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The Journey Begins: Orientation, Principles & Tools
An invaluable preparatory course for all Anima students, including students of the Healing Arts – featuring in-depth orientation and self-exploration, inspiring us to define and spell-out our personal principles and code of honor, making us ever more effective on our chosen path.
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From the Ground Up: Foundations in Traditional Western Herbalism
A comprehensive exploration of the principles of Traditional Western Herbalism.This five part course is designed to provide the student with a competent and experiential grasp of the principles and practical skills that forms the basis for applied herbcraft. Experiential assignments and exploratory questions are included in every lesson to help the student fully integrate the lesson that the next will be built on. This course is accessible to intent and focused beginners as well as clinical practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of Traditional Western Herbalism.
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Sense of Place and The Search For Home
Anima course for deeper connection to self and place, through deepening awareness of the natural world we are a part of – skills for connecting to wherever we are, as well as tools for finding that special home that may be calling to us.
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Practices for Presence
Whatever our path and purpose, we benefit the most – and are most effective – the more present we can be for it. Welcome to a course designed to increase our awareness of the vital present moment, deepening our experience, revealing to us our lessons, and rewarding our senses.
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The Burden Basket: Evaluating & Choosing The Burdens We Bear
Rather than compiling endless amounts of new ideas and obligations to our metaphoric basket, it’s tremendously useful to first set aside – at least for a time – every burden that we carry. Once we have been emotionally as well as conceptually emptied of them, we consciously and purposefully choose which ideas, visions, relationships, commitments and roles we want to bear.
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Rewilding: Reclaiming & ReCreating Wild Self, Culture & Place
Wild means self-willed and true to one’s nature. To ReWild is to be freed and enlivened, meeting our natural needs and answering a wilder calling, connecting to and learning from the natural world, doing what it takes to become a native again, resisting habit and control, assuming responsibility instead of being a victim, and acting out of a sense of authority that can come only from within.
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Sensory Awakeness & Embodiment
Both the effectiveness of our personal practice – and how much enjoyment we draw from our existence and efforts – depend on how truly awakened, enlivened and embodied we are. In a modern world contributing to distraction, diversion and numbing-out, a course in increased sensory awareness is of great benefit to our learning, work and purpose… and can deepen our experience of life’s pleasures.
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Expanding & Deepening Awareness: Tools for Noticing & Understanding, Healing & Improving
The more aware we become, the more effective we can be parents and healers, activists and artists, and the richer our experience of life. This course helps us expand our awareness of the magical patterns of relationship, cause and effect around us, while deepening our awareness of reason and purpose, relevance and ramification.
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The Anima Medicine Wheel: A Dynamic Interpersonal Tool
The Anima Medicine Wheel is a distinct, practical, nature inspired and experience tested model for understanding and diagnosing ourselves and others… an impressively powerful system for all practitioners and seekers of a full and more effective life.
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