SWEET MEDICINE SUNDANCE AUSTRALIA
Newsletter | January 2013
In this Issue
The Opening of the Gates to the Human
World by Janneke Koole
Red Lodge Australia
Balanced Choreography of Energy by
Mukee Okan
Chuluaqui Quodoushka 2013
BUSH MEDICINE – Medicine from the
heart and soul of Oz by Neil Roberts
Black Panther Warrior
The Metis Medicine Shop Australia!
Developing a Sense of Community by
Isaac Black Stallion Dreamer
Self Defense Course Details
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Red Lodge 2013/14
March 14–17, June 6–9, Aug 1–4,
Oct 31–Nov 3, Jan 9–12, 2014
Ceremonial Week
Aug 30-Sept 6
March 21-24
Chuluaqui Quodoushka 1
March 28-31
Chuluaqui Quodoushka 2
April 4-7
Chuluaqui Quodoushka 3
April 27-28
Self Defense
Welcome to January edition of the Sweet Medicine SunDance
newsletter. Many new, exciting things are coming into being with
our community in Australia. We welcome you all to come and be
part of it. There are many ways to walk your Path with a heart!
RED LODGE longhouse program is NOW ENROLLING. We
meet for five times during the year plus Ceremonial week. The
sessions start on Thursday evening with the Red Lodge Lineage
address and continue till Sunday evening. We are holding the
sessions in South Ballina, by the beach. Here, in a wonderful bush
setting the teachings are delivered by our impeccable teachers.
This year Mukee Okan will be teaching year 1, Razel Wolf will be
teaching year 2 and Kristin Viken and Janneke Koole will be
sharing the teaching of year 3. RED LODGE is the strong ‘tree
trunk’ of the lineage and teachings from which all else comes.
From year 1 you gain amazing knowledge for direct application to
your life, your evolutionary progress and indeed the mantles of
responsibility you hold. It is also where the heart of our
community lives. Dates for this year are March 14-17 Jun 6-9 Aug
1-4, Aug 30-Sept 6 Ceremonial Week Oct 31-Nov 3, 2013 Jan 912, 2014. For more information on Red Lodge and enrolments
please contact Jenny at [email protected]
Our website has just been created anew. Please visit it at
www.sweetmedicine.com.au .It has been delightful working with
Karin, an Apprentice in Hamburg, to bring it to life. We will be
uploading new film clips and new information regularly. Bronwyn
in Brisbane and Karen in Calgary have created this newsletter, part
of our ever-growing community matrix. Thank you team! We
welcome your comments and input to the both the website and the
newsletter! Please email [email protected]
With this our fourth edition we are seeing the power of the 0-9
law: The fourth Sacred Law and the fourth step. We have come
from Focus, Substance, Form to Determination. It sits in the west
and shows how to stop resisting changes, commit to increasing
excellence in everything that we do, cross training and pushing the
edge. This is exactly what has been involved in bringing the
newsletter and website to you!
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In this newsletter you will also see dates for the CHULUAQUI QUODOUSHKA program happening here in
the Byron Region, NSW in March. Qs 1–3 are offered with Batty Thunder Bear, Kristin Viken and Mukee
Okan. These teachings are profound and can deeply change your attitude and approach to your own sexuality
and bring more life into all your dealings with others and bring harmony and male/female balance into your
life. For more information contact Mukee Okan at [email protected]
As this newsletter is now linked to our databases you are able to send through changes to your contact
details, unsubscribe or contact us with ease!
Thank you for being part of the Rainbow Light Warriors. May we walk our Paths together with truth, with
tools that work and glad hearts for all that is possible!
In beauty,
Jenny Soaring Gazelle
The Opening of the Gates to the Human World
by Janneke Koole for December 21, 2012
“Wonderful”, you say, “I see lots of excitement and anticipation but don’t have a clue what this really
means. What does this have to do with me and what’s in it for me?”
