Sponsorship Program

Would you love to attend classes and events about Tantric Shamanism, healing, sacred art and the women's mysteries, but find it difficult to travel to California? Then please consider participating in our sponsorship program. We can bring the magic to you. Sponsors not only attend for free, sponsors also receive a portion of the proceeds for their efforts.

On this page you will find all of the classes that are currently offered at the Tantric Shamanism Institute. You will find quite a few classes that can be tailored to the needs of your community, event, or organization. The approximate duration of each class is listed at the end of each description. Please note the titles you are interested in in your communications with us, and we will put something together that should prove to be enriching for all.
Please contact us to recieve detailed infomation about sponsorship.

I hope you will consider supporting this sacred work.

Blessings,
Sylvia Brallier

Chakras are energy vortexes that exist within the subtle body. The chakras represent different aspects of our experience as human beings. By working with the energies of the chakras, it is possible to balance and clear away the aspects of ourselves that prevent us from being healed whole beings in alignment with our highest nature. Through working with the chakras we gain self knowledge directly through the vehicles of sensation, visualization and listening. We will be working with breath, color, energy, and sound. These chakra teachings will give you experiences and tools to understand and heal yourself more fully. I encourage participants to wear white or bright colors.(2-6 hours)

This healing workshop will focus on the chakra energy vortexes, the shield body, the layers of the auric field as well as some of the major energy channels in the body. It will give you keys to perceiving the subtle body system, and practices to develop your ability to concentrate and subtle body
awareness.

When a person is doing healing work, it is possible to take on non-beneficial energies of the client, particularly if you are am empath. This class will focus on the skills of being empathic, without being a
psychic sponge. It will help you to ground your energy, so that you stay present, and so that the healing current that moves through you will be stronger. You will learn practices that will help you to stay in touch with yourself, as you connect with the person you are working on, you will learn smudging techniques to clear stuck energy, and clearing techniques to use on yourself after working on others.

For every physical symptom a person has, there is a correlating emotional state or belief system which is the energetic underpinning of the physical state. These beliefs and emotions are the energetic pre-cursor to physical illness. In this class, we will investigate the origins of dis-ease, and learn some somato-emotional release techniques and re-decisioning processes to help turn the situation around for the better.

Sound is a powerful tool for healing. All our organs, and all our energy centers, or chakras, are vibrating at different frequencies. When we are healthy, those frequencies vibrate in harmony. When we are ill, emotional upset, or mentally confused, there is a dissonance in or vibrational field.
Through sound healing techniques, we can entrain the different vibratoryrates, inducing harmonic resonance and vibrate health.

Both crystals, and the body's physical and chakric systems emit various frequencies of piezo-electrical current. When we have illness, our bodies piezo-electrical frequencies are out of tune. Through the use of crystals attuned to the chakric frequencies, and the use of sound healing, we can bring health and harmony to our bodies, minds and spirits. Class includes chakric healing stone kits.

Using sensation and visualization as spring boards for transformation, we will learn a simple, yet powerful technique to help a person to release blockages in their energetic system, assisting the client's own ability to sense, visualize, and transform themselves. This technique is very effective
and empowering tool for personal transformation.

There are shields of energy that surrounds your body. They provide psychic protection and containment for your personal energy. Learn how to work with your shield skin, sealing holes in your shield, and dissolving unhealthy armoring. Practice invisibility and radiance as self protection. We will begin the teaching of how to release psychic cords in the healing process, which are the vibrational basis of the unhealthy energetic/psychic connections between people.

If you want to do shamanic healing work, it is essential that you develop discernment in the spirit world. This class will help you to make concrete connections to your allies and guides to assist you in your spiritual process, an well as forming a "healing team" in the spirit world to help you
to help others.

In the balance between Heaven and Earth, God and Goddess, Active and receptive, lives divine harmony. It is essential to alchemically join these two energies in a balanced way to become whole beings, to fully come into our power as the dreamers and manifestors of our own reality. This dance and drum ceremony assists us in creating balance between the active and receptive principles. It will help you to have a greater understanding of these two polar forces, bring you into a greater balance with yourself, and assist our community, and our world to have greater balance.

