During both weeklong seminars four shamans from Nepal and two from Columbia will – for the very first time in history – exchange their ancestral shamanic knowledge among eachother. They wil give insights into topics such as:

• How I was called by the spiritual realm
• My personal apprenticeship and initiation as a shaman
• Personal plant- and animal- allies
• Individual approaches and maintenance of those allies
• How to contact the invisible world
• What is necessary to travel consciously through the tree worlds
• How to gain messages and insights from the other worlds
• Encounters with and descriptions of the invisible worlds
• Methods to negatiate with spirits, demons, gods and goddesses
• How to switch borders of different realities and return safely
• Methods for diagnosis and healing
• Shamanic cosmology – differences and universalities
• Diversity of shamanic rituals

      and what ever shamans as well as participants will wish to know…..

The program – on five days, each seminar – will include:

Morning lectures by:

• Dr. Christian Raetsch: Shamanic “Plant Teachers” in Nepal and Southamerica
• Arno Adelaars: Diversity of Ayahuasca-Rituals in Southamerica and the Western World
• Dr. Claudia Mueller-Ebeling: Examples of Astonishing Universal Similarities of the Invisible World
• Mohan Rai: How and why my destiny to follow the shamanic footsteps of my father was blocked by the Kirati-Ceremony Bato Chekne
• Kajuyali: From scientist to shaman. My personal experiences and initiations into various shamanic traditions of Columbian shamans 

Afternoon sessions:

According to the last remaining shamanic societies ther are only two reasons to consult a shaman: Search for healing (of body, mind and/or soul) – search of a shamanic teacher or guru.

Thus, the afternoons will be reserved for:

• Individual healing- and consultation-sessions.

Art and shamanism were always intimately connected. This is already obvious in zoomorphic figures described as “wizards” or “shamans” in cavepaintings as old as 25.000 years and tracing back to the very origines of mankind. Visionary art focussing on the invisible was present at all times and cultures. Still today, a variety of artefacts produced by shamanic societies reveil the very patterns of shamanic journeys and experiences. Although little known this is also true for the famous thankas of the Himalayas – as will be explained in one afternoon-session each week. 

Two artists will explain how they enter the state of inspiration. They will talk about their artistic career and traditions they refer to. They will as well demonstrate in practice their individual painting techniques.

• Prolific Newari thanka painter Surendra B. Shahi shows his amazing masterpieces and gives in-depth explanations on their making in exchange with
• Wolfgang Maria Ohlhaeuser, a prolific visionary painter from Germany, being present with his pieces of art in various museums and private art collections. In his technique he follows the tradition of the old masters he had learned, among others, from the famous protagonist at the Vienna Art School, Ernst Fuchs.

Evening sessions:

Some evenings during both seminar weeks will be reserved for ceremonies with powerfull plant-teachers from Southamerica and Nepal:

• Nepalese chintas and plant-teacher-rituals
• Individual exchange between participants as well as participants and shamans.