The above video was recorded live on Facebook addressing the teachings of the Artist Shaman Healer Sage Shamanism Programs with Q&A, particularly focused to the 1-year program beginning at Grayslake, Il. 2024. However all the content about the teachings is relevant to the 6-month Artist Shaman Healer Sage Course in Fort Collins, Co. 2025. If you are considering this course please take time to listen to this video and be inspired to what is possible for what you truly desire to not only learn, but to how you can transform your life.
"Being with Katherine in ASHS was an essential container of deep support I cherished while navigating a major shift in my life. The knowledge and traditions Katherine shared often carried me through this period of time, giving me strength and tools to reprogram and reassemble as a new and more whole version of myself." - Bailey Johnson - 2024 Graduate
Artist Shaman Healer Sage is a foundational course is multi-cultural shamanism and its application to living your life in greater harmony. Learn about and practice spiritual wisdom, ritual, and ceremony to better navigate our current day, chaotic world. Through personal experience and practice you will have the opportunity to understand and experience direct revelation that brings true transformation. This course is all about living your life in power and unity. No matter where you are on the path, the teachings and experiences will support you and deepen your relationship to your own divinity, and the divine in all life.
Artist Shaman Healer Sage is for someone who is ready for change, for clearing away the things that block you from being you, and for awakening your true soul Self. This is for someone who wants to embrace his or her capacity to dream a life born of passion, joy and fulfillment... and THEN Embody it! Everyone leaves a different person with greater clarity of their gifts, wonderful practices that help them not only navigate this world, but to create it with more intentionality.
Whatever you put into this class you will get out of this class.
Each designated Saturday Meeting we will gather in a safe, ceremonial space for learning universal shamanic wisdom, practices, storytelling, drum journeying, soul remembering, and creating shamanic tools. We will also meet virtually on Zoom once monthly at an agreed upon evening time for teleconference and check-in, to maintain and ground our teachings into our every day life, to build community and to gain support. Your zoom calls are equally important as the Saturday sessions. Please plan on them too.
The content of the course will include foundational Shamanic teachings, the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel, and shamanic practices for living life empowered and awakened, AND making your own shamanic tools! You will receive everything you need to shape shift your life into greater harmony and empowerment for a joyful life.
Each meeting we will also make ceremonial, shamanic tools associated with the work of that month. This is an exciting and expansively empowering part of the class, awakening your creativity and much more.
EARLY BIRD TUITION: $1695 if paid in full by Dec. 15, 2024
Course Single Pay Tuition: $1800 (when paid in full before beginning of class)
Payment plan options:
Deposit of $500 to register with either 4 Payments of $350 per month or 5 payment plan of $400 down and 5 payments of $300 per month beginning April 1st, 2025. If you register after April 1st, 2025 you either owe full tuition or the deposit plus one of the payments in the plan.
(Katherine will contact you for a credit card number to keep on file once you have registered. Your payment will be processed on the first of each month. A payment plan agreement will be sent out for the payment plan. You agree that you are responsible to pay for class in full even if you drop it at any time. I always consider the circumstances and will work with you best as possible if there is a medical emergency or something significant that causes you to drop the course in an untimely manner.)
Tuition includes course materials, teachings, and all materials to make your shamanic tools. Recommendations for additional supplies may be given, but are not mandatory in most cases. You will also receive a copy of Katherine Skaggs' award-winning book Artist Shaman Healer Sage: Timeless Wisdom, Practices, Ritual, and Ceremony to Transform Your Life and Awaken Your Soul at the beginning of the first class in addition to a bottle of aqua de florida. A list of other supplies will be given as you learn to work with other tools, such as flower water, smudge, etc.
There will be a once a month evening zoom call for an hour an a half for journey work, integration, questions, and tribe connections. These dates will be set at the first class gathering.
New Beginnings, The Void, Child, Sunrise, Spring
Your First Class in Artist Shaman Healer Sage will introduce you to working with:
Expansion, Growth, Heart, Tribe, Support, Adolescence, Mid-day, Summer
Your Second Class will introduce you to working with:
Harvest, Completion, Death, Middle Age, Sunset, Autumn
Your Third Class will introduce you to working with:
Rest, Regeneration, Wisdom, Power, Old Age, Nighttime, Winter
Your Fourth Class will introduce you to working with:
The Power of Above and Below
Your Fifth Class will introduce you to working with:
Ceremonial Art – SHAMANIC FEATHERS
The Power of Great Spirit, Our Final Meeting
Ceremony, Graduation and Celebration. It is time for our harvest, our completion, graduation and honoring of the hard work and play we have put in learning together, creating tribe together, and preparing to move to the next level of experience in our lives. Plan on an all day affair, to recap your learning and use of your tools, to give gratitude, and to celebrate.
