Feedback from Past Participants
I especially appreciated the stress free, safe space you both provided. The guidelines were clearly explained and adhered to. The information was thorough and very well presented. Very obvious that much time went in to planning every detail. This was one of the best workshops I have ever attended. I really appreciated the followup email with so many helpful resources. Kelly and Kelly created a safe, meaningful experience. I’m so glad I participated! Linda
Kelly Arora and Kelly Dignan are a powerful duo. Highly prepared and knowledgeable with the ability to relay their many years of knowledge and experience to make it accessible within two sessions. I had only journeyed with the assistance of others in the past and felt dependent upon them. This allows me the freedom of journeying on my own, and asking my own questions, prompting my own transitions as the situation and my guides lead me. I am grateful! Highly recommend to any seeker of spiritual wisdom. C. W.
I especially appreciated the stress free, safe space you both provided. The guidelines were clearly explained and adhered to. The information was thorough and very well presented. Very obvious that much time went in to planning every detail. This was one of the best workshops I have ever attended. I really appreciated the followup email with so many helpful resources. Kelly and Kelly created a safe, meaningful experience. I’m so glad I participated! Linda
Kelly Arora and Kelly Dignan are a powerful duo. Highly prepared and knowledgeable with the ability to relay their many years of knowledge and experience to make it accessible within two sessions. I had only journeyed with the assistance of others in the past and felt dependent upon them. This allows me the freedom of journeying on my own, and asking my own questions, prompting my own transitions as the situation and my guides lead me. I am grateful! Highly recommend to any seeker of spiritual wisdom. C. W.
Description
Core shamanic journeying is a practice to alter consciousness through techniques such as drumming in order to directly connect to the spirit realm for growth and healing. Core shamanic journeying is not about becoming a shaman. It is for you if you want a spiritual practice that blends ancient wisdom with contemporary life.
Join with others in a sacred community to:
Learn about the history of core shamanic practices
Experience a safe shamanic journey
Consider the spiritual practice of shamanic journeying for your own life
(More background and details below.)
When:
Friday November 5, 2021; 5:00 - 7:30 pm Mountain Time
Saturday November 6, 2021; 8:00 - 11:00 am Mountain Time
Where:
Online by Zoom
Price:
$100
Includes a 30 minute individual session with one of the facilitators used within 30 days of the workshop.
Feel free to share this with friends who might be interested.
Cancellation Policy:
50% refund if you cancel within 14 days before the workshop (by October 22, 2021).
No refund after October 22, 2021.
Core shamanic journeying is a practice to alter consciousness through techniques such as drumming in order to directly connect to the spirit realm for growth and healing. Core shamanic journeying is not about becoming a shaman. It is for you if you want a spiritual practice that blends ancient wisdom with contemporary life.
Join with others in a sacred community to:
Learn about the history of core shamanic practices
Experience a safe shamanic journey
Consider the spiritual practice of shamanic journeying for your own life
(More background and details below.)
When:
Friday November 5, 2021; 5:00 - 7:30 pm Mountain Time
Saturday November 6, 2021; 8:00 - 11:00 am Mountain Time
Where:
Online by Zoom
Price:
$100
Includes a 30 minute individual session with one of the facilitators used within 30 days of the workshop.
Feel free to share this with friends who might be interested.
Cancellation Policy:
50% refund if you cancel within 14 days before the workshop (by October 22, 2021).
No refund after October 22, 2021.
Facilitators:
Kelly Dignan is a spiritual companion who empowers people who want to grow spiritually, experience oneness with all that is, and act to create more love and justice in the world. She approaches her work as a co-journeyer who will help you move when you feel stuck and be supportive when things feel scratchy or messy. She is a mystic with a deep connection to the natural world and a Usui Reiki Master Teacher. This, combined with intuition and her own shamanic practice, are foundational to her work. Kelly's ancestors are from Northern Europe. She has spent over 25 years learning about them and their spiritualities including the shamanic practices they had. Kelly holds a Master of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology and is an adjunct instructor there now. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister. UUism allows her to be spiritually fluid; she is fluent in multiple religious and secular spiritual orienting systems, forcing none of them. She served three Colorado congregations before focusing on spiritual companionship, and before that, she had a 22-year career in business. Kelly is a Board Certified Coach.
