The Way of the Bear

We begin in the Way of the Bear (Makwa), where we learn how to begin tracking our real issues, and how to separate and distinguish them from the symptoms to bring healing to the root issues. After tracking the issue, you learn how to heal it in three (3) places at once: it’s place in the physical body; it’s place in the aura or energy field; and it’s place in the appropriate Medicine Wheel or chakra. This is possible through receiving the Medicine Rite and learning “The Great Fire” - a form of healing only practiced by the Bernard Clan of Pikwàkanagàn. The Great Fire is a form of Algonquin
Healing that works in the aura, Medicine Wheels, mind, body, and spirit, all at the same time. It heals on a multi-level and multi-
dimensional manner with the ability to heal beyond the scope of other healing modalities in a very powerful and complete way.

In The Way of the Bear (Makwa), you learn how to bring about Spring in your life so that the Bear inside of you can awaken from her hibernation, and ensure that she does not wake up in the
Winter. We learn how to not hoard our emotions, and bring forth that which is within us for healing. We receive a Medicine Rite that connects us with a lineage of Algonquin Healers and Medicine People, so that you are never alone, and never work alone. You also receive a Medicine Rite that gives you protections in your life, and in your work as a Medicine Person; and you receive the Great Fire Medicine Rite that enable you to use, work with, and become The Great Fire, and you receive the Big Medicine Rite that enables you to grow your energetic body by receiving archetypes in various Medicine Wheels in your body.

You will learn:

·	How to begin to build your own Medicine Bundle;

·	How to create Sacred Space and hold it;

·	How to perform Shamanic Breathing to engage different levels of consciousness;

·	How to track an issue and differentiate it from a symptom;

·	To see as a Medicine Person by engaging in different perceptual states;

·	The Great Fire;

·	How to do a Fire Ceremony;

And more.

You will need a red, yellow, black, and white stone to begin, and a cloth to hold them and to act as your Medicine Bundle. It is customary and tradition to gift the person who is giving you the Medicine Rites.