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"Visionary Practice
June 13-15, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, CA
Facilitators: Erik Davis, Dale Pendell, David Presti and Laura Pendell
Cost: $435, includes lodging and catered meals
12 CEU credits (optional) - additional $50 processing fee

Traditional spiritual disciplines usually involve a daily practice. Shamanic and visionary traditions often involve "extraordinary" practice. Both approaches use ritual to shape and contain deep changes in consciousness. In this weekend workshop, we will explore both traditional rites of practice and celebration, as well as contemporary improvisations. What does ritual have to do with theater, or belief, or the structure of the mind? How do we receive rituals from tradition, and how do we create and perform our own?

Formal and informal group discussions will ber supplemented by optional hands-on workshops in ritual artisanship such as mask-making. On Saturday evening we will assemble as a council of spirits and create our own spontaneous ritual to "Call Back the Condors" using words, songs, chants, dance, gesture-a gift from the heart to the great birds who eat death and are the endangered native inhabitants of the sanctuary lands just above Ojai. Register "