Welcome to Merry Mystics Spirit Camps!
The summer camp where kids learn extraordinary spiritual life skills to empower them to thrive, no matter the challenge.
And have a blast.
IMPORTANT
Merry Mystics Spirit Camps has been discontinued as of March 2024 due to personal reasons. This site will stay up for informational purposes through Fall 2024 🌻
Located in Portland, OR
What if we had an "owner's manual" for our bodies at a young age?
Or had our power animal to call on for help when we were feeling anxious, lonely, or disconnected?
Or knew how to fix a bad day for ourselves and others?
Or could teach our friends the basics of breathwork and energy healing?
This is the magic of Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp.
Actually, its just the beginning of the magic of Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp!
"This camp experience will help to shape my daughter's whole future. Her knowledge that she is connected to the universe around her will give her so many places to look for strength and support throughout her life. I will definitely be sending her again!"
Bronwen Pierson
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
Hey you!
I'm Ms. Sunflower.
I started Merry Mystics because I know how much the tools and practices we teach would’ve helped me as a child.If I could go back in time, I would’ve...
- Called on my power animal for love and support when the sound of my parents arguing shook the house when I was 5- Used my Inner Champion to help hush the sharp Inner Critic that always reminded me of all my flaws at age 8
Greetings and welcome! I'm so glad you are here :)
- Used my favorite breathing techniques before my entrance in the school musical, Fiddler on the Roof, when I was 12- Returned to self-love when I mercilessly compared myself to other girls when I was 14- Protected my energy and grounded myself when peer pressure began squeezing me at age 16
I don’t have a time-machine, but I do have a platform to empower your children with skills to stand firmly in their personal power. And arrive to the challenges with skill and love guiding them through.
Hey! That's me as a kid... who put that there?!
Because aspects of my story are every child’s story. We all desire to move through fear, hopelessness, sadness, and anger, to return to joy, play, creativity and fun.But...How?
- When Mom says "calm down," how?
- When our teachers say "be yourself," how?
- When grandpa says "listen to your intuition," how?
- When we want to cheer up and feel happy in our bodies, how?
This what we hope all children - and adults - get to learn.
Click below to find out more!
"It is THE camp I wish was available when I was a kid... I can’t say enough amazing things about it! Clara’s been 3 yrs and Vivian went for the first time this year. They learn chakras, breathing exercises, find their animal spirit guides, and using skills for comfort and protection. It’s absolutely amazing!!"
Marylena Chaisson
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
It can be hard to know what skills are most helpful for kids to navigate the challenges of modern living.
At Merry Mystics, we've got more than a few excellent ideas.
Our extraordinary Dancing Jaguar’s Spirit Camp curriculum has been chosen by hundreds of parents and empowered spiritual superstars across the country.
Every child leaves Spirit Camp with a toolbox full of skills to navigate life’s challenges with grace and ease.
We teach from the heart. And best of all, we have FUN learning.
Psst... Does your inner child want to go to camp too? Check out Spirit Camp for Adults!
"Jori has so many tools that she learned at Spirit Camp. I am very grateful in all that you do and what you have taught her. She uses her pendulum often and also delights in her muscle testing abilities. She stayed at her grandparents home for 2 weeks without us for the very first time and having her spirit animal as protection ... made that possible for her....Just last week she showed me how she centers herself with breathing before she did her homework in the evening. Also, one of my favorite things that she shared with me is that she designed a trash can in her imagination. Whenever she has a bad or negative thought she throws it in the trash. I cannot thank you enough for having this camp. It has been a huge resource for her."
Kari Willford
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
Merry Mystics would like to acknowledge the Native people whose traditional homeland is now known today as Portland and Seattle. These include:Portland: Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.Seattle: Coast Salish - specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.We honor with gratitude these tribes and the land itself.
We love sharing about Spirit Camp.How can we guide you today?
IMPORTANT
Merry Mystics Spirit Camps has been discontinued as of March 2024 due to personal reasons. This site will stay up for informational purposes through Fall 2024 🌻
About Spirit Camp
At Merry Mystics, our premiere offering for deepening your child's spiritual empowerment is our 5 day summer day camp, Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp for Kids.
All of your child is welcome here.
We welcome ages 5-12 to join the fun.
The Child with Exceptional Self-Resourcing
We know school nourishes our minds, sports nourishes our bodies, but who nourishes our Inner Being?
That's where Spirit Camp comes in!
When your camper learns to explore their inner world using practices of modern and ancient wisdom, they become empowered to self-resource. This means when trouble arises with themselves or others, they have a wide variety of holistic approaches to choose from to respond, not react.This helps children avoid:
- Making decisions that are not in their best interest
- Getting stuck in other people's negative energy
- Ungroundedness in emotionally challenging situations
- The fear of being unsupported as they follow their dreams
These important skills can last a lifetime, but make no mistake - learning them is fun!
