Living Life Aligned with Nature
A Sacred Fire LifeWays Webcast
Sunday, April 18th, 2021 | 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern (US)
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Pause, Reconsider and Start Living Differently.
During this disruption of usual routines, more and more people are finding themselves questioning what is truly important. Sacred Fire LifeWays invites you to explore a new way of living, one that is rooted in nature’s timeless wisdom.
Sacred Fire calls this approach to life “Life Cycle Living.” While this phrase may sound new or unusual, its meaning is actually quite simple. In fact, humankind has been doing this for many thousands of years—for good reason.
Every stage of life has special gifts and particular challenges. When we’re fully aligned with life’s natural phases, we’re able to feel more at home in ourselves and in the world, full of life’s meaning and purpose.
Sadly, there’s no playbook for navigating these transitions in modern society. We often pass through these phases unaware, distracted and unengaged with the innate rhythm of who we are. This webcast will help you expand your awareness of the cycles of a human life to benefit your self, family, friends and community.
We’ll review the four major stages of life transitions to begin your exploration of Life Cycle Living:
- Childhood’s Seeds for the Future
- The Thundering Years of Adolescence
- What it Means to be an Adult
- The Role of the Elder in Community
There’s a way you understand your life that’s not presented in Western culture. It’s something you intrinsically know, buried in your DNA, in your heart. Deep down, you recognize that as human beings we are part of nature and part of a greater, grander scheme of the world’s life cycle. What piece are you here to bring? What fulfillment of purpose will help move yourself, your loved ones, and the world along into an unknown future?
Join us for this no-fee special event.
For more information email sacredfirelifeways@sacredfire.org
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3:00 – 4:00 pm EST
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This course is being offered as a gift to the Sacred Fire community. Your donations make events like this and others possible. Please consider making a donation in the spirit of exchange for what you’ll receive during our time together.
For more information
For more information, contact Sherry Boatright at sacredfirelifeways@sacredfire.org
Featuring
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Don David Wiley. In 1996, Don David Wiley’s life was profoundly altered when who would later come to be recognized as the Spirit of Fire, often called Grandfather Fire, appeared before him as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grandfather sent David to study with two indigenous elders, Don Lupe Ríos Gonzales of the Wixárika (Huichol) tradition of Mexico’s Sierra Madres and Don Lucio Campos Elizalde of the Nahua tradition of the central highlands in formal medicine and ceremonial apprenticeships in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths. As a result, David received an initiation as a mara’akame – or a shamanic healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader in the Huichol tradition. He was also initiated as a quiapaquiz (caller of the sky-waters, in Nahuatl) or granicero – or weather worker in Spanish, ceremonial leader, and healer from the Nahua path.
Concurrent with Don David’s immersion in this traditional medicine path work, Grandfather Fire asked David to serve as a traditional spiritual medium, or Axihuatakame, so Grandfather could provide his teachings while speaking through Don David’s body during special gatherings. Over the years, Grandfather Fire inspired Don David and the community growing around Grandfather’s wisdom to spread traditional lifeways worldwide through two nonprofits – Sacred Fire, which trains Sacred Firekeepers and hosts events, and the Blue Deer, a retreat and healing center for nature’s medicine.
Through all of this, and his experience with elders of these traditions, Don David has developed a comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer from the most practical aspects to the spiritual processes that empower this way of engaging life and living.
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This course was created by Sacred Fire Co-Founder Don David Wiley, informed by his more than 25 years of experience as a Nahua and Huichol traditional healer, ceremonial leader, teacher and elder. His comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer incorporates both the practical and the spiritual, empowering people to fully engage in their day-to-day lives.
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Sherry Boatright began practicing as a psychotherapist in 1984. In the late 90’s she answered a calling to an indigenous spiritual path that led to becoming an initiated “weatherworker” or Granicera in the Nahuatl tradition of the highlands of central Mexico. Later when a healing path was opened in the Nahua tradition, she undertook years of pilgrimage and training and was initiated as a Tepahtiani healer. It is this work that she offers today in service to people who seek deep healing.
In 2005 she became a Firekeeper for Sacred Fire and since then has been holding monthly community fires and women’s fires throughout the year. She serves Sacred Fire as Director of Lifeways producing a series of offerings that support community members throughout the natural transitions of the life cycle from birth, initiation and young adulthood, then through the transitions of adulthood and the transition to elderhood.