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- The Power of Dance
2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Wednesday, January 6 at 2:00pm
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
“The difficulties we face can motivate our greatest growth and healing,” says our guest Marsha Scarbrough, author of Medicine Dance: One woman's healing journey into the world of Native American sweatlodges, drumming meditations and dance fasts. “But you have to follow whatever healing path inspires you, no matter how... crazy!”
This week Marsha will share what she has learned about the power of dance to heal from her work with Native American teacher, Beautiful Painted Arrow/Joseph Rael and Ayo Adeyemi Nigerian master drummer/ Yoruba ceremonial leader.
In indigenous cultures, dance is not a performance. It's a meditation for the dancer. The movement itself is prayer. Dance and rhythm are the means by which shamans can repaired or restored vibration. Because we are actually composed of vibrating energy, it makes sense that rhythm, dance, and ritual can be used to heal us.
The possibilities to create global and personal healing are endless when you have a group trance with positive intention, rhythm, and the power of dance.
Repair and restore with this powerful healing tool...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, January 6th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
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As a dancer in New York City Christina Pratt asked “why am I here?” one too many times. After a trip to Ecuador a spontaneous shamanic initiation experience profoundly awakened her and her question was ...
Christina Pratt As you prepare for friends and family for the holidays, take the "blessings challenge". See what happens if you go through your day offering blessings, the larger the perceived offense the bigger the blessing. It will certainly confuse things, but coyote is a great teacher...
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
“Blessings strengthen us, subtly or powerfully depending on the person giving the blessing and the strength of the blessing itself,” explains our host and shaman, Christina Pratt. “What is important to notice is that the act of Blessing another strengthens both the one receiving the blessing and the one offering it.” B...lessings can empower us, bring us back into right relationship with ourselves, or protect us.
What is a blessing and what makes it strong? Blessings can be a formal, complex ritual process or a simple act of love, like calling on the spirits of the family totem to protect a child as she leaves for school.
Blessings call on energies of the invisible world, like elementals, nature spirits, and angels, and ask for their participation in our lives in specific ways. Whether simple or grand, our blessings are most powerful when they are an expression of a deep relationship we have already cultivated with spirit.
Join us this week as we explore the lost art of Blessings.
Strengthening both the giver and receiver...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, December 30th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
“How do I let go?” is the most frequently asked question of host, Christina Pratt, when she facilitates clients in the release of the old self and the awakening of the new.
Winter is the time of stripping away the old and resting in the long, dark nights. This fall we discussed moving beyond good and evil, looking pas...t sin to focus on destiny, and the Essence energies of Gratitude, Faith, and the Return—all to stir up the comfortable patterns of the self—so now what?
Now we need to strip away all we have found within our selves that no longer serves us and surrender that energy to the winter fire. But, how?
This week we will discuss how we can allow these little deaths, and with the gifts of self revealed within, to lay the path to rejuvenating an authentic life. In this way we can find the pleasure in our imperfect lives, the lost gifts of self that awaken the heart, and joy in the cultivation of a deepening relationship with our self.
Lay the path to rejuvenating an authentic life...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, December 23rd
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
How do you fill the well of your well being, especially when you feel tired, cold and exhausted?
As adults we struggle in a dynamic between feeling the desire for experience and the need to return to touch the root of our essence, to replenish and restore. Culturally, the desire for experience wins most of the time. We... tend not to take the time to reach the Source unless we are forced to by illness, exhaustion, or breakdown. Even then, we rarely spend enough time there to fill the well and remember why we are here.
Winter is the season of return. It is the time to rest and slow down. For most just slowing down is the challenge. We think all we need is to catch up on some sleep or restart our daily meditation practice. But we miss the point. These are not the return. They only hold the space for it.
To return and replenish we must touch the Void and go into the source of our deepest dreaming. Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as we explore how to restore your link to life.
Filling the well restores your link to life by touching the root of your essence...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, December 16th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Christina Pratt I wanted to share this quote from my teacher on the show today, but I couldn't work it in. "Shorten the distance between the truth you tell yourself and the life you are living." Blessings
Christina Pratt Winter is a great time to go within and to ask our selves what is essential to me. I hope the shows this month will give us something to take into the winter cave worth chewing on for awhile. Let's all emerge from the long winter nights clear about the few things that really matter and willing to live for them.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
If you say, “I love that show” and “I love my car”, what does it mean when you say, “I love my child” or “I love my wife?” The essence of love is weakened by casual or careless usage.
