HAVASUPAI GRAND CANYON JULY 6-12,2009

Let your magic from within begin to explore this amazing landscape of the Havasupai Tribe. Discover new adventures in this sun drenched lush place and release your hidden potential energy with sacred energy practice.

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Vision Quest in Havasupai, Grand Canyon With

Constantine Darling

All over the world there are societies that have developed ritual, ceremony and physical practices to harness earth energy, utilize it and return it to source - creating an earth/human healing connection. These societies recognize that the earth is a conscious, nurturing entity providing wisdom and knowledge when one stills one's mind, heart, and body and attunes oneself to the frequencies by which earth communicates. What has been developed by Constantine Darling is a two-pronged approach to bring people into balance with the earth. The first prong is energetic while the other is physical. Both are necessary for the work to fully penetrate the ego and bring about important mental, spiritual, and physical transformation. Constantine Darling merges connective dream work, sightless work, eastern and western energy systems of knowledge and practice.

You are invited on a very special journey! Come share in the healing of this sacred land and humanity as we join shamans, sound healers and passionate people who are devoted to serve in this unique time on planet earth. Co-Create a Tribal Membrane and Deep Shamanic Experience of the Earth. Invite the Shadow and explore inner landscapes of the Self. Learn to Harmonize and Energize your body with the Earth’s energetic system using Qi Gong, yoga, shamanic dance, sound healing, and conscious games to create a deeper sense of Self and Community. The facilitators’ unique teaching ability provides a map through your body into the inner contours of your emotional, instinctual and subconscious Self.

Constantine Darling

Constantine Darling has been leading Inner Vision Outer Quest Journeys for 26 years in Canada, and the USA including Hawaii, with hundreds of satisfied clients. He is also a high-level martial artist, with an extensive 40-year career in Dance, Martial Arts, Iyengar & Sivananda Yoga, Pilates, Gymnastics, Acupressure and Applied Kinesiology. He is also the author of the upcoming book "Fields of Consciousness".

ROBERT BIRCH - PLAYBACK THEATRE

Robert Birch is an international actor, director, and Playback theatre
trainer. He graduates this spring with his MA in theatre at the University
of Victoria (ritual and mythology) and is a graduate of the acting program
of Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario as well as the Leadership
Training program at The International School of the Playback Theatre in
New York. He also trained for eight years with his mentor, Annie
Stirling, M.Ed., in group process and psychodrama. Over the past
twenty-five years, Robert has moved from acting and directing in
traditional theatre to social and educational projects encompassing
transformational and sacred theatre practises.

Robert works extensively within communities in crisis, helping people tell
and transform their stories in a safe, compassionate and creative manner.
These programs inspire participants to share their life experiences in an
atmosphere of integrity and trust.

Projects include the exploration of personal and collective issues of
diversity, chronic health and disability, addiction, poverty, racism and
loneliness as well as personal and organizational expressions of
creativity, joy and spontaneity. Within a caring environment and sacred
space this work brings about healing and returns a sense of soulfulness
into the lives of individuals, groups and communities.

Much of his work is based on his experience working with Canada's first
professional Playback Theatre Company called YES OH YES, performing with a
host of outstanding and talented artists.

Over the past ten years Robert has co-written, delivered and trained
thousands of adults and youth around BC in the delivery of a 48 session
U.N. honoured violence prevention program. The R+R, Respectful
Relationships program has been designed to combat the social viruses of
racism, homophobia and sexism.

Robert Birch has led hundreds of programs in Canada, the United States and
Mexico and inspired several theatre companies in the process. In Asia he
further developed 'The Ancestral Story Project' at the World Playback
Conference in Japan and several other performances and workshops in Hong
Kong. He has been published in The International Playback Theatre
Newsletter and in the Playback Theatre Book, Chorus in Hong Kong. His
present creative endeavors include ritual performance, mentorship and the
healing journey of men, while he further explores the connections between
disease, myth and personal story.

In the ‘growing months’ he is a farmer on Saltspring Island where he
walks, writes and reflects.

"Robert is an ancient spirit dwelling in a youthful body. His wisdom of
the process of life is his strength. He is a mentor who will not allow
anyone to become dependent on him. He encourages participants to challenge
themselves. He is an intuitive visionary. He believes in spirit. When I'm
in workshop with Robert I feel included, appreciated and loved."
Fran Bob, Elder

Robert is available for trainings, classes and workshops. Please visit his
web-site: www.playbacktraining.com

RANA SATORI

Rana Satori is an enthusiastic teacher and performer whose greatest passion in life is dance. She has been dancing for over 25 years and is avidly teaching contact improv in Marin and Oakland. She is the core teacher at the Fairfax Contact jam and is an expert in getting 'never-ever's' up and dancing. Her teaching is strongly influenced by Martin Keogh and Anna Halprin. Rana balances the structure and athleticism of contact improv with the sensitivity of her practices in meditation and the Halprin Method in order to bring participants to full presence and create breakthrough experiences. She has also studied and performed site specific dance in nature intensively and was a member of "The Sea Ranch Collective" as well as being a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute and 2 year assistant teacher to Anna Halprin. Her blending of expressive arts, contact improv and site specific nature dance provides a creative, inspired structure to connect with nature in a profoundly deep and artistic way.