Deepen intimacy with your partner Seek divinity through ecstasy. Learn Tantric techniques Embrace the beloved in your partner Open to new horizons of love and have fun! This workshop will give you and your partner and opportunity to deepen spiritually, emotionally, and physically. This workshop is a clothes-on experience, that is intended to be a safe space to do intimacy work with your partner in the context of a group. (5 hours to two days)

Ecstasy is a divine gift that lifts us out of ordinary reality and into a direct experience of the sacred. The transformative fires of ecstasy burn away the blocked energy held in our shadow selves and transmute it into pure energy that may be used for the healing of our world and ourselves. This ceremony is a profound opportunity to drop away what has been binding you and move forward towards your bliss. This form of tantric breath work is done within the context of a circle. This ceremony will be done in the form of an initiation. Please bring a blanket and a pillow. (3-6 hours)

There are shields of energy that surrounds your body. They provide psychic protection and containment for your personal energy. Learn how to work with your shield skin, sealing holes in your shield, and dissolving unhealthy armoring. Learn grounding techniques. Practice invisibility and radiance as self protection. Look within and begin to transform where you open yourself to negative projection from others. (2-3 hours)

Set your voice free to heal and harmonize with sacred chants, vocalization, overtone chanting, and sacred mantras. Come alter reality positively through sound vibration. Feel free to bring drums or rattles. (2-4 hours)

Ride the rhythm wave and heal with ecstatic energy. Experience the ecstatic mystery of Spirit through the sacredness of the body. We will be experimenting with movement-oriented trance induction techniques to access non-ordinary states of awareness. This workshop is entirely about how you feel in the movement, and not how you look. People who do not consider themselves dancers, as well as those who do are welcome. We will be dancing with both live and recorded music. Come ready to dive into the outer reaches of inner space through dance. The evening will consist of two hours of guided trance dance instruction, and then another hour or two of time to cut loose on your own. Feel free to bring drums and rattles to play at the end of the evening. (1-3 !/2 hours...up to a whole weekend with dancer participants)

A mandala is a visual tool for transformation. You can use it as a meditation tool to help you transform any life sitution that you wish. In this class, we will seek visual symbols that support our highest vision for ourselves through shamanic journeying activities. Then, we will make them into visual symbols for our personal transformation in the form of a mandala. No art experience necessary.. just willingness is required. (3 hours-1 day)

In this workshop/ceremony we will be connecting with our animal allies in the lower world who give us protection, healing and growth. They can only help us as much as we give them power. It is up to us to recognize them and help them to help us by feeding them with our attention and intention. We will invoke, dream in, dance out, and make clay fetishes of our medicine animals to awaken them into our conscious reality. (2-6 hours)

We will go out in nature and meet with the plant spirits, tuning into both trees and plants in order to experience their essential energies and their wisdom. We will be working with the skills of sensing, visualizing, and listening through the vehicles of meditation and journeying. We will also open our awareness to the Devic realms. You are invited to come experience the magic and mystery of the plant spirits.( Must be in country location, or in a large park in the spring, summer or fall) (2-6 hours)

An essential part of the path to enlightenment is self knowledge. The chakras are potent keys for understanding what transformation is needed in order to be emotionally, mentally, physically and spirituality liberated, as well as experience the Divine as it exists within you. This is an opportunity to come home to yourself by slowing down and paying attention through movement and awareness exercises. You will notice what sensations and emotions are held in your body with loving attention, and gently releasing them with focused intention in order to be more fully awake alive and aware in your body. (2 hours)

We will be learning techniques to bring your full power into present time through soul retrieval, journeying into the three worlds, and recapitulation, using powerful shamanic techniques that help to return you to your original nature. (3 hours- to an entire weekend)

