The International School of Shamanism™ offers the following programs:
- Ongoing Shamanic Healing Circles
- World Wide Shamanic Workshops:
- Mesa Carrier Program
- Women’s & Men’s Circles
- Couples' Workshops
- Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice
- Shamanic Apprenticeship
- Boyhood to Manhood
- Girlhood to Womanhood
- Consultations:
- Private Sessions
- Couples’ Sessions
- Personal Intensives
- Rituals & Ceremonies:
- Rites of Passage
- Marriages, Commitment Ceremonies
- Sacred Journeys
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Shamanic Healing Circles
Shamanic Healing Circles gather twice monthly. We explore ancient, time-tested healing ceremonies and techniques to access and energize the healing element forces in our lives.
Our Shamanic Healing Circle is designed for individuals who are curious about shamanic healing, as well as those seeking a place to come together as a community to support each other on our spiritual path. Following the models from our ancient cultures, we use drumming, singing, talking circles, group healing, and various non-denominational prayer practices for growth and healing. The space created is quite powerful, peaceful, rejuvenating, and encouraging. Spirit is at the heart of all. This is a time to heal and be healed, a time to feel, a time to be loved and accepted, and a time to express whatever is in our hearts. Some self-disclosure is implied and members of the group agree to maintain these revelations in confidence. Together, as a community, we have an opportunity to learn, grow, heal, and experience personal transformation and help each other on our journey. If you have drums, rattles, or wind instruments feel free to bring them with you to the circle. Otherwise, just bring yourself. Participants should wear loose, comfortable clothing. We will be sitting on the floor, so a cushion or a blanket may be helpful. Participants are requested to bring an object of personal significance to place on our altar during the circle as a self representation.
When and Where:
3104 Mercer University Drive, Suite 210, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
First Saturday of each month: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Third Wednesday of each month: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
For more information on our shamanic healing circle, Contact Angela.
Cost:
$20.00 love offering per healing circle (suggested).
(No one is excluded because of finances, if desire to participate is clear)
Worldwide Spiritual Workshops Offered
Mesa Carrier Program – Two Year Program
What is a Mesa Carrier?
A Mesa Carrier embodies love and acceptance and is one who develops a personal and intimate relationship with the unseen world for the purpose of being of service as a healer. This relationship is cultivated experientially through self-induced, altered states of consciousness, ritual ceremonies, refined energetic work, and awareness.
Shamanism is not a religion. It is a spiritual practice, grounded in reverent awareness that the universe is animated, conscious, and energetically interdependent.
Guiding Principles:
- Everything the Mesa Carrier does has to be based on love and acceptance; first of one’s self and then of each other.
- Everything is alive. Everything manifests a physical form from the same essence. The Mesa Carrier learns to attend this knowledge.
- Everything is conscious and watches us. The world is mirrored within us. The Mesa Carrier learns to be a visionary observer.
- Everything is interconnected. Everything responds to and is in an interdependent relationship to everything else.
- The Mesa Carrier can be a mediator of these interconnections.
- Everything transforms. Matter is the dense form of Spirit. Spirit is the subtle form of matter.
- Everything is in vibrational flux. Mesa Carriers can be agents of change.
- Everything responds to focused intention. Proper intention, purification, protection, and grounding of motive are indispensable for all heartfelt shamanic practice. The Mesa Carrier must know him or herself in order to help others. A hollow bone must know they are a hollow bone and how to stay hollow.
- The Mesa Carrier’s task is to come into a right relationship and a reverent communion with the seen and unseen world, so as to mediate between worlds on behalf of themselves and others; they use themselves as hollow bones to channel energy, or they may just use this space for their own spiritual practice.
To find out when our next Mesa Carrier Program begins, contact The International School of Shamanism™.
Women's Circle
The power of women gathering to nurture, confront, and support themselves is a unique healing experience, both individually and socially.
Only in the presence of other women can a woman realize her true feminine self.
Commitment: A weekend workshop. After that, monthly meeting continuation is the prerogative of each individual.
For More Information: Please contact Angela. This allows us to assess the appropriateness of the group for each woman and will clarify goals for participation.
