Mondays, 7:00 - 10:00 pm from Sept 27 - Nov. 1, 2010. No class on October 11.
Our second offering of Celtic Shamanism "101" this year, as a 5-night autumn course providing experiential learning in a lakeland setting. The first offering was over-subscribed and enthusiastically received with participants continuing to meet in circle from time to time after the official 5 week course. This points to an important "bonus" aspect of the course in that it creates a supportive circle for continuing on one's path. This second round will be followed in January by another somewhat more advanced course along similar lines.
Course Outline:
Session one - Western Gate
History and Mythology of the Celts
Gods & Godesses
Memory of the Earth
Tuatha de Danann-Danu-Brigid
Shapeshifting (fith-fath) (feefaw) Journey
Divination
River (lake) Meditation
Session Two - Northern Door
Tree Lore and Practice
The Nemeton
Trees in Druidic Practice
Our ancestors- memory of the trees
Ogham Alphabet & Divination
Green Man and Woman
Silver Branch
Creating Sacred Ash
Session Three - Eastern Gate
The Sidhe (shee)
Faeries
Lore
Offering
Garden Meditation
Faery Manifestation
Session Four-Southern Door
The Three Cauldrons
The Three Cauldrons are symbols/centres of inspiration, knowledge, wisdom, vitality, and rebirth, as well as physical well-being-similar to the eastern chakra system.
- Cauldron of Knowledge - coire soi´ - head-spiritual health - distributes and turns by joy or sorrow
- Cauldron of Vocation - coire emma - heart & solar plexus - emotional & psychic health
- Cauldron of Warming - coire goiriath - belly & womb-cherishing,
piety, service-physical vitality
Echtrae (Journey) - intention: medicine of the Cauldrons
Session Five-The Centre
The Celtic Wheel of Life
West - ancestral, wisdom, learning, vision
North - spiritual warriorship, courage (creates the soul), endurance, power, service
East - prosperity, home, hospitality, generosity
South - music, poetry, dance, creativity, play
Mist - air and water-the veil between realities
Flowers - earth and scent (air)
Warm Summer Wind - fire and air
Center - sovereignty-accountability, responsibility, taking charge of your life, walking in truth
Echtrae: intention: medicine of the wheel
Optional Extra:
Celtic Sweat (teach allis): @ River Song Keep - date TBA
Facilitators:
Nancy Dancing Light Sherwood with David Cameron
Cost:
$250 for 5 sessions.
Location:
EarthSea at Serenity,
923 Hwy 14, RR3,
Windsor, NS B0N 2T0
20 min from Windsor, 25 min from Chester, 30 min from Mahone Bay, 40 min from Wolfville, 50 min from Bridgewater, 1 hr from Halifax
More Information:
Nancy Sherwood: or 902-792-1667
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