SOI Workshops
Pre-registration is necessary for all Workshops. Please contact the Office at 206.440.8886 or email sundustoracle@comcast.net
New Offerings - Sundust Oracle Institute Workshops 2011-2012. The Sundust Oracle Institute offers Workshops and Classes on a variety of topics each year. The Workshops Char Sundust will be Teaching for 2011-2012 include the following: Ceremonialist Training, Mentoring & Leadership Circle, Lovers Workshop, Life Purpose Weekend, and Abundance Workshop: Money, The Soul & Reality.
Char also teaches Special On-going Class Series for the 2011-2012 calendar year which include: Spiritual I.D. – Intuitive Development through Shamanism: The First Year Class / Circle, The Second Year Circle: “Making the Truth Visible.”, The Third Year Clinic: “Integration of Shamanic Visionary and Healing Skills Through a Clinic Teaching Environment”, The Healing Circle - for personal healing and FLOW – Bringing Spirit into Form: An Ongoing Program for Writers and Those Who are Called to Write.
In addition to the classes that Char Sundust Teaches, The Sundust Oracle Institute also now offers a variety of Workshops taught by SOI Instructors:
Daughters of the Earth: A Women’s Soul Circle will be taught by Georgia Faye and will begin Tuesday, December 13th, 2011.
Gratitude, Abundance & Reclaiming Your Personal Power: A Toltec Recapitulation Class will be taught by Phoenix Murphy and will begin on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012.
Spirit & Art: 16 Week Creative Series will be taught by Roshi Paquin begining Saturday, Febuary 4th, 2012 (New Dates).
Drum and Rattle Making Workshops with Matilda - Beginner Drum & Rattle – Sun. Mar. 11th & – Sun. Mar. 18th
The full schedule of Workshops, Class series, and retreats for September 2011 through June 2012 is now posted and more information can be found listed in detail on both this SOI Workshops and SOI Classes page.
Please contact the Office at 206.440.8886 or email sundustoracle@comcast.net with any questions regarding classes, workshops, events or SOI Services.
January 2012
Mentoring & Leadership Circle
This is a 4-weekend mentoring program
Teacher: Char Sundust
Dates: Nov 5-6, Jan 6-8, April 20-22, June 1-3
This program is for those who wish to deepen their mentoring and leadership skills. Patrick O’Neill says: “the coach works only in the business realm, but the mentor works with all fields in the mentee’s life: the spiritual, relationships, business and wisdom for the soul.” In the Tao of Leadership, John Heider says, “we mentor someone when what we have to offer meets the needs of someone else.” We all have gifts and experiences that have given us a way to give clarity and perspective to those who ask. This program offers, in detail, the do’s and don’ts of mentoring, passion and compassion in leadership, practice ethics, the guiding questions of the mentor, roles and ground-rules of the mentee and mentor relationship, strengthening and deepening the gifts and talents of the mentee, bringing leadership skills home in a way where everybody wins. It is a great honor to be a mentor and to be a mentee, to share what is good about life, and to be a guide in the currents of challenge and stillness of love. It is a great gift with clear requirements. I look forward to sharing these perspectives with you and learning together in the sacred container of trust and growth.
o This workshop is open to everyone. This workshop is a requirement for all Sundust Oracle Institute TA’s.
o Format: Friday evening 7pm – 9pm, Sat & Sun 9:30am to 5pm
o Cost: $425/weekend
o What to bring: sack lunch, journal.
