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2009
CALENDAR
(updated November 2008)
BASIC COURSE How to Communicate with Animals
May 8-10, 2009 Stockbridge, MA Kripalu Center (866) 200-5203 reserve@kripalu.org; www.kripalu.org
August 15-16, 2009 St. Mary's Retreat Center, Mundelein IL (near Chicago) Infinity Foundation (847) 831-8828 www.infinityfoundation.org
September 18-20, 2009 Rhinebeck, NY Omega Institute (845) 266-4444; for registration or information (800) 944-1001; registration@eomega.org; www.eomega.org
The
Basic
Course "How to Communicate with Animals" CD set & booklet
is now available for at-home study! Visit the
Books
and Audio Recordings page.
Advanced I COURSE The Deepening
May 10-14, 2009 Stockbridge, MA Kripalu Center (866) 200-5203 reserve@kripalu.org; www.kripalu.org
August 17-19, 2009 at St. Mary's Retreat Center, Mundelein (near Chicago) IL Infinity Foundation (847) 831-8828 www.infinityfoundation.org
Advanced II Interspecies Counselor Course
October 30-November 3, 2009 Prescott, AZ penelope@animaltalk.net (928) 776-9709
DOLPHIN & WHALE ADVENTURES
Bahamas
Wild Dolphin Adventures - June 7-12, 2009
Dominican Republic Whale Journey March 7-14, 2009
OTHER EVENTS with Penelope and Friends (click here for more details)
Looking for animal loving house-sitter for various dates in 2009. You can renew and retreat in beautiful log cabin with fantastic animal family within Prescott National Forest - hundreds of miles of gorgeous national forest trails (forest, mountain, sky, creek, river views) just 5.5 miles from the town square. Will pay you a daily fee; you pay your travel expenses to get to Prescott. E-mail penelope@animaltalk.net.
2009
Jan 10-11 Opening Doors to New Realities retreat, Prescott, AZ
Mar 7-14 Dominican Republic Whale Adventure
May 8-14 Basic and Advanced I Courses, Kripalu Center, Stockbridge, MA
June (to be announced) Bahamas Wild Dolphin Adventures
Aug 15-19 Basic and Advanced I Courses, Infinity Foundation, Mundelein, IL
Sep 18-20 Basic Course, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
Oct 30-Nov 3 Advanced II Course, Prescott, AZ
photo of Penelope by Art Rosch; photo art by Carole Devereux
Commissioned by Spirit to help people to
turn their cages inside out, Penelope is a liberating force for
your true nature and your uniquely beautiful song to give to the world. For
over thirty years, Penelope has been founding pioneer for the field whose
name she originated, interspecies telepathic communication.
Author, Species Link magazine editor, and founder of ACCAW - The Animal
Communicators Coalition for Animal Welfare, Penelope holds the
spiritual center of the growing worldwide community of animal communicators. She has taught thousands of people worldwide, guiding the
unfolding of generations of professional animal communicators. Her courses and
publications have prompted millions to remember our innate interspecies
connection. Full of playfulness and wisdom, called “lovable lunatic” and
“animal mystic,” Penelope is riding the front of the giant wave of awakening
that is coursing through life on Earth.
Meeting
you has opened a bright window of lovable knowledge. Listening to you has
healed my heart. Learning from your humble and cheerful wisdom is a pleasure
and an invitation to continue.
Opening Doors to New Realities
retreat
High vibration all-dimensional transformation, adventures in shamanic realities, and all-species telepathic communication with Penelope Smith and spirit guides
Winter retreat to expand into the New Year January 10-11, 2009 at Buffalo Spirit Lodge, Prescott, Arizona
For those who wish to journey beyond accepted notions of physical reality through energetic pathways forged by our present and future evolutionary leaps into embodying the Greater Love. This retreat is a wide open continuum of the Communication with All Life Mastery Course traveling at the heart of your essence through portals of Divine recognition with soul travelers of all species to the New Reality unfolding in this age. Penelope will share guidance and channel energies from our cetacean evolutionary leaders, Elder Spirits, Planetary Guides, and all species on how to recognize and facilitate the energetic shift and navigate the new unified reality on Earth.
