Ready to deepen your practice and support those you work with even more fully?
Through a combination of somatics, psychology, deep nature connection and a variety of indigenous ceremonial practices, you’ll learn a framework for helping those you work with profoundly release old ways of being and living that have been holding them back so they can step without reservation into the next phase of their lives
Join us for this 10-week In-Person Death Lodge Ritual Process Training
*This training is open to Rites of Passage Guide training alumni and students/licensed professionals of a therapeutic profession ie: psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed mental Health counselors, addictions specialists, life coaches, nature guides, etc.
“In the depths of the soul, anyone’s soul, there is a desire for Initiation. Initiation means one thing dies and another comes to life.”
Walk with us...
Like rivers flowing side by side in opposite directions, one moving in the this world of ordinary reality and the other moving with a magical current from an unseen source in a darker, richer, fertile ground somewhere in the west, we generally think of our lives as beginning with a birth and ending with a death. The initiatory passages of our lives are the periods when the soul’s descent into the dark night runs opposite the flow of life, in that they begin with a death and end with a birth.
Every great vision and subsequent journey began with great loss. It is the life that we cultivate each day, by the stories we tell ourselves and the way we live or lives following these great disruptions, that will lead to the crafting of character and a true elder, rather than simply just an older version of our younger, uninitiated self, still in search of the holy grail- or even worse, one who simply refused the call. It is here, by the river of memory and belonging, that we begin to guide others across that great divide.
Death Lodge Ritual Process Training
"This healing process has been informed by the integration of 64 years of my lived experience and nearly 35 years as a rites of passage ceremonial wilderness guide, body centered psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, elemental ritual process facilitator, intuitive cowry shell diviner, certified Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapist and vision quest guide, to name of few of the hats I have worn. After 27 years, I voluntarily surrendered my licenses as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist to give my full attention to pursuing the teaching of and practice of knowledge and methods that existed outside the scope of my previous licenses. Here are some of the teachers, teachings and methods that have become foundational to the understanding and practice of this healing modality.” ~Kedar S. Brown
The Roots of this Work:
Psychological Teachings & Methods
1. Somatic Processing
2. Family Constellation
3. Psychodrama
4. Pesso Systems Psychomotor
5. Hakomi Body Center
6. Virginia Satir Family Systems
7. Transpersonal Psychology
8. Gestat Psychotherapy
9. Internal Family Systems
10. Grof Holotropic Breathwork
Deeper More Indigenous Roots
1. From Pathology to Mythology
2. Holographic Reality
3. Animism: The decolonization of language and perception
4. Shamanism: The three worlds of memory, healing and belonging
5. Medicine Wheel Cosmology: Down the rabbit hole!
6. Well in Spirit Ancestors vs. The Unwell Dead.
7. Rites of Passage Ceremonies
8. Deep Nature Connection & Elemental Rituals
9. Indigenous perspective on illness and healing
10. Remote Journey & Healing Work
Some of Kedar's teachers along the way
Steven Foster & Meredith Little
Malidoma Some´ Teacher and Friend from many years
Will Rockingbear ~ Medicine Person of the Cherokee Nation
Joseph Campbell
Angeles Arrien
Carlos Castaneda
“This is going to deepen you into your bones.”
Registration, Tuition and Training Dates:
Training Facilitators: Kedar Brown,Founder & Director & Signi Goldman, MD
10 Sessions / Bi-weekly & Weekly Intervals / Day TBA / 4hrs each session / Time TBA
40 Contact Hours
Includes: Syllabus, Training Manual and Practice Homework assignments
Cost: Sliding Scale: $2000 for all 10 sessions. Paid in full before training begins. (non refundable after program starts)
Location: In the Asheville area. Three Waters Farm ~ Weaverville, NC 28787
Dates: 2024 dates TBA
Session 1. Dec. 7 4p-8p
Session 2. Dec. 21 4p-8p Bi-weekly interval
Session 3. Jan. 4 4p-8p Bi-weekly interval
Session 4. Jan 18 4p-8p Bi-weekly interval
Session 5. Jan. 25 4p-8p Weekly interval
Session 6. Feb. 1 4p-8p Weekly interval
Session 7. Feb. 8. 4p-8p Weekly interval
Session 8. Feb. 15 4p-8p Weekly interval
Session 9. Feb. 22 4p-8p Weekly interval
Session 10 Feb. 29 Weekly interval
Makeup Session: Sunday March 3 10am-2pm
SPECIAL NOTES: Each session will build upon the previous session. It is important to do your best to be at all sessions. There will be one optional make up session. The make up session will be charge at the lower rate of $200
