The Practice

The Correspondence Course integrates the four primary teachings of the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings. While there is a synergistic merging of each practice, each addresses a specific aspect of oneself and one’s relationship with Earth.

The first three – Primordial Movement, Earth~Rhythms and Living from Your Heart address the first step in the process of conscious transformation – Heal Thyself.

The fourth process, Earth Wisdom Teachings, moves us from ‘me to we’ consciousness, offering empowering tools to support our service to life. The process is, of course, not a linear one. Service to the world and the healing of oneself flow in and out of each other in a beautiful dance of mutual enhancement.

Intellectual knowledge and philosophies offered through Shamanu, coupled with a felt experience of our ecological self, opens new pathways in consciousness. The Shamanu body-centred practices are powerful because of their primordial nature. Through movement, dance, sound, rituals and meditations that emulate the expressions of nature, we learn to live and think like an eco-system.

Primordial Movement

Primordial Movement emulates the intrinsic movements and fluid forces of our biological beginnings. A variety of movement explorations, including wave motion, micro-movements, sounds, and breaths, enliven our organism back to its natural state of flexibility, fluidity, vitality and wholeness.

Awakening bio-intelligence through the liquid, undulating organic movements refines our ability to participate in life’s self-healing processes and creative unfolding consciously.

Primordial Movement explores the idea that we are biological living systems in the form of human bodies with the capacity to self-stabilize, regenerate and evolve. We are naturally resilient, intelligent, and interconnected in all ways with our biosphere. Rousing our inherent capacity to unite with the intrinsic movement of life turns our practice into communion with life’s restorative energies.

Self-paced and intuitively centred, this meditation-in-motion encourages authentic, spontaneous and imaginative exploration. The deeply pleasurable practices bring positive benefits to anyone regardless of experience or physical health.

Primordial Movement is the fundamental movement practice in the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings.

Earth~Rhythms

All ancient cultures used sacred dance as a way to celebrate and unite with creation. Embodying the Elements through our dance in the context of ritual and intention is a way of awakening their essential life force and how their creativity is expressed through you. Because you are made from the Elements, connecting deeply with their story means you connect deeply with yours.

The Earth~Rhythm practice offers primal ways to move energy, cleanse, recharge, connect with other life forms, pray and worship. We tap into Earth’s evolutionary dance, exploring endless improvisation, transformative movements and acts of creativity to create harmony and balance in our personal and social lives.

Does dance evoke the soul, or does the soul of Nature use the dancer for its expression?

“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience…In (the dance) the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participant is completely in the other.” – Lyall Watson, from the book EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

Living from Your Heart – Inspiring Personal and Planetary Peace

Great sages throughout history have pointed to the heart as the gateway to our soul and our highest potential. They regarded the heart as the source of intuitive wisdom and spiritual strength.

The Living from Your Heart processes give you a time-tested tool to unleash your heart’s intelligence and your life energy, vitality, passion, creativity and freedom. We learn how to embrace and direct this powerful capacity of our feeling realm to create happy and balanced lives.

Informed by the heart, we discover we live in a world of non-dual loving Presence, in which all objects are realized and perceived as one, that our very nature is loving, kind, generous, and compassionate. In heart consciousness, there is only our Self, and all of Nature is realized to be part of us.

In these times of rapid change and uncertainty, activating the vast intelligence of the heart is essential if we are to confidently navigate today’s challenges in creative, compassionate and joyful ways. Living from your heart inspires peace in ours lives, communities and the Earth.

“A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.” ‐ Albert Einstein

Earth Wisdom Teachings

The Earth teaches us that evolution, down through the ages, occurs through the process of ‘synergy’. This is true in the creation of forests, oceans, as well as societies. So it is with the Earth Wisdom Teachings. Earth Wisdom is the merging of wisdom teachings from a variety of people, philosophies and personal experiences. It blends Earth Wisdom spirituality with Deep Ecology, Eco-philosophy, the science of Living Systems, and the Work that Reconnects Joanna Macy.

The Earth Wisdom Teachings offer an integrative system of practices that rouse consciousness to realize that we are an integral part of a larger living system, as essential to the planet as the forests and ocean, and tap the self-­‐healing power that lives within this interconnectedness.

The philosophy and practices grow the capacity of intuitive wisdom, teach the art of turning pain into compassion, fear into creativity, and rouse our love for life and the strength and determination we each possess to protect it. These methods make the concepts experiential and practical.

Shamanu Earth Wisdom Teaching is an invitation to re-awaken the felt-knowledge of our oneness with the Earth and adventure into the unshakable joy that comes from living in relationship with this life force.

Immersing yourself in nature’s classroom and reuniting with Earth’s wisdom brings us home to the enduring power of love.