Education Development & Rites of Passage

Assisting in educational development by integrating ancient wisdom and technology into the current, outdated and limiting education system. Much of the current curriculum transfers huge amounts of information that will never be used later on in life and fundamentally doesn’t prepare our youth for the realities of the world, much of our current education system is there to funnel the youth into careers that keep feeding the capital and consumer culture which ultimately, further depletes the earth of natural resources and further entertains classing and colonial culture. There is a huge amount of missing information in our global education systems like the genocides and slavery that have taken place and how much of our modern culture was born from these atrocities and colonial acts of oppression and control along with missing links in how to care for the environment and develop clean energy.

The world is in a social, political, economic and environmental crisis, through massive population increases and various other reasons like colonization, oppression, race and classing systems along with the Industrial and consumer age, Humanity has lost much of the wisdom that comes from ancient/indigenous peoples, all over the world (including indigenous European) people and knowledge have been colonized, oppressed and forced into systems with very conflicting intentions of greed, power and control, this has affected the whole world. It is known that many of the issues we face in the world today can be traced back to the oppression of indigenous people and its knowledge systems, Many people struggle to break away from a system that entertains unhealthy expectations of us and labels beauty, success, wealth, achievement and intellect with unrealistic, insincere expectations, as a consequence we start to see illness, suffering, misdirection, anger, confusion, imbalanced and instinctively rebellious behavior from mainly the younger generations leading to all kinds of challenging and heart breaking situations.

The youth generations hold the key to helping the shift of consciousness that will help us to live in harmony with our mother earth and each-other.

If we are going to think and act seriously about the well-being and future of our civilization and its inhabitants our focus needs to be directed towards the youth and younger generations.

One of our solutions to help the issues our world faces is to integrate/merge ancient wisdom systems into our modern times. There are a multitude of missing links of knowledge and wisdom in our modern age that has caused many of the crises our world faces. For generations, ancient wisdom systems have been oppressed, and in this, humanity has lost the guidance from elders of ancient wisdom, our current civilization doesn’t place importance on the vital teachings of ceremony, universal nature, initiation rites of passage, care for mother nature and practical techniques on restoration that teach about reciprocity, mindfulness and connection. Most people and communities have been focused on money and consumption, overseeing the importance of passing on vital wisdom. Through this process we begin to fill in the missing links and remind our youth on the importance of ancient wisdom and how to integrate and balance this into our modern times.

In this we create new, deeply informative and truthful conversations, along with practical exercises and integration based on ancient wisdom to inspire new ways of living and being.

The youth programme focuses on new age, rites of passage based on ancient wisdom systems, reminding us what it is to be human and assisting in finding direction.

Integrating this wisdom into our education systems, initially as an extra curriculum and then as mandatory studies and practices is of vital need and responsibility.

The curriculum will also open up avenues of practicing, living and working in these fields or simply integrating this ancient wisdom into our modern lives.

A process where we remind the youth on the importance of introspection and clarity, through eastern wisdom we help clear the mind of negativity, the meditations show us the power and importance of focus and the heart. The in-depth process is a time to understand our history, reflect upon this and as individuals find our place and purpose in life. This greatly beneficial technique to focus on the self, the breath and divine realms of awareness helps to activate love, compassion and understanding, through the meditation we elevate our consciousness and perspective, integrating this into our lives helps us deal with all situations in a peaceful, loving, harmonious manner, activating a way of life that is vital in our challenging times. The meditation workshop connects us with the energies of alignment, peace and clarity, a lifelong practice to constantly evolve one’s spirit, mind and being. The retreat assists in breaking unhealthy patterns and helps release the accumulation of stress that builds up through societies unhealthy expectations of us.

A purification ceremony with its origins in the Native Indians of North and Central Americas, this ancient ritual is known as the womb for its ability to give one the understanding and wisdom of re-birth. Temazcal is a symbolic regression to the mother’s womb and reconnection with our inner child.

With prayer and the opportunity to express deep feelings in a sacred and supportive environment we purify “the emotional waters”. An outpouring of stagnant emotions occurs, thus opening a step toward deeper healing and guidance. Moreover, Temazcal ceremonies cure and decrease fears and phobias.

In its origin, the Temazcal is a spiritual ceremony where we connect with our essence through the four elements of nature (fire, water, air, earth), meditation, singing and prayer. It is a moment of power in our lives, an opportunity to reconcile ourselves with all our relationships, our health and our spiritual path. It is an opportunity to stop and find ourselves.

This sacred medicine is done under the guidance of the original people with strict guidelines of a sweat lodge ceremony, we pass on this knowledge responsibly as this is part of the medicine of ancient wisdom, it is known we as a civilisation have lost the important knowledge that comes from ancient ritual, ceremony and rites of passage, in performing ceremonies according to ancient systems, with connection to the original holders of this medicine, we begin to integrate this vital wisdom back into our lives. The Temazcal is a time of cleansing and release of struggle, breathing into harmonious vibration with the earth and to align intention with sacred purpose.

The Temazcal is an opportunity to learn how to tame the mind and connect to our non-egoic sense of self.  When this eternal self is contacted and revived, we achieve greater control of our minds and learn to purge negative thoughts, adjust habits and thought patterns, and generate positive life changes.

