Shamanism

Shamanic Medicine Wheel Share Gatherings
Only open to all who have taken an introduction to shamanism or medicine wheel with us.
Thursdays - February 16th, March 15th, April 19th,  May 17, June 21 (will be a general celebration on Tara).  Fee: €10.00 for each person.  Times: 7-9.30pm Would you like to join this circle:  You must take a one day introduction to shamanism for anybody who would like to partake of this share to learn the basic techniques used – please note that other core shamanic techniques are completely different. Available dates: Friday 24 February  or  Friday 30 March  or  Friday 4 May  or  Friday 6 July  or  Friday 24  August or Friday 14 September or January 2013.  Day fee: €100.00   Time: 9.30am-5.30pm

Introductory Shamanism
Available dates: Friday 24 February  or  Friday 30 March  or  Friday 4 May  or  Friday 6 July  or  Friday 24  August or Friday 14 September or January 2013.  Day fee: €100.00   Time: 9.30am-5.30pm

We are currently running a shamanic medicine wheel and you are welcome to join in at various stages, you can complete the wheel and take the modules at your own pace. If you wish to join the medicine wheel then you must take the basic shamanic tools course which is a one day introduction to shamanism. The dates available are above

Ireland offers a very powerful landscape, and we are privileged to be close to many of Ireland's major sacred sites, including Tara, Lough Crew, Newgrange, and Uisneach.

We offer weekend workshops, evening courses, and introductory "tasters" for those who wish to try shamanism for the first time. We also offer advanced training and open shamanic ceremonies to which all are welcome.

Shamanic introduction weekend: If you would like to attend the first weekend for a fee of €195.00 to see if you would like to continue the you are welcome along.

Shamanic Practitioner Course Dates
February: 24 (evening only) 25 & 26 Saturday, Sunday - Module 2A
March: 30 (evening only), 31 Saturday Level 2 & April: 1 Sunday Module 2B
May: 4 (evening only), 5 & 6 Saturday, Sunday Module 3A
June: 23 Saturday Module 3A & Thursday evening 21st if you can make it
July: 6 (evening only), 7 & 8 Saturday, Sunday Module 3B
August: 24 (evening only), 25 & 26 Saturday, Sunday Modulel 4A
September: 14 (evening only), 15 & 16 Saturday, Sunday Module 4B

Eenergy Management: 3 & 4 November 2012 9am-6pm Module 5

Traditional Ceremonies: - optional
October 28: Saimhain 7.30pm
December 18: Winter Solstice
March 23: Equinox Spring (21st March we celebrate on 23)
April 29 : Beltane - Hill of Tara
June 21 - Tara 7pm
June 23: Summer Solstice Sacred Site Day - Sacred Site day €75.00
August: Lunaghsa _date to be set

Full Moon Druid Ceremonies: with our Druid Teacher John on Tara Hill each month also - dates confirmed on course

Full Moon Ceremony takes place on Tara.
· Weds 12th October 2011
· Thursday 10th November 2011
· Saturday 10 December 2011
· Monday 9th January 2012
· Tuesday 7th Feb 2012
· Thursday 8th March 2012
· Friday 6th April 2012
· Sunday 6th May 2012
· Monday 4th June 2012
· Tuesday 3rd July 2012
· Thursday 2nd Aug 2012
· Thursday 31st Aug 2012

Attendance on celtic and druid full moon ceremonies encouraged but optional to people travelling a distance you may find ceremonies closer to you.

Contact usfor more details.

Core Shamanism

Training in core shamanism involves learning the central skills of divination and healing common to shaman throughout the world. You will learn to use the shaman's tools of the rattle, drum, and incense to journey into the higher realms. You will learn how to identify and approach sacred sites and to communicate and work with beings of spirit. You will learn the secrets of destiny - how to discover your own highest destiny and bring it about. You will learn how to heal both the body and the soul.

Training takes place over a series of weekend workshops. See the calendar for dates.

Peruvian and Celtic Shamanism

This course fuses the traditional practices of the Paco's of the Quero Indian's of the Peruvian Andes with Celtic traditions. This course will offer an intense transformative experience using techniques of great antiquity and power.

Training takes place over weekend workshops. See the calendar for dates.

Andean & Celtic Shamanic Training

We are delighted to be offering this deep authentic powerful and incredibly beautiful soul traditions.

The course will run over a sequence of weekends between October 2011 and Autumn 2012

Andean & Celtic Shamanic Training 

We offer the teachings of the Quero Indians of Peru which we have incorporated with our own Celtic traditions.  We also incorporate elements of many other shamanic traditions as taught to us.

