Name: Medicine Circle
Start: 2026-05-01T09:00:00-06:00
Location: Manitou Springs

Medicine Circle
Healing Seminar
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
May 1st - 3rd, 2026
Manitou Heritage Museum 517
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Cost $111
PAYPAL @ [email protected]
Limited availability
Day One – Opening & Foundations
9:00 AM – Opening Circle and Welcome
11:00 AM – Introduction to Indigenous Spiritual Foundations: Ancestors, Land Acknowledgment, Sovereignty, and the Seven Generations Teachings
12:15 PM – Lunch
1:30 PM – Traditional Offerings and Sacred Protocols
3:00 PM – Sweat Lodge Teachings and Ceremony Protocols
5:00 PM – Medicine Carrying Teachings
Day Two – Earth-Based Living & Teachings
7:00 AM – Sunrise Ceremony
8:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00 AM – Earth Living Teachings: Hands-on Teepee Setup and Teachings of the Four Directions, emphasizing balance, relationships, and connection to all life
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:30 PM – Plant Nations Teachings and Smudging Practices
3:00 PM – Storytelling Teachings
Day Three – Integration & Responsibility
7:00 AM – Sunrise Ceremony
8:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00 AM – Two Worlds Integration: Walking Indigenous Teachings in Contemporary Life
10:30 AM – Responsibility and Obligation to Self, Community, and Future Generations
2:00 PM – Reflection, Gratitude, and Closing Teachings, followed by a Traditional Closing Ceremony

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Review of Traditional Teachings Available
○ Indigenous Teachings Framework
1. Sunrise Ceremony Teachings
• Greeting the day with prayer and gratitude
• Understanding our relationship with the sun and natural cycles

2. Earth Living Teachings
• Living in right relationship with the Earth
• Hands-on care and responsibility for all life
• Teachings of the Four Directions
• Balance, relationship, and the interconnectedness of all life

3. Plant Nations Teachings
• Relationship with plant relatives

4. Storytelling Teachings
• Oral traditions as living knowledge
• Teaching through story and lived experience