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~ August 2019 ~
Welcome to the monthly newsletter of the Eagle Condor Council
SPECIAL EDITION/FOCUS ON SACRED ACTIVISM
Wisdom Keepers debut at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival
All Our Relations - Making a Difference in the World through Spiritual Action
Eagle Condor Healing Intensive 2019-2020: Register Now!
Monthly Tobacco Ceremony with Jeff Firewalker
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AUGUST 2019
- 08/05 6:30-8 PM Monthly Tobacco Ceremony with Jeff Firewalker, LeCoeur, 602A Haywood Road, West Asheville, CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 08/16-08/24 Creative Seekers Tour of Scotland with Suzannah Tebbe Davis, Tebbe Davis and Mark Nicol CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 08/22 6:00 - 7:30 PM Gong Bath Group Acupuncture with Krystal Kinnunen, Nourishing Life Center, 207 Weaverville Rd Asheville CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
SEPTEMBER 2019
- 9/26 - 11/16 Foundations of Ritual Online Course with Dr. Daniel Foor, CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 09/27-09/29 2019-2020 ECC Healing Intensive Starts! Primary teachers: Jeff Firewalker and Callan Welder; other teachers: Ellen Kittredge, Sheila Guarnagia and Lisa Wiggins Asheville NC, CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
OCTOBER 2019
- 10/20 -11/3 Weaving the Golden Thread Pilgrimage to Peru with Lea Motlow and don Beto, CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 10/25 - 10/27 All Our Relations - Making a Difference in the World through Spiritual Wisdom in Action with Suzannah Tebbe Davis, Sharon Oxendine, and Sheila Pride, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
NOVEMBER 2019
- 11/08 - 11/15 INKA IMMERSIONS: True Nature in Hawai`i with Elizabeth Jenkins, Naalehu, Hawai'i CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 11/08 - 11/11 Deep Healing and Integration Retreat with Prajna and Master Plant Teachers, Devon England CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 11/15 - 11/22 Deep Healing and Integration Retreat with Prajna and Master Plant Teachers, Hidden Paradise Spain CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
- 11/28 - 3/16 Ancestral Healing Lineage Online Course with Dr. Daniel Foor CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
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Wisdom Keepers Debut at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival
Contribution by Jeff Firewalker and Ben Christie
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The Wisdom Keepers is an organization that provides a platform at major festivals for elders and spiritual leaders from indigenous communities and Wisdom traditions around the world to share workshops, prayer and wisdom, and to collectively vision a more conscious, peaceful, and sustainable world. Firewalker and Ellen have been involved with this organization for a little over a year now.
The Wisdom Keepers are motivated by the accelerated changes that are occurring on the planet today. This is a time of prophecy and we are at the precipice – it is our collective choice as to whether the future is bright or catastrophic. We believe that spontaneous and profound shifts can be sparked when a large number of people are given the opportunity to experience and appreciate traditional wisdom ways. Collectively, the Wisdom Keepers carry holistic, comprehensive and practical worldviews and practices with immediate and relevant application.
Photo Credits Adrian Fisk
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The Wisdom Keepers spent a week at the festival, offering an opening ‘haywarikwy’ prayer to the land and waters, a kind of Andean prayer bundle made collectively which literally means ‘to offer with my own hand.’ We also participated in several opening ceremonies and main-stage events including the spectacular Green Fields opening where Elizabeth Jenkins led upwards of 50,000 people in a collective energy bubble (poq’po) exercise.
During the festival, the Wisdom Keepers led the Procession for the Earth in partnership with Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Oxfam. Emily Eavis, with Kurikindi offered the opening prayers and Jyoti the closing prayers in the Stone Circle field.
Photo Credits Philip Volker
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The Wisdom Keepers also shared talks, ceremonies and workshops during the course of the festival across several venues. We also led a tribute and thanks for the life of environmental and human rights pioneer Polly Higgins and her work bringing Ecocide law into being. We also advocated for the Rights of Nature framework (where natural land and waters are considered as sovereign beings in their own right). We also gave closing prayers at the Avalon Stage, kindly hosted by Nahko Bear and the Medicine People.
Photo Credits Philip Volker and Adrian Fisk
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The Prayer of the Wisdom Keepers is to promote sustained presence of Elders and spiritual leaders at the world’s biggest festivals.
In next month’s newsletter we will share about the Wisdom Keepers UK Summer pilgrimage across England.
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All Our Relations- Making a Difference in the World Through Spiritual Action
Suzannah Tebbe Davis
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“Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating.... It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods...Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”
― Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Oceti Sakowin Camp, Standing Rock, North Dakota, December 2016
The elemental forces have called me, waking me from dreamtime and I have answered yes. One week later, I find myself in Cannonball North Dakota, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, joining thousands who have also been called to protest against the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
I am a long time activist and a teacher of Sacred Activism. This is a model of action inspired by prayer, offerings and ceremony, this diverse community formed through our love for Pachamama ignited in me a promise to carry this work forward no matter what the outcome. The sacred fire was tended to, always in the presence of the elders. There was praying, there was divination, there was music, there was dancing, so much dancing. Dancing and falling and rising again. And always the chant: Mitákuye Oyás'in- a phrase from the Lakota language:. "We are all related," , "All my relations.".