o Dates: Nov 5-6, Jan 6-8, April 20-22, June 1-3
February 2012
Gratitude, Abundance & Reclaiming Your Personal Power: A Toltec Recapitulation Class
Tuesdays at SOI Beginning February 7th
Instructor: Phoenix Murphy
“It is your mind that creates this world.” – Siddhartha Buddha
Recapitulation is the Toltec Shamanic practice of reclaiming personal power. It is a simple yet powerful practice that is done by working with our belief systems and retrieving our personal energy from whatever beliefs and/or life experiences it is currently wrapped up in. When we have not fully retrieved ourselves from the past, often we find ourselves replaying projections of the past over and over again onto our external world. We find ourselves still living and operating our lives from that place of cluttered self talk, confusion and disappointment. Expending much of our time and energy experiencing the world from that place of how it was instead of how it is.Recapitulation is a very effective tool that cuts through projections of the past and brings us fully into the present. It offers us the ability to call ourselves home and become present to what is happening right in front of you instead of seeing it overlaid through the filters of projections and illusions. Once we are able to see where we are at and who we are with the clarity of loving presence, we can then choose where it is that we would like to invest our energy as we go forward. In retrieving our personal energy we often will be freed up from being corded to whatever event or belief we are working with. You will also find yourself more energized, present, grounded and aware in your everyday world.The practice of Recapitulation looks a lot like seated meditation. It involves grounding oneself and then going back into the past with the intent to retrieve your energy, reclaim your power and breathe it back into yourself. The exercise is typically done for 10-15 minutes at a time. It is extremely effective if practiced in groups yet can also offer amazing results when practiced alone. The work of rewiring our belief system also entail doing a rigorous inventory of our belief system and from that place of compassionate witness reviewing how it is that we have spent our personal energy, where we have lost energy along the way, and how we can bring ourselves in better alignment with our higher selves by unplugging from fear and re-plugging into Love. Where: Sundust Oracle Institute 8312 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
When: Begining Tuesday February 7th Classes will be held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday from 7:00-9:00pm
Class Dates: Feb .7, Feb. 21, March 6, March 20, April 3, April 17, May 1, May 15, May 29th, June 12.
Cost: $45 per class / $25 per class for Bastyr students
To Register: Contact Sundust Oracle Institute at (206) 440-8886 Or email: sundustoracle@comcast.net
This circle will be open for the first 2 dates. Afterwards, this circle will be closed after the first two meetings. Once the circle closes you will be expected to make a financial and energetic commitment to fully participate in this circle through to the final initiation class on June 12th as this work will change your life yet you must stay with it.
About the Teacher: Phoenix studied Toltec Shamanism for over 10 years while living in the Bay Area. In those years she was able to learn the art of shape shifting her perspective in order to consciously choose how and where to invest her energy. She learned how to work with her belief systems, fears, emotions, stories, dreams and energy bodies so as to develop the self-awareness that is necessary to fully wake up, regain consciousness and transform what is no longer working into something new. Phoenix is grateful to have studied Shamanism with her current teacher Char Sundust. Phoenix currently lives and works in Seattle, WA and is a certified Shamanic Practitioner who specializes in offering Private Mentorship, Soul Retrieval, Soul Retrieval Integration and Teaching others how to reclaim and maintain one’s own power through the Toltec Wisdom Tool of Recapitulation.
March 2012
Drum and Rattle Making Workshops with Matilda
Instructor: Matilda
Come and learn hands-on the technique for birthing your own drum and creating a rattle with our Elder Matilda. Three workshops are offered this coming year for opportunities to learn. The Advance Drum and Rattle in January, as well as 2 Beginning Drum and Rattle workshops in the Spring of 2012. Each workshop consists of two consecutive Sundays. Both days are necessary to attend to complete your medicine objects.
Workshop #3 ~ Beginner Drum and Rattle
– Part A, Sunday March 11th (all day 9am to finish)
– Part B, Sunday March 18th (all day 9am to finish)
Cost: $230,with a deposit of $85 received by February 26th (Workshop #3) – materials are provided.
Location: The workshop will be held at the Sundust Oracle Institute, 8312 Greenwood Ave N., Seattle, WA. 98103. You must Register in advance in order to attend these workshops.