The morning will be set aside to honor our tools and what they have taught us so far, as well as how else we may take them into our personal practices, and any offerings we may choose to offer others.
Graduation DespachoIn the afternoon we will work with the Andean Medicine Ritual of a Despacho. This ceremonial ritual will be dedicated to the blessings for each student and the clan of your 2024 Artist Shaman Healer Sage as you go into the world. It will be a time for each student to offer blessings to each tribe mate in the ceremony, and to make an offering to Pachamama for the blessings to bring harmony to our clan and to all of our kin on earth.
Let's celebrate! You will bring some food to share with your tribe at lunch as you celebrate your transformation and honor one another.
Includes course materials and teachings, as well as all materials to make your shamanic tools (crystals and stones, rattle making materials, medicine bag leather and materials, beads, feathers, wood for clicking sticks, and so much more. Also includes a copy of Katherine Skaggs' book Artist Shaman Healer Sage: Timeless Wisdom, Practices, Ritual, and Ceremony to Transform Your Life and Awaken Your Soul. If you already own this book, you will have in in-store credit of $25 for other purchases when you arrive at class.
The application process is really very simple for you to enroll and learn profound teachings in shamanism. I am accepting students who are interested in the subject matter and course work. Monthly attendance for both the Saturday class and the zoom call is required, along with your desire to learn, your openness and willingness to adopt and try new practices monthly, and your agreement to put your best effort forth qualifies you to join the course. What you put into this class is what you get out of it. How you show up affects everything and everyone. You, the student, ARE the class! Everyone’s attendance brings great richness to the journey of all in the class.
***Saturday attendance and zoom attendance are required for acceptance into this course.
There is nothing terribly rigorous about this shamanic course. However, you do need to be able to walk at least a mile on the flat lands in Colorado. It is also best if you are able to do short hikes in the foothills near Katherine's home. There will be a few short morning outings to be in nature, to gather her wisdom, energy, and often times found items. First class (weather permitting) there is a morning outing for some of the teachings and experiences. Other classes will have similar teaching opportunities outside when possible. Some may be in Katherine's backyard, some in the foothills.
Classes are held at Katherine Skaggs' studio in foothills in Fort Collins, Colorado. We meet each month on the day indicated on this event page. Doors open at 8:30am. You are encouraged to come between 8:30 and 8:45am so we can begin promptly at 9am each month. We are complete by 6pm that same day.
****You are expected to join the class for the full day every month, as well as to attend all zoom meetings.
An essential part of the energy exchange is your payment for the class.
EARLY BIRD TUITION: $1695 if paid in full by Dec. 15, 2024
Course Single Pay Tuition: $1800 (when paid in full before beginning of class)
If you register after April 1st, 2025 you either owe full tuition or the deposit plus one of the payments in the plan.
(Katherine will contact you for a credit card number to keep on file once you have registered. Your payment will be processed on the first of each month. Paying by Venmo is an option and appreciated and can be done at class each month. A payment plan agreement will be sent out for the payment plan. You agree that you are responsible to pay for class in full even if you drop it at any time. I always consider the circumstances and will work with you best as possible if there is a medical emergency or something significant that causes you to drop the course in an untimely manner.)
Teacher Katherine Skaggs
Katherine Skaggs is a shamanic practitioner, spiritual teacher, ceremonialist, visionary artist, and award-winning Author of her multi-award winning book Artist Shaman Healer Sage: Timeless Wisdom, Practices, Ceremony, and Ritual to Transform Your LIfe and Awaken Your Soul.
Katherine has been immersed in metaphysical for more than 37 years and on a multi-cultural shamanism pathway since 2007. She brings direct experience and wisdom from her journey, offering you tools and timeless wisdom teachings from the wise ones from around the globe. These teachings are meant for use iin any location or time period, city or country, urban or jungle. Though deeply spiritual and mystical, they are grounding and practical for personal transformation and empowerment.
