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The Shamanu Earth Wisdom Mentorship:
Being Earth

Embrace the Wild Wisdom of Your Eco-Cosmic Self
in this 7-month Leadership Journey
May 14 to Nov 12, 2024

This is the era of souls waking up. Propelled by a global crisis, we are called to embrace the mystics’ journey and re-imagine a new story for humanity that honours, loves and respects all of Life and births a fresh understanding of our relationship with a living Earth, Cosmos and each other. 

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The Mentorship Journey

With every part of nature under siege, we enter the most important spiritual journey of our times. One that cultivates the courage, compassion and insight needed to co-create mutually enhancing relationships with one another and all Life.

The Shamanu Mentorship is an invitation to reclaim our ecological and cosmic birthright and remember our innate interdependence within the web of life. We enter the question: How do we deepen resonance with the creative dynamics of Nature and the Universe and be the hands and hearts that enable all life and humanity to flourish?

Turning to the wild wisdom of Earth and powers of the Universe as our mentors and guides, this soul journey and call to action empowers us to be present in the healing of ourselves, our communities and the Earth with reborn clarity, wonderment and purpose. The Shamanu Mentorship offers an opportunity to realign our lives with the living Earth and the self-healing energies of the Universe.

A rich tapestry of eco-philosophies, cosmogenesis, indigenous teachings, eco-somatic embodiment practices, Earth rituals, visionary journeys and personal transformation strategies offer a comprehensive support system to traverse the spiritual and physical transformations required for the coming era. Our embodiment practices translate abstract concepts into tangible experiences, ensuring the journey is experiential and practical.

We welcome you to join us in a soulful exploration that reignites the inherent power and joy of reclaiming our birthright as Eco-Cosmic Beings in service to Life. Together, we can create a thriving and harmonious future for all.

If you feel called to an adventure full of discovery, wonder and possibility, we welcome you into this life-changing Mentorship experience.

“The Wild One is enchanted because it has been sung into the world by the world and knows this.” ~Bill Plotkin

The Process

This comprehensive journey invites a profound shift of consciousness, offering ample space, consistency, tools, and support for radical ecological, social, and spiritual transformation over eight months.

  • Core processes guide participants from familiar terrain to their creative edge, where a more authentic self awaits, supported by embodied practices and community engagement. 

  • Embodied practices and community help you overcome emotional resistance and pitfalls that waste vital energy. 

  • Contemplative practices help you transform psychological blockages that prevent seeing your way forward into life-enhancing relationships, vocations and societies.

Eco-somatic Practices

The Shamanu Mentorship is an embodied integration process that supports you in finding the inspired pathways in your life. A non-linear inquiry and exploration that taps us into a space of potential creativity and healing. Informed by the spontaneity of one’s own body knowing, we lean with curiosity into eco-cosmic wisdom, the field that gave birth to us all.  We open to a deep internal spaciousness where the not-yet-known may be sensed and engaged with. Sessions are highly experiential, including Primordial Movement, Elemental Dance, Breath & Sound explorations, The Five Elements Rituals and Earth meditations, a Clarity Quest, and Visionary journeys. 

Inspired Leadership

The Mentorship serves as an incubator for the visions of a new Story to ripen into reality, fostering leadership from the inside out through conscious community and land-based experiences at The Living Centre. We explore leadership from the inside out. Great joy and meaning come when you realize the unique gifts that are alive within you.  

Mentorship Details & Dates

The transformative process unfolds across three seasons, each offering deep exploration, integration, and reflection, culminating in a profound harvest of insights and growth. 

Through residential immersions, online sessions, and one-on-one mentorship, participants engage in practices that honour the Earth, embody wisdom, and cultivate leadership for a just and thriving future.

Includes:

  • Two 2-day Immersions (residential is optional)

  • One 4-day Residential Immersion 

  • One 3-day Immersion (residential is optional)

  • Two private one-on-one sessions with your mentor, Lorenna

  • Eight Online Group Sessions

  • ‘Being Earth’ Study Manual

  • Essay and Video Resources

  • Integrated home learning 

  • Leadership Presentation Opportunities

  • A Living Centre Certificate of Completion

  • All meals for the Mentorship

Dates & Registration Information

Dates:

  • May 14 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.  

  • May 28 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.

  • June  8 – 9 –  Saturday 9 – 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 – 5 at The Living Centre (not residential)

  • June 18 – Group Zoom meet-up

  • July 5, 6, 7, 8  – Residential Immersion at The Living Centre

  • July 23 – Group Zoom meet-up 

  • August 9, 10, 11 – Residential Immersion at The Living Centre

  • September 3 – Group Zoom meet-up

  • September  21, 22 – Saturday 9 – 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Sunday 9:30 – 5 at The Living Centre (not residential)

  • Oct 8 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.  

  • Oct 29 – Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.

  • Nov 12 –  Group Zoom meet-up – 7 pm – 9 pm.

    Investment:  

    Early Bird $2430 before April 20,  2024 

    Regular Price: After April 15,  $2830

  • Does not include travel, HST tax and Accommodations. Click here for Accommodation options

  • A $500 deposit will guarantee your spot

  • Partial work-trade positions are available.

  • To maintain a high quality of learning and care, the Mentorship is a maximum 16 participants.

  • Partial Work-Trade positions are available.  Please inquire.

    Please read our Cancellation & Commitment Policy

Dates: Begins May 14 to Nov 12, 2024

Price:
Early Bird: $2430 (pay before April 20, 2024)
Regular: $2830
Includes all programs and meals. Does not include tax, accommodations & travel

Accommodation options

Where: The Living Centre, London, ON.

Meet your instructors

Lorenna

Main Facilitator: Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, is an Earth ceremonialist and Métis grandmother of Lakota and French descent. Her heritage and spiritual insights have shaped her life and path of service.  For 35 years, she has tended, embodied and stewarded the inter-arts languages she calls Shamanu: Earth-Wisdom Teachings (est 1989) and WomanEarth (best 2005), a branch of the Shamanu Teaching. Lorenna is a Certified Permaculture Educator, Ayurvedic Living Nutrition and Sevenfold Path of Peace instructor and offers Eco-spiritual Lifestyle guide. LEARN MORE

Supportive Facilitator: Danielle Denichaud is a daughter of the Earth, a student of eco-spirituality, regenerative healing praxes, and herbal medicine. Danielle stewards embodied languages that activate wonderment, felt sense and compassion; in service to peace and the mutual thriving of all Earth kin.  She has professional training in Holistic Nutrition, Trauma-honouring Somatic Processes and Medical Qi-Gong. Danielle is a PhD Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her work and research center cultivating resilient languages of earth stewardship, individual wellness and relational harmony. Learn more

Guest Facilitator: Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D., co-director and founder of The Living Centre, brings 45 years of devotion to an Earth path rooted in an in-depth understanding of the spirit of the plant world. He brings practical wisdom through the language of Ayurveda, our relationship with the Element and how they express themselves through us as health, dis-ease, inspiration and intelligence. He offers nutritional knowledge that makes living in connection with nature easy and fulfilling. Shantree has his Ph.D. in Nutrition, is a Certified Herbalist Elder with the Ontario Herbal Association, an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Certified Permaculture teacher, and is the beloved husband of Lorenna.
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