Directions
and Preparations for Saskatchewan Primal Fire
Hello
Primal Fire Attendees!
I am so excited that you will be joining us for the Primal
Fire Retreat Labour Day Weekend, Saturday, September 1 (or
Friday, August 31 if you take advantage of the early arrival
bonus option) through Monday, September 3! We have a powerful
and magnificent group signed up! Below is a list of things
that you can bring with you . . . and things to leave behind.
Please read this entire list carefully, you will be glad you
did. We do have some spots left, so if you know anyone else
interested in going, have them contact me ASAP. And we do
offer a referral fee of $50 for anyone who signs up as a result
of your referral. Or you can offer your friend that discount
or split it. The cost at this point is $400 per person for
camping facilities and $500 for indoor accommodations.
Please let us know that you received this message as soon
as you do, or I will have to call you to double check.
And please send me your cell phone number (if you have one),
so I can call you if you are late or missing for some reason.
patrick@magicofthesoul.com
Carpool:
• We will send another email when we get closer to the
event with everyone's email and location, so you can coordinate
carpooling if you desire.
Location/Directions:
• From Saskatoon, take Hwy. 5 East towards Humboldt.
• When arriving in Humboldt, turn north at the set of
lights (McDonald's is on the NE corner) onto Hwy. 20 North.
• Travel 22 Km or 13.5 miles until you see the sign
for a very small town called Fulda (right hand side of road)
• Take the very next left hand turn (on the left just
beyond the Fulda sign) onto a gravel road,
• Then turn right on the first driveway into Ravenheart
Farms.
Timing:
• The formal cermonies will begin Saturday 9/1 at noon,
but as an added bonus, you can arrive as early as 5 p.m. Friday
and enjoy just sitting around the bonfire and getting to know
the members of your primal weekend tribe.
• If you are enjoying the camping option, please arrive
early enough to be set up before noon Saturday or anytime
on Friday after 5 p.m.
• The closing ceremony will be at 2 p.m. Monday, 9/3.
If can't bring yourself to leave right away, as is often the
case for many who want to continue to bask in the bliss, you
can hang out a little longer.
• We strongly recommend that if you have a day job,
you take off the following day of work, or make it a very
easy-going one. Sometimes it can be challenging to go from
such a supportive and openhearted environment back into the
normal routine. You will, however, most likely be inspired
to fashion your everyday life to conform with the new-found
freedom and supportive nature you will find at the primal
fire.
What to expect:
• Expect a wonderfully enlightening experience of rediscovering
your inner most self, shared with a group that will bond into
a supportive community.
• Time to relax and reflect on all of the wonderful
realizations and adventures you will be experiencing.
• An opportunity to leave societal conditioning behind
and commune with nature and your inner most self. We aren't
coming to learn or transform into someone else, but to recognize
who we truly are and what we already know at the deepest part
of our hearts.
• Exercises and ceremonies to facilitate the above.
• Plenty of time doing organized exercises with our
esteemed equine guides.
• Leaving with a completely new understanding of who
you are and tools to make your highest intentions in the world
real--to live as your highest self.
What not to expect:
• Any theory or specific teaching about self, life,
philosophy, religion, politics, or any other subject. This
event is not about information or being in our heads, but
rediscovering our natural self at a visceral, primal level--reconnecting
with our bodies, Mother Earth and her healing and rejuvenating
energies. Of course ideas will come up as part of conversation
and subtly through the exercises and ceremonies, but there
is no one belief system presented other than the truth that
we all are powerful beyond our imaginations and can discover
and embrace that power through our mutual support of rediscovery.
How to prepare:
• Come as you are. Just be the beautiful (or even sometimes
not so beautiful) you with all of your strengths and weaknesses.
Bring any uncomfortable feelings, resistance, limiting beliefs
with you (or leave them behind if you choose). Whatever is
left, will be burned away.
What not to bring:
• You won't need to bring any firewood (unless you really
want to). We will have plenty.
• We suggest not bringing food that requires pots and
pans, since we will be cooking over an open fire for our main
meals.
• Please be prepared to leave your cell phones off.
Let your loved ones know you will be out of contact for the
weekend. Our species survived for over 200,000 years (including
Neanderthal) without cell phones, until the last 10 or 15
years for most of us, so we ought to be able to set them down
for a little more than 48 hours. Please let me know if there
is some reason that you must be in contact with anyone during
the weekend.
• Please leave anything having to do with your work
at home also.
• You won't need books or other reading material, as
much of your time will be spent in activities (unless you
choose not to participate in them, because you have total
freedom during this retreat). There will be some down time,
but it will be best used for reflection and communing with
nature, and again, the idea is to spend as little time in
our heads as possible, so for this workshop (or anti-workshop
as I like to call it) reading will not be an asset.
• Please no radios or CD players. Let's enjoy the music
of nature.
General elements to bring:
• An open and receptive heart.
• Warm clothing for cool weather.
• Cool clothing for warm weather.
• Flashlights.
• Eating utensils and plates and/or bowls.
• Foil for cooking certain foods over the fire (see
below).
• Skewers or metal clothes hangers for cooking certain
foods over the fire (see below).
• Toiletries.
• Bug and mosquito repellent.