Kelly Arora has been a spiritual director/companion for over 20 years. Identifying as spiritually fluid, Kelly is deeply informed by decades of engagement within Christian, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. For the past 10 years, she has focused on Core Shamanic practices. She offers shamanic Reiki healing and guidance sessions to connect people with their spirit allies, access the wisdom of the Akashic Records, facilitate deeper spiritual healing, and experience mind-body-spirit integration. With a doctoral degree in Religious and Theological Studies, Kelly teaches spiritual care at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and in the Interprofessional Graduate Certificate and Master of Science programs in Palliative Care at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She frequently presents, leads workshops, and writes about provider self-awareness, chronic illness and spirituality, and interspiritual dialogue skills. In 2020, she published Spirituality and Meaning Making in Chronic Illness, a book for care providers and people living with chronic health conditions.
Workshop Outline:
Friday evening:
Opening Ritual
Introductions
Definitions
History & Evolution of Shamanism
Avoiding Cultural Appropriation and Spiritual Tourism
Core Shamanic Practices
Closing Ritual
Saturday Morning:
Questions
Opening Ritual
Non-ordinary Reality
Safe Journeying
Practice a Personal Journey (if you choose)
Shared Reflections
Next Steps
Closing ritual
More Background and Details:
For 25 years, I've been exploring my ancestors. I interviewed my grandmas before they transitioned, visited the towns and houses where they grew up, and even traveled to the countries where the ancestors resided before coming to the U.S. I've been especially interested in their spiritualities - Christianity and pre-Christian Celtic religion.
Over time, I've developed a variety of spiritual practices including contemplative prayer, meditation in nature, and core shamanic journeying. It's become clear through my research and experience that many of our indigenous ancestors did something similar to shamanic journeying as a way to connect to Spirit and the spirit world. So when I journey, it feels like I'm tapping into something ancient. It gives me a sense of rootedness and aliveness. And every journey offers insight, guidance and support.
I recently read a book called Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism by three authors who explain core shamanism and how a variety of Christian mystics were experiencing visions and messages similar to what happens in a shamanic journey. The authors describe how their own Christian faith is deepened through the practice of journeying. I love how the book ties my two spiritual lineages together - the ancient and more recent.
Core shamanic journeying isn't a religion or tied to a particular culture. It's a practice that involves altering your consciousness slightly through the sound of repetitive drumming or some other sonic rhythm like chanting or rattling. In the state of altered consciousness, you can discover your own hidden spiritual resources and connect with the spirit realm. Journeying can be integrated with your faith tradition or spiritual orienting system. It's available to everyone without the need to study, be initiated into, or comply with a particular shamanic cultural tradition. And when you learn to journey, you are not learning to be a shaman. (That term and role is reserved for specific cultural traditions.)
So, you are invited to this online workshop which will empower you to journey on your own and find connection, aliveness, guidance and support from the spirit realm.
I'm offering the workshop with my friend and colleague, Kelly Arora. She's a PhD with tons of teaching experience, so her way of presenting is compelling.
We're hosting this workshop on the first weekend of November because it's a time when the veil is thin! All Souls Day, Halloween and Samhain are on or near November 1. We're doing it by Zoom to avoid all the issues with COVID and so that folks from all over can attend.
Now that summer is ending and it's time to snuggle into Winter, perhaps a few hours online with a deep and sacred group of people sounds good to you. It does to me!
And if you have any questions, email me at [email protected]. I'm happy to tell you more.
P.S. If you've done ancestral healing with me, we journeyed to find wise and benevolent ancestors to support you. This will empower you to keep doing it on your own!