The archetypal beings represent the blueprints, or foundations for ways of being that assist us as spiritual warriors. They help us to reform ourselves around our dreams and visions. We will be calling from our hearts to be opened to an archetypal energy that would help us along our path. After visioning this archetype in, we will help to integrate this state of being into our personal blueprint by a trance dance and drum ceremony. Please bring a blanket, drums and rattles. (3-6 hours)

According to ancient shamanic beliefs. When we have trauma occur in our lives, a part of our energy "Freezes in time." That energy is not available to us in the present, and keeps us stuck in detrimental patterns and beliefs from the past. This powerful technique helps the practitioner recover lost energy, heal old traumas, and release out modes belief systems in order to manifest a higher reality in the present and future. (2-5 hours)

The dream world is a direct link to our sub and super conscious realities. This will be an all night workshop, designed to wake up your inner dreamer. We will be learning dream remembering, dream analysis tools, as well as working with lucid dreaming. The art of being conscious during dreaming gives you a direct experience of spiritual reality as well as creating a deep space for contacting the numinous. Working with these techniques while dreaming can help us to gain mastery in the "Dream of Life. " Please bring a dream journal, or a book that can become one, bedding and bed clothes, earplugs if you are a light sleeper, breakfast food, and a dream to share. (3 hours without an overnight, 3 hours and an over night, or an entire weekend.)

All of us have spirit helpers who work with us. They assist us whether we are aware of them or not. We will journey into the upper world to meet with guides and Master Energies who give us love and support, and to help to connect us with the Great Spirit and our own higher wisdom. (2-6 hours)

Fire, water, earth and air are the basic elements from which all creation is made. We are composed of the elements, and they give us a strong foundation on which to build our lives. These four elements represent different aspects of our being: Air-the mind, fire-the spirit, water-the emotions, and earth-the body. When we attain a balance of all these aspects of our lives, we are able to achieve greater balance between ourselves and the beings around us, our life situations, and the Earth itself. In this workshop, we will be doing meditations with the four elements, as well as work with the beings who embody them: The Sylphs, the Salamanders, the Ondines and the Gnomes. (3 hours - 2 days)

Each of us holds a yearning for a place and way of being we can vaguely remember through the veils of illusion. This place is our true home. To return to this place is to remember the unity and harmony of all souls, and our own angelic nature. This is a re-patterning ceremony to bring Eden back to the physical reality on Earth, using shamanic drumming, breath and visualization. (2-5 hours)

Deep in the heart of magical practice is the power of the Athenor, the ability magical practitioners have to change themselves in the transformational fire. To do the deepest of magicks, the practitioner must transform the inner dross into gold. To be healers of the Earth, we need to heal ourselves. This is an opportunity to go deep within for healing and awakening. The event will include physical meditations (yoga, and shamanic magical passes), chanting, journeying, breath work, and will culminate with trance dance and drumming. (6 hours-5 days)

This is a very powerful group journeying process to access wisdom from the Grandmothers of the eight directions. Each of the grandmothers hold a different piece of sacred wisdom. Grandmother Star nations, Grandmother Medicine woman, Grandmother Sun, Grandmother Midwife, Grandmother Moon, Grandmother Shaman, Grandmother Earth, and Grandmother Death each have their own sacred wisdoms and distinct styles to guide the women who chose to journey to them. In the ceremony, women chose which grandmother they need guidance from, choose a question to ask her, and ask for some wisdom be imparted to them for the women who have chosen to journey together. Then the women are guided on an experience that can change lives! This is can be a three day long experience (so that every one can journey to each of the grandmothers, or can be done in an evening, or a series of evenings. After a woman has completed the initiation of the entire ceremony, she may share this ceremony with other circles. (2 hours- 3 days) (women only)

