The classes listed in this category are classes developed by the instructors listed on this website.  These classes are not part of the teacher training curriculum as taught by Sandra Ingerman so they are grouped separately.  Please contact the person offering the class for additional information. 

This page was last updated on March 17. 2025.

2025

Ongoing, 2025  in wilderness park in Los Angeles Area (California)
  Course: Earth Angel Collective (IN-PERSON + ONLINE or ONLINE ONLY)
  Taught by:  Victoria Vives Khuong  Website
  To register, contact:   support@EarthSkyPeople.org,  https://VictoriaVives.com/EarthAngel
  Cost/Times:  One time payment of $4,995 (installment options available). Includes lifetime online access and in 1 yr person access (with option to lifetime). 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month plus optional extra dates
  Additional Information:   In this 12 month mentorship and community you will have access to 5 segments a month through livestream or in person training in 1) Shamanism self-purification and Ancestors Circle 2) Self-Care 3) Success for Healers 4) Community Outreach (optional)  5) A themed training and online self-study program (Shamanism Intensives, Plant Medicine, EFT certification, Reiki certification, Sound Healing certification, Crystal Healing certification, etc.).

February, 2025

February 1, 2025  Methuen, Massachusetts
  Course: Shamanic Immersion with Helping Spirits
  Taught by: Leontine Hartzell www.eyeofeagle.org
  To register, contact:  https://www.circlesofwisdom.com/workshops/events-workshops/sp/shamanic-immersion-merging-channeling-power/
  Cost/Times: $255.00, discount if taking entire Shamanic Apprenticeship program. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: Immerse in core shamanic practices of power animal and power place connection. Learn to channel spiritual wisdom, do healing work with formulas, power songs and movement. Participate in rituals to empower the earth with healing energy.Pre-requisite: Some shamanic journeying experience.

March, 2025

March 28-30, June 27-29, August 29-31, Oct 24-26, 2025 online from Maine, USA
  Course: A year of Quarterly Shamanic Trainings
  Taught by: Terry Morgan
  To register, contact: Terry Morgan at www.terryamorgan.com
  Cost/Times: $400.00 per weekend, group calls $50.00 for each participant, one on one calls $125.00 each. Begins Friday each weekend at 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
  Additional Information: Working with a small group of 5 for a year of advanced shamanic training. This is not for beginners. Each weekend will build on shamanic training including developing ways of using ceremony, rituals, advanced shamanic trainings working in communities, field work integrating shamanism in daily life, Death as a rite of passage, grief work, working with moon phases, and much more. Included monthly 90-minute Zoom calls for group mentoring in addition to one, one-on-one sessions.

April, 2025

April 5, 2025 Methuen, Massachusetts
  Course: Healing with the Ancestors
  Taught by: Leontine Hartzell  www.eyeofeagle.org
  To register, contact: https://www.circlesofwisdom.com/workshops/events-workshops/sp/healing-with-the-ancestors-2/
  Cost/Times: $255.00, discount if taking entire Apprenticeship series. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: Connect with your ancestors and their resources of wisdom and healing. Receive a vision to clarify your soul’s path and activate your gifts. Journey to your biological, karmic and spirit ancestors. Join in ritual to heal your ancestral line. Pre-requisite: Some shamanic journeying experience.

April 26, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course: Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life – “The Silver Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This gate challenges us to invite new experiences into our lives and face the unknown. This is the “birthing gate” that symbolizes new starts and fresh perspectives, inviting us to remain open to discovery and approach life with curiosity, no matter our age. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

April 27-30, Ferry Beach Retreat Center, Saco, Maine, USA
  Course:  Womens in residence Renewal Ocean side Retreat in Maine
  Taught by: Terry Morgan
  To register, contact: Terry Morgan www.terryamorgan.com
  Cost/Times: $599.00 for the retreat . Room cost for 3 nights (private room with shared bath) and 9 meals  $423.00. Total $1022.00. Sunday arrive at 4:00 pm. Ends 1:00 pm April 30th.
  Additional information:  Retreat will include Shamanic ceremonies, Mediation and contemplative practices, Working with Healing Light, gaining tools to transform your life, Meaningful rituals to release old energies and welcome new intentions, Guided shamanic journeys to connect with your souls wisdom. Rest and Rejuvenate in the comfort of the sounds of the ocean in a safe, beautiful, retreat center.

