Sacred Circles Institute in Washington State is something I have experiences with. The founder, David Thomson and Mattie Davis-Wolf are incredible people.
The website offers a home study course, but if you contact them they may have some of the best ideas and suggestions for you.
I was privileged to have the opportunity to proof and evaluate the original home study course entitled "Walking the Sacred Hoop", and it's excellent, too. There are week long intensives held on their property twice a year.
One year I held down the fort - cockatial sitting, lol - while they taught in Poland by invitation. They've taught at Stonehenge and many other locations.
They also run a prison project where the try to reconnect incarcerated men and women with their own spirituality through an indiginous path. They do it at no cost and have made amazing changes in these peoples' lives.
David and Mattie are the real deal. They are more interested ALWAYS in your path than your wallet. They also owned some beautiful land on southern Whidbey Island, Washington. When we built the sweat there, we did it with a Cherokee medicine man in the traditional Cherokee tradition.
They've taken a lot of flak for "stealing native traditions', but they - and I - believe that Spirit calls, and calls to the heart, not the ego. Meaning, we can never "own" Spirit, and all paths to Union are sacred and should be freely given.
Give 'em a call, and tell 'em Kate said hi. It's been a long time.
And so you know, I'm NOT trying to sell you anything, and they won't, either. But if you are interested in something along indigenous lines that is NOT commercialized, they are the first resource you want to check.
Namaste.
Amelia
Mary, what part of the country are you in? Can you even travel?
)? Would you mind telling me where it was? I imagine you have to go to the SouthWest, am I right?