As women, we have been conditioned by society to care-take our environment (family, friends, coworkers etc.) instead of our selves, often silencing the small voice inside which knows what is right for us. Our fear of loss of love, liberty or life keeps us disempowered. In this opportunity for transformation we invite you to home to yourself, learning to listen to the small voice inside... and making it louder! Cultivating the courage it takes to say "no" when you need to say "no," and "yes" when you need to say "yes". To care for yourself, and deeply affirm that you matter! Some issues we will touch on will be: *Self-love/ self-acceptance *Working with how energy is held and blocked in the body and how to release it *Psychic self defense *Helping to releasing past trauma that keeps us in a limited perspective. *Reclaiming sexual energy ( 5 hours - 2 or 2 1/2 day intensive)

This takes the Women's empowerment one step further, as we delve into some really deep healing around our sexuality. It is very powerful to make a stand for your self.. To chose healing in a place in your psyche that is the most vulnerable. It is a remarkable experience to share this with other women who have similar experiences and issues as you. You are truly, not alone. Speak your truth in the face of other who understand, and can fully support you! Healing is possible. (2-4 days)

We will experience the sacred inner dance of our sexuality as women through Goddess inspired movement, breath, meditation, sound, and the pulse of shared ceremonial space. Our intention is to create a safe environment to heal and transform our concepts of self and of sexuality as women. Tantric meal included. (1- 2 days)

The snake represents the transcendental ability to transform ourselves. Intimately connected to the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, the snake sheds its skin, ready to be born again. We can learn from the snake how to transform ourselves, embracing the death that gives us new life, releasing that which is outmoded and outgrown with in us.
Like the snake, every month, women in the mother phase of their lives shed their uterine lining every month in order to make way for new creation. The snake is also the symbol for Kundalini energy, the sacred energy which moves up the spine, awaking our consciousness, removing the barriers to health well being, and spiritual progress within our body mind and spirit.
In this workshop, we will be working with the primordial energy of the the serpent. This is some of the central work on the tantric shamanism path.. It is working with both the process of transforming how energy is held in our bodies, and with shamanic journeying with the snake medicine. Participants in the workshop will have an opportunity to do a bit of the the magical work of transformation with a real, and very sweet snake. (3 hours - 2 days) (This can be women only, or adapted to a men and woman's event.)

Have you been drawn to crystals, but not really known how to use them? Have you been working with crystals for awhile, and would like to have a new technique that is truly profound and effective? This class is for you. Learn this ancient technique for healing the body, mind and spirit with crystals, which works with the 13 major joints in the body and the elemental forces.

Class includes Mayan healing crystal set, and the information on how to use them. Preregistration required. (3 hours)

This class is an opportunity to learn shamanic healing techniques that will accelerate your ability as a healer, whether or not you have studied healing before. This class will help increase your awareness and psychic sensitivity, increase your ability to channel spiritual energy, help you to be grounded, as well as learn how to be empathetic without absorbing other's pain into your body and psyche. (2 hours- full weekend)

Enhance natural intuitive ability and promoting healing through the power of compassionate awareness and spiritual healing. Our bodies are energetic maps that contain everything that has happened to us, and all the beliefs that we have formed based on these experiences. The negative beliefs that we hold about ourselves and our world profoundly effect our physical, emotional, mental, and psychic well being, as well as the life events we draw to us based on these beliefs. In this workshop, we will give and receive healing using some of the techniques from the School of the Intuitive Healing Arts training course. (2 hour intro - one month long course)

Who have you been? What happened in your past lives? How have you been connected to other individuals in your past? What are the origins of the patterns you have in your current life? These questions and more can be revealed through this past life regression technique. In this class, you will learn a hypnotic regression technique, in which the inductee will have a visual experience of a past life, as well as have an opportunity to review its connection to the life they now lead. You will not only receive the technique yourself, but you will also learn how to do the technique with others. (2-5 hours)

This course will teach you how to reach your awareness into another person's body to understand the basis for that person's confusion, emotional distress, illness, or life situation, and then help them to transform their reality through this super awareness of the body-mind. This training includes exercises to develop visual, auditory, and kinesthetic psychic skills, as well as gain the positive applications for their use. (2-2 weekends)

