Located in Saint Louis, Middle West, USA
PathoftheDreamer@Gmail.com, NovakMary@hotmail.com
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spiritofstl.ning.com/profile/MaryNovak
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www.ShamanDreamkeeper.com

My Network to connect with Shamans Around the Earth:
primordialshamans.ning.com

www.10billionbeats.com

10 Billion Beats is a Global Intention Experiment that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention around the world following the sun through the time zones on Sept 18, 2009. This event is for everyone who is crazy enough to think they can change the world and everyone else for whom they want to change it. That includes you. The idea is admittedly huge. This is a grassroots movement–it is not a commercial event–it will only work if people like you get excited, participate, and tell others about it.

We live in an extraordinary time and we may be in for some “heavy lifting.” On one hand, we see a rise of hope in the world that offers the promise of bonding us together and overcoming a hard time. In contrast, we see that divisions between nations, political parties, and religious extremes seem unfazed. Some prophesy that we have come to the end of our days while others say we are about to advance. 10 Billion Beats is a response to this current paradox. Without doctrine or dogma, it has a simple agenda: to foster goodwill within the entire living family on the planet in which we live, move, and have our being.

Please circulate this letter, or information about the event with your drum circle, and with everyone that you feel might participate. If you can translate the message for others that will be greatly appreciated. Since we are seeking people in every time zone and every nation around the globe, please extend this invitation across borders far and wide. It will also be very helpful if you register your participation on the site so that we know where and how many people are joining in. We will send out occasional emails to help organize the event. Your information will not be shared or used for any other purpose. We also have some full color flyers available free to anyone who wants to circulate them in their area. Just let us know what you need.

For me, it is time to do what I have been learning for, I hope you will respond to your inner call for action.

Warm regards, Carlisle Bergquist

For those who work with me to learn advanced awakening practices with the holy trinity practices of Moontime, Dreamtime and Bloodtime, each month, here are 2009's lunar schedule listed below. Those of us who have already been living by the moon rather than the sun or solar, we have increased our dreaming, remote view, out of body, visions through this slow mastery practice to open the gate of the third eye which is located in the sacral chakra for noetic senses and clairvision, sentence, and audio with telepathy to increase.

NEW, FULL, DARK MOONS 2009

New Moon -June 22, Cancer
Full Moon -July 7, Sagittarius

New Moon -July 21, Leo
Full Moon -Aug 7, Capricorn

New Moon-Aug 20, Virgo
Full Moon -Sept 5, Aquarius

New Moon -Sept 18, Libra
Full Moon -Oct 4, Aries

New Moon -Oct 18, Scorpio
Full Moon -Nov 2, Taurus

New Moon -Nov 16, Sagittarius
Full Moon-Dec 2, Gemini

New Moon -Dec 16, Capricorn
Full Moon-Dec 31, Cancer

Eclipses in 2009
Eclipses for 2009 :

* An annular solar eclipse on January 26.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 9.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7.
* A total solar eclipse on July 22.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 6.
* A partial lunar eclipse on December 31.

Welcome to my site, I am a spirit chosen and spirit initiated shaman, having completed my 28 year journey of the knowledge path, the healing path and the spirit path and now at 50, enter my calling with my own ancestors through the Spirit Elk Medicine. I am a full time transformational shaman healer using my medicines of dreamtime following in the spirit footsteps of the grandmother cave medicines, the oldest religion of woman's ability to reach gently yet deeply and powerfully into the separations of our physical and spiritual dis-eases.

Working within the shamanic veils of the three worlds, I help others find and allow slowly, the building of a personal bridge between mind and emotional body, inner and outer reality and material and spiritual balance which leads to self awareness and internal medicine experienced, to connect beyond mind and body into the deeper wellspring intelligence of the Soul and her unique voice.

The Shamanic arts speak deeply to us: our personal past, our past life karma and our need for freedom from fear into dharma. The Shamans identify bondages of fear as personal illusion, denial and dis-empowerment and with the subtle emotional intelligence of our spirit, transforms these into empowerment, intuition, dreamtime and visionary self guidance. In other words, Self trust. Our inner home, our inner landscapes and our interior realities re-gain balance by nurturing our emotional needs, healing our wounded past, bringing awareness to our unfulfilled desires and our ability to speak truth without fear of being judged or abandoned by family, friends or groups. The importance of loving and trusting the Self is a difficult but mandatory survival skill if one expects to maintain personal health even when life tests us. This is the true path of a spiritual seeker who is ready to begin to experience the depth and nature of her own wisdom that lay hidden and dormant.

