Appearances
Information on Barbara Tedlock's appearance and lecture schedule is continuously updated here.
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| Tedlock (2nd from left) with Bayar Odun and family |
"Biofield Therapies in Postmodern Shamanic Healing" Traditional shamanic healers conceptualize human beings as holistic, dynamic, self-regulating, self-healing energetic landscapes consisting of mind, body, and spirit. Healing techniques they devised long ago combine attention, intention, consciousness, information, touch, movement, and energy into a complex set of theories and practices.To integrate and heal themselves and their clients, shamans built flexible communication systems between the external world and personal wellbeing through the dialectic of difference within unity.Researchers from anthropology, clinical medicine, counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy are exploring these ancient practices at the same time that traditional healers and practitioners of alternative and complementary medicine are cooperating with biomedical practitioners. In this process of cultural exchange new biofield therapies are emerging within postmodern shamanic healing.
Session Organizer "Writing Shamanism Today in Theory and Practice" Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness & The Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Abstract: Use of the word shamanism in North America has changed greatly over the past hundred years. In the late-nineteenth century the term was used in a curious but disbelieving manner by anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, and others, to describe a Native American spiritual phenomenon. Great attention was given by scholars of the time to the theatricality of shamans’ performances and to the genuineness, or lack of genuineness, in their trance states. In the past twenty years, due to the rapid development of complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM), which incorporates various shamanic techniques or modalities into mainstream healthcare practice, shamanism has taken on a new and rather different set of meanings. Today scholars are also interested in understanding the universality, cross-cultural and gendered manifestations, and contemporary resurgence of shamanistic phenomena in terms of globalization, tourism, information processing, and psychosocial formations. This session explores the ever changing terrain in “writing shamanism,” including attitudes towards and multiple scholarly approaches to shamanism from Mongolian shamans’ toolkits, which act as virtual maps of the spirit world; Malaysian and Korean performative practices; neoshamanic Wiccan traditions, Celtic Druidic shamanic-journey tales, and Ayahuasca use by Santo Daime churches worldwide; and Zuni medicine society magicianship that heals and re-enchants the world.
Paper in the Session "Shamanic Bioenergetic Healing within Integrative Medicine"
Abstract: Long ago shamans devised healing techniques that combined attention, intention, consciousness, information, touch, movement, and energy into a set of salutogenic healing theories and practices. Despite invasions, displacements, conquests, genocides, and ethnocides many millions of indigenous peoples worldwide continue to use ecologically and psychologically sustainable holistic shamanic medicine. Healers in shamanic traditions view human beings as dynamic, self-regulating, and self-healing energetic landscapes in which the mind, body, and spirit form a single balanced ecological entity. Indigenous shamanic healers also conceptualize the body as possessing biofields that both maintain and restore health. Over the past twenty years, researchers from anthropology, clinical medicine, counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy have been exploring theories and practices in which biofield energy is described as moving along pathways into whirling centers. Clinicians today are healing patients by combining the pathogenesis model of disease with the salutogenesis model of health. Key features of biomedicine—including x-rays, cat scans, and surgery—are combined with alternative shamanic therapies including herbal medicine, homeopathy, distant healing, therapeutic massage, acupuncture, naturopathy, and energy healing. Among the results of this theoretical change is the emergence of shamanic bioenergetic healing within complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM). Healthcare practitioners are beginning to view illness as an opportunity for transformation and see themselves as catalysts, guides, and spiritual teachers using intuition, dreams, and other altered states of consciousness to help their patients maintain or restore immune function, wellbeing, and health. The shamanic and neoshamanic bioenergetic integrative medicines that are described come from Asia and the Americas.
