Past Events at the Chamber

Star Stories and More, with Nancy Basket (2020)

“Stories are the wood in ancient fires. They burn bright to light the night so human hearts need not be afraid.” Tsonaqua (Anishinabe)

What can ancient traditional Star Stories tell us? How they are interpreted NOW depends on each of us and the Teller’s training. Come experience an afternoon of story telling and unravel the stories’ meanings a layer at a time. In the Kiva-like setting of the Chamber, Nancy will take us on a journey as she shares Indigenous Star Stories! You will learn valuable information from ancient stories and actual events.

Nancy Basket, the most AMAZING storyteller, returns to us from her Kudzu Kabin, and will share several “myths” to be pondered, acted out, and reacted to with questions from a child’s perspective to an adult’s skepticism! Please visit Nancy Basket at the Kudzu Kabin to learn more about Nancy and her many talents. Nancy will also have her unique artwork for sale.

Come learn and have fun with us on Sunday! This event is geared for individuals and families, so please bring your children!

 

A Journey of Music and Storytelling
Honoring our Mothers
with Raven Wolf
Watersong Sound/Peace Chamber
1262 Privet Drive, Graham, NC
Saturday, May 11, 7-8:30pm

We are happy to introduce to you to the gentle healing experience of Raven Wolf and his beautiful Native American flute music. Recently, we relaxed into lovely visions inside the Crystal-filled Chamber as we journeyed along with Raven Wolf’s flute music. He indeed has a medicine that we’re excited to introduce to you, and Raven is honored to share this amazing evening with you, as we give thanks to the presence of the Mother energy that nurtures us all!

MOTHER …  no word as beautiful can ever be spoken. A Mother is the beginning of life and the nurturer of our Souls. Without our Earth Mother we cannot survive.

On May 11th, You are invited to join us as we celebrate and honor those who have given us the opportunity to experience the wonderful miracle of Life. Raven Wolf will take us on a journey of music, storytelling and laughter as we once again bond with the Mother energy in our lives. We will honor the Earth Mother, our first mother, and together we will give thanks to her for the beauty she has gifted us all. Our love, our song, our gathering as ONE PEOPLE will be our gift to her sacred presence.

Raven began playing the Native Flute as a young teen growing up in the Florida Everglades. His Taino and Seminole heritage was a strong influence in his desire to give something back to the community and share the gift that music brings. Raven brings a genuine, healing song that is strongly influenced by the very heartbeat of our Earth Mother and the stories that shape our lives.

Robert Austin Performs at Watersong!

A Crystal & Tibetan Bowl HEALING Concert in our Crystal-filled Chamber

Robert Austin will be performing his “sound healing concert”, along with offering personal healing sessions (see below). With more than 30 Crystal and Tibetan Bowls and other instruments, Robert opens the door to healing for all levels of consciousness. Feel the healing vibrations of sounds that are not only soothing to your ears, but also soothing to your soul! Our own voices are also used as part of the sound healing experience! If you are dealing with illness or just not up to par, you will especially benefit from this experience in the Peace Chamber! AT THE END OF THE CONCERT, YOU WILL BE ALLOWED QUIET TIME TO RETURN TO YOUR BODY AND GROUND YOURSELF. Robert will be outside to receive your feedback and questions before going back into the chamber for limited personal work.

You may bring cushions or blankets for lying on the crystal-filled floor of the Chamber (if there is room), bring water and wear comfortable clothing. As is our tradition here, there is no charge for this experience, but Love Offerings are appropriate and appreciated ($20 or more is the suggested offering). Please place your gifts in the glass containers located on either side of the Chamber entrance.
Robert can also help you select your own crystal or Tibetan bowl, Rods of Isis & other interesting items while he is here Wednesday and Thursday.

Personal Sound Massage Sessions 
A personal “sound massage” with Robert brings vibrational healing to all levels of your body. Clients report amazing results physically and emotionally! Robert often receives information as he works with you and will share that if you like. Sessions are non-invasive, and cost is $85 for 1 hour; $50 for 30 minutes. If you’d like a personal session and cannot afford it, please speak with us about it, as Robert wants to help those in need of this healing work. Personal sessions will be available Wednesday & Thursday until late afternoon. Reply to this email or call 336 212-2625 to schedule a session. Schedule soon as there are only a few sessions available!
Testimonial: I had the most amazing session yesterday! Feel like I lost 20 pounds!! This sound massage is a great form of emotional and physical healing!
We look forward to seeing you at the ceremony and please invite your friends!
Visit www.crystalbowlsoundhealer.com to learn more about Robert and his work.

