We are going to have a beautiful weekend. I am very excited and can hardly believe that we are only two weeks away from our gathering. It is hard to believe that a year has already passed us by..
Okay here are the Normal things:
Cornmeal
Tobacco
Drum
Rattle (I do have extras)
bandanna
tarot (or some other divination tool) deck
Pendulum – nut on a string can and does work 
just sayin’…
Fancy Fun Clothes
Chairs
Now… we are going to make effigies of ourselves, that’s all I am sayin about that. I am providing the big white cardboard like paper for each of us and the usual craft trunk… please bring things that you can put on your effigy will spiritually bring you into the paper. We will be doing journey work to imbue the effigy with our energy.
Oh did I tell you we are doing lots of journey work. Just letting you know in case you wondered if I was getting soft on you.
There will be stories, oh yes there will be stories
Does anyone have an extra tent they can bring? We are going to make the tent a home for our effigies. They are spiritually alive and will be cared for during the weekend. It is all a part of shapeshifting…
If there are more things I will post them here. This is what I see us needing so far. I never know if other things are going to be requested. The fun of spirit work!
To Tell You About a Very Important Date – August 19 – 21 is the official Date for Elk Island Wilderness Camp
Shapeshifter’s Embrace
Gasp!! What is that??
I assure you I have not gone to The Popular Culture. I am not talking about vampires and werewolves, our current societies obsession with shapeshifting ~ (hint: transformation). Nope, I assure you we are discussing shamanic shapeshifting. Have you ever heard the story of the Tibetan Shapeshifting Frog?? Well I know SOME of you have heard me tell the Tale.
Shapeshifting is Transformation.
Shamans have shapeshifted two ways: physically and energetically. I encourage everyone to try to physically shapeshift I really do. However… if you are expecting that in a weekend of shamanic work at Elk Island I hate to disappoint you; physical shapeshifting takes much work, much patience and dedication that even I find challenging. And is currently quite rare. However I know a story…. 
This weekend we are going to explore energetic shapeshifting, a shamanic tool with the ability to lead us deeper into ourselves with the sole intention of getting out of ourselves. Wait, that does make sense. Think about it, we have to enter into the chaos in order to exit into the transformation. But transformation through who and for what purpose?
Some of us are short readers so here is the information.
What: Elk Island Shamanic Wilderness Camp
When: August 19 – 21, 2011
Where: Well Elk Island National Park of Course on Highway 16 East of Edmonton in Alberta no less
Cost: A whopping $120
Registration: Kriket 780-934-8222 or this email.
Or send me a psychic message and if you are not at the gates Friday night by 8, I apparently didn’t hear you. However, everyone who has always meant to come has always found a way in!!
However, there will be a list of what to bring, it would behove you to know what I expect you to have inorder to have a transformational shapeshifting experience… just sayin.
For those not too busy Read on…
We are all energy, and we are all one. This is the basic concept behind shapeshifting. It’s all about shifting energy, being rather than becoming. This Elk Island we will work on the barriers to shapeshifting such as grudges, distrust and denial… and these are not towards others, but to ourselves. We have to enter into the chaos of ourselves, transform ourselves before we can begin to extend the same courtesy to others.
To a certain degree we are all shapeshifting all the time because our thoughts and emotions affect our energy field – the energy we project and the energy others perceive. Sometimes we do this intentionally for a specific purpose and sometimes because something affected us greatly and we lost it. (This could be a hint for some of our work)
So how are we going to go about Shapeshifting? Well I can give you a hint, there is a Peregrine Falcon in there. Oh and some journeys. Some drumming, well actually lots of drumming, some energy work, yup that. Oh and lest I forget some seton sitting. And I cannot disappoint anyone, a blindfolded walk.
There will be clans and ritual and… well lots of other things… you will have to come to find out more.
Call me: 780-934-822
I will know if you don’t… we shamans are a tad psychic.
