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Rev. Zan Butterfly Deerwoman

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Zan's events & community happenings

a WAy with words ... A POETIC Venture!


at Rising Tide International


Join us on the...

2nd Wednesday of the month

 May 14, 2025

7PM-8:30PM


Doors Open 6:30 PM

$5 At The Door

 

Coffee & Snacks Available

A Reiki share

For REIKI III Master Healers ... on the 3rd Monday of every month

There will be no REIKI SHARE this month because of the Easter/Passover Holiday. The last SHARE of the summer will be onMay 19th. We will resume in the Fall of 2025. We celebrate this Easter,  with forgiveness and letting go of judgement,  for the sake of New Beginnings.  We can have New Beginnings right now,  when we can find acceptance in our hearts for all that is, the good and the bad. We can better achieve the fullness of our desire by releasing our  “clogs” along the way. When we do this, we are able to  find flow.



This is an open Invitation to all Reiki III Masters of all lineages to come together to share, expand, enhance and brush up on Reiki. 


You don't need to call, just come! 


Wear comfortable clothes. Bring a table if you have one.A $5 donation will be requested to support the building at RTI.


REIKI to all for Peace and Healing on Earth and Prayers for the Opening of the Heart of All Humanity! Looking forward to seeing you again.


Blessings ever abound! Rev. Zan

On the 3rd Monday of the Month

NO APRIL SHARE

May   19, 2025

7-8:30pm

In Person 

Rising Tide International

5102 Swift Rd. 

Sarasota, Fl 34231

Wednesday, May 19, 2025... 7 - 8:30 PM

In remembrance of the coffee houses of yore, where poets and the "wordsmiths" gathered to share the wonders their words might evoke, we launch our 2023 version of  "the coffee house."


We are calling on all Poets, Writers, and Wordsmiths to read and share their poetry/writings in an accepting ambiance, with a laid back, albeit enthusiastic audience!


Come read your poetry or written words, in an accepting ambiance of our wondrous diversity. We are beginning a series of gatherings for poets, writer, wordsmiths on the  2nd Wednesday of each month...


Each reader is allowed 5 minutes.Sign-ups are first in, first read.  


You don't have to participate! 

You may wish to enjoy the creative expression of others. 

Coffee & snacks are available to purchase.


 Doors open 6:30pm. Admission $5.


To Sign Up, first come, first heard. 5 min to 7 min. a reader. 

At Rising Tide, 5102 Swift Rd. Sarasota, FL. 

 

Come read your poetry or written words,  

in an accepting ambiance of our wondrous diversity. 


Questions and Information contact Rev. Zan Benham, 941-922-7839

A SHAMAN JOURNEY EXPERIENCE ... spring 2025...

Spring Journey, April 26, 2025


A SHAMAN JOURNEY is similar to guided meditation enhanced by the heart beat of the large mother drum. The Journey will take us down and out through the dimensions of our imagination where reality and dream time interweave into a perfect tapestry based on your own special rhythms, understandings and frequencies.

We travel together into our own shaman's dream for our own personal guidance and discovery. This is an adventure and exploration into realms where information, messages, connections and relationships magically unfold.


Through the reverberation of the drum, inner gateways of frequencies open our sub-conscious mind helping us access guides, totems and insights for healing and understanding according to our own individuals need.


The Journey itself is approximately 30 to 40 min. The rest is preparation and processing.


WHAT TO BRING
Rising Tide International provides, yoga mats, bolsters, blankets and pillows and you may wish to bring your own for your comfort. Also bring something with which to cover your eyes for darkness and bring a spirit stone or rock, ( one which calls to you.) It will become your Wotai stone, or Sacred Stone and hold the experience for you. Those who have journeyed with me may have one already have one! Bring a pad and paper to notate your Journey, while it is still fresh.



 

Rev Zan Benham Butterfly Deerwoman

April 26, 2025

2pm-5:00pm

In Person 

Rising Tide International

5102 Swift Rd. 

Sarasota, Fl 34231

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SHAMAN JOURNEY EXPERIENCE

WOMEN'S MEDITATION Circle... April 18, 2025

STARLIGHT TO EARTHLIGHT...led by Maureen McSweeney

Behind the clouds, the starlight lurks.

