MISSION & VISION
Third Eye Tribe of Venus Rising is a 501(c)3 non-profit religious charitable organization established in 2019. Our mission is to Create Conscious Community through ceremony and ritual. It is our core belief that every person can connect to their inner shaman for personal healing and transformation.
HISTORY
Third Eye Tribe was founded by San Antonio restaurant owner and entrepreneur Lisa Asvestas. In addition to over twenty years in the food and restaurant industry, Lisa’s studies in Ayurveda taught her that food could either be medicine or poison. She quickly brought this wisdom to The Cove and started integrating principles of Sustainable – Organic - Local, SOL, food to its menu.
Lisa’s spiritual journey connected her with the powerful and transformative teachings of Linda Star Wolf, author, founder of Venus Rising, and creator of Shamanic Breathwork and the Shamanic Healing Initiatory Process (S.H.I.P.). With Venus Rising and Star Wolf, Lisa became a Shamanic Minister and Master Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator; here she deeply connected with her life’s calling to hold safe sacred space for her students and community to feel heard, seen and cared for.
Lisa’s transformation and evolution birthed other establishments such as 5 Points Local and Casa Mariposa Healing Center, both of which provided the greater San Antonio community space for community, personal nourishment, and transformational growth.
OUR PROGRAMS
The Shamanic Breathwork® Process is a powerful transformational tool. These journeys include safe, sacred space for ceremony, breath techniques, activating chakra-attuned music, focused bodywork and artistic expression followed by community sharing.
SHAMANIC HEALING INITIATORY PROCESS (S.H.I.P.)
A series of five transformative retreats designed to expand consciousness.
Located in the beautiful South Texas Hill country two hours west of San Antonio, Spiral Dance Ranch is Third Eye Tribe’s retreat center on sacred land dedicated to healing.
CORE PILLARS OF THIRD EYE TRIBE EVENTS INCLUDE:
CATHARSIS
Healing; Deep and profound mending of wounds; Defragging our nervous systems; Upgrading our stories; Working out our questions, our answers, our problems, our solutions; Digesting our grief
ECSTASIS
Inspiration; Anything that takes us outside ourselves; Peak states of consciousness; Experiencing “anamnesis”- the opposite of amnesia- a deep remembering of who we are underneath all the distractions
COMMUNITAS
Connection; Group flow; Creating a reservoir of trust which allows us to do hard things together; The place where our separate identities end, and emerge
(inspired and drawn from Jamie Wheal and his work on unlocking peak performance and the Home Grown Human podcast)
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY SHAMANIC?
“The shaman, a quintessential figure in numerous cultures, is often viewed as the medicine man or woman and wisdom keeper of the tribe. In the past (and in some remote areas of the world still), the shaman was sought out much as a physician, counselor, or minister is today. In ancient shamanic traditions, healers (shamans) attempted to restore balance to others by performing sacred rites or ceremonies that usually included prayers, songs, chants, and rituals. They invoked power animals, spirit guides, and allies for assistance in journeying to the other realms in search of healing and wisdom for those in need.
The shaman has long been the archetypal image of one who knows how to use higher love and wisdom to navigate between the worlds of matter and spirit. Shamans are shape-shifters who know how to open to bigger energies in the cosmos, find larger answers to problems and challenges, and bring healing to themselves and their communities.
In traditional shamanism, the shaman is sometimes referred to as the wounded healer- one who has survived a number of trials and initiations (sometimes even near-death experiences) and returned to share the teaching, healing, and wisdom gained from those experiences. Intimately connected to the elements, the cycles of change, the spirit world, and the earth, the shaman knows that we are all multidimensional beings living simultaneously on many planes of existence.
…They were, and are, essential spiritual guides who teach tribe members how to die consciously and rebirth themselves into a greater reality. The shaman innately understands that we continuously move between cycles of death and rebirth. More than just physically dying, we continually die to old ways of being that no longer serve the oath of love and wisdom, and are born into new ways of spirit and consciousness.”
From Shamanic Breathwork (2009) by Linda Star Wolf
Shamanic Breathwork® is a registered trademark of Linda Star Wolf.
Click HERE to learn more about Star Wolf and Venus Rising.
We’d also like to extend our gratitude to the spirit of Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, Seneca Wolf Clan elder and spiritual grandmother to Star Wolf. Grandmother Twylah’s indigenous teachings and wisdom are deeply honored and remembered through this work.