WINTER SOLSTICE WORLD-WIDE PEACE CHAMBER CHANTING FOR WORLD PEACE

Now more than ever we need to come together to pray for peace! Peace for our Nation and our World. Please join us on Friday, December 21, from 5:30ish – 8:30ish pm, as we join with our sister chambers around the world in creating 24-hour continuous “sounds for peace”. This will be a true celebration of welcoming back the Light and praying for and honoring Water. Special music is welcome! RSVP’s not required but appreciated.!
We will begin our chanting and sounds for peace at the Chamber from 6pm – 7pm with a potluck following. If you can’t make the chanting time, please come for the fellowship and potluck. You can never be late for ceremony at Watersong! We will also have some handmade items for sale!
We suggest you dress in layers and wear comfortable clothing. Bring musical instruments if you like! Please bring some food to share, along with a love donation if you feel called, that will go toward gifting Grandfather Joseph Rael and supporting others in need.

What Happens When The Night Comes?

Nancy Basket returns to Watersong joined by Dawi, in sharing traditional stories and teachings to help guide us in our everyday lives!

“Stories are the wood in ancient fires. They burn bright to light the night so human hearts need not be afraid.” Tsonaqua (Anishinabe)

What can ancient traditional Star Stories tell us? How they are interpreted NOW depends on each of us and the Teller’s training. Come experience a day of story telling and unravel the stories’ meanings a layer at a time. In the Kiva-like setting of the Chamber, we’ll have two storytellers and a dream interpreter! You will learn valuable information from ancient stories, actual events and dream importance and interpretation.

Nancy Basket, the most AMAZING storyteller, returns to us from her Kudzu Kabin, and will share several “myths” to be pondered, acted out, and reacted to with questions from a child’s perspective to an adult’s skepticism! Please visit Nancy Basket at the Kudzu Kabin to learn more about Nancy and her many talents. Nancy will also have her unique artwork for sale.

Dawi, a Caretaker of Watersong Peace Chamber (among many other titles), will be sharing stories and wisdom he has accumulated from more than 30 years of being in ceremony and learning from Native Americans. His Elders have instructed him to start sharing his knowledge!

Sarah Haggerty will also join with a discussion of dreams and their meanings, as dreams are more real than what we think Earth life is now. Sarah will teach us how to nourish dreams and bring a sense of meaning back into our daily life. Sarah was the 2012 Winner of the NC Environmental Educators of the Year Award. She is the Program Director at the Eco-Institute and she is the Founder and Director of the Natural

Mystery School. You are invited to bring your dreams to share.

MAKING A WOMAN’S PRAYER SHAWL

This is a special gathering day for women wanting to learn about the meaning and use of the Prayer Shawl. Our day will consist of learning about the Prayer Shawl through stories and teachings, along with actually making as many shawls as we can in a day. We invite you to help in making the shawls from fabrics we have prepared, as these shawls will be gifted for a memorial service giveaway. Your participation in making these shawls will be a special gift to a family.

There will be demonstrations of making various types of shawls so that you can decide what type of shawl calls to you. You will also learn the amount of fabric and amount and kinds of fringe you can use for making a prayer shawl. We’ll have a few types of fabrics and fringing materials for sale for making your own shawl.

PaTi Coleman will be our guide for the day along with wisdom sharing from some other precious Elders.

We invite you to come with a good heart and enjoy a special time sharing with women. We ask that you wear a skirt or dress, or use a sarong, as we will be in ceremony while making the shawls (this practice honors the sacredness of ourselves as women in the Circle of Life). We will end our day with a little ceremony to bless the shawls that we have made!

 

Foundations of Indigenous Wisdom

January 19-21, 2018
Watersong and Foundation for Earth’s Ancestral Voices is partnering with the Eco Institute at Piccard’s Mountain to cosponsor the exciting program, Foundations of Indigenous Wisdom, described below. For those of you who’ve been searching for information and protocols concerning Indigenous People, this workshop is for you! You will learn how to 1) honor age and life stage, 2) how to develop a healthy Elderhood and 3) how to rediscover elements of culture which are rare in the Western world. You will explore how to change the world by connecting on a deeper level with Nature, Indigenous wisdom and with one another.

