all units - except for Ceremonial Week - will be at Agriturismo Le Torracce, Assisi (Italy)

all teachings are given both in english and italian with simultaneous translation.

Joining the program is possible until November unit included

Program

Red Lodge Longhouse is a yearlong commitment to personal excellence and to the impeccability of a Warrior. This program is for any seeker wishing to develop a strong connection to Spirit and the ability to live in harmony with other humans and with nature. Through alchemy, sacred laws, tools and warrior disciplines you can acquire freedom and illumination on a path with heart.

In First Year you learn new ways of looking at the world and at your connection to it. You learn a new language, a new way of thinking: circular instead of linear. You are introduced to the brilliant paradigm of the Sweet Medicine Wheels : each direction on a wheel has got specific elemental qualities and the wheels can be overlaid, thus creating holograms that allow you to deepen your understanding. The right side of our brain naturally works in a circular fashion thus it's easier to understand and remember any thing if placed on a wheel.

• You will receive teachings and you will do ceremonies to regain or strengthen your connection to the Elements and the Worlds of Grandmother Earth (the Plants, the Minerals, the Animals, the Human beings and the Spirit world).
• You will make your own Protective Bundle.
• You will learn the mathematical nature of the Universe through the Twenty Count.
• You will find out where you began your existence on the wheel of life - the direction you chose to be born into, with the strengths and the challenges coming out of this choice.
• You will learn the Healing Songs.
• You will get to know your energetic field (your 10 eyes, 5 ears, 5 senses, 10 chakras and their enemies, your assemblage point and your shields).
• Studying the Earth Astrology you will find out the qualities of your Totem Animals that you'll meet during the Journey into the Lower World ceremony.
• You will learn the Star Maiden Circle and how you can stalk your own behavioural patterns with the Infinity Movement.
• You will learn the Four Universal Laws, the Six Cosmic Laws and the 0-9 Energy Movement Law.
• You will get to know your own Core Personality and you will be introduced to Molding, Sculpting and Armoring along with the teachings on the Image Makers.
• You will know the sacredness of the Shamanic Purification Lodge, a powerful ceremony of purification and communication with Spirit.

The wheels and the teachings enhance the knowledge of your self, especially of your physical body. You will be personally trained and supervised to get to know how the molding, sculpting and armoring limit your potential as Sacred Human. The teachings of this year offer you the opportunity to make deep changes in your behaviour. The goal of Second Year is to provide teachings, techniques and ceremonies to break the mold, re-sculpt yourself and de-armor. Even if this can be a lifetime work, this year you have the chance of making a quantum leap in this process.

• You will find out what's your character structure and the reason of both your body shape and your physical-energetic field functioning.
• You will see how you resist to life, how you created your patterned reactions towards others and your daily events, how you get trapped by the Tyrants, especially your own inner tyrant.
• You will learn the Principle of Non-Resistance and the way you can get rid of doubts, insecurity, guilt, blame and shame.
• You will explore your luminous energetic field and see how your senses could/should properly work if you break your old patterns. You will be taught specific techniques to break these patterns but you will do it, nobody else will do it for you.
• You will start using the basic medicine tools.
• You will learn about the different levels of Dreaming along with tools and techniques to start working on the controlled dreaming.
• You will be taught how to work with a “mesa” to actualize what you desire in your life.

If you wish to continue with such a strong, transformative program you will decide to apprentice to the Sweet Medicine SunDance Path. What does this mean? When you get passionate about knowledge your heart is deeply touched and you're hungry for more. At this point we say you found “your path with heart”. Apprenticeship is committing to your path, it's dedicating your life to your own spiritual development. The best teachers are life, nature and your higher self. When you become an apprentice you actually apprentice to spirit and to life, yet you'll choose a guide, a person who's able to accompany and assist you towards your excellence and potential development.

Red Lodge Third and Fourth year are intense in both learning and ceremonial experiences.
The process of self-knowledge of the two previous years trained you to start studying the Twisted Hairs Healing Paradigm. This is a highly sophisticated paradigm that allows you to get to the cause of any sickness and illness. You can apply this paradigm to any problem of your life by putting it onto a wheel, discern the cause and find the solution.
You will realize how important your heart's desires are and you will learn the process of giving priorities to your “Soul's Hungers”. Doing what we think we must do instead of what feeds us bring unbalance and illness in our life. Feeding our “hungers” keep us in balance and gives us the energy needed to fulfill the tasks at hand. A full unit will be dedicated to the Addictions' Paradigm.
You will be given tools for living your life in “Dharma” - a life of strong spiritual determination where you are no longer at the effect of old patterns but open to new opportunities and evolution into your higher potential.
You will get the teachings about the Shamanic Purification Lodge and you will start the training as Fire Chief.
You will learn how to become a Leader of your own life, how to be a Rainbow Warrior at service for Life and Others.

The Ceremonial Days are spent in Nature, they are part of Red Lodge Longhouse program and they are open to all Sweet Medicine SunDance Path apprentices. While the teachings awaken the latent knowledge within us and open us up to new points of view about ourselves and life, the Ceremonies are a powerful part of our integration and our transformative process. Ceremonies take us into a different dimension, into a heightened state of consciousness. The teachings that we get while doing Ceremony is always applicable to our daily life to improve its quality.
These days are also open to anyone who's new to this kind of experience and who doesn't take part in the Red Lodge program.. With the special group called Neo we allow everybody to do different ceremonies, both individual and collective: the Medicine Wheel, the Mesa, Ancestors Speaking, Talking to Grandmother Earth Worlds and the Shamanic Purification Lodge.
During these days everyone will experiment how doing Ceremony is an act of power which increases their energy, rebalances their Five Aspects (emotions, physical body, mind, spirit and life force energy) and takes them into harmony and balance with themselves, life and others.