Rattling the Bones

I’ve been an Indigenous Traditional Dreamer for over 20 years.  I was lead to this path by a friend who “diagnosed” me (so to speak) as an Indigenous Dreamer.   I’ve always been fascinated with dreams and I’ve always dreamt a lot.  On a good night, I can dream 3 to 8 dreams and remember them all.  Yet, it wasn’t the amount of dreams I recorded or how many I remembered; which caught my friend’s attention; but more so the way I interpreted the dreams and used them to understand and tackle every detail of my waking life.  Basically, an Indigenous Dreamer is a practical dreamer:  Someone who believes that dreaming is not only natural, but a valuable tool to mundane living, personal growth (healing and learning) and a connection to the World around us.  The word traditional comes in when a Dreamer follows a discipline or has been initiated by a lineage of Dreamers. Tradition implies a set of attitudes, behaviours, and values, w...

Every year we host a workshop on our home territory, in Quebec.  We spend the rest of the year traveling across Canada, the U.S and / or Europe.   The Great Gathering idea started fifteen years ago around a Blue Moon.  We had several people traveling from across the World to visit with us and we thought: “Why not make this a yearly event.”  Since 1996, we’ve been on the web hosting a Shamanic community site.  We managed to meet quite a few people through internet.  Yet since being shamanic most definitely implies close contact and natural connections we couldn’t “survive” (so to speak) individually and communally without meeting face to face.  You could say that before 1998 – I worked mostly in Montreal, Quebec building circles in my back yard.  With technology the concept of “back yards” fell off the grid.  Suddenly the whole planet opened up to “me” and I could share with literally the four corners of the Wor...