Joy Lane Healing Center
Good Medicine Society Events
Circle of the White Pipe
April 23 , Friday at 7 to 9 pm
Cost $30
With Nancy Eagle Spirit Women
Nancy Eagle Spirit Woman will be guiding us in a Shamanic journey. Before this journey begins you are smudged (a Native American ceremony for clearing away negative energy from your energy field with the smoke of desert sage). You are also asked to prepare a question that will serve as the purpose of your journey. Nancy will then use her drum and words to guide you to travel and see what you need in this life or perhaps a past life.
Please dress comfortably and warmly because you will be lying down for some time. Please bring a mat or blanket and pillow to lie on.
Preparing Sweatlodge and Doing Sweatlodge
April 24 , Saturday at 9:30 pm
With Nancy Eagle Spirit Women
Nancy will be working with the folks from the Good Medicine Society to rebuild our sweat lodge. You are welcome to join us at 9:30 am. Plan to come and work so dress appropriately. The building of the lodge is done in a sacred manor so it will be a good teaching for all of us. She will then pour the water for the sweat lodge ceremony. It is appropriate to bring some Native American Spirit tobacco to give to her. We are in need of blankets to cover the lodge, so if you have any extra to spare we would appreciate the donation. Also please bring clippers, loppers and or small bow saw if you have them. Please also bring food for your light! lunch and for a potluck following the ceremony. Women who are in their moon cycle are asked not to prepare food or participate in the building of the lodge or the ceremony. You are in your own mini sweat lodge and it is too stressful for your body. If you have other questions, please call Carol Marcy at 301 373-2222.
April 25 , Sunday
With Nancy Eagle Spirit Women
Nancy, who is an extremely talented healer, will be doing individual healings:
Readings with Animal Medicine Cards are $60. (45 Minutes)
Regression massages are $140. (2 hours)
Please contact Carol to be put on her schedule. 301 373-2222.
Nancy Eagle Spirit Woman
Also known as Nancy Martinez, Eagle Spirit Woman is a Cherokee Native
American elder and a Puerto Rican Santera. She embraces the knowledge
of different colors and communicates the unseen energies. Eagle Spirit
Woman's mother nurtured her gifts early on by taking her to sances
where she developed the skill of healing with her hands (santiguos).
She also developed a sensitivity and skill for removing negative energy
from those afflicted, as well as the method for passing on positive
energy and blessings to assist individuals in moving forward. She has
further had the experience of assisting in the healing of seriously ill
people. Eagle Sprit Woman was also initiated into the Yoruba tradition
in 1993 and has 10 "crowns" to her credit. Eagle Spirit Woman pours
sweats, conducts pipe ceremonies and healings, and facilitates drum
journeying and talking circles.
"I have had the honor of participating in spiritual ceremonies in many
traditions and have contributed my medicine. I have the ability of
channeling spirit guides and animal totems. To see is to believe. I am
what in my native tradition is known as a "curandera" (one who has the
ability to cure)
Monthly Events:
Full Moon Pipe Ceremony ~ Good Medicine Society Event
Every full moon, regardless of day of week, at 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm. Please check the Events page for specific dates.
Join Carol Marcy on the full moon each month for about an hour. This is a traditional Lakota Sioux Pipe Ceremony. All family and friends are welcome. Weather permitting, we may go outside to one of our gathering circles. Please bring a blanket to sit upon and wear appropriate clothing & shoes for either indoors or out. If you have a peaceful prayer or wish, this would be a good venue to make it in, either silently or out loud. If you have tobacco you would like to share, you may bring it.
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222 to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information.
Quarterly Events:
Sweat Lodge Ceremony ~ Good Medicine Society Event (first time attendees need prior permission)
Quarterly, on Sunday at 3 pm to 8 pm. Please check the Events page for specific dates.
Join members of the Good Medicine Society in this traditional Lakota Sioux Sweat Lodge Ceremony. Afterwards, a potluck dinner celebrates community and renewal. It is appropriate to offer tobacco to the sweat leader.
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222 to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information.
Seasonal Events:
Spring Equinox: Celebration & Ceremony ~ Good Medicine Society Event
Evening of event from 6 pm to 9 pm. Please check the Events page for specific dates.
Equinox Ceremonies are held on in the evening of the actual day, beginning with a potluck at 6 pm. Please bring food for the potluck to share with others. Come meet other community members and make new friends. After dinner we will go outside (weather permitting) to the Fire Circle to celebrate the seasonal transition and recognition of the sun’s position in our sky with stories, songs, drumming and dancing.