Upon my return, I took two strong actions:
1) All Our Relations, Spiritual WIsdom in Action
Along with my colleagues Sharon Oxendine & Sheila Pride, also longtime activists, in the Spirit of co-llaboration with all beings, we upgraded Sacred Activism and co-created All Our Relations, Spiritual Wisdom in Action, a three day retreat held on the campus of Warren Wilson College, October 25-27, 2019 which offers a new model of constructive, collaborative action, weaving together the principles and practices of Sacred Activism, Yoga, Qi Gong, First Nation and Andean peoples and including breakthroughs in Neuroscience.
All Our Relations Incorporates the principles of sacred activism put forth by Andrew Harvey, weaves together the paths of the mystic and the activist and binds them together in spiritual passion and sacred purpose. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
Compassion in action begins first and foremost with embracing radical practices for self-care and healing. Participants will experience the need to embrace their innate compassion,wisdom and resilience in order to take effective Sacred Action.
Scholarship funds are available to eligible participants.
For more information: www.yourawakenedlife.net
Or e-mail Suzannah at : stebbed@gmail.com
2) Community Roots
My second action was to contact Tyler Garrison, Tyler had, along with a group of other brothers and sisters who were ignited through Standing Rock, birthed Community Roots, Community Roots is a grassroots Asheville, NC, non-profit dedicated to helping communities protect the planet and dismantle corporate rule. My ask was to infuse Radical Action with Spirituality. The answer was a resounding yes! The Community Roots Spirituality Team provides ceremony, prayer, divination and support to the core purpose of Community Roots towards the recognition of the Rights of Nature and its peoples.
The driving action of Community Roots at this time is to pass a Climate Bill of Rights.. For this to occur, we must gather 12,000 signatures by the end of January 2020, in order to put this initiative on the ballet in Asheville.
The core of the Asheville Climate Bill of Rights is as follows:
We the People of Asheville, North Carolina, declare that within the City we have a right to a healthy climate, and that right is violated by the extraction, production, waste disposal, distribution, sale and contracting related to fossil fuels.
(a) Right of Self-Government. All residents of The City of Asheville possess a right of self-government.
(b) Right to a Healthy Climate. All residents of the City of Asheville possess a right to a climate system capable of sustaining human societies, which includes the right to be free from all activities that infringe that right
(c) Right to Clean Air, Water, and Soil. All residents of the City of Asheville possess the right to clean air, water, and soil
(d) Rights of Ecosystems and Natural Communities. Ecosystems and natural communities within the City of Asheville possess the right to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve, and be restored,
In order for this initiative to appear on the electoral ballot in 2020, we must collect 12,000 signature by January 2020. To sign this ballot, you must be registered to vote inside Asheville city limits.
To learn more -or- to join us in this initiative you can:
Attend a 'What Can You Do' meeting.
Every month the Community Roots hosts a #WhatCanYouDo meeting and now we are sharing a bi-weekly online version for people who can't make it in person you can donate to Community Roots.
You can carry a signature sheet with you and collect signatures for this ballot initiative You can attend a community event and volunteer to collect signatures.
You can join one of our committees.
For more information visit us on Facebook: Community Roots, or at our website: www.cmroots.com
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Eagle Condor Healing Intensive,
Asheville, 2019 - 2020
Begins Sept 27th, Register Now!
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It has been such a privilege to build community and share these teachings with over 100 people. This year's intensive marks our 8th journey. If you are interested in aligning to your Soul's purpose more deeply; if you are interested in Nature Mysticism; If you are seeking tools to walk in right-relations; if you are seeking collaborative, honest and loving community; this program might be for you. Feel free to reach out for more information!
"Totally a game changing life experience for me. I would recommend this program to anyone on the path to self discovery." – 2017-2018 program graduate
"The Eagle Condor Intensive teaches hands-on, practical techniques to maintain a relationship with the Earth and all around us, seen and unseen. It is well-thought-out, and the practices are suitable for people with modern, busy lives." – 2017-2018 program graduate
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Monthly Tobacco Ceremony
West Asheville
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In an effort to support and broaden our community-of-practice Cindy Bergh (founder of LeCoeur 602A Haywood Road in West Asheville) and I will be hosting events on the first Monday of every month (with the exception of holiday months, where we may need to adjust the schedule a bit).
On the first Monday of each month we will hold a Tobacco Ceremony led seasoned practitioners and people apprenticing in the Tabaquero path, the specific theme (such as Ancestor Healing, Planetary Prayer, etc.) will be determined just before the ceremony. This format will also allow those in the community seeking to deepen their understanding of the tobacco healing path. To pay for the space, materials and provide a love offering to the facilitator we are asking for a $25-40 donation.
Jeff Firewalker will be hosting the August Tobacco Ceremony
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The Eagle Condor Council supports earth-honoring activities and sacred healing traditions in the Asheville area and beyond. Visit us at:
eaglecondorcouncil.org/events
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Jeff Firewalker Schmitt, PhD
Founder
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Ellen Kittredge, CHC
Co-Founder
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