““Divination is an active conversation between the worlds on behalf of another; the crossroads where nature, community, ancestors and spirit allies join together for the purpose of offering a more trans-generational and spiritually diagnostic understanding of the situation at hand to activate memory, healing and connection in both worlds. The elementals are the active ingredients that enable these rituals to deliver the medicinal potency in effecting change. The Ancestors and other helping spirits assist the middle world in the chorography and precision of timing.” ”
Intuitively Guiding Others Through Cowry Shell Divination.
Divination is an empowering way to examine what is going on in your life as it relates to your personal medicine and your relationship to ancestors, spirit and community, forming a deeper sense of personal identity and belonging within your life. Kedar Brown will be your teacher for this training. Kedar learned this particular method of divination from Initiated Malidoma Somé in 2003. This process provides a powerful tool for divining into the questions and concerns of others. Unlike many types of “readings” where the focus is just on offering insight and perspective into your life, this form of divination focuses on offering you specific prescriptive ritual actions to take to address the concerns at hand.
How Will I Use This Skill?
As a Cowry Shell Diviner you will add to your medicine bag of offerings this deeply empowering method of assisting others in examining their life as it relates to their personal medicine and their relationship to the ancestors, spirit and to the greater community (human and non-human), providing a deeper connection to healing, personal identity and belonging for living a more inspired, purpose-focused life. You will learn the diagnostic form and function of cowry shell divination along with how to offer relevant and specific ritual prescriptions through the use of elemental medicine (fire, water, earth, mineral, nature & wind). You will also learn to address unresolved ancestral patterning and trauma, clearing of unwanted energies and restoring of right relationship to the natural world.
“Walking, I am listening to a deeper way.
Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me.
Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are
the result of love of thousands.”
What Will I Learn?
Some of the things you will Learn will include...
Form & process of cowry shell divination
Divination diagnostics and ritual prescriptions
Methods of remote viewing and tracking
Holographic field and empathic resonance
Channeling through non-ordinary pathways of perception
Connecting with ancestral helping spirits
Deepening relationship to elements through radical ritual
Ethics of working with others at this level
Creating and activating your divination cloth and items
Art of invocation and opening the way
Practice sessions with each other and general public
We will be tent camping in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina near Asheville on rolling hills and forest next to an ancient river. A welcome letter will be sent to you once you register with an equipment list and other items to bring.
“What is broken in this world can only be healed from the other world & what is broken in the the other world can only be healed from this world.”
Registration Information:
Special Note: This is a stand alone training and open to everyone without a prerequisite. If you are currently in or an alumni of the Ceremonial Guide Training Program you only need to complete session three in this training series. The cost for session three for current or alumni Ceremonial Guide Training participants is $1250 for the single session. Contact Kedar if you wish to register under as a ceremonial guide training participant. kedar@ritesofpassagecouncil.org
When: All thee sessions are required unless other wise indicated above: All Sessions begin Wednesday at 3p and end Sunday at 12p
Session 1. June 25-27 Sacred Site Activation
Session 2. July 30 to August 3 Elemental Ritual Immersion
Session 3. December 3-7 Gathering & Crafting Divination Items and Cloth Making. . Also Includes activation and practice sessions with the general public.
Where: Near Asheville, NC
Full Tuition: $3500 (All three sessions, 2 meals a day, and a thirty-five page detailed training manual on the specifics of offering cowry shell divination sessions).
Lodging: Tent Camping in included. One onsite AirB&B and several off site Airb&b’s (12 minutes away) all for extra cost. Ask about availability here: Lynnbowers61@gmail.com (mention that you are attending an ROPC program.
Deposit: $500 non-refundable deposit will hold your spot for this program. Deadline for deposit payment is May 15
Per Session Payment Option Available by request: Initial Deposit of $500 plus three payments of $1000 due at the beginning of the training session months (June, July & December). Contact Kedar for details. kedar@ritesofpassagecouncil.org
Facilitated by: Our Founder Kedar S Brown
NOTE: Contact Kedar to learn more: kedar@ritesofpassagecouncil.org
If you wish to experience a personal divination with Kedar as an introduction to this training you can schedule that here.
““From an indigenous perspective, the individual psyche can be healed only by addressing one’s relationship with the visible worlds of nature and community and one’s relationship with the invisible forces of the ancestors and spirit allies. It is in ritual that nature, community, and the spirit world come together to support the inner building of identity.””