Workshops

Workshops available with Claire Von Karls

Intuitive wisdom	In this experiential workshop we will explore various methods of tapping into our intuitive wisdom - some that have been used in ancient and indigenous cultures around the world. One particular method we will learn about includes the use of a drumbeat that helps draw us into a relaxed, meditative state. Other methods include guided imagery, movement to music, and sound.
Allowing Your Dreams to Speak	Dreaming can be a powerful and enriching part of our lives. Dreams can help us feel more rested, bring us clarity, and help us find our own sense of inner wisdom. In this workshop we will learn about different kinds of dreaming, and how to most effectively use our dreaming insights. We will learn how to remember our dreams, understand our dreams better, and work with our dreams on a deeper level. You may want to bring a dream to share.
Simple Spiritual Ways to Celebrate Life and Death	We will discuss, and experience, things we can do to be mindful of our own sense of spirituality, and to connect with those we love. Doing these things can help us create personal ways to honor the cycles of life and death.
Basics of Healing	We explore the many of aspects of healing, focus on the basic elements that create healing, and engage in healing exercises! Come prepared to Journey, and to participate in other experiential activities, as we learn to use the healing potential in our lives!
Spirit Dance	Ancient people received messages of healing and transformation as they moved through ritual, ceremony, and dance. We will follow their path, being open to Spirit, and our own intuitive wisdom. As we directly experience nature, connect with each other, and engage in various meditative practices, we inspire creativity and wholeness in our lives.
Healing Tools of Nature and the Dreamtime	The intent for this workshop is for us to gain knowledge and experience in working with specific shamanic healing techniques that we can incorporate into our daily lives to enhance health and harmony.
Bear Dreams	Bear will lead us into the Dreamtime and help us work with our own dreams. Together we will shamanically experience our powerful and intimate relationship with Bear, and the "Medicine" Bear can offer us.
Ritual Dance	This one day workshop will include repetitive movement to music that invites us into a trance state. It will also include free dancing to music, and trance dancing to drums, chants, and music. We may or may not Journey in our usual ways.
Crow Medicine	Crow invites us to look deep into ourselves, into our own nature; then inspires us to "fly" with who we truly are!
Healing in the Winter Light	The light that we invoke at solstice grows, brightening the winter landscape, encouraging us to nurture and feed the growing light within each of us. Through Shamanic Journeying, and other meditative exercises, we focus on the power of "light", to create personal healing and spiritual experience.
Soul Retrieval	Shamanism teaches that under certain conditions pieces of ourselves "leave" us, draining our power, and sometimes causing illness. In this workshop we will learn the special shamanic techniques required to Journey to retrieve lost soul parts. The intensive work involved makes it necessary to meet for longer than a weekend.
Rites of Romance	A weekend for couples to rekindle the passion in their relationship.
Shamanic Journey	We come together in circle to explore techniques of ritual, ceremony and shamanic journeying. We enhance these techniques through drumming, dancing and singing. As we create sacred space we gain access to ancient wisdom and healing power that we can use for ourselves and others.
Creating Sacred Ritual	We often think about ritual as a path to something else, the means to an end. For instance, the lighting of a candle that moves us to a deeper level of prayer. While this is certainly true, it is also true that the act of performing ritual can itself bring forth healing and transformation.
Embracing the Feminine Divine	Women are being drawn to return to a more balanced sense of spirituality, one that re-vitalizes the divine feminine within us. In this experiential workshop we will explore some of those paths we are finding to re-member who we once were, and to feel that same sense of harmony with nature, and with ourselves.
Mists of Avalon	Women meet for weekly sessions to learn about the patriarchy through discussing the book; and to experientially understand the priestess life in pre-Christian times through creating ritual and ceremony.
Women of the Dreamtime	Women commit to meeting throughout the "wheel of the year" to celebrate ancient seasonal holidays
The Goddess Within	a weekend of celebrating womanhood, including singing, dancing, drumming, meditation, ceremony and ritual, tarot card readings etc.
Mothering Ourselves	We discover the nourishing resources of our souls that enable us to channel our creativity, compassion, and loving skills, into mothering ourselves!
Wheel of the Year	Learning about the ancient seasonal holidays, and how to celebrate them (Solstices, Equinoxes etc)
DISCOVERING THE POET WITHIN	-*The Language of Dreams, Images, Rhythm and Movement* (with renowned poet, Reggie Marra) By intentionally engaging both internal and external images and rhythms, we'll discover the language of poetry that lives at and below the surface. No poetry-writing experience is required.
Celestial Beings and Spirits of the Earth	We explore the relationship between these Spirits, and how we can pay attention to their guidance in our lives.
Shamanic Healing and the Death Process	We learn specific techniques to help people in this process, and help their loved ones heal.
Shamanic Extraction	We learn about ancient healing techniques of assessment and treatment used by indigenous peoples around the world, that can bring balance back into the body.
Dream Dancers	(an eight month experiential program) Dancing our dreams requires patience, focus, and a sense of adventure. Above all, it requires a willingness to enter a realm of mystery. As Dream Dancers, we give up the "intellectual " search for the "answers", but rather enter the realm of mystery, and allow our dreams to lead us, allow their rhythms to merge with our own. As Dream Dancers we follow the "music" into the mystery!
The Shamanic Leadership Program	This program requires advanced experience in circle work, Journeying and ritual. It also requires a deep level of commitment to yourself, the other participants in your program, and to the work. I ask those who are interested to write to me about themselves, and why they are interested in the program.
Individual consultation sessions	Claire also offers individual consultation sessions using one or more of these experiential techniques. These sessions may include counseling around a life issue, spiritual guidance, or Journeying.