Course Description: Soul Retrieval is an ancient shamanic healing practice. The shaman retrieves and returns lost parts of a person’s soul to the them for healing and empowerment.

Participants will be trained in how soul loss occurs, how to track and find the lost soul, retrieve it shamanically and return this lost essence to the individual. According to shamanic traditions, partial soul loss can occur during times of emotional or physical trauma. An accident or surgery, abuse or other violent circumstance such as war or a natural disaster, death of a loved one, or even a divorce may result in the separation of oneself from a piece of their soul. This loss can result in depression, illness, post-traumatic stress syndrome, addictions, dissociation or coma.

Soul loss can keep us from feeling our connections with others, prevent us from creating healthy relationships, and from living the life we really want to live. This weekend workshop focuses on the methods of soul retrieval – the techniques and practices regarding soul tracking and retrieval. Participants will be trained in how to work with the issues of soul loss from a shamanic perspective:

• recognizing the need for soul retrieval
• methods of the diagnostic journey
• exploring causes of soul loss
• healing soul loss

This workshop constitutes the prerequisite for the second part of the series, Welcoming Your Soul Home and explores the practices of how we create healthier lives and make more beneficial choices for ourselves and others after the healing has occurred.

These two workshops must be taken together as this training is designed for those who wish to deepen their shamanic work. These workshops are for those who may want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others. Although everyone will receive a soul retrieval during the training, it is not designed for people seeking personal healing.

Read Beth's article "Soul Retrieval: Singing Your Soul Home Again"

Prerequisites: All participants must have taken the Way of the Shaman: The Shamanic Journey, Power and Healing or similar introduction to the shamanic journey. In order to register for this course, you must have good shamanic journey skills and success in contacting your power animals and spirit teachers in nonordinary reality. Please make sure you feel confident about your shamanic journey skills before applying for this workshop.
Mt Shasta, CA, September 11-12, 2010

Location: Our group room for this workshop has stunning views of both Mt. Shasta and the Eddy Mountains. It is centrally located with easy access to restaurants and lodging. The City of Mt. Shasta is surrounded by pine-covered mountains with the snowy volcanic peak of Mount Shasta towering 14,179 feet high.

Scattered throughout the county's varied landscape are hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails. Spectacular mountain vistas and crystal-clear alpine lakes make Mt. Shasta one of the most idyllic destinations in the state of California.

A full coffee and tea service will be provided on our morning and afternoon breaks.

About the Instructor: Beth Beurkens, M.A. has been a teacher of shamanism, a shamanic practitioner, and a vision quest guide for 20 years. She has worked extensively with clients and soul retrieval healing for the last fifteen years. Beth leads dynamic life-changing seminars in America and in Europe and has a shamanic healing practice in Mount Shasta and Europe. She has studied extensively with Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman. She is an instructor at the College of the Siskiyous, faculty at The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and a creative writing teacher. Her first collection of poetry, Shaman's Eye, was released in 2009, as well as her Shaman: Spirit Walker 2010 and 2011 wall calendars.

Email: beth@shamanicuniverse.com
Website: www.shamanicuniverse.com
Phone: (541) 708-0473

Application Process: To apply for this training please call or email me and I will send you an application. You may pay tuition by PayPal or by check.

Applications must be accompanied by a minimum check deposit of $300. Or, applications using PayPal can be made for the full tuition amount. If you are not accepted into the training, your payment will be refunded in full (minus any PayPal fees).

We recommend early application as enrollments are limited.

Registration: Early registration, up to one month prior to the workshop, is $495.00. Sign-ups after August 24 will be $545.00. Debit and credit card payments may only be made for the full amount on either Visa or Master Cards.

Tuition payments may be made by check or online with PayPal using credit or debit cards.

Before August 24th $495.00 After August 24th $545.00

PayPal payments may only be made for the full amount. If you choose to use PayPal, be sure to also print, fill out, and post the application form via USPS to Beth the same day.

Balance Due: Please send any balance due by August 24, 2010 so all tuition matters are complete before arriving at the workshop.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations will be processed as follows: notification received prior to August 24, 2010: full refund minus $60.00 administration fee; notification received prior to August 31: 50% refund minus $75.00 administration fee. No refunds on or after August 31.