May, 2025

May 3-4, 2025, Southfield, Michigan
  Course: Cycles of Life
  Taught by: Connie Lee Eiland
  To register,contact: Connie Eiland at 248-809-3230 or clshebear7@gmail.com
  Cost/Times: $200.00 until 4/19/25, then $230.00. Saturday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, Sunday, 10:00 am- 4:00 pm.
  Additional information: This class presents pathways to help with your own life explorations and healing.  We will
work with the Medicine Wheel, the Spirit and cycles of the Moon, our Circle of Ancestors. This class includes sacred art, healing and divination, as well as individual journeys.

May 17, 2025  In the mountains of Los Angeles area, California
  Course:  Plant Medicine and Wildcrafting Herbs Introduction 
  Taught by:  Victoria Vives Khuong & Nhan Khuong  Website
  To register, contact:  support@EarthSkyPeople.org, (310) 907-5909, https://EarthskyPeople.org/intro-herbal-medicine  Register
  Cost/Times: $197.00,  Saturday May 17th, 2025,  10 am – 1 pm
  Additional Information:   Explore the relationships that ancient, indigenous people cultivated with plants and herbal medicines, through the physical senses, generational wisdom, experimentation, and shamanic practices.

May 25, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course:  Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life  –  “The White Picket Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This gate asks us to reflect on the roles we have played earlier in our lives and to learn to assume the new role of elder. This is the “gate of innocence” — a call to return to childlike wonder and joy. This gate encourages us to cultivate playfulness, awe, and the ability to see beauty in the everyday. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

June, 2025

June 1, 2025 Methuen, Massachusetts
  Course: Shamanic Dreamwork, Divination and Manifesting Destiny: Ancient Skills for Modern Times
  Taught by: Leontine Hartzell   www.eyeofeagle.org
  To register, contact:  https://www.circlesofwisdom.com/workshops/events-workshops/sp/shamanic-dreamwork-divination-manifesting-destiny-ancient-skills-for-modern-times/
  Cost/Times: $255.00, discount if taking entire Apprenticeship series. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: Delve into the spirit realms and frequencies of psychic sight, messages of wisdom, divine guidance and working with time and energy. Work with spirit guides to interpret dreams for yourself and others. Join in ceremony to dream a new dream for your life and our world into manifestation. Pre-requisite: Some shamanic journeying experience.

June 21, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course: Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life – “The Clay Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This gate urges us to care for and enjoy our bodies, even as we come to terms with their limitations. This gate is the gate of creativity and honors creative expression, reminding us that life’s latter chapters can be a time of immense artistic and personal expression, where we shape meaning through storytelling, art, or nurturing passions. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

July, 2025

July 19, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course: Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life –  “The Black & White Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: At this gate we learn to deepen our relationships in more intimate and mature ways.  This is “the gate of mystery”, representing life’s paradoxes and the unknown. The Black and White Gate invites us to embrace uncertainty and trust the unfolding of life, finding peace with ambiguity and the cycles of life and death. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

July 19-20, 2025, Southfield, Michigan
  Course: Ancestors & Descendants (Cycles of Life is a requirement.)
  Taught by: Connie Lee Eiland
  To register, contact: Connie Eiland at 248-809-3230 or clshebear7@gmail.com
  Cost/Times: $200.00 until 7/5/25, then $230.00. Saturday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, Sunday, 10:00 am- 4:00 pm
  Additional Information:  This class investigates our connections to our circle of ancestors and the descendants in ways that impact our health and wellbeing.  This class includes journeys, sacred art, healing, and ceremony.

August, 2025

August 1-3, 2025  Boulder, Colorado
  Course: The Beauty Way – An Urban Retreat  (In-Person class. In-house lodging available pending discussion).
  Taught by: BJ Brown www.wolfheals.com Wolfheals Shamanic Services
  To register, contact: BJ Brown, bjbrown11@comcast.net, 303-808-4006
  Cost/Times: $450.00. Non-refundable deposit due by 7/11/25. Balance due 8/1/25  (*Fee includes one private session, within 2 weeks pre or post retreat).   Friday , 6:30-9:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This retreat explores the Soul’s inquiry and desire, drawing us closer to an inner clarity longing to be seen, heard and expressed. Your inner teacher, your Soul, will be your primary guide to creating your collage – the physical manifestation of your interior landscape. See more information on www.wolfmanheals.com.