• Sunblock
• A hat may be helpful as well.
• An umbrella, just in case.
• A folding chair--very important, you will need this.
• First aid materials--bandages, disinfectant, surgery
scalpel (just kidding).
• Musical instruments of any kind. Drums are great!
You will have the opportunity to participate in drumming.
No performance pressure, just find your own rhythm or just
listen in.
Food to bring:
• Snack food like trail mix, jerky, nuts, seeds, chips,
fruit, and raw veggies.
• Easily prepared food for breakfast and lunch like
serial, hard boiled eggs, and sandwich stuff. We probably
won't be lighting a fire to cook for breakfast or lunch.
• For dinners, food that can be easily cooked over an
open fire including:
• Hot dogs (or tofu if you are vegetarian) are the easiest
(bring coat hangers or long skewers).
• Potatoes are great for wrapping in many layers of
foil and throwing in the fire (bring lots of foil).
• Corn on the cob is also an easy food to cook. If you
buy it with the husks on, they can be put in the fire without
foil, and the moisture from the husks actually makes for the
best tasting corn ever. You can add a few layers of foil so
that it will be less likely to burn. If you don't you will
have to be very mindful about turning them and taking them
out at just the right time.
• Other vegetables can be wrapped in foil also and thrown
in the fire--onions, mushrooms, egg plant, zucchini, carrots,
etc.
• A great campout favorite is to bring ground beef or
turkey, cut up the desired vegetables listed above, wrap them
together in foil. The juices from the meat blend beautifully
with the vegetables and create a wonderful dish called "knights
in shinning armor."
• Jiffy pop makes a nice snack that can be cooked over
the fire.
• Marshmallows, chocolate, and gram crackers for smores
(not part of the primal fire theme, but a must for camping
of all occasions and definitely helpful in grounding the body).
Equipment applicable to indoor facilities:
• There will be some limited refrigeration space for
those staying indoors for perishables, i.e. meat and dairy.
If you have other things like drinks you want to keep cold,
please bring a small ice chest.
• Flash lights will be helpful even if you aren't camping
just for getting from the fire pit to the house.
Equipment applicable to camping facilities:
• Tent (we will have extra room and extra tents, so
let me know if you don't have one). If you are bringing a
tent, please let me know if you are willing to share and how
many you can accommodate. It is perfectly okay to get real
primal and sleep under the stars, but it may be a bit cool,
so if you choose this option, you better make sure you have
a real warm sleeping bag.
• Ice chest, if you will be bringing perishables.
• Warm sleeping bag or lots of warm blankets.
• An air mattress is worth the investment if you don't
have one. It makes sleeping very comfortable. You can also
get foam cushions that aren't as comfortable, but they are
much less expensive.
• Flash lights.
• Knife.
• A portable shower. We are expecting to have a large
enough group that it may be unlikely to be able to supply
shower facilities to everyone--just timing wise. So you could
bring a portable shower, which is much more primal anyway.
If it is a must for you, however, we may be able to work out
a shower schedule for campers if there is a threat of mutiny
of some sort. ( - :
• You can bring a propane stove if you would like to.
I think you will find it easier to cook right over the fire
if you choose the right food as listed above. Stoves are nice
for coffee in the morning. But you can also use the indoor
facilities for that.
Sweat lodge elements to bring:
• Our sweat lodge facilitator, Dancing Eagle has specific
clothing requests for the sweat lodge that are consistent
with his Cree tradition. Clothing for the sweat lodge is best
if it is loose fitting cotton. Men can wear shorts, swimming
trunks, t-shirts etc. Women can where robes or gowns, or t-shirt
and skirt/shorts, etc. The appearance of skin should not be
emphasized.
• A nice large towel.
• We will be providing the following gifts to the "Creator
and His/Her helpers" including Dancing Eagle as an offering
for the sweat lodge ceremony. If you wish to offer gifts in
relation to your specific prayers, you may also bring these
items, or simply tobacco in cloth for each specific prayer
will suffice. You will learn more about this custom before
the ceremony. I recommend going with the tobacco and keeping
it simple, but the list is below if you want to go all out.
Tobacco: pouch, pack of cigarettes, or twist tobacco.
Food: Some type of meat (soup, stew, or beef/bison jerky that
you can buy at almost anywhere); some type of Berries (canned,
frozen, etc.); some type of bread (oven or fried Bannock,
fry bread, buns, or even donuts); some type of liquid (tea,
iced tea, juice, bottled water, etc.); Some type of small
candy. Jelly beans are quite common.
Legal stuff:
• Everyone will be asked to sign a damage, loss, and
injury waiver relinquishing Living Purpose Institute, Patrick
J. Harbula, Carol Marriotte, and Dancing Eagle from liability
to the extent allowed by law.
Fun stuff:
I can't wait to be sitting around the fire with you.
See you soon,
Patrick
Patrick
Harbula
Living Purpose Institute
2593 Young Avenue
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
805-241-4832
patrick@magicofthesoul.com
www.livingpurposeinstitute.com
www.spiritualunitymovement.org
Toll
Free 866-204-2261
Living
Purpose Institute
2593
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Thousand
Oaks, CA 91360
patrick@magicofthesoul.com
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