What's Happening at Still Meadow

Upcoming Event: The Way of the Shaman with Leslie Conton

stillmeadowcommunity — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:35:20 +0000

THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN

The Shamanic Journey for Healing and Power
The Basic Workshop taught by Leslie Conton, PhD
June 25th & 26th, 2011 ● Portland, Oregon Area
Saturday & Sunday ∞ 9:30am – 5:30pm ∞ Still Meadow Retreat, Damascus, OR
During this experiential workshop, participants are introduced to core shamanism, the universal and near-universal basic
methods of the shaman to enter non-ordinary reality for problem solving, well-being and healing. Particular emphasis is put
on the classic shamanic journey, one of the most remarkable visionary methods used by humans to explore the hidden
universe otherwise known mainly through myth and dream. Participants are initiated into shamanic journeying, aided by
drumming and movement techniques, for experiencing the shamanic state of consciousness and for awakening dormant
spiritual abilities and connections with Nature.
Practice includes comparisons by participants of their discoveries in shamanic journeys as well as work on personal problem
solving. Participants are also provided with methods for journeying to discover and study with their own spiritual teachers
in non-ordinary reality, a classic step in shamanic practice. Participants learn how shamanism can be applied in
contemporary daily life to help heal one’s self, others and the Planet.
Completion of this workshop qualifies participants to take more advanced training courses with Michael Harner (author
of THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN), and other faculty members of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

For more information click here.
About the Instructor: Dr. Leslie Conton is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Fairhaven College, Western Washington
University in Bellingham, Washington. She is a Teaching Associate for the Foundation of Shamanic Studies in California, a
practitioner of core shamanism, and a certified Harner Method shamanic counselor. Over the past 30 years, she has studied
with many shamans from Papua New Guinea, China, the United States, and, most recently, Tibet & Nepal. Dr.Conton is a
talented, inspirational teacher and gifted shamanic healer.

Upcoming Event: Shamanic Dreamwork with Leslie Conton

stillmeadowcommunity — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:27:56 +0000

SHAMANIC DREAMWORK
An Advanced Shamanic Training taught by Leslie Conton, Ph.D.
April 2nd & 3rd, 2011 ● Portland Oregon Area
Saturday & Sunday ~ 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
(Still Meadow Retreat, Damascus)
Course Description: In this unique experiential workshop you will have the opportunity to explore the nature, meaning, and use of dreams among shamanic peoples, with dreamwork practices from a range of cultures. Researched and developed by Michael Harner, subjects to be covered include shamanic dream theory and big dreams, as well as dreams and the soul, spirits, shamanic journeys, the Dreamtime, and the vision quest. You will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge to contemporary life, including the use of dreams in divination, health, and healing. Please bring a rattle or a drum if you have one. Wear comfortable clothing and warm socks, and bring an eye cover, cushion and pad/blanket for lying on the floor, a pen and notebook to record your journeys – and any dreams or dream fragments that you can recall to work with.
About the Instructor: Dr. Leslie Conton is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She is a Teaching Associate for the Foundation of Shamanic Studies in California, a practitioner of core shamanism, and a certified Harner Method shamanic counselor. Over the past 30 years, she has studied with many shamans from Papua New Guinea, China, the United States, and, most recently, Tibet & Nepal. Dr.Conton is a talented, inspirational teacher and gifted shamanic healer.
For more information Check out the flyer here

Upcoming Event: Vision- A Purposeful retreat to Create Your Future

stillmeadowcommunity — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:05:05 +0000

Here’s a great retreat happening here at Still Meadow in March:

Vision- A Purposeful retreat to Create Your Future with Bev Martin March 11th to 13th 2011, -Friday evening to Sunday afternoon at Still Meadow Retreat Center

Abraham Lincoln said “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

How often do you take time to fully focus on the future you wish to create? Do you give yourself rich opportunity to explore your values and what matters most? When last did you dream BIG and begin to take the steps to dance with the Divine to create your best and brilliant life?

