Shamanu: Earth Wisdom™ Correspondence Course
Welcome to the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings™ Correspondence Course. A revolutionary earth-based spiritual practice which reawakens the
capacity to connect directly with oneself, Nature and the original
animating forces that call us into life.
Shamanu offers an exquisite environment for the evolution and revitalization of body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Practices that emulate the expressions of Nature allow the underlying intelligence which guides our organism to transform us into healthier, fully realized individuals. Shamanu means ‘bringing heaven into the earth through the body’.
Shamanu’s deeply pleasurable and nourishing movement, dance, sound, meditation and ritual practices draw on the gift of creativity to support individuals in uncovering their deepest potential. Shamanu guides you into the original movements and expressions of Nature where inspiration abounds.
The traditional paths for spiritual growth and physical health have a limited amount to offer those who are awakening to the new calling for wholeness. Recognizing the physical and spiritual aspects of ourselves as ‘One’, Shamanu offers you the tools, direction and support you need to restore your relationship with yourself, the Earth and Spirit.
Over the past 20 years Shamanu has distilled core practices and approaches that support the vital health of your body and the awakening to your true nature. And now for the first time Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings is being offered as a teacher training summer program. Within a supportive atmosphere you are invited to take the leap to physical vitality, emotional strength and awakened consciousness.
The teachings in this course are drawn from modern and ancient practices and will support you reclaiming physical, mental, emotional and spiritual vitality through a deeply pleasurable practice that is rooted in the creative processes of Life.
Heartful, Honest, Empowering and Real
"My experience with Shamanu has been very beautiful. It has re-created a language and communication with my emotional and spiritual self through my physical being. Through the movement I have experienced a greater balance and a connection with myself that allows me to feel and understand the more universal truths within me."
~Tara Peters
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The Practices:
The Shamanu practices are divided into four sections. While there is a beautiful merging of all of the practices, each practice is specific to an aspect of your physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual growth.
1. Primordial Movement: Original Yoga
The fluid, organic movement, breath and sound processes of Primordial Movement offer you a powerful, deeply healing and heartful practice that revitalizes body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Primordial Movement is a revolutionary physical/spiritual practice, which reawakens our capacity to connect directly to the restorative energy of Nature.
Liquid, undulating, organic wave-like motions enliven the inherent fluidity of our organisms. Like the original Yoga, this practice emulates the primordial movements of Nature, opening us to the powerful innovative healing energies of Life. Creative and imaginative, Primordial Movement invites us into the deeper layers of our being.
A strong emphasis to develop our capacity to feel sensation refines our ability to know ourselves, to love and receive the fullness of who we are.
Like a dance, this multi-faceted continuum of movement, breath and sound exploration strengthens physical, emotional and spiritual grace.
A form of meditation-in-motion Primordial Movement is artistry and power, pleasure and healing personified.
"The more I sink into the Primordial Movement practice, the more I understand that indeed this IS the movement of Love. I can feel it, and it is transforming me. Thank you for showing me the way to connect with life's powerful healing energy." Kate
Where the Natural Wisdom of Your Body Lives
Primordial Movement finds its roots in Continuum. “Undulating wave-like motion permeates tissue, softens boundaries and amplifies sensation. It awakens our capacity to move freely, feel deeply, and respond potently to life’s changing circumstances.” Emily Conrad, founder of Continuum
Self-paced, intuitively centered processes allow old physical, emotional and psychological patterns to wash away in an atmosphere of love. Primordial movement is indeed the Movement of Love, reconnecting us with the primal, animating force of Life itself.
The Benefits of Primordial Movement:
- Restores vitality & an extraordinary sense of well-being
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Ignites the innate ability to heal oneself
- Induces heightened states of bliss
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Heals emotional & psychological stress
- Enhances structural alignment, mobility, balance,
flexibility and core strength
- Promotes healing through pleasure, love & play
- Supports spiritual evolution
Awakens bio-intelligence, creativity & intuition
- Reawakens our timeless biological origins & communion with all Life.
Anyone can participate in this movement practice. If you love to move or want to learn how to love moving, and have a passion to fully embody the creative possibility of who you are, Primordial Movement is for you.
