{"id":374,"date":"2019-05-11T22:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakenleaf.co.uk\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-05-11T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:40:23","slug":"may-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"May Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking with the land is a rich and powerful part of my daily practice;\u00a0to walk as a part of the natural world brings many health benefits. I work with the local cycles of nature as a indicator of where we are within this cycle. Here\u00a0in Perthshire the\u00a0hawthorn is not in flower as yet, which is when I\u00a0acknowledge the full arrival of Beltane. However\u00a0the creative\u00a0power and fertility is really moving and the land is changing daily- It is a real joy to feel and witness this. We may well feel this creativity and fertility flowing through us at this time as well as we are part of this natural cycle. So may the fertile and creative blessing&#8217;s of Beltane\u00a0be yours.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a update on upcoming workshops.\u00a0In July I am offering a day event, &#8220;creating and working with altars&#8221; as well as a\u00a0Friday evening and weekend workshop &#8220;ceremony for everyday and everyone&#8221;. I aim for this to bring a strong support for our daily spiritual practice .<\/p>\n<p>These workshops are open to anyone that feels they may be\u00a0helpful to them\u00a0so no shamanic experience needed.\u00a0I\u00a0again am\u00a0offering the &#8220;remembering our shamanic way&#8221; in June, a weekend introductory\u00a0to shamanism\u00a0workshop.<\/p>\n<p>In September I am very excited to offer &#8220;listening to the trees&#8221;, a nine month journey of partnership and friendship with the trees. This is a series of 9 day workshop to grow deep relationships with the trees for healing, guidance and wisdom. Full details of all workshops are up now on my website, if you feel these would support your spiritual and shamanic life, do get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking with the land is a rich and powerful part of my daily practice;\u00a0to walk as a part of the natural world brings many health benefits. I work with the local cycles of nature as a indicator of where we are within this cycle. Here\u00a0in Perthshire the\u00a0hawthorn is not in flower as yet, which is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/?p=374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May Blessings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakenleaf.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}