-775-3431
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