2. Earth Rhythms
Earth~Rhythms is a sacred journey into the animating forces of Nature through dance and ritual. A space to explore our stories, our lives and our dreams. All of the energies of the Earth dance through the human body, shaping us, calling us forth into our creative wholeness. In the Earth~Rhythms workshop we learn how to consciously connect to these energies for personal and planetary transformation.
Ancient and holy, dance says YES! to the authentic joy and celebration of who you are. One of the most powerful forms of ritual, dance is a generator of life-energy; inducing specific states of consciousness.
Grounding your spirit in the rhythms of Nature through the Dance of the Elements, Earth Rituals and Meditation you come to know the story of the Earth as your story, waiting to be expressed in all its diversity, color, passion and power. Turning to the Earth as lover, friend and guide we open our hearts to the vast universal truths that have been present since the beginning of time and available to us all.
Attuning to Earth’s rhythms we gently shed old culturally imposed rhythms and step into the refreshing, creative and dynamic energies of life. You are now co-creator with a song to sing and a dance to share.
Earth~Rhythms is
a life-affirming, deeply healing, transformational and extremely joyful evolutionary experience. Earth~Rhythm finds its roots in shamanism.
Because all life is connected to each other, the healing and peace you bring to yourself through this process also brings healing and peace to the Earth and all life upon Her.
The benefit from the Earth~Rhythms Experience:
3. Living from Your Heart - For a Healthier & Happier Life
In a culture where the ‘mind’ is revered, living from the heart is a lost art. Yet science is now showing that the human heart possesses a vast intelligence and wisdom capable of guiding each of us to a healthier and more fulfilled life.
Living from Your Heart is a time to reclaim the primacy of the heart as the principle guiding force, and with it your life energy, vitality, power, passion, creativity and freedom.
You will discover your heart as the spiritual compass that guides the unfolding of your evolutionary journey.
In the calm, compassionate, ever present wisdom of the heart we reawaken the universal powers of love and truth. It is the heart that holds the key to the mysteries of life, radiant health, joy, well-being and the intuitive knowings that guides our fulfillment.
Reviving the power of the heart, we create personal harmony. This spreads to those around us, our communities and countries.
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.” ~ Carl Jung
Know Yourself and Be Free
In Living from Your Heart find out how to identify thoughts and feeling that deplete your life energy. Learn tools that can be used throughout your day that support life-giving feelings, energies and thoughts.
Processes include:
Living from Your Heart blends the modern science of The Heart Math Solution with ancient indigenous teaching.
Breath/Sound: Variations of breath and sound disrupt habitual patterns creating openings to heart intelligence. Energy centers (chakras) are cleansed and revitalized connecting us to the hearts higher intelligence.
Wave Motion: Fluid movement stimulates life processes, softens and dissolves defensiveness, making us more resonate and capable of communion with life.
Felt Awareness: Our felt sense is the language of the heart, our direct connection to what is true for oneself. Through stillness and the practice of awareness we become witness to what we think and feel and join to the underlying intelligence which guides our organism. 
Meditation and Visualization: Modern and indigenous practices unleash the power of heart to enlighten, energize and inspire you.
Benefits:
- Living from Your Heart is for those who want to:
- Enhance love & peace in your life
- Learn to attune to your inner wisdom
- Stop reacting & start acting from inner balance
- Neutralize physiological & psychological impacts of stress
- No longer sacrifice important values in life
- Increase health, happiness and productivity
- Experience more clarity, inner security & joy
- Minimize hurt, frustration and pain
- Develop your emotional potential
- Reconnect with you Soul’s truth
- Become a conscious co creator with Life
- Increase your energy and enjoy Life more!
4. Earth Wisdom Teachings: Nature Spirituality, Sacred Power and Earth Ecstasy
The cornerstone of the Living Arts Institute programs, ‘Earth Wisdom Teachings’ gives you powerful tools to develop a ‘real’ relationship with the Earth. One that embodies enchantment, wonder and awe, as well as is grounded in a genuine connection to the natural world.
A real relationship with nature is needed for our psychic and spiritual health. We are not separate from nature, but in fact ARE nature. Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Ether – mind, spirit, emotions, body and change.
To remember this is to connect with the deepest parts of us.
By communing with Nature you will discover the teachings and the medicine that it holds for
you. Learn the art of stillness, release self-limiting patterns and tap into a dynamic source of energy, love, joy and wisdom that surrounds you.
Opening to the wisdom of the Earth you will be rewarded with its ‘sacred knowledge’ and the ability to use this power for personal and planetary regeneration.
