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YEAR TWO

 

 

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The Wheel

OF THE YEAR

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"Remembering the Ancient Waste, The Compost Has Begun!"

 ~Blake Spencer, MM2017

Second year apprentices continue to work within our living mandala of intuitive and lineage based tools and practices that support the unconventional wisdom keeper in sharing their unique spirit medicine on a professional level while maintaining excellent physical, emotional, and psychological health.

Second and third year apprenticeship is primarily of interest for those looking to grow their leadership and space holding capacities by serving as role models and way showers on the path of sisterhood and service. As a big sister you will have an invaluable opportunity to grow your personal interconnected web of sister support by bonding with new first year Medicine Mandala Apprentices. You will build experience in sharing your gifts and professional references for your event production resume. You will also have an opportunity to practice navigating the myriad social dynamics that naturally arise in the process of creating together as a community using the tools provided.

Second and Third year apprentices are considered staff and work in shifts to join us in co-creating the container for first year apprentices healing to unfold within. Big sisters become proficient in navigating the veils and mature as medicine people by being challenged to operate in multiple capacities simultaneously. You may be called upon to lead a song, a class or harvest a chicken, support a sister emotionally or empty the dry toilets. Medicine Mandala Apprentices embrace the full spectrum of phenomenon arising as nurturing growth opportunities. Big sisters are guaranteed attendance to one 3 hour guest facilitator workshop of choice per gathering, and may choose to audit other content or relax, rest, or socialize when not on duty.

Dates

November 2019

February 2020

May 2020

August 2020

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OVERVIEW

 

 

 

The second year apprenticeship journey includes:

• 2 one on one sessions with Yaya per year to discuss personal and professional growth needs

• Attendance at all Four 3 day in person Cross Quarter celebrations

(Friday 10 am-Monday 1 pm).

• Second Year apprentices are also eligible to book additional discounted intuitive guidance sessions or individual medicine journey work with Yaya as well as Somatic Skype Sessions or in person Bodywork with Carrie Lou.

If Interested in continuing your journey with us beyond the foundation year, please email detailsdevi@medicinemandala.com for a second or third year application including cost and logistics details.

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PAST Apprentices are Saying

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Elena

“Stepping away from that world where the tension between seen and unseen, the acknowledged and ignored forces runs so high, and into the nourishing vessel of Elder Farm, gave November’s gathering a flavor of celebration for me, a lightness, a break, a festivity, and feast for the senses.  Being together in sisterhood, in prayer, in medicine space, was joyful and easy and I was aware of a grace that seemed to be passing too fast no matter how sincerely I endeavored to savor it.  

Profound openings came for me through the voicing my prayers inside the container of group intention and sacred space.  I recall a certain new feeling of cohesion emerging, a blurring of the lines of identity into a deeply shared experience of sisterhood, not an erasure of uniqueness but a lack of emphasis on individual personalities that was comforting to me.

As we sat gathered again around the ancestor altar I spoke my prayers aloud, offering gratitude to the shrewd survival strategies of my forebears and asking to be released now of any patterns of hiding that no longer served my soul’s highest truth, so that I can come into the world shining the light that I have to shine.”

- Elena

 

Lisa

"My body is feeling quite different since the beginning of this. I know without a doubt that it is the most important work I could possibly be doing right now...My body actually feels full of vitality. I am becoming healthier and richer on the inside."

- Lisa

Teren

“ Thank you for everything you have offered to my path this year. i purposely did not take another class i was looking at bc i thought it would be “too much”. “herbs”, i thought. “nice and gentle”, I thought. lol! little did i know that this apprenticeship would take me right to the place i was trying to avoid. because you can’t avoid it at a certain point. i’m learning this. and honestly, i can’t imagine a better set up to assist me through this transformation. this group reinforces my ability to feel safe. you guided us and gave us tools to help us create that safety for ourselves and i am so grateful for that. safety doesn’t just exist in this world. you can’t depend on others to make you feel safe. but what i’ve learned so far is that i can step deeper into my responsibility to myself and learn how to communicate and negotiate what makes me feel safe and with whom…”

- Teren

Blake

“Every plant we work with, every teacher, and herbal infusion offer an intimately new and unique depth and lesson for my soul to break down… The chakra work and exploration helped not only my own work, but has also shifted the way I work and assess clients as I am sharing breath work with.  My communication with guides and spirits has dramatically changed and I am finding it easier to clearly hear the messages and know what is being communicated.”