We may dance, chant, drum, sing, laugh, sigh, cry, and feel profound states together. Prepare for mighty energetic states and gateways, monumental spiritual transformations, phenomenal awareness, and lots of fun with Penelope at her mildest to wildest.
PREREQUISITES: Familiarity with intuitive and/or interspecies communication skills and shamanic journeying, dedication to your own spiritual growth, and openness to the unity of life. Eligibility can also be considered on an individual basis. E-mail penelope@animaltalk.net.
RECOMMENDED: Penelope’s written and audio/video publications. Bring drums, rattles, or other musical instruments, a blanket (we'll supply a blanket if you are traveling from afar and cannot pack one), and clothes suitable for indoors and outdoors.
At Buffalo Spirit Lodge, Penelope’s home in Prescott, Arizona, participants may attend one or more days of the retreat. Hours: 9 AM - 5 PM and may include an evening session; ending time of retreat each day may vary. Sliding scale donation: $80-$160 per day. One day payment deposit is required to reserve your space.
Mandala by Xander
COMMUNICATING
WITH ALL LIFE
Mastery Course
Understand the core principles and experience the essence of telepathic communion with all life. Recognize sources of guidance within yourself and in life forms all around you. The Mastery Course will help you hone your telepathic connection with laser beam precision.
Penelope combines her talents in interspecies and inter-dimensional communication, tuning the experience to facilitate quantum leaps in spiritual growth. Bring to light and release the blocks that inhibit true telepathic heart communion. Explore spiritual union with the kingdoms of Nature and the Earth. Harmonize primate nature and soul essence. Cultivate the core of your being. Dissolve feelings of separation through infusion with our place and oneness in the family of life.
We may enhance body and soul communion through telepathy, drumming, toning, singing, movement, dance, breath, and energy awareness, shamanic, inter-dimensional journeying, story telling, healing circles, meditative exercises, quiet time in Nature, and dream sharing. Drums, rattles or other musical instruments are welcome.
Those who attend earn Life Credits = ability to
feel and express the unity of life and Love Credits = ability to
tap into the source of life and live the love that you are.
Adventurous souls who yearn to dance
to the tune in their hearts are invited to join Penelope Smith, authentic wise
woman guide, in the forefront of what she calls, “The Underground Peace
Movement.” The Mastery Course is subtitled “God is on the Move!
PREREQUISITES: Familiarity with intuitive and/or interspecies communication skills and openness to the unity of life. The Mastery Course augments the other courses of the training program and is also valuable as a stand alone retreat.
RECOMMENDED: Penelope’s written and audio/video publications (beginning with Animal Talk), Penelope’s Basic Course CD set or animal communication courses.
Fee varies by length of class and location. See calendar. photo art by Carole Devereux
As I was driving home from the Mastery Course, and after I arrived I was in a state of consciousness of timelessness. I was so in the "now" that I gave up trying to think about past or future.
Thank you does not begin to express how I feel about the Mastery Course. I feel that my goals and intentions were accomplished and then some. I would recommend the class to anyone and would take it again.
How does one thank someone that has helped to break their heart open to love? I have attended satang with Gangaji and now to hear you speak the same truths, only with an even greater connection and appreciation to ALL THAT IS has filled my heart with love and appreciation. Whomever we meet, human or otherwise, is just an opportunity for further investigation of the self and another chance for opening to ALL THAT IS.
From the retreat, I learned to live in the big "O" letting g"O" and living and building on that kn"O"wing ability. When I got back to the vet clinic where I work after our retreat, not only had I let go, but I I felt that new place of being. People who had been challenging for me changed positively in their behavior toward me. The letting "go" and living in that "O" and that wonderful feeling of honoring all had an effect on everyone around me. It was not a temporary state. I began to live it. Thank you for being SUCH a huge impact on/in my life.
The INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION TRAINING
PROGRAM
The BASIC COURSE How to Communicate with Animals
Penelope & Buddha Boy photo by Starr Taovil
PART 1
Introduction to the essentials on how to get in touch with animals telepathically.
Discover your blocks to communicating with animals and the levels of communication
possible. Learn how to experience animals' perspectives, how you have already communicated
telepathically with animals, and how to expand on that. Enjoy exercises and meditations
that open your heart, increase
your awareness and understanding of animals and your receptivity to telepathic
communication. Deepen your communion with all of life. You do not need to bring an
animal companion to Part 1.
Penelope has such a wonderful way of supporting everyone on their path and focusing on hope and possibilities. I felt safe to share my frustrations and difficulties. I feel more positive and hopeful of my ability to develop the skill of communication with animals.
The Basic Course opens the door to the world of direct interspecies communication. Each additional course offers a giant leap in awareness, communication capacity, and kinship with all life. Prepare to face and release the blocks that inhibit your telepathic connection and understanding. Focus on your challenges, strengths, aspirations, and inspirations. Be enriched by Penelope's multi-dimensional communion with other species and wisdom gleaned from years of work and lifetimes of experience with all forms of life. Questions and difficulties will be individually addressed.
I was searching for an extraordinary experience that would open my eyes, awaken my soul, and refresh my spirit. A retrea
Communicating with a cow at a Basic Courset from everyday distractions, where I could reconnect with all creatures and nature, sounded wonderfully nourishing for this writer’s essence. I was able to attend Penelope Smith’s visionary workshop, accompanied by my best pal, lab mix Diamond Dreamer. I immediately became connected to a community of animal lovers—all of us striving to reestablish a link with creatures that had been severed after childhood. With Penelope’s guidance, I was delighted to attain an intensity of awareness and a heightened consciousness as I conversed with Diamond and other animals. This glimpse into animals as "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time," as Henry Beston so eloquently wrote, shall certainly inspire me as I write children’s books that weave webs of compassion for all creation.
photo by K.C. Remington
ADVANCED I The Deepening
For those who have practiced
telepathic communication with animals after the Basic Course and want more knowledge,
experience, direction, and inspiration to broaden and deepen their experience.
Relax, connect, bring to light and shed misconceptions that inhibit communion with our fellow beings. Learn from the master teachers on communication with animals: the animals themselves. Explore your spiritual communion with all the kingdoms of nature, the essence of communication with domestic and wild animals, plants, minerals, the elements, and the Earth. Savor the enchantment of the land, from forest to ocean. Intensify your awareness of the intelligence, beauty, and wisdom of all species. Travel into realms often unnoticed by humans. Ancestral ways of honoring spirit in all life, including drumming circles, chanting, dancing, and journeying for power animal guidance, amplify our root connection, communication, and kinship with the whole web of life.
PREREQUISITES: The Basic Course; Animal
Talk (book); continued practice of course skills
You may also be accepted for Penelope's Advanced I Course The Deepening if you have
completed a Basic Course with an animal communicator other than Penelope.
Write when, where, and with whom you did basic training; include a written statement on what you
gained and how you have applied your animal communication skills. Send to
penelope@animaltalk.net
RECOMMENDED: Animal Communication Mastery Series; When Animals
Speak; Species Link (Bring
photos of your animal family to the course.)
Fee: varies by location
The Advanced I
course really built my confidence and opened me up to a new level of faith and
spirituality. My last day in
ADVANCED II Interspecies Counselor Course
For beginning or experienced
animal communicators who wish to engage in a dramatically life-enhancing, soul-evolving
personal and professional experience. Penelope will guide you to shift deeply
into your soul essence to experience the heartfelt nature of this work and your own unique
part in it. The focus is on being truly present in your core self as a counselor.
