IMMERSION

This is a unique opportunity to dive deep into community and experience the medicine of nature-based spirituality with fine company, friends and family. Over 4 days in the heart of spring we will explore the shamanic circles, cycles and spirals of ‘soul-centricity' and discover ways in which the ego can be a delivery system for soulful living. We will spend deep imaginal time together in community and dream life affirming visions into being through creative dances and embodied shamanic practices and rituals. 

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The ground will be Belonging, Respect and Encouragement.

The intention will be Revelation, Resolution and Resurrection.

The medicine will be Nature, Embodiment, Shamanism and Community.

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This will be a profoundly nourishing immersion into nature, nurture and ultimately our own true natures. It will invite a maturing evolution, a love revolution, in which we gather the tools and resources to embrace our wholeness and retrieve and alchemise our golden gifts that are hidden in the shadows and the wounded parts of our life stories.

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We understand that Acceptance, Intention, Gratitude, Forgiveness and Celebration are Golden Keys and that Patience, Resilience, Presence, Humility, Discernment and Discipline are required to harness our innate power and creativity as blessings and gifts to ourselves, each other, our communities, ancestors/ descendents and all of life.

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We will dip into a deep medicine bag of shamanic rituals and tools, including Cabana/Sweat Lodge, Wild Awake Night Vigil, Movement Medicine, nature based explorations and meditations, commune with the medicinal plant spirits of Rapé, Sananga and Cacao.

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NATURE WANDERS & IMAGINAL JOURNEYS 

 

The land that will hold us in Llaneglwys, near Brecon in Wales is absolutely stunning, with acres of woodland, a river flowing through, rolling hills and breath taking views of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains in the surrounding areas. The elements are alive and vital here and there will be plenty of time to immerse in them and to listen and learn from these primal ancestors.

Self reflections and creative expressions organically emerge when we meet nature with an attitude of receptivity, reciprocity, wonder, awe, gratitude, curiosity and respect.

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When we wander with wonder and allow our whole being, our soma, to deeply commune with, to be in relationship with, nature a sacred marriage can happen where profound trans species interactions may become more tangible and our imaginations may open portals to

a deeper knowing of our wildness and the mytho-poetic language of our souls where there is really no separation between our personal consciousness and the consciousness of all of life.

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When we listen deeply the trees speak deep wisdom on our wild wanderings as the winds dance through the branches and the sky dancers birds sing us back home to ourselves.

A multitude of beings may reveal themselves as allies on our personal path when we open our senses to receive guidance.

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CABANA

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Purification Lodge is a sacred place where we clean our bodies, emotional, spiritual, mental, physical and release anything that is ready to be released that is no longer serving us.

It is a place for  dreaming new visions and re-programming ourselves, reclaiming original imprints of ourselves, blessing and healing hearts, bodies and minds.

 

This is an ancient ritual that taps into the  ancestral wisdom of our grandparents, the human ones and the elements: fire, earth, water, air.

We enter the womb of the Great Mother to be re-born again. In that sense it is both womb and tomb, and symbolises the cycles of life, death and rebirth.

Cabana is also referred to as Grandmother Spider, who works on the web of healing, weaving the threads of our destiny.

She is very generous to those who are open to receiving and going through the portal of possibilities that she opens for us in our bodies, hearts, minds and souls.

 

You can hear the rush of the river when immersed in the Sweat Lodge - Cabana and cleanse and the herbal bath will further sanctify this experience, as we receive the energy of the plants that wash over our bodies, clarify our minds and open our hearts. 

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Aluna and Keef are both initiates of the Brazilian shaman and psychologist XamAM - Alba Maria  from Terra Mirim, Brazil. The cabana is therefore deeply aligned with this lineage and is part of the path of the Mother Goddess and the 4 Elements.

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8 HOUR WILD AWAKE NIGHT VIGIL

 

 For the Night Vigil we will spend the night, from sunset to sunrise, in deep prayer and contemplation, solo, in a special place that calls to us in the magical woodlands. Whilst this practice is closely related to Vision Quest, it is not a Vision Quest as such, which usually takes place over several days and nights and is a powerful medicine in its own right.

It is a powerful introduction to this type of practice and in our experience is likely to be both challenging, charming and revelatory about the landscape of our psyches, souls and the mystical ancient lands that hold us for the night. The waxing moon at this time will undoubtedly inspire the embodiment of awakening dreams.

For the sunset to sunrise Wild Awakening Night Vigil this communion with life will be amplified in the moonlit night as we explore the landscapes of our psyches and souls.

