The Four Gates

Shamanic Workshops with Ross Heaven

 Workshops in Peru - Workshops in Spain


We offer a range of residential shamanic workshops in Spain and Peru. Free information packs are available on all courses listed below by emailing ross@thefourgates.com.


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These events take place at The Hummingbird Healing Centre in the Amazon rainforest near Iquitos. www.ayahuascaretreats.org.


July 3-9: The Return of the Serpent

Plant Spirit Shamanism and the Vine of Souls
A workshop for anyone who would like to learn more about ayahuasca and Amazonian medicine and healing. Learn how shamans find spirit guides, recognise and use healing plants, give and receive blessings and heal the soul with plants and herbs. At least three ayahuasca ceremonies are included.
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack.


July 17-23: 7-Day Ayahuasca Healing Retreat
A 7-day stay at The Hummingbird Peru at a special low price which includes:
•        Three ayahuasca ceremonies
•        Flower and steam baths
•        An ayahuasca-making demonstration
•        Circle meetings after each ayahuasca ceremony
Email tracie@ayahuascaretreats.org for more information.


November 10-21: Plant Spirit Shamanism - An Initiation into Amazon Magic and Healing

A 12-day fast-track apprenticeship into Amazonian medicine and shamanic healing. Workshops and seminars give you the principles of plant spirit shamanism. Tuition and exercises in healing, soul retrieval, spirit extraction and the use of medicine tools introduce you to practical skills. Work with ayahuasca and other plant medicines helps you develop your own connection to spirit.
Ayahuasca ceremonies are included.
Visit http://www.ayahuascaretreats.org/Shamanic%20workshops.htm for more details and email ross@thefourgates.com for a full information pack.


Individual Healing Retreats and Plant Spirit Diets
The Hummingbird Healing Centre Peru also offers personalised healing retreats from 14 days to three months (or more by special arrangement) for those who would like to receive individual treatments or learn more about ayahuasca, medicine plants - and themselves.
We also offer our unique Tranquilo addictions release programme: a lifestyle change retreat unique individually tailored to your needs which specialises in addictions, depression, intimacy issues and overcoming childhood trauma.
Email tracie@ayahuascaretreats.org for details of individual retreats and the Tranquilo programme.

 


2011 SHAMANIC WORKSHOPS IN SPAIN Return to top of page


These events take place at The Hummingbird Retreat Centre, Spain.
www.thehummingbird.org.


April 9-22: Shamanic Practitioner and Healer Diploma
A unique 14-day residential course which enables you to condense a whole year of practitioner training into just two weeks, saving you time and money and allowing you to qualify faster. A Diploma is awarded on completion and graduates may add their names to The Four Gates healer referrals list.
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


April 29 – May 3: The Return of the Serpent
Plant Spirit Shamanism and the Vine of Souls

A workshop for anyone who would like to learn more about ayahuasca and Amazonian medicine and healing. Learn how shamans find spirit guides, recognise and use healing plants, give and receive blessings and heal the soul with plants and herbs. Three ayahuasca ceremonies are included.
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


May 8-12: The Healing Arts of the Curandero
Andean Soul-Healing Methods

Curanderismo (from the Spanish curar: to heal) is the shamanic healing practice of Mexico and the Peruvian Andes. Taking inspiration from nature and the apus (spirits) of the natural world, the curandero uses plants and flowers as a central part of his healing practice, which includes methods of soul retrieval, extraction medicine and divining the future.
We work with natural healing methods including:
•        Placitas: The art of actively listening to and counselling clients “from the heart and soul”
•        Divination for future-seeing
•        Limpia: Dis-ease diagnosis and soul cleansing using natural materials
•        Soul retrieval using flowers and song
•        Creating seguros: Power objects and healing allies made from plants, flowers and perfumes
•        Pago: A blessing ceremony for participants and for the Earth
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


May 15-19: Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing
Unlike other ‘soul retrieval’ training programmes this workshop also includes instruction in aspects of spirit extraction and work with the energy body to give you a much fuller understanding of shamanic healing.
It includes:
•        Instruction in how the soul can become fragmented and lost
•        How to recognise soul loss: Its symptoms and ways of manifestation
•        The three essential causes of soul loss
•        The three essential methods of soul return
•        Generational and familial aspects of soul loss
•        The otherworld locations in which soul fragments may be found
•        Tracking the soul and restoring it to the sufferer
•        Developing personal power and connection to spirit allies who can aid the healer and support the healing quest
•        Spirit extraction: Creating a safe space for energy and soul to return to
•        Power retrieval: Empowering the energy body to receive lost soul parts
•        Energy balancing: Ensuring that the energy body is able to welcome the soul back home
•        Shamanic counselling: Receiving guidance from spirit to ensure that energy returned will remain and thrive
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


May 23-27: The Arts of the Sin Eater
On this course - an introduction to Celtic shamanism and the work of the sin eater, “the first shaman ever born” – we employ practices which have otherwise been largely forgotten in shamanic wisdom and lore.
We work with techniques including:
•        Poetic dreaming (the ‘soul flight’ of the shaman to find healing allies in nature)
•        The diagnosis of dis-ease through natural oracular practices
•        The removal of negative energies through spirit-vision and the use of  medicine tools
•        Spirit extraction and ‘weaving the soul’
•        Power restoration through soul retrieval and blessings
•        Confession and forgiveness: The work of the anam cara
•        Aspects of plant spirit wisdom and divination through the signs and omens of nature
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


June 1-4: The Spirit of the Drum
The drum is the shaman’s “horse” and principal tool for journeying, healing, knowing the universe and finding new power. This workshop initiates participants into a profound communion with the spirit behind and within the drum. It includes the drum as an aid to soul-healing, for finding and retrieving power (the drum as the warrior’s sword), the drum as the voice of spirit (shamanic counselling and oracular practice) and the language of the drum (communicating with others via drumbeats and spirit whispers).
Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack


June 18-22: The Return of the Serpent
Plant Spirit Shamanism and the Vine of Souls

A workshop for anyone who would like to learn more about ayahuasca and Amazonian medicine and healing. Learn how shamans find spirit guides, recognise and use healing plants, give and receive blessings and heal the soul with plants and herbs. Three ayahuasca ceremonies are included

Email ross@thefourgates.com for a detailed information pack