Join in a purposeful retreat weekend at the beautiful Still Meadow Retreat Center 35 mins out of Portland. Find peace in the forest like setting, enjoy delicious healthy meals while you are guided and supported in your visioning by your own professional intuitive coach, Bev Martin.

Leave the busy world behind on Friday evening and meet with Bev and a small group of fellow visioneers on Friday evening at dinner. Get crystal clear on what you would like to experience more fully in your life for 2011 and beyond. Use brain based methods to uncover hidden challenges or’ blind spots’ that may have sabotaged your success in the past. Join in guided exercises, supportive conversations and self reflection.Learn and apply the principles of the law of attraction and how you personally can align yourself more with your highest intentions. Be sure to take time for a nap, a walk in the woods or a scheduled massage. Leave on Sunday afternoon after lunch, refreshed, renewed and inspired with a clear vision and action plan to create the compelling future you choose.

Cost is $447 plus accommodation (Room rates vary- Single, Doubles and dorm rooms available.) Includes the retreat, group and individual guidance and support, all meals, and workbook. This is a small group retreat – come and relax with Bev and create your compelling future.

Click here to register

Read on to find out more about Bev Martin…
Bev Martin is an expert intuitive who not only provides insight for you, she also helps you to understand and use your own intuition and thinking more effectively and reliably to make the right choices in your life and to find peace.
Bev is the developer and presenter of the “Listening UP- Accessing your Divine Wisdom” intuition class.
She has developed her skill as an intuitive medium in her homeland of South Africa, studied mysticism with Caroline Myss and is qualified to help you to find yourself and transform your world through archetypes. Bev is certified by Carol Pearson, author of ‘The Hero Within.’

Transformational Coaching
Bev is a skilled master practitioner and certified health practitioner of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) She offers her keen insight and abilities in NLP, hypnotherapy and coaching to partner with you to meet your goals and have the life you choose.

Training
Bev’s unusual life experiences, having grown up in South Africa, make learning with her interesting and enjoyable. She regularly offers her Listening UP- Accessing Divine Wisdom And Guidance retreat in Portland.
Degrees & Certifications

Bachelor of arts: Drama and Film, Psychology (University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa)
Producer: Educational media for executive and management training
Diploma: Public relations (University of the Witwatersrand, Business School)
Master practitioner NLP
Health certified NLP
NLP trainer and facilitator
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
A qualified administrator of the Organizational and Team Culture Instrument (OTCI) through the Center for the Application of Psychological Type.
Certified Professional Coach (The Centre for Coach Training, Portland Oregon)
Certified Group Coaching Leader (BSF Program for Coaches Mary Allen and Eve Gregory)

Our First Fun Fundraiser of 2011

stillmeadowcommunity — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:55:15 +0000

Please join us for our first fundraiser of 2011. All proceeds will go towards a new wood floor for our main meeting space. We are so very excited about this project which we hope to complete towards the end of the year. Please come and join us for a fantastic night of storytelling with Will Hornyak as he weaves a tale of an Irish myth. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

Spirit Circle Gathering

stillmeadowcommunity — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:53:55 +0000

Join us at Still Meadow this Sunday February 20th from 3-5pm for a Spirit Circle Gathering where we will explore Qi Gong.

Experience an easy-to-learn form of Qigong, a sequence of gentle movements combined with mental focus to move energy for health and healing of body/mind/spirit. It is excellent for all ages and experience levels, especially older adults, anyone with chronic or critical conditions, and is an excellent form of self care. Studies show it can help control blood pressure, increase flexibility, relieve insomnia, decrease stress, boost the immune system, increase spirituality. Qigong can be done the rest of your life and complements other healing treatments. Tibetan Three Palms Rising is an astonishingly effective form that can effect rapid healing and connection with spirit. For more information, please call Jo Ann at 503-201-1842.