To Register: The workshop will fill on a first come basis, and space is limited. Please contact SOI via email (preferred) or phone to express your interest in attending the workshop. In Addition, please send your deposit in the form of check or money order for $85 to us at the PO Box below.Your deposit will hold the space for you in this workshop. When sending in the deposit please also include your name, email, and contact phone number with your deposit and mark your envelope “Drum and Rattle” and specify which workshop you will attend. (i.e. Advanced Drum and Rattle-January, Beginning Drum and Rattle-February, or Beginning Drum and Rattle-March)
Mail to: Sundust Oracle Institute – PO Box 75354, Seattle WA 98175
February 2012
Char at East West in Seattle - Friday, Feb. 10th
The Triumphant Dream: The Life Dream and the Night Dream; Deciphering the Call
Winter is a time for gaining inner clarity, to gestate and to dream. These quarterly gatherings are facilitated by CHAR SUNDUST of the Sundust Oracle Institute. Tonight will be an opportunity to gain clarity and build a bridge between our Day-Dreams of body consciousness and our Night-Dreams of Spirit consciousness. We will work with intuitive dreaming, lucid states and how to gather and interpret the rich, yet complex symbolism dreams offer to us and apply it to our daily lives.
February 2012
Spirit & Art: 16 Week Creative Series - Beginning Saturdays February 4th
Instructor: Roshi Paquin
The poet, The Painter, The Mystic, The Muse, Your dreams, Your brilliance,
Illustrate Love
SATURDAYS - 7:00pm-10:00pm
Some, might describe the process of art making as bringing spirit into form, being a hollow bone, or letting the muse go to work.
When we’re making art, we are in contact with the mystery, or some might say being with “the muse.”
We are tapping into something very old, the spirit of poetry, painting, singing, acting, dancing, color-Art brings “Eros” or life force into buildings, landscapes, books, photo, media.
We are the artists of today- In an article, it was said, “artists are the shamans of today,” people who can transform the subconscious and ease suffering in the world.
Art is practice by every generation and culture globally for all of time. Art has been a way to describe events, document history, heal, and bring color to the world.
This class is for people carrying a spark that wants to be ignited and brought into form. We’re working through writing, poetry, painting, mixed medium, shamanic journey work, ink, collage, and ceremony…
Bring your imagination, snacks, and a desire to create!
Saturday Class Dates 2012 - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
February 4th
February 11th
February 18th
February 25th
March 3rd
March 10th
March 17th
March 31st
April 7th
April 14th
April 28th
May 5th
May 12th
May 19th
May 26th
June 9th
Week One: Introduction and Play with Color
Medium: Writing & Paint
Week Two: Creating space for the artist
Medium: Collage
Week Three: Soul Potraits / Meet with the Muse
Medium: Mixed Medium
Week Four: Sculpting Prayers
Medium: Mixed Medium
Week Five: The Artist Child
Medium: Stitchery
Week Six: Field Trip
Week Seven: Spirit of Nature
Medium: Haiku, Sumi Ink
Week Eight: Ceremony
Medium: Sumi Ink & Poetics
Week Nine: Shields
Medium: Provided
Week Ten: Guest Artist
Week Eleven: Theatre & the Oracle
Week Twelve: Sculpting
Medium: Clay
Week Thirteen: Mask Making
Medium: Materials provided
Week Fourteen: Revealing the Oracle
Medium: Story Telling
Week Fifteen: Book Binding
Medium: Materials provided
Week Sixteen: Final Project
Full Price: 16 Classes *45.00 per Class
*720.00 for the Series
*Deposit of $200.00 and Registration due before Jan 15th*10% discount if Full Payment & Registration is received by Jan 1st) Student Discount: 16 Classes
For students currently enrolled in Colleges or Universities.*30.00 per class
*480.00 per class
*Deposit of $100.00 and Registration due by Jan 15th
*10% discount if Full Payment & Registration is received by Jan 1st
There is a one time supply fee of $25.00 due first class. (Classes are non-refundable.)This is a 16 week commitment for the entire series- Dropping in is permissible for the first 2 classes only.Students bring their own personal art box containing:Imagination
Writing Journal & Pens
Pencils Scissors
Drawing Pad or Journal
Glue Sticks
Required Textbooks:THE ARTISTS WAY by Julia CameronNEW & SELECTED POEMS by Mary OliverThe imagination is the great friend of the unknown.
Endlessly, it invokes and releases the power of possibility.
