February 14: Authentic Northern Cheyenne Sweat Lodge with Burton Fisher, Jr. - White Buffalo Stands - at Children of the Light Healing Center, 2 - 5pm. Call 530-926-4326 for details.

February 20: Authentic Northern Cheyenne Sweat Lodge with Burton Fisher, Jr. - White Buffalo Stands - at Children of the Light Healing Center, 2 - 5pm. Call 530-926-4326 for details.

February 21: Winter Awareness Clinic with wilderness guide, Robin Kohn. This is an all day training in which you will learn how to appropriately prepare for a winter trip and what to do for a safe fulfilling experience once you arrive. Two hours will be indoor training and the rest is for exploring your new skills in the Mount Shasta backcountry. Such topics as equipment, how to dress, what to eat and drink, familiarity with the area, weather, use of a map and compass, what to do if you get lost or in an emergency, how to deal with injuries, how to prevent winter illnesses such as frostbite, dealing with hypothermia and altitude sickness, reading terrain, and avalanche awareness will be covered.

Ongoing Sweat Lodge Ceremonies: Northern Cheyenne Sweat Lodge with Burton Fisher, Jr. - White Buffalo Stands - at Children of the Light Healing Center, 2 - 5pm, usually every 1st and 3rd Saturday and by appointment. Call 530-926-4326 for details.

March 20: Imbolc/Spring Equinox Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. A celebration of Gaia's awakening, the equal balance of day and night as life force begins to rise within the plant (and human) kingdom. What is is that you wish to birth into your life during this most powerful season?

April 18: Winter Awareness Clinic with wilderness guide, Robin Kohn. See February 21st for details.

May 1: May Day/Beltane High Holiday Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn a guided Sacred SiteTour with Ashalyn, looking for the first hint of wildflowers! In our fast paced modern times many have lost our connection to the powerful fertility cycles of the Earth. May Day brings the promise of fertility of the land for the coming summer days when the light grows stronger. The celebration of the May Pole is an ancient rite of fertility to bless the land throughout the seasons with abundance for all living things.

May 8 - 10: Annual Wesak Celebration in Mt. Shasta: Unconditional Love is the theme this year. Wesak is named for the legendary convergence of Buddha, Christ and other Masters in the hallowed Wesak Valley in the Himalayas during the Buddha full moon occurring in May each year. Come explorethe many powerful speakers, products booths, gourmet food and more. Call Barry for details, 530-859-9555.

Ongoing, as warm spring days occur: Sacred Springs Tours - celebration and initiations at various sacred springs in the Mount Shasta area, which are also sacred initiation sites. Everything in nature has a symbolic meaning. Natural springs represent connecting to one's Source. When approaching the site following spiritual preparation and intention, these places have the ability to bring forth deep healing and understanding ...the extent of which is really up to each person.

Written in the natural elements of these sacred sites are stories that can be accessed (sometimes called the Book of Nature) to enhance one's inner awareness. Through the process of meditation and sacred communion with the Earth, each individual has an opportunity to access the powerful healing energies of the site for personal and planetary empowerment.

June 21: Litha/Summer Solstice Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. Celebrate the longest day of the year by gathering St. John's Wort, making salves, discovering local wild flowers, evening bonfire and more. In medieval Europe St. John's Wort was revered for its healing properties of lifting depression and returning of the light.This is a time of making tinctures and salves and putting some of these products aside to bring out for the Winter Solstice.

July 10 - 12: Mt. Shasta Guided Vision Quest Retreat: with Ashalyn and Burton Fisher, Jr. (White Buffalo Stands). Choose beytween an authentic Cheyenne Vison Quest with Burton and a Guided Vision Quest with Ashalyn. Includes Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Burton, prayer, songs, Sacred Site Treks, fasting (optional), transformational healing, mineral bath, guided meditations, teachings and more. Includes two nights of lodging in Mt. Shasta and some meals.

August 1: Lughnasadh/First Harvest High Holiday Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. A time when gardens are in their abundant glory and harvest dolls are made of wild oats and rye and placed as a blessing at the threshold of every home, insuring abundance in all aspects of life for the rest of the year. The First Harvest celebration reminds one of the blessings of the Earth's precious resources and what we can do to protect them during these times.

September 22: Mabon/Autumn Equinox Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. A time when we come back to the balance of light and dark. The seeds sown in spring are now in their full maturity - a time of the grand harvest festival when brightly colored deciduous trees weave themselves like golden ribbons between the evergreens in the foothills of the Mount Shasta area.

October 31: Samhain/Celtic New Year Retreat - a guided Sacred Site Tours with Ashalyn. This is a time when the veils between the worlds are the thinnest and one can communicate with loved ones that have passed over. It's a time to honor the dead and release from one's own life what is not needed anymore to make way for new growth. This is the wise Crone time...a time of dark nights, the releasing of fears, and the feeding of sacred fires. It's a beginning time where all is born out of darkness and into the light and the circle and the cycles begin again as the seasonal wheel turns.

December 21: Yule/Winter Solstice Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. The longest night of the year - a time to light a candle as we look forward to the light's return and bring out the healing tinctures and salves we made during Summer Solstice. Winter is also the time of hibernation, where we look into our own heart and kindle the flame within.

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2010
Calendar of Events

January 17: Winter Awareness Clinic with wilderness guide, Robin Kohn. This is an all day training in which you will learn how to appropriately prepare for a winter trip and what to do for a safe fulfilling experience once you arrive. Two hours will be indoor training and the rest is for exploring your new skills in the Mount Shasta backcountry. Such topics as equipment, how to dress, what to eat and drink, familiarity with the area, weather, use of a map and compass, what to do if you get lost or in an emergency, how to deal with injuries, how to prevent winter illnesses such as frostbite, dealing with hypothermia and altitude sickness, reading terrain, and avalanche awareness will be covered.

February 1: Candlemas/St. Bridget's High Holiday Tour - a guided Sacred Site Tour with Ashalyn. Sint Bridget, an Irish goddess turned Saint, is honored this day for her posres of increase, healing, poetry and the blessings of springs and wells. This is a time to honor the fertility of the land, the blessings of candles, the abundance all around us, and the returning of the light.