Exercises and discussion will center on counseling skills,
problem solving, consultation guidelines and ethics. Other topics that are covered in the
course pack and highlighted during the course are: how to work with animals in-person and
long distance; how to tune into people for mutual understanding and successful
consultations; how to compassionately interpret and relay the communications you receive
for the benefit of all concerned; educating people and helping them to solve problems and
enhance their relationship with their animal companions; handling crises and difficult
situations: lost animals, illness, dying, and death, animals taking on human illness or
emotional problems, inter-animal conflict; the role of past lives in counseling animals;
basic healing skills; application of the Code of Ethics; how to set up and run a business
as an animal communicator; building clientele; working with veterinarians and other animal
professionals; resource information for further growth and networking.
PREREQUISITES: Animal
Talk, the Basic Course and Advanced I The Deepening; Animal
Communication Mastery Series; Animal Death: A Spiritual Journey; When Animals
Speak;
A written essay
describing: (1) your path in life, (2) your history with animals, (3) how you wish to use
what you learn from this course, and (4) three or more specific examples of how you have
already used the ability to telepathically send and receive communication with animals to
assist yourself, family, friends, or others. Include the communications that you have
received from animals, how you responded to them, and the tangible, practical results of
your communication experiences: changes in behavior and other improvements that are
evident to you and others.
(If you are not yet able to practically apply this skill, you may need to restudy books
and tapes on the subject or repeat the Basic and/or Advanced I Course)
(Advanced I may be waived for experienced professional communicators who send in 5
testimonials from people who state specifically how they have benefited from your
communication with their animal companions and a summary of your professional experience,
including newspaper or magazine articles about your work. Many experienced communicators
have attended and benefited personally and professionally from all of Penelope's courses.)
RECOMMENDED: All of Penelope's publications; (bring photos of your animal family to the course) Fee: $770 (includes course pack and vegetarian snacks) Course hours 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM daily.
I wanted to let you know how "changed" I felt, how transformed, after I attended your two courses. I found myself saying to friends that it was the best thing I'd ever done (and I've done a lot of workshops, therapies, seminars, courses, & healing modalities in the last twenty five years).
For other locations, please contact the sponsor listed on the calendar.
ADVANCED COURSES & RETREATS: The number of participants is limited, and events often fill far in advance. Pre-registration with a minimum deposit of 50% of the fee to reserve your space in each Advanced Course or Retreat. Full payment is due two months before the scheduled date. Due to the difficulty of people arranging schedules in time to fill in for those who cancel, deposits are not refundable but may be applied toward a future course with Penelope Smith, minus a $100 cancellation charge.
Advanced Course hours are
9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. Retreat hours vary. See the calendar. Bring
pen and notebook.
Mail U.S.$
checks or money orders to Penelope Smith, 1415 W Libby Loop Road, Prescott, AZ
86303 USA
or pay by credit card by clicking on the
On receiving payment, we will send (by e-mail or
postal mail) directions. Information on
accommodations is
listed below.
Advanced II Course in Prescott, Arizona
Opening Doors retreat (sliding scale donation $80-$160/day; one day payment is the deposit required to reserve your space)
INSTRUCTOR TRAINING PROGRAM Apprenticeships
ADVANCED III, IV, V Teaching the Basic and Advanced Courses
Apprentice to teach the Basic and Advanced Courses developed by Penelope Smith. This course can include first-hand observation of the Basic and Advanced Courses taught by Penelope. You receive the course materials, attend the course, and then review the materials and your questions with Penelope. As needed, we'll handle other areas of professional growth and practice. For more experience, you may assist at the courses led by Penelope.
PREREQUISITES for Advanced III, IV, V: each previous Advanced Course and review of professional experience.
Apprentice in-person or by phone (according to what is available) to teach the Basic Course, Advanced I and II and, for those who become very experienced in teaching these courses, how to teach others how to teach these courses developed by Penelope Smith.
For apprenticeships by phone, after reviewing the materials sent by e-mail attached file or by mail, we will go over all the materials and how to teach the course, covering how to handle what can come up with students, answering all your current questions and further questions as they arise by phone or by e-mail. If I am teaching the course in-person, you are also welcome to attend and observe at no extra fee.
