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.

Highlights This Issue:

Recertification and Expansion of Shamanic Arts School
Drum Circle Stewardship Certification Program
Keepers of the Circle Certification Program
New Interns at Path Home Spiritual Healing Clinic
Buffalo Clan Graduation

We tend to view reality as a continuous thread, a linear-thing held straight and level by time, when indeed it is more like a ball of twine that we can navigate at will. Because we are mostly unaware of the Path Home of reality, we don't know how to navigate it, nor are we aware that we are actually doing so at any given time.

Spontaneously and mostly unconsciously, we bounce around in time, space, dimensions, and realities wondering why we are having difficulty communicating with those around us, and are often misunderstood.  Rarely are we present in the now, even though we assume we are, and that those around us are also.

Show me a room of twenty people, and I will show you twenty different times, places, frequencies, dimensions and realities, all operating in tandem and shifting at will.

The best communicators are those who can navigate into other people's realities and commune there. These sensitive and compassionate people can often get lost in the worlds of those around them and lose their identity and knowledge of their own personal needs in the process.

Others are so invested in being right that they never take off the blinders long enough to see that other realities may exist.  They will polarize against anyone's concept that may not agree with their interpretations, and spend a great deal of personal energy being sure that everyone around them is in agreement with what they consider to be real.  In the extreme, these frightened, rigid people become zealots or members of a cult.  This is because the more people agree on a certain reality the stronger that reality is (or the more of the thread on the ball is tied up in one reality).

Some people are easily triggered into past damage. Something or someone in the present will remind them of a past trauma and they fly back to the past and react in the present from there.  They may seem like mostly grounded, logical people who suddenly, for no apparent reason, have bouts of illogic, go off on emotional tangents, and totally misunderstand the motives of those around them.

Any one of us may dance some or all of these places depending on what is going on for us at any given moment.

The question is how to remain grounded in the present, process our past damage, and visit the realities of those around us in order to communicate without getting lost. The answer lies in shamanism. 

The more whole we become through shamanic healing, the less triggers we have and the less rigid we need to be.  The more we are aligned with who we are, the more we can dance the threads of the ball and find our way back to home base.  We can be more conscious of where we are in the vast richness of reality and navigate ourselves at will.  This enables us to allow each person in our lives their own reality without either judging against it or getting caught up in it. We can easily communicate without lending our agreement to a reality that does not serve us. Furthermore, we can choose the reality we want to live in and consciously manifest our lives and circumstances while being able to understand and have compassion for the other people around us.

So the question is not what reality is, but rather where, in all of reality, are we?

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

Clinic News:

New Interns Practicing at Clinic:
Path Home Spiritual Healing Clinic http://findyourpathhome.com/hc_main.html  is proud to announce the addition of two new certification program students who are fulfilling their internship requirements at our clinic in Boulder:

We would like to welcome Julianne Caldwell, and Elizabeth Mitchell, both of whom are now available for sessions by appointment. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience quality shamanic healing at a reduced rate.  Julianne and Elizabeth are available in person at the clinic or long distance by phone.

Call 303-775-3431 for appointments.

New Credit Card Capabilities:
Thanks to the vigilant efforts of our beloved and much appreciated Stacey Couch to get us moved into the 21st century, we now have new credit card processing capabilities. We can take Visa and MasterCard in the office for any of our products and services, and online for workshop fees.

Path Home Shamanic Arts School Expanded and Recertified:
Path Home is a Colorado State Certified trade school in good standing. Two new certification programs and an expanded shamanic practitioner certification program were approved by the state board May 25, 2006. View our exciting new programs: http://findyourpathhome.com/school_about.html

NEW CLASSES:

New Certification Programs:
Path Home's new Drum Circle Stewardship and Keepers of the Circle certification programs are now available. Registration deadline for these programs is September 15, 2006:

Increasingly there is a demand for a place for people to come together to drum and build a spiritual community. Holding drum circles or spiritual support circles is a sacred responsibility that takes knowledge, training, integrity and dedication. Path Home has designed these new programs to provide the knowledge and training to dedicated people of integrity.

Path Home Buffalo Clan Graduation:
We are pleased to announce the graduation of Path Home Shamanic Arts School Certification Program students from the “Buffalo Clan”.  This graduation includes the class starting in 2004 as well as graduates being grandfathered/grandmothered into the program who have completed all the required classes and internship with the school.

We are proud to watch these gifted, dedicated and well trained certified practitioners enter into service. We have no doubt they will do their part to bring healing and wholeness to the world.

Graduation will take place at the Marriott on the Diagonal in Longmont, August 26, 2006.

Programs:

Path Home Shamanic Arts School:

Shamanism: Powerful healing practices of our ancestors for the peoples of today!
Become a certified shamanic practitioner.

Next two-year program to begin in September 2006.

This is a new and expanded program with many new and exciting classes, trainings and certifications available. See our new Catalog:
http://findyourpathhome.com/school_cat.html

Registration Deadline: September 15, 2006. Early registration is suggested, as space is limited.

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:

THE DANCE OF POWER

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $150.00
When: Saturday, September 2, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm
Prerequisites: Lower World Shamanic Journey or Upper World Shamanic Journey

In this one-day program will address the concepts, methods and ceremonies involved in becoming more purposeful in our usage of personal and universal power.

We will learn to work more extensively with our power animals and helping spirits. We will develop proficiency at utilizing the directions and elements to help us more clearly manifest spiritual power onto the physical plane. Basic transmutation principles will be covered. Time will be spent exploring the varied ways in which power can be directed responsibly to best serve all concerned.

These methods and concepts can be applied to any area of our work and lives to affect greater healing, balance and manifestation.

THE ART OF CEREMONY

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $150.00
When: Sunday, September 3, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm
Prerequisites: Lower World Shamanic Journey or Upper World Shamanic Journey

In The Art of Ceremony you will learn the basic ceremonial principles used by many of our indigenous cultures. These principles, once understood, can be applied to our daily lives to help focus intent in all that we do.

You will be instructed in the use of these ancient truths in building your own ceremonies for all the sacred events of your life.

MANIFESTATION: SAMHAIN

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $275.00
When: Saturday, October 28, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm AND Sunday, October 29, 10:00am-9pm
Prerequisites: Lower World Shamanic Journey or Upper World Shamanic Journey

True manifestation begins with destruction. This program is a seasonal gathering based upon the Celtic holiday Samhain. Traditionally, during this time, shamanic practitioners gather together to break up energies that cause disruption and misfortune and create clear space in which to manifest for the following year. This is an ancient responsibility to their tribe, embraced in some form by shaman of all cultures.

During our time together, the hidden principles of, and energy behind manifestation will be covered in depth.

The evening of the last day of the program we will perform an ancient ritual (generously brought to us by Tom Cowan's teachings) "The Battle of the Evil Fomorians". All Path Home students and graduates will be invited to join us in this ancient ceremony for and in responsibility to our people.