Kelly Dignan is a spiritual companion who empowers people who want to grow spiritually, experience oneness with all that is, and act to create more love and justice in the world. She approaches her work as a co-journeyer who will help you move when you feel stuck and be supportive when things feel scratchy or messy. She is a mystic with a deep connection to the natural world and a Usui Reiki Master Teacher. This, combined with intuition and her own shamanic practice, are foundational to her work. Kelly's ancestors are from Northern Europe. She has spent over 25 years learning about them and their spiritualities including the shamanic practices they had. Kelly holds a Master of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology and is an adjunct instructor there now. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister. UUism allows her to be spiritually fluid; she is fluent in multiple religious and secular spiritual orienting systems, forcing none of them. She served three Colorado congregations before focusing on spiritual companionship, and before that, she had a 22-year career in business. Kelly is a Board Certified Coach.
Kelly Arora has been a spiritual director/companion for over 20 years. Identifying as spiritually fluid, Kelly is deeply informed by decades of engagement within Christian, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. For the past 10 years, she has focused on Core Shamanic practices. She offers shamanic Reiki healing and guidance sessions to connect people with their spirit allies, access the wisdom of the Akashic Records, facilitate deeper spiritual healing, and experience mind-body-spirit integration. With a doctoral degree in Religious and Theological Studies, Kelly teaches spiritual care at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and in the Interprofessional Graduate Certificate and Master of Science programs in Palliative Care at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She frequently presents, leads workshops, and writes about provider self-awareness, chronic illness and spirituality, and interspiritual dialogue skills. In 2020, she published Spirituality and Meaning Making in Chronic Illness, a book for care providers and people living with chronic health conditions.
Workshop Outline:
Friday evening:
Opening Ritual
Introductions
Definitions
History & Evolution of Shamanism
Avoiding Cultural Appropriation and Spiritual Tourism
Core Shamanic Practices
Closing Ritual
Saturday Morning:
Questions
Opening Ritual
Non-ordinary Reality
Safe Journeying
Practice a Personal Journey (if you choose)
Shared Reflections
Next Steps
Closing ritual
More Background and Details:
For 25 years, I've been exploring my ancestors. I interviewed my grandmas before they transitioned, visited the towns and houses where they grew up, and even traveled to the countries where the ancestors resided before coming to the U.S. I've been especially interested in their spiritualities - Christianity and pre-Christian Celtic religion.
Over time, I've developed a variety of spiritual practices including contemplative prayer, meditation in nature, and core shamanic journeying. It's become clear through my research and experience that many of our indigenous ancestors did something similar to shamanic journeying as a way to connect to Spirit and the spirit world. So when I journey, it feels like I'm tapping into something ancient. It gives me a sense of rootedness and aliveness. And every journey offers insight, guidance and support.
I recently read a book called Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism by three authors who explain core shamanism and how a variety of Christian mystics were experiencing visions and messages similar to what happens in a shamanic journey. The authors describe how their own Christian faith is deepened through the practice of journeying. I love how the book ties my two spiritual lineages together - the ancient and more recent.
Core shamanic journeying isn't a religion or tied to a particular culture. It's a practice that involves altering your consciousness slightly through the sound of repetitive drumming or some other sonic rhythm like chanting or rattling. In the state of altered consciousness, you can discover your own hidden spiritual resources and connect with the spirit realm. Journeying can be integrated with your faith tradition or spiritual orienting system. It's available to everyone without the need to study, be initiated into, or comply with a particular shamanic cultural tradition. And when you learn to journey, you are not learning to be a shaman. (That term and role is reserved for specific cultural traditions.)
So, you are invited to this online workshop which will empower you to journey on your own and find connection, aliveness, guidance and support from the spirit realm.
I'm offering the workshop with my friend and colleague, Kelly Arora. She's a PhD with tons of teaching experience, so her way of presenting is compelling.
We're hosting this workshop on the first weekend of November because it's a time when the veil is thin! All Souls Day, Halloween and Samhain are on or near November 1. We're doing it by Zoom to avoid all the issues with COVID and so that folks from all over can attend.
Now that summer is ending and it's time to snuggle into Winter, perhaps a few hours online with a deep and sacred group of people sounds good to you. It does to me!
And if you have any questions, email me at [email protected]. I'm happy to tell you more.
P.S. If you've done ancestral healing with me, we journeyed to find wise and benevolent ancestors to support you. This will empower you to keep doing it on your own!
