Shamanu: Earth Wisdom™
Correspondence Course
Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings
“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. To move forward, we must recognize that we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to create a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature and a culture of peace.” — The Earth Charter
A Call to Remember
For over twenty years, Shamanu has offered teachings that strengthen the heart, awaken the mind, and inspire the courage to live in service of the Earth. This course brings together practices that empower us to choose wisely in these changing times and to live as part of the healing our world so deeply longs for.
A Living System of Wisdom
Through an integrative blend of philosophies and practices, we reawaken to our place as ecological beings—woven into the great web of life. As we remember our kinship with forests, waters, and the elements, we activate the self-renewing power that arises from this interconnectedness.
Shamanu draws from Earth Wisdom traditions, Deep Ecology, eco-philosophy, living systems theory, cosmology, and body-centered practices that mirror the movements of nature. These teachings invite us into a direct experience of belonging, strength, and clarity.
What You’ll Experience
▸ Practices that deepen your felt sense of interconnectedness with the Earth
▸ Tools to strengthen heart, mind, and body for resilient living
▸ Guidance for reclaiming your ecological self and natural vitality
▸ Wisdom traditions that inspire courage and clarity in times of change
▸ Practical, experiential methods that ground philosophy into daily life
Awakening Our Ecological Self
Within this journey, we discover that our true nature is vast, ancient, and inseparable from the living Earth. Shamanu nurtures intuitive wisdom, deepens our love for life, and awakens the courage to protect it.
The Invitation
This correspondence course is a soulful path of remembrance. It is heartful, honest, and empowering—an opportunity to reclaim our birthright as Ecological Beings and to embody the joy and responsibility of shaping a future rooted in reverence for all beings.
The Practice
The Correspondence Course integrates the four primary teachings of the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings. While there is a synergistic merging of each practice, each addresses a specific aspect of oneself and one’s relationship with Earth.
The first three – Primordial Movement, Earth~Rhythms and Living from Your Heart address the first step in the process of conscious transformation – Heal Thyself.
The fourth process, Earth Wisdom Teachings, moves us from ‘me to we’ consciousness, offering empowering tools to support our service to life. The process is, of course, not a linear one. Service to the world and the healing of oneself flow in and out of each other in a beautiful dance of mutual enhancement.
Intellectual knowledge and philosophies offered through Shamanu, coupled with a felt experience of our ecological self, opens new pathways in consciousness. The Shamanu body-centred practices are powerful because of their primordial nature. Through movement, dance, sound, rituals and meditations that emulate the expressions of nature, we learn to live and think like an eco-system.
Primordial Movement
Primordial Movement emulates the intrinsic movements and fluid forces of our biological beginnings. A variety of movement explorations, including wave motion, micro-movements, sounds, and breaths, enliven our organism back to its natural state of flexibility, fluidity, vitality and wholeness.
Awakening bio-intelligence through the liquid, undulating organic movements refines our ability to participate in life’s self-healing processes and creative unfolding consciously.
Primordial Movement explores the idea that we are biological living systems in the form of human bodies with the capacity to self-stabilize, regenerate and evolve. We are naturally resilient, intelligent, and interconnected in all ways with our biosphere. Rousing our inherent capacity to unite with the intrinsic movement of life turns our practice into communion with life’s restorative energies.
Self-paced and intuitively centred, this meditation-in-motion encourages authentic, spontaneous and imaginative exploration. The deeply pleasurable practices bring positive benefits to anyone regardless of experience or physical health.
Primordial Movement is the fundamental movement practice in the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings.
Earth~Rhythms
All ancient cultures used sacred dance as a way to celebrate and unite with creation. Embodying the Elements through our dance in the context of ritual and intention is a way of awakening their essential life force and how their creativity is expressed through you. Because you are made from the Elements, connecting deeply with their story means you connect deeply with yours.