Modules are introduced through games, crafts, songs, and stories.
Kids can't wait for the next day of camp!
Every Hero has their Inner Toolbelt
Every child finishes Spirit Camp with their very own physical “Spirit Toolbox” full of the holistic tools that helped them transform throughout the week. These tools help foster resilience, adaptability, centeredness, and joy! Kids continue to resource their Spirit Camp tools long after the last day of camp, and for many children they become a part of their daily routine.We know what you're thinking. We'll say it: These tools can make tough parenting situations a lot easier (yup, you know the ones.)And parents and caregivers, we want you to experience the Spirit Camp magic too!
Our last day of Spirit Camp includes a Closing Ceremony open to friends and family.
"[My girls] came home full of stories and new knowledge, eager to tell me all about the new adventure they had experienced that day. And at the end of the week, they were in a new and different space with more awareness and consciousness as they went through their days.Now, my youngest will come up and ask if I'd like her to check my chakras and have them cleansed- something that would not have happened before Spirit Camp."
Jessica Peill-Meininghaus
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
What's the Secret?
Here's how our campers become Spiritual Superstars:
Self Confidence & Inner Empowerment
✦ Connect to their inner wisdom and intuition
✹ Discern the voices of their Inner Champion and Inner Critic
✦ Use affirmations to connect with their self worth and power
Connecting to Nature
✦ Practice mindfulness in Nature with all senses
✹ Create crafts with natural materials
✦ Thank Mother Earth with birdseeds from our Sacred Pouches
✹ Understand the importance of the 4 elements and 4 directions
Understanding Energy
✹ Protecting their energy in challenging situations
✦ Tune into and balance their chakras
✹ Cultivate awareness for the “energy bubbles” of ourselves and others
Mind-Body Connection
✦ Cultivate awareness for their own states of groundedness
✹ Use easy and powerful breathing techniques to change their emotional state
✦ Use EFT Tapping to release emotional and physical resistance
✹ Listen for the whisper of our hearts
How to Fix a Bad Day
✦ Access the peace within through visualizations
✹ Make and and utilize Meditation Jars
✦ Finding & using our power animal for inner resourcing
✹ Create a “How to Fix a Bad Day” booklet at the end of the week of all the wisdom they learn at Spirit Camp
Our curriculum is top notch. Are you ready for your child to be more spiritually savvy than most adults? Sign up for camp here:
"My son learned so much ... at Spirit Camp - things that I have only learned and experienced in my adult life.He learned to slow down and truly connect with others and with nature. He felt so empowered from the skills that he learned, and I watched his self-esteem and confidence grow with each day.He is a very active child and he learned how to calm himself through breathing and guided visualizations, and more importantly he learned how his energy flows!Each night after camp he would teach me about the things he learned."
Bodhi Simpson
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
Merry Mystics would like to acknowledge the Native people whose traditional homeland is now known today as Portland and Seattle. These include:Portland: Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.We honor with gratitude these tribes and the land itself.
Workshops, Day camps, & week-long camps
Dates, Locations, and Registration
IMPORTANT
Merry Mystics Spirit Camps has been discontinued as of March 2024 due to personal reasons. This site will stay up for informational purposes through Fall 2024 🌻
"Spirit Camp has provided our child with the tools and ability to dig deep within herself and find the confidence to persist during emotional and physical challenges. These are valuable tools that we should all have the opportunity to cultivate within ourselves! Hearing our 5 year old say, "I GOT THIS!" as a result of channeling her inner champion is a beautiful thing!"
Erika Verrier
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
"The tools my son learned at Spirit Camp will stay with him. He talks about his chakras, about colors and stones, about how to transform heavy emotions, about his power animal! This is terrific stuff. The world will be transformed by a generation of children using and applying these types of teachings. I can't thank you enough!"
Anonymous
Praise for Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Curriculum
Merry Mystics would like to acknowledge the Native people whose traditional homeland is now known today as Portland and Seattle. These include:Portland: Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.Seattle: Coast Salish - specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.We honor with gratitude these tribes and the land itself.
IMPORTANT
Merry Mystics Spirit Camps has been discontinued as of March 2024 due to personal reasons. This site will stay up for informational purposes through Fall 2024 🌻
Spirit camp for adults
Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp for Adults will be an opportunity to deeply nourish and remember the roots of spiritual experience that is our birthright as humans.This is an offering for those who are wondering:
what else is possible here?- How can I open more doorways in my life for Spirit to share abundant blessings with me, and the world?
- Where can I heal that which keeps us separate from the nectar of All That Is?
- How can I untangle the anxieties, fears, and challenges of my life to walk my authentic path with clarity and joy?
