Workshops

In addition, Heather will be giving a free talk at the Sufi Books store in Manhattan on the honoring of the Day of the Dead in the Yaqui tradition on Monday, November 1st at 7 pm. Sufi Books is located at 227 West Broadway in Tribeca.

"“Heather is the Dream Weave embodied. She is power dancing through form. She taught me the ancient form of dream circle and stirred my bone-deep memories of ancient rites. - Connie Kaplan, author of A Woman’s Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice

April 16-18, 1999
Santa Fe, New Mexico Workshops with Heather Valencia
Sponsored by A.D.A.M. Inc., A School of Ancient Dance, Art and Music
For more information or to register for the Santa Fe workshops, please email: adam@adam-inc.org, or call 800-488-3402 or 505-982-3402.

The Five Worlds of the Yaqui Dreamers
A talk by Heather Valencia
Friday evening, April 16, 1999 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Dreamers Workshop
Saturday, April 17, 1999 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Using the Yaqui formula for the dream circle, we will open the dream weave and enter the magical fourth realm, fully opening and aligning ourselves as dreamers. These skills will refine subtle bodies and teach individuals successful navigation of the Shadow.

The Alchemy of the Esoteric Tarot: An All Day Workshop
Sunday, April 18, 1999 9:30 am – 5 pm
A workshop on the sacred art of tarot for all levels. Heather will present the esoteric and divinatory dimensions of the major and minor arcana cards of the tarot and their interrelationship with numerology, astrology and the five sacred worlds of the Yaqui tradition. She will instruct workshop attendees in an unusual tarot layout spread based on the twelve houses of astrology that uses all dimensions of the interplay of these sacred arts.

The talk on Friday evening is $25, which can be applied toward the cost of either of the workshops. The Dreamers Workshop on Saturday and the Tarot Workshop on Sunday are $100 each. We encourage you to register early as enrollment is limited. MC/VSA/AMEX or checks accepted.

Weekend Dream Circle Workshop with Heather Valencia July 2-4, 1999
Grass Valley, California (one hour north of Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills)
This weekend workshop begins Friday evening and continues through Sunday. Fee is $195.
For more information, please call 800-869-0658 or email canteen@oro.net.

"Being in Heather Valencia’s Dream Circle was one of the most magically inspiring things I have ever done. It changed me forever." -- D. Heywood, Penn Valley, CA.

The Dream Circle workshop is a unique opportunity to acquire and recognize dreaming skills that allow individual access to successful navigation of the Shadow, with practices used by Geronimo, Chanukuk and Anselmo Valencia, Chief of the Yaqui nation, working in group with the dreaming elders on this side of the veil and beyond.

The purpose of this workshop is to activate parts of the dreamer’s brain so that a mystical connection is established and enhanced between individual dreamers and celestial navigation practitioners in the ancient Yaqui tradition of the Fifth World Dreamers.

The workshop will begin Friday night with a talk in which Heather Valencia will detail the five worlds of the Yaqui Dreamers. The first world is the Wilderness World, which corresponds to the physical body. The second world is the Enchanted World of the Mind. The third is the Night World of the Shadow. The fourth is the Magical World, and the fifth is the Incomprehensible World, Tenku Ania, the World of the Great Dream.

The second day participants will begin the actual practice of the dream circle. Using the Yaqui formula for dream circle we will open the dream weave and enter the magical fourth realm, thus fully opening and aligning ourselves as dreamers. The third day will align participants still further with the five worlds.

Each participant must come with a willingness to awaken the artifact of being. This is a dynamic process that will educate and refine subtle bodies. The participants themselves will define the alchemy of the dream circle, by the individual elements each brings.

It is my joyful obligation to our Endless Creator to act as a channel and communicator of the teachings of the original dreamers, so the children of the Sun who come after us will remember their origins. These ancestral teachings have been with us since our ancestors made the dream voyage to our Sacred Mother Earth from the Stars. My dreaming sisters, and the warrior dreamers who champion us, form a universal and mystical society of dreamers. The art of dreaming is the most ancient of all practices of magical group work. The Society of Fifth World Dreamers has worked together in the Web of Creation with Grandmother Spider since the beginning of time. The practices of this tradition have been kept alive by aboriginal peoples of the world through the darkest passes of human evolution.

All manifestation occurs first in the subtle invisible worlds, behind the veil of the dreaming. The dense physical world is the final expression of the group dream, and the ultimate gifting where the evolving humans can give back to the Endless Creator. As we dream, so becomes the world. At this very powerful moment in the evolution of human beings, the ancient society of dreamers have begun to reveal themselves. It is the work of the dreamers to act as guides through the realm of the shadow and correctly align the five worlds. We must recognize each other and actively engage if we are to accomplish our work. It is a work that requires the diligence of activated individual comprehension and attention applied to the service of group expression.