The Earth~Rhythm practice offers primal ways to move energy, cleanse, recharge, connect with other life forms, pray and worship. We tap into Earth’s evolutionary dance, exploring endless improvisation, transformative movements and acts of creativity to create harmony and balance in our personal and social lives.
Does dance evoke the soul, or does the soul of Nature use the dancer for its expression?
Living from Your Heart :
Inspiring Personal and Planetary Peace
Great sages throughout history have pointed to the heart as the gateway to our soul and our highest potential. They regarded the heart as the source of intuitive wisdom and spiritual strength.
The Living from Your Heart processes give you a time-tested tool to unleash your heart’s intelligence and your life energy, vitality, passion, creativity and freedom. We learn how to embrace and direct this powerful capacity of our feeling realm to create happy and balanced lives.
Informed by the heart, we discover we live in a world of non-dual loving Presence, in which all objects are realized and perceived as one, that our very nature is loving, kind, generous, and compassionate. In heart consciousness, there is only our Self, and all of Nature is realized to be part of us.
In these times of rapid change and uncertainty, activating the vast intelligence of the heart is essential if we are to confidently navigate today’s challenges in creative, compassionate and joyful ways. Living from your heart inspires peace in ours lives, communities and the Earth.
Earth Wisdom Teachings
The Earth teaches us that evolution, down through the ages, occurs through the process of ‘synergy’. This is true in the creation of forests, oceans, as well as societies. So it is with the Earth Wisdom Teachings. Earth Wisdom is the merging of wisdom teachings from a variety of people, philosophies and personal experiences. It blends Earth Wisdom spirituality with Deep Ecology, Eco-philosophy, the science of Living Systems, and the Work that Reconnects Joanna Macy.
The Earth Wisdom Teachings offer an integrative system of practices that rouse consciousness to realize that we are an integral part of a larger living system, as essential to the planet as the forests and ocean, and tap the self-‐healing power that lives within this interconnectedness.
The philosophy and practices grow the capacity of intuitive wisdom, teach the art of turning pain into compassion, fear into creativity, and rouse our love for life and the strength and determination we each possess to protect it. These methods make the concepts experiential and practical.
Shamanu Earth Wisdom Teaching is an invitation to re-awaken the felt-knowledge of our oneness with the Earth and adventure into the unshakable joy that comes from living in relationship with this life force.
Immersing yourself in nature’s classroom and reuniting with Earth’s wisdom brings us home to the enduring power of love.
Curriculum: Shamanu Earth Wisdom
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Dedication
Acknowledgement
Purpose
Introduction
Overview of the Process
About The Living Centre & Living Arts Institute
Unity Consciousness
Purpose & Mission of the Living Centre
About Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, Eco-Creativity Coach
About Shantree Kacera D.N., Ph.D.
About Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings™
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History of Shamanu
Shamanu Creative Expression Programs
Benefits of Shamanu
Processes you will learn in the course
The Four Shamanu Teachings
The Importance of Reconnecting
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Weekly Schedule
Week 1 – Introduction & Breath Processes
Week 2– Felt Awareness & Journalling
Weeks 3 – 14 – Primordial Movement
Weeks 15 – 22 – Earth~Rhythm
Weeks 23 – 30 – Living from Your Heart – for Personal & Planetary Peace
Weeks 31 – 40 – Earth Wisdom Teachings
Weeks 41 – 52 – Integration, Play and Creativity Time
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About Breathwork
Lessons on Open Attention
Breath work processes
On Meditation
Creating Sacred Space
Shamanu & Meditation
Meditation Exercises
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Felt Awareness – Your Spiritual Guidance System
On Attention
Exercises
What is Journaling?
Benefits of Journaling
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A Primordial Movement practice DVD set
About Primordial Movement
Wave Motion – The Primal Movement of Creation
The Body Amazing!