Some say this is the day that the world will end; some say nothing will
happen. No one really knows what is happening nor what it exactly all means.
But what we do know is that we are here and this is what is happening NOW.
We are gathered together to share with one another and to pray together so
that we can learn how to care, heal, and love one another in a more powerful
way than ever before. We are here to carry an ancient lineage forward into
our metis world.
Today represents the
ending of one of the LONG COUNTS in the Mayan
Calendar – and the beginning of a new LONG
COUNT.
Today the natural cycling of the seasonal movements
of the sun and earth lines up to give us the “shortest
day” in the northern hemisphere and the “longest day
of summer” in the southern hemisphere. This occurred
in the early hours of this morning, December 21st at 11:12 UTC or 04:12 here in Phoenix. Some say that
there is a galactic alignment that occurs only every 26,000 years – now that is something to imagine!
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The Opening of the Gates to the Human World Continued
Today we are standing at what our Elders call the
Opening of the Gates to the Human World.
The Twisted Hairs have spoken about this for many,
many years inside their Rainbow Bridge Prophecies.
These prophecies tracked the major turning points in
human history, choice points in how we as two-legged
chose to interact with Nature, the Worlds of
Grandmother Earth, and each other. The prophecies tell
the story through the eight horses, eight ways in which
the belief systems of the people influence the unfolding
of our events and the development of civilizations. We
live on a planet of duality – dark and light have been
with us since always. At some times, the light was strong and the human race/civilizations made great leaps
in science, art and the explorations of human potential. At some times, the dark was strong so that humans
surrendered their will and lost their way. Whole civilizations were destroyed during those times.
The Seneca People speak of Seven Worlds (see Twylah Nitsch and Jamie Sams’ book, “Other Council Fires
were Here before Ours”). Each world was unique in its nature, full of the gifts from the Creator that allowed
the people to flourish. And time and time again, the people would sacrifice these gifts, sever their connection
to Spirit and Life, and the World would be destroyed. Again and again, another world emerged until today.
Today we stand at the opening to the Fifth World. These prophesies say that this is the first time in human
history on this planet that the people have the choice and the ability to make the shift into this new world
without destruction. But will we?
We can look outward and see that the dark is very, very strong at this time. Anyone who might have been
seduced by the “new age feel good all is good” mentality could have been rudely awakened to the stark
reality of evil the other morning when 20 children were senselessly murdered while at school. The raging
wars, the sleazy politics, the drug-driven gangs, the dissolution of nations, the control of our media, and the
breaking apart of the family units – all these and more are clear signs of the dark forces mobilized with a
relentless focus to destroy our civilization.
Thank goodness, we can also see the work of the light. And we need to uncover and display these stories
much more blatantly. The exquisite photography that allows us to see the incredible beauty of Nature, the
passionate giving of those who bring relief to the sick, the ingenuity of young minds creating alternative
generators of energy, the courage of those who take a stand and speak out on behalf of the Children’s Fire –
no matter the consequences, the mothers and fathers who exercise their duty and parent with dignity and
inspire true values, and those who dedicate themselves to their potential and evolutionary maturation.
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The Opening of the Gates to the Human World Continued
We can look within and find these same polarities.
The Gate to the Human World is not only happening in the galactic shifting of time, space and dimension.
The Gate to the Human World is opening within ourselves.
It is our choices; our daily choices that will either put another obstacle in front of that door or it will
push/pull the door open. Either we step forward and inspire others to do the same or we step backwards and
block the very path for those who walk with us or after us. There is no standing still!
Thunder Strikes has given us vivid descriptions of the race between the dark and the light; between good and
evil. I have included some of what he addressed as ELDER WISDOM in the latest Deer Tracks. I will also
weave in some of the older teachings that relate each of the eight directions to one of the Eight Horses of the
Rainbow Bridge Prophesies.
