VISION QUEST
October 1-7, 2012
Joshua Tree National Park
Twentynine Palms, Southern California
"Since time immemorial, poeple have gone to the wilderness to seek guidance and renewal, to let their old lives and old selves die, to find the conditions where spirit may rekinkled, reborn within them."
A Vision Quest is a personal spiritual journey undertaken by someone as a rite of passage, a means towards reaching a turning point in life in order to find oneself & seek a vision for one’s spiritual & life direction. Similar to an initiation in some Native American cultures.
We will be taking this rite of passage in the desert of Joshua Tree National park in the Southern California. Patricia and her assistant teachers Steve Bell and Bob Calhoun will personally guide partipants on this quest which includes 2 days of group teachings, sharing, & ceremony, with 4 days & 3 nights of personal Vision Questing.
Joshua Tree has been the site of Patricia's several personal Vision Quest's and she welcomes sharing this magical place where the vail between the worlds is naturally lifted for journyers to enter the Shamanic realm.
The Benefits of a Vision Quest:
~Curing emotional, physical, spiritual illnesses ~ Discover your mission here 
~Commune with nature, spirit, your spirit guides or deceased ancestors
~ Move beyond out moded paradigam ~ Find truth, balance and peace
The Vision Quest Includes:
~2 telecourse session to prepare for the Vision Quest
~Pick-up & return from Ontario International Airport to the Joshua Tree, (Space Limited)
~Or a car drive from Santa Cruz/San Jose to Joshua Tree and back, (Space limited)
~Meals for Tuesday Oct. 4, breakast/Lunch/Dinner
~One night stay at hotel on Saturday night, (double occupancy can pay extra for a single)
~Informational package on what equipment & supplies to bring
~Pre-Instructions & on site instructionson how to use equipemnt & how to safely do a vision quest in the desert
Cost:$495
For more information: Call 831-457-4056 or email: pwb@cruzio.com
To Register:
Pay for the Vision Questby emailing Patricia at pwb@cruzio.com or calling at831-457-4056 & indicate if you would like to pay by credit card or check. If you want to pay by credit card you will recieve a paypal invoice by email. If you want to pay by check you will recieve a mailing address to send a check to.
Note: After enrollment of workshop you will receive an informational email
Schedule of Events:
~Monday Oct, 1st 5pm, arrival at Joshua Tree set-up base camp
~Tuesday Oct. 2th, prepare for Vision Quest, (Teachings & Ceremonies)
~Wednesday through Saturday Oct. 3th-6th, personal vision quest
~Saturday Oct.6th, return to base camp, returning ceremony & group sharing
~Saturday afternoon, leaving Joshua Tree to a hotel with swim pool & sauna
~Sunday Oct. 7th, morning breakfast and return home
Steve Bell (Vision Quest Guide)
A life- long spritual seeker and a student of Wisdom Teachings. He brings a sense of adventure and a love if the beauty of nature. Steve connects the natural world, seen and unseen, with a sense of wonder and gratitude. For years Steve was a firefight and emergency medicial technician. He has studied hands-on healing and psycho-spirituality at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, earning both a professional degree and a Bachelors of Science degree. He has also studied the body-based psycho-therapy of Core Energetics.
Steve is a Steward and long-term participant of the Hero's Journey Program, a experiential program of self-discovery and transforamtion, inspired by the teaching of Joseph Campbell. He is a founding member of the Sacred Manhood Project, a deep group journey in self-remembrance and life-service. He is an ongoing student of the Tom Brown Jr. Tracker School; deeping his awareness and relationship with Spirit and the ntural world. In 2010 Steve completed a three-year program of the study of Shamanism with Patricia WhiteBuffalo.
As a 25-year resident of the intentional community of Stelle, Il, Steve has had the opportunity to experientially test the spiritual and psychological teachings he has learnied; grounding those teaching in practical experience. Steve brings his heart and his wonder for the natural world to the Vision Quest.
