“Our intent for this event is to create spaces through practises and ceremony which open the doors to the great shamanic teachers – the earth and the skies.  A gradual course of opening to the dreaming body has been designed to prepare the physical, mental and emotional  bodies to receive the frequencies of other bodies and spaces.  It is our precept that only when the physical body through the dreaming body is put in touch with these wider spaces can real deep healing and change take place.  This is a path of transformation.  The human is no longer isolated, he/she can see more clearly and can experience the relation with other energies not only on and in the earth but in the universe.  Our intent is to put you more deeply in touch with your own shaman, priest, wise councillor and healer, to activate your own genie waiting to be released from the bottle.  Our intent also is to prepare conscious dreamers to function in subsequent circles, to help the conscious dreamer develop their ability to hold their own power and to contribute to the circle from the place of their deep authentic wisdom.”  Daniel Stone and Arbolita Pashak. 

 Dreaming, the dreaming body, and the conscious dreamers.

 The word 'dreaming' when used here refers to the 24-hour intuitive information which is permanently available.  We relate the dream of the night to the dream of the day.  We open to life as dream and our task to become conscious of the way we are being dreamed and the way that we dream.  We meet our own dreamer who dreams us, and this enables us to become conscious co-creators of our own dream of our own life.

 The ‘dreaming body’ is the means through which we extend from the physical body to relate to other dreams in the universe.  The dreaming body does not need to obey the same laws as the physical body, and so can enter extreme elemental dream spaces such as suns and seas and can merge with other vibrational dream frequencies such as colours, trees and rocks.

 A conscious dreamer is literally someone who is conscious in their own dream.  They would be aware of how the dream of the human relates to other dreams in the universe and so would be in a position to perceive the greater cosmic vision.

   Course description. 

Day one.  The Zocolo, city of Mexico.  The Zocalo is the point of power where the Aztecs saw the vision of the eagle eating a snake whilst perched on a cactus.  This central image in Mexican mythology signifies the ascension from the Earth to the skies: the Earth energy of the snake will rise with the eagle into the celestial flight.  Aztec dancers still call in the four elements outside the cathedral and celebrate the dance of Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent.  On this day is the first ‘walk of power’ in order to open to this earth vortex point.

Day 2-5.  Teotihuacan is the pre-Aztec ceremonial city about 30 miles from Mexico City.  It is the most important pyramid site in Mexico linked to Giza in Egypt, and covers over two square miles.  The dreaming of the ancient Toltecs was to understand the connection between the Earth and the other planets in our solar system, and the sun, our star.  Through this knowledge their dreaming was to find the connection of the Earth with the whole universe.  At Teotihuacan we can touch again this dream of unity.  We will be staying in the traditional pre-Aztec calpulli (school) within the Ancient Teotihuacan site. We will be learning the meanings of the ancient dances and taking part in the Dance of the universe.  We will be learning the theory and practise of the temazcal (Mexican  sweat  lodge),  limpia  (energy  cleansing), and learning about the curative plants and stones of the traditional mexica to aid the movement and transformation of our dreaming bodies.  There will also be a seminar on the significance of the  different Toltec Calendar.

 We will be taking part in cave meditations underneath the sacred site before we are taught how to enter through the natural energetic doorways on the land to the site itself. 

We have deliberately coordinated the dates so that we partake in one of the most important festivals of the Mexican calendar –  the Day of the Dead.  We will be invited into  the ceremonies and dances and taught the significance of the altars and this very deep tradition. 

 Days 5 and 6.  Amatlan is the birthplace of Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent, the prime mover of Earth energy.  We stay in a tipi village in the mountains.  We journey to the birthplace in the ceremonial Walk of Power with Julio, a native nahuatl healer, in which we pass through the Seven Gateways.  The Seven Gateways are both physical points in the landscape, and also places of powerful thought and emotion within us. We explore the mysteries of the crystal skulls with Ea Orgu who has studied in Native American and Mayan traditions.   Ea is a crystal carver and authority on the Mayan calendar.  He explains how the crystal skulls are connected to the Mayan legacy, and how we can still listen to the Mayan teachings through the medium of our own crystalline consciousness.   He will also be giving a seminar on the Mayan calendar.

Day 7.  Bus to Matehuala.

 Day 8.  The Huricuta is the ancient pilgrimage route of the Huichol tribes to the sacred mountain in the semi-desert area of San Luis Potosi.  The Centre of the Conscious Dream is situated under the view of this powerful ancestral presence.  Here will be a profound deepening of our practise. Through the Walk of Awareness, we will be listening to the mountains, the desert, and the stars that speak so clearly in the night sky. 

