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Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness
Journey into Wholeness
Opening and Deepening Your Spiritual Connection
The purpose of the school is to provide experiential training in an environment that is conducive to opening and learning on the inner planes. This school offers each student an intuitive nonlinear approach to her/his unique unfolding spiritual journey and spiritual gifts.
“Our inner nature is whole on every level. Yet we lose our connection to it. Situations and events shatter us in spite of our best efforts to remain whole. These shatterings are the source of our suffering. We long to reclaim our experience of being whole.
The experience of wholeness is one of inner peace, connection and creative expression. The journey into wholeness is a journey of inner healing. Through it we become free to be ourselves fully, no longer ruled by fear and shame. And though pain may continue to be part of our experience, we no longer resist it. We accept it as part of the wholeness in which we live.” Michael Young, 2004
To evolve into the world of wholeness we must journey inwardly for self-discovery and inner healing. The mission of the Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness is to provide an environment and community in which we can retrieve our lost parts and integrate them into greater levels of wholeness.
What is the Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness?
The Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness is a three-year training designed to assist participants to become fully embodied human beings capable of creating meaningful lives free of self-limiting beliefs and fears.
Why might I want to attend such a three-year training?
There resides within each of us the echo of our wholeness. Our inner reality is intrinsically whole in potential. Over the course of our lives we experience traumas which shatter us. The shards of these shatterings are lost for longs periods of time.
They remain in us as inactive unmanifest potentials. The purpose of the Circle of the Heart School’s program is to retrieve and reactivate these potentials and bring us into ever greater circles of wholeness. The more whole we become, the more functional and empowered we are and the fuller our life experience becomes.
What do I ultimately come away with as a graduate of this School?
Graduates begin to fine tune their inner reality to consciously create personal, professional and social lives which reflect their unique individuated selves and needs. Some students become healing facilitators assisting others to become whole; others find their life purpose is in some other field of endeavor which fulfills their soul’s desire to be here.
How often does the Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness meet?
The COHSW meets five times per year every other month for three and a half days beginning on Thursdays and ending mid-day on Sundays. The school starts in the spring and ends in the fall; winter is reserved for rest and self-reflection.
What is taught in the curriculum of the COHSW?
Over the course of the three-year training, the students are taught healing techniques to address the conditions pertinent to each of the seven inner layers of the aura. The experience of the school teaches the students how to perceive and manage their own energy field or aura. They are taught how to ground their personal auras; how to open them and fill them with life force energy (chi); and how to regulate that chi to enhance their own well-being and assist others through the modality of hands-on healing. The students are given the experience of how the have developmentally, as children, created energetic defenses to protect themselves from their psychological pain and how these defenses become self-defeating and limiting as adults.
Knowing and experiencing these “character structures” provides a roadmap for the students’ personal healing journey through the school. The COHSW teaches several forms of meditation for self-healing, an ancient chi kung form and a meditation to open the psychic channels of the students. This channel becomes the threshold for spiritual guidance from within. The school teaches core shamanic techniques for personal clarity, power and healing and the theoretical foundation for the ancient tradition of the Kabbalah. A self healing meditation and one healing method from this tradition are also taught.
How do I pay my school tuition?
Some students pay their tuition in full when they register. Most pay with a down payment at registration and the remainder divided over the course of the five classes. The COHSW requires a written financial commitment to pay the full tuition for each year. The school is only interested in those who know that they are committed to attending the full program.
Who is Michael Young?
Michael Young is a nationally known healing facilitator and teacher who is the founder and director of the COHSW. Michael has worked as a healing facilitator and life mentor since 1988 and has taught small groups of interested students for most of that time. He founded the COHSW in 1998. His professional training includes graduating from the New England School of Acupuncture, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, A Society of Souls School of Integrated Kabbalistic Healing and the Center for Intentional Living. Michael is also a gifted teacher of core shamanic practices and leads sweatlodges regularly near Hot Springs, NC.
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Inner Healing
Your journey into Wholeness
“Our inner nature is whole on every level. Yet we lose our connection to it. Situations and events shatter us in spite of our best efforts to remain whole. These shatterings are the source of our suffering. We long to reclaim our experience of being whole.” Michael Young. 2004
Inner Healing
The experience of wholeness is one of inner peace, connection and creative expression. The journey into wholeness is a journey of inner healing. Through it we become free to be ourselves fully, free of fear and shame. And though pain may continue to be part of our experience, we no longer fear or resist it. We accept it as part of the wholeness in which we live.