To understand the fundamental challenge, we must first understand the juxtaposition between the Black or
Dark Horse and the Gold or Light Horse. These energies are within each of the other six directions. We are
at choice – and these choices are ever-present and very, very critical at this time. Remember, our daily
choices either blocks or opens the Gates to the Human World.
So in each of the eight directions we will look at our task – how to care, share, teach, heal, and/or love - how
to feed and nourish and empower the Gold Horse. These will be published in future newsletters.
Images for this article provided by author.
RAINBOW STAR GATE 2012
Photo by Tracey Diamond Deer
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Red Lodge Australia 2013 a Longhouse Program
Red Lodge is the core program of the Sweet Medicine Path. Its focus is to
assist students in their personal evolution, helping them find the balance they
need in order to negotiate these changing times.
- Learn ways to walk in the world that will empower you and those around you.
- Overcome past trauma and emotional pain.
- Discover your potential as a sacred human.
- Engage with nature in order to find balance.
Red Lodge is a Shamanic path. Shamanism is defined as the study of energy, how it is perceived and how it
is used. In the shamanic worldview everything is energy and when we understand and use energy correctly
we can be in balance. In balance with ourselves, those around us and the world we live in.
In Red Lodge we learn to think in a circular fashion, seeing all aspects in the form of a wheel. Every position
on the wheel has a specific elemental quality through which one learns to see the interconnection to every
other energy or position on the wheel. Your own transformation happens as you learn new ways of seeing
the world and your connection to it. The knowledge is presented in teachings, practical exercises ceremony
and personal reflection rather than beliefs and philosophies.
These teachings originate from the lineage of the Sweet Medicine SunDance Path. The Twisted Hairs Metis
Medicine Society Council of Elders preserves and shares this sacred knowledge. For thousands of years
Medicine Men & Women, Shamans and other seekers from various tribes of Turtle Island (North, South,
Central America, Australia and New Zealand) travelled beyond their tribal boundaries to gather wisdom and
knowledge. They knew that true knowledge was self-knowledge—felt, tested and integrated in a way that
always leads to changes in body, mind and spirit - life changes that work.
The new year is beginning in March for the 2013-14 sessions of RED LODGE
Includes 5 sessions, Thursday evening to Sunday evening, plus Ceremonial Week.
Early bird discount till February 8th 2013 - Register Now: http://goo.gl/EFCbD
Red Lodge Dates for 2013-2014 are:
March 14-17 Jun 6-9 Aug 1-4
Aug 30-Sept 6 Ceremonial Week
Oct 31-Nov 3, 2013 Jan 9-12, 2014
For more information and enrolment, contact Jenny
[email protected] 0403 338 763
(+612) 6684 8252
Skype jenny.cornish3
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Your Resource for a Lifetime: Balanced Choreography of Energy
by Mukee Okan
The beauty of all of the Sweet Medicine SunDance teachings is encapsulated in the magnetic attracting
thought (MAT) space of the Wheel of Balanced Choreography.
This MAT space is dedicated to and focused on empowering you to discover and liberate the beauty and
strength of your radiantly infinite inner light. How? Elemental balance catalyzed by your sexual soul force
energy. It is your resource of a lifetime – your sexual energy and this Wheel.
Your catalyst sexual energy comes factory installed by Great Spirit. Nobody is left out. It is brighter than a
thousand suns, when all thoughts and insecurities against your Natural Self are released.
To integrate your orgasm for healing first
beyond your relationship and sexual
preferences opens up your luminosity to the
grand design of all creation. To cultivate your
catalyst energy daily is the recipe to a fulfilled,
passionate life. This is the gift of the Wheel of
Balanced Choreography and the Quodoushka
teachings.
It is the key to an orgastic mind – ever open and
hungry to learn, grow, connect to Life.
Whenever we are swept away with the
experience of aloneness, disconnection, slow
thoughts, gossip, expectations, resentments,
even leading to sickness and disease – the
instrument of the mind is being used to separate
and decide how fixed reality is.
