Path Home Newsletter
Promoting personal empowerment and conscious living

Welcome to the Path Home Newsletter.

It is our mission and intent to bring you news of the latest writings, classes, performances and events to assist you on your journey toward more conscious and joyous living.

We are always open to contributions from our readers so if you have something to add or share please submit it for our consideration to touchin@findyourpathhome.com.

Highlights This Issue:
Shamanic Arts School Open House
StarFaihre: Daughters of the Drum Performance
Buffalo Clan Graduation

The old way of doing things, the one we have relied on all of our lives, is increasingly becoming obsolete. As we evolve, our hidden agendas, and fear based operating systems are no longer as effective as they used to be. Not only is it becoming increasingly difficult to fool others, it is also hard to fool ourselves. Our denials are becoming more and more difficult to maintain.

This is creating a time for choice. Are you on the train or not? Dancing with the higher ways of being while maintaining our pet denials (and we all have them) is rapidly becoming impossible.

Mind you, there is no right or wrong choice here. We all serve in our own way. It seems logical, however, to look at our options before we jump on or get off. If we choose to remain in our old expressions and operating systems, we need to drop frequency and go even deeper into denial. This is because the increase of frequency on the planet is shining more light and thicker blinders are needed to not see what we choose to ignore.

If we choose to get on the evolution train, we can plan to sacrifice most of our belief systems as well as much of our very identities. This is often times messy, intense personal work. Further more, we will increasingly find people and situations that we can no longer tolerate being around. The old way of being will appear coarse, abusive and intolerable.

This is also true of the off the train choice. If we have any hope of remaining dumb and happy, (and there is a lot to recommend it) we will have to avoid people who have chosen to tie a rocket to their back side.

It is soon time for a monster cell division at a planetary level. If you have ever watched cell division under a microscope, it goes something like this:

First all the chromosomes are happily swimming together in a seemingly random manner

Secondly they all line up in the center of the cell

Then the cell starts to pinch off, and the chromosomes split into two identical halves with one on one side and the other half on the other side.

Finally the cell divides completely and the two cells go on their merry way

It is important to recognize that there is no “bad” cell in this scenario. If these are dividing cells in an embryo, eventually they will differentiate and go off, gathering together with others of their kind, i.e. liver cells, heart cells etc.

In the same way, there is no bad choice here. It is just time for us to differentiate. It is so important to not judge another’s choice and to simply attend to our own.

How to choose? Just follow what feels right to you knowing that what and who was appropriate to be around before may be changing rapidly. It is not that anyone is wrong.

The old way is just not working any more.

In loving friendship,

Gwilda Wiyaka

Gwilda Wiyaka, author and singer/song writer, is the founder of Path Home Spiritual Healing Center and Path Home Shamanic Arts School.  http://findyourpathhome.com/mg_bio.html

I grew up and spent all of the first forty years of my life as a resident of either suburban New York City, or lived in the city itself.  My idea of camping was to drive my car to a beach campsite, carry the tent over the sand dune to the reserved spot, pitch the tent, and spend the night.  I drove to the grocery to get dinner or bought something from the local fishermen and grilled it.  The campgrounds usually had hot running water and flush toilets.  The only inconveniences were the flies and the sand.
 
By participating in Gwilda’s Wilderness Camping class I was to enter another world.  We entered a pristine environment at 9,900 feet outside Gunnison, Colorado.  The altitude was hard for me to adjust to, but I just moved slowly. 
 
We camped among the Aspen and pines, and the only sounds we heard were the birds and the wind, sometimes the thunder and the rain, and the gurgling of a nearby stream.  We took a hike one day and got to see breathtaking meadows full of sage and wildflowers with vistas to other mountains that were so beautiful you just had to stop and stare a while.  We took only organic or natural products; bug spray, sunscreen, to lessen our impact on the environment.  We had to filter our own drinking water.  The most extraordinary thing about that, was that for the first time I really lived consciously in my space.  I had to think about everything I did and what it was doing to the land around me.
 
I found myself moved to tears by the beauty of all I experienced, and the people with whom I was able to share this time.  My father was a commercial landscape architect.  I lived in a groomed and controlled natural world, even in suburbia. 
 
