Ongoing Gatherings

The Richland Center Drumming Circle will change its time and location this year. It will be held at 4:00 p.m. on the third Sunday of the month (except June, November, December), at Blue Highways, 165 N. Central, Richland Center, WI.  We will continue to do 2 journeys and sharing.  The focus continues to be supporting people in their journeying practice.  The change will be that we will be enhancing people’s journey process by exploring different topics or tools each time.  People of all levels of experience are encouraged to come. Contact Marie at 608-647-2366, or Debra at 608-647-5432 for more information. 

The Circle of Healers is a group of trained Shamanic apprentices who volunteer to meet with clients for follow-up care after a healing session with Jaes Seis or others within the circle. They are colleagues who are part of an ever-growing community of healers, who work in support of and collaboration with each other. We expect it to grow and expand in capabilities and services provided. No fee -- call for information at (608) 647-6036.

Pachamama Land Days are a celebration of community building, both physical and metaphysical. We ask for volunteers from our extended community to come out to the land and participate in various events that continue the creation of sacred and functional space.

  Summer Solstice Celebrations
Pachamama invites the community to gather together each Summer Solstice. Men and women have gathered separately to explore Spirit and honor their unique contributions to the community. They come together for a group celebration and ritual, followed by a potluck. Each year has a theme honoring and supporting some aspect of community. In years past we have honored the masculine and feminine, the ancestors and the elders. In 2002 the theme is honoring children. The men and women will meet together this year.

Events and Seminars Previously Sponsored by Pachamama

Grief Rituals
Myron Eshowsky joined with Pachamama to offer a Grief Ritual to the extended community in 1997 and was assisted by Jaes Seis in Oct. 2001. These rituals have addressed the deep wound in modern life caused by the suppression of grief. Grief over losses -- of loved ones, dreams and visions, our connection with the ancestors, a healthy environment, etc. This ceremony allows for grieving that is our own, and also serves as a vessel for the larger grief of the earth/community. Myron Eshowsky can be contacted at www.communityshamanism.com.

River of Islands; A Midwestern Shamanic Gathering.
Pachamama, along with Community Shamanism, sponsored a four-day gathering of the Midwestern Shamanic community over Labor Day weekend in 2001. One hundred and forty people including families with children, gathered from throughout the Midwest to study with each other, co-create large group rituals for the Earth and personal healing, and to share in the joys of living as a Shamanic village. This event has been extended into an annual event (in 2002 it will be held in Cleveland, OH), returning to southern Wisconsin every other year.

Healing with Rocks and Crystals
Herb Stevenson has offered his extensive knowledge and relationship with stones to the Pachamama community. Herb guides the circle to work with stones and crystals for personal healing and grounding, chakra rebalancing, and to create sacred space.

Luzclara
Luzclara is a Chilean light worker, ceremonial leader, ritual dancer, Shamanic practitioner, and sound healer. She has been working for the last 20 years in awakening the sacred feminine energies in the planet using ancient methods of ritual and magic. She came to Wisconsin to construct a ceremonial group-healing circle based on the Machitun, of the Mapuche Shamans. This circle connects us with the sacred Mother Earth and the Great Spirit. Collective and personal healing is experienced in a trance state using a united intention, drums, dancing, chanting, and percussive sounds.

Sandra Ingerman: Soul Retrieval.
Sandra Ingerman is the author of Soul Retrieval, Welcome Home, A Fall To Grace, and Medicine for the Earth. When a person undergoes a trauma, shock, or even deep sadness in life, parts of the soul can split off and go into the spirit realms. Shamans track and return lost parts of soul, in a balanced and harmonious way. This can bring great healing. Long-time teacher for The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Sandra brought her 5-day intensive training on this powerful healing technique to Wisconsin. You can learn more about sandrašs work at: www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html.

Classes taught by Jaes Seis.

Sacred Sisterhood; Rites of Passage and Initiation.
Sacred Brotherhood; Rites of Passage and Initiation.
These classes are held as a series of five monthly gatherings using the medicine wheel as a guide for exploration of the sacred feminine and masculine. We begin with the North, honoring the ancestor mothers/fathers. Graduates of the previous series, as ancestors, are invited back for this gathering, both as a reunion and to bless and initiate the new women and men. The initiates then continue on in the series, using mythical and Shamanic methods for personal transformation.

Women's Mysteries
This is a healing intensive exploring women's mysteries: menses, menopause, cycles and rhythms, sacred sexuality, our connection with nature, birth and death. Within the sacred circle we can creatively transform and discover our own unique beauty and power through Shamanic journeying, art and ceremony.

Basic Shamanism.
An introduction to the core principles of Shamanic practice. Come learn how to journey and explore "non-ordinary reality", meet your spirit guides and totem animals, and discover the healer within.

Transmutation: Personal and Environmental Healing.
Following in the traditions of the mystics and miracle healers throughout history, the power of healing is explored. Based on Sandra Ingerman's work and recent book, "Medicine for the Earth; How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins", Jaes brings both direct training with Sandra as well as her own experience and wisdom to this work. Gathering as a community of healers united in a sacred circle, ancient alchemical principles are reworked within the context of modern concerns.

The Apprentice Circle of Healers.
This is a series of ten weekends, held bimonthly, to explore advanced Shamanic techniques. Emphasis is on a Shamanic lifestyle within a community. This is a certification program that involves continued colleague support, mentoring, hands on experience, special events, and involvement by Jaes and the growing members of the Circle of Healers.

Four Day Advanced Shamanism Intensive.
This workshop is designed for those who wish to learn the Shamanic healing techniques of Soul Retrieval and Extraction. This work changes lives. Jaes will share and teach from her many years of training and experience working with over 1000 clients.