"Come away, oh human child,
to the waters and the wild,
with a faery hand in hand,
for the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand."

Yeats' poem can be read as a call to gay men to come to the wildness of their true nature and deepen their role in the world of spirit. In fact, we are already at least halfway there because historically and culturally we live "on the edge," as outsiders, outlaws, and innovators, embodying a powerful and unique connection to the imaginative realm. We have had to create ourselves out of the misty, in-between place where we live. In a very real sense we live outside the laws of gender and traditional role models. This betwixt-and-between state does not have to be a place of psychic tension or spiritual separation or tragic disconnection from the larger culture. It is a place of power.

In this workshop we will use shamanic journeying and ritual to tap into our unique power as outsiders, innovators, and witnesses to proper self-love and acceptance. We will explore ways that allow us to manifest our unique, wild, faery nature to bring healing and joy to a world full of weeping.

This is an advanced level for men who have had basic shamanic training and know how to journey and work with power animals. If you have any question about your qualifications, simply contact us and we'll connect you with the facilitators!

Date : July 6-8, 2007
Time: Dinner Friday to end of lunch on Sunday
Location: Easton Mountain, Greenwich, NY
To Register: Easton Mountain website

Contact for more information

Tony Allicino has studied shaman traditions with teachers from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Tom Cowan, Christina Pratt, and indigenous shamans from North and South America, and Greenland. He has facilitated workshops on Core Shamanism, Fires of Transformation, Masks of the Shadow, and Building a Sweat Lodge. A founding member of the Shamanic Compass Drum Circle, he is a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners and has completed Sandra Ingerman's
Two-Year Teacher Training Program.

David Conneely is a shamanic practitioner, dream worker, and member of the New York City Gay Men's Shamanic Circle. David has studied shamanic practice with the Gay Men's Medicine Circle in Los Angeles, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and recently completed a two-year-program in Celtic Shamanism with Tom Cowan. David served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, and is currently a Peace Corps Fellow in New York City working as a public high school science teacher while studying at
Teachers College, Columbia University.

Tom Cowan is a shamanic practitioner specializing in Celtic visionary and healing techniques. He combines universal core shamanism with traditional European spirit lore to create spiritual practices that can heal and enrich one's own life and the lives of others. He is an internationally respected teacher, author, lecturer, and tour leader. He has taught training programs in England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy; and most recently he was the first American shaman to teach in Slovakia.