Sacred Life, Living Earth
A Five Week Course For Men
Many of us are looking for answers, questioning our role in the world, and overwhelmed with feelings of concern, confusion, and even frustration as we face mounting challenges globally, economically, and even spiritually. Times are tough.
This is a spiritual battle as much as it is a social and economic one, and as long as we proceed with the utmost care, caution, and intentionality, we will all make it through stronger in the end.
One way to address the challenges may be by building spiritual readiness.
Spirituality as a sense of connection that gives meaning and purpose to a person's life.
Spirituality is that aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning, purpose, and values in their lives. It assists in defining purpose and experiencing connection to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to the significance of why and what we do. During difficult times, spirituality is a source of strength, hope, and faith to assist in making things sacred, understanding that there is no coincidence.
This crisis silently offers us an opportunity to reflect on the spiritual impact it has on the world and our communities. In this broad sense, the spiritual impact is currently not unequivocally positive; however, we are convinced that in the end, humanity, as a whole, can take a spiritual leap forward.
Thus within our crisis lays the greatest opportunity for a deeper understanding of our true Nature and our spiritual quest and evolution here on Mother Earth. The crisis demands the need for the earth's restoration and is an opportunity for us earth citizens, to unite as one with our core human values in search of prompt solutions and a deeper connection with spirit.
It is important to revive and reveal the story of who we really are as men, in order for our future to make more sense. This way by recapitulating our life story, we have the opportunity to make our story from here on our own, and that will give more value to life. ‘Sacred Life, Living Earth’ is a course compiled of talks, practices, and rituals that enable you to build your spiritual path and readiness and to see your potential and spiritual task more clearly. As men, we need to invoke disciplined use of tools, harness our force, and manage our connection with the earth in a more holistic way. From the perspective of indigenous wisdom especially from the Americas, and with the cosmology of the tribes of the earth we see our environmental, economical, and social crisis as a grand opportunity to heal from within and heal our spiritual connection with the earth.
The earth speaks clearly and the water reflects who we are at our origin. Water, fire, air, and earth, are all the essence of who we are. Yet still, this fundamental law has not been digested enough for all us humans to truly integrate it into our own reality and educational system. We will practice this over the next 5 weeks.
During the course ‘Sacred Life, Living Earth’ you will be guided through talks, practices, and thought processes that enable you to strengthen your spiritual path and spiritual readiness. As a man, you will see your potential task and force more clearly. We will immerse ourselves within the perspective of ancient knowledge and explore tools and techniques that assist us to build our spiritual path in these times and walk positively with heart and grace. We will assist and orientate the wild man in the 21st century. His role as a warrior, leader of his clan, and more importantly lead himself. This course is about self-care and strengthening your core values.
Objectives Of The Course
To inspire and assist in expanding our capacity to transform and open up to spirit.
The course will help connect you with nature and its forces, giving deeper purpose to life and exponential possibilities to be healthier, joyful, and abundant.
During this course, we will explore practices and techniques that will help us to connect to Nature and feed our relationship with the earth.
With ancient techniques such as energetic polarity work, we will practice self-care and orientating our spirit accordingly, thereby maintaining a healthy balance in the body, mind, and spirit.
We will gain a deeper understanding of how we are a channel, and how to navigate our capacity. First preparing and then activating our being/channel to read and feel the earth. Through this practice, our own behaviors, thoughts, and well-being will give us insights into how our channel was always working but necessarily with conscious navigation. Living and Learning is an integral aspect of this course. We will explore tools and techniques that will assist you to strengthen your spiritual path and vocation to walk with your heart confidently.
Through thoughtful self-observation and nature-earth study, we will feel spirit more in our every day. With the strength of spirit and awareness of the moment, we as men can assume our role truly on Mother Earth.
Minimum Time Required Each Week
Hernando Villa
For the last 30 years, he has dedicated his life to the healing of the earth through the wisdom of the indigenous tradition of the Americas. Nando comes from the land of the Quimbaya Nation, thought to have vanished in Colombia. He was exposed to the knowledge of tribes from the Amazon such as Kofanes, Camsras, Sionas, Kaxinawas, and Koguis y Arahuacos, and in the north of the Americas, he was adopted by the seventh church of the Lakota Nation.
He has a background in political science and social environment and was participating for 10 years as an environmental counselor of the regional environmental corporation in Pereira, Colombia, representing the non-governmental organizations protecting the land and people.
For 15 years he was the director of RAICES, a social and environmental NGO bringing practices and methodologies to local communities to organize and use their potential to overcome their own challenges.
Now he is working on a Project called ARKA de la Tierra, which objective is to revive techniques and practices to preserve the land and natural resources. www.arkadelatierra.com
Overview
Men are Spiritual Beings
Video 1
Identifying your thread
Video 2
Crystal: Language and Tool of the Earth
Video 3
Opening the Heart
Video 4
Spiritual Laws
Video 5
Walking a spiritual path: Our Humanness
Video 6
Recap
HOMEWORK: Thought the Origin, by Nando
HOMEWORK: Right or Left Brain
HOMEWORK: Crystal Power Readings
Journal
HOMEWORK: Ritual Exercises - Working with an amethyst stone
HOMEWORK: Ritual Exercise - Ordering your Home
HOMEWORK: Fire Making
Health Assessment
Nature speaks, get ready.
Aligning your mission: How to evaluate your thoughts
Video 1
Orientation
Video 2
Abstaining to Reprogram
Video 3
Listen to your healing
Video 4
Law of cleansing
Video 5
Web of life
Video 6
HOMEWORK: Reading written by Hernando Villa
HOMEWORK: Take the following pictures
HOMEWORK: Negative Cleansing Exercise
Video: Cotton Cleansing
HOMEWORK: Exercise
HOMEWORK: Organs Reading
HOMEWORK: Exercise
HOMEWORK: Detox Recipe
HOMEWORK: Reading - Medicine Wheel
HOMEWORK: Reading - Message from Hopi Elders
Video: Fire Making
Video: Prayer Song
Overview
Cultivating spirit
Video 1
Each Organ has its own nature
Video 2
Presenting ourselves
Video 3
Becoming Real
Video 4
Nature is my Support
Video 5
Witness your truth
Video 6
Channel Creatively
Video 7
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK: Body Map
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK
Drumming Sunset Meditation
Overview
Overview Week 4 Audio
Sacredness
Video 1
Attracting what you need
Video 2
Learning by living
Video 3
Integration
Video 4
Sexuality
Video 5
Self-declarations
Video 6
The Ritual of Returning ‘Home’
Video 7
HOMEWORK: Integration
HOMEWORK: Self reflection
HOMEWORK: Fire building Week 4
HOMEWORK: Alter work
HOMEWORK: Viewing
HOMEWORK: Meditation and Treatments
Overview
Life is the every day ceremony
Video 1
Law of attraction; balance
Video 2
Spiritual retribution
Video 3
My body is a prayer
Video 4
Attributes of spiritual payments
Video 5
True resolutions
Video 6
HOMEWORK: Reading
HOMEWORK: Make positive payments
HOMEWORK: Video
HOMEWORK: The Path of the Heart
HOMEWORK: Intentions
HOMEWORK: SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
HOMEWORK: Charts