An introductory experiential workshop for men and women

We live in times of challenge and change, within ourselves, our families, our aspirations, local issues and global problems. Many of us struggle to make sense of these challenges, and in that struggle find ourselves pushed towards an exploration of our ‘Spiritual side’ knowing intuitively that in this exploration we may receive guidance and answers to questions that we carry. But where do we start?

 

Shamanism is a time-tested system for gaining clarity on pressing concerns, healing the Self, the community and our planet, and can be traced back through time to the period of our earliest ancestors. It allows us to access a state of awareness in which we can feel and be informed by Spirit, and perceive the interconnectedness with each other and the greater universe. But how do we access this elusive state of mystical awareness? Through the shamanic journey.

 

For many the shamanic journey brings about a sense of joy – the joy of coming home.
It offers a body of practical methods that enable us to connect with, and then express, our own spirit. We can rediscover our own spiritual authority; through communing with ancestral spirit teachers in non-ordinary reality who come to offer us guidance, support and love. Our spirit help may come in the form of an animal, a human, a known figure or loved one.

 

Our aim in this workshop is to offer an introduction to the shamanic journey, exploring with safety and support. We will work with the drum, our voices, modern technology and various movement techniques to experience leaving this ordinary reality, journeying to non-ordinary reality then returning to ordinary reality.

 

The workshop will introduce you to

 

: the cosmic geography of the Shamanic world

: the Axis Mundi

: the Shamanic Journey

: meeting your power animals and kin

 

This is not a workshop about meditation or relaxation; the active skill of journeying will be taught at an introductory level.  Once you have experienced ‘journeying’, and may see how it might be applied in your life, there will be further opportunities to develop and deepen in the work.

 

“Shamanism goes far beyond a primary self-concerned transcendence of ordinary reality. It is transcendence for a broader purpose, the helping of humankind. The enlightenment of shamanism is the ability to light up what others perceive as darkness, and thereby to see and to journey on behalf of humanity that is perilously close to losing its spiritual connectedness with all its relatives, the plants and animals of this good earth”

 

Dr Michael Harner (Way of the Shaman 1980)

 

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