Day 9.  Meditation.  Breath awareness is the foundation of understanding the truth of our present moment.  Presenting the eyes with the space to see.  Techniques of opening.  Techniques of focusing intent. 

 The Medicine Wheel.  The Medicine Wheel is an inter-dimensional interface through which the dreaming body extends from the physical body, and then safely returns.  Each participant establishes their orientation to the four directions and the four elements as a strong and secure base for their ongoing dreaming and healing.  A technique is given that teaches the individual their strong and weak elements and how to balance them.  The medicine in this wheel is balance. 

 Day 10.  Trees.  Ways of seeing.  The doors of perception.  The dreaming body.  Learning to extend energy from the human body to another energy body.  Learning how to receive information from another energy body.  The wisdom of the breath.  The expanding lungs.  The breath of the human and the breath of the tree.  Extending breath into the earth, into the sky.  The breath of the universe.  The big self and the little self. 

 Day 11.  Rocks.  The library.  ‘Stone people’ hold memory.  We learn how to read the memory held in stones.  This will help us to read the memory held in our bones.  Deep history.  Time travel.  Journey into the cellular history of the planet.  Journey into the cellular history of the human body.  Identifying memories held – time traps.  Memory release from the body.  Memory release from the earth.  Body space clearing.  Earth space clearing.  Freeing the body to dance. 

 Day 12.   Animal guides.  Animals as guides into different parts of the human body.  Information linking different animal guides, different body parts as states of being.  Learning how to be in a body.  The animal in the human as a guide or teacher for another human.  Receiving animal intent.  Projecting animal intent.  Teachers of the movement between dimensions.  Animals as guides of death (transformation from one dream state to another dream state). 

 Day 13.  Human teachers of the dream.  Humans who are either still in body or no longer in body as teachers of our dreaming.  Family, friend teachers.  Archetypal teachers – Buddha, North American Indian, shaman, priest, Jesus, Allah, Shiva, Shakti, Earth Mother, Isis etc.  Spirit guides.  Developing and maintining connection with spirit teachers. 

 Day 14.  Crystalline intelligence.  The properties of crystal.  The inner crystal skull.  Connecting to our crystalline DNA.  Connecting to the crystalline grid in the planet.  The relation between star and earth.  The planet Earth as a conscious being.  The deep past and the deep future.  The human, the earth, the star, and the universe.  The human role in the universe. 

Day 15.  Grounding the dream.  We use this day to begin to ground the information we have received through creative writing, painting, music, movement, or simply reflecting in silence.  This practise of grounding the dream is encouraged as a daily practise throughout the retreat.  There tends to be time most days devoted to this practise. 

Day 16.   Mexican sacred healing plants.  Learning how to feel your relation with plants, how to pick them and how to work with them in healing yourself and others.  Also instructions are given on how to make healing creams, oils and tinctures.

Day 17.  Walking meditations.  The walk of power.  The walk of intent.  The walk to Vernalejo.  This is an ancient Huichol site which represents and embodies the death aspect of the pilgrimage.  Pilgrims pass through their death before climbing the mythical mountain where the sun was born – the place of the pilgrims re-birth.  

Day 18.  Further work with plant spirits and their practical application.  The Mayan Calendar (seminar).

Days 19, 20.  Burial.  This ancient shamanic ritual is a ceremonial death.  The personal history is released, and so the sense of ‘self’ can expand to include the human connection with the earth, the planets, the stars, and the universe.  The human, freed from the congestion of the holding of personal history, is then able to open as a channel of the cosmic vision.

Day 21  Grounding the dream.    A day to sense the way in which the information can be translated to your day to day life where you live. 

 Days 22 to 31. The circle of 12. 

Intent

The end of the Mayan calendar, of the fifth sun, is an indication of the openings made by the coordination of planetary, stellar and galactic movements in the universe.   The openings create a vibrational possibility for a shift in consciousness, profound change and transformation for both humans and the earth.   During these times, the information is clearer on how the dreaming body can change frequency and so move from one dream in time to another dream in time.  The parallel worlds open, and we are presented with multi-dimensional possibilities. 

The circle of 12 is being called here to open to this level of change.  Conscious dreamers, when working by themselves, can open to the universal spiral, move through times and therefore create bridges not only for themselves but for all connected with their cellular memories.  When conscious dreamers work in a circle, it is an opportunity to practise together and channel the bridge between times for all the beings who are ready to move through the spiral. 

The circle opens to the sense of spiritual community in which each heart opens to the unconditional love in the universe which is grounded into both physical and spiritual food for the community.  Each member is important in that each heart opens differently and so brings in different information when we meet.  It is a union of 12 elements that unite - the twelve tribes, the twelve animals, and the twelve spirits. 