I had many fears about what I would encounter when I first thought about going on this adventure with Gwilda and the class.  I came back a different person.  Living so consciously with the Earth was a new experience for me.  I know many of you reading this might wonder what kind of weirdo I am not to have known some of these things, but now I get it.  I’ll probably even go wilderness camping again.  And if Gwilda lets me, I might even help with next year's Wilderness Class.

Chris Gray is a second-year student at Path Home Shamanic Arts School. She is also the school registrar and receptionist at the Path Home Spiritual Healing Clinic. She is an invaluable asset in both.

Back in the Office
Path Home is open and working our normal business hours after a few weeks in July while Gwilda was teaching the wilderness classes in the mountains. Feel free to call for appointments, V.I.B.E. visits, or stop by to browse our bookstore.

School News:

Open House Saturday, September 9, 2:00-6:00pm
You are cordially invited to come see what Colorado’s only state certified Shamanic Arts School is all about! Come to our school clinic where some of our Certified Practitioners have their practice and our students perform their internships. Your visit will provide you with an opportunity to meet with the students and teachers who make it all happen.
 
Featured at the Open House will be:

• Drawings for valuable prizes, including free sessions, classes, CDs, and V.I.B.E. passes
  
• Entertainment by StarFaihre: Daughters of the Drum, performing ancient and modern shamanic songs
  
• A talk on Shamanism by Gwilda Wiyaka, School Founder and Director
  
• Shamanic craftsmanship on display
  
• Refreshments
  
• School Bookstore open to the public

Upcoming Events:

StarFaihre: Daughters of the Drum
Gwilda Wiyaka and Cody Wigle
To Perform at Longmont Borders on August 24
 
Come see singer/songwriters Gwilda Wiyaka and Cody Wigle in a free performance of original and traditional shamanic songs. Songs from Cody’s CD North Shield, and Gwilda’s CD One People One Nation, as well as selections from their upcoming CDs, in which they have combined forces and voices, will be performed.
 
Gwilda will give a lecture following the performance entitled:
Shamanism as a Tool for Conscious Living
 
Join us for a rich evening of drum, song, and leading edge thinking.
 
When: August 24, 7:30 pm
 
Where: Longmont Borders Bookstore, 1101 S. Hover Road, Longmont CO

Programs:

Path Home Shamanic Arts School:

THE DANCE OF POWER

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $150.00
When: Saturday, September 2, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm
Prerequisites: Lower World or Upper World Shamanic Journey

In this one-day program will address the concepts, methods and ceremonies involved in becoming more purposeful in our usage of personal and universal power.

We will learn to work more extensively with our power animals and helping spirits. We will develop proficiency at utilizing the directions and elements to help us more clearly manifest spiritual power onto the physical plane. Basic transmutation principles will be covered. Time will be spent exploring the varied ways in which power can be directed responsibly to best serve all concerned.

These methods and concepts can be applied to any area of our work and lives to affect greater healing, balance and manifestation.

THE ART OF CEREMONY

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $150.00
When: Sunday, September 3, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm
Prerequisites: Lower World or Upper World Shamanic Journey

In The Art of Ceremony you will learn the basic ceremonial principles used by many of our indigenous cultures. These principles, once understood, can be applied to our daily lives to help focus intent in all that we do.

You will be instructed in the use of these ancient truths in building your own ceremonies for all the sacred events of your life.

NEW!!!!! MANIFESTATION: SAMHAIN

Instructor: Gwilda Wiyaka
Cost: $275.00
When: Saturday, October 28, 2006, 10:00am-5:30pm AND Sunday, October 29, 10:00am-9pm
Prerequisites: Lower World Shamanic Journey or Upper World Shamanic Journey

True manifestation begins with destruction. This program is a seasonal gathering based upon the Celtic holiday Samhain. Traditionally, during this time, shamanic practitioners gather together to break up energies that cause disruption and misfortune and create clear space in which to manifest for the following year. This is an ancient responsibility to their tribe, embraced in some form by shaman of all cultures.

During our time together, the hidden principles of, and energy behind manifestation will be covered in depth.

The evening of the last day of the program we will perform an ancient ritual (generously brought to us by Tom Cowan's teachings) "The Battle of the Evil Fomorians". All Path Home students and graduates will be invited to join us in this ancient ceremony for and in responsibility to our people.