April 1-3, 2005 Santa Fe, NM
April 7-9, 2005, New Orleans, LA
April 15, 2005, New York City, NY
"Women in Shamanism," The Open Center
83 Spring Street, New York City
Reading/talk/signing 8:00-10:00 pm
April 20-22, 2005, Buffalo, NY
May 18-21, 2005, Santa Fe, NM
June 5-9, 2005, Pacific Grove, CA
First Annual Conference of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners
Asilomar in
Pacific Grove
Talk/book signing "The Woman in the Shaman's Body" on Wednesday, June 8th at
3:45pm
For additional information, please contact: Bonnie Horrigan 760-586-8252 or see
www.shamansociety.org
June 12, 2005, Berkeley, CA
8:00pm to 10:00pm
Live streaming video interview with Frank Moore on "The Shaman's Den".
Shown on b-tv, Berkeley's cable access channel. Interview archived at
www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
September 8-10, 2005, Rochester, NY
September 22-23, 2005 San Diego, CA
October 21-23, 2005
Sedona, Arizona. The Elks Lodge.
"Mayan Shamanism: Today and Yesterday" a set of Powerpoint lectures,
video footage, and an experiential workshop (with Dennis Tedlock). For more
information www.mayasites.com.
January 20-24, 2006 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fifth International Conference on Shamanism. La Fonda Hotel.
"Blood Lightning: The Mayan Subtle Energy System," 10:45 am - 12:00
pm
on Tuesday January 24th in the Main Ballroom of the hotel. For additional information, contact Lynda Leonard, Program and Speaker
Coordinator, 505-474-0998.
February 5-8, 2006 Tampa, Florida
University of South Florida. Lectures in the departments of anthropology and communications on women in religion, autoethnography, and public ethnography. Contacts: Elizabeth Bird, Chair Department of Anthropology USF <ebird@cas.usf.edu> Linda Whiteford, department of anthropology and Carolyn Ellis, Department of Communications
February 22-26, 2006 San Francisco Bay Area
February 22nd, 7:00 - 9:15 pm "Dreaming the Divine: Researching Women's Shamanic Initiation" sponsored by the East-West Psychology Program of the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), Namaste Hall 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco.
February 23rd, 7:30 - 9:30 pm Book signing with Dennis Tedlock at Black Oak Books, Berkeley.
February 24th, 1-6 pm with Dennis Tedlock. "Indigenous Dreaming," the uses of dreams and medicine stories worldwide. The Dream Institute of Northern California 1672 University Avenue Berkeley. Meredith Sabini, Ph.D. Director. For more information contact Jennifer Privateer <astrojp@yahoo.com>.
February 25th, 1:00 - 5:00 pm "Shamanic Dreaming and Mayan Divination ." Workshop with Dennis Tedlock at the Cultural Integration Fellowship (CIF) 2650 Fulton Street at 3rd Avenue, San Francisco, organized by Dream Creations. For more information contact Fariba Bogzaran <bogzaran@svn.net>.
February 26th, 12:00 - 4:00 pm powerpoint lecture on Ancient and Modern Mayan Cultures at the Dance Palace Community Center in Point Reyes Station. Organized by The Lucid Art Foundation of Inverness.
Contacts:
Daniel Deslauriers <ddeslauriers@Ciis.edu> 415-797-2295 cell phone
Fariba Bogzaran <bogzaran@svn.net> 415-669-7838 home phone
Jennifer Privateer <astrojp@yahoo.com> for The Dream Institute of Northern California Phone: 510-845-1767
Lewis Klausner Black Oak Books 510-486-0698 <events@blackoakbooks.com>
March 14-18, 2006, Santa Fe, NM
March 22-24, 2006, Charlottesville, VA
Contact information Rachel Mann <res4n@virginia.edu> Office phone: 434-924-6847.
April 27-May 4, 2006, Canterbury, UK
Hosts:
University of Kent Department of Anthropology and School of European Culture and
Languages.
June 11, 2006, Santa Fe, NM
Lecture Workshop: "Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies: Mayan
Divination, and Dreaming," with Dennis Tedlock. 1:00 - 4:30 pm. Body 333 Cordova Road.
