Aerious Apprenticeships at YewWood Forest Retreat Centre, Deadwood, Oregon Permaculture Life Skills Earth and Sky Life Skills

Livingwell Lifeskills Apprenticeship 2009

Permaculture in Action

Dates: June 6-13 and August 1-8

This year, we are offering special and unique one week (7 day) live-in apprenticeships in combined studies of Permaculture and earth/homesteading arts along with healing arts and related magickal tools for knowing yourself and focusing your intentions into manifestation in your daily life. We believe that we are only a part of a larger environment, which includes the visible and invisible world, and that we can interact in a good way with the environment in a mutually beneficial and healing way.

This hands-on educational experience is designed for the curious and dedicated on any level, for the students to  receive well rounded instruction and experience in a week long package. The week can be extended longer into alonger stay, with a worktrade arrangement or some personal instruction by arrangement. The seasons and weather guide the activities, as nature is always in charge. There will be a  balancing of information and experience.

For each week long session, there will be guided and independent seasonably based activities on the land that weave together traditional, experience based Permaculture living with magickal aspects of daily living and healing arts, including healing our bodies thru diet and attitude. Typically, this includes OG gardening, wildcrafting of herbs, appropriate alternate building and power, nature studies, and permaculture homesteading tasks. Other  activities and training includes Flower and Vibrational Essences, uses of plants and landscape for healing, Healing Arts including Reiki, Astrological and Lunar cycles in people and plants, and much more on an individual basis and desire to learn.

The primary intention of Aerious, a 501©3 Educational Organization, is to present information and hands-on educational activities to broaden one’s understanding of relationship between earth and self for personal and planetary evolution. The YewWood Nature Spirit Sanxuary has provided a living participatory co-creative environment  for this to happen since 1993, and back to 1984 in OG gardening.

Two to Three hours per day classroom group
group check-in and wellness sharing with individual check-ins and focus
Personal instruction in areas of identified interest
5 hours per day (5 days per week) hands-on work experience
Daily meal prep and cleanup with Yummy healthy mostly vegan meals
Off grid forest housing
Participation in most of our other classes and Worxiops on site
Healthy Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Purification

Cost: $195-220 sliding for all costs (stay can be extended by agreement)
Pre-Registration and deposit necessary.
Email livingwellnss@gmail.com or call 541-964-5341 for more information/registration.

A Practical Permaculture

Experience
Sustainable Gardening Techniques

This course is an opportunity to live in community for two weeks working with permaculture principles on beautiful, fertile land. We create gardens and spend class time sharing the fundamentals of ecology, permaculture design, and gaining a sense of place. We grow plants and herbs and learn their attributes as food crops and medicine. Emphasis is placed on the collective knowledge of the group and on sharing our individual skills and stories.

We will cover: Design Methodology, Alternative Technology, Agroforestry, Local Ecology, Reading and Knowing the Landscape, Plant propagation, Permaculture Activism, Community Living, Wild and Cultivated Plants as Food and Medicine, Composting, Natural Building, ..and more.

YewWood Forest Retreat Center exists on alternative energy and is building a large strawbale house. We invite you to: camp by the creek, enjoy our sauna, solar showers, sharing circles, drum circles, yoga, excursions into the forest and great organic food.

Cost: $250- $300 sliding scale. $50 non-refundable deposit to keep your place.

Earth and Sky
Life Skills Program

This is an ongoing program to inspire your lifeskills in creative harmonic and healthy living for the 21st century thru holistic integration of mind, body, spirit. The aim of the program is to develop skills for living in harmonious communion with our natural environment (wherever that may be) and with maximum benefit for all beings.

Based on the principles used in Permaculture, Macrobiotics, Five Element Theory, and awareness of spiritual communion with nature. The course will take a deep look at the natural cycles of life (seasons, elements, astrology), and how they co-operate within ourselves and the world at large, and we will re-discover ourselves as integrated points of the world of Gaia (Earth as a living being). Your powers of observation will be encouraged as a vital earning tool toward good health, vitality, self awareness, self reliance, and living in relationship with wherever you are!

The course will include:

Format:: a one to four week apprenticeship program incorporating a great variety of activities and creative resourcefulness. Combines theoretical instruction, observation, hands-on practical projects, experiential growth work, self-transformation and self-guided research study. Weekly evaluation and goals, with weekends either as scheduled special events also open to the public or free time for personal explorations and outings.

Your educational stay at YewWood may be extended for an additional cost (for food etc.), as a live-in apprentice for a deeper development of your skills and interests in exploring your particular interests.