Education for the soul.
Shamanic Apprenticeships
Offered as three six month classes, your soul is supported in coming home when your heart meets the journey.
Year One —
Becoming the Hollow Bone
In year one, students use this program for self discovery and growth, and as a strong foundation for starting a Shamanic practice. The Raven is the guide. Raven symbolizes Magic, Creation, and Shapeshifting. Students will gently lift programming and patterns to reveal the true nature and essence of Self. From this foundation, reality will be dreamed and co-created with Spirit. As John Perkins said “The World is as we Dream it”.
We will also explore the Magic – with gratitude, and honor the beauty within, around, above, below. From self-knowledge that is aligned with our souls gifts, create the Life from empowered awareness and clarity that sustains, feeds the soul, heart and physical being.
Reading, homework, and materials gathered from nature are required. Students will need a frame drum. The class is limited to twelve people, and will meet a guaranteed 110 hours.
$4500 with payment plans offered - VSAC approved. (In 2028, it will increase to $5500.)
Key Points of the Year
Dismantling the false identity
Walking in Beauty
Shamanic self-care and well-being in a Hurting World
Releasing the ties that bind us
Healing the wound of origin
Recapitulation – reclaiming energetic integrity
Clearing away resistance w/Coyote Medicine
Addressing Empathy and Empathics
Ethics and Boundaries
Advanced Elemental Teachings
Embracing Grief as Teacher
Unleashing Creativity
Releasing Hucha (vibrational density) and Energetic Hygiene
Addressing Ancestral Patterns and Epigenetic programming
Moose walk of the North
Holding the vision > destiny retrieval
The relationship of Responsibility > self, community, world and holding people accountable
Initiated vs. uninitiated behavior/Energy integrity – Toltec and Japanese tradition
Diving into the unknown with Bear as Guide/ Dream Journal
Eagle Visioning the future
Four day vision quest with Inipi
Various field trips to collect medicine/Sacred Well/Sweat Lodge
Living in reciprocity (Ayni)
Ceremonial etiquette
These are integrative programs requiring dedicated and focused participation, thus potential students will be screened to assure readiness and willingness for this level of study. Certification is awarded following completion of each year’s program and four day vision quest.
To set up interview for an apprenticeship, please call or text Sierra at (802) 279-0945.
Year Two —
Walking the Path of the Medicine Carrier
In this second year of the Shamanic Apprenticeship Training, students will enhance their shamanic work by developing a strong relationship to Earth, Helping Spirits, Power Animals, Elemental Teachers and Allies,
and most importantly, Self.
This is a 6-month program designed to share traditional techniques that can bring well-being and balance to the greater community, including the land, landscape, the Earth, and humans. This year is for strengthening ones connection to the Earth, the helping spirits, and inner essence, so one can walk the Shaman's path in all of life. Class size is limited to twelve students to ensure individualized attention.
$4500 with payment plans offered- VSAC Approved. (In 2028, it will increase to $5500.)
Topics Covered
Traditional practice vs. modern
Continued Shamanic journey work
Deepening working relationships and trust with teachers and power animals
Carnation and egg healing/Limpia
Soul retrieval - Mayan and North American
Power Animal Ally Retrieval
Herbal lore and wisdom
Working with plant and stone people
Psychopomp
Divination
Creating a closed sacred Mesa
Journey work w/ Elemental energies
Drum work and sacred songs
Shedding the skins of limitations
Reading energy bodies
Grounding to Pachamama and Taita Inti
The healing use of baths and clay
Field trips to the sacred springs
Medicine collecting/creating a winter medicine chest
Death Lodge teachings
Navigating grief
Four day vision quest with Inipi
Clearings with bone
Ancestral Pattern release
Extraction and Clearing homes/ spaces/ land
Rock tapping techniques to break up patterns
How to show up in a good way to Elders/ Indigenous gathers and ceremonies
Now Offering a Year Three —
Shamanic Apprenticeship Teacher Training
For those dedicated to walking the path and drawn to share this work with integrity in their communities, Sierra is now offering a six month program with 108 hours of instruction. Students will walk away feeling well resourced and confident in their ceremonial skills, and will receive continued support from Sierra and the Rooted Earth Wisdom Council. It is crucial that students remain rooted in their own spiritual practices, those which keep them connected to their helping spirits in the Earth as they begin teaching.