(Part II of the Psychic Healing Class) In this class you will learn the basics of how to perform psychic surgery of the energy body. Topics will include manipulation of the shield body, cord cutting, extractions, directing Chi, spinning the chakras, as well as how to seal , heal and maintain the integrity of the energy body after this work. This in an advanced class, meant to be taught after at least one prior weekend training in several of the other healing classes mentioned, including Psychic Healing, Intuitive Arts Training Intro, Chakra Awakening and Shield Body work. (1-5 days)

The high functioning integrity of the nervous system is essential for heath and well being on all levels. All the nervous functions that come from the brain travel through our spines. Any impingement of the nerves in the spine can cause dysfunction on all levels of our being. This simple yet profound technique helps to erase "skips" in the nervous system's function, brings ease to the whole being, creates feelings of profound relaxation, and opens the psychic channels for enlightenment. (2-4 hours)

Both crystals, and the body's physical and chakric systems emit various frequencies of piezo-electrical current. When we have illness, our bodies piezo-electrical frequencies are out of tune. Through the use of crystals attuned to the chakric frequencies, and the use of sound healing, we can bring health and harmony to our bodies, minds and spirits. Class includes chakric healing stone kits. (4 hours-1 day, depending on location)

Long ago, the ancients knew that sound has the power to transform consciousness and reality. Modern science has shown us that different sounds have vibrational frequencies, which can be used to create change through harmonic entrainment. The ancients figured this out long ago, without scientific tools of verification we use today. These mantras and words of power will help you to transform your consciousness, and the quality of your life. This workshop will include spiritual sound technology from Hindu, Egyptian, and Tibetan sources. (2-5 hours)

In the practice of Authentic Movement we experience our bodies as a fundamental source of knowledge and transformation. The form provides a safe and nourishing space to explore inner landscapes through movement. Authentic Movement is a self-directed form in which individuals discover a pathway that offers a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Through this mover and witness based process, we can awaken our capacity for deep healing, giving creative expression to the inner life through an approach in which "movement is the personality made visible." No dance experience is necessary, as the movement is focused on sensation, not appearance. (2-6 hours)

This class is an opportunity to journey into the well of healing through the power of breath, being held and holding with loving kindness while diving deep in a very safe and healing way within the context of community. Using Transformational Breathwork, ecstatic dance, partnered exercises and music we will support one another to be fully alive. Breath is a remarkable tool for transformation. By way of this process, I have had the honor of witnessing some of the most profound healings of my entire life. (6-10 hours)

Hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical, age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation or the Five Rites, these once-secret exercises are now available to Westerners. Colonel Bradford, a retired British army officer learned the rites while traveling in the Himalayas. This class offers practical instructions for each of the five rites, which resemble yoga postures, as well as complimentary movement meditations as taught by Sunyata Saraswati & Bodhi Avinasha. Taking just minutes a day to perform, the benefits for practitioners have included increased energy, weight loss, better memory, pain relief, immune system strengthening, new hair growth, better digestion, and feeling younger. (1-2 hours)

This playshop is an inquiry into the relationship between creativity and spirituality. We will explore how spirituality influences our creative process and how our creative process opens the door to spiritual experience and wisdom through the vehicles of poetry, dance, visual art, and music. This is open to anyone who is interested in the topic. No special skills or talents are required. Please wear clothes that are comfortable to move in. This should be a fun and evocative class for all who attend. (2 hours-one weekend)

We will be creating a safe environment to reach deep within to heal and reintegrate the hurt parts of our selves, and experience the bliss of union with spirit and our own center of being. We will be using breathwork and shamanic techniques designed to facilitate healing by working with the cosmic forces around and within ourselves. Some of the specific techniques and ceremonies we will be working with are: Kahuna Meditation: To connect and work with the subconscious self; working to heal and empower the inner child, the middle self; to make conscious decisions about your life, and with the high self; to contact the guru within. Chakra Healing: Working with the energy vortexes within us through sound breath and color. Soul Retrieval: When we experience trauma in our lives, often a part of ourselves takes off into the astral realms to avoid the pain of our experience. This ceremony is designed to call back and reintegrate the lost parts of ourselves, and release the pain of our experiences. The Ecstasy Breath: This breathwork ceremony helps people to open to healing forces of the universe by joining the male and female within. (one weekend)

