The Sacred Circle
Shamanic Training & Plant Medicine Activation
On this page you will find:
• Activation, Training, ceremony description
• Our Living Tradition
• How to Secure your Sacred Space
•Hold Your place Policy
and more.
The personal decision to sit in The Sacred Circle at this time is profound.
We are here to support you every step of the way.
It is our intention to create community around this work, not just a one-time experience.
We are open for all questions, communication and are here to guide you before, during, and after this work.
We are a legal church, and all the work described here is for prayer and sacred service.
Learn about your facilitators, here.
Before emailing us with your questions,
please click here for FAQ’s of ceremony.
Email us here with any questions
after reviewing the FAQ page.
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE INVITATION.
Your application is an affirmative agreement with all that is written here.
LOCATION: Southern California, near Running Springs
In the heart of Nature.
Safe Temple Space
Exact location & directions shared once you have completed registration.
This is AN ACTIVATION, A TRAINING & A CEREMONY.
Activation:
Opening you to your own relationship with SHAMANISM through skill building, we may explore:
(BSMT): Breath, Sound, Movement Touch
Rising Ritual & Meditation
Shamanic BreathWork & Elemental Dance
Shamanic Drumming
Training:
Allowing you to learn and practice your tools in the ceremony space, we may explore:
Channeling & Mediumship
Angelic sounds and ceremonial song
Universal Energy Medicine (UEM, Reiki)
Clearing, smudging & cleansing persons & spaces
CEREMONY:
Receiving in the space, we may explore:
Working with Highest Self, Guides & Plant Teachers
Learning Ritual to support, protect, clear, open, heal, & activate yourself & others
Sacred Song, dance, sounding, & connection
We do NOT have a set schedule for how these potential processes, activities and integrations will flow during The Sacred Circle.
We DEEPLY LISTEN.
The Shamanic Relationship is about learning how to LISTEN TO THE ENERGIES.
Expectations and resistance are the ways to create a difficult weekend (and life).
Every Sacred Circle is as unique as the mix of the Souls that come together.
Come with INTENTION (what you want to heal, celebrate, create, & visioneer) .
Come with an open heart.
Come with an open mind.
Come with ALL of you, ready to dive deeper into self, community and Spirit.
OUR LIVING TRADITION (WAYS)
Our practices and skills that we share are deeply sacred to us. We have a deep relationship with our WAYS and have taken over a combined 50 years to develop this style of sharing, ceremony, and Sacred Circle.
We cultivate and practice a LIVING TRADITION.
Please come with respect.
We will let you know which practices you are able to share. If we do not invite you to share the practice, please keep it to yourself. You are welcome to practice it, but just to not share it with friends, the public, social media or your clients.
We request by Nature’s Law that you only USE & SHARE any concepts, phrases, ideas, structures, or practices once you have studied with us for at least 3 years, AND have received WRITTEN permission from us.
Thank you.
Want something closer to home?
Have a specific group of amazing people in your life that you’d like to sit with?
Learn more about Private Ceremonies.
Make it stand out
HOW TO SECURE YOUR SACRED SPACE:
1. The Community
We have been doing this work for over 16 years now in a mixed culture environment, mostly serving people who live in a western culture. In this, we have noticed that the NEED for learning before the ceremony & deep integration in a community after sitting as VITAL.
From this deeper learning, we invite all participants join The Mystery School, a space to learn how to walk through a shamanic/transformation process & also to be held in community. Open to Women, non-binary & men, this is the BASE of transformational & shamanic work. This will also provide you a space to integrate. The commitment is from the moment you sign up to a minimum of 6 months in the mystery school AFTER your sit.
Sign up here. It’s $33/month for this first invitation.
2. Intention
If this is is your first sit with us, please complete ~
If you have sat WITH US before, please email us your intention & updates.
You do NOT need to fill out a application again.
However, you are responsible to update us with your intention and ANY medical and psychological issues.
3. Contribution
Your contribution goes to support the space, the medicine holder, the Sacred Circle Guardians, tending the land, the local tribal nation, Yuuhaaviatam, the tribes who support this medicine work, the Shura/Secopia of Ecuador, Amazon Watch & others.
If money is an issue do let us know.
We have contribution plans available.
Because we keep our circle smaller (No more than 15 participants), we are supporting a church space (the home we use!) & because we are supporting many people, we request that scholarships are only requested on a very special need-basis.
$1335 for the Friday - Sunday Sacred Circle
Includes:
All medicine work (2 nights)
Nourishment for time with us
Communal Sleeping space (You get to bring your supplies to make sure you’re comfortable)
Email support if needed
Contribution can be sent via:
PayPal/Zelle: wearelistening@theearthtemple.com
Venmo: @TheEarthTemple
Please send friends/family
Include in the notes, your full name, SACRED CIRCLE & the date of your weekend sit.
4. Orientation Call
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SAT WITH US BEFORE
This part is ONLY FOR 1st timers/ those who have not sat with us before! Even if you have sat in other circles, our work is VERY distinct.
To schedule your call time, please contact us here. You will be speaking with one of The Earth Temple’s Sacred Circle Guardians.
For The Sacred Circle organized groups, we will offer a group ZOOM call, dates to be coordinated with your point person.
5. Church Membership
We are a church, and all of our circles and work with the Plant Teachers is legal, by right of the First Amendment. To maintain this status, we get to have EVERY participant signed up for our church membership, starting July 2020.
Please choose the “Lifetime Membership” for $85, which you will submit with your application on the site here: TheEarthTemple.com/membership. You only need to sign up for this once.
Once you are part of The Earth Temple Family, you are legally covered with your sacred plant teacher work, as long as you follow the guidelines provided on the membership page.
This is an incredible offer to be able to share with you. We trust that you will respect our standing as a part of a federally recognized church and comport yourself in a sacred way with these magical Plant Teachers.
Your space is reserved
when these five steps are complete.
Hold Your Place Policy:
If you cancel before 22 days before Circle, we will honor your contribution for another date or event. If it is less than that, your spot cannot be filled and the contribution goes towards the unused space.
We all live with the elements.
Fire, ice, snow, rain, floods, earthquakes.
If weather or another catastrophe prevents the entire group from being able to arrive at The Circle, we will honor your contribution for another date or event. If an event only prevents a single participant from attending, contribution goes towards the unused space.
No refunds are given.
Emergencies may be an exception, at facilitator's discretion.
Thank you for understanding.