I was part of a ‘spiritual and transformative’\u00a0group in early 2000 that dramatically imploded. We were a gathering\u00a0of dynamic and creative woman and men though this could\u00a0not acknowledged by the ‘teacher’ and the system we were taught under.\u00a0The downfall of this group was that we never addressed our\u00a0shadow and this energy\u00a0was not brought into the light. This experience was a challenging but\u00a0transformative one for many of us\u00a0for\u00a0others it became quite destructive. I have found\u00a0within me is a flow of potentiality from extremes of a\u00a0concentration camp guard to a shining compassionate Buddha. I say\u00a0this as I do\u00a0look and meet\u00a0what is within me both of shadow and light and in many ways as a result of my own personal story\u00a0embracing my light became\u00a0a more challenging encounter.\u00a0Facing\u00a0my own shadow and light has been a courageous blessing and certainly has brought a easier flow to life as I have found\u00a0once I\u00a0start to navigate within its easier to find my\u00a0way outside too. \u00a0What I found however\u00a0is\u00a0 both mine and not mine and\u00a0through various process I work with I can\u00a0bring\u00a0these aspect of being human I hold\u00a0into the light of awareness. (If they are there then they are there and its more helpful to know they are than to deny or pretend they are not!) I say\u00a0both me and not me as when you look into this stuff some of its is ours some we carry for\u00a0our ancestors and our culture, others are conditioned societal responses all that go to\u00a0form our personality for ‘better or worse’ and this all goes into the mix of what we present to the world. Shamanism pushes on the areas that are ‘weak’ in our lives and will strengthen the areas that are already ‘strong’ ultimately this process leads to a integrated\u00a0wholeness that asks us to take responsibility for how we\u00a0play in the world of both ‘shadow and light’. The more aware we are of this the more integrated and natural\u00a0way we can be in the world as we are in a process of\u00a0no longer being a\u00a0slave to this conditioning there is a gap between our responses to events before us. Working with shamanism beyond this form\u00a0I have encountered\u00a0a deeper more authentic flow that we could call the essence or spirit\u00a0of who I am, my souls expression, connecting with this opens up so many new possibilities for a\u00a0personal creative expression\u00a0and offers a\u00a0more authentic place to bring\u00a0form to our\u00a0essence. Shamanism and our helping spirits leads us to this then we may\u00a0enter a process\u00a0to express or resist this quality\u00a0of that ‘which we are’ rather than what we are in our everyday life this unfolding brings the\u00a0potential of great freedom and creativity. I personally\u00a0have found it to be a daily\u00a0dance between personality and essence and sometimes I am in a perfect step and flow and sometimes I stumble and fall without doubt though I am making ‘progress’. In our society we are seeing this dance as while a new awareness and direction is rising\u00a0up with people owning personal power and authority the shadow is pushing hard to dance out its\u00a0dance both personally and collectively\u00a0and if the prophecy of the Mayan is to be, this may well be its final dance. Maybe the blessing of Brexit here in the UK\u00a0is that is has shown the system that is said to govern us for what it really is, so what is left? Well that which there has always been our own personal authority and our own personal nature. This is why shamanism excites me as it is to this place of our\u00a0authority and authentic\u00a0nature that it invites us. As a child I knew this place\u00a0and bounced my way through the various systems as I tried to express this till with no support it wore me down and I had to find a way to survive. My healing journey began with awareness in 1999 and shamanism has been with me since 2006 and is giving strength and a growing carefreeness to bring this nature of who I am out into the light. The process of disentanglement from our personalities so we can play the game in our everyday \u00a0(as we need it\u00a0here!)\u00a0while honouring that essence of what we actually are is a beautiful journey to take a courageous journey for sure but one that is full of riches. Once we encounter\u00a0this essence we can start to identify with it we\u00a0may well\u00a0find we can\u00a0loosen up on life.\u00a0Shamanism has been such a blessing\u00a0as this has been a path I have had to walk. A mantra could be ‘I honour my shadow I honour my light I honour and express\u00a0the essence of that which I am.<\/p>\n
As part of the core of my work\u00a0in opening and deepening to a respectful and\u00a0sacred relationship with\u00a0all\u00a0life I am just finalizing details of workshops for 2020 which all hold my own soul signature. A three day course in “WORKING WITH LAND AS SPIRIT”<\/strong>, as well as a\u00a0series of\u00a0five one day workshops over the year\u00a0connecting and relating\u00a0with the\u00a0elements of “AIR, FIRE, WATER, EARTH and SPIRIT” <\/strong>full details\/date for 2020\u00a0will be up on the website over the next days. I also will offer ‘REMEMBERING OUR SHAMANIC WAY’<\/strong> as a two day introductory workshop to shamanism\u00a0on 23rd\/24th November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was part of a ‘spiritual and transformative’\u00a0group in early 2000 that dramatically imploded. We were a gathering\u00a0of dynamic and creative woman and men though this could\u00a0not acknowledged by the ‘teacher’ and the system we were taught under.\u00a0The downfall of this group was that we never addressed our\u00a0shadow and this energy\u00a0was not brought into the … <\/p>\n