- Blake

Myah

" I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude for being a part of this Apprenticeship.  It is such a blessing for me to feel like I am a part of something that exactly speaks to what my soul wants to see being propagated in the world.  I feel seen, heard, supported, and understood more than I ever have in a group setting before.  The topics that are in each module really build on each other and touch a deeper part of me that inspires growth…. I have felt some definitive shifts since being introduced to Yaya’s teachings.  I feel like I now have more resources to go to when I am feeling lost.  Just the nourishment protocols alone help tremendously and I can feel the difference when I  follow them…  All of the wisdom that is being introduced to us is exactly what I am yearning for. 

It’s perfect!"

-Myah

Malika

“I am so grateful that I am a part of this group… Women in circle, healing ourselves, Sitting under the tree canopy, letting the dark creep in around us.  Nothing to be afraid of in the woods.  Doing the simple, needed, gracious work of forgiveness.  I feel aware that for hundreds of years, women weren’t allowed to sit in the woods together in this way, to make magic together, to be whole together, to work with the earth and the plants like this.  I am so grateful for the simple joy of doing this, and that we are safe here, now, to open those portals of healing together.  For being held, by each other, by the darkness, by the earth under us and tree’s canopy around us.

I don’t want to do healing work indoors anymore!  My body and spirit likes being outdoors.  I enjoy the air, the breeze, the ground under my feet, the aliveness and dynamic nature of everything; the presence needed to keep an eye out for snake and other unknowns; the remembering emerges and is beyond my mind’s ability to put into words.  It is so soothing and precious to my being to have those days out on the land.”

- Malika

 

Medicine Mandala on Instagram

Today @elderfarm and @nazdiracuevas started the epic task of making squash pancakes for our August gathering. It takes about an hour to make a batch of 10 #gapsdiet friendly pancakes from scratch and they are making 80! We do not serve retreat food. We serve extremely hearty, nutrient dense foods that are home grown, home cooked, fermented, cooked in ghee and otherwise layered with the very best of what mama Gaia has to offer as fuel for our apprentices journeys into the depths. Thank you to all the kitchen witches past present and future for making the journey SO delicious!🙏🏾
Pausing on the path for 15 minutes of breath work lead by 2018 apprentice @breathofblake #imbolc #sistersonajourney #livingthewheeloftheyear #greenmagic #farmtotemple #becomethemedicine
Beginners mind is so important. In our year long apprenticeship, we come humble to the fact that we are all, each one of us here a child of the earth and of the great mother. What better ritual tool than a rattle, powerful enough for to rely on for medicine in the depths of healing ceremonies yet gentle enough to hand to a child, for us to work with to begin or deepen our journey of catching our own healing songs? We are honored to announce that once again @amaradreamer will be joining the line up of guest facilitators for the year long program, sharing her path with rattle making (with ethically harvested and hand tanned hides) and Medicine Song for the 3rd year in a row. Many thanks to you Amara for bringing your presence and your medicine to this circle!
Second year apprentices of Medicine Mandala learn to run The Cauldron, providing support, nourishing herbal infusions, bone broth, meals and mini lessons within their areas of professional expertise as needed to their first year sisters as they continue to receive instruction from guest facilitators and a space to practice the tools we share as well as serving as roll models on the path of sisterhood and service to Gaia. Many thanks to @iamrainbowheart for providing restorative yoga in evening ritual and support for our on site medicine making. First year apprenticeship graduates interesting in exploring pathways to continuation email us to discuss options💚
There are so many ways to be of service in community! Many thanks to Kerem @playbeautifulsounds for providing that extra level of safety and containment that only sound can offer for our temple time during the apprenticeship, and to @mmiyrazha for your all of your cauldron keeping/ flight attending flexible big sister support this year. Early bird Registration is now open for the next group of year long apprentices. Explore more through the link in our profile.(📸 by @erin___leigh )
Our Beltane Seasonal Celebration includes receiving ancient teachings for connecting with nature spirits through the tools and practices of the Shakta Tantra Lineage from my teacher @lauraammazzone. It is such a blessing to be able to continue on a path over time (and maybe over many lifetimes?!), and to be able to share a few of the sources of the deepest healing I have found in my life with a community of sincere students of the mystery and tenders of the earth and all her inhabitants. Many Blessings and thanks to this group who has gathered to go deeper together, it is an honor to know and practice with you! (If you are curious to learn more about the program, we have a video up on youtube now with some past apprentices speaking about their experience. You can find it most easily by visiting the YOUTUBE link in our mothership @activeculturefamily’s profile. Also on that account are details about a giveaway of $200 worth of multidimensional medicine that ends tomorrow…Blessings!)
Seastars supporting each other on all levels. It doesn’t get any sweeter than this, really. Thank you @everythingtrueisfree for trusting us to take good care of you this Beltane weekend!🙏🏾

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