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Community Fires, Men's Fires
and Women's Fires at the BDC
With Dan Sprinkles and Annie Eagan

Flickering firelight, the smell of smoke, the sound of laughter, songs and stories...People have been sitting around the fire for hundreds of thousands of years. The fire provides protection, warmth and a place for us to connect with one another and share our common human experience. At the heart of the Blue Deer Center is the fire - the fire of our hearts, the fire of transformation, and the fire burning at the core of all ancestral traditions.

Community sacred fires are offered monthly on the grounds of the Blue Deer Center. Dan Sprinkles and Annie Eagan, our resident shamans, are both initiated Fire Keepers of the Sacred Fire Community. They host community fires, usually on the 3rd Friday of the month, and all are welcome. Potluck suppers often precede the fire when we share good food and good company with new friends and old. Dan and Annie also host men's and women's fires frequently.

By Appointment

The Blue Deer Center is pleased to offer the healing help of two resident healers (shamans).

Dan Sprinkles and Annie Eagan have both completed 6-year apprenticeships and are initiated Markames, or shamans, in the ancient, ancestral tradition of the Huichols of the Mexican Sierras. Additionally, they were initiated eight years ago in the Nahua shamanic tradition as Weather Workers. Through these two lineages they are able to offer deep shamanic healing for those in need. Dan has also been a life coach for many years and offers a unique program designed to enter a more appropriate relationship with the mind. It is called, "The Enemies of Learning." For the last eleven years, Annie has been providing healing help to humans and animals with Plant Spirit Medicine. Through their Weather Working lineage and training, they are both able to offer healing sweat lodges called Temazcals, in the ancestral Nahua tradition.

June 26-29, 2009

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Wisdom Keeper Weekends at Blue Deer Center
Bob & Lee Nitsch

Drumming Evening
Come and learn the Ancient ways of Rhythm and Harmony as practiced by our Native Ancestors. Let the Drum’s song speak to your heart, embracing the voice of Motherearth and opening the door to a greater connection with spirit. Bring along a drum, rattle or any percussion instrument and enjoy yourself.

Friday June 26th, 2009
7:00 - 10:00 pm
Cost: $10.

Legends of The Seneca
Wolfclan Teaching Lodge/The Seneca Indian Historical Society
It has long been the tradition of the Wolfclan Teaching Lodge/Seneca Indian Historical Society to reach out to the many Peoples of Noh-yeh-ohn-jeh, Motherearth, and Share the Earth Wisdom, Prophecy and Philosophy of the Seneca. It is a Dream of Peace long in the unfolding of time coming forward in our consciousness and shared from our hearts…

Journey with us through the Ancient Oral Tradition of Seneca Story-telling. Help create a portal of sacred space where Inspiration can grow and Love can be remembered.

Saturday June 27th, 2009
10:00am—4:00 pm
Workshop fee $50
Please bring a brown bag lunch, as meals are not included.

Private Appointments
Bob & Lee will be offering private consultations, by appointment, on Sunday, June 28th.

July 4th, 2009

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Fireball 2009 – Interdependence Day!

Choose to celebrate Independence Day in a new way with a joyous group of people who are bringing back the ancestral ways so that we can be truly interdependent.

Expect great food, music, a silent auction and raffle items, an evening around the fire with Eliot Cowan and a few new surprises.

Make plans to attend this year’s Fireball at the Blue Deer Center July 4, 2009.

Stay Tuned!

July 9-13, 2009,
arrive July 8th

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Healing Camp with Eliot Cowan

This July we are delighted to offer our 11th Healing Camp with Eliot Cowan at the Blue Deer Center. With the sound of the stream echoing throughout the property and soothing all that it passes, the ancestral blessings of the land, the plant spirits, and the indescribable peace and beauty of the surrounding area, the Blue Deer Center is a perfect venue for healing camp. Offered for the past 9 years in various locations around the United States, Eliot Cowan’s healing camps have brought traditional Huichol healing sessions to people from all walks of life.

After he had discovered Plant Spirit Medicine and been practicing it for several years, Eliot found himself in a waiting room reading an article about the Huichol Indians. Feeling as if an electrical charge had passed through his body, Eliot immediately knew he had to go and find out about these people. After several years building relationship with Huichol shamans he was introduced to the late Guadalupe Gonzalez, who became his teacher. At that point, Eliot embarked upon a rigorous 12-year apprenticeship learning the healing traditions of the Huichols.

As he brought this healing back to his people, Eliot found its benefits could best be supported by a "healing camp" where the stress patterns of daily life are temporarily left behind. The camp creates a special sacred space which offers the opportunity to reconnect with ourselves, with others and with the natural world.

Healing camp is five days of traditional Huichol healing sessions with Eliot Cowan. Participation is limited to 15 people. The healing work is enhanced by activities that promote peace, joy, and connection with nature.