VLAD CARDEMA-Ceremonial Sound Practitioner & Sound Healer

Vlad Cardema
http://www.vladcardema.com/index.htm

JULIA MIKK - Breath of Love Breathwork

The Shamanic Breath of Love process assists us in awakening to our true nature, and deepest potential.

The Shamanic Breath of Love style of Rebirthing Breathwork is based on Julia's countless experiences with Dan Brule's Spiritual Breathing, satsangs with Gangaji, and shaman medicine journeys.

Breath of Love teaches us allowing the inner transformation happen in a soft and gentle way, without dramatic venting or catharsis. It imprints new possibilities of effortless living and rich receiving. It helps us let go of the old reactive tendencies to dramatize or contract around intense experiences, and it teaches to relax and breathe no matter what arises in the body-mind.

Julia Mikk is the originator and master facilitator of this work. She teaches how to track subtle contractions and limiting breathing patterns connected to the subconscious fear mechanisms. It is possible to let go of the fearful unconscious tendencies before they grow into dramatic and painful emotions. By guiding our kinesthetic experience, we create new neuro pathways for our body and mind, and we learn to experience safety, clarity, and letting go in every situation. There is no need to perpetuate the resistance or repression until it creates pain in the body. It can be attended gently, through subtle changes in the breath, intention, and relaxation.

The outcome of the session is incredibly powerful. Every single private client has been absolutely blown away by the powerful healing of the Breath of Love sessions. Many of them say that just one session was equal to many years of psychotherapy.

http://www.breathoflove.org/breathwork.html

INTENTIONS:

Our journey starts with our desire to deeply look with our own inner landscape, paying attention to our own somatic feeling body, allowing shadow and unseen energies to emerge. It is here that we locate with delicious awareness and interest the purpose of our outer journey, and hints about how we can use the external natural world for healing and evolving. We use the friction and challenge of external activities to forge and align our emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies, to overcome and allow life to penetrate the deepest corners of self. Then we use the tribe to help us through to birth into being.

Power dreaming is an ancient tool for searching the world of unconscious shadow, as well as creating learning landscapes of dreambody travel. Tribal dreaming enables us to dream link with others in the tribe and dream new and vibrant daytime realities.

The earth has a language and a wisdom of nurturance and interconnectivity.

Learn the art of feeling deeply what you see of and with plant and animal life. Develop the ability to feel the ever-present streams of energy vortexes, or prana pockets. Hear the layers of insect/bird/running stream/ crispy leaves, all in a symphonic arrangement, speaking to our instinctive body awareness. Then communicate through texture, energy waves: hot/ cold/ rough/ soft/ cold. The plant kingdom loves attention: quiet, deeply felt appreciation of form and beauty.

INTERNAL PREPARTIONS FOR YOUR JOURNEY:

Look and listen within your skin: What is my intention on this journey?

Instead of thinking one up, listen deeply in quiet meditation, and wait for your purpose to emerge from the depths of self. Once found, ask the earth and your guides for affirmation. Pay quiet attention to how the outer world is speaking to you through animals, plants, weather, people.

Go for longer and longer walks in nature, noticing qualities of sound and visual beauty of the land. Feel into the space between you and trees, plants, animals, other people. Notice with peripheral sight the delicate differences of space.

Write/ draw/ hum/ sing/ dance, creating a sacred entryway to our Grand Canyon journey.

Invite the unspoken, unseen shadow within you to rise, with the intention of making friends with all aspects of self.

Start a dream journal, using primarily symbols and drawings, only minimal words. Remember your day before falling asleep using as much of your five senses as possible in recall. ask for guidance in your dreamscape.

Be in touch with each other about your pre-journey feelings and discoveries, creating tribal link before we go.

TRAVEL TIMES

July 5, at 4:30am:

-meet at

5 Vineyard Drive

San Rafael, CA

July 5, at 6am:

-Leave San Rafael, CA By Vanpool

12hr Travel by Van from San Rafael to Peach Springs, AZ (680.23 miles)

July 5, around 7pm:

-Arrive at Hualapai Lodge and stay overnight for 1 night

900 route 66 Peach Springs, AZ

Please pre-pay for room in full when you arrive. We leave July 6 at 4am.

July 5, For Those Arriving from Las Vegas:

Arrive at Hualapai Lodge, Peach Springs, AZ and stay overnight for 1 night

900 route 66 Peach Springs, AZ Ph: 928-769-2230

Map -Las Vegas to Peach Springs, AZ

Car Travel is 3hrs 35mn ( 213.15 miles)

Please pre-pay for room in full when you arrive. We leave July 6 at 3am.