- How can I unencumber myself of the impact of my past to shine brightly into the future?
- How can I live MY magic of being a sacred Creator in form?This will be a unique opportunity to co-create a spiritual learning container inclusive of adults of all ages and all walks to life to charge up our personal power and witness the magic with each and every one of us.While we originally planned Spirit Camp for Adults to occur in August 2023, we are honoring the time it takes to create to craft and create this unique offering and allowing the divine timing of this circle to occur in late 2023 or 2024.We hope to this creation time will allow us to bring you an AMAZING facilitation team and a full line up of powerful activities to deeply serve the desires of our group.If you'd like to join a Spirit Camp for Adults, send us a message here and let us know!Please join our email list here to find out when new events are added.Feel free to reach out to home@merrymystics.love for questions. Have a great day! 🌈
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
FAQ 1: Logistics
FAQ 2: Connections & History
FAQ 3: Philosophy
About Lisa
Lisa Swartz is the lead teacher and organizer of Merry Mystics camps and workshops.
Lisa is a heart-centered, playful facilitator of healing and connection. She has evolved deeply through returning to Oneness through dance, yoga, meditation, shadow work, qi gong, connecting to nature, and healing in community. Lisa sought her Dancing Jaguar's Spirit Camp Teacher certification in order to share a sampling of the metaphysical tools that have gracefully guided her to walk an embodied, awakened path. Spirit Camp is what Lisa wishes she had as a kid! Additionally, Lisa is a certified Compassion Key energy work facilitator, Nia Technique White Belt, and holds a BS in physics. She can’t wait to share practical tools to connect your child deeper to their powerful Self and nourish their beautiful Light within.
Stay in Touch
Contact
We welcome all comments and questions! Please use the contact form below or email home@merrymystics.love
Thank you
We'll get back to you as soon as we can. Have an amazing day 💜
Workshops, Day camps, & week-long camps
Dates, Locations, and Registration
Summer 2024 Week-Long Spirit Camps
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| Session | Dates | Age | City | Location | Address | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 19-23 | 5-12 | Portland, OR | Earth Space PDX | 4135 SE Gladstone St. | Click here to register |
| 3/4 | July 17-21 | 5-12 | Portland, OR | West Hills UU | 8470 SW Oleson Rd. | Click here to register |
| 5 | August 7-11 | 5-12 | Portland, OR | Earth Space PDX | 4135 SE Gladstone St. | Click here to register |
Prices & Accessibility:
Week-long camps are $365 per child for early bird registrations before 3/1. Regular registration is $395.
Scholarships are available. Please reach out to home@merrymystics.love for more information.Drop off your camper between 8:45 - 9 AM, pick up between 3:45 - 4 PM.All camp facilities are ADA accessible.For more information on our incredible Spirit Camp for Kids curriculum, check out About Spirit Camp For Kids pageMore information about the Spirit Camp for Adults curriculum coming soon!Got questions? Check out our FAQ page !
Register above by clicking the links in the last column.
Past Events
1. Portland & Seattle Spring 2023 Chakra Shenanigans Workshops
Portland: 2-4:30 PM Saturdays Monthly 2/18, 3/11, 4/8, 5/13
Portland Location:
Earthspace PDX: 4135 SE Gladstone St.
Portland, OR 97202
Seattle: One day only! Sunday March 19th 12:30-2:30 PM
Seattle Location:
Center for Spiritual Living - Seattle
6318 Linden Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
Learn about the energy system in our bodies known as the chakras using songs, art, and games! Make pendulums to access our intuition, learn to use a pendulum to see which chakras are open/closed, and ways to open our chakras.Registration includes a child-made pendulum and chakra stone set.For kids aged 5-12. 4 yrs old ok with parent.$15-$30/child, sliding scale. Parents welcome to join!Same-day sign up available, advance registration preferred.
2. Portland Spring 2023 Saturday Spirit Camp Series
10 AM - 4 PM Every Other Saturday starting 3/18Day #1: 3/18
Day #2: 4/1
Day #3: 4/15
Day #4: 4/29
Location:
Earthspace PDX: 4135 SE Gladstone St.
Portland, OR 97202
Find power through holistic tools: together we'll learn to connect to our intuition, create affirmations, protect our energy, meet our Inner Critic and Inner Champion, find peace through mindfulness, and so much more! Crafts, stories, and songs included.To learn more about our camp curriculum material, check out our About Spirit Camp For Kids page. Activities in our Spring Day Camp series will be drawn from the week-long camp material, plus some activities you'll only find in this series! Each day is different than the others.For ages 5-12.$85/day, $70 with sign-up of 2+ days. Parents welcome to join for some or all!Same-day sign up available, advance registration preferred.