-John O’DonohueQuestions about registration & payment info? Contact Michelle @ sundustoracle@comcast.net Or: 206-440-8886
February 2012
Lovers Workshop - Saturday February 11th
Teacher: Char Sundust
We bring who we are to all of our relationships. Relationships guide us through the wild territory of who we are. How do we receive those gifts? What do relationships give us? We will learn tools to become more full-hearted in our relationships. If we are not whole, how can we ask anyone else to be what we ourselves are not?
Experientially, we will explore the terrain of our own happiness and what a relationship needs through its many initiations and fires. To co-create a loving and truthful partnership, the fire of transmutation, the flow of flexibility, the spirit of shared and personal vision, and the profound innocence it takes to fall in love.Space is limited. Pre-registration is required.Bring someone as your partner to the workshop. This can either be a lover or a good friend, the exercises will be for people to work in pairs.
Date: Saturday, February 11th
Time: 9:30am to 5pm
Location: 8312 Greenwood Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103
Cost: $350/couple - lunch is included.
To Register: call Michelle at 206.440.8886
March 2012
Life Purpose Weekend
Friday, March 2nd - Sunday March 4th
What do you want from your life?
What is your dream?
What is your life purpose?
April 2012
Mentoring & Leadership Circle
This is a 4-weekend mentoring program
Teacher: Char Sundust
Dates: Nov 5-6, Jan 6-8, April 20-22, June 1-3
This program is for those who wish to deepen their mentoring and leadership skills. Patrick O’Neill says: “the coach works only in the business realm, but the mentor works with all fields in the mentee’s life: the spiritual, relationships, business and wisdom for the soul.” In the Tao of Leadership, John Heider says, “we mentor someone when what we have to offer meets the needs of someone else.” We all have gifts and experiences that have given us a way to give clarity and perspective to those who ask. This program offers, in detail, the do’s and don’ts of mentoring, passion and compassion in leadership, practice ethics, the guiding questions of the mentor, roles and ground-rules of the mentee and mentor relationship, strengthening and deepening the gifts and talents of the mentee, bringing leadership skills home in a way where everybody wins. It is a great honor to be a mentor and to be a mentee, to share what is good about life, and to be a guide in the currents of challenge and stillness of love. It is a great gift with clear requirements. I look forward to sharing these perspectives with you and learning together in the sacred container of trust and growth.
o This workshop is open to everyone. This workshop is a requirement for all Sundust Oracle Institute TA’s.
o Format: Friday evening 7pm – 9pm, Sat & Sun 9:30am to 5pm
o Cost: $425/weekend
o What to bring: sack lunch, journal.
o Dates: Nov 5-6, Jan 6-8, April 20-22, June 1-3
April 2012
Abundance Workshop: Money, The Soul & Reality
Saturday April 14th
Many changes are taking place at this time. We are being called to be good stewards to our outgoing and incoming energy and to our financial well-being at this time. When we put out energy we receive energy. Money is transitioning and we are being called to come in to honor and respect clarity of consciousness around our financials. A friend of mine, Diana, once said “what we do in love we do with money.”
This workshop addresses how we can tend to our dreams and commitments sustainably. What it means to our lives to give and receive and what is required to experience financial wellbeing while also having soul. How the unseen assists us in what we want. As my teacher says, how to walk the mystical path with practical feet. We will also be talking about what is happening now and why. And how to bring grace and financial wellbeing into our lives at all times.
Dates: Saturday April 14th
Time: Saturday 9:30am to 5pm
Location: 8312 Greenwood Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103
Cost: $165
Bring: a journal, water bottle, and a sack lunch.
To Register call Michelle at 206.440.8886 Or email: sundustoracle@comcast.net
May 2012
Char at East West in Seattle
Friday, May 18 – 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Visioning for the Seeds of the Coming Cycles
Char Sundust will be giving a talk this evening around the line of the heart. How do we follow the line of the heart? In this work we will be discovering what has meaning, where we are at now and what is necessary to access and fulfill our calling. What is our sacred intention for this coming year and what progress do we want to see in our own work in relationships. This is an experience around accessing the heart. To clarify planting, nurturing, and harvest for the wellbeing of ourselves and others in the coming cycles of the seasons. We will be working in a ritual space to co-create our own future and plant the seeds of what we want to harvest in the fall.
