Just before I started offering these guided days I was asked to do a video to help some students with their coursework. They wanted to focus on the tarot initially, but when they heard of my plans and preliminary experiments with spiritual mountain walking for others they wanted some footage of this too. On the …
Continue reading Spirit Animal for Spiritual Mountain WalkingSo it’s taken me a while to find the space to write about these two workshops. Both were very successful with participants gaining a lot from the experience and enjoying the process. In Wales the group was small and very connected, we worked wuite deeping on day one inside and when we walked on day …
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Questions inspired from the energies that can be attributed to the 4 directions: Are the practicalities right for me? Am I open to finding out more about who I am and clearing anything that blocks me? Am I willing to go on an inner and outer quest for my truth? Can I stand back from …
Continue reading Considering the Journeying: Inside Outside workshop – some things to ask yourself: This is a two day workshop I have developed to offer you some specific techniques to work with in your own lives. It is useful to have ways to connect with our deeper selves and with the spiritual realms so we can access what is needed whenever we have a challenge in life and also …
Continue reading Journeying: Inside – Outside A weekend of working with our inner worlds and our outer connection to nature on a mountain walk.
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These are some observations I have made on the sacred space I have been using for the work of the South – changing patterns. In the south I have hazel. Short trees with wounds appropriate for the place of my inner child. There are entwined branches reminiscent of snake. I feel the protection of this …
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The next step was to leave the picture out in nature for around 4 days and allow it to change through weather and animal involvement, and also to return each day to spend some time in contemplation of the issue and decide whether the picture needed to be moved around, added to or changed in …
Continue reading Shamanism Picture Part 3 – Building over the days and final release
So to continue this work I went out into a place in nature near my home. I called into the 4 directions and associated animals, snake, Jaguar, Hummingbird and Eagle and also to Earth Sky and Spirit. This created a sacred space for me to work in. Then I made a frame for my picture …
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I thought I would share some things i am doing in my shamanic practitioner course (with Katie Creuynni) from time to time. Providing examples of how we can interact with nature, for healing and perhaps some ideas about how you can increase your connection to nature wherever you live. So this morning I went running …
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Today I walked up Cadair Idris and while out I wrote some of my musing down to share with you here – often I am very inspired on the hill but find it hard to capture the experience in words once home. This mountain has many stories and myths surrounding it. One is about two …
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I was on the Glyders last week and journeyed intuitively into the mountain – Glyder Fawr specifically and felt I was being shown the character of this wonderful mountain and its symbolic lessons it shows us. We can each do this in wild natural places around us and some of the messages we gain will …
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