Workshops are experience-based. Not only do participants receive information linearly through presentation, discussion and dialog, the primary teaching modality is through exercises and personal experience of the material.

Shamanic teaching and training is based on "experience first, dialog after." In that way, participants have something to relate to in discussions and a basis for questions.

Location
Most workshops are held at NiaSpace.

NiaSpace Mind Body Soul
3212 S Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78704
512-443-3013

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Your Location
Workshops can be presented in most facilities that allow for music and provide sufficient space for movement. The facility must have:
• sound system with line-in capability
• wood/uncarpeted floor preferred
• ability to be darkened
• comfortable floor seating

Contact Gerry with your interest and to discuss arrangments.

The Facilitator
Gerry Starnes, M.Ed., has facilitated events and workshops for more than 10 years. He is the Executive Director of Ravens Grove Foundation for Healing, a Founding Member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, and co-owner of NiaSpace in Austin.

As a teacher and facilitator, he holds regular classes and presents a variety of workshops in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. He is among the most active and experienced TranceDance facilitators in the US.

Gerry has experience in counseling, teaching and group facilitation. He offers individual and group sessions and programs.

More Information
Gerry Starnes, M.Ed.

Phone: 512-586-2736

On the Web:
• Ravens Grove Foundation for Healing
• NiaSpace
• Society of Shamanic Practitioners

Power Animals
The Power Animals workshop provides an experiential learning process through which participants learn about and encounter their own power animals in a direct and personal way.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
• 1-2 day workshop with Intensive

Power Animals: Totem
This workshop goes deeper into the realm of Power Animals to discover and explore Life Totems, those animal and elemental spirits that are relatively unchanging throughout one's life.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
• 1-2 day workshop with Intensive

Power Animals: Shadow
A haunting and powerful Spirit resides within each of us: The Shadow. It is represented in mythology and shamanic tradition as a fearsome - perhaps frightening - presence. Yet the gifts it brings are among the most powerful.
• 3-4 hour workshop.
• 1-2 day workshop with Intensive

Dreaming Destiny
Whether you wish your life were different, or would simply desire more fulfillment and peace of mind, this workshop will support you as you awaken to the truth about your current dream. Learn how to clearly define and create the dream you've imagined for yourself.
• 4-hour workshop

Forgiveness Journey
Clearing Ancestral Lines
This workshop completes the cycle begun with the Walk of the Ancestors. Learn the Hawaiian practice of Ho'oponopono, which is a prayer of forgieveness. Applied to the Walk of the Ancestors, this workshop offers a powerful and compelling way to clear the ancestral lines and forge new relationships with relatives living and past.
• 6-hour workshop also can be presented as a 2-day program in two parts.

Walk Of The Ancestors
The Walk of the Ancestors experiential workshop allows individuals to trace back through their Spiritual history and draw upon ages of accumulated experience and wisdom to address current needs, helping to heal the connection with Spirit. The dialog and exercises provide participants the structure and context by which potentially to encounter ancestors through the 9th generation.
• 3-4 hour workshop also can be presented as a 2-day 6-8 hour workshop.

The Shamanic Journey
The shamanic journey has been a fundamental practice of shamans for thousands of years. Over time, shamans learned the landscape of non-ordinary reality, learned to work with animal and spirit guides, and used the journey experience for guidance and healing.
• 3-hour workshop
• May be combined with public Journey Circle

Medicine Wheel Journey of Life
This workshop allows participants to review their own Journey of Life – to identify the source of blocks and breakthroughs, and ultimately to envision the next stages of their Journey with the assistance of Spirit. Two TranceDances and handouts are included.
• 7-10 hour workshop or
• 3-day co-facilitated retreat

Phoenix Rising
The Medicine Wheel Journey of Life considers one's entire lifetime evolution. But where are you NOW? Phoenix Rising explores the transition from your current to your future life story.
• 4 hour workshop
• 1 day workshop or retreat

Choosing Your Tribe Retreat
You have natural, supportive relationships with other beings on the planet, as well as relationships that develop over time that do not serve you. By thoughtfully, mindfully and through your connection with Spirit choosing which relationships to keep or eliminate, you can feel more open and free to be who you are. This process can be seen as "choosing your tribe."
    This retreat provides a natural, insightful and spiritual structure and context within which to intiate and begin this process. Participants first identify their own "totem" or "tone," and then systematically identify the totems of their relationships to identify which resonate and which do not.
• 2-3 day retreat.