A weekend workshop in Bath 14 – 15 February 2010

Cords run back through the ages connecting us through our ancestral lines to the many men and women who walked this earth before us. Life moulded them as it moulds us. And their influence is felt by us today. We experience it in ourselves and we experience it in the patterns we see in our families. Our hearts resonate to the same rhythms as did theirs. From some, we gain wisdom and loving understanding. But others send us their messages of despair and bitterness. Here is an opportunity to clear and heal these old patterns for ourselves and for those who come after us.

Working with shamanic techniques and ceremonial ways, we will explore what our ancestral lines hold for us and heal some of the old woundings that we may carry. Together we will make ceremony to honour those who made us who we are today and to honour the forgotten ones so that they may rest.

The Sacred Wheel of Life :
working with the Council Wheel and the Healing Circle

with Annie Spencer

A weekend workshop in Bath on 14 -15 February 2009

“In many ways, this Circle, the Medicine Wheel, can best be understood if you think of it as a mirror in which everything is reflected…the Medicine Wheel is the total Universe” Hyemeyohsts Storm

The Medicine Wheel can open the universe up to us in a myriad ways. This weekend we will explore it through the council wheel and the healing circle.

On the first day we will learn to sit council: to hold the energies of different places on the wheel, look at problems and allow the wheel to move us to a solution harmonious to all.

On the second day, having familiarised (or re-familiarised) ourselves with the eight directions of the wheel, we will deepen and learn how to walk through its gateways into different dimensions. Calling for healing and protection from the beings we may meet, we will learn how to work to restore balance and healing to others.

Medicine Wheel teachings heal by bringing a person back into balance both internally and in their relationship to the world that surrounds them. When we sit circle in a Medicine Wheel healing circle we call on all the beings in the natural world for their help.

ANNIE SPENCER: A Ceremonialist and workshop leader with an Oxford MA and a diploma in Humanistic Psychology, Annie has been running groups for over 20 years. Annie has worked with indigenous teachings from the Americas for more than two decades. She was apprenticed in a North American tradition and is currently studying Mayan teachings from Guatemala. Annie has undertaken ceremony at Macchu Picchu, sat sweatlodge in North America with elders from the Mi’kmaq and Ho Chunk Nations and studied with Lorraine Mafi Williams, the Native Australian elder. Annie works with the traditions of this land and has celebrated for many years the Celtic Fire Festivals. As a teacher, Annie opens pathways for others – illuminating their life’s journeys. Her primary interest is the renewal of ancient ceremonial forms for creating a path of beauty upon Grandmother Earth.

Cost: £110 (some concessions available)

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