Mail U.S.$
checks or money orders to Penelope Smith,
or pay by credit card by clicking on the PayPal buttons below.
On receiving payment, we will send the course
materials by e-mail or postal mail and arrange the apprenticeship schedule.
Advanced III Teaching the Basic Course Fee: $550 (includes course materials) PREREQUISITES: Advanced II Interspecies Counselor Course and review of professional experience and readiness
Advanced IV Teaching Advanced I - The Deepening Fee: $660 (includes course materials) PREREQUISITES: Advanced III and review of professional experience and readiness; must have successfully taught the Basic Course
Advanced V Teaching Advanced II - Interspecies Counselor Course Fee: $1100
(includes course materials) PREREQUISITES: Advanced IV and review of professional
training, experience, and readiness
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Advanced VI Teaching Advanced III - Teaching the Basic Course Fee: $770 includes updated course material and permission to copy these materials to give to Advanced III students PREREQUISITE: Review of professional training, experience, and readiness
Advanced VII Teaching Advanced IV - Teaching the Advanced I Course Fee: $880 includes updated course material and permission to copy these materials to give to Advanced IV students PREREQUISITE: Review of professional training, experience, and readiness
Advanced VIII Teaching Advanced V - Teaching the Advanced II Course Fee:
$1200 includes updated course material and permission to copy these materials to
give to Advanced V students PREREQUISITE: Review of professional training,
experience, and readiness
I'm about to teach my first animal communication workshop in my new house. While I was going through my notes and getting the sequence I'm going to do the exercises in I felt flooded with love and respect and gratitude to you for all you have given me, and the world.
I attended the Basic Course and experienced what I can only describe as the beginning of a powerful spiritual awakening and healing. As you talked about plants, animals, and minerals being of the same spirit I connected into that vision, and that's when the healing started.
photo art by Carole Devereux
In your Basic Course I gained a tremendous foundation of knowledge, of what interspecies telepathic communication is all about. I learned about how to expand my view of animals, their minds and emotions and spiritual awareness. The skills I gained have helped me start communicating with all species, both sending and receiving communication. It was very refreshing to realize how much this form of communication is basic to our well-being, on all levels.
Thank you for the profound experiences with you and the other beings, human and non-human. I have had a few teachers over the years that have made a profound difference to my life and you are one of these. All of my beliefs have been shaken up and turned upside down. It is now my task to decide which ones are worth keeping and which ones to shed. I have been dropping down into that soft, quiet space, and I hope to live there once the road is clearer. I truly appreciate having the privilege to learn from you.
In your Advanced I Course you asked the participants what they expected from the seminar. I remember very well what I said: "I see myself walking on a path that leads to the land of animals. I hope that the course will bring me further on this path - just a few steps. I do not expect too much." I could not foresee what would happen to me. I had asked for a piece of bread and I got a birthday cake!
On the first day of the Advanced II Course you asked again about our expectations, and this time I didn't answer. What could I tell you? It was so simple - I came to Point Reyes because I had to come. No expectations, no wishes but the absolute certainty that I had to attend the course. Perhaps I would get a piece of bread - perhaps. But again I received my birthday cake.
I am grateful for so many things: first of all for your presence, your attention, your enthusiasm, your affection, your care. The composition and the organization of the course were perfect. Your house and your animals really made me feel at home. I am also very grateful for having met so many wonderful people. The experiences that we shared during our lessons were extraordinary, and I will never forget the intense and intelligent conversations....And our laughter, our joy, our feeling of being connected since a long time!
The proverbial life altering experience....It was like taking the most difficult, yet most rewarding graduate class of my life. We worked on OURSELVES to peel back the layers of issues that just living life paints over us. The theme was BEING PRESENT. In order to actually BE PRESENT I learned that one needs to clear out the accumulation of debris one carries around for who knows how many lifetimes. When one is actually PRESENT, I found that telepathic communication is possible with literally ANYTHING!
