These Gateways provide an alchemical process designed to strip away unproductive beliefs and behaviours and uncover the True Nature Spirit Personality of the Apprentice.
As a Rainbow Warrior, you will get to know your true self.
Self-knowledge sets you free to be who you really are and get on with the business of designing a life of health, happiness and harmony.
This Shamanic Training Program is for those who are ready to become the student - emptying your cup and letting go of what you think you know, makes space to discover what is genuinely true.
It is available both as an ONLINE Course of Study and an IN-RESIDENCE Training Course.
Raven Lodge is a one year ONLINE Shamanic Course of Study
This is a journey into the world of mystery and magick. It is a portal for personal, ancestral, inter-generational and collective healing and maturation.
It will help to bring about significant transformation in your Self, your life and our world.
You have access to our Student Portal to journey through the five themes.
You will receive access to the Raven Lodge HomePlay Guide, 7 chapters of content, teachings, videos and ceremonies.
Plus regular LIVE Virtual Tipi Teachings with Weaving Willow where you can engage, ask questions and deepen your learning.
Bear Lodge is a one year IN RESIDENCE Shamanic Course of Study
The Bear is not only the keeper of the dream but also has an intimate relationship with the sacred waters of life.
To begin your shamanic training, the first place of healing needs to happen in the heart.
The bear helps us to lighten up and flow with how we feel, so our hearts can connect to the infinite expression of life.
The Medicine Wheel Teachings and Ceremonies you encounter here awakens the bear medicine within.
You journey through five residential training weekends each with it's own unique theme.
The theme, intent and teachings that have been curated for each training weekend set a strong container, with enough flexibility for organic exploration - the perfect marriage of structure and spontaneity to birth the experience needed in the moment.
Under the auspices of the Twisted Hairs Lineage, the impact of this training stretches beyond just what happens in the physical, its impact reaches out into the collective, for ancestral and inter-generational healing, growth and evolution.
This dynamic program provides an extensive toolbox filled with teachings, exercises, ceremonies and techniques for self discipline and personal excellence.
Your year-long journey comes to completion with an invitation to attend Ceremonial Gateway.
This is a gathering of Rainbow Warriors in the primal Nkomokasi Valley, KwaZulu Natal, where we come together in community, spend quality time with nature and dance our prayers for healing, growth and enlightenment for self, life and others to the Tree of Life.
Students from Raven Lodge, Bear Lodge, Wolf Lodge, Eagle Lodge and Rainbow Lodge Apprentices come from all over the world to attend this annual weeklong Ceremonial Gateway.
IN MAY
IN JULY
IN SEPTEMBER
IN NOVEMBER
IN JANUARY
IN MARCH
This is a weeklong residential experience, held off the grid in an ancient valley in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
All Rainbow Warrior Students & Apprentices are invited to come together in support of themselves, one another & the collective.
Each Apprentice steps into Ceremonial components that bring integration of their current training & initiates their transition into their next Gateway.
LET'S TALK
If enrolling in Raven Lodge or Bear Lodge calls to your spirit and touches your heart, then let's arrange to meet in person or by video-call.
We believe it's important to meet with everyone, sit 'face to face' and feel whether we are a good fit for one another before you enrol.
This Program is rooted in the Old Way of Apprenticeship, which means you enter into an agreement with yourself, spirit and your teacher.
Due to the depth and nature of this Program we only take a limited number of new students each year.
Sacred Journeys - Shamanic Training Centre reserves the right to accept selected students each year.
This is done by moving through the following Lodges:
Raven Lodge is our 12-month ONLINE training program and includes teachings from Bear Lodge.
Bear Lodge includes students who are in their first and second year of training.
Wolf Lodge is for committed Rainbow Warrior students in their third year of training.
They have completed their First and Second Gateway Ceremonies.
Eagle Lodge is for committed Rainbow Warrior students in their fourth and fifth year of training. They have completed their First, Second and Third Gateway Ceremonies.
As infinite as the cosmos, our journey into autonomy and self-leadership has no finality. Sighting a rainbow elicits joy, awe and the inspiration to fulfil our dreams. With no greater dream than actualizing our potential, Rainbow Lodge takes us on a journey of self-mastery while remaining the eternal student.
Rainbow Warrior Graduates who have completed all Five Gateway Ceremonies become eligible for Rainbow Lodge as Senior Apprentices.
Raven Lodge and Bear Lodge provide the teachings and ceremonies to bring the First and Second Gateway to completion.
Wolf Lodge provides the teachings and ceremonies to bring the Third Gateway to completion.
Eagle Lodge provides the teachings and ceremonies to bring the Fourth and Fifth Gateway to completion.
In merging our dreams as one, we share our vision for Beauty, Knowledge, Power and Freedom to flourish within all human beings.