Seeking allows us to go beyond our limitations and limited belief systems based on our youth or the youth of the collective. The path of self-exploration moves us beyond mental concepts and theologies and awakens our feelings, moving us out of stagnation, depression, anxiety and slowly begins to creates a spark of inner freedom where we can breath deeply by loving both our true nature in all its shadows and chaos. We may then begin to find balance by accepting the natural teachings of Mother Nature and Mother Earth. Wherever we hold personal fears, our spirit is in poverty, wherever we nurture the creative and intuitive self we fulfill our need and desire for harmony and peace."

Enjoy my website, call me to set up a serious of appointments or any other work I offer in my practice. Blessings. Mary

This site supports those who walk the path of the difficult dark called "truth" with love, as the path to enlightenment. Love without Truth is based in fear, Truth without Love is cruel. I do not walk the light workers eternal mantra of Love, but the death and rebirth medicines of both light and dark god/dess for unity, wholeness and internal healing to enlightenment. Men and Women who support each others gifts, strengths and emotional intelligence so we may serve Mother Earth and her health walking as equals among her animals, avians, trees, stones and cloud people etc.

Those who take risks to show this mirror to the shadow of humanity and individual's unconscious projection, learning this mastery practice without defense, without energetic exchanges or loss. In this most difficult path and the oldest tradition of the grandmothers teachings have been the "real" mystics, masters, shamans, death shamans, dark goddesses priestesses, spiritual warriors, wizards and sorcerers path, who have never walked the main stream. Those whose visions and inner emotional creative are seeking clarity and discernment beyond illusions and constantly slain personal illusions within in order for growth and wisdom. Those who walk both the light and the dark, without judging either, but living in the worlds in between.

These are the Dark Yin Children, the Star Nation humans, the Rainbow tribe of all colors, genders and races, the ones who will be the Gatekeepers to protect the planet in the future and support each other. This tradition is strong medicine - where angels fear to tread and is more light than light itself. It is the rebirths of Pluto, the dreamers gifts of Neptune and the truth sayer visionaries of Uranus. We walk not in darkness, but in the true light of having surrendered our ego, surrendered our worldly possessions, surrendered praise, surrendered being asleep and surrendered hope so we may touch and overcome personal Illusions and denial, completely responsible for our reality on a personal level. We honor and love our shadow so we may heal and unify it with our Remembrance.

This Way the Soul [our Emotional Body where all emotions of love, hate, jealousy, etc. are accepted in order for transformation] so Spirit of life can show us what is separated within us so we may truly become free while still incarnated with Mind and Body. To experience the fearful, the rejected, the judgment, the sorrow and the self pain in order to free the self to protect our vulnerability with not only compassion, but strict boundaries, acceptance with rejection from society and still remain a spiritual beings who trusts and believes even after all these tests.

NOT IN WORD BUT IN ACTION.

If you are that kind of Seeker of Truth and Divinity, then I can help.... Mary

2nd Friday of Each Month
Living Insight Center 314-721-4455
7 - 10 PM $20 donation

Please join me every second Friday of the month, along with my apprentices to share personal healing dreams, dream practices, lucidity, world dreaming and symbolism.

A Dreamkeeper's Circle is a Shamans dream circle for the expression of self existing between the waking and nights dreaming through experiences and awakening. My dreaming as a shaman, does not solely belong to me but humanity as well and I am a devout lover and participator of dreamtime. Join us to share your experience, wisdom, groundedness and vision to become empowered through your own emotional soul body of dreaming. Begin to experience true realities of a multiple reality through practice, from a place that is deeper beyond the mind. Healing, awakening and building your own bridge to the day and nights dreaming.

