You are the Guardian — ready and able to respond to emergencies, ready and able to help anyone in need, ready and able to become invisible if there were trouble and serve the greater good. Having quickly come to know everybody’s essential self — not by the words they speak, but by the roles they play and the way they carry and express themselves — and knowing the setting, you are in the unique position to spring into action and be of service if and when it becomes necessary.

How do you become the Ultimate Guardian, able to be fully present, all-knowing, and ready to serve in the ways just described? The truth is that you are already that person. In this workshop, you discover what you are fully capable of, and you supercharge yourself with the ability to do it.

The workshop is intense. Every minute, for five days and nights, you are in training. You are living and breathing the Guardian motto, Life is training, and training is life. If you come fully present and committed, this will be the most intense, expansive, and engaged experience of your life—Guaranteed. You are going to ignite your Quiet Fire.

Here is some of what you can expect:

• Increased Energy. The more oxygen a Fire has, the hotter it burns. You will start a routine to increase your lung capacity up to 40%. You will be on fire!
• Improved Sense of Place. You learn to know instantly what time it is and where you are even when awakened in the middle of the night, and how to intuitively know the coming weather.
• Live and Breathe Mission Consciousness. Every action, every movement, becomes a Mission.
• Awakened Senses. You discover and develop your ability to see blindfolded, to trail energy rather than track, to move as a shadow in your every thought and action.
• Deep Listening. Are you too far away to hear the words? Are you too close that the words get in the way of what is really being said? It won’t matter, because you will be learning how to hear what is actually being communicated.

If you feel the Quiet Fire coming alive inside you, we suggest you enroll for this special Training immediately, as we are only going to accept a limited number of Trainees. Some of the graduates of this Training will be offered the option to join the on-the-ground Elite Training in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in 2025.

Your Trainers

Tamarack Song was trained by the Guardian Wolves who adopted him into their pack, and by the Ojibwe people who he served beside as a fellow Ogichidaa (Guardian-Warrior) during their struggle to regain their treaty rights. He is the author of Like a Shadow: The Life and Training of a Guardian Warrior, and he, along with Lety and OdeMakwa , conduct both online and on-the-ground trainings in how traditional Guardian skills can be used to make a difference in today’s world.

Lety Seibel is descended from the indigenous Mayan people of southern Mexico. She carries family stories of oppression, revolution, covert operations, murder, and displacement. Along with that history, she learned from her curandera (Mayan healer) grandmother how to use energy and intention to effect change and healing. Along with co-leading Guardian Trainings, Lety is a practitioner of various healing and personal transformation modalities.

OdeMakwakwe, whose name means Bear Heart Woman in the Ojibwe language, is a veteran of many demonstrations, sit-ins, and occupations for peace, justice, and environmental restoration. She learned through much trial and error what helps and what hurts a cause. Another shade of her serving the Guardian Way is by helping to organize Trainings such as this one.

In this new state of existence, you:

• Recall the memories from your ancestral past, as though they were your own. Hidden trauma stories surface, so that they can be grieved, healed, and released.
• Discover where you came from, and how you got to this point in time.
• Relearn how to love, from that which originally taught it to your ancestors.
• Explore to find you archetype (Nurturer, Guardian, or Organizer) in your ancestral lineage.
• Become the storyteller you were born to be, by connecting with the storyline, which is where all stories come from.

With that knowledge and skillset, your guides Lety and Tamarack then assist you in reaching the next level and guide you in how to practice this quintet of vital life skills:

1. Understand and speak the universal language used by all life.
2. Teach your children with the experience and examples from Nature and your Ancestors.
3. Integrate with your vertical community, the Continuum, where your Ancestors and those yet to be born dwell.
4. Envision what you want and need, and call it to appear before you.
5. Allow stories to be your way of personal expression, a learning tool, and a metaphor for life’s lessons.

By the end of the workshop, the seeds long ago planted by the Whispers of the Ancients will— with your tending—germinate, grow, and bring you to a life that you might have never before thought possible.

Your Workshop Guides

Lety Seibel and Tamarack Song learned how to listen to the Whispers of the Ancients from the Menominee, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hopi, Iroquois, Australian Aboriginal, and Mayan Elders they apprenticed to. While living in the wilderness, far from the distractions of civilization, they were instructed by the Wolves and other wild relations they lived with. It is now their time to pass on to you what they have been given.

OdeMakwa assists Tamarack and Lety in this five-day intensive. Her experience spans fifteen years supporting Seekers in the Teaching Drum Outdoor School’s year-long Wilderness Guide Program, after having completed the Program herself in 2006.

And if not you, might it be a friend or loved one? Whatever the case, just know that you are not alone. We are all products of a culture that encourages us to be “I” oriented, then throws us distractions, obsessions, and therapists to deal with the fallout.

There is a better way — becoming your authentic self. In this workshop, you learn:

• How to make your social environment automatically become your healing environment.
• A healing approach with an age-old track record that integrates seamlessly into your daily life.
• A personal transformation method that, once put in place, works by itself.

Gone will be outmoded boundaries, beliefs that no longer serve you, mind games that cloud clarity, and feelings that keep you enslaved. You learn how to have fear guide rather than control you, how to quit the pain game, and how to transmute the old victim/martyr paradigm. Through a series of exercises, traditional stories, and a good look at your own woundedness stories, this workshop will give you a new lease on life — your life, instead of the one you were told should be yours.

The core of the workshop is the three ancient wisdoms given to Lety and Tamarack by the Native Elders they interned with:

1. Give what you want to receive.
2. Feed what you want to grow.
3. Surround yourself with what you want to become.

In this workshop, you learn how to integrate these three steps, to begin the best rest of your life. You can be emotionally liberated, connected to your true feelings, and able to resonate with the feelings of others. On top of that, you will get in touch with your ability to envision your future and have it come true.

Registration is limited, so we suggest you enroll early, to assure that there is a place reserved for you.

Workshop Presenters

Lety Seibel

Trained by her Mayan Curandera (traditional healer) grandmother, Lety brings her rich lore of Native healing stories and practices to this workshop. She carries certifications in Energy Psychology EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Therapeutic Breathwork, and she practices various body-mind-spirit healing modalities. Her most powerful asset, however, is knowing how to get out of the way so that Spirit can work through her.

Tamarack Song

The family of Wolves Tamarack lived with taught him how to practice emotional honesty. Along with that, he incorporates dreamwork, movement exercises, deep listening, and ancient Zen emotional release techniques with his doctorate-level work in Nature-based healing and trauma recovery. Some of the core precepts that this workshop is based on were passed down to Tamarack from the Native Elders he has worked with.

OdeMakwa, a certified Therapeutic Breathworker, coordinates the workshop and assists with conducting workshop exercises. For fourteen years she has worked with wilderness stress and trauma as a member of the staff running the Teaching Drum Outdoor School’s year-long Wilderness Guide Program. Through that experience, she has gained deep insight into the role emotions play in physical-mental-spiritual well-being.