Why does it matter to some that others take the Lord’s name in vain? Because casual and careless usage weakens the essence of The Crea...tor.
Don’t think this matters? Well, how do you feel when you pour your soul into a project and it is treated in a casual, ordinary, and careless way? We strengthen or weaken the essence energies through the quality of our attention to them. Essence energies are “essential” because they are the energies that nourish the soul.
Shamanism gives us the skills and awareness to call on the essence energies, to tend them and to create a relationship of gratitude and reciprocity with them. Then they are there for the soul to grow strong and flourish.
Join shaman and host, Christina Pratt, as she explores the essence energies of life and why your relationship to them matters.
Your relationship to the energies that nourish the soul...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, December 9th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
“Faith is freefall. It is the liquid state of grace in which all change is possible,” explains shaman and host, Christina Pratt.
“Without faith we are unable to cross that gap between what was and what needs to be.” It really doesn’t matter whether that gap is the size of a whole life that you are being asked to lea...ve behind or the microscopic gap between two neurons in your brain as you desperately try to think a new thought, with out faith we cannot cross that Void.
The most interesting thing about faith, given humanity’s history of killing each other over it, is that it doesn’t really matter what you have faith in. In terms of transformation and enlightenment it only matters that you are capable of that state of grace; that you can surrender all that you are and know to simply be in a state of faith.
Join us this week as we explore the power of faith. When is faith the excuse for delusion and fantasy thinking and when is it the power needed to dance with the Unknown?
Crossing that gap between what was and what needs to be...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, December 2nd
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Christina Pratt I feel this was one of the most important shows of the year because gratitude, or more precisely living in a state of gratitude/reciprocity/connection an essential shift we must all make. There is no true relationship with spirit until we understand the that the relationship goes both ways. If you have not mastered t...his with the people in your life how can you expect to do it with Spirit? or visa versa?
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
“Gratitude as a function in life that makes things work out,” says our host, Christina Pratt. When we are without gratitude we are without perspective. The visionary capacity of the heart slips into doubt and we fixate on what is not working.
Living from a stance of gratitude is a choice that allows you to shift into ...the realm of energies where the coincidences of things come together for you. Join us as we discuss the power of gratitude to bring the blessings of life to you.
For the Qechua, an ancient Peruvian shamanic people, gratitude is not only something that we needed to feel. Gratitude must take form; it must be part of the labor, love and wisdom of a society. It is not enough to say, “thank you”; gratitude must be made concrete through action and intent.
The power engages when you show gratitude at all times, make every gesture of your life a labor of love and retribution for the gifts you receive and will receive. Give thanks for all of it; it is the miracle of life.
Allow coincidences to come together in your life...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, November 25th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
Your destiny is already present. It is here with you from the moment of your birth, and yet you are unclear. What you miss is that Life is constantly showing you the steps, but you don’t know how to hear, read the signs or follow the steps. In this behavior you commit the one True Sin, you stand in the way of your ow...n destiny.
With shamanic skills we can engage with all of our life—even our sins and those committed against us—and see them for what that they are—the path to our destiny. Join host Christina Pratt as we discuss “sin” in shamanism and it’s relationship with your destiny.
Explaining sin as a “moral evil” is a challenge in a shamanic world where everything is connected and all are One. The threat of sin only really works in non-shamanic systems that profess a fundamental separation from God. However if everything is a gift, then what is sin?
Even sin can be a gift, a stone to be turned that, in the turning, moves us a little further along the path to our destiny.
Are you standing in the way of your own destiny?
Time:2:00AM Wednesday, November 18th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
Why Shamanism Now - Internet Radio Show
"...one of the most sensual, deep, and delightful experiences I've ever had. I realized I'm not alone in believing that sex can be both sacred and fun." These are the words of a participant in the groundbreaking, healing work of our guest, Gina Ogden, PhD.
Ogden is an author, licensed marriage and family therapist, dip...lomate in sex therapy, and practitioner of ceremonial shamanism. She joins us this week to discuss how shamanism offers us the critical element in finding the path through our wounds to the robust, sacred and fun sexuality our shamanic ancestors enjoyed.
Through shamanic ritual, individuals at any age can find the sexual healing necessary to enjoy a pleasurable, passionate sex life. Gina will share ISIS, her study on integrating sexuality and spirituality and her breakthrough idea to use shamanic cosmology to organize her findings, thus becoming the first to effectively broaden the understanding of sexual experience beyond limiting notions of function and dysfunction.
Integrating sexuality and spirituality...
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:2 PM PST on 7th Wave Network.
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