The celebration of Spring Equinox offers a place to come together and share the transition from winter and reflection to spring and birth. If you want to share a story or song about the coming of Spring, there will time for this in the ceremony. We will be asking, what winter dreams are ready to be birthed this spring?
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222, or email claybasket@verizon.net, to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information. This event is entirely free; donations for the Center are always appreciated.
Summer Solstice: Celebration & Ceremony ~ Good Medicine Society Event
Evening of event from 5:30 pm to 9 pm. Please check the Events page for specific dates.
Summer Solstice is a celebration of light and fire, of joy and laughter. Please join the Good Medicine Society of Southern Maryland in festive activities and merrymaking. We will have a potluck out at the fire circle, participate in a ceremony marking the significance of the first day of summer and the slow diminishing of the light as the seasons turn. Traditional stories and songs will be sung. Maybe we’ll make some up, as well as dance and drum around the fire. Please bring a favorite dish to share, a child friendly joke or story to tell, good thoughts about the importance of the sun and a drum or rattle.
Please come early and participate in a wonderful workshop on discovering the tradition and teachings of labyrinths by Beckie Ridgell: Introduction to Labyrinths: Take Your Soul for a Stroll.
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222, or email claybasket@verizon.net, to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information. This event is entirely free; donations for the Center are always appreciated.
Green Corn Festival Celebration ~ Good Medicine Society Event
July 25, Saturday at 4 pm to 8 pm.
Green Corn Festival is a celebration of the newly ripened corn and a festival of renewal. Traditionally all seven tribes of the Cherokee people gathered together, bringing dishes made with corn as soon as the first corn was ripe. Stories were told, very competitive ball games were played, dances were held and a good time was had by all. It was also a time that marked the end of all transgressions committed over the last year. All grudges were off and people were forgiven. People cleaned their houses before the festival, broke all of their old cooking pots and put out the hearth fire. When they returned home a new year was begun with fresh new kitchen ware and with a new fire lit from the central fire. This sacred fire was tended by the priests and priestesses all year long and was never allowed to go out.
Please come join the Good Medicine Society of Southern Maryland in our mini version of this festival with craft making, non competitive fun games, traditional stories and songs as well as a potluck of dishes made with corn.
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222, or email claybasket@verizon.net, to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information. This event is entirely free; donations for the Center are always appreciated.
Fall Equinox: Celebration & Ceremony ~ Good Medicine Society Event
September 22, Tuesday at 7 pm to 9 pm. Please check the Events page for specific dates.
What do you need to let go of and what do you need to pick up in order to bring balance into your life? You might ask for help in order to bring balance between the light and the dark in your heart, between primordial wisdom and skillful means, active and receptive. This ceremony will help you clear the way so that you can move into the creative dream time of winter.
Children are invited. Please bring a rattle or a drum if you have one. Come learn some new songs and have fun celebrating this auspicious day.
Please contact Carol Marcy at 301-373-2222, or email claybasket@verizon.net, to RSVP if you plan to attend and for additional information. This event is entirely free; donations for the Center are always appreciated.
COURSE STUDY:
Good Medicine Society Basic Philosophy Class
Meet one evening every other week for 2 months. The next course begins February 17 with instructors Laura Starks and Anne Saunders. Call Laura at 301-274-0305 or 301-399-5191 to register. Advance registration is required as you will need the first 2 lessons prior to the start of class.
The first eight lessons offered by the Good Medicine Society are called the Philosophy of Good Medicine. They have been created by Eli Gatoga, a Cherokee medicine man and his students. The lessons give us an overview of the Native American way of being in the world. As such they draw on a number of native teachers from different tribes. The lessons are taught in pairs for each class meeting. They require reading and then writing a response to a series of questions taken from the text. Classes provide an opportunity to discuss the material. Once these lessons are completed there is an opportunity to continue study in a number of different directions, e.g. Keli Studies, an advanced study of spirituality and manifestation, naturopathic medicine, astrology, etc.
The Philosophy of Good Medicine course offers:
LESSON ONE
Introduction
The Religion of Nature
LESSON TWO
A Spiritual Relationship
The Worlds of the Great Spirit
LESSON THREE
The Circle
The Tree of Life
LESSON FOUR
All Our Relations
Climbing the Tree
LESSON FIVE
The Wheel of Life
The Seven Stars
Medicine Teachers, Their Times, and their Medicine Gifts
Practical Exercise: Seeking the Lessons of Your Medicine Teacher
LESSON SIX
The World of the Spirits
LESSON SEVEN
The Medicine Wheel
LESSON EIGHT
Cause and Effect - The Reflection Within the Wheel
Courses forming: please contact Bill at 301 373-6768 to find out when the next class begins. The cost is $4 per lesson or $32 for the series.
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