We felt the presence of the Divine as we chanted, drummed, danced as our power animal companions, called in the Spirits from the four winds and connected firmly to Mother Earth. We meditated, discussed our dreams and shared our lives....I have gained a wider, deeper appreciation of myself and all whom I encounter. So what now? THE WORK CONTINUES. THE JOY IS ENDLESS. LIFE IS GOOD!
Your classes open up a wonderful portal
for me to jump through to see and live life in a more real, connected way.
This list for the convenience of course and retreat participants is not guaranteed to be complete or accurate due to the changing policies of the businesses. Animal companions are allowed in some of these locations. When you make a reservation, please check that the facility is currently accepting animals and ask about their requirements. # = animals allowed.
Within 4 miles of Buffalo Spirit Lodge (Penelope’s home)
#COMFORT INN 800-4CHOICE www.prescottcomfortinn.com 1290 White Spar Road, Prescott, AZ 86303;
PRESCOTT PINES INN 800-541-5374; 928-445-7270; Fax 928-778-3665 www.prescottpinesinn.com 901 White Spar Road, Prescott, AZ 86303 bed & breakfast or room only rates
COTTAGES AT PRESCOTT COUNTRY INN 888-757-0015; 928-445-7991 503 S. Montezuma St., Prescott, AZ 86303
#PRESCOTT SIERRA INN 800-513-2014; 928-445-1250; 809 White Spar Road, Prescott, AZ 86303
CAMPING: White Spar Campground. For this and other campgrounds, contact Prescott National Forest 928-443-8000 www.fs.fed.us/r3/prescott
Within 7 miles of Buffalo Spirit Lodge (Penelope’s home)
IN THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA:
HASSAYAMPA INN
800-322-1927; 928-778-9434
http://www.hassayampainn.com 122 E. Gurley Street, Prescott (historic hotel)
HOTEL ST. MICHAEL
800-678-3757
www.stmichaelhotel.com 203 W. Gurley Street, Prescott, AZ
HOTEL VENDOME
-888-468-3583; 928-776-0900
www.vendomehotel.com 230 S. Cortez Street, Prescott, AZ
DOWNTOWN PRESCOTT INN
928-778-1776 129 N. Cortez, Prescott
BRIAR WREATH INN B&B
877-778-6048;
928-778-6048; Fax
928-443-1819
www.briarwreath.com; 232 S. Arizona Street, Prescott, AZ 86303
PLEASANT STREET COTTAGES
928-777-0548
www.pleasantstreetcottages.com 233 North Pleasant Street, Prescott, AZ
#BEST WESTERN PRESCOTTONIAN MOTEL 928-445-3096 www.bestwestern.com 1317 E. Gurley St., Prescott, AZ 86301
#HERITAGE HOUSE MOTEL 928-445-9091 www.rrscenery.com/heritage 819 E. Gurley St Prescott, AZ 86303
#AMERICAN MOTEL 928-778-4322 1211 E. Gurley St., Prescott, AZ 86301
#PRESCOTT CABIN RENTALS 888-778-9573; 928-778-9573 www.prescottcabinrentals.com; PO Box 4301 Prescott, AZ 86302
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS 928-445-8900 www.sixcontinenthotels.com 3454 Ranch Dr Prescott, AZ 86303
SPRINGHILL SUITES BY MARRIOTT 928-776-0998 www.springhillsuitesprescott.com 200 East Sheldon St. Prescott, AZ
ADDITIONAL SOURCES FOR LODGING (including camping) and AREA INFORMATION: http://www.visit-prescott.com/lodging.html; http://www.go-arizona.com/Prescott/; http://www.visit-prescott.com/map.html
Convenient shuttle van from Phoenix Airport and return. 100 miles; approximately 2 hour ride. Schedule and rates: http://www.prescotttransit.com/ Prescott Transit Authority, 820 E. Sheldon, Prescott, AZ 86301; 1-800-445-7978 or 928-445-5470; reservations required. Prescott bus station is about 6 miles from Buffalo Spirit Lodge and within 1-2 miles from above accommodations. Make reservation for taxi to your accommodations with shuttle driver when you board the bus.
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