Healing Spirits of the Four Directions
A five-day in-person immersion in hands-on energy work, spirit channelling and the living wisdom of the medicine wheel
Italy, July 2026
The medicine wheel is the framework.
The four healing spirits — Wabun, Shawnodese, Mudjekewis and Kabibonokka* — are the guides.
And five days in Umbria, Italy, working hands-on in a small group, is the crucible.
*The Spirit Keeper of the North, known in Sun Bear's tradition as Waboose and in the older Ojibwe record as Kabibonokka
IN-PERSON RETREAT DATES
Monday 27 – Friday 31 July 2026
PREREQUISITES
Reiki Levels 1 and 2
ONLINE PREPARATORY COURSE MATERIAL
25th June — 26 July 2026
LOCATION
Spoleto, Italy · Eliantemo
ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE
The accommodation covers arrival the day before (26th July) and departure the morning after the retreat (1st August).
We advise arriving in Italy at least a few days before the retreat to recover from flights and adjust to the new land and culture.
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
Email Helen via [email protected]
Most practitioners are taught what to do in a session —
whether that's an energy-healing practice or a consultation.
This retreat teaches you how to feel your way through both: how to move around the field with awareness, listening to what the body is saying and hearing beneath what is being said —
so that rather than imposing a direction, you learn to sense what wants to happen and align with it.
From here, results come from a place of acute presence and clear insight rather than formula.
The Foundation
The Medicine Wheel And Its Origins
The medicine wheel as we work with it in this programme is rooted in the teachings of Sun Bear — a Chippewa medicine man, founder of the Bear Tribe Medicine Society, and one of the first indigenous teachers to carry these teachings to a global audience.
His landmark work, co-created with Wabun Wind and published as The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology, brought the wheel’s wisdom to millions of people worldwide. As Sun Bear himself said:
“The Medicine Wheel is a springboard of power that will allow you to link up to all the energies of the universe.”
— Sun Bear
At its foundation, the medicine wheel is a circle divided by the four directions — East, South, West and North — each governed by a Spirit Keeper, each carrying its own season, element, medicine and teaching. But as Sun Bear and Wabun taught, the wheel is far more than a model of personality or time. It is a living map of all things in right relation: animals, plants, minerals, elemental clans, the human journey through many moons, and the great wheel of incarnation itself.
In this programme, we draw on those foundational teachings and carry them into the territory of holographic energy transformation — understanding the medicine wheel not merely as a symbol to be studied, but as a living field to be worked with, and moved through.
The Holographic Nature Of The Wheel
One of the primary teachings of holographic transformation is that each part of a system contains information about the whole. The medicine wheel embodies this perfectly. The wheel is fractal in nature. It maps not only the seasons of the year but the hours of a single day, the arc of a human life, the unfolding of a healing session, and the movement of a soul across many incarnations.
The East is always the place of beginnings — whether you are reading it in the first light of morning or the opening years of a lifetime. The West is always the place of going inward — whether you are moving into autumn or into the moment in a session when something deeper wants to be seen.
The star family — the group of higher masters who, in this tradition, gifted the medicine wheel to the peoples of the Earth — gave it as a tool for multi-dimensional perception: a way of learning to hold many levels of reality simultaneously, and to navigate the body, the field and the soul as one integrated, living whole. This is why the wheel works as a healing framework in ways that linear models cannot. It is not a sequence — it is a simultaneous, holographic field.
This is the lens through which we work in this programme. The medicine wheel is not a backdrop — it is the methodology.
Prerequisites and Fit
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat is designed for consultants, facilitators and practitioners who are interested in, or already work with, energy and want to deepen their navigation of a session — and life — through felt sense rather than formula.
This is for you if you are:
A practitioner of energy healing, bodywork, somatic work, coaching or counselling
Trained to at least Reiki 1 and 2, or equivalent hands-on energy work
Already in a regular meditative practice
Curious about spirit channelling but want to learn in a grounded, purposeful way
Ready to offer your clients something more than single sessions — a real arc of transformation
Drawn to working with the medicine wheel, indigenous teachings or star-family connections — even if your understanding is still new
What You'll Carry Forward
A deeper sensitivity to the messages of the body — messages that span across time and space, and speak as much about the soul’s journey as about the present moment
A deepened sensitivity to your own energetic field, and through that, to yourself
A direct, personal relationship with each of the four healing spirits that will continue to develop long after the retreat ends
All the material, structure and practical experience needed to begin working with individual clients on a five-part programme — hands-on or long-distance — structured around the medicine wheel
A richer understanding and developing authority of holographic perception and how it applies to your consulting work and daily life
Something that cannot be replicated online: the direct transmission of working within a live group field, receiving and offering energy work all week, and carrying a piece of that shared container home with you
A tool for navigating life — not just sessions — through sensation, symbol and an embodied sense of the whole
The Five Day Retreat
Moving Through The Wheel
Each day is held by one of the four healing spirits, with Wednesday as a still point — a pause at the centre of the wheel before we turn to the West.
Monday · Wabun · East · The Dawn
The spirit of the East brings clarity, new beginnings and the power of illumination.
We open the wheel here — arriving, orienting, and learning to read what is just becoming visible.
Tuesday · Shawnodese · South · The Growth
Tuesday · Shawnodese · South ·
The Growth
The spirit of the South governs trust, growth and the heart.
Working here means meeting what is alive, tender and in process — in the client’s field and in your own.
Wednesday · Clearing · Centre · The Still Point
Wednesday · Clearing · Centre ·
The Still Point
A deliberate pause. No direction, no agenda — only shamanic clearing work.
Helen works with each person in turn. A day to release, integrate, and make space for the second half of the wheel.
Thursday · Mudjekewis · West · The Introspection
Thursday · Mudjekewis · West ·
The Introspection
The spirit of the West is the bear — introspection, transformation and the courage to go inward.
