Empowerment Seminars & Authentic Firewalks!

Once in a while, something comes along that marks a moment we remember as having positively forever changed our life….

2016 video taken at one of Claudia Weber's "Ignite your Spirit" Authentic firewalking events, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California

 

This depends on whose firewalk you are attending. Claudia Weber ONLY does "Authentic" Firewalk events and if you ask anyone who has actually attended or participated in any of her "Ignite your Spirit" firewalks, they will tell you that her fires are very real, and the firewalks are 100% authentic! 

 

There are 4000 plus years worth of past firewalkers through the generations, who have participated in authentic firewalks. Again, how many things can you think of that we did 4000 plus years ago, that we still do the same way today? It's STILL being done, because it STILL works. 

 

 

 

Claudia limits the number of participants in her "Ignite your Spirit" Authentic Firewalks, for their safety and to maintain authenticity. She personally motivates and coaches each and every person across the fire herself, to inspire them.

 

On occasion some firewalkers have received a few "Fire kisses", and afterwards the few that have been "kissed" by the fire, admitted that they could recalled exactly when and why they lost their focus, causing them to get kissed. This is another reason Claudia will not allow any camera flashes or distractions to be present during her firewalk events. She strives to keep her participants focused and getting the outcome they desire. 

 

A "Fire kiss" are little clear blisters that may form on the bottom of the feet, due to extreme heat. Generally they are going within 24-48 hours and painless. They are a "Badge of Honor", as this proves to everyone that the fire was authentic and real. If you ever get one, remind everyone that it is proof that you did indeed walk across an authentic firewalk at 1,200-1,400 degrees F. 

 

Now some firewalk instructors will try to reduce the dangers as much as possible (but keep in mind that these are STILL glowing red hot coals), by laying down wet/damp sod on the ground, then building a fire on it, using wood that will burn quickly and create coals quickly. This reduces the temperature a bit and makes it much safer to walk on. Some firewalk instructors shovel red coals on top of a strip of damp sod, getting the coals from a single big fire (Usually located nearby). To the Native Americans, this is NOT considered an "Authentic" Firewalk, even in the slightest degree.

 

What most Certified firewalk instructors will tell you, is that they are only laying down the sod to protect the surface from damage, and in some cases, that is actually true. However, it does reduce the temperature of the heat and takes away from it's authenticity. 

 

But either way..those coals are RED & HOT! And enough people have been "Kissed" or actually burned to prove that it is absolutely REAL! 

 

How does Claudia perform the Native American Fire Ceremony?

Each person may bring a piece of paper to burn with whatever they want written on it, that signifies something associated with their past or present (More powerful on the Full Moon). It can be a prayer request if they like. At some point, Claudia will allow the participants to place their little notes in between the stacked firewood that will burned. One the firewood is set on fire, the little notes are burned, turned into smoke and release into the ether.

This allows the past and or present energy to move along to its highest spiritual progression path, and the new request/prayer will move along to its highest spiritual progression path. You may bring pictures, drawings, or intentions, as long as they are paper.

Keep in mind that this is a silent Fire Ceremony, and the things that you are releasing from the past or calling into your future though your notes, are nobody's business, but your own. Expressing or explaining what is on your little notes, is not necessary nor requested. 

 

 

A little history of Firewalking

Firewalking's beginnings date back further than the oldest recorded Firewalk in India, which was 4000 years ago, where two Brahmin priests were competing to see who could walk on fire the furthest.  One managed to do so, and his feat was written down in the historical records at that time.

 

Many countries have recorded histories of walking on fire. Peggy Dylan (Co-Founder of the Western Firewalking movement, and Claudia Weber's Firewalking teacher & mentor) informed Claudia that Africa has a really long history of walking and dancing on fire. The African-born Hindus walk on fire regularly as part of their religious festivals, and the !Kung Bushmen of the Kilahari Desert have firewalked since their tribal beginnings.

The !Kung use fire in their powerful healing ceremonies to this very day. Richard Katz, a Harvard psychologist reports that the !Kung use the fire to heat up their energy which they call "n/um".

 

Dancers will go in the fire, walk in it, put their hands in it, pick up the glowing red hot coals and rub them all over their hands and body. The !Kung say that when the n/um (or energy) in the body is boiling and as hot as the fire, they will not burn.

 

As the n/um intensifies in the healers, they experience an enhanced consciousness called "!kia", and when the bushmen reach this consciousness and are in this state, this is when they heal all those at the dance. Many medical miracles & self healings have been recorded and taken place during these firewalks.

 

In the United States, in the 17th Century, a Jesuit priest named Father Le Jeune (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Jeune) writes to his superior, telling of a healing firewalk he witnessed among native North American Indians. 

Some 30 years later, it's documented that Father Marquette reported similar firewalks among the Ottawa Indians, and Jonathan Carver writes in his 1802 book of travels in North America that one of the most astounding sights he saw, was the parade of warriors who "walked naked through fire...with apparent immunity".

After years of deep research, Peggy Dylan has found evidence of other North American Tribes that were recorded to have shamanic traditions, which included fire handling. Ms. Dylan reported to me that the Fox, Menominee, Kere, Blackfeet, and particularly the Zuni were fire handlers and firewalkers.  The Zuni Tribe in particular, had... and some claim to still have, a "great fire fraternity". These tribes were witnessed to have dealt with fire in incredible ways. The Kahunas, or native priests of the Hawaiian Islands, had powerful practices of lava walking.

According to Gary R. Varner, who writes, "Folklore, History & Study of Myth, he is quoted as saying, "The shaman in Dakota society began their duties at an early age. It was believed that if they disobeyed their divine orders the Thunder Beings would punish or kill them.  The shaman had to continuously exhibit their power to keep the respect and to hold on to their office. This was done through periodic and competitive "magic" exhibits before the whole village. These exhibitions varied in content with firewalking practiced by the Arapaho and Cheyenne, burning com husks and boiling water handled by the Pawnee and materialization of animals performed by the Crow, Mandan and Hidatsa.

 

 

 

Claudia happens to know of three Northern California tribes that get together every year and have a private joint Firewalking event. They have a public Pow Wow on Saturday, rest and recover on Sunday and then the three tribes come together in strict secrecy and privacy on Monday for their very authentic tribal Firewalk.

In these modern times...Claudia feels that the reasons for Firewalking haven't changed all that much from the past. People now... are struggling to move their minds & spirits past the commercialism that bombards and has hypnotized them into their negative states of mind and thinking.

 

People are starting to become aware of the power of their mind, but they don't know how to move themselves out of their negative thinking routines.

 

A lot of Claudia's past firewalking participants have stated to her, that they knew they needed to make a real and positive change within, but also knew that it would take something extremely powerful to jar them out of their negative belief patterns and into an awakening, telling Claudia that when they heard about Firewalking, they realized that might just be the ticket they were looking for...and it was!
 
Another reason for modern firewalking, is that many people are starting to understand that the body follows the mind, which is why some medical doctors are now stating that "when the mind is at dis-ease, it creates disease" in the physical body. When a person walks bare foot over red hot coals, they start to wonder what else they might be capable of doing or achieving, that they were told they could not, or believed once that they couldn't.
 

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