EYE OF THE EAGLE CENTER

FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES AND HEALING

Fifth Two-Year Program in Shamanic Studies

Taught by Shamanic Pracitioner Leontine Hartzell

Program meets in Rhode Island

November 2008- November, 2010

info@eyeofeagle.org, www.eyeofeagle.org

          The Eye of the Eagle Two Year Program is an intensive shamanic training program for anyone interested in seriously studying and practicing advanced shamanic methods and healing practices.  Participants will learn advanced shamanic practices and healing methods from shamanic cultures around the world for personal, community and planetary healing.  Shamanic ritual, initiation, and personal practice will be the foundation for developing deep relationships with spirit teachers to restore harmony and health to oneself, others and our environment.  Some homework will be assigned between meetings to help participants develop a deep understanding of the work.

          Whether you feel called to heal and help others or are just interested in deepening and expanding your own personal spiritual practice, this program is designed to lead you into deep connections and relationships with spirit guides for accessing wisdom and working with vibrations of Light and Divine Love and healing energies.

          This training program will teach you classic shamanic healing methods such as extraction, power animal retrieval, soul retrieval, psychopomp, word and song doctoring, long distance healing, healing with Spiritual Light, and healing with plant and elemental spirits. In addition you will learn shamanic practices of divination, working with ancestral spirits, shamanic dream work, working with weather and nature spirits as well as participate in group ritual and initiatory experiences. Emphasis will be on working with the guidance of spirit guides in all diagnostic and exploratory work.

          The course is a two-year program that will be held one weekend every other month (excluding July and August) for two years.  The first year will run from November 2008 to November 2009.  The second year will run from January 2009 to November 2010. 

 Dates for the first year are November 7-9, 2008, January 9-11, 2009, March 13-15, May 8-10 and September 18-20.  

Dates for the second year will be available in the Fall of 2009.

          Shamanism is a way of looking at the world with the belief that all life has spirit and that there exists spirit helpers or teachers who wish to help all living beings.  These spirit teachers are also the intermediaries between living beings and the Creator.  For many centuries, shamans around the world have practiced certain techniques to communicate with the spirits and access wisdom, knowledge, healing and assistance for themselves and their communities.  Shamans have also worked with nature spirits, the elements and other spirits to live in harmony with the earth and to help the earth and its inhabitants stay in balance.  Shamans have unique methods of communicating with tutelary spirits that allow them to form intense and profound relationships with their spirit teachers.

          The shamanic journey is central to the process of communicating with spirits and is most often facilitated by the use of drumming and rattling.  Shamanic journeying allows the shaman to travel to non-ordinary reality (the spirit realm) to meet and work with spirit teachers and power animals.

          Fortunately, many shamans throughout the world continue to work and pass along their wisdom.  The importance of shamanism and shamanic healing methods for today’s society is profound.  Shamanic practices and healing methods are needed for our society and planet to be balanced and in harmony for the health of all living things.

          It is highly recommended that you prepare for the Eye of the Eagle program by reading several of the following books about core shamanism and shamanic practices:

          Please read at least two of the following:

          The Way of the Shaman, by Michael Harner

          Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life, by Tom Cowan

          Shamanic Journeying:  A Beginner’s Guide, by Sandra Ingerman

          Soul Retrieval, by Sandra Ingerman

          I also recommend reading one or more of the following books:

          Medicine for the Earth, by Sandra Ingerman

Shamanic Voices, by Joan Halifax

Shamanism:  Techniques of Ecstasy, by Mircea Eliade

While enrolled in the Eye of the Eagle program it is strongly recommended that you receive regular shamanic or energy healing treatments of some kind.  While students will do healing work on each other in class on a regular basis as part of the training, it is recommended that you receive healing treatments from an experienced healer outside of class to facilitate your own personal growth and healing while undergoing shamanic training.

The Eye of the Eagle shamanic training program is spread out over two years in order that participants will have time to practice and integrate the advanced shamanic methods that they will be learning over the course of the program.  A commitment to a personal practice of journeying and practicing is necessary for successful completion of this program. This program is also designed to build a community of like minded shamanic practitioners. Participants will also be invited to workshops and ceremonies with other prior graduates of the program to expand their shamanic community.

Applicants to the program must know how to do shamanic journeying. This can be learned by taking a workshop with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies or any qualified shamanic practitioner or by attending one of the several workshops that Leontine Hartzell is offering in journeying before February, 2008.  Please see the web site for listings under “Workshops” for times, dates and locations. Ingerman’s book: Shamanic Journeying, A Beginner’s Guide is also an excellent way to learn to journey and has a drumming CD with it.

Eye of the Eagle V will meet at the Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which is 15 miles north of Providence. Please visit www.kwanumzen.com for more information. Participants will be required to bring their own bedding (or sleeping bag), towels and toiletries (soap, shampoo, etc.).

          Applicants to the program must fill out a registration form and write a two page biography which describes themselves and why they wish to study shamanism. The registration form can be printed out from this web site and mailed to the Eye of the Eagle Center.

          A non-refundable application fee of $700 must be included with the letter and application form. If for any reason an applicant is not admitted to the program, the application fee minus $50 will be refunded. The cost for the first year of the program is a total of $2,200 which includes all tuition, room and board.  If accepted into the program participants will be required to send in an additional payment of  $1500  by September 30, 2008. 

At the end of the first year of study, students will decide if they are committing to a second year and make a payment of $700 to hold their space in the program, with the remaining tuition due by September 2009 for the 2010 year of study. Checks or money orders to Leontine Hartzell are acceptable. We will also accept credit card payments, but must charge a 3% fee to cover credit card costs.

If you have any further questions about the Eye of the Eagle program, please do not hesitate to email Leontine Hartzell at info@eyeofeagle.org or call 978-475-1268.