Current Workshops

To register for any of these workshops, please send payment to Claire Von Karls, PO box 803, Franconia, NH 03580. (Be sure to check deadline dates for when registration closes.).

For more information, contact Claire at (603) 444-8822, or email her at cvk@ncia.net.

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Please visit the All Available Workshops and Dream Dancer sections, to see what other workshops Claire offers.


Winter Solstice Celebration


This is an annual event. We meet to Journey and to share in the "journeys" of our lives. In this way we acknowledge the Dark and help bring in the Light of this special season.

Traditionally, this has been a time of reunion -- a time when those who have gathered in Circle over the years return to enjoy the fellowship of our community.

Click to see pictures of our most recent Winter Solstice Celebration.


The Hollow Bone: Deep Soul Work (Part II) -- Winter Dreamwork Series

Dates: Thursday, February 11, 18, 25, and March 4, 2010, 6:45pm to 9:00pm

Our ancient ancestors lived their lives in deep communication and connection with nature, and to the Dreamtime. They accepted the mysteries in life, and opened themselves to the messages around them/within them. They moved with a sense of balance, intuition, and vision that often eludes us today.

In our Fall Dreamwork Series we explored this sense of Dreamtime wisdom, and practiced ways to connect and communicate with this wisdom.

In our Winter Series we go deeper into the experience of becoming the Hollow Bone, and learn to use that experience in healing ways for ourselves and others.

Prerequisites: Journey skills (introductory sessions available) and completed Hollow Bone Part I or attend a Review Workshop.

Cost: $95.00
Deadline to Register: Thursday, January 28, 2010


Spring Equinox Celebration: Entering Spring - Rebirth and Emergence!

Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:45pm to 9:00pm

We are entering the time of Spring Equinox. The Light grows! The days get longer! We sense new life stirring beneath the earth, ready to emerge. We feel the anticipation, and feel the stirrings of new life within us as well.

We gather together to celebrate Spring, and pay attention to our own natural cycles of birth and rebirth.

What is stirring within you, waiting to emerge, aching to be birthed into the world? Join us as we explore and discover; as we awake to new life in this Spring season!

Beginners Welcome

Cost: $25.00
Deadline to Register: Thursday, March 11, 2010


Beltane Celebration

Date: Thursday, May,6 2010, 6:30pm

Mother Earth bids us! Come, celebrate the bursting forth of Spring; the bursting forth of our own new Springtime creativity, and our renewed energy for life.

We honor our own cycles of life when we pay attention to the seasonal energies. With the coming of the Light at Winter Solstice, we planted our seeds of intent. As the Light became brighter, those seeds grew.

At Beltane, we feel our fertility, and are ready to birth those creations that have been gestating inside us throughout the cold months of winter.

And so we gather in celebration to engage in ritual, Journey, song and dance!

(Prerequisite: Journey skills -- introductory sessions available)

Cost: $35.00
Deadline to Register: Thursday, April 22, 2010


Healing Tools of Nature and the Dreamtime -- Spring Dreamwork Series

Dates: Thursdays, May 13, June 3, June 10 AND Wednesday May 19, 2010, 6:45pm to 9:00pm

In our May series we partner with the resources of Mother Earth and the wisdom of the Dreamtime to master more healing skills for ourselves and others.

Our intent is to increase our knowledge and experience in working with specific shamanic healing techniques that we can incorporate into our daily lives to enhance health and harmony.

We will assess and heal using the medicine of our dreams, our hands, and the tools of nature. We will discover our own strengths, and create indvidiual ritual items for our healing endeavors.

Each person will have the opportunity to be the client and the healer in this learning process.

Prerequisites: Journey skills (introductory sessions available)

Cost: $95.00
Deadline to Register: Thursday, April 29, 2010


Shamanic Dreaming Weekend Workshops


Once or twice a year, Claire and her husband and co-therapist, Fred Von Karls, present a weekend workshop focused on an aspect of Shamanic Dreamwork. Our weekends include deep spiritual work and play, creative experiential activities, opportunities for relating to nature, personal reflection time, and time for community connection. Participants report that these weekends are transformative on many levels, and say they look forward to returning each year.

What participants said about our last Shamanic Dreaming Workshop:

The entire weekend was potent for me. You and Fred have something so special to offer. I love that we have a workshop, we learn new things, and that you both are trained in being more than "workshop presenters". You help us process all of it. Sitting in small circles on Sunday and sharing, listening, crying, was such a beatuiful way to bring everything together. The magic you and Fred invoke...it was moving to watch and be part of. Your workshops are workshops for my soul and my heart.   --Betsy

I don't know how to put into words how powerful this weekend was for me.... You have each touched me with your own magic; I am carrying those gifts with me through my daily journey of life.... There is so much more to learn and experience! I await our next adventure with the impatience and excitement of a child on Christmas Eve...   -- Donna

Thank you so much for this weekend. It was very powerful for me. What a great group! The magic continues.   -- Merle

Thank you for the fantastic weekend! Being with you and our Spiritual community was really wonderful and inspirational.   -- Lucile

It was a wonderful weekend and I can't thank you enough for bringing this healing work to Northern NH!!   -- Nora


Dream Dancers 2009 to 2010


As Dream Dancers we delve deep into the mysteries of our dreams for personal growth, spiritual enlightenment, and empowering healing information.

Over the course of eight months, we meet personally in circle four weekends, and stay connected on a monthly basis thru Dreamtime adventures including Dreamwork agendas and Full Moon Journeying.

This year's Dream Dancer theme is Dreaming Our Souls Awake!

We focus on both personal and circle Dreamwork. As always, seasonal energies, healing ritual and ceremony, and Shamanic Journey are important elements of our work and play. We enter the mysterious realm of the Dream, dance to the rhythms of its music, and learn the language of our souls.

Our souls speak to us from the depths of our dreams....
They speak to us of ancient mysteries, stirring the hidden memories in our hearts and in our bellies....
They beckon us to follow -- enter our dreams and discover; follow our dreams and create; dance our dreams into life.

Let me know of your interest, and I will send you more specific information about format, dates, and commitments.

Fire circle


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