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Primal Painting and the Shamanic Journey
Both primal painting and the shamanic journey are tools for accessing our own innate inner wisdom. Riding on the drumbeat the shamanic journey allows us to visit our personal Upper and Lower World landscapes. A sequence of free paintings done one on top of the other allows those landscapes to emerge and the final canvas is a gift to you from your unconscious. Rather than being responsible for the picture you create you are responsible to it. From a quiet meditative place you can draw out of the colours, shapes and forms images which will speak to you of deep inner knowing. No conventional 'artistic' experience or 'ability' are needed, just a willingness to re-connect to the creative 'elf within and play!
Exploring the Medicine Walk
This is one of the fundamental building blocks of shamanic work. When you cross a threshold into Sacred space and Sacred time and walk with a clearly focussed intent then everything that happens during that time out in Nature is part of the teaching that you receive. By then telling your story and having it mirrored back to you, you are able to access the medicine {teachings} it contains.
First steps over the hollowbone bridge - an introduction to shamanic journeying
Shamanic journeying is an ancient technique which gives us access to the wisdom and help available from the Spirit World. On this weekend you will spend time out in Nature, learn to travel on the drumbeat to start exploring both your Lower and Upper World landscapes. In the Lower World you will meet with your power animal and you will find a teacher in the Upper World, as well as learning simple ways of bringing back healing for yourself and others. There will be time spent grounding these experiences so they can start to bring transformation to your life here in the Middle World.
This workshop, or similar, is a pre-requisite for all other journey based workshops
The Four Shields - a chart to plot your course by
This workshop provides an opportunity to start exploring your own unique shield system - a set of ancient maps that can help you to plot your course along the path to becoming fully human. We cycle the wheel of the directions once in a lifetime and many times a day. By spending time out in Nature and by telling the stories of your adventures you will connect with
The South - the place of childhood
The West - the place of adolescence
The North - the place of eldership
The East - the place of Spirit and rebirth
You wi'' also make a shamanic journey to the sacred Spirit of each direction, bringing back a symbol to help you create your own personal medicine shield
Whether you wish to mark a landmark birthday, your transition into adulthood, parenthood or eldership, or some other milestone in your personal life, these weekends are an opportunity to do this in ceremony. It is a chance to experience time out alone in Nature either from sunset to sunrise or vice versa. The story that you bring back, and will have mirrored back to you, will be the teaching that you receive from Spirit at that time.
Mini Vision Quests
I offer both sunset to sunrise night sits and dawn to dusk days out in Nature.
The vision Quest is a traditional Rite of Passage used to mark the transition from one stage of life to another. It has been used in many cultures from time out of mind but, apart from 'hatches, matches and despatches' these initiatory ceremonies have largely been lost from our present day society.
CRAFT BASED COURSES
As well as making shamanic tools I am keen to de-mystify the process and encourage people to put their own energy into the creation of their most precious and powerful shamanic tools. I am happy to do this on a 1:1 basis as well as with small groups. As a rule I work with and have available elk rawhide imported from the US though in autumn I sometimes have deerskins from animals culled from the herd on the Holker Hall Estate which I turn into the rawhide which I turn into drums and rattles. If yoiu are interested in creating your own deerhide drum from the skin onwards then please get in touch.
The craft based courses run from my studio/workshop/home in Settle.
WORKSHOP DATES 2008
March 15th&16th - The Four Shields. Yurt based. Cost £135 including art materials
March 29th&30th - Exploring the Medicine Walk. Yurt based. Cost £120
April 12th - Make a rattle, bead a feather. Yurt based. Cost £80
April 13th - Craft a drum. Yurt based. Cost £200, book both days for £265
April 19th&20th - We are the Wild Women, rite of passage for the menopause. Yurt based .Cost £120
May 3rd/4th&5th - Primal Painting & the Shamanic Journey. Yurt based. Cost £150 inc all art materials.
May 30th(eve)/31st& June 1st (midday) - Mini day Vision Quest. Yurt based. Cost £135
June 21st - Make a rattle, bead a feather. Yurt based. Cost £80
June 22nd - Craft a drum. Yurt based. Cost £200, book both for £265
July 19th&20th - Mini Night Vision Quest. Yurt based. Cost £135
August 16th/17th&18th - Primal Painting & the Shamanic Journey. Yurt based. Cost £150 including all art materials.
SEPTEMBER 4th(eve)/5th/6th&7th -BASIC INTRODUCTION TO DEPOSSESSION & CURSE BREAKING with BETSY BERGSTROM, first time outside the USA. To be held in Newmarket, price on application. Further details www.betsybergstrom.com
September 20th&21st - First Steps. Yurt based. Cost £120
October 4th - Make a rattle, bead a feather. Yurt based. Cost £80
October 5th - Craft a drum. Yurt based. Cost £200. Book both for £265
October 18th&19th - Working with the Ancestors. Yurt based. Cost £120
November 8th - A Day of Divination. Settle area (weather dependent). Cost £55
December 6th - Make a rattle, bead a feather. Settle based. Cost £80
December 7th - Craft a drum. Settle based. Cost £200. Book both for £265
To book on any of the above please send a non -refundable deposit of £35 to
Robyn Fell, PO Box 29, Settle, N.Yorks BD24 9ZL
at least a week before the date of the workshop when full directions etc will be sent to you.
Any queries please don't hesitate to contact me on 01729 824693 or robynfell@yahoo.co.uk
I look forward to working with you.
WORKING WITH ANCESTORS
Behind us lie the ancestors of the past whist before us stretch the ancestors of the future.
Samhein is traditionally the time when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest and making connection with ancestors of the past at its simplest.
Using the shamanic journey we will travel to meet the Spirit of our Ancestors, whether of the blood or spirit lines, to ask what ceremonies or rituals we might perform to bring healing to those who have travelled this path before and those who might tread this way in times to come.
We will also journey to meet the Spirit of the Ancestors of the land on which we live, to ask what we might do to bring healing to our landscape; and we will dream for our Ancestors of the future.
A DAY OF DIVINATION
Seeking answers to our innermost questions has been a human pursuit since time immemorial & all manner of devices exist to help with such predictions, from the Oracle at Delphi through to Rune stones and Tarot cards. On this one day workshop we will use the clouds and the stones we find around us to help one another find answers to some of these heartfelt questions, while having fun in the process. We will also work with the Sidhe, an ancient Nordic tradition in which a seeress makes a shamanic journey on behalf of the community bringing back messages and teachings from the Spirit World, she is then also able to give answers to questions from individual petitioners.