Online Courses With Chris
The Best of Chris Anywhere You Are
Chris’ introductory workshops, courses, and series of evenings are a great opportunity to learn new skills and to discover valuable tools to navigate these changing times. Join Chris and others as she offers a variety of online programs throughout the year. These include, the Medicine Wheel Introductory Courses, Introduction to Shadow, and more.
“I stepped into the Wheel to learn the ancestral wisdom of life, to understand how to be in service to life with an open heart. The Wheel gifted me all this and so much more. Now I know how to be in service: with certainty yet without knowing, with and through my whole body.”
-Mihaela
Foundations of the Medicine Wheel
Finding Peace in the Face of Change
Our online Medicine Wheel Foundation Classes have become an anchor point in our week and in our practice, and they are a wonderful way to stay connected with like-minded souls. No two series are ever the same: this time, it’s all about finding the peace within ourselves, finding maps and learning tools to get there, and finding our way back if we lose our bearings.
We have offered this series in translation and to suit different timezones, too, including Romanian and French. As always, more details and booking are via Eventbrite.
Map of the Inca Medicine Wheel
The ancient peoples left us maps to guide and teach us how to stay in balance and harmony with all of creation, so that we would be able to hold a still note and a vision of the future within the turmoil and upheaval of the present. This session invites you to step with us into this map and discover this unique and powerful tradition that has inspired our own soul’s journey into wholeness. You will learn how to open sacred space, and we’ll guide you on a journey around this beautiful Medicine Wheel that is a bridge (chakana) from where you are now, to where you would like to be.
Seeing the World Through the Eyes of the Shaman
When we shift our perspective, the world around us also changes, and we can find that something once appearing impossible or hopeless is suddenly transformed so that we see the gift in our situation and an opportunity for something wonderful. The Archetypes that we work with in our Medicine Wheel training (Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird, and Eagle-Condor) help us to see the world differently, to shift our perspective from one that feels caught in reaction to one that helps restore harmony. In this session, Chris will take you on a journey with the Archetypes that we work with, which represent for us the four unifying principles of creation itself. These allies hold energetic principles for us, so that, as we grow our personal relationship with them, they can help us to transform our world, both inner and outer. You’ll also learn a meditation to help shift your perception using these archetypical forces.
Cleansing the Energetic Body for Health & Wellbeing
Another of our allies in this tradition are the stone people. The stone people, with their ancient, quiet and powerful wisdom, can help us to keep the energy body clear of heavy energies (’hucha‘ in the Quechuan language). This process can help to remove pain and discomfort from the body. The stone people are known as ‘record keepers.’ The most important wisdoms throughout history have been drawn or carved into stone. Stones remember well and they can also help to remind us of our true nature. (For this class, you’ll need to have with you TWO STONES that fit into the palm of your hand – not too big, and not too tiny – which you can handle easily, or your Mesa, if you have one.)
How to Disengage Fight or Flight
In a world full of external stimuli over which we have little or no control, we can find ourselves caught in a fight/flight/freeze/faint response. When we are on red alert, we become hypervigilant and have a tendency to either overreact to situations or ‘check out’ energetically. If we go to freeze/faint mode we might put our head in the sand and disappear ourselves. All of these strategies are useful up to a point. Long term, however, they use up too much of our available energy. This session shares with you a practice that disengages that fight/flight reflex when it’s switched on, using two of the archetypical allies that we work with, Jaguar and Eagle/Condor. You’ll learn how to come back into your body after a shock or trauma; how to bring yourself and others back into a calm and peaceful state; and how to bring yourself into right relationship with the earth.
Rites and Rituals & the Power of the Mesa
This session sheds light on the importance of working at the mythic level and how this helps us to stay out of the emotionally laden limbic brain. Chris tells the story of the energetic transmissions that we receive on our journey around the Medicine Wheel and how we grow our medicine through the mesa, the medicine bundle that becomes our altar of peace and stillness. We will end the evening with a meditation that connects us with (or grow if you already have them) the Bands of Power and Protection, vital protection and support that we can rest in as we navigate times of uncertainty. These bands not only support our journey through life, but also align us with the five elements so that we know with certainty that we are safe and held.
Sandpaintings and Dealing with our Issues
In this session, Chris shares a powerful practice that you can do at home when we have the experience of being ‘triggered.’ When something rattles or upsets us, we have an opportunity to do something about it! Sandpaintings are the landscape upon which we work with our personal issues. They help us to keep out of the dramas that are ever present in our world. And they teach us how to stay balanced and centered.
“The shadow workshop Chris led helped me understand I’m so much more than what I’m aware of and also influenced by so much more than I ever considered.”
-David
Introduction to Shadow
Befriending our Shadow
This 3 part course helps us to understand how we relate to ourselves and others, why we prefer attachment to authenticity, and why we do the strangest things as humans, even things that bring us the very things we don’t want!
This course helps us reclaim the very things that have stopped us from living life to the full and having deep, meaningful, loving relationships.
As we dive into our shadow aspects we discover the gold that lies within and how our passion and creativity have been waiting in the wings for a chance to take center stage in our lives. As our sovereign self begins to shine through, we discover the kind of connections and the kind of life that our hearts really yearn for.
Shadow work is what Carl Jung calls Holy work. I believe it to be the work of the Heart Warrior.
During this 3 part course you will learn some powerful tools and techniques for reclaiming your shadow aspects. We will shine a light into those places where we are holding ourselves back, where we are sabotaging ourselves, where we are judging ourselves and labelling each other, and where we come into conflict with ourselves and others. When we make peace with our shadow self then we can finally end the war with the enemy who lives within (and without), and focus on becoming ALL that we could be.
We have offered this series in translation and to suit different timezones, too, including Romanian and French. As always, more details and booking are via Eventbrite.
Part 1: Heroes and Villains
The Triangle of Disempowerment is how we have learned to relate to ourselves and to others. We are all susceptible to what seems to be this universal and very compelling dynamic: victim, perpetrator, rescuer. Even without realizing it, we can find ourselves drawn into these dramas over and over again. In this session you will experience how much of our personal power is tied up here , and you will discover ways to shift this.
Part 2: Shadow & The Black Bag
This Black Bag is where we metaphorically hide all those parts of us that we deem unacceptable. These orphaned aspects of us do not go away; they show up as people we can judge, enemies we can hate, or heroes we can worship. And they show up over and again in the dramas that we play out personally in our relationships and collectively in our society.
When we give away aspects of our original psyche in order to be loved, accepted, valued, or acknowledged we end up wearing a mask and disguises that make us feel valued. But at the same time, we know somewhere in our psyche that this is not the truth of us. We end up feeling like an imposter or a fraud because there’s so much of our authentic self that is hidden away.
In this session you will experience the power of lifting the shame filled parts of our psyche into the light of compassion and understanding. This work is deep, transformational and empowering, but also a lot of fun too!
Part 3: Reclaiming our Sovereignty
We all have ‘gremlins’ whose main reason for being is to keep us safe and to protect the most vulnerable part of our hearts. But deep in our psyche lies the gold that we have been hiding. The metaphor of the fire breathing dragon is in many cultures, and in those old stories we have to slay the dragon in order to regain our power. This is an old story that follows the path of war and conflict, which for eons has been our ‘modus operandi’. There’s a new story, a different myth emerging, and in this session we discover that by ‘naming’ the dragon we witness with incredible compassion the release of our gold onto the waiting world. This is the return of our sovereign self.
“I’m incredibly grateful to Chris and her team and this medicine because for the first time in my life I know what it means to feel at home – I’ve finally come home to me!”
-Deb
