ARISE Music Festival

BANG YOUR HEART OPEN and experience the timelessness of the great mystery with HOLLY, your guide to The Shaman’s Territory.
“Scream, I want to scream Breathe, Breath isn’t coming
. Feet, Feet want to Run
. Movement, Movement isn’t coming. Cry. I want to cry. Tears, Tears are not falling.
 Wait, something else is happening.” The Joyful Warrior Journals, 2005
Ten-years ago, HOLLY had a dream. A Native-American spirit called, “The Chief” came to her in an afternoon nap. He offered her a life-review through the smoke of a campfire and told her to “stop playing the fool.” She saw how she had been “shape-shifting” to match other people’s idea of who she should be. In the dream, she was invited to meet the presence of her – behind the personality. Joy and a state of natural bliss washed over her that has stayed with her ever since. In the dream, The Chief, also handed HOLLY a magical pipe asked her to “inhale.” As she drew the mystery into her heart, she felt a painful “pop” and then sat bolt-upright in bed gasping for air. When she came to her “senses” she realized inhaling the pipe had changed her physical make-up – so that she could no longer “see” the world from just her five-senses and her mental processes –rather she was magically re-wired so that she could “taste” the soul within all of life. She could truly “see” from her heart. Since that time, HOLLY has been able to feel where soul is, and where – it isn’t. Her primary work as a shaman is as a soul-catcher, or retriever of lost-souls. She also teaches others how to perceive more of reality and journey into the Shaman’s Territory.
In this workshop, participants will enjoy HOLLY’s Shaman Spells, or soul songs, to set the space in a sacred way. She will then share some of her stories from the Shaman’s Territory and guide participants through a series of interactive exercises to open up their “heart-sight.” As the culminating highlight, all will be invited to lay down, close their eyes and take the deep dive into the entrainment of the shamanic state of consciousness with HOLLY’s live drumming.

Power is not found by forcing ourselves, but rather by finding our Self. If you want to improve the state of your being, and the state of the world, you’ve got to go on a Journey. A pilgrimage to the center of your soul, where awaits your total empowerment and joyful enlightenment. HOLLY is a spirit-initiated shaman and founder of The Joyful Warrior Shaman School in Northern California. With haunting medicine chants and sweet invocations, HOLLY takes up her drum to open a portal to where spirit, lives. Through sacred story and spiritual allegory, she paints a picture of the Soul’s Journey in the Shaman’s Territory. HOLLY has presented at Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, Wanderlust and The California Spirit Festival. She is a Masterful Spirit Guide and Shamanic Spell-Caster who Holds Light and teaches how to Live with Spirit & Bring Love to Life.