August 13-16, 2009

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Lei’ohu Ryder

“Fire of Aloha”
Come to the BDC to experience an evening together around the ‘fire of aloha’.  Lei’ohu Ryder and Maydeen ‘Iao offer an opportunity to be in community with song, dance and healing.

Thursday, August 13, 6:00-8:00pm
Suggested donation:  $20
Register in advance on-line, or at the door. 
Maximum 80 participants.

‘Olohe Malu – Ancestral Teachings of Aloha
E komo mai! Welcome! You are invited to experience the journey of aloha from the voice of the Pacific that is calling us together in the oneness of the ancestral portal.

E komo mai, come into the realm of oneness as we explore our many expressions of life as humanity on this planet of love. E komo mai, come in to the garden of life that speaks the language of oneness from the doorway of the ancestors.

‘Olohe means to listen. It is also a messenger of spirit that comes through guardians of sacred knowledge and wisdom, keepers of wisdom that are offered specific teachings from the land, sea, sky and universes beyond. Malu means calm, peaceful, splendid in unity with all. Malu is also a fragrance of gentleness that caresses the senses with softness and sensitivity.

‘Olohe Malu means to listen to the quivering of the ancestors. If you look at a coconut leaf gently moving, this is the quivering of the ancestors. They are ever present but not always heard.‘Olohe Malu means to listen to the quivering of the ancestors with the senses of the heart.

‘Olohe Malu offers to participants a way of connecting to the portal of innocence, light and remembrance in the ancestral ways of embracing the spirit of oneness in diversity.

Through the traditions of the Pacific and the teachings of Kukuipuka Heiau, a sacred temple of healing - chant, protocols, prayers, music and dance are woven in a lei of aloha that celebrates our oneness as diversity, and wholeness as humanity and divinity. Talk story, music, movement, meditation, play and hands-on experiences will bring us in to the breath of the ancestors and the wisdom that is offered to each one.

Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 16
Begins with dinner, Friday evening and ends after lunch on Sunday
Cost of the weekend: $495. Includes program, meals and shared accommodations:

Private Sessions with Lei’ohu:
Divinations, blessings, private healing sessions are unique to each one. When they enter the aloha of Kukuipuka (the doorway to the light) Heiau (temple), they are embraced by its authentic wisdom and healing messages from the ancestors and beyond.

Individuals can contact Lei’ohu personally by email (kukuipuka@aol.com) or by cell phone (808.276.9677) or in the spur of the moment (NOW) for a session. Cost: $150/hour.  Sessions will be scheduled during our stay at the BDC.

September 25-29, 2009

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A Time to Grieve – A Time to grow, with Malidoma Somé

Various changes in our world are a confirmation and a testimony that global transformation cannot happen without everyone in the world being willing and able to shed a plethora of unwanted calcifications.  How do we address all the things that stop us from change, including the scars of loss and the cleansing of the graffiti that litters the wall of our psyches?

“In indigenous Africa, one cannot conceive of a community that does not grieve.  Until grief is restored in the West as the starting place where the modern man and woman might find peace, the culture will continue to abuse and ignore the (healing) power of water, and, in turn, will be fascinated by (the destructive forces of) fire.

“Let us join together to grieve. Grief is a cleansing tool and an effective method of release we need in these times of loss. Let us gather to boldly express through grief the loss of connection with ancestors and with loved ones; the loss of love, health and wealth, identity and belonging, home and care.

“Joining together in support of each other sends a force against adversity to be reckoned with, a force that realigns us with our purpose, gifts and the deep story of our lives. It is a force capable of restoring the sense of fullness we have always felt we deserve.  Thru ritual we can return community to us.”  
– Malidoma Patrice Somé

October 17-22, 2009

Healing Camp with Eliot Cowan

This October we are delighted to offer our 12th Healing Camp with Eliot Cowan at the Blue Deer Center. With the sound of the stream echoing throughout the property and soothing all that it passes, the ancestral blessings of the land, the plant spirits, and the indescribable peace and beauty of the surrounding area, the Blue Deer Center is a perfect venue for healing camp. Offered for the past 9 years in various locations around the United States, Eliot Cowan’s healing camps have brought traditional Huichol healing sessions to people from all walks of life.

After he had discovered Plant Spirit Medicine and been practicing it for several years, Eliot found himself in a waiting room reading an article about the Huichol Indians. Feeling as if an electrical charge had passed through his body, Eliot immediately knew he had to go and find out about these people. After several years building relationship with Huichol shamans he was introduced to the late Guadalupe Gonzalez, who became his teacher. At that point, Eliot embarked upon a rigorous 12-year apprenticeship learning the healing traditions of the Huichols.

As he brought this healing back to his people, Eliot found its benefits could best be supported by a "healing camp" where the stress patterns of daily life are temporarily left behind. The camp creates a special sacred space which offers the opportunity to reconnect with ourselves, with others and with the natural world.

Healing camp is five days of traditional Huichol healing sessions with Eliot Cowan. Participation is limited to 15 people. The healing work is enhanced by activities that promote peace, joy, and connection with nature.

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