The mission of the Educational Center is to teach empowerment and integrity - in assisting people of all ages to gain a strong foundation for their tomorrows - by using Spirituality as the main avenue of learning and connecting with reality.

Wings of Eagles Spiritual Center is an Ancient Wisdom, Creator based school that teaches a combination of Native-American philosophy, Zen philosophy, and modern Christian teachings to empower young people to live life in a way the Creator intended.

The school's curriculum is designed to assist people ages 12 to Infinity, to reach a thorough and concise understanding of spirituality and how it relates to empowering them to obtain a much better life style and assist them in living life to its fullest. These courses are available for anyone who is interested, regardless of their income.

A further mission of the Educational Center is the Spiritual recovery of youth after treatment for addiction or behavioral problems. By teaching through use of Spirituality the importance of self-worth, integrity,

job-related skills, and empowerment, thereby affording them the ability tosucceed in their future endeavors.

Wings of Eagles Spiritual Center [a non profit corporation] has been Dan's passion and vision for the past 57 Years. Reverend Dr. Dan Yellowhawk D.D. has a Doctorate in Divinity from Calgary Theological Institute, and a Bachelors Degree in Criminology from John Jay College in New York. Never finding the correct answers to his many questions in "Organized Religions" Dan branched out on his own to share with others the beliefs of our Native American ancestors that have worked so well, for thousands of years, before greed came into the picture. Dan uses a combination of Native American Spirituality and Zen philosophy, combined with modern Earth Borne Christian teachings; he has instructed tens of thousands in the challenges of leading a meaningful and very fulfilling life.

Dr. Dan Yellowhawk : is a Holy Man and Healer of the Canadian Sioux peoples, having been born three quarters Teton Sioux, with a little Irish thrown in, he likes to say. He has lectured and taught Spirituality all over the United States and Canada, before settling in Washington State. He has acted as consultant on several Native orientated movie sets, setting up scenes for authenticity. Attendance at his Sweat Lodges is sought after by many for its healing powers and true Spirituality.

Ivan {Ten Crows} Rivera-Bours:Is a past student of our Education Center, who has lived the experiences that he is teaching. A very powerful instructor in Spirituality, Ivan will guide you through many avenues in seeking your given path. He currently attends college in Portland. He is a joy to work with by the other instructors, and a powerful mentor and friend to all the students.

Liz {Running Fawn} Manthei : has a culinary arts degree from Le Cordon Bleu, Atlanta, and has studied primitive cooking and survival at Tom Brown Jr's. Tracking School in New Jersey. Liz runs a catering business specializing in high end catering for corporations attending the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta Georgia in April each year. The rest of the year she is at Wings of Eagles Spiritual Center in Washington State living close to nature, cooking for the clan, and experiencing life and spirit each day.

Raymond {Little Feather} Finley: A member of the Kalispell Tribe here in Washington, Raymond is teaching Native Dance, and skills such as Drumming, to our students. Raymond is an accomplished Grass and traditional Dancer, and powerful Medicine person.

Francis {Pawnee} Buckley : has been a blacksmith for over forty years; he is a major attraction at rendezvous and fairs throughout the Northwest. He has taught blacksmithing to thousands of followers. He makes and sells some wonderful artwork.

Dennis {Red Sun Bear} Ervin : is an accomplished instructor in the art of Native style beading. He will teach you how to do the various types and styles. You will make something your first day that you will cherish forever.

All the peoples of the Earth at one time honored and lived lives in tune with nature and the elements. They lived in relatively small groups and had simple needs that did not dramatically impact the environment. Civilization and its attendant legacy has given us centralized government, religion, modern education, science and industry - but in the process we have suffered a great loss. We lost our primary relationship to the Earth and its rich heritage of sacred wisdom. Recently the last remaining keepers of this heritage all over the world have been given signs that now is the time for revealing, sharing, and "remembering" the wisdom of the Old Ways.

The people of today have become dispirited, practicing learned helplessness and alienation. These are aspects of loss of personal power and loss of relationship with Spirit and the connection with the earth. The old ways offered paths to integration and inner strength so that the wisdom gained could in turn be used in the external world for the good of all.

This course is a training program in spiritual development in which we introduce to you ways to "un" or deprogram your thinking, your emotional reactions and even your physical nervous systems so that you can move out of habitual ways into responsive ways. This course of spiritual learning is designed to move you out of a dominant, analytical, linear stance (ego-consciousness) and back into a unitive, organic and balanced one, (a blended consciousness that is strong enough to contain the psychic distance we need in order to fulfill an individual destiny, while still holding participation consciousness that allows us to stay connected and immersed in all that is).

It is designed to heal the learned helplessness with Spirit and connection with the Earth.. In order to do this we present to you exercises and processes that if you really dedicate yourself to experiencing and practicing then, you will re-educate (de-program) your sensory and neural systems. Even the musculoskeletal system of your physical body will de-program and change back to the natural essence of you. You will awaken and integrate your subtle bodies and thus make accessible many potentials which all humans possess and can access, but which are only latent in most of us. You will be able to "hear" what nature has to tell us all, (and has been telling us all along. We just didn't know how to listen anymore), and you will know its meaning for you and the world. You will have visions and your unconscious and repressed forces will be integrated and return into being allies rather than compulsions and addictions that push and drive. Your ego-personality will take its rightful place as an important part, but not the dominating part of the fullness that is you. Your dreams will be guides to right action, rather than only being used to "work-out" repressed and incomplete issues. You will once again dream the Great Dreams of collective humanity that we dreamed as children, but have mostly forgotten as we "mature." You will move along a self-regulating and self-accessing continuum of evolving states of consciousness in which your individual fate, your life-dream, in the sense of destiny, can be known and expressed. You will come to an authentic realization of your destiny. You will "dream" your life awake. For to fail to awaken one's body in this way means that one lives a programmed life-not their own. It is someone else's life who is being pressured to live the "mass dream" of consumer materialism as a robot of "spiritual zombie" (that is so susceptible to advertisements and political and other propaganda, etc.). You will find and know your soul.

And this course teaches the activation and accumulation of personal power (sometimes called "presence" or "beingness" through the awakening of your spiritual body. We also stress the realization that "personal power" is impersonal and can be used for "good" or for "evil" (to harm or control others). Power is energy and energy does not enter into the dualistic realm of "right" and "wrong." It is to the human part of us that the responsibility of discernment is given.

This course is also about an actual experience of Spirit, God, Shekinnah, Great Spirit, Creator, Mother/Father God, etc. rather than belief in Spirit, God, etc. It is a direct experience not a mediated experience. It is not about belief, but more about tangible experience and direct personal connection to the "larger forces" which mystics and shamans have. It is a lived practice, not a network of beliefs. The exercises and processes are based on and are derived from proven methods, (older than recorded time) that enable humans to have a direct experience of Spirit.

We also talk about reality and the fact that what we perceive as reality is programmed by us. It is a consensus agreement. In other words we code reality and label some things as reality and others not because of a whole set of beliefs and mental attitudes. Therefore "reality" to us mirrors what we think it SHOULD be rather than what it is. One of the goals of this course is to examine our beliefs and mental attitudes (awaken ourselves) so that we can know just what we are programming reality to be and make the decision whether it is what we really want or need reality to be given the challenges, crises, AND opportunities of the times.