This year is designed to help strengthen ones connection to the Earth, the helping spirits, and inner essence, so one can walk the Shaman's path in all of life.
Students will
learn various techniques to teach others how to journey
to create an organized syllabus, certificate, and schedule for their apprenticeship classes.
how to create a code of integrity and conduct for their students
trouble shooting in group dynamics and how to support those in deep transition.
how to create a safe container for their classes’ four-day vision quest
applicable business practices in order to be successful when beginning teaching.
navigate the tight rope of balance of retaining the sacredness of the traditional teachings versus keeping the information relevant to our times.
create a resource list that will support and their classes during challenging personal growth times
Students are responsible for developing their own marketing materials, and will be responsible for handling all payments for their own future classes.
Students will pay for and attend four quarterly consultation meetings with Jennifer per year to stay aligned with the teachings and receive support as they branch out on their own.
Reiki Courses
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First Degree Reiki
Students learn the history of Reiki, ethical guidelines, and how to channel the healing energy focusing mainly on oneself. A basic understanding of the human energy field and the chakra system is taught along with the hand placements for treating self, others, as well as animals.
Students receive three attunements to open up their crown, heart, and hand chakras, and begin their personal Reiki experience.
Level one is open to everyone and no prior experience is needed. Many people begin Reiki with the desire for self exploration, personal growth, and development. Some people find they are fulfilled after taking the level one certification course, and others feel moved to go on to Reiki ll. Students must wait three months before attending the Reiki ll class.
All materials are provided, please bring your own lunch.
$350 - VSAC approved
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Second Degree Reiki
The focus of the second degree is learning the Reiki symbols and a deeper understanding of energy. Students learn how to send Reiki to people, places, events, and situations from a distance.
Students receive three more attunements that expand their energetic flow and integrate the symbols into their practice. Scanning the human biofield for Byosen and energy field disturbances is demonstrated and practiced.
All materials are provided, please bring your own lunch.
$450 - VSAC approved
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Reiki Master Practitioner
This level is for those who have already taken Reiki level one and two, have 6 to 12 months of practice, and want to make a serious commitment to Reiki.
This level encourages practitioners to deepen their integration of the Reiki symbols and the Reiki principles so that they may bring the healing power of Reiki into all aspects of their lives. Students receive one attunement and the master symbol.
There is over 100 hours of home study involved in this class, including reading, 20 distance sessions, 20 hands-on sessions, and 20 sessions for self. Students are instructed how to organize a Reiki share and a Reiki clinic. This class meets once a month for three hours, for six months.
$1700 - VSAC approved
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Reiki Master Teacher
The emphasis on the teacher level is on curriculum development and giving accurate, traditional attunements.
This level can be combined with the master level of study and is tailored to the student’s individual needs.
Students observe and sit in on Reiki level one and two classes with the instructor and promote Reiki within their community. Students create a business plan and curriculum for all levels, in addition there is a written paper required.Students receive a final attunement, however, no additional symbols are given at this level. Participants commit to a minimum six-month long apprenticeship program.
$6000 - VSAC approved
Lightwork Integration Therapy
Energy work based on the chakra system and wheel of life. Brought by the angelic realm.
Humanity is facing and an enormous leap in evolution and transformation at this time. The transmutation into, or the awakening of the light body can be an apprehensive and challenging experience. The light body can be described as an energy field that surrounds each individual.
All life continually communicates with everything on his cell to cell level. Light integration enhances the balance and harmony of this interaction, supports the dynamics of inter-connecting energy patterns and exults the physical nature to the fulfillment of it's divine purpose here on earth.
Energy work promotes healing and balancing by encouraging the mental, emotional, and physical bodies to release blockages and patterns that no longer serve the individual and to nourish areas of depletion.
Through intention, love, compassion, focus, and belief in divine will , the light work practitioner acts as a co-creator and guide to a client, allowing each individual absolute authority over their own journey.
My intention is to nurture the further development of each student's personal and spiritual transformation, empowerment, and connection . Through an experiential teaching format the entire course is conducted as a personal healing journey.
This course is useful for those interested in discovering their soul's purpose and who want to assist others in finding theirs . This modality is based on the chakra system, emotion , body system , and phase in life that corresponds to said chakra.
The course is a nine week program that meets for three hours a week. There is homework and practice required.
$1700