Non Residential Events:

Opening to the Dreamtime

with Annie Spencer and Cathy Shea
2 - 3 July 2011

in the magical city of Brighton

According to the First Peoples of Australia, the dreamtime exists in another dimension parallel to our own.  It is by singing its songs and walking its pathways that humans can help keep all of creation in balance.  For the Guatemalan Mayans this is done by feeding the beings in the unseen world; and in the shamanic tradition we journey into other dimensions to bring back healing for others.

 In this workshop we will explore various forms of entering the dreamtime:
journeying, sacred dance, divination, prayer and chant; and through all will run the thread of ceremony. We will learn how to arrive and leave safely, how to  find guides and honour guardians.  Our intent will be to learn how we may help keep the world in balance; and how to bring back healing for ourselves and others.

Cost £120. Some concessions may be available. To book, send a £50 deposit (cheque to HARTWELL) to Hartwell, 14 Eastville, Bath BA1 6QN. For further information, phone Annie on 01225 312728 or email info@hartwell.eu.com.

Claiming Our Shields with Annie Spencer

A weekend workshop in Bath

Sat 27 - Sun 28 November 2010

In the Native American tradition, the Medicine Wheels teach that we all have different shields which we present to the world and which express different aspects of our being. Sometimes we are unaware of the shields that we have constructed for ourselves. This may lead us to protect ourselves in inappropriate or harmful ways.

Claiming our shields helps us to become more aware of ourselves: our physicality, our emotional make up, our belief systems and our spiritual calling. We learn where we function well, where we might choose to develop or where we need to heal ourselves. We learn of the ways that we operate out in the everyday world and of the different inner shields who dance in the realms of spirit.

On this experiential weekend we will be introduced to Medicine Wheel teachings and learn the Shields Wheel. We will journey to find our four shields and consider what teachings they hold for us. Working in small groups, we will constellate our different shields and allow them to reveal new ways in which we can come to wholeness and balance. We will learn how to 'spin our shields' so that we may act appropriately in both the inner and outer levels.

Cost £110. Some concessions.

To book: send £50 deposit (cheque to Hartwell) to Hartwell, 14 Eastville, Bath BA1 6QN.

  “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.

Cost:  £110 (some concessions available)