To register for this course:
Please send the following via postal service to:
Beth Beurkens
P.O. Box 483
Ashland, OR 97520

1. Application
2. Liability Release Form
3. Include payment, if you are paying by check, or use PayPal online.

MT. SHASTA LODGING AND MEAL OPTIONS

LODGING: There is a vast range of accommodations here in all price ranges. I've included a few less expensive options. Please make your own reservations.

Swiss Holiday Lodge 530 926 3446
Econolodge 1 800 500 3145
Mt. Shasta Inns & Suites 530 918 9292
Lake Siskiyou Campgrounds 530 926 2618

You can also go to the Mt Shasta Chamber of Commerce website for more lodging information at http://www.mtshastachamber.com/ or call them at 1 800 926 4865.

MEALS: There are many excellent healthy food options that range from inexpensive to deluxe. You’ll find American, Chinese, Thai… you name it. $5.00 and up.

A Mt. Shasta lodging, directions, and what-to-bring packet will be mailed or emailed to you upon receipt of your tuition payment and registration.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to sharing these two new Soul Retrieval workshops with you.

Course Description: After soul retrieval, life changes. For some, that change may be major and immediately evident. For others, as the new essence enters into one’s present life, the effect may be more subtle. Integration work helps complete the assimilation of the retrieved soul, ensuring the success of the soul retrieval itself.

The integration work involves vital shamanic journeys, rituals, and ceremonies. These practices help to restore wholeness and “set the cure” of the retrieval itself.

The return of a soul can bring joy and enthusiasm back into life, break unwholesome habits and patterns, reveal new choices and restore a feeling of well-being.

As you dance with your returned soul essence in this weekend workshop, you will have time to explore the inspiring, magical ways that integration manifests in your being.

You will also gain a solid foundation for working with clients in their soul retrieval process. Some of these themes include:

• integration techniques for returned soul essences
• preparing a client for soul retrieval
• performing long-distance soul retrievals
• using healing words (word doctoring)
• moving forward and creating a positive, balanced future for life

The workshop also includes some ceremonial time outside on the mountain of Mount Shasta.

This workshop constitutes the prerequisite for the second part of the series, Welcoming Your Soul Home and explores the practices of how we create healthier lives and make more beneficial choices for ourselves and others after the healing has occurred.

These two workshops must be taken together as this training is designed for those who wish to deepen their shamanic work. These workshops are for those who may want to bring shamanic healing work into their practice with others. Although everyone will receive a soul retrieval during the training, it is not designed for people seeking personal healing.

Our group room for this workshop has stunning views of both Mt. Shasta and the Eddy Mountains. It is centrally located with easy access to restaurants and lodging. The City of Mt. Shasta is surrounded by pine-covered mountains with the snowy volcanic peak of Mount Shasta towering 14,179 feet high.

Scattered throughout the county's varied landscape are hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails. Spectacular mountain vistas and crystal-clear alpine lakes make Mt. Shasta one of the most idyllic destinations in the state of California.

A full coffee and tea service will be provided on our morning and afternoon breaks.

Email: beth@shamanicuniverse.com
Website: www.shamanicuniverse.com
Phone: (541) 708-0473

MT. SHASTA LODGING AND MEAL OPTIONS

LODGING: There is a vast range of accommodations here in all price ranges. I've included a few less expensive options. Please make your own reservations.

Swiss Holiday Lodge 530 926 3446
Econolodge 1 800 500 3145
Mt. Shasta Inns & Suites 530 918 9292
Lake Siskiyou Campgrounds 530 926 2618

You can also go to the Mt Shasta Chamber of Commerce website for more lodging information at http://www.mtshastachamber.com/ or call them at 1 800 926 4865.

MEALS: There are many excellent healthy food options that range from inexpensive to deluxe. You’ll find American, Chinese, Thai… you name it. $5.00 and up.

A Mt. Shasta lodging, directions, and what-to-bring packet will be mailed or emailed to you upon receipt of your tuition payment and registration.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to sharing these two new Soul Retrieval workshops with you.