The Quero are the direct descendants of the shamanic healers and teachers of the Inca Empire. When the Inca Empire was conquered by the Spanish, they retreated into the High Andes, hiding for 400 years in a network of villages above 14,000 feet.  It is only since the 1970’s that they have established contact with the rest of us.  Since then they have been bringing their original teachings, untainted by the modern world, to us.  The high point of a civilisation based upon shamanic principles, Quero teachings being a deep and ancient wisdom to our modern problems.

We have been privileged to study directly with some of the Quero elders, receiving key initiations which produce powerful energy shifts and awaken new forms of awareness and power.  We have been granted permission by the Quero to pass on these teachings and initiations.  It is our privilege to now offer these to you.

Through teachings founded on the teachings of the ancient Inka Quero Shamans, through initiations and rites of passage, through individual and group healing, through connection with the ancient  sacred sites of Ireland and Peru, through a marrying of the Celtic and Quero traditions and through sacred ceremony  we will walk a medicine wheel of deep healing and transformation.

Shamanism is the same in every culture – it is the basis of human spirituality.  Yet each tradition has something unique to offer.  We will add to the blend of wisdom teachings and practices from North America, Southern Africa and Australia.

You will become more connected to our sacred Celtic ancestory, to the Quero tradition, to your own spiritual shamanic ancestory and to the power of the land.  If you let it, this work can transform your life and eventually allow you to know and/ or even change your own destiny.

When you have completed the medicine wheel you will be fully competent and capable of working with clients in practice and walking the path of the earth-‘the beauty way’.

What will you  do on the course?

• Learn to walk the path of inner knowing and wisdom
• Learn the craft of energy healing medicine
• Learn ancient medicine teachings
• Develop psychic awareness
• Connect with angels
• Destiny work - discover your true self and your life’s callings
• Take trips to places of power and how to work with them
• Learn how to hear the voices of nature.  The trees, clouds and waters talk to us, learn to hear their voices and respond.
• Discover how to bring the power and healing of these ancient practices into your daily life
• Learn to walk the earth sacredly
• To  become your own soul friend
• To be able in your life one day soon to say I have found who I truly am, I know and have experienced the wisdom of my soul, I have followed the path of my heart. I have followed the path of walking in beauty and harmony upon the earth and between the worlds
• Once you have completed the medicine wheel, advanced courses become available which enable you to build upon this foundation.  Further training enables you to develop expertise in specialised shamanic techniques such as soul retrieval and destiny work.  Many therapists of all forms bring this into their counselling and therapy practices, weave it with reflexology, massage, reiki etc.
• This is some of the most exciting work you will ever encounter
• Learn how to release that within yourself which does not serve you
• Learn to walk always protected in this realm and all others
• Learn to heal past lives
• Learn to create a greater destiny
• Work with mythology and symbolism
• The work that we teach comes from the heart and is rooted in groundedness, it is not dramatic or showy, all the techniques can be used quietly and discretely or in a shamanic setting depending on the needs of those you work with.
• The space that we create and hold is a safe space of nurturing and one of non-judgment.
• We teach with a strong emphasis on energy protection and thus the understanding of energy underlies the core teaching
• The opportunity to connect with and deepen your connection to the earth and all that live with us.  ‘to walk upon the earth with beauty’
• We do not get wrapped in story but focus on the shedding, release and healing
• All of the teaching is guided and dedicated to spirit, we spend time in ceremony and meditation when working to integrate and bring this training to you.
• The opportunity to experience the purification process of traditional native American Sweat Lodge
• Fire Ceremony
• Monthly full moon  ceremony
• Trance Dance (optional)
• Learn to carry a medicine bundle and learn to work with it

We aim to attract students that are

• dedicated to their personal growth
• students that are curious
• students that already have some training but seek to know more and understand more
• People who want to learn to connect with the sacred power places and gain wisdom from them (e.g. Tara)
• People that just feel drawn to come to the workshops and don’t know why!
• Complete beginners
• People already trained in this field and looking to learn deeper techniques
• People already trained in core shamanism and wish to further their skills to more effective working techniques
• People that are already working in the complementary field
• People that are trained as psychotherapists and counsellors
• Shamanic healers who feel that they need more working methods to enhance their practice, something is missing?
• Shamanic practitioners that wish to connect and work with an ancient shamanic lineage

Psychic Development

The training and the personal working experience of this training will help you to open up to the ‘seer’ within. You will learn to use your extra sensory skills (seeing, feeling, knowing, hearing, visionary) in a wide variety of ways.  Every step of the training helps to open and awaken your intuitive sense.  You will receive powerful traditional Andean initiations  that will enable you to do some of the following:

• See Auric fields
• Awaken and develop your innate psychic abilities
• Awaken and develop gifts and abilities from other lives
• See imprints and damage on Auric fields
• See past lives for yourself and others
• Learn to do stone readings for divination
• Learn to use the tarot as an intuitive skill
• Learn to use your seerer's gifts for divination
  Learn to track areas of illness and energy blocks
• Learn to identify and communicate with angels, spirit guides and helpers
• Learn to see what needs to be removed or healed from the energy fields
• Learn to bring ancestral healing with the gifts of seeing.
• Learn to bring healing to the earth and all the world
• Learn to bring these gifts to your other skills be it counselliing, reflexology, psychotherapy, reiki, massage , sports massage and all other complementary and alternative medicine
  Learn to bring these skills into your daily life and walk as a seer whether it is from buying a house, to choosing the right career path everything from minor to major decisions on all the levels (practical, physical, energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual)

Destiny retrieval

The shaman believes that ‘we dream our world into being’ - that we can create our own destiny.  As we heal ourselves within the core structure of the training, we begin to bring our own inner light to the earth so we walk a sacred path as luminous light beings.  During the medicine wheel we are clearing and shedding our past so we can walk into the future and create a destiny far greater than that which we have dreamed off.

Already working as a therapist: If you are already working in any area of  the complementary field you will find that this training will complement your professional work.  It will bring you to a greater awareness of the healing processes as you learn the energetic principles of ‘healing’ and how to work directly with energy.  This work will truly add to your abilities in working with clients -- from seeking what best serves them in a treatment to using the techniques within treatment and to understanding clients.  In the field of  counselling and psychotherapy you will find the techniques are invaluable to working with your clients and helping them to empower themselves. (see Majella’s story at end for personal witness)

Already trained in shamanism: If you have trained in core shamanism or taken other workshops you are more than welcome along.  This course will be a move forward into deeper shamanic work and bring you many extra skills and initiations enhancing the skills you already have. Our aim is for each person to identify and develop their own way of working, to find this energy healer, practitioner within themselves and to grow their abilities to their highest levels.  You will find through the initiations and rites of passage that you will come away with an extremely nurturing, gentle but powerful tools at your disposal.  Through the initiations to the ancient Quero lineage, through the initiations and connections to the sacred power places surrounding us (Tara, Loughcrew etc.) that you will have many allies and wisdom in your work.

Despacho work: The work with Despachos is unique in our training and Owen Roberts is one of the few people in the western world to receive all three of the lightning initiations of the mountain rites and to hold the honour of being named a Paco by Don Sebastian.  Upon the completion of the medicine wheel there is the opportunity to specialise in despacho healing (for miscarriage, bad luck, abundance, bereavement and much more etc.)

What you can do with the training

• This work is not just about being a practitioner – it’s firstly about personal healing, personal empowerment,  it makes you more self aware, self empowered, gives you confidence, improves your health and overall empowers you in your life in every way.
• Self healing ‘to bring healing to the world it is important to start from a place close to you (yourself!), do not start from something distant such as philosophy or logic’
• Daily practice in your life
• Healing for loved ones
• Healing for animals
• Practitioner healing – you will be trained to bring this work to clients so you can work professionally
• Add this training to your present skills and integrate it
• Bring this work to the corporate world if you work in that field
• Work with people who are in respite   and also learn to bring healing and assistance to a loved one or clients who is in the process of passing over.

Further possibilities with the training

Once we have completed the medicine wheel and also during the year we will have further training and specialised work in the following available

• Advanced shamanic divination techniques using tarot, stones, crystals, I Ching etc.
• Specialise in Despacho work
• Specialise in Soul Retrieval
• Specialize in protection and  clearing work
• Incorporate the training with your own work to become an all round ‘energy healer’
• Specialise in plant and herb medicine – learn to bring this work to nutritional and herbal remedies

Main Facilitators

(throughout the training we will have guest facilitators also)

Owen Roberts

Originally of Welsh origin Owen eventually grew up in New Zealand and Australia. While in Australia he studied Tarot, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Jungian Psychoanalysis, Mythology and Shamanism. He also studied psychic healing at the London College of Psychic Studies.  Having studied Tarot for over 30 years, Owen developed and teaches our highly successful Diploma in Professional Tarot Reading. Owen is a graduate of the Four Winds Shamanic Institute with certificates in Healing the Light Body and Soul Retrieval. He studied Despacho work under the Peruvian "Paco" (or shaman) Don Sebastian for 3 years and received from him the 3 "Lightning Initiations" which qualify him as a Paco.  Owen's work has been to fuse traditional shamanism with the western traditions of Kabbalah and Hermeticism.
"Shamanism is more than just about personal healing; it can heal communities.  By bringing shamanism into our lives we heal first ourselves, then around us.  In turn, this healing energy spreads into the larger community, and eventually the world is healed."