Nancy Basket is an ideal person to teach us these important values and have fun in the process. You can sign up for EITHER the entire weekend or a day of class during the weekend of January 19-21 (Saturday class is held at Watersong). Costs should NOT prohibit you from attending. Scholarships are available on the Eco Institute’s website which makes this event affordable to everyone. Come join us for an educational and fun time!

Please register on the Eco Institute’s website: http://eco-institute.org/foundations-of-indigenous-wisdom.

Thank you to the Eco Institute for sharing this exciting opportunity with our community!

NANCY BASKET, STORYTELLER

We are blessed to have Nancy Basket as our story teller this month! Nancy Basket is Cherokee on her dad’s side and German on her mother’s. She came south 26 years ago to learn stories of respect to tell her children and pubic school students. As a South Carolina artist in education, Cherokee elders found her and shared many more stories NOT in books. She will tell some stories and invite you to ask questions in order to hear the layers of information embedded inside the tale. Many academic disciplines are realizing Native American stories are more than MYTH! You can learn more about Nancy and her many talents at NANCYBASKET.COM. Nancy will have some of her artistic creations for sale.

 

 

 


Sacred Sound Session with Garth Robertson

ABOUT THE SOUND SESSION
We invite you to experience an amazing Sacred Sound Session with Garth Robertson! (www.songofthesacred.com)  I had a private Sound Session with Garth in the Chamber last week and want to share this amazing experience with our community!  He is a very talented artist and we are bringing him here to offer you a much-needed retreat from the hectic world we often live in!  We invite you to join Garth while we travel the Universe in Sound!  We will be guided into meditation with ancient sounds from around the globe including guitar, overtone singing, chimes, Tibetan Bowls, flute, gong, frame drum, tuning forks and didgeridoo.. Time flies during this experience!
There will be chairs available for those who would prefer to sit but you may bring your own comfy chair.  If you are called to receive the experience lying down on the concrete floor, please bring a yoga-size mat, blankets and pillows.   Dress in comfortable layers and bring a Water Bottle.  Water is also for sale in the Chamber.

DONATIONS FOR THE SESSION
Donations are appropriate and appreciated for what you receive.  We suggest a love offering of $20 or more or whatever you can afford.  Garth will also have his CDs of healing music available.  The proceeds which go to Watersong are used to support and maintain the Peace Chamber and grounds and to help our Elders and others in need.

ABOUT THE SOUND/PEACE CHAMBER
There are quartz crystals poured into the ceiling, floor and walls, so you are surrounded by the healing properties while within.  The space itself is conducive to such healing that sometimes the sounds aren’t even necessary—a great meditation space!  When used with Sacred Sound, the crystals are activated such that you are in a large crystal bowl!  The results can be profound!

Ceremonial Chambers have been used for thousands of years by many cultures to provide a unifying force to help bond man together in spirit, values and attitudes.  The rituals and ceremonies varied, but the basic principles and goals of developing inner awareness and understanding of the Universe were similar.  Joseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, is the visionary father of these sound/peace chambers which are scattered all around the World.

 

 

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WINTER SOLSTICE WORLD-WIDE PEACE CHAMBER CHANTING FOR WORLD PEACE

Theme of the Chanting: “Moved by the sacredness of water, we hold all beings in the Light
Wednesday, December 21, 6-9pm

solsticeNow more than ever we need to come together to pray for peace!  Peace for our Nation and our World.  Please join us on Wednesday, December 21, from 6pm – 9pm, as we join with our sister chambers around the world in creating 24-hour continuous “sounds for peace”.   This will be a true celebration of welcoming back the Light and praying for and honoring Water.  Special music is welcome!   RSVP’s not required but appreciated.!

We will begin our chanting and sounds for peace at the Chamber from 6pm – 7pm with a potluck following.  If you can’t make the chanting time, please come for the fellowship and potluck.  You can never be late for ceremony at Watersong!  We will also have some handmade items for sale!

We suggest you dress in layers and wear comfortable clothing.  Bring musical instruments if you like!  Please bring some food to share, along with a love donation if you feel called, that will go toward gifting  Grandfather Joseph Rael and supporting others in need.

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Ancestral Healing: A Day of Ritual Tending & Ancestor Honoring

Sunday, Nov 6th, 

Everyone has loving and wise ancestors, and by reaching out for their support we access tremendous vitality for personal and family healing. In addition to supporting repairs with living family, our ancestors encourage healthy self-esteem and help us to clarify our destiny, relationships, work in the world and in our daily lives.

