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ZOOM CLASSES OPERATE THE SAME AS IN PERSON CLASSES. WE DO NOT RECORD CLASSES TO PROTECT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF OUR TEACHERS.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is not an in-person class. This class is being offered as a LIVE ONLINE-ONLY OFFERING. After you sign up, you will receive a link to register for the viewing session with your receipt. If you do not receive a receipt (please check your spam/junk box as well) send an email to learn@ritualcravt.com. Please register ahead of time to ensure that you make it to the online session on time! (Class times are in MDT time zone)

Registration will close one hour prior to class starting.

The is the 2nd class in A Series of Four that can be taken separately and does not require that any previous class has been taken to attend. Based on indigenous teachings as I know them this class will be about the 4 stages of life from time we are born until we become an elder in community.
Each stage is purposeful not just through the lessons we learn in each cycle but also the lessons we teach those we are surrounded by as we live through them. Nowadays many have been conditioned to believe that a child’s role is only to learn but indigenous practices show you that they are also here to teach. The influences of each stage is profound when embraced as practice. We not only lived those years but we have more to come as a teacher and student. This class will be a discussion on the less talked about from the reflection we see in a childs eyes to the laughter from elder who makes a mistake. How do celebrate these achievements & milestones, when do celebrate and why should we?

Dr. Samuel Nez is Diné (of the Navajo Nation) and Mexica, born and raised near Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation and incorporates the healing traditions from both sides of his family. Over the years, Samuel has traveled and studied with traditional healers, curanderos/curanderas, shamans and medicine men and women in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. He developed a relationship with the sacred fire at a young age and has been a firekeeper for the temezcal and inipi sweat lodges for many years.

As a board-certified Doctor of Natural Medicine and a practitioner of Curanderismo he utilizes a variety of therapies and modalities in his private practice. Samuel is also a Registered Psychotherapist with the State of Colorado and a certified NADA Acu-Detox Specialist. He is a student of La Maestra Clarissa Pinkola Estés and has attended many years of her trainings via the Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies Institute. Samuel is also a participant of the International Collaboration of Indigenous Healers Curanderos, Sanadores and Shamans which originated in the Sacred Mountains of Tepoztlan Valley in Mexico.

You can follow Samuel on Instagram @samzen812