June 1-3, 2018
We were all sorts of excited about our keynote speaker, Carley Mattimore! Carley’s keynote was “Awakening Shamanic Consciousness: A New Birth.” Our element for the Spring Retreat is Air and the direction honored is East.
Carley teaches shamanic breathwork. She is a reiki master. How best to honor our element of Air than with Carley who shared with us her knowledge of becoming an important part of this element.
We are in heightened times of great change amidst great chaos where all we have known seems to be crumbling and dismantling before our eyes. We may feel panic, fear, futility or numbness as the turbulence unfolds around us. Yet there is higher perspective that can support us in trusting the unfolding as we prepare for a new birth of humanity. This perspective is symbolized by the Air cycle of shamanic consciousness; a deeper understanding of how we move through change. Carley Mattimore guided us in exploring the cycles of change using our breath to support us as we assimilate this death and rebirth in our personal and collective consciousness.
About Carley Mattimore
Carley is a Shamanic Psychotherapist who midwives others on their spiritual and psychological path towards healing and wholeness in their lives. She is a gifted practitioner with 30 years of experience working with children, adults and families in both pubic and private practice.
Carley is a Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator and Shamanic, Usui, Tibetan Reiki Master as well as a Healing Touch Practitioner and a Practitioner of the 13 Laws of Lionhearted Leadership. Carley is the co-founder, along with her husband, John Malan, of Aahara Spiritual Community, a 501c3 congregation of Venus Rising in the “Heartland” of Springfield, IL offering psychospiritual workshops in the Midwest. Carley’s first book, Sacred Messengers of Shamanic Africa, co-authored with Linda Star Wolf is due out in July 2018.
Carley Mattimore has been on a shamanic journey from the moment she was born into this lifetime. She has a Scorpio Sun, Capricorn Moon and Cancer Rising and has five Scorpio planets in her fifth house, which is Leo, the Lion. Her life course is a shamanic journey and as such she has experienced many shamanic lifechanging events that include the tragic deaths of her father, sister and husband in car accidents. Early in her adult life, she invested her creative life force energy into raising five daughters to be independent, strong, unique women, all following their own soul path. In addition, she is a shamanic grandmother to seven grandchildren ages 17 to 2.
Information about Carley can be found on several websites:
- www.heartlandhealingartscenter.com
- www.heartofjoyreiki.com/about-carley.php
- www.aaharaspiritualcommunity.org/who-we-are
- www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sacred-Messengers-of-Shamanic-Africa/Carley-Mattimore/9781591432913
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