After the morning teaching until around 2pm, we’ll share in a different ancestor-focused ceremony. Folks are welcome for just the morning or for both morning teaching and afternoon honoring ceremony.

Please contact Daniel Foor to register for the Sunday teaching/honoring!
To join in ceremony in the afternoon, you must register with Daniel personally: ancestralmedicine@gmail.com

For more info on Daniel’s approach to the ancestors see: www.ancestralmedicine.org/ancestors.

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Special Guest, Gabriel Kelley, at our Fire Ceremony, Monday, 11/7,

Please join us in our prayers for the Water, and particularly the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, ND, on Monday night.  We have Gabriel Kelley, friend and musical artist, who will be singing a few of the special songs that he wrote on the Land here in the Winter of 2012.  These songs remind us to WAKE UP, remember who we are and NOT TO LIVE IN FEAR!  This performance could not come at a more meaningful time, especially to help inspire US and the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

Gabe will head out this month to Standing Rock pipeline sight and offer assistance and his songs of inspiration for the People.  We will happily accept any donations you’d like to offer at the Monday ceremony or thru PayPal on our website to help with the efforts and needs at Standing Rock Reservation, and to assist Gabe on his trip out there.  (Gabriel Kelley is on Facebook if you want to look him up!)

Not all of us can be present at Standing Rock, but we can pray, call the White House and offer what financial assistance that we can.  Thank you for all that you do to support the work of Watersong and to help the People at Standing Rock!

We are living each day by Heart, praying that something good will come from all of us joining together to help make our World a better and healthier place to live!  We hope your heart will call you to right action.

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The Wisdom of the Womb

Source of the Sacred Feminine

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2-Day Workshop for Women August 20 & 21 2016

With Pat Cockrell
Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner
and Womb Keeper
At Watersong Peace Chamber Graham, NC

Come together with other women and learn ways to deepen your connection to the Sacred Womb, the divine feminine place within which holds the seeds and fertile potential for you to birth a more creative and empowered life, one that is aligned with your Soul’s truest calling.

This workshop is open to all women of all ages, and stages in life.
  • Experience healing of the feminine wounds that are held physically, energetically, and spiritually in the womb space, of your personal past, and that of your ancestral lineage.
  • Participate in powerful journeying, healing rituals, and sacred ceremony that will connect you to the Wisdom within your own Womb.
  • Open your heart to the rich blessings of Sisterhood that we share as women, and the power we hold collectively to bring a New World into being and to hold a space of healing for our Mother Earth.
  • Find greater balance with the Divine Masculine within yourself, and the empowerment it can bring to your life.
  • Learn to open and receive the life-giving nurturance and support from our Mother Earth.
You will also receive The Rite of The Womb, the 13th rite of the Munay-Ki, which was been recently gifted to us from the Medicine Women of South America, to help us heal and restore our life-giving creativity. Learn how to give this rite to others and become a Womb Keeper.
“It is Woman that will lead the way back to the Garden”…
These are words from Mother Mary, as given to Pat Cockrell years ago as a young mother looking for spiritual direction. In this workshop, Pat will share profound guidance and information received from Mother Mary, on the role of women in these times of great change and shifts on our planet; to bring forth healing and balance as we more fully embody the Divine Feminine. Combined with her training and knowledge, gained from her work with the ancient feminine wisdom from the spiritual traditions of Peru, Pat brings together aspects of both Spirit and Nature in better understanding the sacred creative potential we carry as women, and as carriers of the Light within our Luminous Wombs. It is through spiritual womb that we return to the Garden.
About Pat Cockrell –
Pat has traveled and studied extensively in Peru, where she has been initiated by the native Q’ero paqos and shamans, and has journeyed with them to the ancient sacred sites throughout Peru participating in healing ceremonies and rituals.
Using ancient shamanic techniques, Pat has a private practice in North Carolina USA, where she works with her clients to energetically clear the self-limiting patterns of old trauma and core wounds, to bring about healing, balance, and help in restoring their ability to step into their fullest potential. Pat also mentors, teaches workshops, including the Munay-Ki rites and the Feminine Nusta Karpay rites.
Pat received her training in Shamanic Energy Medicine from Dr. Alberto Villoldo’s Healing The Light Body School, of the Four Winds Society and has completed their Masters of Healing program.
As owner of Sacred Quests LLC, Pat takes groups on sacred journeys to Peru.
Workshop Sponsored by-
Shaman Connection www.shamanconnection.com

Pat Cockrell of Sacred Quests LLC www.sacredquest-peru.com