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Category Archives: Stories of Past Tours

The Dance of the Light

Traveller's Joy Posted on April 5, 2019 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

Reflections on a reflection in a Yucatan cenote by tour participant Heather Holm

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Posted in homepage, Mexico, Stories of Past Tours
Dragon painted on ceramic jar

Star Dragon

Traveller's Joy Posted on April 3, 2019 by Heather HolmJuly 24, 2021

Nancy Dancing Light describes the wild archetypal energy she has come to know as Star Dragon.

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Posted in homepage, Mexico, Nancy Sherwood, Stories of Past Tours | Tagged archetype, community, dragon, Gaia
Temple of Kukulkan

Through Dragon Eyes

Traveller's Joy Posted on February 27, 2019 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

Nancy’s memoir of the 2019 Star Jaguar Pilgrimage to the Yucatan, as addressed to the participants, with photos.

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Posted in homepage, Mexico, Nancy Sherwood, Stories of Past Tours | Tagged dragon, Kukulkan, Maya, Mayans, Mexico, pilgrimage, Yucatan

Lori’s Chronicle of our 2018 Scotland Trip, A Reunion of Souls

Traveller's Joy Posted on June 16, 2018 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

A day-by-day account of our trip to Scotland in April-May 2018

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Posted in homepage, Scotland, Stories of Past Tours

Eilean Munde

Traveller's Joy Posted on June 16, 2018 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

A side-pilgrimage to pay hommage at the graves of some ancestors.

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Posted in homepage, Scotland, Stories of Past Tours
Achill Island showing lake and sea.

Video Series: Sovereignty of the Land

Traveller's Joy Posted on March 16, 2017 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

We are all descended from indigenous people of the earth. When we retrace our ancestors’ steps to restore our interconnection with the land and people, we re-establish right relationship with ourselves, each other and the earth. Patty Creighton and I … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ireland, Nancy Sherwood, Shamanic Dance, Stories of Past Tours, Travel | Tagged Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland, Patricia Creighton

Ireland, October 2015 – Nancy’s Reflections

Traveller's Joy Posted on January 5, 2016 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

Ireland in October 2015 was a culmination of all of my journeys there since 1994; during the first week of last fall’s trip I was accompanied by 7 women and we stayed in the West because of its connection to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland, Stories of Past Tours
Celtic cross carved in stone

Travels in Ireland 2014: Crom Castle, Sligo, St. Deirbhle

Traveller's Joy Posted on January 31, 2015 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019
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Posted in Ireland, Stories of Past Tours, Travel | Tagged Crom Castle, Saint Deirbhle, Sligo
Emerging from well site

Travels in Ireland 2014: Achill Island & Achill Beg, County Mayo

Traveller's Joy Posted on January 31, 2015 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

See also Nancy’s description of her experiences on Achill Island and two shamanic dance videos that she made there with Patricia Creighton at this link.

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Posted in Ireland, Nancy Sherwood, Stories of Past Tours, Travel | Tagged Achill Beg, Achill Island, Achillbeg, County Mayo, Ireland

Sovereignty of the Land: Shamanic Dance Videos

Traveller's Joy Posted on November 27, 2014 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

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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Posted in Ireland, Shamanic Dance, Shamanic Practice, Stories of Past Tours | Tagged Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland, Patricia Creighton, sacred dance

Scotland 2013: The Cailleach

Traveller's Joy Posted on December 5, 2013 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

The Wise Old Woman of the Scottish Landscape, and Climate Change Now: Oct. 8–20, 2013 I don’t regret my lust and rage,for even had I been demureI still would wear the cloak of age. The cloak that wooded hillsides wearis beautiful; … Continue reading →

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Chun Quoit

UK Fall 2012: Teaching and Spirit-Guided Tour

Traveller's Joy Posted on November 30, 2012 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

Nancy took time to visit and revisit sites by herself and with other wise women as well as to teach and to play. Oxfordshire: White Horse of Uffington, Wayland’s Smithy and Oxford Glastonbury (see below) Wales: Brecon Beacons, Myddfai Physicians, and … Continue reading →

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Moving Mandala, Cornwall and Devon, October 2012

Traveller's Joy Posted on November 6, 2012 by Heather HolmMarch 6, 2023

The trip to Cornwall and Devon put me/us in a context of the primal dragon energies again, while entraining* the body centres to align with the great world tree (vertical) and to allow the embracing circle of the Moving Mandala … Continue reading →

Posted in England, Moving Mandala, Stories of Past Tours

About the Path of the Dragon

Traveller's Joy Posted on December 10, 2010 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

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 →

Posted in Shamanic Practice, Stories of Past Tours, Wales | Tagged dragon, water | Leave a reply

Traveller’s Joy and Soul

Traveller's Joy Posted on November 26, 2009 by Heather HolmApril 10, 2019

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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Posted in Shamanic Practice, Stories of Past Tours, Travel | Tagged sacred sites, Why travel?

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