Heart Centered Basic and Advanced Compassionate Depossession

stillmeadowcommunity — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:57:10 +0000

Join Betsy Bergstrom here at Still Meadow Retreat Center for Basic Depossession training with Introduction to Curse and Thoughtform Unraveling and Advanced Depossession training with Unraveling Complex Sorcery and Thoughtforms. February 24-27, 2011 (Basic) and February 28-March 3, 2011 (Advanced)

Basic Depossession training with Introduction to Curse and Thoughtform Unraveling:

Connecting with and calling in protector spirits and power animals prior to depossession work.
Merging with our Divine, true self-the Divine light which protects us.
Calling in our personal Angels and Archangels.
Guiding the client as a channel for the suffering being.
Strategies to communicate with possessing spirits and move them to the light.
Tracking the divine light that resides in all suffering beings to compassionately heal them.
• Healing the residual tears in the luminous field left after depossession is completed.
Curse unraveling for both negative thought forms and generational curses.
Clearing a curse at its inception, and unwinding the energy through its course.
Tracking through the family lineage of a curse.
How to deal with the random intrusions of spirits wanting to cross over.

Advanced Depossession training with Unravelling Complex Sorcery and Thoughtforms:

Dealing with hi potency possessing spirits and powerful negative beings
Unravelling complex sorcerous workings
Extraction of elemental beings
Powering up protection and maintenance in high intensity shamanic practice

For more information and registration click here

About the facilitator:

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Teacher and Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures. She has been trained by Sandra Ingerman, FSS and a number of indigenous shamans and healers who have encouraged her and shared with her their wonderful teachings. She has worked in various fields of Alternative Healing for more than 25 years.

Warrior Monk Training for Men and Women

stillmeadowcommunity — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:35:23 +0000

Bring balance to the way you go through life… Warrior Monk Training returns to Still Meadow- February 9 – 13, 2011.

Warrior Monk Training is a unique opportunity for greater wholeness by weaving together and balancing the core elements of our lives: emotional healing, authentic spirtuality, life purpose and mission, and clear thinking.
For more information check out or to register check out the Warrior Monk website and their Workshop Brouchure

Winter Solstice Salon

stillmeadowcommunity — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:53:41 +0000

Please join us as we gather to welcome back the light at this time of the Winter Solstice. Our time will be based on the form of a salon or a sharing of ourselves through poetry, prose, music or dance.

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. Salons had their beginnings in the 17th and 18th century in France and were part of the philosphical movements of the times.

So come out to Still Meadow for this fun, inspiring, and free event facilitated by our own Karen Harte on December 19th from 3-5 pm.

Upcoming Event: Fire Initiation Training with Danny Pharr

stillmeadowcommunity — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:21:39 +0000

Join us at Still Meadow Retreat Center December 7-12, 2010 for a unqiue experience, Fire Initiation Training. Facilitated by Danny Pharr Master Firewalk Instructor and personal life coach this event is an extraordinary experience that will change your life. Upon completion, you will be a certified Firewalk Instructor.

You will help people step beyond their limiting beliefs, opening new opportunities for success, love, wealth,fearlessness, confidence, and intimacy.

Deepen your personal understanding of fear, love, and intimacy while experiencing limitless possibilities.

For more information and registration please click here

Spirit Circle Gathering

stillmeadowcommunity — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:29:39 +0000

Join us at Still Meadow Retreat Center for “Breathing In Spirit: Mantra As Prayer” with Tommy Harris, LMT, Reiki Master Shamanic & Sound Healing Practitioner.

This Spirit Circle Gathering event will take place on Sunday November 28th from 3-5 pm.
We will be experiencing the aliveness of Spirit in our bodies as we breathe in the mantra before releasing it as prayer with our own voice. This is the way mantras are meant to be practiced, and the sonic formula works deep within to accelerate our transformation. Several mantras from different spiritual traditions will be experienced

For additional information please email Tommy & Leslie Harris : leslie@bodyofspirit.com