August 2, 2025  Methuen, Massachusetts
  Course: Working With Nature Spirits: Learning to Live in Harmony with All of Life on Earth
  Taught by: Leontine Hartzell, www.eyeofeagle.org
  To register/contact: https://www.circlesofwisdom.com/workshops/events-workshops/sp/working-with-nature-spirits/
  Cost/Times: $255.00, discount if taking entire 9 month Apprenticeship series, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: Learn how to communicate and work with nature spirits to establish strong partnerships of earth stewardship and healing. Learn to connect to the energies of the planet, learn about earth grids and earth energies to help keep the earth healthy and strengthen health and happiness for all of life. Pre-requisite: some shamanic journeying experience.

August 3, 2025 Methuen, Massachusetts
  Course: Healing With the Elements: Partner with Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Space to Restore Balance and Health
  Taught by: Leontine Hartzell, www.eyeofeagle.org
  To register, contact:  https://www.circlesofwisdom.com/workshops/events-workshops/sp/healing-with-the-elements-partner-with-earth-air-water-fire-to-restore-balance-health/
  Cost/Times: $255.00, discount if taking entire Apprenticeship series, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: Learn methods to work with the spirits of the elements for healing, meet an elemental spirit ally and practice receiving and giving a healing with elemental spirits. Learn to balance the elements within your own body for optimal health for yourself and others. Join in ceremony with the elements to harmonize global energies. Pre-requisite: some shamanic journeying experience.

September, 2025

September 13, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course: Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life – “The Rustic Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: At this gate we explore meaningful work, service and creativity. It is the “gate of simplicity”, encouraging us to release what no longer serves us. This gate speaks to the wisdom of living simply and authentically, appreciating the quiet gifts of nature, solitude, and presence. We take a deep dive into generativity and how we initiate, inspire, and originate something that is meaningful, hopeful, and sustainable for ourselves and others. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

October, 2025

October 11, 2025, Orange County, California
  Course:  Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life –  “The Bone Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com   
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This is the “gate of surrender” that strips away what is disingenuous in our nature, and any false remnants are burned to ashes. We must release anything that keeps us from fully stepping into our authenticity. At the Bone Gate, we develop the courage to be authentically ourselves in the world, letting go of attachments, identities, and even people — learning to gracefully accept change, loss, and the impermanence of all things. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

November, 2025

November 8, 2025  Orange County, California     
  Course:  Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life –“The Natural Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com 
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This gate brings us to the presence of grace: happiness, satisfaction and peace. At this gate we are encouraged to come home to our natural rhythm and our inner sanctuary.  This is the “gate of nature” that connects us with the natural world as a teacher, reminding us to align with nature’s rhythms, honor the body’s cycles, and draw strength from the earth’s wisdom. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.

November 9, 2025, Southfield, Michigan
  Course: Creating Safety and Sacred Space
  Taught by: Connie Lee Eiland
  To register, contact: Connie Eiland at 248-809-3230 or clshebear7@gmail.com
  Cost/Times: $100.00 until 10/25/25, then $230.00. Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am- 4:00 pm
  Additional Information: This class gives you practices, journeys and ways of looking at safety and sacred space that will
serve you and your clients.  It is experiential.  You will clear the space, set an altar together to become aware of the aliveness of all beings. There will be journeys and practices before closing the space as a group.

December, 2025

December 6, 2025  Orange County, California
  Course: Empowering the Wise Elder Within for the Second Half of Life – “The Gold Gate”
  Taught by: Gretchen Crilly McKay, https://www.ancestralwisdom.com/empowering-wise-elder
  To register or for more information, contact: Gretchen at gcmckay2@mac.com  
  Cost/Times: $150.00 per class, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
  Additional Information: This gate brings us to brings us to the “gate of wisdom.” This final gate represents the integration of life’s lessons, inviting us to step into our roles as elders, sharing our gifts and insights with younger generations, communities, and the world. It is the gate of surrender, faith, and acceptance. When we reach the Gold Gate, we engage in deep spirituality and the “harvest” of our life. This work has been inspired by Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life.