New Life Celebration Ceremony & Welcome Potluck Feast with Linda & Hawk

Monday, May 9th 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Exchange: $25

The Alignment Center
120 West 28th street, 3rd floor
New York, NY

New Life Celebration Ceremony & Calling In Ceremony with Welcome Potluck Feast

The New Life Celebration Ceremony welcomes in the revitalizing force of awakening and new creation--like Springtime in all its awesome glory! It’s a time to let go of the past as we move ahead to rebirth & new beginnings, inspiration, creativity and manifestation--an ideal way to kick off our individual and collective journey of self-discovery. We will be working with the spirit and energy of the Horse, Buffalo, Deer, Sage & Copal...purifying, balancing, grounding and empowering our bodies & spirits for the adventure that lies before us.

The Calling In Ceremony will help to ‘call in’ the blessings and teachings of our personal and group animal medicine (animals, plants, elementals, shapeshifters, dieties, etc.) with an astrological/zodiac-like cornmeal painting. We will each journey within the cornmeal painting to reveal our family tree of animal helpers, guides and assistants. Using cornmeal, we will map out our family tree and create our own sacred space for communing with our power animal medicine. For those of you who missed the introductory workshop, we will be working with you individually to introduce you to your main power animal protector (the head of your family tree).

**Please bring a dish to share with everyone for our potluck feast.

**Please bring a rattle/drum (if you have one), a notebook and something to write with to each class.

**To enhance your connection to your Power Animal Medicine and the Spirit Realm, it is suggested that you forgo sleep before workshop days (ideally 3 sleepless nights leading up to class. Sleep deprivation is a time-honored technique for helping to lift the veils between the worlds. Please only consider forgoing sleep, if its safe to do so (sleep deprivation is not a requirement for this course). Also, eating the same food/diet as your power animal, leading up to class time, will strengthen your relationship/connection with your power animal.

**This is Part I of Discovering Your Power Animal Medicine Workshop (A 4 Part Series)

**For questions, or to RSVP and/or prepay, please contact Linda at rionhawke@hotmail.com

For more information, please visit:

http://www.evolver.net/event/2011/05/09/discovering_your_power_animal_me...

http://www.alignmentcenter.org/

http://www.evolver.net/user/rionhawke

About the facilitators:

Linda Fernandez is the lineage bearer of both her grandmother’s shamanic traditions as well as the designated heir to a well-known Cherokee heyoka medicine man.Linda has a deep reverence for the profound love, truth and beauty in all that life has to give, teach and inspire. She lives her life with the open compassion and integrity of an awakened heart--offering herself, in divine communion, as an empathic channel and guide through which healing, teaching and transformation can flow through.

Walking Hawk grew up under the keen tutelage of wise medicine elders from a mixture of different nations. Being exposed to the humble ways of the ancestors gave Walking Hawk the insight to train and reflect on the oneness of Mother Earth and all who live with her. As a Heyoka medicine man and former chief, he walks the contrary path with Spirit and lives in compassionate service to the people. Many people come from all over to attend his healing lodges and ceremonies. His openness and insight have also brought him to many ceremonies and gatherings, both open and secret, throughout the nation and abroad.