The Findhorn Foundation Training in Astroshamanism
This is an all-comprehensive two-week training aimed at providing a basic experiential understanding of one’s soul’s purpose and healing talents.
Participants to the training will experience practical tools for opening, discovering and supporting the relationship with their Spirit Guide and soul’s purpose. They will also focus on releasing blocks and retrieving hidden potentials, learning to bring healing in their life and relationship with others.
The training is designed for newcomers as well as for those wishing to consolidate previous experiences with shamanism or related methods. Completion of the training provides a solid basis for more advanced work and allows participants to continue autonomously with gained clarity and sense of purpose.
The training consists of two workshops, which can also be attended independently.
21-27 February 2009, Basic Week
A JOURNEY INTO THE INNER UNIVERSE:
This workshop focuses on the clarification of the life Intent and the connection with the Spirit Guide. Participants will be trained in working with basic astroshamanic techniques for expanding perception and reawakening their authentic purpose. The programme includes: astroshamanic voyages, trance dance, totemic postures, circle positioning, astrodrama, ceremonial sharing, planetary chants, the ritual of the Sacred Cone and various opportunities for integrating shamanic work with ordinary reality.
28 February - 6 March 2009, Advanced Week
THE VOYAGE THROUGH THE ZODIAC:
During this second week participants will experience the whole spectrum of astroshamanic archetypes, retrieving and transforming blocked energies, strengthening the relationship with their multi-dimensional self and Intent. This workshop is designed for people who intend to employ shamanism both for themselves and in their practice with others. The previous week (or another one-week workshop with Franco) is a prerequisite for attendance.
Comments on the Training
Since the first edition of the training in 2003 around 120 participants have benefited from the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism. Please find some comments below:
“A very well crafted programme, beautifully balanced, finely taught out and excellent value for money.”
“It has been wonderful and heart-opening. Doors for me have opened about being in relationship in a new way and also my views on spirit guides have deepened in a very valuable way, and my inner sense of why I am on this planet and what I am to do here has become clearer.”
“This workshop brought me back to my true passion and feeling of being fully alive.”
“I gained a much wider and brighter picture of who I am, which I know I will continue to connect with.”
“My awareness has grown immensely. I have found clarity regarding my true intention on earth and the tools to manifest it”
“Franco is an excellent communicator and facilitator. He tailors the programme according to the nature of the participants, blending group dynamics with shamanic processes.”
“Franco is a gifted man with wisdom and sense of humour. He is down-to-earth.”
“Franco is a wise man who knows his work well, dedicated, inspiring, gentle, passionate, welcoming, available and open to questions.”
“I would like to affirm that this has been a mile-stone on my life’s journey. Thank you.”
“I worried at first that the course would conflict with my spiritual beliefs. In fact it not only complemented but enhanced my knowing.”
“I found most valuable to learn the techniques and hear the explanations first hand from a practitioner who was open, serious and light-hearted, knowledgeable, and very capable of creating and supporting the environment and energies we were working with.”
“The programme has been life changing. It’s really that simple. And for that I’d like to extend an enormous hug of gratitude to Franco for pioneering this work, for living it and sharing it. And I hope that in less easy moments that hug will be there to remind you of the way that these tools, this work and you touch people. Thank you.”
“I am very happy to have done this programme – very much right timing. It has enabled me to make important connections. It has put me back in touch with my imagination. It has been healing. It has been brilliantly focalised. I thank Franco and the Findhorn Foundation. I thank my guidance.”
FOR INFORMATION:
Franco Santoro,
phone: +44 (0)1309 672289
e-mail: info@astroshamanism.org
http://www.astroshamanism.org
The Foundation Training in Astroshamanism can be booked at Bookings, The Park,
Findhorn IV36 3TZ. +44(0)1309/691653,
bookings@findhorn.org
About Astroshamanism: a spiritual system of healing aimed at expanding human perception through the integration of shamanism with experiential astrology, the spiritual values of the Findhorn Foundation and a rich tapestry of spiritual paths from the Western and Eastern traditions. Its basic intent is to foster the release of the perception based on separation and support the reawakening of our authentic nature. Astroshamanism employs different tools that facilitate the awareness of unity and help create a bridge with everyday reality to provide transformation, true perception and clarity of intent. Astrology is used as a shamanic map to allow a safe exploration of our inner world, knowing where to find guides, wisdom, healing, power, grievances or blocks. The horoscope is not interpreted, but it reveals itself through emotions, movements, dances, sounds, rituals and direct experiences aimed at extending awareness and supporting deep healing processes.
FRANCO SANTORO
Shamanic facilitator, experiential astrologer, resident member of the Findhorn Foundation, the developer of astroshamanism and rector of the
Other Astroshamanic Programmes at the Findhorn Foundation in 2009
14-21 March 2009, Being with the Spirit of Cluny Garden (Franco with Sverre Koxvold). A blissful and healing immersion into the spring earthy
11-19 April 2009, Flowering of Life: A Spring Retreat
2-9 May 2009, Restoring the Fragmented Heart: The Way of Sacred Relationships
20-27 June 2009, The Original Quest: An Astroshamanic Journey into Space and Time
1-8 August 2009, Astroshamanic Trance Dance and Drumming
14-21 November 2009, Being with the Spirit of Cluny Garden (Franco with Sverre Koxvold).
28 November-5 December 2009, The Blessed Way of Passion
and elsewhere…
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Other programmes take place within short notice and cannot be included in this brief calendar. Please see www.astroshamanism.org for details.