Shining in the darkness, ribbons of light 

from stars now gone, but still sending their light to earth.


Maureen had a dream that clearly represents this Circle and the work it does. In the dream, a group of lightworkers were living in community. They focused on earth conditions, never faltering in their quest. Connected to others around the globe, they activated light at a moment's notice whenever conditions required their attention and work.


On April 18th her meditation is called Starlight to Earthlight - The Human - Gaian Collaboration. She will guide us in attuning our Soul's Light as it connects with the Light of Gaia and the Star Light that pours down from the heavens. You'll be directed to carry this light to somewhere on the planet that's needed for healing of individuals or that specific location.

Please join the meditation circle at Rising Tide, 5102 Swift Rd. on Friday evening at 6:30 pm. Come early - meet and greet - and enjoy visiting old friends. Meditation starts at 7 pm. BY DONATION to Rising Tide.


HEADS UP

PLEASE BRING FOR THE ALTAR

Maureen has asked each person attending this meditation to bring a "piece of nature" with them for the altar. It could be a pine cone, a leaf, a small branch, a flower, or a stone from your garden, a park or somewhere in nature that is sacred to you.

She feels this nature addition will build upon, and aid your connection to Earth energies during the meditation."




Please join the meditation circle at Rising Tide, 5102 Swift Rd. on Friday evening at 6:30 pm. Come early - meet and greet - and enjoy the new year.     Meditation starts at 7 pm. 


PLEASE DONATE to Rising Tide as though you were attending.

Friday

April 18, 2025

6:30 pm- 8 pm

Zoom and Live

RTI

5102 Swift Rd

Sarasota, Fl 34231


FALL EQUINOX, CelebratION AND CEREMONY

Led By Rev. Zan Benham, Butterfly Deerwoman

Rev. Zan Butterfly Deerwoman in conjunction with Unity of Sarasota will be facilitating a Winter Soltice Celebration & Ceremony on , 6 pm at the Labyrinth behind the church.

  

WHAT TO BRING:

Bring a chair upon which to sit, drums or rattles to shake or beat, bug spray for safe keeping, water for thirst, some money for donating to support upkeep of the Labyrinth. Wear your colorful, comfy fall ceremonial clothes? We will drum, chant and earth dance our way around the fire in the Celebration of the Winter Season.


FALL EQUINOX:





Rev. Zan Benham, ButterflyDeerwoman leads the Ceremony and Celebration, assisted by many other Lights from our community.

This Winter Solstice hearkens a Sacred time of Holy days, of Hanukkah, Christmas (Christ Mass), and Kwanzaa with a New Moon on the 30th. This marks a time of endings, a pause before new beginnings. In the darkness of the twilight, we let go to the dream, with soft surrender, as if we were birthing ourselves once again into that authentic Soul of our Being.


This transformation gives us a wonderful opportunity to bring these softer, more hopeful frequencies forward with us in 2024. If we have the good Light of Creator within us, then how great can we Shine Our Light?

Join us to bathe your heart and soul in the beauty and peace this season.


Friday's ceremony will honor these qualities. Together we will hold sacred space for the power of love, light, humility and peace to transcend and infiltrate all beings on this planet and that we may emulate the path of respect and forgiveness for all beings, including ourselves. It is time for us to connect deeply with one another, the earth, the oceans and all people.


Rev. Zan Benham, Butterfly Deerwoman will be officiating this event, along with many other members of the community at the beloved Labyrinth at Unity of Sarasota. 


With blessing of Light, Love, Ease and Peace to all,

Rev. Zan 


There will be a request of donations to go towards the cost for upkeep of the Labyrinth.


For further information or questions call Rev. Zan, 941-922-7839.


FALL EQUINOX

Fall 2025

7 pm

 

Unity Of Sarasota Labyrinth 

At 3023 Proctor Rd.

Sarasota, Florida 34231

 “Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.” Abraham Hicks

lAW OF ATTRACTION

at Unity Church ...Classroom with Zan Butterfly Deerwoman


Law of Attraction.


It may be incumbent upon some of us now, to once again revisit, remember and review the processes, good tools,and principles of the Law of           Attraction (LOA.)  We are assisted by Esther and Jerry Hicks in their book,

“Ask and It Is Given.”  Another name for LOA is the Law of Cause and Effect 

and or the Law of Sow/Reap.