Sometimes we forget we are sacred humans and
think we are only receivers of energy instead. What does that look like? Energy loss through disconnected
thinking as we decide that it is the state of the external world blocking our aspirations. Just think about all
those reasons for not, and yes buts, because and so on as habitual patterns of speech.
This Wheel is the key to unlock the door to alignment with grace and ease. As soon as we are in the act of
blaming the external reality for lack of results, vision, inspiration, enthusiasm and actions to fulfill intended
outcomes, a –ha! The qualities of the east and north have been flipped within.
What a gift to open to the receptivity of orgastic mind and live life connected to our passion for contributing
the natural brilliance of our inner light to the world in the form of actualizing our inspired visions. All this
fueled by the flow of our orgasmic nature and capacity to be present in the physical.
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“Choreography balance is the goal of this wheel
We start in the south when we give what we feel
To hold and transform is the body’s design
Determine with spirit and receive with the mind”
Metis Medicine Shop
Australia!
For all your Ceremonial and Apprentice
needs
Pendleton Blankets
Deer Tribe Publications
Feathers, Fetishes and Fans
Smudge mixtures, mesa clothes
www.metismedicineshop.com.au
contact Leigh on 0457893773
email [email protected]
See us at workshops and Red Lodge
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Dear Q graduates, Who do you know the Q would make a difference for? It is a wonderful
healing introduction to the power of all the Sweet Medicine programmes and great community
in Australia. When we each share what has touched our lives deeply, then humanity is healed one being
at a time. Know that your presence as a magnetic attracting thought space in every Q always makes a
tremendous difference and uplifts the orende of the collective. Walk in Beauty, Mukee Breezes Love
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Bush Medicine – Medicine from the heart and soul of Oz,
Erasing Personal History
by Neil Roberts, Black Panther Warrior
Most of you that know me, and probably a lot that don't, know that I
am a psychopath. I mean, I make it fairly obvious to most people
that if you mess with me I am gonna f*** you over and the end
result is not going to be pretty. So this is the image I have portrayed
to keep me from getting hurt, in this armour I was safe and
protected. Unfortunately for me my armour was also choking the life
out of me and I decided to do something about it. Hence Q's,
Apprenticing, De-armouring, Sun Dance, Red Lodge.
But what would make a very sensitive and emotional little boy into a
fierce fuck you projecting angry man? Betrayal!
When I was around 6 years old, I had a problem. I, like the rest of my siblings wet the bed. My father, in his
wisdom, decided the best way to break me of this habit was to humiliate me. It didn't work, I still wet the
bed. Finally he told me, that if I wet the bed again I would have to wear a nappy to school. Can you imagine
how horrified I was? But of course I wet the bed and with my father's words ringing in my ears I cleaned
myself up, dressed myself and got ready for school. I think it was the first time I had ever fully dressed
myself without my mother’s input. As I walked down the hallway into the kitchen I was met by mother who
was straight onto me. She was in my face interrogating me as to why I had dressed myself and had I wet the
bed. I told her the truth; I knew she would protect me from my big mean father, right? WRONG! She took
his side I had to do something.
I armoured as a psychopath. In that moment I chose my Stance. I recapitulated this in my de-armouring
sessions and absolutely know this was the moment. My greatest wounding, it has coloured and flavoured
every aspect of my life until it almost took my life.
Fast-forward 37 years to warm November evening sometime during Red Lodge year 2. I was doing
homework, finishing the touches to my year-long project and polishing the story of my life to come. A crack
of insight happened. I got to see something very simple and very beautiful. In that moment of my so-called
greatest wounding I saw something else. It wasn't my greatest wounding at all. It was an act of POWER. A
supreme act of power. I totally manifested the reality I chose. There was no way I was going to wear a nappy
to school to face the ridicule and humiliation of my peers. No way. And I never did. It was never even
mentioned again. In that moment I knew my survival was at stake and I took the action most efficient in
achieving the outcome. I spun my mother with my cunning, charmed her with emotionality, playing the
heartstrings until I got what I desired. But a question remained. If I thought that this was my greatest
wounding and it was actually one of my greatest moments of power, what else in my life story could I trust
as being accurate? The answer was felt within me. Nothing.
