ADVANCED TRAINING

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear” – Buddha

Apprentices are able to progress in their training to become a student and facilitator:

Who are the Wisdom Keepers?

Gatekeepers are shamanic Wisdom Keepers whose function is to purify the energies they let in and out of their being.

By attuning, cleansing, and bringing these energies into balance, Gatekeepers become the Wisdom Keepers of the World.

Gatekeeper’s are initiates of the 5 Elemental Bodies of the Medicine Wheel. We are the body of Mother Earth from whom we originate.

A Gatekeeper upholds integrity and responsibility in all relationships – professional and personal. They serve the transformational power of love for the benefit of all beings.

In our work here at BEZA our space-holders are not performers. They are trained facilitators. They are trained to co-regulate with who is in the space. As a facilitator they are aware that
every person in the space is unconsciously tuning into the facilitator’s frequency whose body is always broadcasting. The question is – what is it saying?

Every tradition that truly understood the art of holding – knew the holder was not the source. They were a vessel. Chosen. Prepared. Cleaned. Something ancient moved through them. Not from them. A vessel isn’t passive. It is tended.

Un-metabolized grief. Un-faced shadow. Ancestral wounds still running.These don’t stay inside. They bleed into the field. They shape what’s possible for the people in the space-holder’s care. Before they enter a healing space with other’s – they examine what they are carrying? There is a threshold every true space holder crosses. From performing the role to becoming the medicine. One does not cross this threshold with more training. They cross it by going into the places within themselves they’ve been afraid to enter. They were called to this work because something ancient recognized them. They honor this by doing the work that keeps them clean enough to transmit it.

They are learning to hold the field. To trust what moves through them. To get out of the way. This is the subtle art. This is the part that most don’t speak about. But first it must begin with allowing themselves to be held in a trustworthy field. To learn what that feels like. To embody trust – become Trust. As this develops they learn to hold trust in their lives – with others, with their own triggers. And when they begin to trust this Sacred Trust, healing happens. As they practice and develop confidence and responsibility they begin to learn how to get out of the way – to hold space and facilitate healing. They become vessels for love, integrity and healing – a Gatekeeper who is a channel for ancient wisdom, but not the source of it.

Lead Mentor

Ekan Nangaku Leisching

Topics covered on your journey around the Medicine Wheel

Upcoming Elemental Modules

Every 12 months we complete and restart a cycle of apprentice training around the medicine wheel.

Visionary FIRE Module

Way of the Ancestors

Work with what inspires – your dreams, aspirations and passion for life. Transmute all that stands in the way of your spiritual potential. Channel your purpose into realities that align with your truth. In this gateway you work with light & vision; alchemical illumination; dreams & myth; divination; and ancestral healing.

Compassionate WATER Module

Way of Balance

Learn harmonising techniques - how to sense and relate to others. Access your emotional intelligence. Navigate the complexities of human and non-human relationships. Acquire the skills of meditation; compassion; resonance; resolving dilemma; and shadow work.

Grounded EARTH Module

Way of the Heart

Never before has "Knowing Thyself" been so vitally important. During the Grounded EARTH Module (the third Elemental Gateway in the BEZA Medicine Wheel), we learn practical and spiritual skills to reconnect with Mother Earth - and consequently our True Self.

Zen Master Daido Loori Roshi once said, "To be born as the earth is not the same as being born. It is to realize that these mountains and rivers and the whole earth itself is our true human body." This will be the theme of this Module. Gatekeeper Training in the Earth Element is an initiation into Self. We have all been on a long and winding journey, ultimately searching for ourselves. This is the journey homeward - the Great Return: a Homecoming.

During this Module we learn how to remain centred during these extraordinary times of revolutionary change and powerful transformation. Anchor into the abundance available within your grounded, present self. Become open and available (no matter the situation) with an ever expanding heart while the truer you emerges. Reclaim your sovereign uniqueness as you learn to embody your inherent enlightenment. Study how abundance and karma are related and how to orient yourself at the various stages and cycles of growth. Embrace your healing power as you open to Mother Earth's Love. Celebrate the diversity of all dualities and manifestations as you connect to the unifying, common ground of community, home, identity, and otherness.

Medicine of NATURE Module

Way of Medicine

Make Way for your Truth - The world needs your undomesticated, truest self in this moment. This training is for the committed ones who are eager to uncover their authentic selves and give the gift of their unwavering Truth to the world. We will explore the subtle and spontaneous workings of Nature as a guide to bringing you into a more intimate relationship with your originality and genuineness. Read the signs around you. Meet unpredictability with authenticity and curiosity. Trust your medicine to meet revolutionary moments with truth. In this Module we study medicine gifts; transformation; the trickster; authentic expression; transformation; shapeshifting and truth.

Creative STONE Module

Way of Story

How to effectively communicate - teach, lead and create the systems necessary to connect with others. Express your life’s purpose and build supportive networks. Work with communication; power structure; manifestation; motivation, goals & quests; and story keeping.

We plant a tree for the first event / training you attend. We help restore your inner- and outer-environment.

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