Your journey into Wholeness
Michael is available for inner healing facilitation in several ways. You can work with him person to person in his private practice. Or if you live too far away to travel to him in person, consider working with him through distance sessions. This is accomplished by making a telephone appointment during which the two of you explore your areas of personal challenge and growth. The most concentrated way to work with Michael is through the Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness, a three-year program of intense personal growth and awakening. Each class meets with Michael in Asheville, NC for five four-day weekends during the spring, summer and fall.
Inner Healing
Your journey into Wholeness
“Our inner nature is whole on every level. Yet we lose our connection to it. Situations and events shatter us in spite of our best efforts to remain whole. These shatterings are the source of our suffering. We long to reclaim our experience of being whole.” Michael Young. 2004
Inner Healing
The experience of wholeness is one of inner peace, connection and creative expression. The journey into wholeness is a journey of inner healing. Through it we become free to be ourselves fully, free of fear and shame. And though pain may continue to be part of our experience, we no longer fear or resist it. We accept it as part of the wholeness in which we live.
Your journey into Wholeness
Michael is available for inner healing facilitation in several ways. You can work with him person to person in his private practice. Or if you live too far away to travel to him in person, consider working with him through distance sessions. This is accomplished by making a telephone appointment during which the two of you explore your areas of personal challenge and growth. The most concentrated way to work with Michael is through the Circle of the Heart School of Wholeness, a three-year program of intense personal growth and awakening. Each class meets with Michael in Asheville, NC for five four-day weekends during the spring, summer and fall.
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Golden Eagle Vision Quests
A Wilderness Rite of Passage
“In 1988, while walking in the Montana wilderness, I was called to by a golden eagle and its mate. It led me on a spirit journey to a place of power where I entered into “sacred space”. This experience has grown inside me, inviting me to share it and its emerging visions with others. To awaken and live in heartfelt connection to the earth, the sky, the invisible realms and all forms of life (including our own) is to be in “sacred space”. From here we know our place in creation and the role the Creator intended us to play. From here we experience the planet as a living being who feeds, clothes and loves us everyday of our lives.” Michael Young, 1995
Wilderness Rite of Passage
The vision quest is a timeless rite of passage – an ancient endeavor once practiced throughout the world. It is a spiritual journey into one’s inner personal world and a time of profound bonding with the natural world: the earth, the sky, the moon and stars, the season, the cycle of day and night, as well as the flora and fauna. Alone, with few material provisions, each participant enters into the wilderness to face the unknown. Through Michael’s preparation the participants enter the natural world open and vulnerable and are thus able to receive the teachings and experiences that are directly related to their life journey.
Transformation
A vision quest provides a setting for transformation. While fasting on water in undisturbed solitude, each participant enters into deepening levels of sacred space. Within this sacred space, the seeds of personal illumination and transformation begin to grow.
Intention
A vision quest is not for most people. It takes courage and perseverance to undergo such an experience. Vision quests are for heroes and heroines: folks journeying into the unknown of both the outer and inner worlds. Should you decide to attend this wilderness rite of passage, keep a journal of your inner process of thoughts and feelings because your quest begins the instant that you commit yourself to do it.
Preparation and Orientation
After registering, you are encouraged to alter your diet about six weeks before you arrive at the vision quest site. Once there, days 1-3 are spent in ceremony, community building and shamanic spiritual practices. There will be times each day for you to look for your solo site. Individual mentoring is provided during this important phase.
The Solo Rite of Passage
After selecting a solo site where you will reside during the four days of solitude and a safety “check-in” point so that we can indirectly monitor your well being, a sweatlodge will be given to spiritually align each person. Then the solo part of the quest begins.
Reflection
This is a time of being, of journaling, of communing with nature and the planet.
All participants return to base camp for the final two days. This is a time of great lightness of being. It is a time for you to reflect upon and share your wilderness experience with the group and to celebrate your return from the unknown. This is a time also used to discern what the vision quest experience may mean for your life. A final group ritual is shared in preparation for returning to the non-magical world of the mainstream culture.
Transformation
All real transformation is a work-in-process. After returning to your daily life, the seeds of transformation that were planted in your awareness during the vision quest experience begin to grow and take form, first in your consciousness and then in your external life.
Nurturing your Spiritual Journey
People who are attracted to doing a wilderness rite of passage are people who have a continually growing awareness of themselves as creative souls on a spiritual journey. If you have a deep longing to consciously reconnect with Mother Earth as a living being and a desire to delve more deeply into your own inner spiritual self, then please feel welcome to join us.
Registration
We accept a limited number of applicants each year in order to provide the best support possible and minimize the impact on the earth. If you wish to join us, please email us with your contact information so that we may get back in touch with you.
