Join us in ceremony with oak. We will start with an oak elixir and us the flower essence of oak. We will doing shamanic journeys to the spirit of the oak tree. We will be singing oak songs, sitting in silence with the oak; working, breathing and being oak.

Oak tree has been calling to us . One of the attributes of oak is that it assists in the recuperation after a long depression. As we come out of COVID and back into community, we ask for the assistance of oak.

“Oak supports extraordinary stamina, tenacity, and endurance. It teaches perseverance without rigidity and that true strength comes through joy, helping people to stand strong in what may be the harshest storms of their lives.”
– Carole Guyett (Sacred Plant Initiations)

Jan Kinsey utilizes shamanic healing practices and energy work to address underlying causes that are manifesting as dis-ease or emotional imbalances. Originally from Norway, he now calls Cascadia home. He has been studying shamanism and hands-on healing for close to 25 years. The last 4 years have been spent working with spiritist healers in Brazil, working with visionary plants, and completing an intensive shamanic training program.

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We will commune with each other and our already-known plant friends through songs of invocation and praise. We will then venture out on the land with guided prompts to listen and receive the new songs that are pulsing in the forest around us. We will re-convene for a time of rich sharing to weave our findings. Inspiration and instruction will be offered for how to create different types of plant songs.

Fifteen years ago, the plants turned Hanna Leigh’s life around. She was headed down a path of religious dogma, and perhaps a more conventional American life, when the plants majorly woke her up and showed her a more expansive way. Her life has been rich with mystery and adventure ever since. One of the many gifts of working with the plants has been the deepening into her authentic singing voice, and she currently leads private and group work to support people in discovering the medicine of their unique voices. She loves this gathering, which weaves her two primary passions of music and earth connection.

Eostar is going to teach a particular type of breathwork Pranayama that will allow the participants to experience a deep state of relaxation and experience out-of-body dreamlike states. In this heightened state of consciousness we will engage our senses to experience what is beyond physicality. With the help of Mugwort, the lucid-dreaming herb, we will be experiment with intensifying and enhancing the texture, resolution and complexity of our inner visions.

ESZTER GAVALLER a.k.a. EOSTAR KAMALA When I was 21 years old, I read a book by Rudiger Dahlke: “Illness, the Language of the Soul”. This book defined the way I approached the healing of physical symptoms from that point on. I wanted to dig deep into the root where illness forms. In my twenties I got through graduate school to become a school-teacher, but I had no real interest in that career. I was an artist and a healer at heart, as I started to find out. While training with an art teacher and becoming a painter, training with a music teacher and becoming a musician, I was also very drawn to yoga and spirituality. I completed my yoga teacher training and went on to be a devotional musician, sound healer, yoga teacher and devotional/visionary visual artist. Later I moved to California and founded a devotional music band with my partner with whom we toured extensively and recorded albums. This took a lot of my time and energy but at the same time I was also very drawn to live out my passion to help myself and others heal.

Even though the music and art I was engaging in was healing in nature, I continued searching for more clues as far as the root cause of illness and how it could be cured. I spent years figuring out what diet allows for the best results in my health. For 6 years I was an avid “raw-foodist” vegan, I even worked at a healing center as a “raw chef” and taught classes. Raw Living Foods helped me with detox, I kicked a few major chronic symptoms, and yet I felt that my journey with food was mostly just a coping tool. In 2011 I took Elena Tonetti’s “Birth Into Being” facilitator training. ( www.birthintobeing.com). That same year I also completed “Theta Healing – Level 1 training” with Judy Dragon. Both of these modalities were effective in my own personal healing and I felt like I was on the right track in searching for the ultimate recovery and the ultimate way to help others as well. I continued apprenticing with Elena Tonetti and held several Birth Into Being retreats at Harbin Hotsprings in California.

Around this time I got deeply involved with ancient teacher plants – Ayahuasca and Huachuma – because I felt that through them I was able to access to deepest realms of my psyche where real change and real healing could occur. I studied with a shaman in Peru and I also started facilitating healing sessions for groups. I was ready to move to Peru to deepen into the study of shamanism when I was diagnosed with cancer. In that moment I realized that Ayahuasca, chanting mantras, eating raw foods and painting mandalas was not enough to cure what was denied in the shadow of my psyche and I needed to continue my research into the nature of true healing.

I knew that I needed to change my course and dive even deeper into becoming a healer through healing myself first. I spent a year and a half and lots of money trying to fix myself naturally using a myriad of alternative tools and the help of many health practitioners. Eventually I needed surgery to remove the tumor. However, in spite of the fact that I was not able to shrink the tumor down to nothing, I know that I healed some very ancient and very deep wounds using many different alternative healing modalities, and I am much more of an integrated and whole being than I was before I got through the initiation of cancer.

