StarFire Merging
Heart-to-Heart Conversations with the Spirits of Nature
September 17-19, 2027
Earthaven Ecovillage
Near Asheville, NC
Drawing on the ancient shamanic practice of merging with compassionate Upper and Lower world spirits, you will safely become an interactive and divinational channel, allowing for a deepened spiritual dialogue not often experienced with traditional journeying.
These practices will bring forth new relationships with Nature Spirits, Ancestors, Star Beings, and those of universal wisdom. Learn techniques necessary for both oral and written channeling, as well as empathic diagnostic and healing practices.
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I’m so grateful to Earthaven for hosting this program. I was looking for a chance to explore shamanic practice in community and this was perfect. Peter presented a variety of guided practice sessions, each with a different focus, and all followed by Q&A and reflection. I walked away with a notebook full of tools and practices to take home and explore on my own. Peter was a fantastic teacher — highly recommend him and this program for anyone looking to deepen their practice.
What do we mean by shamanism and shamanic practices?
It’s an egalitarian approach to relating to the world that recognizes the importance of the consciousness and intelligence within all organisms, even beyond biological organisms. It’s a way of relating that goes beyond ordinary human relations that is somatic — a felt experience.
Shamanic practices are about enhancing our empowerment through the partnership with spirits.
This program focuses on interacting with animal and human form spirits that transcend physical experience. Working with practices of guardianship — enlisting spirit help, clearing spaces of questionable energies, and establishing boundaries around ritual, communal, and personal space — we will invoke and befriend the benevolent spirits while establishing protection from the wayward or malefic influences. We hold compassionate spirits as relatable manifestations of the Divine that offer wisdom and healing beyond ordinary human capacity. In the partnerships developed between each person and their helping spirits, great positive change can be brought into our lives and world – bringing us closer to each other and more in alignment with the rest of the natural world. The result can be an integrated, essential and transcendent spiritual practice, keeping us grounded in our full humanity and expansive in our minds and hearts. It is work capable of bringing the evolutionary unfoldment of the divine for the greatest good for all.
This workshop is based on the common elements of many shamanic cultures, rather than any one indigenous tradition. Participants will learn a spiritual practice, not a philosophy, theory, or religion. This shamanic practice is complementary to whatever beliefs one holds – be it Christianity, Buddhism, Paganism, Animism, or even Atheism. Anthropological and archaeological evidence from all five of earth’s continents indicate the presence of shamanic practice through pre-history and into the current era. Shamanic practice is the birthright of all people and has been a part of normative consciousness for the majority of human history.
Program
Friday
- 9:30 – 10:00 am – Arrive and check in to housing
- 10:00 am – 12:45 pm – Morning session
- 1:00 – 1:50 pm – Lunch (provided)
- 2:00 – 6:00 pm – Afternoon session
Saturday and Sunday
- 9:00 am – 12:50 pm – Morning session
- 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Lunch (provided)
- 2:00 – 6 pm – Afternoon session
I found this a beautifully designed and executed course. We were able to progressively experience a diverse variety of divination techniques. Just loved it!
Each day includes experiences within shamanic journey trance states that include knowledge expansion, spiritual healing, and compassionate divination. Like a horse transporting one through a landscape, the Drum will take us on a sonic pilgrimage into the places we’re longing to go. Each practice includes time for writing of the experience and verbal sharing within the group.
Previous journey experience in the Upper and Lower worlds is recommended. The Friday sessions will serve as a review for many people, orientation to the terminology used in this workshop, and can help beginners be ready if they are quick studies.
If you have taken Extraordinary Realities with Peter Clark before or with his permission, you may arrive Friday during dinner or Saturday morning. Please contact us if you need to arrive sometime other than 9:30 – 10:00 am on Friday.
Even after many years of channeling, there was much for me to learn in this workshop. Peter is a wonderful, thorough teacher who creates a safe and creative environment for this important work. Highly recommended for beginners and experienced mediums alike
Logistics
Food
Delicious, omnivorous meals are prepared by talented culinary artists from the Earthaven community. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free options available. Snacks and beverages (tea, coffee) are provided. Participants are invited to help with meal clean-up. Many hands make light work.
As much food as possible is sourced from Earthaven and its surrounding farms and gardens, with some ingredients sourced from grocery stores. Our meals are created with seasonal, local, fresh, wildcrafted, humanely-raised, and organic ingredients.
***If you have dietary needs beyond the ones listed here, please be prepared to bring supplemental food to support your nourishment and well-being. Our kitchen cannot accommodate all diets.
*** Although we would like to know if you have any allergies, we cannot provide an anaphylactic safe meal. There is always the chance of cross contamination.
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Program Specific Info
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday lunches are provided.
Instructor
Instructor Peter has always held a fascination with the cosmos and the nature of reality. His compassionate helping spirits first communicated with him in dreams during childhood. His work focuses on teaching, facilitating shamanic healing, and assisting in the expansion of consciousness. Over the years, Peter has been involved in a number of advanced shamanic healing programs, and has been a practitioner working with others and teaching since 2005. 
Peter Clark
Financial Co-responsibility and Scholarships
Because some people have more financial means than others, we have created a sliding-scale fee system to accommodate a range of economic realities. We offer several price tiers and leave it to you to select the most appropriate tier. The price range aims to take into consideration economic disparities, historical injustices, and personal circumstances. The system is designed for those with more resources to support those with less.
At Earthaven and through the School of Integrated Living (SOIL), we strive to practice a culture of financial transparency, authenticity, and generosity. Trusting each other to assess their needs, what is within their ability, and when to ask for help. We are excited to include you in our experiment with financial co-responsibility.
We are now offering self-selected scholarships for many of our programs. No proof of need, no questions asked. Just the clear intention of trust that registrants can assess whether the cost of a program is truly a barrier to attendance and the growth of self and community our programs seek to foster.
In addition, we offer partial scholarships (50% of the middle of the sliding scale) to black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) with financial needs who otherwise would not be able to afford to attend, even with the self-selected scholarships. We understand that BIPOC may experience more financial and institutional barriers to participation, and this is one way we are able to create more access. If you identify as BIPOC with financial needs and would like to receive a deeper scholarship, please contact us.
SOIL endeavors to support the healthy flow of all resources; whether that be monetary or the skills and information that seed cultural change; and widen the doors of accessibility to what we offer.
Cost
General
Tuition Sliding Scale: $325 – $450
Scholarship rate: $250
BIPOC rate: $195
What’s Included
Tuition includes instruction, materials, Saturday and Sunday lunches, and snacks.
Camping and indoor accomodations (Friday and Saturday nights) available for additional cost.