This group is open to all females 18 years or older, regardless of religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.
Men's Circle
The power of men gathering to nurture, confront, and support themselves is a unique healing experience, both individually and socially.
Only in the presence of other men can a man realize his true masculine self.
Commitment: A weekend workshop. After that, monthly meeting continuation is the prerogative of each individual.
For More Information:
Please contact Tom. This allows us to assess the appropriateness of the group for each man and will clarify goals for participation.
This group is open to all males 21 years or older, regardless of religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.
Couples Shamanic Tantra Sex Workshop
Does Your Committed Relationship Need Help?
Relationships afford us the greatest possibilities for deep growth, both individually and as a couple. We choose each other for positive and so-called negative reasons. Both are growth producing. Our significant other holds the mirror to our face and shows us who we are, in more profound ways than we could see ourselves. This makes us uncomfortable, and sometimes angry, and resistant to moving through to our next learning. Open to all couples. Do you want to deepen your intimacy with your mate? Is your relationship in crisis? Have you lost the romantic spark? Do you blame the other person for your discomfort?
Learn to explore your inner child and play with your mate!
- Break down barriers to your sexual communication
- Learn ways to be more intimate
- Confront what holds you back
- Explore sexual blocks
- Explore your adult selves
- Find the beauty in your similarities and your differences
- Explore your spiritual selves and connect lightly with each other
Learn and practice to break down your barriers to your mate's world. Share your sheet of music with each other so you can sing together. Please contact The International School of Shamanism™ for more information on this workshop.
Consultations:
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Private Sessions and Couples Sessions
The process Tom Lake uses is a bridge between psychology and spirituality. Tom is devoted to assisting people in integrating body, mind, and spirit, becoming truly alive, conscious, and responsible, functioning with creative grace, and developing the capacity to love, accept and heal. To this end, Tom utilizes over 35 years of experience and training in a variety of modalities, Shamanism, counseling, hypnotherapy, subtle energy work, philosophy, and theology, among others.
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Price per 45 min. session: $120.00 (students of the International School of Shamanism: $75.00)
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Personal Intensive Session
Using Shamanic Practice to help you begin to realize your Spiritual Potential.
In a Personal Intensive SessionTom takes ample time to focus on you and your process without feeling rushed. In a several hours to many days period, personalized, individual, energetic work will assist you in your evolution toward your healing and to opening more deeply to your heart's truth and your spirit's longings. Together, we create a plan that best suits your spiritual, personal and emotional needs.
During your work with Tom, you are guided in working on all three levels of human existence:
Tom will guide you in opening your heart and speaking your truth; expressing your painful emotions and the negativities of your dark side; exploring your images and false conclusions, and most importantly to the path of loving and accepting yourself just as you are in this moment as you walk your spiritual path.
Intensives are particularly geared for people who need and desire more time than a single session.
People create Intensives for various reasons. For example, when you:
- are dealing with a life crisis such as divorce or illness;
- cannot feel love and acceptance;
- have hit a wall in therapy and need a new approach;
- want to go deeper into your spiritual process;
- are battling your negative self;
- live at a distance where it is difficult to travel to weekly sessions;
- are in a spiritual crisis;
- do not have an appropriate Shaman nearby to guide you;
Tom enjoys working within the Intensive setting. He has created Personal Intensives for many people from many disciplines and walks of life and has over 35 years of experience in this work.
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How Much Time Will You Need?
We will create this according to your needs. Most people need 3 to 5 days. Occasionally people will schedule 2 days and up to 3 weeks has been scheduled. The time you actually spend in session with Tom also has to do with your personal need. Usually 3 to 5 hours a day is scheduled and can vary as issues emerge. The remainder of the day is spent integrating, resting, journaling, walking, perhaps doing some short reading or writing assignment, and finally there is a possibility of receiving a massage or additional body work from a colleague who often assists in this process.
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Bring only yourself, your journal and a pen.
If we decide to work together, we will be honored to assist you on your path.
Sacred Reciprocity: Today for You; Tomorrow for Me!
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