Working with the Law of Attraction is an exercise in mindful consciousness. It brings us to the understanding that we truly live in the realities of the present (pre sent) moment and that  we are co-creators of these realities. 


In this  class we understand that we are all co-creators and that when one “ASKS,” then it is indeed "GIVEN."  We are encouraged to live in its actualization. The workings of this Law are subtle and specific.  It is each person's own  "inside job" in alliance with Source. 

This is a progressive, leading edge class to enhance and expand our spiritual understanding,  growth, well-being and connection to Source and Highest Guidance.


Class includes a meditation and a review each week of  ones or two the 22 processes contained in the Ask and It is Given book.

     

Rev. Zan Benham has taught the Law of Attraction for 10+ years.  She is a Universal New Thought minister, a Sufi Cherag, a spiritual counselor, certified           hypnotist, shamanic practitioner, Reiki Master teacher and a  ceremonialist.



LOA

To Be Determined

7pm-8:30pm

In Person

Unity Church Sarasota

3023 Proctor Rd

Sarasota, Fl 34231


REIki Certification series

4 Part Series

Announcing... 

updates to follow...

NEW REIKI CLASS

CERTIFICATION SERIES


Towards a Reiki III Master Healer

Certificate & Attunement

Saturday,

Saturday, 

Saturday, 

Saturday, 


At Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd. Sarasota,Fl.

 

Class Fee: $111.00 each.

The series of 4 classes: $400.00.


Please confirm your intentions to attend the Reiki I Class by

 2026,

 if not sooner so I may prepare. 


Upon registration you will receive a confirmation email

with instructions for your personal preparation.


Class Fee: $111.00 per class. For the series, $400.00.


Series includes a FREE, private, 1 hour,  hands-on Reiki teaching/healing session, with Rev. Zan, during our study of Reiki III, Part 1 or 2. 


Payments: Cash, check or credit card on the "Offerings" page of 

Zan's website  or preferably Zelle ( no fee), or using Zan@woman-spirit.com.


 If you have taken Reiki with me before, and wish to do so again, you may take the class(es) for a modest donation of your choice.


Rev. Bill Adams will assist Rev. Zan in her Reiki Classes. Bill is a Masterful Reiki Practitioner, and an excellent assistant and dear friend. Rev. Zan is so appreciative to him for the healing, wisdom and help he has given her over the years.


A Personal Note From Rev. Zan: 

This is most likely the last Reiki series I teach, as retirement 

seems to be calling me. I will teach this final one, as I have 

had some requests of late, and because teaching Reiki,

 and watching the students evolve is one of my 

most favorite things to do! 


Information & Questions:

If you have question, or consideration, 

please call, Rev. Zan at 941-922-7839 (office landline). 

My email is: Zan@woman-spirit.com. 

or website, www.woman-spirit.com.

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REIKI is an ancient form of hands-on healing, whose roots go back to Siddharta Buddha, and the India-Nepal border in 620BC. Modern day REIKI was brought to the western world by Dr. Mikado Usui in 1922.

The word REIKI is two Japanese words, REI which means "Divine Source or Higher Power" and KI, means "Life Force Energy."


Reiki classes are spiritual journeys of breath, sound, meditation, chants,  history, practices, working with Chakras and intention to help us overcome our mindset limitations. Once out of the way, they open a gateway for healing. In Reiki we are working with the "healing energy," that is available to all  humans. We study symbols brought forth by Reiki Masters a long time ago from spirit, connected with symbols, forms and breath. The study of Reiki is a powerful path of initiation into this ancient, wondrous, healing art. This is also a study of the "Light" that we are.


The planet needs a many Reiki Masters as possible, at this time in our evolution, to spread light, love, peace and goodwill. 


Information & Questions:

If you have question, or consideration, please call, Rev. Zan at 941-922-7839 (office landline). My email is: Zan@woman-spirit.com. or website, www.woman-spirit.com.


Payment:

Via PayPal or preferably Zelle using zan@woman-spirit.com

Checks mail to: 2839 Trinidad St. Sarasota, Fl 34231

For Information Call Zan 941-922-7839

 www.woman-spirit.com

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“Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.” Abraham

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