We are gathering to support Eagle Dancers in creating their ceremonial items for Eagle Dance at Spirit Canoe Lodge. *It is required that you email Dianne prior to Craft Day to learn what materials you need to bring. I will send more information upon contact: sustainwellnesscoaching@gmail.com

A leather hole punch, glue, and other simple supplies will be provided to share.

Cost: Donations are appreciated for Dianne’s time, teachings and use of crafting materials.

*Once again, it is required that you email Dianne prior to Craft Day to learn what materials you need to bring at: sustainwellnesscoaching@gmail.com

Learn About The Upcoming Eagle Dance

*RSVP to Dianne for the Zoom link at: sustainwellnesscoaching@gmail.com

An Eagle Dance is a sacred, meditative experience of personal and collective prayers. The participant dances or walks their prayers to the center tree.  The Tree of Life acts as an antenna to Spirit as we pray for guidance from the Universe in the coming year. Dancing keeps us in our bodies and out of our head so that we can receive messages from Spirit with care and with clarity. The Dance allows prayers for manifesting a specific intent for self, the collective, and others. We also pray to bring our beauty and purpose into the world around us. The people of Grandmother Earth need our prayers.  We have chosen to be alive at this special time and humanity is calling us to participate as we bridge the old world into the new one currently emerging.

Spirit Canoe Lodge’s Eagle Dance preparations can often feel mysterious and overwhelming. In this Zoom meeting Kelly Clampitt will answer questions to help you along in your process. It is recommended that one start preparations at least 2-4 weeks in advance of the ceremony. In this meeting you will learn more about the Dance and how to prepare.

• For help to create your items needed, plan to attend the next community Raleigh Eagle Dance Craft Day at Dianne’s home in Raleigh or in West Jefferson with Kelly West Jefferson Craft Day.

• RSVP to Dianne for the ZOOM link at: sustainwellnesscoaching@gmail.com

Structured, Fun Support to Get You Started

When I began studying the healing arts about 20 years ago, I was very intimidated when it came time to create my tools, i.e., smudge fans, talking sticks, wands etc. Materials I purchased to create items literally sat in my drawer for years. I figured I’d have to purchase these things as “I didn’t have the crafting gene and I didn’t have the time!”. Sound familiar?

These excuses dissolved when I started to attend my friend Kelly’s Craft Days. Participants were mostly women who showed up with Piggly Wiggly bags, Saran Wrapped treasures, bags of parakeet feathers, paint, crystals, yarn, and all sorts of oddities to piece together. We spent hours leisurely sharing stories, laughing, and sometimes crying as we showed one another the best glue to use, how to wrap, cut and tie objects….the list goes on. It fed my soul’s hunger to connect, and it was great fun. The special bonus was that I learned valuable crafting skills and created many beautiful, powerful healing tools.

 So, get your calendar out and schedule this time to connect with sisters and make those items you have been dreaming about. Bring whatever you want to create!

 Want Help to Make a Healing Fan?

I am there for you. Email me and I will suggest what to bring for materials and help you get started at our Craft Day.

 Date: Saturday, January, 28

Time: Drop in and out anytime between 2:00 and 5pm

Location: At my home in North Raleigh by Leesville Rd. I will send directions upon registration.

Cost: $15.00

I will have the following available to share:

·      2 glue guns

·      glue sticks

·      assorted yarn

·      4 scissors (bring your own as sometimes this is not enough)

·      green and herbal tea, coffee, and oat milk

·      Snacks will be provided, including gluten free

What to Bring:

·      Your own crafting supplies

(Optional)

• Warm socks or slippers (my wood floor gets cold).

• A snack to share

• Your favorite tea or beverage

Registration Required: by Tuesday, January 24 Contact Dianne

Write me a note if you need help making a fan. Please describe a little about what kind you would like to make. I will email you a materials list and some tips.

Payment:

Send $15 payment via Venmo or PayPal and indicate “January Craft Day”

Venmo: @Dianne-Vetter

PayPal: dianne.vetter@gmail.com

Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be issued minus PayPal/Venmo surcharge fee with a 48 hr. notice. If cancellation occurs after 48 hrs., the participant will receive a coaching or workshop credit of similar value which must be used within 60 days from the date of purchase.

Our Flow:

• Create Goddess Altar

• Group Sharing

• Theme: We will work with Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of the sky, of women, fertility and love. Facilitator Dianne Vetter, is an apprentice to the Sweet Medicine Sundance path, a contemporary Shamanic Tradition. She will share her personal experience working with the "7 Arrows" teachings. They contain powerful knowledge to help us drop self-judgment, attachments, comparisons, expectations, self-importance and victim states. In these moments we lose our energy and often make ourselves small. We give away our power, create separation, and become rigid in our beliefs and closed to others views. We can become entrenched in our patterns of low-self-esteem and assume a negative approach to life and others.

• Activity: Engage in an earth-based ceremony to help us reflect and clarify how we can use our divine energy to expand and exercise our free will to gain self-awareness, self-appreciation, self-acceptance, self-love, self-actualization, and impeccability of character. Within our circle of sisters, we will create power objects to take home to support our individual intentions.

• Closing Circle

Location: Raleigh, NC 27613 - specific location will be shared upon registration

*Registration Required by January 7, 12pm.

Cost: $45 per session

Payment:

Send payment via Venmo or PayPal and Indicate Class Date:

Venmo: @Dianne-Vetter

PayPal: dianne.vetter@gmail.com

Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be issued minus PayPal/Venmo surcharge fee with a 48 hr. notice. If cancellation occurs after 48 hrs., the participant will receive a coaching or workshop credit of similar value which must be used within 60 days from the date of purchase.

Our Flow:

• Create Goddess Altar

• Group Sharing

• Theme: Connect with the loving compassion of the Goddess GuanYin as we learn about the powers of the 4 directions. Facilitator Dianne Vetter, is an apprentice to the Sweet Medicine Sundance path, a contemporary Shamanic Tradition. She will share her experience working with the "Wheel of Balanced Choreography", a powerful tool to help us create balanced self-care aligned with all the worlds and energies of Grandmother Earth.

• Activity: Participate in an earth-centered mesa ceremony to learn what universal powers and natural energies support your balanced self-care and how to regain and maintain balance using the "Balanced Choreography" teachings of the "Staffs of Power".

• Closing Circle

Life As A Crone

Flow:

• Create Goddess Altar

• Group Sharing

• Closing

Theme: The Triple Goddess. Celebrate your ancestors and the significant women in your life through the creation of a Goddess Altar. Acknowledge your personal Journey as a Maiden, Mother and Crone and embrace the skills and strengths gained as you cultivate your Divine Feminine energies.

Activity: Participate in a ceremony to clarify your current goals and areas you may want to heal or grow from a previous time in your life . Create prayer bundles with sisters to support your intentions.

Imagine the 2nd half of your life as you step into your true beauty and power

Join Dianne Cougar Warrior Woman and Special Guest, Kelly Jumping Mouse, in this journey to explore what is possible in our Crone years. We will create a compassionate space where we will gain awareness of how our culture’s perceptions of older woman has influenced how we feel about ourselves and limit what we become. Guided by the teachings of Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of The Power of the Crone and Women Who Run with the Wolves and the contemporary Shamanic Teachings of the Sweet Medicine SunDance Path of the Twisted Hairs of Turtle Island, we will imagine what is possible for ourselves. Transformative Shamanic ceremony will assist us to clarify our goals and support our intentions to create our vibrant, joyous selves in our wise woman years.

Location: Raleigh, NC 27613 - RSVP for directions

Cost: $45