One Day- Coyote Institute Trance-formative Ceremonies for Healing
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We invite you to gather with us in the community to explore the “medicine” of creating ceremonies of the living spirit together. Led by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, and Peter Blum, we will discover that an integral part of this process is to work with our stories. What are the stories that we tell ourselves and others? Do they empower us; enrich our lives? Or are they stories that place us in the role of victims, disempowered, and with impoverished lives? Learn how, through a narrative approach, we can help each other craft better stories.
Within our approach, we recognize that non-ordinary states of consciousness facilitate personal transformation and the creation of new stories. With this in mind, we will work through imagery, ceremony, hypnosis, prayer, singing, drumming, drawing, mask-making, sacred drama, and ridiculous humor to find these non-ordinary or liminal spaces.
Along with group exercises in the Sanctuary, participants can utilize the natural beauty of 23+ acres of wooded mountainside and streams where the N.E.S.T. is situated, just a few minutes from the center of Woodstock, NY. The final day of this 3-day retreat includes the ancient purification lodge ceremony sometimes called “inipi” or “stone people’s lodge”, followed by a potluck dinner.
Facilitators
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, focusing on what Native culture offers the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine; Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry; and his most recent book, with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story. He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Barbara Mainguy studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto and received her master’s degree in Creative Arts Psychotherapy at Concordia University in Montreal. She has co-written Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story with Lewis Mehl-Madrona. Currently, she works with Lewis in Orono, Maine, and is the Director of Education for the Coyote Institute in Orono. She is affiliated with the School of Social Work at the University of Maine.
Peter Blum, C.Ht., M.S.C., lives in Woodstock, where he has practiced Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP, and sound healing for three decades. He is a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists, and is Director of the Hypnotic Education Division of Coyote Institute. Peter has been honored with numerous awards in the field of hypnosis and in 2021, was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame.He has studied with Beautiful Painted Arrow (Joseph Rael) and Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and is also well known for his work in the field ofsound healing.
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Not sure which sliding scale option is right for you?
Take a look at our Green Bottle Comparison to help you identify yourself on the scale.
We invite you to gather with us in the community to explore the “medicine” of creating ceremonies of the living spirit together. Led by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, and Peter Blum, we will discover that an integral part of this process is to work with our stories. What are the stories that we tell ourselves and others? Do they empower us; enrich our lives? Or are they stories that place us in the role of victims, disempowered, and with impoverished lives? Learn how, through a narrative approach, we can help each other craft better stories.
Within our approach, we recognize that non-ordinary states of consciousness facilitate personal transformation and the creation of new stories. With this in mind, we will work through imagery, ceremony, hypnosis, prayer, singing, drumming, drawing, mask-making, sacred drama, and ridiculous humor to find these non-ordinary or liminal spaces.
Along with group exercises in the Sanctuary, participants can utilize the natural beauty of 23+ acres of wooded mountainside and streams where the N.E.S.T. is situated, just a few minutes from the center of Woodstock, NY. The final day of this 3-day retreat includes the ancient purification lodge ceremony sometimes called “inipi” or “stone people’s lodge”, followed by a potluck dinner.
Facilitators
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, focusing on what Native culture offers the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine; Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry; and his most recent book, with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story. He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Barbara Mainguy studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto and received her master’s degree in Creative Arts Psychotherapy at Concordia University in Montreal. She has co-written Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story with Lewis Mehl-Madrona. Currently, she works with Lewis in Orono, Maine, and is the Director of Education for the Coyote Institute in Orono. She is affiliated with the School of Social Work at the University of Maine.
Peter Blum, C.Ht., M.S.C., lives in Woodstock, where he has practiced Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP, and sound healing for three decades. He is a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists, and is Director of the Hypnotic Education Division of Coyote Institute. Peter has been honored with numerous awards in the field of hypnosis and in 2021, was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame.He has studied with Beautiful Painted Arrow (Joseph Rael) and Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and is also well known for his work in the field ofsound healing.
Upgrade and add on accommodations to deepen your connection and stay at the N.E.S.T
Not sure which sliding scale option is right for you?
Take a look at our Green Bottle Comparison to help you identify yourself on the scale.
We invite you to gather with us in the community to explore the “medicine” of creating ceremonies of the living spirit together. Led by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, and Peter Blum, we will discover that an integral part of this process is to work with our stories. What are the stories that we tell ourselves and others? Do they empower us; enrich our lives? Or are they stories that place us in the role of victims, disempowered, and with impoverished lives? Learn how, through a narrative approach, we can help each other craft better stories.
Within our approach, we recognize that non-ordinary states of consciousness facilitate personal transformation and the creation of new stories. With this in mind, we will work through imagery, ceremony, hypnosis, prayer, singing, drumming, drawing, mask-making, sacred drama, and ridiculous humor to find these non-ordinary or liminal spaces.
Along with group exercises in the Sanctuary, participants can utilize the natural beauty of 23+ acres of wooded mountainside and streams where the N.E.S.T. is situated, just a few minutes from the center of Woodstock, NY. The final day of this 3-day retreat includes the ancient purification lodge ceremony sometimes called “inipi” or “stone people’s lodge”, followed by a potluck dinner.
Facilitators
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, focusing on what Native culture offers the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine; Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry; and his most recent book, with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story. He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Barbara Mainguy studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto and received her master’s degree in Creative Arts Psychotherapy at Concordia University in Montreal. She has co-written Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story with Lewis Mehl-Madrona. Currently, she works with Lewis in Orono, Maine, and is the Director of Education for the Coyote Institute in Orono. She is affiliated with the School of Social Work at the University of Maine.
Peter Blum, C.Ht., M.S.C., lives in Woodstock, where he has practiced Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP, and sound healing for three decades. He is a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists, and is Director of the Hypnotic Education Division of Coyote Institute. Peter has been honored with numerous awards in the field of hypnosis and in 2021, was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame.He has studied with Beautiful Painted Arrow (Joseph Rael) and Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, and is also well known for his work in the field ofsound healing.