Healing Camp in Sonora, Mexico January 2010

Giving and Receiving Healing Together in Sonora, Mexico
 
Health professionals can also be healers.  The focus of this workshop is to combine health professionals who wish to develop their healing abilities and capacities with a select group of people who wish to receive healing in the magical environment of Sonora, Mexico, on the coast near Hermosillo.  We will explore how to be healers, what is healing, how to give and receive healing, and the limits of the hierarchical organization of conventional medicine.  We will work to bring out our inner healers and to explore what motivates change and transformation.
 
We will explore ceremony and ritual, body-centered healing techniques including Cherokee and Mayan bodywork, guided imagery and visualization, hypnosis, energy medicine, narrative dialogical approaches, Talking Circles, sweat lodges, and more.  We will explore the process of finding spirit guidance for our work, and wonder how all of our healing work can be grounded in spirituality and community.
 
The leaders have pursued healing and the development of healing relationships throughout their careers.  Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is the author of several books on healing, including Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, and Narrative Medicine. He has studied with indigenous healers since 1972 and was raised in an indigenous context.  His mother's people were Cherokee and Scottish, and his father's people, Lakota and Quebecoise.  He graduated from Stanford Medical School and currently teaches at Argosy University and the University of Hawaii.  Dr. Anne-Marie Chaisson graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (did I remember correctly) and completed her training at the University of British Columbia.  She currently teaches at the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and has been active in studying and teaching Mayan healing.
 
As an added benefit, we believe we have discovered Carlos Castenada's don Juan.  He is currently 105 years old and living in the Hermosillo area.  If he is still alive, we will visit with him and gain his perspective on healing.
 
Participants can fly into Tucson, Arizona, and drive in caravan to Hermosillo or fly into Hermosillo and be retrieved from the airport.  We will stay in a beach house or nearby hotel.  This area of Mexico is quite safe, despite recent border difficulties.
 
Cost is $995 for the week.

Lodging and food is extra (but is inexpensive in Mexico!).

Note: Dispite media controversy about the Border, Hermosillo is quite peaceful and not dangerous so far as we can determine.  My colleague, Dr. Ann-Marie Chaisson owns property there and has had no trouble with border crossings or residence outside of Hermosillo on the coast where we will be working.

Let us know your lodging needs and we will respond with options!