July 6, 3am:

Check out of Hualapai Lodge.

July 6, 3am-5am:

Vanpool from Hotel to Hualapai Hilltop, Supai, AZ

to begin Trek into canyon campgrounds.

2hrs drive 70miles Map

July 6, 5am:

-Hike from Hualapai Hilltop,Supai to Havasupai Campgrounds 10mile(16km) hike to Campsite 5-6hrs

July 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11,12:

Havasupai Vision Quest

Camp for 6 nights at Havasupai campgrounds.

July 12, 5am before sunrise:

-Hike out of canyon to top of trailhead to meet Vanpool.

ESSENTIALS TO BRING FOR HIKE IN AND OUT OF CANYON:

NOTE:

Hiking from Hualapai Hilltop to Campsite is 10 miles approximately 5 hours.
advised to carry minimum weight in lightweight knapsacks since you will be hiking for 10 miles approximately 5 hours.
Heavy gear will be carried by mule.

Enough water for the hike in (there is good spring water at the camp site)
In addition to water it is important to bring- Himalayan Crystal Sea Salts or Sports drinks or powders to make drinks to replenish electrolytes, sugar, and other nutrients
Sun Hat (with large brim)
Sunscreen
light sari for shade
Padded Hiking Socks
Hiking boots with padded insoles/ durable sole for hiking on riverbed rubble and rocks
meal replacement bars
Trail mix
2 litre Hydration sack (with tubes)
Water bottle
lightweight knapsack
Fanny Pack( Waist Pouch)
Headlamp
flashlight & batteries
Camera & Film
First Aid kit -gauze pads and first aid tape for blisters
handkerchief or towel to keep wet

ESSENTIALS FOR TO BRING FOR CAMPING & PRACTICE:

CAMPING:

stove and fuel
Plate,bowl, fork spoon, knife, cup
sleeping bag or hammock
lightweight tent
Biodegradable liquid soap
Thermarest or foam pad

CLOTHING:

Water shoes or sandals (Tevas)-with padded straps to prevent blisters
Shorts
Bathing suit
Light rain gear (poncho, windbreaker)
Light pants
Light fleece
Socks
Vest

ITEMS FOR PRACTICE:

3 knitted cloth hacky sacks
2 x 1' sticks measuring from tip of middle finger to shoulder.
Pendulum
Flashlight/ headlamp
Drawing pad and pastels/ crayons
Journal/Pencil/Pen
Scarf or bandana suitable for a blindfold
Water shoes or sandals
Swimming goggles
percussion instruments, flutes, thumb pianos, etc.
sleeping pad or lightweight durable yoga mat (for rocky dirt surfaces)
Back support for sitting for those with back issues please bring a Back Jack for sitting meditation exercises.

PERSONAL SNACKS:

meal replacement bars
Sports drinks or powders to make drinks
Dried fruits
Seeds and nuts

HAVASUPAI CAMPGROUND INFO:

Campgrounds Considered "primitive" or "rustic", the campgrounds are rich with lush vegetation,towering cottonwood trees; and a plethora of crawling grapevines.

1-928-448-2121, 1-928-448-2141, 1-928-448-2174, 1-928-448-2180

P.O. Box 160 Supai AZ, 86435

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Showers are not available, but you may bathe in the creek with biodegradable soap.
Spring water
Composting toilets
Picnic tables
No campfires permitted
Day Ranger available from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. for assistance
Night security available during the tourist season from 7 p.m. - 5 a.m. for assistance.
Trash must be packed out of the canyon.
Canyon temperatures: July avg high 99.0 avg low 66.0 (chance of monsoon rainfall)

Additional costs that are not included are:

Campsite fees
Flight to San Francisco or Las Vegas
Van pools
Car rentals
Food
Helicopter
1 night group hotel rooms
Pack mules
Horses
Camp fees

VANPOOL= $200.00/PERSON

Roundtrip Vanpool from San Rafael,CA to Supai,AZ

BOOKING PHONE OR EMAIL ROBIN:

1.778.893.0738

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GEAR TRANSPORTATION= $47/ 30LBS DUFFLE BAG

Transportation from top of HUALAPAI HILLTOP TRAILHEAD to HAVASUPAI Campground entrance.
PLEASE PACK GEAR INTO LARGE DUFFLE BAG 30LBS/MAXIMUM/BAG. THIS SO THEY WILL FIT AND BALANCE ON MULES PROPERLY.
Cost for each 30lbs duffle bag= $ 47/bag
MAXIMUM WEIGHT PER BAG= 30lbs
bags will be tagged and weighed at hotel
please pay in cash to Robin at hotel.

HORSE RIDE ROUNDTRIP FROM TRAILHEAD TO CAMP OFFICE= $187/HORSE