38th Annual Native American
Elders Gathering
July 29th – 31st, 2022
Post-Elders Gathering Workshops
Sunray’s 38th Annual Native American Elders Gathering featuring Workshops online and onsite Monday, August 1st.
Special Offer Registration is Extended until September 30th 2022. Register now to receive recordings of workshops by Dr. Orest Pelechaty and Grandfather Mike Bastine.
An Introduction to the Biodynamic Spiritual Science of Earth Healing
9:30-11:00am EDT
at the Sunray Peace Village and on Zoom
Sunray Peace Village welcomes back Dr. Orest Pelechaty to offer another workshop on the Biodynamic Approach to eco-shamanic Earth Healing. Biodynamics has parallels to Indigenous and Tibetan Buddhist systems. It places the human in right relationship to Heaven and Earth, providing simple, green tools to empower people wherever they dwell to heal the Earth, even on a small scale.
There are 2 parts to this workshop. Participants in both workshops need to bring their own 8 oz clean jar to be used on Saturday and re-used Monday for those registered. The first part is open without registration to everyone. On Saturday morning, after Opening prayers at the Arbor, all Elders Gathering participants are invited to take part in the mixing of a Biodynamic preparation to spread around the Peace Village on that auspicious day––blessing the Land, opening our hearts and sharing our healing Aloha with the environs.
The second part is Dr O’s Monday workshop: “An Introduction to the Biodynamic Spiritual Science of Earth Healing.”
This workshop is an overview and a practical training in classical Biodynamics as gifted to humanity by the visionary Rudoph Steiner. Dr. O. will explain how to make and use all the core Biodynamic preparations. He will approach this subject from spiritual, mystical, and astrological perspectives, while grounding the practice in the material realm. This will include lecture, contemplation and the gift of a Biodynamic healing preparation for in-person participants to bring home to spread on auspicious dates at their convenience. Dr. O. feels this workshop will help all participants to better care for Mother Earth and her elegant ecological systems.
The workshop will take place in person at the Sunray Peace Village in Lincoln, Vermont and will also be live streamed for those joining online. Registrants will receive a recording of the workshop.
Come take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn how you can help yourself and others to engage safely and effectively in healing the Earth at your home, and at the Peace Village and your favorite places in nature.
$16.00
What Are We Continuing to Learn from the Lingering Effects of this Pandemic for Best Actions Going Forward?
11:30am-1:00pm EDT
at the Sunray Peace Village and on Zoom
Grandfather Mike is a member of the Algonquin nation, a member of the Bear Clan, a healer, and former student of famous Tuscarora medicine man Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson and Tuscarora healer, Ted Williams, He lives in South Wales, New York. He is co-author of the book: Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People.
In this workshop, Grandfather Mike will invite participants to consider what we can do to nurture ourselves and each other to address lingering health concerns due to this pandemic. He will address natural ways that can supplement Western Medical approaches. From his deep wisdom, he will facilitate this coming together and encourage us to speak communally from our hearts. He will address health challenges, and other challenges facing us, such as the increase in mass shootings and the War in Ukraine. He will share his insight as to how we can help each other to remember our “Original Instructions” from the Creator. In remembering that we are all in this together, each one of us has talents and gifts to join with others to care and meet these challenges.
He is known widely for his talks at universities and gatherings where he shares the diversity of culture to convey to all humans how it is time to remember our “Original Instructions” as to how to live together in harmony on Mother Earth. He is carrying on teachings that were handed down from Mad Bear Anderson who wanted to unify and prepare all humans for developing a higher consciousness to do so.
Grandfather Mike will offer questions for participants to discuss to help us all reflect on what we have learned during this ongoing Covid-19 pandemic individually and how we can address these current challenges . He will help us harvest what we are learning from this time of change, and how we may benefit ourselves and others going forward while we still have time to do so.
$16.00
Welcoming the Other
2:00-4:00pm EDT
Online and Onsite at the Sunray Peace Village via Zoom
Welcoming the Other: “This powerful and highly interactive workshop inspires an appreciation and engagement of ‘the Other.’
In its core format, after laying foundational instruction – and a story or two! – participants engage in an exercise designed to evoke a strong, empathic response to being “outside,” ultimately invoking motivation to action. Dialogue and collaboration are used throughout; full advantage is made of the power of small groups and immersive creativity.”
Jim Brulē, Founder of the Transformational Storytelling School
Grandmother Hears Crow, a woman of the Eastern Woodlands lives her life in the tradition of the Nanhigganêuck, the people known today as the Narragansett. For over thirty years, she has been a Storyteller primarily of Longhouse Tales and other indigenous cultures. “Stories are bridges that can link diverse cultures, transform our spirits, and open our hearts to one another. When our cultures, spirits, and hearts are open, the Earth Mother will be healed.”
Grandmother Hears Crow is also an educator, published poet, and workshop leader. She is on the Faculty of the Transformational Storytelling School, the Vermont State Liason to the National Storytelling Network, and a Youth Mentor through a forward-looking program, Youth Storytellers Standing Together.
Email at [email protected]
Website HTTP://storyteller.eenantowash.org.
The attendees should be equipped with a few sheets of paper and preferably a pencil, but a pen will do. Grandmother recommends participants bring water or some other beverage to sustain hydration.This an interactive workshop but not physically active. Grandmother has given permission for the recording of the workshop to be shared with participants afterwards but requests that they not share it with anyone who did not participate live in the workshop.
$16.00
All Workshops are available online. Register to receive Participation Links
Receive recordings for re-watch or if unable to attend in real time (exception Grandmother Hears Crow’s workshop — see above). Recordings will be sent by email to all who register. They will be sent once review and editing process is completed.