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 cvonkarls1@gmail.com.

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


Living in Relationship with Your Power Animals -- Winter Dreamwork Series

Dates: Tuesdays - February 7, 21, 28 and March 6, 2012, 6:30pm to 8:45pm

Our Power Animals are those special Spirit Guides who help us Journey, lead us to answers about our lives, and form alliances with us as we perform our healing work.

We are very aware of their presence while we do our work in circle, and are happy to see them in our dreams, but what about the rest of our lives? Do we nurture our relationship with them? Are we as aware of their presence in our everyday lives as we could be? What would it take for us to make their existence more alive and real as we move through our days? How could we honor them, and recognize them as the powerful and supportive partners that they are?

Join us as we explore ways to live in a more intimate and vital relationship with our Power Animals, so that we may experience the full potential of our connections with them!! (In our workshop we will provide opportunities for Power Animal Retrievals for those who need, or would like, one.)

Prerequisites: Journeying skills (introductory sessions available)

Payment Options:
$100.00 if paid by Tuesday, January 10, 2012
$115.00 if paid by Tuesday, January 24, 2012


Spring Equinox Celebration

Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 6:30pm to 8:45pm

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

Payment Options:
$25.00 if paid by Tuesday, February 21, 2012
$35.00 if paid by Tuesday, March 6, 2012


Beltane Celebration

Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 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!

Prerequisites: Journeying skills (introductory sessions available)

Payment Options:
$35.00 if paid by Tuesday, April 3, 2012
$45.00 if paid by Tuesday, April 17, 2012


Winter Solstice Celebration

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. 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.


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


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.

This year's theme was:

Shamanic Dreaming: Spirit of Life and Death


We danced to the drumbeats of life and death, and felt their sacred interconnection. The dance of life is incomplete without the journey of death and all that is beyond. As we acknowledge, accept, and embrace this interconnection, we expand our possibilities for living a deeply fulfilling life, and taking our place in the web of all existence!

Our transformative experience of life and death included:
  • Discovering our bone stories
  • Journeying to our own personal cave of dreams
  • Mapping our souls home
  • Exploring th land of the dead
  • Visioning the mysteries of the beyond

    What participants said about our last Shamanic Dreaming Workshop:

    Claire & Fred, I am always amazed by your weekend workshops. With each workshop you guide us to look deep inside ourselves to face our fears. In the process we discover the courage, the strength, the love & forgiveness we did not know we possessed. We are able to not only face our fears but to overcome them. We emerge from our weekend together stronger, more confident, with a greater capacity to live life more fully, more joyfully, to love more deeply. Thank you!!   --Nora

    It was wonderful dancing in the dark and the light with you and Fred. Thank you for a wonderful, meaningful, powerful workshop. The work we do, the connections we have, the support we give, the tears we shed, the laughter we enjoy....good medicine. A weekend talking about death and dying... and I come home rejuvenated and ready to live better. To be with my Dream Dancer family and not only talk about death and dying, but make our own death plans, experience our own death, and hear the mourning of our dying....so powerful.   -- Betsy

    How special and meaningful this weekend has been for me. I am in awe of the journey and I thank you and Fred so much for the adventure that you took us on.   -- Tina

    My heart felt so free and full as I reflected upon our deep journey together. The feelings of being connected are wonderful and hopefully long lasting. Thank you.   -- Meredith

    Thank you so much for guiding me through your workshop, "Shamanic Dreaming: Spirit of Life and Death." Two words come to mind as I think about my experience in this workshop: Moving and Powerful. You two are wonderful teachers! But, you provide me with more than just useful information, although you give me much of that. You teach me the importance of feeling my own personal emotions, whatever they may be. You also teach me the value of expressing these feelings. Your workshops help me to tap into deeply felt emotions. This moving carries over into my daily life as I acknowledge and embrace my feelings and allow them to guide me in wonderful ways! You also teach me the importance of feeling and claiming my own personal power. You show me how expressing my creativity helps me to rediscover my authentic self, and thereby helps me to claim my personal power, and hold on to it! Thank you, Claire and Fred!   -- Larry

    I had a great weekend and so enjoyed both of you and seeing all my friends. I have not yet fully reflected on transformation but I am sure it is happening. Thanks so much for including me in your incredible healing community. More will be revealed…   -- Merle

    Thank you so much for this beautiful weekend! And, thank you and Fred for all you do!!! The Spirit of Life and Death was awesome!!!   -- Lucile


    Dream Dancers 2011 to 2012


    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 two weekends in New Hampshire, and stay connected on a monthly basis thru Dreamtime adventures including Dreamwork agendas and Full Moon Journeying. In addition, each month we will meet in circle through a teleconference. (Individual Dreamwork sessions will also be available.)

    This year's Dream Dancer theme is "Dream Dancing: The Last Dance!"

    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.

    The Dream Dancer Program is changing, and likely ending after this next year. It may transition into another format, or it may come to a close all together. If you have been considering being a Dream Dancer over the years, this may be your last opportunity to be a part of this very special circle!

    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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