Gîte du vent d’Autan : DEUX INVITÉS EXCEPTIONNELS EN FEVRIER 2024

The Anpo Wichahpi Association (Morning Star) presents the programming at Gîte Du Vent D'Autan

FROM SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY at 9 a.m. TO FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY at 18 p.m.

Teachings on the ceremonies of the tribes of North America and Mesoamerica.

More details on the program to follow.

Friday 16: Arrival 

Saturday 17: Teachings / practices

Sunday 18: Teachings / practices 

Monday 19: Teachings / practices

Tuesday 20: Teachings / practices

Tuesday 20: In the evening: Circle of women (Lenape tradition)

Wednesday 21: Morning: Circle of Dreams (Only for women who participated on Tuesday evening)

Wednesday 21: Afternoon: Teachings / practices

Thursday 22: Teachings / practices

Friday 23: Temezcal (Mesoamerican sweat lodge) / Closing ceremony.

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 individual sessions of Limpia and Platica (reservation required)

There are two forms of ceremony:

Limpia (see video): (1/2 hour) energetic cleansing

Platica + Limpia: (1 hour) ceremonial narrative medicine + Limpia

In North America, Meso and South America, indigenous healing techniques have been used for thousands of years to heal a variety of physical, mental and emotional ailments.

Among the many differences, there are some interesting similarities across their long history and the vastness of the continents. In this presentation, anthropologist Robert Vetter and Maddi Cheers explore some of the healing methods found in the Americas, including:

- Medicinal plants

- Rituals and ceremonies

- Purification by heat (sweat lodge or Temazcal)

- The healing power of prayer

- Music as a means of healing

- Cultivate personal power in nature

- Indigenous talk therapy

- Spiritual cleansings

In these indigenous healing systems, medicine and spirituality are not separate practices, but one and the same. Although little known, these techniques are still used today and bring healing and deep meaning to those who practice them. Join us for a sample of the "good medicine" that has sustained the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia.

ROBERT VETTER is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in the field of spirituality and healing since 1980. He earned a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. He was adopted by families from the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche tribes. His adoptive grandfather was Oliver Pahdopony, the last Comanche medicine man. Along with his adoptive uncle and medicine man Richard Tartsah Senior, Robert Vetter wrote the book Big Bow: The Spiritual Life and Teachings of a Kiowa Family. Robert is also a teacher and practitioner of Mesoamerican Curanderismo.

Robert Vetter website: https://www.bobvetter.com/

MADDI CHEERS is an interfaith minister, spiritual guide, storyteller, poet, author and healing artist. For over 25 years, she has studied the culture and spiritual traditions of many world religions, past and present. The majority of her work is based on the indigenous practices of the peoples of North, Central and South America. She incorporated into these teachings her own intuitive sense of rituals and ceremonies.

https://www.thewomensonenessproject.com/

PRICES

Weekend alone (February 17 + 18): 200€

The whole course + Temazcal (from 17 to 23 included): 500€

Circle of Women and Circle of Dreams: + 20€

Temazcal alone: ​​50€ (You have the possibility to participate only in Temezcal)

CARE

Limpia (energetic cleaning): *Minimum offering: 15 € (By appointment)

Platica + Limpia (narrative medicine + cleaning): *Minimum offering: 30€ (By appointment)

MEAL: Spanish inn

ACCOMMODATION: 20€/night

In order to reserve your place for the course, a deposit check of €200 will be requested. The first 20 people will be registered in chronological order, as evidenced by the postmark. The others will be put on a waiting list.

For treatments, a deposit check of €15 will be requested

- Deposit checks will be cashed upon receipt. 

*If you are unable to donate the suggested minimum amount, please donate what you can.

For any other information, please contact Sharon Evans: gite.vent.autan.najac@gmail.com

Themes:

• Wellness