Are you interested in experiencing the Medicine Wheel?
March 25, 2013
Two dear friend of mine are facillitating a series of workshops over the coming months, I urge you take a look and if you feel drawn to work with the medicine wheel, then please book a place on the first workshop…………
WORKSHOP ONE: Saturday 20 to Sunday 21st April 2013
SOUTH
The Way of the Serpent: Truth and Beauty
In this workshop we learn about our birth, our connection to the Mother and about our living home, Planet Earth. We learn how to make deep, intuitive and energetic connections with Nature and begin to understand what it means to be part of the Living Cosmos.
We work with the archetypal symbol Serpent, sometimes feared, sometimes revered in the contrary World of Men. We explore Serpent’s essential female nature and beauty, her Earth-bound wisdom, her life-giving properties and the Medicine she offers us: Truth and Beauty. With her Medicine we dive into the depths of who we are, we are confronted with who, through the years, we have become and she teaches us the Way of Beauty through the constant practice of Letting Go. She shows us how to shed our past and all the things we have clung onto the way that she sheds her skin: all in one piece. She thus shows us that life is an endless series of deaths and rebirths as we learn to come to terms and celebrate who we are and what we have right NOW, in this moment.
DAY ONE (Saturday 20th April)
- Introductions and opening of Sacred Space
- Working with the Energy Body: a practical session learning how to access the energies of the Upper World and Mother Earth to support and strengthen one’s own luminous field
- Despacho: a traditional Andean prayer mandala to invoke the tutelary spirit of Sachamama
- A guided journey to the Middle World: the Sacred Garden. This journey takes us to the pristine rivers, forests, meadows and mountains of the untainted Middle World which was given to us by the Creator to enable us to delight in the pleasures of being human. Here we encounter two Trees: the Tree of Beauty and the Tree of Truth representing an essential duality of human life.
- The Medicine Bundle: an introduction to the Shaman’s toolkit and how to work with sacred stones to track energy and facilitate healing.
- Sand Painting work: learning how to use objects from Nature to create an individual Mandala to come to understand who we are and where we source ourselves from. We will return to these sand paintings throughout the workshop to help process different experiences over the weekend.
- Sachamama, Great Serpent: story-telling and movement will help us understand the essence of this mythical, archetypal being who will support our work throughout the weekend.
- River of Life: we will each create a sacred “timeline” to represent key moments which have shaped our lives. This will help us “see”, from a shamanic perspective, who we have become and where we source ourselves from energetically.
- Sachamama’s Journey: a guided journey, supported by Sachamama, to take us down our Rivers of Life and to begin the process of shedding the past.
- Fire Ceremony: we learn how to build a Sacred Fire and then how to work with this most powerful of the four elements to support our work.
DAY TWO (Sunday, 21st April)
- Fire Breathing and the Three Centres of Power: we learn how to stoke our internal fire and how to awaken the three centres of shamanic power that reside within us.
- Walking Meditation: learning how to walk in harmony with nature and how to exchange energies with one of the most powerful of Nature’s beings: trees.
- The Twin Trees: within our Sacred Space we use ancient Andean techniques to help us create a web of energy between two trees which will represent the essence of our work in the South: Truth and Beauty.
- Creating and performaing ritual: here we learn how to bring ceremony and ritual together in order to engage directly in the weaving together of Truth and Beauty, supported by Nature and assisted by our Power Animal for this workshop, Sachamama.
- Infinity Dance: as we dance in Sacred Space, between the Twin Trees representing Truth and Beauty, we begin to understand how this is really a Cosmic Dance. And through dance, we begin the process of transformation and awakening. We become initiates in the Shaman’s Way.
- Closing ceremony with Talking Stick
COST
£100: This includes all teaching, evening meal on Saturday, overnight stay, breakfast and lunch on Sunday and also includes £15 booking fee payable in advance (see “To Book” below).
FACILITATORS
Neil Brocklehurst and Ali Rabjohns are experienced shamanic practitioners who have trained with Alberto Villoldo and the Four Winds Society and with Juan and Ivan Nuñez del Prado and run regular workshops and healing sessions for groups and individuals. You can find out more about Neil at www.peruvianenergyhealing.com and Ali at www.lucidhealing.co.uk
VENUE
Abney Scout and Guide Training and Residential Centre, Newlands Road, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 2PD http://www.abneycentre.org.uk/AbneyMap6.pdf
HOW TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
To book your place please phone Healthy Spirit on 0161 434 6784, or call in to the shop at 37 Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6TW. You can find out more about Healthy Spirit at www.healthy-spirit.com You will be asked to pay a £15 deposit per workshop and make this payable to Healthy Spirit. The remaining balance of £85 per workshop will be payable either in cash or cheque to the facilitators one week prior to each workshop.
MORE INFORMATION:
Please phone Neil on 07985 211975 or visit his website www.peruvianenergyhealing.com
Acceptance
February 26, 2013
Serpent’s gifts are practicing non attachment, non judgement, seeing everything just as it is…………..
Walk the beauty way, see beauty in everything, everyone, every situation……. think of a world where everyone holds space of acceptance and love; a family.
I came across this video today, you can skip to 1.50 and then just sit back and listen about family and acceptance, this is walking the beauty way with serpent
The beautiful illustration of serpent is by GEORGIA PERRY, look up her website she has some amazing things CLICK HERE
connection to the true wild
February 24, 2013
A friend posted this quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estes this morning, I wold like to share with you these wise words to remind you to listen to that call from the wild
The way to maintain one’s connection to the wild
is to ask yourself what is it that you want.
One of the most important discriminations we can make
in this matter is the difference between things
that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.
When we are connected to the instinctual self,
to the soul of the feminine which is natural and wild,
then instead of looking over whatever happens
to be on display, we say to ourselves,
“What am I hungry for?
” Without looking at anything outwardly, we venture inward and ask,
“What do I long for?
What do I wish for now?
What do I crave?
What do I desire?
For what do I yearn?”
It takes spirit, will, and soulfulness
and it often means
holding out for what one wants.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Tranquility in snow
February 23, 2013
My snow Mandala
Velvet Shoes
Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of white lace.
I shall go shod in silk,
And you in wool,
White as white cow’s milk,
More beautiful
Than the breast of a gull.
We shall walk through the still town
In a windless peace;
We shall step upon white down,
Upon silver fleece,
Upon softer than these.
We shall walk in velvet shoes:
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.
Elinor Wylie
cast all the old away to make room for the new
February 22, 2013
| Be Transformed in a New LifeCast all the old away to make room for the new. Open your eyes and behold nature all around you: a tree has to rid itself of all its old dead leaves before the new growth can spring forth in its full glory. The seed must break through its old skin before it can grow and flourish; it has to leave all the old behind to wither and die away. When a baby chick hatches out of its shell, it does not cling onto the old shell but leaves it behind forever and is transformed in a new life; so with each one of you. Leave all the old behind as you advance into the new. Never look back or hanker for anything of the old even if at the time it seemed very good. There are far more wonderful things in the New so never be afraid or reluctant to leave all the old behind.
this piece was sent to me from FINDHORN this morning, though I would like to share this with you the painting is one of my creative endeavours |
How to grow a mandala from seed
February 22, 2013
this is such a wonderful thing to do…………….. watch and try
As Above So Below
February 12, 2013
A huge big thank you to everyone who came to our 3 day event in Malta, what an amazing journey we shared of sound, movement, ritual and ceremony A memorable experience indeed, so much positive feedback feel quite overwhelmed.
