Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 34

Easter Retreat 2018

Easter Retreat, 31 March – 2 April 2018

A special three-day retreat at the peak of the Holy Week and Easter, with astroshamanic healing sessions, celebrations and ritual.

Cost: Euro 250 (all included). Bursaries available.

This retreat can be taken as part of a longer retreat and training:

 

Basic Workshop, 24-25 March 2018

This workshop is designed to promote a gentle intimacy with your senses as gateways into your inner world and multidimensional nature.. It is a basic introduction to Astroshamanic Soul Retrieval and Healing Touch. Through shamanic trance, energy work, soul retrieval and physical contact, we receive visions and insights, redeploying energy and passion in accordance with one’s life purpose and the web of life. The workshop is also a celebration of Palm Sunday and the start of the Holy Week.

Cost: Euro 180 (all included). Bursaries are available.

The workshop starts at around 10:30 am on Saturday and ends at around 6 pm on Sunday. It is possible to arrive earlier or stay extra nights and continue with the Holy Week Retreat. It is possible to arrive earlier.

 

Holy Week Retreat, 25-30 March 2018

During this five-day course participants will experience advanced applications of Astroshamanic Soul Retrieval and Healing Touch. Drawing from the holistic wisdom of esoteric Christianity and astroshamanic practices, we will experience ways to realign with the sacredness of our nature, releasing wounds inherited by our ancestors and supporting the emergence of a planetary healing consciousness. We will learn various healing modalities in alignment with the astrological archetypes, developing trust both in giving and receiving. We will also experience the multidimensional features of relationships, employing techniques aimed at releasing grievances and intense feelings accumulated in our life, promoting forgiveness, transformation and unconditional love. The workshop is designed for people who intend to employ this work both for themselves and in their practice with others. The Basic Workshop is a prerequisite for attendance.

This workshop is also a first level basic certificate course in Astroshamanic Touch. The workshop ends at around 6 pm on 30 March 2018 and can be followed by the Easter Retreat (31 March – 2 April 2018).

Cost: Euro 390 (all included). Bursaries available.

 

Easter Retreat, 31 March – 2 April 2018

A special three-day retreat at the peak of the Holy Week and Easter, with astroshamanic healing sessions, celebrations and ritual.

Cost: Euro 250 (all included). Bursaries available.

 

Participants taking part in all three workshops, from 24 March to 2 April 2018 have a 20% reduction.

 

For booking and information please click here or write to info@astroshamanism.org

How to get to Il Casale:

By car: take A15 (Autostrada della Cisa) Parma/La Spezia, exit at Pontremoli if you come from the North, or Aulla if from the South. Continue to Villafranca in Lunigiana, then to Merizzo (5,20 km). Once in Merizzo, use as reference the Church of the Archangel Michael. 50 metres after the church turn left at the little parking square then take the only path to the left. After one km you will receive our parking.

By train: you can arrive to Villafranca/Bagnone railway station with the line Milan-Livorno or La Spezia-Parma. Let us know your time of arrival and we will pick you up.

By plane: the closest airport is Pisa’s Galileo Galilei. Also the airports of Florence and Genoa are close.

Participants taking part in all three workshops, from 24 March to 2 April 2018 have a 20% reduction.

 

Afraid

What we are afraid of is also what is afraid of us.

We need to stop scaring each other!

Gifts and self-esteem

In most cases your greatest gifts, those that can really make a difference in this world, are related with something that causes you embarrassment, shame or with areas in life where you perceive yourself as a failure. The main problem with the expression of your gifts is your lack of self-esteem. The paradox is that often the more a person is gifted the more they tend to have low self-esteem, so that they rarely express their gifts. On the other hand, those who have high self-esteem often have very poor talents to offer to the world, yet they are able to bestow their mediocrity without any inhibition and even having success.

Do not leave the world in the hands of mediocre people and blowhards, and avoid imitating their deeds. Offer your gifts no matter how low your self-esteem is. Your gifts exist to be donated.

Different

We are afraid of what is different, of what we do not know. This is why we keep pretending to be similar, believing that we know who and where we are, what is real and unreal.

But what is different, what is unknown, sooner or later will take over, and of what we believe to know, of what for us is similar and real nothing will be left.

2018

Course in Multidimensional Astrology by Skype, click here for details.

27 December 2017 – 2 January 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Astroshamanic Healing New Year Retreat, with Franco Santoro, click here for details.

4-5; 6-7 January 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), The Great Leap of Talents, with Franco Santoro, click here for details.

13-14 January 2018, Merizzo (Massa), Multidimensional astrology and bodywork, with Franco Santoro (anche via Skype), clicca qui.

 

10-11 February 2018, Merizzo (Massa), Astroshamanic Healing Carnival, with Franco Santoro.

3-4 March 2018, Merizzo (Massa), Talents & Manifestation, with Franco Santoro.

 

24-25 March 2018; 25-30 March 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), The Blessed Way of Passion: Training in Soul Retrieval and Astroshamanic Healing, with Franco Santoro, click here for information.

31 March – 2 April 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Easter Astroshamanic Retreat, with Franco Santoro, click here for information.

21-27 April 2018, Findhorn (Scotland), Being with the Spirit of Nature, with Franco Santoro and Sverre Koxvold, click here for details.

 

5-6 May 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Astroshamanic Healing, with Franco Santoro

30 June – 6 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Training, with Franco Santoro.

21-27 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Touch & Theatre , with Franco Santoro

 

Values

In our world there was once cultural, religious and ethical uniformity. People shared the same values, ideas and rules of behavior. In human relationships this was obvious and people could either be consistent with the common values or not. Now things have changed. We live in multicultural societies, where each individual has distinct values and rules of behavior. In human relationships you can no longer take anything for granted or demand anything from the other unless this has been explicitly clarified. In other words it is necessary to talk to each other and externalize what one wants or does not want, finding mutual consent or compromise. We can not blame anyone for not behaving according to our values, if we do not express them clearly and set them as conditions.

Nothingness

Realising your nothingness as well as the nothingness of this world is the first step into realising who you are.

Comparisons

How much time and energy do you use in making comparisons between you and others?

Just be aware.

You get to know someone’s age, and immediately calculate the age difference. You meet someone and consider who is taller or thinner; better dressed, with more money, property, resources, with better health or relationship status, with the higher or lower level of education, spirituality, achievements in life; the number of children, grandchildren; who is more miserable, intelligent, etc.

How much time do you spend envying others, feeling at the same level or superior?

But beyond the comparison with others, who are you?

What’s left of you when you do not make any comparison?

Solitude

If you seek the company of others or someone because you cannot stand solitude, solitude will get upset and eventually will do everything to make you stay alone with her.

In some traditions there is a companion, an invisible partner, who represents the other half of ourselves, the animus or anima, our shadow who continually follows us so as to be acknowledged and accepted.

For this reason regular time is spent in those cultures to meet this invisible partner, who is revealed only when we are in complete solitude.

In any case, whether or not there is this invisible partner, solitude is there and no matter how much you try to avoid it, it keeps  being there and waiting for you. In the end you are bound to meet your solitude. In the end you will remain alone. Everybody will abandon you. Look around you, some people have already disappeared.

So, do not wait until everyone has gone, before meeting your solitude.

Real dream

Having a luminous, peaceful and happy life is the dream of everybody.


Yet a dream is a dream.


What reality seems to show is that the greatest challenge in life involves learning to go through darkness, conflicts and pain, while still managing to feel the presence of light, peace and joy.


Whoever succeeds in this probably manifests the greatest dream, and perhaps also the most real.