Special Workshops

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Please check back in the coming weeks for a recap of Visionary Convergence.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Ayahuasca Visions Painting Workshop – October 3
Featuring Peruvian Masters: Anderson Debernardi, Mauro Reátegui Perez & Juan Carlos Taminchi
Saturday, October 3rd at Big Art Church, 10am – 6pm, with a 1 hour lunch break
Please email convergence@plantteachers.com for advance registration

Come with a vision and complete a painting under the guidance of Peruvian Masters students must bring all the materials they need to paint, including canvas, paints, brushes, and easel.

Location: Big Art Church, 4975 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Cost: $100
Space is limited.

Monday, September 28, 2015

SOLD OUT – Erotic Vines: Embodied Integration For Authentic Intimacy in Your Relationships
We are excited to be offering separate admission workshops by:

Kathleen Harrison, MA
Luis Tamani & Jheferson Saldaña
Susana Bustos, PhD
Yalila Espinoza, PhD
Anderson Debernardi, Mauro Reátegui Perez & Juan Carlos Taminchi (special date: October 3rd)

This is a unique opportunity to spend time, interact with, and learn from our illustrious and knowledgeable presenters in a more intimate setting. Space is limited.

You must first purchase a ticket to Visionary Convergence before purchasing a Workshop ticket. If space is available, Workshops will be open to the general public after June 15, 2015.

If you have already purchased your ticket for Convergence, you received a password which you will need to register for workshops. When you go to the Brown Paper Tickets Site, you will see a message in blue typeface “Enter a Password or Discount Code.” Click on the text to enter your password. After doing so, the Workshops will be visible for registration.

If you have forgotten or misplaced your password, please call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 for assistance.

Sweeping the Mountain of Nerves: Finding & Keeping Balance with Traditional Techniques & Ritual

A rare experiential learning experience with with Visionary Ethnobotanist and Scholar Kathleen Harrison, MA
Monday, September 28th at Big Art Church, 9:30am – 2:30pm, with a 1 hour lunch break

Kat will share information, insights, stories and techniques that she has learned in decades of fieldwork with a variety of teachers—human, plant, and mushroom. Folk knowledge addresses illness, imbalance, sorrow, protection, cleansing, grounding, integration and gratitude. These approaches apply to most of the psychedelic plants/fungi. She’ll also share specific ways of working with Salvia divinorum, tobacco, sages and other aromatics. Kat cultivates an awareness of what grows wild in this region of Southern California that might be invoked, and local indigenous practices that preceded colonization of Southern California.

This workshop is 4 hours and will take place conducive to instruction and where participants will have the opportunity to engage in interactive rituals and exercises.

Cost: $125
Space is limited.

Ayahuasca Visions Painting Workshop
Featuring Peruvian Masters: Luis Tamani and Jheferson Saldaña
Monday, September 28th at Big Art Church, 10am – 6pm, with a 1 hour lunch break

Come with a vision and complete a painting under the guidance of Peruvian Masters students must bring all the materials they need to paint, including canvas, paints, brushes, and easel.

Cost: $100
Space is limited.

Icaros: Singing the Powers of Nature
Insightfully guided and stewarded by Susana Bustos, PhD
Monday, September 28th at Big Art Church, 9:30am – 2:30pm

Using sound, image, sharing, and experiential learning and practice, we will immerse ourselves into an in-depth exploration of the icaros. You will view images and listen to original field recordings from Amazonian shamans. We will inquire into:

  1. how are these shamanic songs understood, acquired, and used in Peruvian Vegetalismo?
  2. what their impact is on experience in a ceremonial container
  3. what are the musical and non-musical factors that shed light on their effects?
  4. how we can tune-in into effective icaro singing ourselves.

This workshop is 3.5 hours and will be a multi-faceted, multi-sensory experience with audio-visual components, including recordings.

Cost: $100
Space is limited.

SOLD OUT – Erotic Vines: Embodied Integration For Authentic Intimacy in Your Relationships
with Shamanic Intimacy & Health Educator Dr. Yalila Espinoza
Monday, September 28th at Big Art Church, 3:00pm – 6:00pm

This workshop is a follow up exploration of Yalila’s talk at the Visionary Convergence Conference. Join her and co-participants in an opportunity to share sexual stories that you have experienced with entheogens and also learn practical techniques to:

  1. tap into your six senses
  2. purify energetic channels & align these energies
  3. enhance sensual awareness & imagination

Life long benefits:

  • lift your energy & sexual health
  • liberate yourself in relationships
  • learn how to honor entheogens

This workshop will be 3.5 hours and take place seated in a circle in an atmosphere of comfort and confidentiality

Dr. Espinoza is facilitating this workshop at a deeply reduced cost as an offering to the community that we may join in manifesting a vision that highlights embodied wisdom, empowered sexual liberation for all beings and that affirms the erotic nature of reality.

Cost: $50 (10% of proceeds will be donated to MAPS & HeartMath)
Space is limited.