To break the spell of separation; to rediscover the heart of nature spirituality; to feel the Earth’s power in our bones and use it for the greater good, is to know the Earth’s ecstasy as ours.
"We do not bring nature to life, nature brings us to life."
Immerse yourself in nature’s classroom through theory, earth rituals, inner experience, and community. Don’t forget fun, play, exploration and 
imagination.
- Through Ayurvedic wisdom, ‘art of listening’ practices, observation and interaction we discover Earth as alive, seamlessly connected to the whole, with humans embedded in a matrix of intimate relationships with Her.
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Developing the art of conversing through storytelling, movement and sound opens us to the deep language that nature speaks.
- Earth-centered rituals teaches us how to communicate back to the living earth.
- Practical earth healing techniques that help meet human needs, regenerate the natural world and create harmonious relationships.
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FAQ
This unique, first of its kind twelve month self-empowerment course offers time-tested information and experiential practices, books and DVD's to support you in creating a ‘Practice’ that will increase the health of body, mind and emotions, enhance longevity, and help you to feel younger, more joyful and peaceful.
How this Course is structured
You will have at your fingertips time-tested tools to transform your life through ancient and modern wisdom, body-centered practices and rituals, questions and personal journaling. You will be able to apply this wisdom and practices to daily life immediately.
- Twelve lessons for creating a pleasurable, life-enhancing practice
- These include: practical knowledge and theory, and experiential processes
- Assignments for each of the twelve lessons
- Included are study books, DVD's, audio CD's, Movement Equipment f
- Monthly one hour telephone conversations with Lorenna to support you in your evolving practice
Your Participation
The course will span over a period of 12 months, which each month. Each lesson builds upon the previous lesson. It is important that you complete the written and experiential homework for each lesson before moving onto the next.
A minimum of one hour per day is ideal, however, the more time you can devote to your empowerment experience, the more you will get out of it.
Assignments
Assignments are to be sent upon completion of each lesson. Once evaluated they will be returned to you.
Completion Time
You may complete these lessons on your own time schedule. But in order to utilize them to their fullest, we recommend you set up a schedule time to do each lesson; one evening a week or an afternoon on the week-ends will keep your momentum going. Experiential exercises require consistency to be most effective. A minimum of 1 hour 5 days a week is best. The average time to complete the course is 18 months.
Questions
One of the specialties of these lessons is the personal attention available to your questions and assignments. We invite your comments, favorite experiences and suggestions.
Certificate
Each student who successfully completes the lessons and ALL the assignments will receive a beautiful Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings™ Certificate. The Certificate awarded states that you are acknowledged for the successful completion of an in-depth study of the Shamanu practice. The reputation of this course is outstanding and is leading edge in education for the future.
Lessons 1- 12 in a Beautifully Designed Course Binder, DVDs and Personal Journal
The Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings Correspondence Course comes in a specially designed binder. The binder makes it easy for you to keep your lessons, assignments and other course material together. The DVDs will guide you through the experiential exercises and the journal is for you to take personal notes. The binder and books are sent out as soon as we receive your tuition.
Textbooks, DVDs, and Equipment for the Course
* The Universe is a Green Dragon – Brian Swimme
* Life on Land – Emillie Conrad
* The HeartMath Solution – Doc Childre
* The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything - Ken Robinson Ph.D. and Lou Aronica (Audio CD)
* Music to Disappear In II - Raphael (Audio CD)
* Initiation - Gabrielle Roth (Audio CD)
* 65 cm Exercise Ball
* 8 in Exercise Ball
We highly recommend attending our trainings
The trainings provide you with the opportunity to spend time immersed in the teachings. In this way you can experience the Sevenfold Path lifestyle at The Living Centre. The days will be filled with practical experience and further education.
Trainings include:
Primordial Movement: Original Yoga
Earth~Rhythms
Living from Your Heart
Earth Wisdom Teachings
For information about the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings Educator Diploma Course click here
Complimentary trainings include:
Living the Solution
Shamanic Herbalism
Shamanu Earth Wisdom™ Correspondence Course
Investment
$1000 for all Correspondence Courses
Shipping is $25 for USA and Canada. Additional shipping charges may apply for overseas
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'The Living Centre
5871 Bells Rd.
London, Ontario
Canada, N6P 1P2
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