Monthly Lunar Intention Circle
2009 Schedule, first six months...
Every Month, Donation: $20
Place: Sri Mata Yoga Cottage
(RSVP for directions)
Mary: PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com

The New, Full and Dark Moon Intention Circle is a once a month, co-creation to learn the sacred art of living and practicing personal Intention with the cycles of the Moon, our Dreaming cycles and our Menses cycle to structure chaos, changes and growth within rather than outward. We practice “intent” to see both the beauty and the shadows of our truth and to follow the wisdom of our grandmother ancestral nations all over the earth who have always followed Mother nature's intuitive consciousness... for she, her animals and plants and sky and clouds are reality and we are here to honor and serve her, just as our masculine is here to honor and serve our feminine.

Taurus New Moon
Sunday April 26

Gemini New Moon
Sunday May 24

Cancer New Moon
Sunday June 21 [Fathers Day]

Leo New Moon
Sunday July 19

Middle World Shamanic Journey
FRI SEPT 18
Sri Mata Yoga Studio
RSVP $65 Bring a pillow and blankets
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Middle World Shamanic Journey
SAT SEPT 19
The Living Insights Center
RSVP ONLY 314-721-4455
$65 Bring a pillow and blankets
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Mary's Shamanic Journey schedule in St. Louis is for those who are now on the wisdom/healing path of the inner journey. Friday at Sri Mata Yoga Cottage and Saturday at the Living Insights Center where she has lead journeys for ten years. "The visions I lead are for personal medicine, soul transformation and reclaiming personal vision in the tradition of female Shamans creating the softer-intense side of the realms of the underworld of Mother Earths womb. Men who come to my journeys will always be required to journey to find their female side in the jungles of South America before doing future journeys in order to respect the feminine within themselves first."

"The underworld is a place where no-time exists and in a non-ordinary reality, where you travel to reach a part of yourself unable in this world or by the limitations of mind and body. Many people choose to work with soul retrievals to reclaim parts of the self and during times of transitions when life brings them tests such as dis-ease, destruction or chaos. In my work, crisis and transformation ileads to the most powerful journeys because the person is finally ready to surrender to ordinary reality where it is impossible at deep levels voluntarily.

I lead journeys for healing in the Fall Equinox and Winter solstice to the under world and in the Spring and Summer Solstice I lead shamanic journeys for vision, guides and mysticism to the middle world. Upper world journeys are for those who are advanced enough to do them on their own (I have never done shamanic drugs or vision plants) and have the ability to travel to the upper world via the middle and underworld completions for reclaiming all karmic fragments for wholeness as a shaman

Mystic Valley Farm
2 Day Rattle Workshop 2009
Saturday Sept 26 starting at 3:00 pm
till Sunday Sept 27 at 5:00 pm
$65 including Materials
Prepare to bring personal items, a tent,
some tents available, also bring any special
items to fill your rattle that are sacred to you.
Bring your own food, drinks and snacks
there will be no alcohol or drugs allowed
of any sort. Call for more information.

Mystic Valley Books Farm
Space for 20 Participants
RSVP: Call Mystic at 314-645-3336

Discover the art of Rattles and Spirit Rattles. The basic use for Rattles are to dispel dis-ease in any form or elemental, energetic or physical. Some use them in ritual and celebration to build energy in spaces as weel. Some use them to clear space from negative spirits or negative energy and still, some use it clear their healing or personal spaces from thoughts and previous action. Rattle is power in a sound form and is empowerment, inside the Rattle made from your own hands are the sacred intention for its power as an extension of the self.

In this workshop, we will discover the significance of Rattles, as well as respect for Rattle and its uses. You will then create and birth your own Sacred Rattle charged with your energy. Your personal prayers and intent will give it life. You will select the elements of your Rattle honoring all or one of the Spirit directions. The body of Rattle is made of animal hide and bringing us together with the spirit totems. The handle is made of wood, touching us to the Tree People. The contents include sacred plants (corn, tobacco, and rice), crystal chips, sea shells, sea salt, glass, beads, etc... Please bring anything you may want to include in your Rattle or share with others. Each Rattle will be made the natural way and blessed with sage and sweetgrass in ceremony and painted by you.

RATTLE: The basic Rattle is for those new upon the path. Those who wish to begin to work with medicine tools of sound with intention. The Rattle has two sides on hand stitched Animal Hide with a two-sided head, on which images can be painted, a balanced handle wrapped in good quality natural leather to give an excellent grip and feel and embellishments of items that are special to you and your path. Walking your path with inner power can be assisted by the basic Rattle which is uncomplicated and simple, holding a simple resonant sound created by adding tiny pebbles or beads or natural seeds from Nature. Though this Rattle is designed for those new on the healing and spiritual path, it could serve your purpose for a long time as your path deepens.