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Bush Medicine Continued
I could not trust anything in my life story as being accurate. With that knowledge something deep inside of
me unwound. On some level I had just erased a fair chunk of my personal history. I feel it my body, I no
longer have the same reference point to my past.
So doing that yearlong project paid dividends for me. I thank the elders for their wisdom in maintaining the
gateway process. I thank my family for playing their part so wonderfully perfect. I thank myself for the balls
and the ticker to confront myself.
The Metis Medicine Shop Australia!
We are now very fortunate to have our very own Medicine Shop
down under! Jenny Cornish and myself have joined forces in this
endeavour. Our aim is to enable Apprentices and the Sweet
Medicine Community at large to access much of their medicine
requirements with ease and grace. We are absolutely thrilled with
the response thus far. Wow, what a sense of community and
bustling hub of activity the shop creates at both Red Lodge &
SM workshops inclusive! We say “Wado” to our enthusiastic
community who have supported us and helped make the shop
a reality.
What we would love is to hear from all of you wonderfully talented Apprentices who
have items you would like to contribute to the shop. From works of art, medicine items, natural
skin care products that you have lovingly developed, feathers that you have proudly stalked...
the list goes on. We are very much hoping to create a trading post of our own making! This is
a WONDERFUL opportunity to earn some extra income in a way that you are truly passionate
about. So get those creative juices flowing! We strongly encourage you to contact us with any
ideas you have. The website is slowly but surely coming to fruition. (Yippee!)We are also very
much seeking any recommendations or requests in regards to "stocking the shop". Do contact
us with your wish list, feedback, comments or suggestions. May we all walk in beauty together
on this wonderful path. Ho! You can contact me on [email protected]
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Developing a Sense of Community
by Isaac Black, Stallion Dreamer
There are several definitions of what “Community” is, “Common-unity” being one of the most popular that I
have heard. There are three main definitions of community in relation to mankind; the singular definition
when all of the individuals within a community are referred to collectively, the countable definition when
referring to those individuals who make up a community and the uncountable definition which is the feeling
of sharing things and belonging to a group or the sense of common-unity. In developing a sense of
community I might take time to consider what it is exactly that I am sharing a common-unity with and ask
the questions; Do I personally stand for what the community believes in as a whole? Am I expressing myself
within my life and therefore within the community (ies) as the autonomous, self-responsible individual I am?
What sense do I have about the contributions I naturally make to the various communities with which I
choose to be a part of?
One discovers whether or not they stand for what a community believes in as a whole by asking questions of
members, participating in activities, dipping their foot in the waters or like some, diving head first into the
deep end. How authentic individuals are within their own self-expression will naturally show them to what
extent they fit in with different communities. The level of authenticity directly affects what is reflected by
others in our interactions and also dictates how our natural expression will impact the space of others and the
communities we participate in. Thus the sense of community one develops through such inquiry is guided by
how much in common an individual has with the group ethos or consciousness, how authentic they are being
with themselves and others and whether or not a particular community supports that.
“In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks,
and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting
the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.” (Wiki)
Because of the objective nature of communities they must hold some
significant attraction to magnetize the subjective nature of the parts that
common
make up the whole. Therefore in developing a sense of common-unity,
co
one comes
to know to what extent they wish to engage with the
individuals within a given community, for one may be attracted to an
intent or ethos, but it is the individuals that live, breathe and enact the
how of that community that ultimately make up the mirror of selfreflection that others will choose to engage with.
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Red Lodge Australia 2012/13...Walking the Path with Heart
January 2013