Contact: Malika 505-986-0362 info@bodyofsantafe.com
July 2-6, 2006, Pacific Grove, CA
Second Annual Conference of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners, "Mind,
Body, and Cosmos in Mayan Shamanic Divination," a 2 hr. presentation
Contact information: Bonnie Horrigan 760-586-8252 or see
www.shamansociety.org
July 12-16, 2006, Wednesday-Sunday, Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, Santa Fe, NM. Annual Retreat: "In the Shelter of Each Other: The Power of the Creative Transforming the World." With Roshi Joan Halifax, Mother Tessa, Rabbi Malka Drucker, Zuleikha, Mayumi Oda, Diane Haug, Cynthia West, Colleen Kelly, Elizabeth Encino, and Luanne Depons. Contact: Joan Halifax Roshi 986-8182. <jhalifax@gmail.com>
July 23, 2006, Sunday, Santa Fe, NM
Body of Santa Fe. "Sacred Blood: The Heart of Feminine Spiritual
Teachings." 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm at Body 333 Cordova Road. Contact: Malika
986-0362 info@bodyofsantafe.com
July 29, 2006, Jemez Springs, NM
Ardantane College.
Workshop, "Mayan shamanism: Coyopa, divination and shamanic dream
states" with Dennis Tedlock 11:00 am - 5 pm.
Contact information: Kristin Madden 505-469-7777 <registrar@ardantane.org>
August 11, 2006, Santa Fe, NM
Lecture Workshop: "Red Moon Passage: The Wisdom and Power of
Menopause," 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Body 333 Cordova Road.
Contact information: Malika Healey 505-986-0362 info@bodyofsantafe.com.
September 1-4, 2006, New Lebanon, NY
Labor Day Weekend Seminar: "Dreams, the Imaginal Realm, and the Re-enchantment of the World." Sponsored by Elixir
Magazine and the Sufi Order International (SOI). Hosted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. Public presentation with
Paul Devereux, Lee Irwin, and Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi. Contact: Suhrawardi
Gebel at 518-794-7834. <www.sulukacademy.org>
<www.abodeprograms.org>.
October 5-7, 2006, Washington, DC
Dumbarton Oaks & Library of Congress, Participation in the Conference "Astronomers, Scribes, and
Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and
Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period" Contact: Gabrielle Vail and
Christine Hernandez, organizers 202-339-6440
pre-columbian@doaks.org
October 19-26, 2006,Center for Integrative Medicine and
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Lectures to faculty, students
and post-docs, at the
Medical School,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Contact Dr. Sara Warber, MD <swarber@med.umich.edu>.
Home phone: 734-428-1164. Pager 734-936-6266 pager ID 4477. Cell phone
734-649-2113. Administrative Assistant Jeff Clevenger 734-428-1164.
October 20: Presentation in University of Michigan medical-school course "Ancient Healing for the 21st Century."
October 24: "Indigenous Heritage and Biopiracy," Presentation to the Anthropology Department U of Michigan at 4 pm. Contact Julie Winningham, Executive Secretary <chimera@umich.edu>.
October 22-25: Presentation in the "Integrative Healthcare Faculty Development Seminar," Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
November 2-6, 2006, Santa Fe, NM
November 3: Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner PEN, New Mexico at the La Fonda Hotel 5:30-7:30 pm. Recipient of the PEN-New Mexico Annual Writing Award for 2006. Contact: Ron Christ <lumenbooks@earthlink.net>
November 5: Workshop: "Shamanic Energy Healing Workshop," with Dennis Tedlock. Sunday 1:00 - 4:00 pm. Body 333 Cordova Road. Contact: Malika Healey 505-986-0362 info@bodyofsantafe.com
November 13-19, 2006, Bay Area, CA
November 13, Talk and Book Signing East-West Books
November 14, Talk at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA
November 15-18, Participation in the American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Jose, CA
Workshop: Mayan Energy Healing and Dreaming 9 am - 1 pm at the Vitamin Trader Education Center, 211 Montano NM, Albuquerque, NM
Contact: Kristin Madden 505-469-7777 <registrar@ardantane.org> for more information see <http://www.ardantane.org/calendar/cal2007.htm>