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| Welcome to the School voor Sjamanisme Our new training year 2007-2008 has started. In 2008 again, Open days are organized by the School: For information about the School voor Sjamanisme and or registration: For postal address and details, look at contact. The goal of the Foundation School of Shamanism is to introduce people to the various shamanistic traditions and the accompanying wisdom and techniques. In the four-year training program, people are guided in a process of becoming aware, transformation and healing at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. Among other things, an appeal is made tot the authentic - in rudimentary form present - strength of the person. Lessons are given by both “native” and Dutch teachers of different background. So, we try to link “old wisdom” with our modern society. The training is an additional vocational training and for anybody wanting to develop on a personal level at the School. It also gives an opportunity to integrate what you have experienced during the training in your daily life, your recent or future work. What is Shamanism? Shamanism is a collective noun for spiritual leadership that was practiced in the old days all around the world, and therefore, also in our country. Still, shamans can be found among many nations scattered all over the world. Shamanistic visions of life of “native people” are culturally defined. Consequently, many and often very diverse forms of shamanism exist. Although shamanism is not an organized religion, many anthropologists consider it to be the oldest spiritual movement on earth. Modern shamanism in the western world is not so much a by one’s culture defined vision of life, but more a consciously chosen attitude to life. This attitude derives its source and inspiration from shamanistic cultures, but takes shape in an industrialized western world. This is also how the school wants to propagate it. In this way, wisdom skills and rituals from shamanistic cultures can resume their place in our self and in society. From this attitude to life, one will be able to come to experience that all is one, that there is no separateness, but that everything is connected to each other in an unbreakable way. We are not only concerned here with the community of people, but as much with the connection with nature, the influences of other dimensions and the connection with your own, individual strength, wisdom and self-ness. Shamanism means experiencing. Your own experience is the center. That means that you connect the person you are with the healing powers, the magic of nature, and the mystery of life. You learn to handle your own healing abilities, your dreams and your creativity. Awareness and Energy Shamanism assumes that everything has its own awareness and its own field of energy. When a field of energy is disturbed, a shaman will give, in love and wisdom, an impulse to recovery. A disturbance can have taken place at many levels, from physical to emotional, from mental to spiritual, from personal to social (individually or in a community), between a person and its surroundings. Important is that a shaman always will stimulate someone’s self healing ability. The shaman understands the mystery of death and is aware of the immortality of the soul. A special quality of a shaman is that he or she can “see” and travel in other realities, and can get there, with the help of his or her power animals and guides, information about a lot of things. That can be information about the nature of the disturbance of the field of energy, about someone’s illness, or about an important decision someone has to make. The shamanistic insights form valuable additions to other ideas of life and forms of therapy. The Medicine Wheel The training follows the pattern of the medicine wheel. This wheel is an ancient symbol for life. Originally, the wheel is a circle with a cross in the center. The medicine wheel is laid by means of stones, all of them having their specific meaning. The exterior stones of the cross represent the four directions of the wind: east, south, west, and north. These are symbolic for the cyclic nature of everything existing: beginning, flowering, dying, and transformation. For us as western people, this is a healing insight, because we live in a culture where a one-track mind is predominant, thinking in terms of a beginning and an end. But, every beginning knows its end, and every end knows its beginning. Everything moves according to a fixed pattern, that we see reflected in the four seasons. If the old is not allowed to or can not die, no new insight can be born, no new life can come into being. Introduction to the insights and the wisdom of several shamanic traditions dominates the training. This brings about personal growth, for which we want to offer a safe place. Courage, strength, love, creativity, communal sense, nature, confrontation, transformation - these are the things you frequently come in touch with and you learn to handle. During the training, you will confront yourself with the person you are at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. However, doing the training will not transform you into a shaman. The School’s Logo Our logo is based on a petroglyph, made by the original people of Hawaii. It is carved in a sedimentary lava rock. The picture represents a “rainbowman”. This rainbow man is related to the rainbow snake that brings fertility and growth. When someone is being touched by shamanism, this can lead to fruitful change and growth. Originally, it was a single-figure picture. But later on, we added a second figure in order to symbolize our path to connection within the school.
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