The Teacher
WhiteEagle is a Keeper of the Origin Teachings of the Delicate Lodge, a body of teachings that moved through ancient cultures indigenous to the Americas. She has spent 13 years in apprenticeship incorporating, mastering, and now teaching this ancient body of Medicine knowledge with the founders of Ehama Institute, taking responsibility to assist in again creating cultures of harmony and respect for all of life.
In her lifetime, her journey has included building and fostering circles of people gathering around this wisdom in Europe, the United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and in the United States. Her work assists self- development, healing, and a connection to the Hoop of Life. This is accomplished through her fostering of community circles of training, personal ceremonies on the Earth with individuals, and healing ceremonies.
In addition, White Eagle has worked with organizations teaching about balanced decision making, the medicine way of leadership, visioning, and by assisting them to create work places of deeply dedicated people who feel valued. She takes people and organizations on experiential journeys to establish self-authority, self-respect, and honor for the self, one another and our Earth.
WhiteEagle helped to grow the Ehama Institute in California and lived there for over nine years. The last seven years she has been traveling our Earth carrying this ancient wisdom way. She founded DanceHammers as an affiliate of the Ehama Institute. She works with those individuals, community circles, and organizations that choose to claim their part in creating the change toward wholeness.
In her lifetime, her journey has included building and fostering circles of people gathering around this wisdom in Europe, the United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and in the United States. Her work assists self- development, healing, and a connection to the Hoop of Life. This is accomplished through her fostering of community circles of training, personal ceremonies on the Earth with individuals, and healing ceremonies.
In addition, White Eagle has worked with organizations teaching about balanced decision making, the medicine way of leadership, visioning, and by assisting them to create work places of deeply dedicated people who feel valued. She takes people and organizations on experiential journeys to establish self-authority, self-respect, and honor for the self, one another and our Earth.
WhiteEagle helped to grow the Ehama Institute in California and lived there for over nine years. The last seven years she has been traveling our Earth carrying this ancient wisdom way. She founded DanceHammers as an affiliate of the Ehama Institute. She works with those individuals, community circles, and organizations that choose to claim their part in creating the change toward wholeness.
The Guides
Rita Marinico
rmartinico@msn.com
rmartinico@msn.com
Rita has been training and living the Indigenous Earth Wisdom Teachings (Medicine Way) for about 16 years. She spent ten years practicing and facilitating Lakota Ceremonies before coming to the Delicate Lodge Teachings six years ago. Rita has brought the Earth Wisdom into the community through a variety of ways; through her work in the nonprofit sector, through open ceremonies available to the community and private ceremonies for individual by request. She is currently the director of the youth department in a local domestic violence family resource center. She is the lead in the implementation of large state grant and federal grants that provides prevention services to youth in Santa Cruz County. Rita brings a wide range of life expression through her playfulness, integrity, nurturing and incredible ability to articulate vast and complex concepts in the simplest of ways. Her sense of humor keeps everyone laughing and her love of the Medicine Teachings inspires us all.
Jody Snyder
jodyappleseed@hotmail.com
jodyappleseed@hotmail.com
Jody retired from her own design firm working with plants and flowers for over thirty years, to own and caretake 127 acres of redwood forest with her husband Noel, and continue to garden on a larger scale, and create sacred space for retreats, and live a life closer to nature. Their retreat space, Earth Matters is a blueprint for living off the grid, with it's own water, and orchards and gardens and a waste water system as well as five beautiful spring-fed ponds that water the plant life and nourish the wildlife that abounds.
The vision is to co-partner with the land, our Mother Earth, to help us restore our sacred relationship with nature.
Jody has studied with White Eagle continuously for seven years, taking the trainings called "Healing the Inner Healer", and "Council Guide training", and has recently completed "The Black Lodge", also training with RainbowHawk and WindEagle in New Mexico, who are White Eagle's teachers. Before that time, she did four vision quests with Tom Little Bear Nason and Charlie Storm Owl in Central California, with strong Esslen & Lakota medicine.
Jody considers herself a "nature mystic", as she listens deeply to her natural surroundings to inform her life and her vision for the land. She currently teaches Earth Art, and Visioning Collage work at her studio, and Garden Art & Sculpture at the Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, where she loves to get peoples hands in clay!
She is a trained Seed Planter with the World Discipline of Peace, and a trained facilitator with the Awaken The Dreamer program, sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance, of which she supports wholeheartedly. A natural born teacher, she joins her friends, Rita, Liz, and Ancient Star Child, as guides; they have been in many ceremonies together, and are committed to deepen their training together.
The vision is to co-partner with the land, our Mother Earth, to help us restore our sacred relationship with nature.
Jody has studied with White Eagle continuously for seven years, taking the trainings called "Healing the Inner Healer", and "Council Guide training", and has recently completed "The Black Lodge", also training with RainbowHawk and WindEagle in New Mexico, who are White Eagle's teachers. Before that time, she did four vision quests with Tom Little Bear Nason and Charlie Storm Owl in Central California, with strong Esslen & Lakota medicine.
Jody considers herself a "nature mystic", as she listens deeply to her natural surroundings to inform her life and her vision for the land. She currently teaches Earth Art, and Visioning Collage work at her studio, and Garden Art & Sculpture at the Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, where she loves to get peoples hands in clay!
She is a trained Seed Planter with the World Discipline of Peace, and a trained facilitator with the Awaken The Dreamer program, sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance, of which she supports wholeheartedly. A natural born teacher, she joins her friends, Rita, Liz, and Ancient Star Child, as guides; they have been in many ceremonies together, and are committed to deepen their training together.
Liz Oettinger
lizoet@gmail.com
lizoet@gmail.com