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MOVEMENT MEDICINE

 

'it is a shamanic medicine for our times. It gives us direct, embodied experience of the dance of life that’s going on inside us and all around us. As a species, we face enormous challenges right now that we see as arising from the story of separation; separation between body and spirit, between individuals and nations, between the human world and the web of life we are part of and depend upon. Simply put, Movement Medicine reconnects us, deepening our capacity for empathy and compassionate being and action. Since prehistory, dance, song and ritual-making have played an important role in the human community. Movement Medicine is a contemporary expression of this inheritance. It marries ancient and modern wisdom, and supports you to experience the transformative power of your own potential in a co-creative community.' Susannah and Ya'acov Darling Kahn -Co-Founders of The School of Movement Medicine

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Keef is a 1st generation Movement Medicine Teacher and Wild Soul Mentor.

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DANCE CEREMONY & CACAO MEDICINE

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With the support of the beautiful heart expanding medicine CACAO we will ride the waves of the music, guided by the mysterious choreography of our sacred bodies, hearts, minds and breath. With an eclectic medicine bag of Movement Medicine tools and teachings on offer we invite you to root deeply, dance wildly and resource yourself in these unprecedented times we are living through on our beautiful Mother Earth.

There is an abundance of energy available to us when we remember we are elemental beings intrinsically interconnected through the web of life. Blessed we are to dance on this ground! So let's dance for our lives and the love of all life!

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Keef and Aluna will encourage you with poetic inspiration and rhythmic soul food and serve up an eclectic mix of tribal-rhythms, indigenous-inspirations, songs, mantras, drums and rattle. We will give thanks and praise to this day, this life, this moment. This is the way we pray. This is the way we meet the day. This is The Choice , if you choose: Say YES to life today and dance.

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SACRED PLANTS: Cacao, Rapé (ha’peh) ,Sananga 

 

In many traditions Cacao is seen as a sacred plant medicine and celebrated for its capacity to open hearts to feeling, intimacy and deepening grounded empathy. It is known as 'The Food for the Shift'. An Indigenous myth tells us whenever the balance between humans and nature becomes threatened, cacao comes from the rainforest to open people's hearts and return us all to harmony. Ceremonial grade cacao is a sacred plant also known as the “blood of the heart” is an important, powerful, and previously overlooked teacher, facilitator and

a medicine. The Cacao Spirit ‘returns’ – from a long history with Indigenous peoples.

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Rapé is a sacred shamanic medicine snuff. It has been used by tribes of the Amazon basin for thousands of years and is an essential part of their tribal culture and history.

It is administered (blown) into the nostrils with a special blowpipe called a "Tepi". 

It is traditionally prepared by ceremonial pounding of Tabaco (N. rustica) with tree ashes. South American shamans use tobacco as a sacred, wholesome medicine and there exists a very close connection between tobacco use and shamanism that has little in common with our western way of tobacco use. The intense blow immediately focuses the mind, stops the chattering, and opens the entire freed mindspace for your intentions. Furthermore, this helps release emotional, physical, and spiritual illnesses and eases negativity and confusion, enabling a thorough grounding of the mind. Moreover, Rapé stimulates the mind with its nicotinic content that in turn releases a.o. epinephrine, acetylcholine, and dopamine, supporting an increased focus, presence, and intuition.

 

Sananga is an intense and powerful medicine which is applied to the eye in the form of eye drops. It comes from the bark and root of a shrub from the family Apocynaceae in the Amazon rainforests and is used as a sacred eye medicine to relieve the energetic system of ‘Panema’ - negative energy/cellular laziness - especially around the head area. It is said to improve sight, colour and sense perception for hunting, as well as clearing energetic mucous around the head which can cause colds, flu, headaches and migraines. It can loosen and dissolve energetic mucus all around the body and its use can help with all kinds of energetic stagnation related to a lack of concentration or insight, or neuroses. 

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CHAMBERS OF THE HEART movement & council

 

Throughout our time together we will work with the Movement Medicine ‘Animal Intelligence and the Chambers of the Heart’ map. We will engage with this as a model for our sharing circles to feel what needs to be felt and express what needs to be expressed in a safe, non-judgemental space, where we can witness and be witnessed in the emergent emotional landscapes of our heart. We will dive deeper into these contemplations in our wanderings on the land, our Wild Awakening Night Vigil, in the Cabana -sweat lodge and in ritualised movement practices. 

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• Chamber of Awakening / Fear

• Chamber of Surrender / Sorrow

• Chamber of Integrity / Anger

• Chamber of Gratitude / Joy

• Chamber of Grace / Compassion

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IMPORTANT: all participants must read thoroughly and agree to the AWAKENING THE WILD - general disclaimer for the work offered.