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Golden Lyre Medicine Circle 2012 (Registration information and PayPal link below)
Golden Lyre Medicine Circle is a year-long circle done in four seasonal sections that average nine weeks each, dedicated to the development of expanded and integrated consciousness for radiant living. Participants will learn how to connect with their own divine nature, access the wisdom, intuition, insight, and creativity that comes from that connection, and apply those qualities to the world. We will access a deeper sense of connection to life and the abiding underlying joy, joi de vivre, that comes from the connection to our deeper selves, a joy that is an enduring presence regardless of external life circumstances.
"...joy is an exaltation that remains in the soul, an opening to the realm of spirit that opens our nature."
-Michael Meade
In each season we will immerse in one of the four directions of the medicine wheel: the Visionary in the East, the Healer in the South, the Teacher in the West, and the Warrior in the North. We will access the healing practices and wisdom associated with each direction, and cultivate the qualities and teachings of the directions within our own natures. In doing so we will deepen our connection to our authentic selves and discover new ways of expressing our unique voices and medicine in the world.
We will also access an expanded arena of conscious experience, which includes accessing spirit (non-physical, non-ordinary) dimensions and increasing the activation of the "higher" energy centers of our energy system. And we will integrate what we gather from the expansion of consciousness by applying it to all arenas of life including relationship to our bodies, our relationship to ourselves, friends, lovers, family, community, and nature. The word "integrated" means "whole", and the intention of spirit work in this class is to be of benefit to the whole, first by healing our relationship to ourselves, then by being soulful and authentic contributors to life.
Content for this class is subject to modification but will include elements of the following:
Participants will:
Learn about spirit reality: rules for interaction and navigation
Learn how to do shamanic journey and intuitive work
Learn how to connect to their own intuitive wisdom voice and spirit guides
Learn how to communicate from a place of heart and authenticity
Learn how to access self-sourced love, and practice extending love into the external world
Have new insight into their unique creative voices and use of creative potential
Have insight into aspects of destiny and fate and how the messages of the soul come through to influence the course of life.
Access and work with four universal archetypes of the medicine wheel: the Healer, Teacher, Visionary, and Warrior. Archetypal work will include learning about the shadow aspect of each archetype and how to be in right-relationship to it as a messenger of an unclaimed gift and blessing
Receive healing and transformation through "doing the work"
Gain greater understanding as to the nature of their own unique medicine
Release limiting beliefs, fixed perspectives, and restrictions from the past, creating a new context for the present that is open to new possibility and creation
*The nature of this work is transformational and is therefore likely to bring up personal issues for participants. Class is not designed to directly provide personal healing work as we will be working in a group context, though healing processes can certainly occur as a result of doing the work. Each participant is responsible for having a support system for personal work outside of class if needed. For each participant Melissa will assess whether the circle is a appropriate medium of work at this time, or if more personal work is needed before doing the circle intensive. Melissa is available for private mentorship or healing work sessions outside of circle for those who want or need more personal support either instead of or in addition to class.*
Melissa draws from a background in shamanism, consciousness studies, energy medicine, sound healing, and neurobiology. She bridges ancient practice with modern science and perspectives. She will be using what Tom Kenyon calls "catalytic sound" to help participants with the transformation of energy and the experience of altered states of consciousness which lead to access of the divine self.
Class Schedule 2012
Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:00
Wallingford District of Seattle (residency has two cats)
The dates below are projected and subject to change.
Journey to the North-Our Warrior Nature: January 10-March 6 (No class February 14th)
Journey to the East-Our Visionary Nature: April 3-May 29
Journey to the South-Our Healer Nature: June 26-August 14
Journey to the West-Our Teacher Nature: September 11-November 13
Foundational Text for class: The Fourfold Way by Angeles Arrien
Rate: $350/section, payable in two payments of $175 on weeks 1 and 5 of each section
Class is open to new participants for the first two weeks of class, then the circle will be closed for the rest of the year allowing for the development of a strong and intimate community setting. The next opportunity to join circle will then be in January 2013.
Fill out the form below to be on the mailing list for the 2012 Circle.
Registration
Register to ensure a spot in class by e-mailing Melissa info@thegoldenlyre.com or by filling out the form below. Please include your contact information including full name and phone number.
Testimonials from the 2011 Medicine Circle
"I truly enjoyed being in Circle this year. Each of the members of the Circle was so different, and so very right to be there. Each time one member had something to come up, it was what the Circle as a whole needed to work on. At the beginning of the year, this wasn't so apparent. By the end of our time together, whenever someone brought up an issue, I "leaned into it", knowing that with Melissa's wise and deep presence and her spiritual guidance, what we did in circle would be something that "accidentally" was the perfect exercise for what was happening in all our lives.
To me, this year's Medicine Circle demonstrated one truth I know, that together we create that which is much more than what each could create separately.
The work in Circle, and the work in other pathways in my spirit's journey this year, have combined to bring me a year of major growth, change, and delight. I am incredibly and humbly grateful to Melissa, and the Circle, for the support and impetus in this hugely significant year.
My two favorite specific things we did, aside from the journeying and practicing intuition with each other, were the Soul Retrieval and the treasure map collage exercise. I can clearly see now how those two events set up a whole chain of steady and inevitable minor steps, leading me to the great awakenings in my path this year."
"I have really enjoyed Melissa's class this year! I learned about calling in spirit guides and ancestors for support, practiced tapping into my intuition in various exercises, and participated in a sweat lodge ceremony. I have to say that I have experienced a lot of personal growth over the past year."
"Melissa's class has been extraordinary in ways that I could not imagine when I first began. The biggest pluses for me have been the wisdom about another approach to life and healing, as well as the community that has been created. With the weekly gatherings occurring over such an extended time period, I think of it as half church, half psychotherapy, although it really transcends both of those as a new paradigm."
"I found Melissa's class to be a safe, respectful place where I discovered many parts of my authentic self. I really enjoyed the format being experiential and interactive, and having a close, supportive circle of great people was so helpful on my Journey. I always felt the presence of Spirit in everything we did, every exercise, every conversation. I never felt lectured- I always felt welcomed and accepted. It was fun and painful and deeply illuminating, and the amount of growth I have achieved in myself has been truly amazing. I recommend this class to anyone who is really ready to grow themselves.
-excerpts from 2011 evaluations, used anonymously with permission
What if you could access love at any time under any circumstance?
What if it was not possible to lose love? Or even give it?
What if love was not something you had but something you were?
In this five-session class we will explore the territory of love and relationship and bring healing and expansion to our heart-natures by addressing the following topics:
What are our beliefs about love? How we contextualize love in ways that lead to feelings of scarcity, limitation, and disappointment, and how to re-contextualize love so that loving becomes an experience of joy and empowerment.
What is self-sourced love? How you can access love at any time under any circumstance.
The distinctions between love, relationship, and chemistry--why these distinctions are important.
The relationship between love and transformation--why it is useful to understand love as a transformational process.
Healing, gaining closure from past relationships and developing new understandings of relationship so that they become sources of wisdom and positive growth.
The terrain of the heart, our mystical source and center.
This class will be dynamic and interactive and will include heart-healing opportunities through the use of transformational sound work and exercises in class. Bring a notebook and pen and an open and willing heart.
Next date offered TBD, e-mail Melissa at info@thegoldenlyre.com to be put on a contact list for class notifications, or "Like" her Facebook page: The Golden Lyre (link below).