In the ecstasy of being given a new lease on Life – I took all 5 levels of Michael Brian Baker’s “Anatomy of Awakening” breathwork training (thebreathcenter.com ) and I am about to finish my certification process in that modality. I am passionate about the power of breath in opening pathways to access the hidden and suppressed parts of our being. I continued searching for healing modalities that I could combine with breathwork and that was when I found Gilbert Renaud’s “Recall Healing” ( www.recallhealing.com) – of which I completed both Level 1 and Level 2 trainings.

In this moment I work with several clients helping them heal, among them cancer-patients. I combine inner child work, parts work, ancestral healing, birth trauma and conception trauma healing (Birth Into Being) and breath-work. I also use elements from “Recall Healing” (Gilbert Renaud), “The Completion Process” (Teal Swan), “Radical Forgiveness” (Collin Tipping), Non-Violent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg) as well as ancient yogic and shamanic wisdom teachings. I give recommendations for life-style choices through yoga, diet and cleansing practices. I hold sound healing ceremonies and I work with ancient teacher plants. As a whole, I call it “The Life Giving Path”.

My website: www.eostar.net/healing-and-yoga

A community sharing on how our plant allies helped us thru it…

A simple haha flow yoga classes including pranayama, mantra, asana and meditation. A grounding and uplifting practice to center ourselves and prepare our vessels to commune with the plants and channel their songs.

Clair practices and shares yoga focused on curiosity and awareness which are both essential for our health and our ability to communicate with plants, elements and our guides. We will remember that all yoga poses and practices are inspired by nature and cultivate that energy to nourish our relations to the plants and elements. During the class we will explore our senses and their capacity to resonate with the plants and spirits surrounding us.

Join us in shamanic journeys to meet a plant spirit that is ready and willing to work with you. You will explore what its medicine is for you and how you can develop a relationship with this plant.

Jan Kinsey utilizes shamanic healing practices and energy work to address underlying causes that are manifesting as dis-ease or emotional imbalances. Originally from Norway, he now calls Cascadia home. He has been studying shamanism and hands-on healing for close to 25 years. The last 4 years have been spent working with spiritist healers in Brazil, working with visionary plants, and completing an intensive shamanic training program.

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Flower Essences are encoded with the vibrational imprints of flowers for a gentle daily immersion of plant medicine and wisdom that helps bring the heart back home. They can be used to enhance emotional well being and awareness. Although safe and gentle, they are simultaneously potent catalysts for creating positive new habits and making empowering choices. They can be used as an aid in transitioning through many of life’s varying circumstances and can also become important tools for personal growth. Bringing flower essences into your life invites you to begin living more fully and aligned with your path. As you do so, you will inevitably experience more peace, happiness, fulfillment and harmony.

In this workshop you will:

identify which plants are calling you to work with them
get a download on some ways to use flower essences
learn to make a Mother Essence and how to transform it into a dosage formula
make you own custom Flower Essence Blend

21 person limit, all materials are included

Devjeet is a Certified Flower Essence Practitioner. She has been working with clients since 2015 when she completed her Flower Essence Practitioner Program at Woman Rising Mystery School with Joanne Ameya Cohen. She completed the sacred birthing doula program in 2018 and offers this service through her consultations using flower essences as a complementary therapy to empower families through pregnancy, birth and after birth. She is an herbalist, organic farmer, kundalini yoga teacher, nature lover and business owner. Her passion is living a connected and meaningful life!

This is a sacred and safespace to meditate, stretch out, lay and rest, nap and rejuvenate or simply process all of the wonderful things happening. I would offer several times a day 20 to 30 minute meditation Cycles to assist and integrating all of the experiences and to settle down, ground, and provide a peaceful and calm environment. I would provide rugs and pillows and meditation cushions for people to use in a cozy comfortable nest, a sort of Refuge away from the hustle and bustle of the other activities and workshops. A small sanctuary to come together and to be intentionally silent an introspective. Participants could sit with plants, tinctures and medicines if they like they could bring some to share, or just bring themselves and sit peacefully.

facilitated by:
Sarra Sabra ~ I am a longtime meditator, Dharma teacher, youth organizer, and student of plant medicine for many years. I have also provided the nest experience at beloved Festival, School of forest medicine retreats, pickathon Festival, City repair events, including the village building convergence, and various Dharma events including Dharma school and Dharma Camp every year. I have found that providing a safe and warm Sanctuary for people to sit and be silent together has been very enlightening and necessary. It has been very rewarding to help bring people together in an inviting space to rest and rejuvenate while integrating. Oh, a sort of Village Refuge.