The bear is up, he woke up March 21 in the ancient circle dance to bring spirit to matter. I am very happy my bear is awake, my medicine is awake, I am awake and starting a new life. Gasp. So beautiful. I was a powerful dance, powerful healing and a conscious intentional bringing in of spirit  to heal. 

Who is the Bear Dancer?  He is a shamanic healer who is uses ancient spiritual and visionary tools.  Mircea Eliade, the history of religions scholar emeritus from The University of Chicago, defined shamanism as the technique of ecstasy.  Eliade defines shamanism as going into a trance to heal. Trance now would be called guided imagery , the bear dancer embodies bear, brings in bear spirit and is in a space of guided imagery trance dream and magic.

The healing of this kind takes place in sacred space. Sacred space is visionary space, it is non-ordinary reality, space that is full of meaning and pregnant with power.  The shaman uses basic tools of mindfulness, being fully present, intention, costume, dance, music and prayer trance and magic.

Art and creativity as shamanism is a basic concept of the medicine of the future. The first healer and the first artist were one person, the shaman. The first art was transformative, the cave painter made art to bring animals to them in the hunt. The bear dance teaches us the most basic spiritual tools to heal.

I invite you to wake up your medicine now, become the healing artist you are with mindfulness, presence , intention, art, prayer, trance and magic. Yes.