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An Earth~Rhythms practice DVD
About Earth~Rhythms
The Dance of the Elements
Ritual Dance
The Elements & You
Channeling the Elemental forces
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About Living from Your Heart
The Beautiful Mind
Benefits of a Peaceful Mind
Cosmic Mind, Planetary Mind & Collective Consciousness
The Unlimited Power of Your Mind
The Law of Attraction
The Beautiful Emotional Body
On Love
Why Peace with Your Emotions is Important
Overcoming Your Emotional History Exercises
Anatomy of Trauma: Pathways of the Shadow – Pathways to the Divine
Exercises for Living from Your Heart
Other Supports for Developing a Healthy & Peaceful Emotional Body
Body Reflexology & Self-Massage
Simple Belly Massage & Attunement Techniques
Relationship: Intimacy & Communication
Emotional Freedom: The Live-Food Way
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From ‘Me to We’
About Earth Wisdom Teachings
Earth as Mother – Earth as Self
The Great Turning – From Empire to Earth Community
Peak Oil & Climate Change
Journey of the Universe – Journey of the Human Self
Living Systems Theory & Deep Ecology
Gaia theory
The Nature of our Power
Synergy and Grace
The Ecological Self
Beyond Anthropocentrism
Shamanu Body-Centered Practices
The Spiral Process
Gratitude Exercises
Honouring our Pain for the Earth
meditation
The Shift – Seeing with New Eyes
Going Forth
Review of the Earth Wisdom Teachings
Shambhala Warrior Story
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Frequency
Ecological Recovery & the Feminine Principle – Vandana Shiva
On Permaculture
Jayden
Interview with Brian Swimme
Forest Gardening – A Permaculture Approach – Shantree Kacera
To Wake Up One Day Different – John Seed
Earth Prayer from a Grandmother
Message from Chief Seattle
Resources
✺ Frequently Asked Questions ✺
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Yes. Payment plans are available directly through our website via Afterpay. Afterpay allows new users to pay in installments for orders up to $2,000 CAD. If you've used Afterpay before, your limit may be higher depending on your account history.
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No prior experience is required. The course is designed for both beginners and those already on a spiritual or ecological path. All practices are explained clearly and can be adapted to your own pace and level of experience.
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This empowerment course includes time-tested wisdom and experiential practices, a 260-page study e-manual, four study books, two downloadable DVDs, and two audio CDs with meditations, breathwork, and visualizations.
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The program follows a step-by-step process that integrates transformational practices into daily life. The e-manual provides weekly lessons and assignments to support your learning and embodiment of the teachings.
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The following resources are included with your enrollment:
▸ The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
▸ World as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy
▸ The HeartMath Solution by Doc Childre
▸ Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
▸ The 10 Powers of the Universe DVD by Brian Swimme
▸ Primordial Movement DVD
▸ Earth~Rhythms: Dance of the Elements DVD
▸ Two CDs with guided practices
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The course is designed to be completed over 12 months. Each lesson builds on the previous one. A minimum of one hour per day, five days a week, is recommended for the best results. However, you may complete the course at your own pace.
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You will complete both written and experiential assignments for each lesson. These are submitted for review, and Lorenna will provide personal comments and feedback. Consistency is key to receiving the full benefit of the practices.
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This is an intimate container with a maximum of 12 participants. This ensures depth, safety, and the opportunity for meaningful connection and personalized attention.
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Yes. One of the special features of this course is the personal support you receive. You are welcome to send your questions, comments, and reflections throughout your journey.
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Yes. Students who complete all lessons and assignments will receive a Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings™ Certificate, acknowledging their in-depth study and successful completion of the program.
Still Have Questions?
If something is stirring or you’re feeling the call but aren’t quite sure yet, we welcome you to reach out. We’re here to listen, clarify, and walk with you as you explore if this journey is aligned.
Begin Your Journey
Cost: $1500
Payment plans are available at check-out.
Includes:
All Correspondence Course Material
One-on-One Sessions
Taxes where applicable
Shipping is $50 for North America
Shipping is $100 for International