 The circle of twelve humans will be developing in circle to merge with the vibration of the council of twelve Great Dreamers who dream the universe.  By connecting with this vibration we will be sensing the seed consciousness of molecular matter, and how the seeds of dreams have moved and will move through times.   It is, in essence, the 12 Great Dreamers who call the twelve humans incarnate in time and space to their council.   Our practises are to develop the art of travelling to this frequency and the art of listening to the information we are given.

Our final destination is the sacred mountain, which, rather than this programme, is what would call you to the desert.  In this vision quest, we find out why.  This great teacher has information it would have called you to receive, and everything you would have passed through on the weeks leading up to this day would be so that you have the intuitive knowledge to know how to receive it.

This course description is subject to some change and is intended as a general guide.  Some ceremonies and activities may be modified to suit some participants physical and/or dreaming capabilities.     

Costs and details. 

Crystalline Intelligence.  Two weeks  Oct 29-Nov 12 £1200  (US$1884)  15 places available

Practical Intuitive Shamanic Training.  Three weeks.  Oct 29 – Nov 19. £1550  (US$2433).  15 places available

Circle of Twelve and for students interested in ongoing training.  Four weeks.  Oct 29-Nov 26.  £1850  (US$2904)  There are only ten places available for this option.

There is also the option for some students to begin on the second week in the desert.  (900/1413 for the second and third weeks, 1250/1970 for the three weeks.) Please enquire.

Supplements.  If you want to have your own adobe roundhouse in the desert there is a supplement of £40 (US$70) per week   

 Formal practical intuitive shamanic training.  This training starts with the four week course and has a one or two year option (for which a certificate is given).   It involves internet supervision as well as personal individual sessions and further course participation in the country where you live.  The cost of this course is as above and 65 pounds per month payable on a monthly basis.  Please contact us for a full leaflet.

Prices includes all meals (except for two meals in Mexico City) and all accommodation including the hotel booked the night before the start date, all entrance fees, seminars, ceremonies,  and all internal travel.   It does not include the cost of your flight or your ongoing transport from the desert site. 

Accommodation is in a Hotel in Mexico city, shared partitioned rooms within a dormitory with a camping option in Teotihuacan, shared tipi with a camping option at Amatlan, and camping or adobe dome (7 available ) in the Centre of the Conscious Dream.  The camping option includes the facility to sleep in shared adobe house if and when required.  Food is through restaurants in Mexico city, in-house Mexican food at Amatlan and Teotihuacan, and a varied diet (organic when possible) at the desert site where there is also a shared kitchen.  Bottled water is available always, and there are showers at Amatlan/Teotihuacan and water to heat in the desert.  Toilets are dry ecological at Amatlan and the desert. 

 The Centre of the Conscious Dream is literally in the middle of nowhere, with the nearest neighbour an hours walk.  The site has been developed deliberately to be simple but sufficient, so that you can have a direct experience of the elements but not be found wanting on essential living conditions.  The site consists of a medicine wheel made of four round houses, two of which are the temple and studio spaces.  There is also a large dining area, two kitchens, a building for bathing and toilet, and four adobe sleeping domes.  Food is brought by our vehicle from the village or cooked on site.  The most important physical aspect of the site is space – you can walk as far as you like in any direction. 

 Daniel Stone has been developing shamanic dreaming circles for elelven years in Britain, the U.S. and Mexico.  He founded The Shamanic School of Dreaming in 1996 and the Centre of the Conscious Dream in 2000.  He is author of  ’The shaman, the Buddha and the conscious dream and is an international  exhibiting artist.

 Arbolita Pashak learnt through her native Mexican blood line the shamanic arts and intuitive healing.  She has worked with many indigenous communitites with projects of sustainable development.  She makes organic healing products, and teaches the ceremonial and healing use of Mexican plants and also the practical uses of the  Mayan calender.

 Tecpaltecuhtli is a sacred dancer, teacher, and ceremonial leader in the Anahuac tradition. He has devoted his life to the understanding of the traditional teachings in Teotihuacan and is the author of ´El Despertar Tolteca`  (The awakening Toltec).

 Ea Orgu  Is a crystal carver, authority on the crystal skulls and the Mayan calender, and a ceremonial sweat lodge leader.  He  runs a retreat centre in Amatlan, Mexico.

 Don Julian is a native Nahuatl healer.

 Don Julio Martinez is a ceremonial sweat lodge leader (Temazcal).  He has received wisdom from his own land and elders and continues the tradition.  His life is dedicated to healing through the temazcal and sacred plants.

For booking information, or to talk to one of the facilitators, please email zcrystalhead@hotmail.com