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

Livingwell Lifeskills Apprenticeship 2008

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!

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.