Practices

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies presents the world’s foremost training programs in shamanism and shamanic healing. They are based on the pioneering work of anthropologist Michael Harner, who brought shamanism to contemporary life in the West after extensive field and cross-cultural investigation, experimentation, and personal practice.

CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research offers a certificate training program and provides diverse public education about psychedelic research and the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy from the past decades, as well as teaching on topics such as creativity enhancement, consciousness studies, comparative mysticism, well-being enrichment and harm reduction.

Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. His early research in the clinical uses of psychedelics at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, explored the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances.

The course presents teachings on the Goddess and the Sri Chakra practice in the Sri Vidya tradition, and relates these to our modern lives. It includes detailed instructions on yantra, mantra, nyasah, mudra, and puja. Presented by Swami Chetanananda.

Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India’s most ancient techniques of meditation. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills.

A Course in Light is a journey of your soul to bring you to a state of fulfillment of your life purpose and intention. Messages from the masters are insights for healing your mind, body and soul. It is a series of meditations with messages from the ascended masters. This course is a spiritual path that offers needed insights resulting in harmony at all levels.