Interpenetrating and surrounding our physical body is a body of light. This light body contains all of who we have been, who we are, and the potentiality for all that we may become. By creating a greater awareness of the light body and the energy vortexes of the chakras, we become more intimate with those things that block our way to our highest potential, as well as maps to our greatness. In this workshop, you will learn how to journey into your own body for healing and enlightenment, using ancient Hindu white tantric techniques to bring in the pure spiritual force of your highest potential.

We spend much of our lives living in a diminished form, limited by our past, and fearful of the future. This workshop will give you powerful keys to unlocking your full potential using powerful shamanic techniques that will help you to return to your original nature of wholeness. You will learn techniques to bring your full power into present time. It will include:

* Shamanic Journeying into the three worlds to meet your allies and guides.
* The powerful practice of Recapitulation, which will bring your power into present time.
* Soul Retrieval, which will help you to bring back soul fragments from the other worlds that you lost through trauma.
* Retrieve power from your time line, and recover Symbols of Power.
This workshop is for people who are ready to make a quantum leap in their personal growth process.

The first sound we heard upon entering this world was the sound of our mother's heartbeat gently reassuring us within the womb. At birth, the breath's rhythm and our first breaths were our initiation into the dance of life within form. Rhythm is an integral part of our lives. The rhythms of the heart and of the breath sustain, move and ground us within physical and spiritual reality. In this weekend workshop, we will work with rhythm and drumming as a tool for spiritual growth and healing. We will use breath to awaken the kundalini energy which rises up the spine. In a Tantric shamanism ceremony, this ecstatic energy will open us to the cosmic flow of creation, expanding our awareness and bringing us closer to the Divine. We will work with trance dance as a tool to connect with the wisdom of the body as a means to better know ourselves and spirit. As we open ourselves as sacred temples to the Divine, we will allow Spirit to dance its wisdom into every cell of our beings. We will use dance as a means to anchor spiritual reality within form and consciousness.

This will be a highly experiential weekend. We will learn by doing. People at all levels of experience with drumming or dance are encouraged to attend. We will be working entirely with energy, and not at at all with performance. My only requirements are that you can breathe, have sense of humor, and come with an attitude of openness and compassion towards others. I am interested in creating a safe space for healing and deep spiritual work. Please bring drums and rattles if you have them .

Deep in the heart of Tantric practice is the ability to transform oneself, changing the inner dross into gold through self awareness. In this workshop, we will be working with the primordial energy of the the serpent. The snake represents the transcendental ability to transform ourselves. Intimately connected to the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, the snake sheds its skin, ready to be born again. We can learn from the snake how to transform ourselves, embracing the death that gives us new life, releasing that which is outmoded and outgrown with in us. The snake is also the symbol for Kundalini energy, the sacred energy which moves up the spine, awaking our consciousness, removing the barriers to health well being, and spiritual progress within our body mind and spirit.

In the balance between Heaven and Earth, God and Goddess, Active and receptive, lives divine harmony. It is essential to alchemically join these two energies in a balanced way to become whole beings, to fully come into our power as the dreamers and manifestors of our own reality, creating balance between the active and receptive principles. It will help you to have a greater understanding of these two polar forces, bringing you, & our world into a greater balance.

Ecstasy is a divine gift that lifts us out of ordinary reality and into a direct experience of the sacred. The transformative fires of ecstasy burn away the blocked energy held in our shadow selves and transmute it into pure energy that may be used for the healing of our world and ourselves. By bringing light to the shadows within our soul, we transmute our inner suffering into the light of understanding and grace.

This is a profound opportunity to drop away what has been binding you and move forward towards your bliss, through working with the sacred serpent, balancing your inner male and female, and tantric ecstatic breath work.