Once we have your contact information, we will mail you an application form for you to fill out and return to us with a non-refundable deposit of $100.00 US dollars. We will let you know if we have a spot for you within two weeks. If we have no openings, we will notify you and also put your name on our waiting list, in the event that someone cancels. If we do have a place for you, we will mail you a pre-quest preparation packet. It contains suggestions to help prepare and acclimate your body and spirit for the time that you spend with us, a statement of your account, directions to the quest site and a list of items to bring with you.
All participants make their own travel arrangements. All accounts must be paid prior to your arrival at the site. If you are flying into Asheville-Hendersonville Regional Airport and need transport to the site, we will coordinate that for you.
Prices
$1,000.00 US dollars for the ten day wilderness rite of passage
Balance should be paid four weeks prior to the beginning of your vision quest. Balances paid after that time will be assessed a $100 penalty fee.
Golden Eagle Vision Quests
A Wilderness Rite of Passage
“In 1988, while walking in the Montana wilderness, I was called to by a golden eagle and its mate. It led me on a spirit journey to a place of power where I entered into “sacred space”. This experience has grown inside me, inviting me to share it and its emerging visions with others. To awaken and live in heartfelt connection to the earth, the sky, the invisible realms and all forms of life (including our own) is to be in “sacred space”. From here we know our place in creation and the role the Creator intended us to play. From here we experience the planet as a living being who feeds, clothes and loves us everyday of our lives.” Michael Young, 1995
Wilderness Rite of Passage
The vision quest is a timeless rite of passage – an ancient endeavor once practiced throughout the world. It is a spiritual journey into one’s inner personal world and a time of profound bonding with the natural world: the earth, the sky, the moon and stars, the season, the cycle of day and night, as well as the flora and fauna. Alone, with few material provisions, each participant enters into the wilderness to face the unknown. Through Michael’s preparation the participants enter the natural world open and vulnerable and are thus able to receive the teachings and experiences that are directly related to their life journey.
Transformation
A vision quest provides a setting for transformation. While fasting on water in undisturbed solitude, each participant enters into deepening levels of sacred space. Within this sacred space, the seeds of personal illumination and transformation begin to grow.
Intention
A vision quest is not for most people. It takes courage and perseverance to undergo such an experience. Vision quests are for heroes and heroines: folks journeying into the unknown of both the outer and inner worlds. Should you decide to attend this wilderness rite of passage, keep a journal of your inner process of thoughts and feelings because your quest begins the instant that you commit yourself to do it.
Preparation and Orientation
After registering, you are encouraged to alter your diet about six weeks before you arrive at the vision quest site. Once there, days 1-3 are spent in ceremony, community building and shamanic spiritual practices. There will be times each day for you to look for your solo site. Individual mentoring is provided during this important phase.
The Solo Rite of Passage
After selecting a solo site where you will reside during the four days of solitude and a safety “check-in” point so that we can indirectly monitor your well being, a sweatlodge will be given to spiritually align each person. Then the solo part of the quest begins.
Reflection
This is a time of being, of journaling, of communing with nature and the planet.
All participants return to base camp for the final two days. This is a time of great lightness of being. It is a time for you to reflect upon and share your wilderness experience with the group and to celebrate your return from the unknown. This is a time also used to discern what the vision quest experience may mean for your life. A final group ritual is shared in preparation for returning to the non-magical world of the mainstream culture.
Transformation
All real transformation is a work-in-process. After returning to your daily life, the seeds of transformation that were planted in your awareness during the vision quest experience begin to grow and take form, first in your consciousness and then in your external life.
Nurturing your Spiritual Journey
People who are attracted to doing a wilderness rite of passage are people who have a continually growing awareness of themselves as creative souls on a spiritual journey. If you have a deep longing to consciously reconnect with Mother Earth as a living being and a desire to delve more deeply into your own inner spiritual self, then please feel welcome to join us.
Registration
We accept a limited number of applicants each year in order to provide the best support possible and minimize the impact on the earth. If you wish to join us, please email us with your contact information so that we may get back in touch with you.
Once we have your contact information, we will mail you an application form for you to fill out and return to us with a non-refundable deposit of $100.00 US dollars. We will let you know if we have a spot for you within two weeks. If we have no openings, we will notify you and also put your name on our waiting list, in the event that someone cancels. If we do have a place for you, we will mail you a pre-quest preparation packet. It contains suggestions to help prepare and acclimate your body and spirit for the time that you spend with us, a statement of your account, directions to the quest site and a list of items to bring with you.
All participants make their own travel arrangements. All accounts must be paid prior to your arrival at the site. If you are flying into Asheville-Hendersonville Regional Airport and need transport to the site, we will coordinate that for you.
Prices
$1,000.00 US dollars for the ten day wilderness rite of passage
Balance should be paid four weeks prior to the beginning of your vision quest. Balances paid after that time will be assessed a $100 penalty fee.