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Shamanic Vision Quest Retreat with Toltec Mitote

Jul 11, 2025 04:49AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Join Shamanic Teacher Janet StraightArrow for a powerful weekend retreat in the beautiful Catskills Mountains. This Shamanic Vision Quest Retreat offers a rare opportunity to step away from everyday life and experience deep healing, clarity, and renewal.

From 3 p.m., on July 18 to 2 p.m. on July 20, participants will engage in transformative ceremonies and practices rooted in Toltec and Native American traditions. The highlight is the Mitote Ceremony on Saturday night, featuring chanting of the Gayatri Mantra and lucid dreaming from the Don Miguel Ruiz lineage. This sacred practice clears energetic blocks, raises vibration, and brings insight.

The weekend includes medicine wheel ceremonies, guided Shamanic journeys, quiet time for reflection in nature, bonfires under the stars, woodland walks, and outdoor soaking tub. On Sunday, the Vision Quest invites deep inner connection and guidance.

Janet has led Mitote Ceremonies since 2002 and Vision Quests since 1998, guiding with heart, clarity, and wisdom. The retreat is $800.

Location: Art Farm, 33 Fawn Lane, Accord, NY.  For details and to register call 973-647-2500 or visit BeTheMedicine.com. See ad, page 7.
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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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