This is often where the deepest shifts occur, both in client work and in the practitioner.
Friday · Kabibonokka · North · The Wisdom
Friday · Kabibonokka · North ·
The Wisdom
The spirit of the North brings the medicine of wisdom, cleansing and completion.
We close the wheel here — integrating what has moved, and understanding how to carry this into your practice.
how the days unfold
The Shape Of The Week
Sessions run from 9am to 4pm daily.
This is practical, immersive work — not lectures.
The course material that needs to be covered in preparation to the in-person retreat will begin on 25th June 2026.
The group is small by design.
Our accommodation — aerial photo of Eliantemo and inside the yoga studio
Each Morning
We open with meditation and/or pranayama to settle into the field
Group sharing of experiences and themes that have arisen overnight — building a picture of both individual and collective fields
Helen works with one participant as a live demonstration for the day’s spirit and session structure
Each Afternoon
Hands-on energy work in pairs — practising, receiving, and learning to listen to the body’s language within the medicine wheel framework.
Reflection, discussion and integration of what has moved
The evenings are yours — to rest, explore Spoleto, eat well, and let the day settle
“This is also an invaluable tool for feeling one’s way, rather than thinking one’s way through life — navigating the field with awareness, symbols, and the integration of the spiritual and the practical.”
— Helen Mosimann-Kogan
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Why Being There In-Person Matters
This programme can be taken by distance, but the benefits of showing up in person are significant and not easily replicated. Spending a week learning alongside other practitioners — being part of the energetic container, receiving as well as giving, learning from each other’s fields and sessions — is itself a form of medicine wheel transformation.
A week away from ordinary life, in a beautiful and unfamiliar place, with like-minded people, allows the teachings to land differently. You arrive as one person and leave rebirthed anew — you are changed, not just in what you know, but in how you perceive.
BEFORE THE RETREAT
Please arrive with a daily meditation practice already in place. The work of the retreat builds on an established capacity for stillness and inner listening. If that is not yet part of your life, begin now — it will make all the difference.
The course material that starts on the 25th June, with a new module focused on a different healing spirit each week, will initiate the development of your relationship to each of them — a relationship that, if you cultivate, will serve you long into the future. The more you can nurture these connections beforehand, the deeper your experience of the retreat will be.
AFTER THE RETREAT
We strongly recommend not flying straight home the moment the retreat ends. Take at least a few days — resting nearby, travelling at a slower pace, or simply sitting with what has moved through you. The retreat will continue to work in you once it is over. It will want room to do so.
What Past Participants Say:
Key dates
Your Timeline
7 APRIL 2026
Launch — registration opens
31st MAY 2026
Registration closes. First deposit required for accommodation due
25 JUNE 2026
Online preparatory material begins
30 JUNE 2026
Final deposit required for accommodation due
26 JULY 2026
Arrival at accommodation
27–31 JULY 2026
In-person retreat · 9 am– 4 pm daily
1 AUGUST 2026
Departure
If you are travelling from further afield, we recommend arriving in Italy at the very least a few days before the retreat begins — to settle in, rest and adjust before we start work together on Monday morning.
Details and practicalities
Training Investment
Training Rate - Open to all Practitioners || $2,500 approx. €2,300*
Open to any practitioner who meets the prerequisites. Instalment options available — please ask when you get in touch.
HTPP Rate - Holographic Transformation Practitioner Programme || $2,000 approx. €1850*
For current and past participants of the Holographic Transformation Practitioner Programme, who will already be familiar with the framework and field.
Please note: The training fee is already included in the UBP and AKML Two-Year Programmes and does not apply separately.
*Exchange rates shown are approximate as at February 2026. Final Euro pricing will be confirmed on enrolment.
Accommodation
Please see this document detailing the accommodation, costs and timing of deposit and final payment.
Views of our venue, Spoleto, Italy
Optional Add-On:
Supported First Client Programme || €400
The retreat gives you everything you need to begin working with clients. This optional add-on gives you something more — a guided, supported passage through your very first five-session programme, with written feedback and mentorship from Helen throughout.
HOW IT WORKS
After the retreat, you identify a willing client and offer them a five-session programme, free of charge or by donation.
After each session, you write up your experience and observations and submit them to Helen. She reads your feedback and returns written guidance — reflections on what you noticed, what the field may have been communicating, and how to deepen your work in the sessions ahead.
Your feedback and Helen’s responses are shared within a private group of all add-on participants, so that everyone learns from each other’s processes. Each practitioner’s first client becomes a teaching case for the whole cohort.
IS THIS ADD-ON RIGHT FOR YOU?
Highly recommended for anyone coming to the medicine wheel for the first time — being guided through your first full process makes an enormous difference to how the teachings settle into your practice. For those who have been through the programme before, it is optional but still valuable.
Included for Ancient Keys for Modern Leaders (AKML) participants.
Register your interest
Ready to Step into the Wheel?
Registration for this retreat opens 7 April 2026. Registration closes 31st May 2026
MEET THE FOUNDER & your guide
Helen Mosimann-Kogan
Helen is the founder of The White Rabbit Reveals and the creator of the Holographic Transformation Practitioner Programme — a two-year certification training that weaves together energy medicine, chakra work, intuition and the art of reading the field.
She has worked with the medicine wheel and the healing spirits of the four directions for many years, and this programme is the direct result of that practice — a structured, held, and deeply practical transmission of what she has been taught.
Helen teaches practitioners to feel rather than think their way through a session, developing sensitivity to how the body speaks and learning to move through a client’s field with both precision and openness. Her work is grounded, never sensationalised, and consistently described by participants as genuinely transformational.
She holds space with great care — meeting people where they are, while always moving them forward.
