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Aerious Apprenticeships
at YewWood Forest Retreat Centre,
Deadwood, Oregon
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Livingwell Lifeskills Apprenticeship 2008
At The YewWood Nature Spirit Sanxuary Deadwood, OR 541-964-5341
This year, we are offering special and unique one month (30 day) live-in apprenticeships in combined studies of Permaculture and earth/homesteading arts along with healing arts and magickal tools for knowing yourself and focusing your intentions into manifestation in your daily life. This approach, that we are a part of a larger environment, is unique and allows infinitely more possibilities for successful living.
Each month, 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.
The activities are seasonal and most appropriate to weather and other conditions. Typically, this includes OG gardening, wildcrafting of herbs, appropriate alternate building and power, nature studies, and permaculture homesteading tasks. More magickal activities and training includes flower and vibrational essences, 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 unto 1984 in OG gardening.
It is our belief that planetary healing can best occur thru direct communion with nature and our natures, and recognizing that we are only one integral part of a wheel of life that includes all sentient life- not just flora and fauna but even the unseen beings (faeries, devas, land forms, etc), and other magickal creatures.
Our lives here are a balance of earth plane homesteading and solving modern dilemmas of resources and natural living with guided healing arts opportunities and communion with the greatest magick we can co-create.
Education and Instruction includes-
3-4 hours per week classroom group
once a week group check-in and wellness sharing
Personal instruction in areas of identified interest
4 hours per day (5 days per week) hands-on work exchange
Daily meal prep and cleanup
Participation in most of our other classes and Worxiops on site
Off grid forest housing
Yummy healthy mostly vegan meals
Healthy Air, Water Earth, and your inner Fire
Cost: $330-440 for one month (stay can be extended by agreement)
Pre-Registration and deposit necessary. Email Marygold @ Aerious.org or call 541-964-5341 for more information or to register, and Live Your Dreams!
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.
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:
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Earth Skills:: Whole foods cooking, organic
gardening, permaculture, eco-building
(with straw bale, cob, rock, wood, etc)), Solar energy
and off the grid living, herbs and wildcrafting, trail
construction, healthy ecosystems, and rehabilitation
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| 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. |
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