Celtic Shamanism: A Year-Long Journey around the Celtic Wheel
An online journey around the Celtic Year.
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The Journey Continues after the Session
For those of us who do shamanic work, it’s important to have self care between the sessions. After the session it would be helpful to drink extra water for 4 days to keep you in the flow of the energy. … Continue reading →
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Shamanic Permaculture
Permaculture and the Sacred Pioneer and Visionary, Starhawk, was at the Turtle Island Bioregional Gathering in Mexico that I attended in 1996; she was teaching spontaneous ritual at the time. In fact, so much spontaneity happened during that exciting meeting … Continue reading →
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The Dragon as an Ally
When we think of primal energy and matter, the dragon is one of the most universal images that comes to mind. It has long been associated with the elements and revered in the East, while feared in the West. In … Continue reading →
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Calling In a Container
Calling in a Container: When you are doing intentional shamanic work it is wise to call in the cardinal directions or to form a similar energetic container to assure that the helping spirits “hear” your intention and so that you … Continue reading →
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Altars as spring awakens
Photos of altars at our house in the season of Brigid and the first hint of spring.
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Brigit and the Dragon
Who would have thought I would live to see our friend John Storm’s spirit journey of Imbolc, 2002, manifested and embodied ON EARTH over fourteen years later!! During the recent September Celtic Shamanism workshop in New Brunswick, we followed the … Continue reading →
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Moving Journeys
or: Why I don’t journey like the Harner model and why I don’t care! by David Sherwood There is a full moon drumming group in Eastern Ontario that was born from the EarthSea lineage. I have been participating since it … Continue reading →
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Feeding My Demons, Spring Equinox 2015
Last night was one where I faced one of my self-loathing demons again and again while lying in bed. I have been willing to work with compassion toward them, and when Feeding Your Demons jumped off the shelf a few years … Continue reading →
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Shamanism & The Moving Mandala
This is my story: I am sharing here is because many of you have had synchronicities, visions, loss, spiritual crises, miracles, and illness, and are seeking to find a framework to put them in for understand your place in the … Continue reading →
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Shields: Gallery
The Practice of Altar Making
When we have no time, no place for our sacred selves, an antidote may be to build an altar at home. By focusing on a little corner or shelf or alcove, we can open up to creating more of that … Continue reading →
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Altars: Gallery
Here is a gallery of altars created by various people, for various purposes and occasions. Some are personal, some are collective creations. Read The Process of Altar Making.
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Dragon Altars
Dragon Dancing
Arise again! These are notes coming from remembering our final circle last Saturday, a meeting that Helga and I had, and research I was doing for a pilgrimage: the body of work I have been doing for the last three … Continue reading →
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How the Mandala Dance Works
This is an update on how the Mandala Dance actually works, and why I need to write about it so that if there are untrained people present we can bring everyone along on the wave of energy. In the past, … Continue reading →
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Sovereignty of the Land: Shamanic Dance Videos
I walked on the granite and quartz hills of Achill Island, found the holy waters, and sat looking at the ocean, as if I was dissolving into the space between land, sea and sky. I moved along ancient paths and … Continue reading →
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The Water Dance
Written by Nancy Sherwood in response to a question by a participant preparing for the 2011 Pilgrimage to Wales and Brittany. The work with water purifies us in that we have to have forgiveness and gratitude within ourselves to do it; … Continue reading →
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Celtic Shamanism
Shamanism is fundamentally a way of viewing reality and responding to that view. The shamanic practitioner works with protection of the soul, which is referred to extensively in Celtic literature as “soul shrine”. Celtic shamans accessed otherworld realms through journeying, … Continue reading →
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About the Path of the Dragon
Background to the 2011 tour The Chinese first started drawing symbols for dragons 6000 years ago, so we know that that culture had a sense of what the energy of “dragon” entails in symbology, and of course the Celts were … Continue reading →
Traveller’s Joy and Soul
Traveller’s Joy has been initiated for soul healing. Pilgrimage makes it possible for the energetic parts of ourselves that have been lost through our ancestors’ displacement, or through similar dislocation experienced in our own lives, to be returned. We take … Continue reading →
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