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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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