Majella Fagan Bsc Psychology, BA Drama, Bsc Open

Is the founder of Green Tara College and Holistic Therapy Centre. Majella is a long established and well known teacher within the Holistic field.  She has worked with energy healing for over 17 years and is trained in various branches of Shamanism (Core training for 3 years), Celtic and Inca traditions (6 years), Four Winds Certified, South American and Native American traditions. Majella has been teaching and facilitating shamanism and ceremonies for over seven years and is dedicated to this work.

Personal witness - Majella Fagan - "I had studied many therapies and been in personal healing for many years.  Having taken the core shamanic training twice and working with it for many years I was thirsting for something more in depth and felt I needed to know more. I didn’t feel the working techniques were adequate enough for the growing needs of the work.  When I took the six years of shamanic training with initiations from the Quero and  the training in further shamanic techniques with Alberto Villoldo and The Four Winds, I found what I had been looking for.  This is the most phenomenal work I have ever done and it brought to me deep, deep healing where at a crucial time in my life I finally cleared the heaviness of past issues and moved forward into a life of peace and higher destiny, here I learned to ‘dream my world into being.’  I can only say from my heart that I urge you if it feels  right or you feel drawn to it to take this training.  Alongside teaching Holistic Therapies, my main work is with Reiki and shamanism. I started with traditional Reiki and have found that the combination of  the two traditions is a wealth of amazement and have found that the shamanic work brought me into deeper techniques and much more grounding.  There is a wealth of joy, freedom and humility in walking this path which helps give us  grace to aim to be a better person.  In times of crisis it is my spiritual training and practice that has kept me together. Please feel free to give me a call  or if you’d like to meet up and chat about it I’d be delighted."

Further Information

Energy Management: In addition to the specific medicine wheel weekends, you are required to attend the Energy Management course ( Dec 3/4 2011 as part of the training.  If you have taken Reiki training or other energy training  you may be exempt.

First Aid: If you are planning to use this course to work as a practitioner we advise that you take a recognized first aid course (Red Cross, Order of Malta). We are running this years First Aid on Sat 8/Sun 9 October, €150.00, you can also avail of recognized first aid courses around the country.

Qualification: - Shamanic Practitioners Certification in Andean and Celtic Shamanism

Fees: - We are delighted to be able to offer the fee at this time at  €250.00 per weekend and must be paid either coming up to the training or on the first morning of registration on each weekend.  You can also pay the full course fees up front.

Location:- The location for the training is in the heart of the Boyne valley (Navan) and we will be surrounded by Tara, Loughcrew, Newgrange, Fore, Uisneach, the River Boyne alongside many, many more sacred sites in the Meath Valley. We will walk the land, do ceremony and receive some initiations in these sacred places.

Venue: Green Tara College – we are right in the centre of Navan with available long term car parking close by for the Saturdays (free on Sundays and evenings)

Time: The course is intensive and it will be Friday evening (7-10pm,) all day Saturday , Saturday night (9am – late) and finish by 6pm at the latest on Sunday. If you are unable to make the Friday evening don’t worry you can come in on the Saturday.

Sacred Sites: Depending on the course topic we will be visiting sacred sites at Tara and Lough Crew, River Boyne and others.

Clothing: comfortable loose clothing with indoor shoes and outdoor shoes. As we will be going out to the sites bring outdoor gear, hill walking boots, trainers, wellies, warm clothing, wet gear, wind protectors, bags or cushion to sit on each weekend.

Equipment: You will need a pendulum, 3 stones/rock (not too big), cloth or bag to put the stones in, journal, pens, cushion, sleeping bag/blanket, one deck of  Raider Waite Tarot cards, anything else you need for personal comfort.  If you have rattles or drums, sage, bring them along and any other sacred objects (if not we will have some provided).

Can’t make a weekend? It is preferable to take the training in the order given as they are designed to build upon each other, but if you are unable to attend a workshop you can take the training in modules.  You can also catch up on the missed training individually with Majella, however please note that the fee with be different and will be cost at Majella’s time per hour.  If somebody else needs to catch up you can arrange to share the fee. 

Joining In If you would like to avail of the training but cannot make the first weekend, we will be running a ‘catch up introduction classes after October .

Further Training: With  this work there will be the opportunity of doing a second year of advanced training or take further specialised training in workshop modules or just separate workshops as they come up.