Bob Calhoun (Vision Quest Guide)
A spiritual seeker for the past 25 years, Bob Calhoun’s travels have taken him throughout the world, including Egypt, India and China His journeys have led him to study with many teachers and resulted in acquiring a variety of skills, which he generously shares with others in service. Bob studied hands on healing and reiki for five years at the Michigan Metaphysical Society.
He’s also a certified hypnotherapist under Sol Lewis and studied hands on healing and psycho-spirituality at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. As a registered Yoga teacher, he teaches yoga at VistaMaria, a support program for troubled teenage girls. Bob also studied qigong with Michael Winn, Dr. Yang, and Ken Cohen and is also teaching quigong at Gilda’s, a support center for Cancer survivors.
Bob volunteers at Hospice of Michigan and is a student of the Siddha yoga tradition, which is dedicated to serving and supporting those on the path. In 2010 Bob completed a three year program of the study of Shamanism with Patricia White Buffalo and he currently assists her in her three year Shamanic Training and Personal Transformation Program.
Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree’s nearly 800,000 acres were set aside to protect the unique assembly of natural resources brought together by the junction of three of California’s ecosystems. The Colorado Desert, a western extension of the vast Sonoran Desert, occupies the southern and eastern parts of the park. It is characterized by stands of spike-like ocotillo plants and “jumping” cholla cactus. The southern boundary of the Mojave Desert reaches across the northern part of the park. It is the habitat of the park’s namesake: the Joshua tree. Extensive stands of this peculiar looking plant are found in the western half of the park. Joshua Tree’s third ecosystem is located in the western most part of the park above 4,000 feet. The Little San Bernardino Mountains provide habitat for a community of California juniper and pinyon pine.
Days are typically clear with less than 25 percent humidity. Temperatures are most comfortable in the spring and fall, with an average high/low of 85 and 50°F (29 and 10°C) respectively. Winter brings cooler days, around 60°F (15°C), and freezing nights. It occasionally snows at higher elevations. Summers are hot, over 100°F (38°C) during the day and not cooling much below 85°F (29°C) until the early hours of the morning.
Address:
74485 National Park Drive Twentynine Palms, CA 92277, (760)367-5500
Directions to the park: nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/directions.htm
Home page to site: nps.gov/jotr/index.htm
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BHAKTI TRANCE DANCE
~Native Drumming; with its ability to ground the body deeply within the Mother Earth.
~Trance Dance; with its wild rhythms that free the mind from ordinary state of reality.
~Modern Kirtan; with its ability to merge onewith the divine by chanting sacred Indian Mantras and its danceable soulful beats.
~Shamanic Journey; with its ability to open the heart & integrate deeply mind altering experiences.
This incredible combination of Drumming, Dancing, Chanting and Journeying creates an evening event that will transcend the Spirit to higher states of ecstatic bliss while still keeping participants deeply rooted in our Mother Earth. A true embodiment of Heaven On Earth!
No registration necessary on going event open to the public
Date of class for 2012: January 26 / February 23 / March 15 / Thursday nights / from 7:30-9:00pm
Location:Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave. (At Broadway) Santa Cruz pacificCultural.org.
No fee required; Donations accepted.
For more information: Call 831-457-4056 or email: pwb@cruzio.com
"Thank you for the marvelous event at the Santa Cruz Chi Center. At the end of the journey, I was speechless as it was such a powerful session. There was such a tremendous change in my energy field, I have never before experienced such an amazing thing! There was such a physical change in the room, in the space , in the vibrations..........such a wonderful nothing, Everything. It seems like you performed an amazing cleansing. Thanks again."
Margaret Arnold
“I want to thank you very much for your evening of Shamanic Sound Healing. I appreciate your grounded mother-earth-energy, your wonderful drumming, flute, rattles, your chanting, and your sounds of the wind. I feel very safe on your guided journeys! It is the only time I can mediate without my mind wandering and chattering too much!”
Yvonne Trafton
Rainbow Tribe Shamanic Retreat in the New Mexico Desert. June 6-10, 2012 (New Date!) For personal, humanity & Earth Healings All Earthlings welcomed!
tober 1-7, 2012 Joshua Tree National Park, Ca. 