SPIRIT RATTLE: A primal, earth connected Shamanic Rattle for those who undertake ceremonies and rituals with Nature, those who work with beyond the Veil will seek a Spirit Rattle which carries power. Listening to the voices of Spirit or the Spirits of Mother Earth, speaking to them when you use a Spirit Rattle. Depending upon the depth and spirals of your own healing journey, it will be mirrored in strength that reflects equally your own. A two sided, hand sewn Animal Hide, the head of these ancient styles are the shapes of Journey Animals of Ocean, Land or Air. Depending upon what you are working with, to Ground [Land], to learn from Spirit [Air] or to delve into Mother Earth [Land] and heal, this Rattle surmounts you searching a special piece of wild wood with a particular, evocative shape that you are called to carry. These Rattles inspire and carry the wild power of the land, air or water and also reflect Avian [Air], Animals [Land] or Water [Ocean] which includes Water Image Patterns, Dragons or Mythical Imagery]. They often have feathers or aspect of some animal totem hanging on the stick. A Spirit Rattle has feathers attached to the handle and partially covering one face of the head, and so it is only possible to decorate the other face. Find or gather or ask the Avian to bring you feathers specifically for your Rattle. Spirit can guide you to whatever feathers you need. What you put inside the head ensures that the sound from this Rattle is strong and clears around your energy space, and can be filled with small flint pebbles, tiny river pebbles, mixed with healing stones from local sources and helps spirit voices speak through your Rattle. Animal hide with stitching so it is durable, holds image and strength.

DREAM SERPENT RATTLE: Serpents are linked with Feminine Wisdom and Power and are the oldest Rattles connected with the Neolithic Grandmothers or Great Goddess Medicines of Primal Cave Dreamers. For those whose path is Rainbow [Many Traditions] the Wisdom Serpent represents the power of nurturing, of healing yourself, of love and unity of both your male or female sides into wholeness. Asking Spirit or your Higher Self to show you Sacred Images to paint on your Rattle is suggested before the workshop in which you Dream with your Rattle before it is manifested. Serpent Imagery painted on the handle is to represent your Life Force Energy connected to the Earth [Grounded-ness] and the Spirit of Life on Earth and also to Dream with Sacred Souls who have similar paths at the collective level. Rattle handles also should be decorated with Spirals, Images of Serpents or any Night Symbolism.

MEDICINE RATTLE: For those who are working on a healing journey and atonement or work with the world Indigenous or Native American Medicine Wheel, creating a Rattle to mirror your own personal journey of healing is the foundation of a Medicine Rattle. It is directly inspired by the Native Plains such as the Cheyenne, Cherokee and Mohican. Medicine Wheel colors of Red, Yellow, Black and / or White and the Images of your personal Totem Animals or Spirit Animals such as the Wolf, Hawk, Raven, Eagle, Buffalo, Bear, Owl, Vulture, Jaguar, Cougar or Cave Human Spirit forms are brought into Image as you work with the specific Medicines of Clearing, Boundaries, Dispelling negative Emotion such as Anger, Jealousy, Envy, Control, etc. putting the intention to clear those in the Rattle.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday
3 Day Retreat with Yoga Teacher Sherry Summer
and Shaman Mary Novak. More information to come.

The Art and Myth of Dreaming with Animal Spirits
An Shamanic Art and Dreaming Workshop
with Mary Novak

This workshop was done in May
at the Saint Louis Artist Guild
and I will be hosting it again,
Date and Place: TBA
2 Day Workshop:
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $80, $45 students
Includes materials, light lunch
limited to 20 RSVP

Mary Novak is a Shaman Dreamkeeper, Visionary Painter, Poet and healer. She created this workshop to offer change for people and artists who are seeking new ways to reconnect with the natural spirit of the earth through the lower and higher emotional body and creativity.

The healthy approaches to living on earth today are beginning to open to a reality that the beauty of our tree's, the animals, the water all have a life force that carries spirit beyond just a teaching. Our ability to understand this as real, effects our relationship to the earth's health and her vitality in the future.

