European Events with Robinette Kennedy
May and June 2010
May 20-23, 2010
Greek Ministry of Culture presents
"Psychiatry and Art"
Chania, Crete (Greece)
Join Robinette Kennedy at this ground breaking conference in the beautiful city of Chania in western Crete.
Robinette will be presenting a lecture and experiential session "Sacred Poses from Prehistoric Crete: A Soul Retrieval for Western Culture".
Complete details about the conference will be available soon. If you'd like us to contact you when we have more information, please send us an e-mail.
June 4-6, 2010
Embodying European Shamanism Workshop
Sacred Poses of Neolithic Crete, Greece and the Balkans
An Experiential Seminar with
Clinical Anthropologist Robinette Kennedy, PhD
Apollo Hotel,
Aghia Marina, Aegina, Greece
Friday, June 4: 19:00-21:30 Lecture with Slides; Orientation and
Introduction to Prehistoric European Shamanic Poses
Tickets at the Door €10 (Free to Workshop Participants)
Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6, 2010: Saturday 09:30-13:30; 16:30-20:30 and Sunday 09:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Cost: €150 Includes lunch Saturday and Sunday; photographs of the poses; information about how to practice the poses, and other materials. For more information, contact Kalli Alevizou, mobile phone: 0030 697 8777529 or e-mail.
About the Workshop:
We hope you can join us in the seaside Apollo Hotel, which is next to the Bronze Age Temple of Afaea, whose followers, according to the local myth, was from Crete. Workshop participants will enjoy a unique guided tour of the temple—one of the most significant sacred sites in Greece— with psychotherapist and archaeological guide Kalli Alevizou.
The Apollo Hotel is offering a special room discount that includes breakfast and free transfers between the Aegina harbor and the hotel.
An image of a human wearing vulture wings was found in the ruins of Catal Hoyuk. Leopards never walked the forests of Thrace, but Neolithic female figurines from this area are decorated with the animal’s dotted patterns.
Each year in the countryside of Vavrona, to the north of classical Athens, young girls dressed in bear skins and danced the movements of bears--in a ceremony almost identical to those of shamanic cultures around the arctic circle who recognized the bear as their closest animal cousin.
Figurines from prehistoric Crete depict women's bodies on which snakes are crawling. What was the nature of people’s spiritual relationships with these animals? Why were they maintained for thousands of years in Southeastern Europe? What is the value of restoring our shamanic connections to the animal spirits?
In this workshop, through a reconstructed method that includes listening to specific percussion, participants will experience special positions of the body that were sacred to the oldest cultures in Europe.
Performing these poses in the appropriate manner neurologically ‘shapes’ predictable physical and visionary content, heightens awareness and floods the brain with ecstatic sensations.
Greeks and other Europeans longing to connect with their culture’s shamanic roots are finding that experiencing these poses allows the body to explore the perceptual rather than the symbolic aspects of Neolithic sacred art.
Visions receive guidance about their individual situation and how reactivating the shamanic nature of humans’ relationships with animals and animal spirits can heal our culture’s current spiritual crisis.