This process will take us through honouring the sacred rituals and ceremonies of different ancient peoples from around the world (North, Central, South America, Africa and Asia) awakening our consciousness and understanding to the wisdom of the ancients, much of this knowledge that teaches love, harmony and connection to mother nature and each-other has been oppressed and lost.

A sacred path process of exploring Ourselves and our Mother-Earth

In this retreat we will connect with ancient ritual and ceremony in honour of the elements  (water, fire, earth and wind) A deep process of understanding Mother Nature and the importance of being in harmony and reverence with her.

The Course will go through practical workshops of understanding, practicing and creating indigenous arts and architecture techniques, along with understanding and creating indigenous crafts. We will spend a night in the cave, make fire in the ancient way and sit with each other in a space that’s un-disturbed by industrial influence, we will connect and converse in the most natural way and setting, reminding us of where we come from and what’s really important.

A comprehensive, beginners course on healing, herbalism and ancient wisdom. We are all healers in our own way, this course helps to focus our nature into practical ways with guidelines and plants of ancient peoples from around the world.

This is an informative and practical course that preserves ancient wisdom and serves    humanity, this shortened version of the herbal doctors and healers academy is not limited to one lineage or system of medicine and is therefore vast in its study and practice.

By merging wisdom and plant medicines from Ancient Indians of North, Central and South America, along with medical systems from Africa, Asia, India, European and Aboriginal peoples, we start to understand the importance of this knowledge in our modern times.

We focus on being custodians and care takers of the plants and the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples.

Ancient knowledge systems for modern times.

We focus on activating the ancient wisdom that is in all of us and directing it into useful and practical ways.

The workshop content will cover:

1. Opening Ceremony
2. Conversation on indigenous wisdom from around the world
3. Traditional medical systems of different lineages
4. In depth understanding that all medicinal plants and indigenous knowledge systems are in essence the same.
5. Western pharmaceuticals in comparison to ancient medical systems and holistic health care.
6. Understanding illness/imbalance/ailment in humanity, tracing back where the greatest issues currently affecting mankind stem from.
7. Ceremony, earth healing prayers, ancient offerings and medicinal hike/path.
8. Medicinal plant walk in ancient way of plant identification, ceremonial harvesting and maintaining proper care of medicine.
9. Harvesting, storing, preparation and administering
10. Intuitive healing
11. Plant identification from medicine around the world
12. Fundamental teacher and healer plants from around the world
13. 5-10 medicinal plants from each lineage of ancient peoples to suit our modern times and collective imbalances
14. What is a healer and what it takes to carry plants and represent their healing nature
15. Tincture making and herbal blending
16. Medicinal bag and medicine bundle making ceremony

Native Indian rite of passage that helps guide young men and woman through the transition into adulthood, performed on a sacred site, the Vision Quest is in silence and solitude on-top of the mountain and is an extremely powerful and transformative process that helps root deeply in us what it means to be human and our life purpose. This personal navigation of the soul reveals one’s destiny and role in life, giving us the power and strength to fulfil our role as a human being. The Vision Quest helps us to let go of the illusions in the world and opens up avenues to ancient or new ways of living. Under the guidance of Native Indian Wisdom, through deep introspection and intention the participant experiences huge understanding and inspiration.

A vital, timeless and ancient process in remembering the human nature of growing our food and connecting to nature. Humanity has lost the care, patience and wisdom we acquire when we go back to growing our own food, every household should have a vegetable garden and care for it wholly, not just for the food but for the healthy characteristics one activates and brings into family by caring and harvesting from a food garden, we will also cover aspects of permaculture, bio-diversity and sustainable agriculture.

The course content will cover:

Principles of nature

Water and Soil Management

Seed Saving

Companion Planting

Mapping

Site design

Bio-diversity

Sustainable/eco agriculture

Sustainable communities

The course will go through the importance of recycling and renewable resources and energy. Developing immediate practical initiatives and long-term global solutions in these fields.

Based on heart to heart communication that merges the mind, heart and spirit in the way we communicate, honouring masculine and feminine communication and working together to further evolve our characteristics of harmony. Deep listening and hearing. Activating the ancient wisdom and lessons from the Native Indians of North American we go according to ancient guidelines of communication through the Feather, Chanupa, Drum and Fire.

The course will cover the vital importance of medicinal plant wisdom and its conservation along with seeing first-hand the process in practice. The workshop shows how we can balance ancient wisdom with modern times and how this can be replicated in communities.

Meeting with the elders and wisdom holders

Walk in the mountains

Planting and harvesting medicinal plants

Understanding medicinal plants and their use in modern times

Commercial Medicine plantations

The mentoring and training of facilitators to organically and creatively spread the ancient wisdom into our modern times.

Choosing career paths

Spreading the knowledge in their own communities

Becoming a facilitator

Ongoing mentoring

Part of the youth and education programme would be to introduce new set work books into the curriculum as a way to help preserve the wisdom and history of indigenous cultures of the country and the world.

The books will be on 15 different indigenous tribes of south Africa and the world to help preserve and emphasize on the magical history and vital knowledge these ancient cultures carry.

Developing new ways with innovative and conscious educators on evolving the existing curriculum to better carry the new generation into places of wisdom and awakening for a better future for our species and planet.