Date: Friday, May 18th
Time: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Location: East West Bookshop of Seattle, 6500 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA
Cost: $45 General/$22 Students of Char
To Register: Contact East West Bookshop at 206-523-3726
http://ewbookshop.com/events/3576
December 2011
Daughters of the Earth: A Women’s Soul Circle - Tuesdays at SOI Beginning December 13th
Instructor: Georgia Faye
When a woman begins to be aware of the divine spark within, she will soon be faced with a decision whether to honor and trust it…. She is so accustomed to looking outside herself for authority that the realization of God within is radical and shattering. It changes everything. ~Wendlyn Alter
Women need each other. On the journey towards wholeness, daughters, sisters, mothers, we mirror the feminine faces of God, and we see reflected back to us the image of our true Selves. And so we gather.
There is a need in our culture at this time for women to know each other deeply, to be intimate allies in community, and to support the work of deepening into the Sacred Feminine. As we continue to experience The Great Unraveling, women will be called to lead the the return of health and balance to Mother Earth and the revitalization of life-sustaining cultures.
Come join us on this journey to –
• Learn how to give and receive support from other women
• Deepen your voices of empowerment from within a place of feminine mystery
• Release insecurity, jealousy, competition, betrayal and the wound story and embrace forgiveness, compassion, and community
• Strengthen the balance of your masculine and feminine energies, through the Sacred Marriage within – the ecstatic union of Power and Love
• Access the sacred cycles of the moon and the feminine: Maiden, Mother, Matriarch, Crone
• Explore the archetypes of your internal feminine — both the resources and the shadows: Damsel, Femme Fatale, Goddess, Priestess… Isis, Kali, Athena, Hera, Aphrodite, Gaia…
• Stand in the circle of empowered women, integrate, claim, and celebrate your full power!
This circle will provide opportunities for deepening and strengthening Soul relationship. This circle is designed to support any woman in Soul-Initiation to strengthen her internal resources, trust in the feminine, and trust in other women. To cross into the mysteries, we will draw from the following tools and teachings: Four-Directional Map of Wholeness, Soulcraft exercises, Moon Cycles, Mythology, Archetypes, Council, Deep Imagery, Blood Mysteries, Song, Sacred Poetry, Dreamwork, Ecstatic/Trance Dance, Relationship with Nature, Voice Dialogue, Writing as Healing, Shadow Work, Moon Lodge, visioning, collage, and more.
Where: Sundust Oracle Institute 8312 Greenwood Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103
When: Beginning Dec.13th, Classes will be held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 6:00-9:00pm.
Class Dates: Dec. 13, Jan. 10, Jan 24, (no class Feb. 14), Feb. 28, March 13, March 27, April 10, April 24, May 8, May 22, June 5. This circle will culminate in a final celebration on June 10, with an optional retreat: June 8-10, 2012.
Cost: $495 - Monthly payment plan and need-based sliding-scale available upon request.
To Register: Contact Sundust Oracle Institute at (206) 440-8886 Or email: sundustoracle@comcast.net
Advanced Registration required after Jan. 10. Registration closes Jan. 17, 2012.
Come try out the first 2 classes (Dec. 13 & Jan. 10) with no commitment at the drop-in rate of $45 per class. If you decide to sign-up for the series, the remaining cost is $395. This circle will be closed after the first two meetings.
About the Teacher: Georgia Faye has been Soul-Initiated by women and has participated and served in leadership in many all-women containers: Woman Within, Journey to Soul, women’s circles, ceremonies, festivals and celebrations. Georgia has been working with women of all ages for over 20 years as a doula, spiritual guide and mentor, shamanic practitioner, and educator. As a mother and step-mother of three daughters, she has a deep and abiding love for the Divine Feminine who exists in all women.
