Dear Students and Friends of Windemere Institute of Healing Arts and the Four Winds Society,

We are so pleased to invite you to join us for the Medicine Wheel series which will begin April 23-25, 2009, here at Windemere Institute in Decorah, Iowa. WIndemere and the Four Winds Society have collaboarted to bring these teachings to the Midwest.

The Four Winds Society's  Healing the Light Body School is directed by Dr. Alberto Villoldo and Linda Fitch. The Light Body school was founded in 1982 by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, and is dedicated to teaching the practice of Energy Medicine and transformation. The Medicine Wheel is a two-year program focusing on your personal journey. Welcome to your first step of this marvelous journey where you will do the work of the South direction. The course work includes teaching, hands-on practice, meditation, experiential exercises, and ceremony.

The classes will be taught by Dr. Jeffre TallTrees at Windemere's campus in Decorah, Iowa.

Students are empowered to develop creative, fulfilling, and spiritually grounded relationships and lives. If you have not already done so, we recommend that you read Dr. Alberto Villoldo’s book, Shaman, Healer, Sage to refresh yourself with the terminology and elements of the shaman’s journey.

This is an intensive training in energy medicine, following the Inka luminous healing traditions. Each session is 3 days long. Sessions are scheduled approximately every four to six months. The program includes seven sessions:

Session dates for classes being held at Windemere Institute of Healing Arts:

• Session One: The South: April 23-25, 2009,  Tuition $650

  A way of personal healing where we learn to shed the past the way the serpent sheds her skin. You begin transforming your wounds into sources of power and compassion. receive the rites that link you to a lineage of medicine men and women.

• Session Two: The West: Nov 6-8, 2009, Tuition $650

  Teaches us to step beyond fear and violence to become the luminous warrior who has no enemies in this world or the next. We learn to practice peace by becoming peace.

• Session Three: The North: April 22-24, 2010, Tuition $650

  Teaches the ways of the ancient ones. The lessons are the practice of invisibility, mastery of time, and learning to step outside of time into infinity.

• Session Four: The East: November 4-6, 2010, Tuitiion $650

The way of the visionary. We learn how to “dream the world into being,” how energy and vision create form and manifestation.

• Reading the Signs of Destiny: June 3-8, 2009 Tuition $1450

  Divination is the art of recognizing and aligning oneself with the signs of destiny. You will learn to read the signs provided to us by nature, randomness, and chance events. Shamanic seeing is the learned ability to perceive the luminous world of energy and spirit. You will discover ancient tools to awaken the shaman’s way of seeing. You will learn to sense the energy vortexes, or chakras, as well as develop the skills and tools for tracking and divination. During this week you will open the doors of perception to discover the luminous world of energy and spirit that surrounds us, and awaken the dormant seer within. (a 10 day Peru Expedition or Advanced Divination may be substituted as session seven).

• Working with the Sacred: February 4-9, 2010, Tuition $1450                                                                                                                          You learn how the archetypes, the gods of old, still inform and guide all human activity. You will learn to work with the ancient myths and the forces of nature to guide the course your destiny. With the aid of fairy tales, Jungian archetypes, shamanic storytelling, journeying, quantum physics, the tarot, and dream analysis, we learn how archetypal forces inform our lives. You will learn to use archetypal analysis and energies to heal yourself and others, and to design mythic maps that can guide you, and your clients, in a sacred life-journey

• Soul Retrieval: April 23-28, 2010,  Tuition $1450 (you will stay for the full week of the North)                                              This course teaches shamanic practices for recovering the essential self that has been lost as a result of trauma. You will learn to journey to the lower world and visit the four chambers of the Soul. Journeying allows you to discover the soul contracts made by your client, sometimes even before they were born; to claim their passion and bliss; and to discover the gifts and treasures they can bring into the world. This is a practical, powerful training you can use in your personal and professional life.

• Walking With Protection in the World: June 3-8, 2010 Tuition$1450                                                                               We live in a world where power is constantly being abused and misused, and where we must be vigilant and protect ourselves and our loved ones from the fear and negativity around us. In this course you will learn to walk through life with protection and light, and to bring peace and beauty to everyone you touch. You will study the practices for undoing sorcery and neutralizing the negativity, envy, jealousy, and harm that might be directed against us and our loved ones, or that we may be calling upon ourselves.

Medicine Wheel Program (7 class curriculum) ProgramTuition is $6950             

TO REGISTER: call Barbara at Windemere at 800-874-0905.