The Walking Stick Foundation, a Jewish nonprofit organization, will conduct a retreat “From Torah to Tipi” Thursday through Monday, Dec. 10 through 14, at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University in Simi Valley.

The retreat will highlight ancient Jewish mystery wisdom known as “Aboriginal Judaism,” which features teachings about animal medicine, stones having soul, the powers and colors of the four directions and shamanic journeying that appears to align the Jewish tradition with Native American spirituality.

One of the retreat teachers is former Dineh (Navajo) medicine carrier Shawn Price of New Mexico who converted to Judaism. He will share some of his native traditions and beliefs.

The other teachers are Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, Rabbi Miriam Maron and Rabbi Gershon Winkler.

Hammerschlag is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and author of “The Dancing Healers, The Theft of the Spirit, and Healing Ceremonies.” He is on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School.

Maron is a spiritual healer in private practice, a singer/songwriter with seven albums, and a teacher of workshops and seminars on Jewish shamanic and Kabbalistic healing modalities.

Winkler, a Thousand Oaks resident, founded Walking Stick and organized the retreat. He is the author of “Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism.” He also teaches adult education classes on Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah for Temple Beth Torah in Ventura.

Walking Stick Foundation, formerly based in New Mexico and now in Thousand Oaks, was founded in 1997 and is dedicated to the restoration and teaching of aboriginal Jewish mystery wisdom.

For more information about the retreat, call Winkler at (805) 795-2996 or visit www .walkingstick.org.