As a Shaman Mary works with such alternate or non-ordinary realities beyond ordinary reality to share her gift and this inspiration with others. This workshop is to experience one's own higher self as the inner creative who meets the nature of dreaming calling forth ones' spirit to connect with ones' power totem or animal soul, known to the indigenous as a spirit animal. Those who are beginners and not familiar with this language will soon learn that its about one's imagination and emotion combined at a higher level called the Soul. We shamans call this the dreamer dreaming in the real dream reality.

The workshop begins with a lecture connecting animal symbolism from our past as the ancient one's who saw great value in the spirit of the cats, the wild big cats, the serpent, and other animals as sacred represented from cave art to ancient art. We will experience a shamanic dream journey and an afternoon of creating art from that journey.

The Artist Guild offers to host our artwork in a two day weekend show if one wishes to display their art with the group.

To register please call Mary at PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com

Last fall I held a Shamanic Journey with my friend Mitsu who chants ancient Tibetan, Brad Smith a Native Flutist and myself leading the Vision, it was very powerful for the twenty people who journeyed and powerful for me as well. My next once a year special journey will be with Zen Monk Saul and his sacred chants, Nate Callaghan who will play the Digeredo and myself. I alway take the group to a very special place on earth in the middle world one million years ago ...

DATE: TBA
$50 RSVP
314-644-2264

Mary works with your natal, transits, solar returns, progressions and karmic astrology cycles and has a great understanding of the nature of psychological developmental through divination. She helps you understand the processes and patterns of personal change, archetypes and insight from the horoscope of personal cycles. Understanding change effects consciousness and in her work as a healer through shamanism this adding more depth and her readings. Mary also experiences out of body and astral travel not limited to this world, which gives her great perspective of star knowledge when doing both your personal and collective aspects (inner and outer planets). She assists by enhancing your understanding of what you value so you can gain access to personal changes by applying them directly for the fulfillment.

Astrological Readings:

Voice recorded, e-mailed directly for long distance readings;
By phone or in person. A 1 1/2 hour Astrology Consultations
are $133 and appointments are necessary.

"A master healer is one who heals the self and creates a safe place for another to heal the self." My passion in life has been my healing journey, part spiritual, part healing the self, part testing all faiths and part testing all my personal fears to overcome duality. My gift is moving deeply with you and with energy medicine to unblocked energy that causes mental, physical and emotional dis-eases. My passion is to help and teach you how to do it for yourself so your transformation and healing will be permanent. This type of healing work is beyond the physical into the emotional and mental bodies and as an Empath I work with subtle and transformation information that emotional energy carreis, I work with helping you discipline your lower mind, understanding and valuing your own experiences and help you connected to your physical dis-ease as a conscious relationship. Exploring both higher and lower natures of your issues.

I combine my wisdom from my long and successful, but difficult personal healing journey to help others overcome their own personal limitation, illusion and fears. As a Master Energy healer I offer clients deeper transformational work and helping structure personal chaos that arises from energy work. I have been a Reiki Master healer for the past 14 years and now work as a energetic medical intuitive into the deeper layers beyond vibrational energy into frequency of the Auric, Astral and Etheric levels of memories, past lives and remembrances.

When your ready to take full responsibility for your personal well being, awaken beyond the mental knowledge and begin to work with the yin, feminine or shadow aspects of your life and its connection with the practices of intuition, dreaming, etc. please write: PathoftheDreamer@gmail.com.

For appointment please call me at 314-644-2264 for private sessions. Deposit required and then confirmation of our session appointment date. For group work please RSVP by email or at the appropriate centers.

Healing Session and Consultation:
$85 - 2-2 1/2 hour session

Astrology Session:
$125 2 hour taped session

Shamanic Private Soul Retrieval Session:
$133 - 3 hour session

Shamanic Group Session:
$65 for a 3 hour group journey
Living Insights Center, Clayton
Sri Mata Yoga Center, Maplewood

Private Students:
Practicing and building
the Intuitive Body, the Psyche,
Universal Mystery, Intuitive, Esoteric
$65 for 1 1/2 hours each month

Dream Medicine Circle
Once a month - $20 Donation

Woman's New Moon Empowerment Circles
Once a month - $20 Donation

*Sliding scale for appropriate circumstances,
and trade if it is something I am interested
in or need. I will work with you and your
situation.