The Sacred Landscape

Everything is alive and everything is connected. During this series we will explore both the landscape around us as 'the visible face of spirit' connecting to the spirits of nature for personal and planetary healing, and the landscape of non-ordinary reality as it relates to the calling together of a holy temenos, a temple, within which to undertake holy or healing work. We will examine the landscape of ourselves as we relate to the interwoven web of all life, undertaking illuminating and liberating practices to enliven our connection to all that is.

Connecting with our helping Spirits and with the Elementals we will inquire into practices that will deepen your relationship with the living, breathing land wherever you are.

Soul Medicine

During these weeks we will look at 'illness' and healing from a shamanic perspective. We will undertake the potent archaic healing technique of power animal retrieval and endeavour to enter into Earth Consciousness by deeply connecting and honouring the strands of awareness and love that weave us into All That Is. We will begin to explore soul retrieval and the extraction of energetic intrusions, also looking at the integration work that is required to make the extraordinary changes that can be wrought using these techniques 'stick'.

As the year progresses each participant will have the opportunity to be mentored through the process of becoming 'The Healer' - receiving one to one feedback on submissions of case studies in these ancient healing arts.

Sovereignty and Service

Here we will interweave oracular and divinatory ceremonies and practices with a continuation of our exploration of our relationship with our Helping Spirits, Nature Spirits, Elementals and The Spirits of The Land. Part of the work is in finding our sovereignty within the landscape of ourselves and bringing this into balance and right relationship with our notions of service. The most effective use of power comes about through equal partnership between us (our free will) and The Spirits.

We will work with a wide range of Oracular and Oneric devices including scrying with water or a Black Mirror, Runes, Oracle and Tarot cards, Ogham Sticks and the creation of your own Oracle Set .

It will be helpfull but not essential to have at least one set of oracle cards or runes of your own already.

The Ancestors

Our meetings will focus on Ancestral Healing - unravelling the tangles in our family lines that we can experience as 'curses' and celebrating the 'blessings'. We will work with the well and wise Ancient Ancestors to bring about healing and honouring for both the Remembered and the Forgotten Recently Dead and ameliorate their affect on the living. We will work specifically with the notion of the 'Witch Wound' within our current psyche (it's there for both men and women) and will also examine and undertake Psychopomp - the role of the Shaman in guiding the Spirits of The Dead from the Middle World to the transcendent realms.

Ongoinly the training will provide ways in which to nourish, protect and empower ourselves as practitioners in service to the human and more than human community.