The Winter Works- Shamanic Journeys into the Cavern of the Heart.

 The Winter Works- Shamanic Journeys into the Cavern of the Heart.

Muizenberg - Cape Town 2012

We will spend Saturday afternoons learning how to navigate your inner spaces on your own juice. The protocols and disciplines so that you don’t get lost or come back with weird stuff . Winter is the time of the Inner caverns

• April : Autumn – Learning Journey work. The Entering, Descent, and re-entering in 3D. Calling your guides, how to communicate and what to do with them.
• May : Creating a coherent wave of Sacred Spaces. Healing and Creativity manifest best from altered states (The Journey).
• June : Descending into the Dark Mother. Cave of Introspection. The West, place of Ritual Death and Dismemberment (no need to be scared )
• July : The Inner Serpent –be in touch with your self empowerment and creativity. Masculine structure and Feminine spaces.
• August : The Shaman Within – Stepping out of poverty and lack of havingness ( values, making connections and relationships ) – Placing your intentions (throwing your dream body) and tapping into your creativity, bringing forth our authentic webs. Future visions.

Emerge into the richness of spring and light with new and revived paths.

Comprises of 12 lessons - 3 till 5pm
Part of the lesson time may be experiential and the other half journeying.
Bring munchies, cushions and blanket to journey on. Bring your journals too.
You need not attend every session but the more you do, the more your spaces can “set” and the more proficient you become. There is a LOT to this work.
Donations of R100 per session or what you can offer.
RSVP important please.
Vanessa Henderson: [email protected]
or Lyn : [email protected]

We will also have BREATHWORK once a month. Please inquire further about this if you are keen.

Many thanks and much love.
Lyn Spirit Eagle.

Dates:
31st March - plus breathwork
14th April - plus breathwork
28th April
12th May - plus breathwork
19th May
2nd June -plus breathwork
16th June
30th June - plus breathwork
14th July
4th August- plus breathwork
18th August - plus breathwork (maybe :))

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Map to the Festival of Shamans. 24th, 25th,& 26th Feb 2012

About 100kms =1.30 hours to get there.

Head out on N2 

turn left into R406 to Greyton

Once in Greyton drive through the village 

till Riviersonderend Rd, turn right.

Drive 4 kms along the dust road.

The Blue Hippo sign is on your left.

See you there :)

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Where the Festival of Shamans will be :)

Picture the people, flags, journeys, ceremonies, joy, soulness, drumming, friendship old and new, workshops :) This is where we will be.

...a Festival of Shamans

near Cape Town SA

24th, 25th 26th Feb 2012

more info on http://shaman.spazaspace.com/

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Day of Mourning

"Although primarily meant to commemorate the destruction of the Temples, it is also considered appropriate to commemorate other Jewish tragedies that occurred on this day, most notably the
expulsion of the Jews from Spain
 in 1492.
^[2] Accordingly, the day has been called the "saddest day in Jewish history". The day focuses on commemoration of five events: the destruction of the two ancient Temples in Jerusalem, the sin of ten of the twelve scouts sent by Moses, who spoke disparagingly about the Promised Land, the razing of Jerusalem following the siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE, and the failure of Bar Kokhba's revolt against the Roman Empire."


I knew that Tisha B'av was approaching, this day of deep mourning. I was not sure how I was going to interact with it, as has been my walk with my spiritual path for a long time now. The requirement is firstly to fast. The second is to attend a gathering where the Book of Lamentations is read. The day is spent as if in mourning. 

Entrance to Holy of Holies

As the day approached, it began to weigh heavily upon me. Another depressing day, another dismal celebration. No wonder I suffer from melancholy. Then the Friday before, I took Soda Pop to the vet, and discovered that he was in such bad shape that I had to put him down... Can one officially mourn a dog? Is that acceptable? Or would that be making a mockery?


During the weekend I went in some deep, dark places in my soul. All the losses in my life came bubbling to the surface, all the things I had not achieved, all the things I could have achieved and didn't, all the people who I had loved and were no longer with me swirled around me the whole weekend.

Herod's Magnificent Temple 

So, on Tuesday I fasted, but could not face going to the synagogue to be with a bunch of morose people mourning the destruction of the temple 3000 or so years ago. In fact, I began to think about celebrating our lives, and our joy at still being alive, at having a maintained a continuous line of faith even though our temple had been destroyed centuries before. In fact, I could even make a case for celebrating the destruction of the temple (I hear the word "heresy" echoing in the background). It is what released us from the tyranny of the temple and the cult of animal sacrifice. From it emerged a system that was far more resilient and stood us by the long trail of oppression and sacrifice that we had to walk all these years. It spurred us onto to a greatness and a resilience that has become well-known and envied by many.


That is what I celebrated. Happy to be alive. Happy to be able to still practise my faith. Proud of all the famous and amazing men and women who were my ancestors and helped lead us to this present place of wealth and abundance and awareness.

Love to all,
Julian.
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Contact Improvisation - A Dance of Life

Last Friday we shared an evening of contact improvisation dance.

Contact is a form of dance in which we use our bodies to communicate with one another. It revolves around the dialogue regarding the alignment of our centers, about offering to support another's and for the other to trust you enough to place him or herself onto your center.

Interactions that take place in this dance are metaphors for life. For instance, the need to listen. But in this form, as it is a dance, the need to listen is about listening with your body to the bodies around you. As I move through the space, and encounter others, a dialogue ensues about whether I wish to take your weight, about how I wish to do so, and for how long. Whether you move in towards me offering, or away, removing.

Just as in Tango, the couple communicates via their centers, by keeping them aligned and in a certain relationship, and thus can move together. In contact, it consists of an interaction of taking and giving, of supporting and being supported.

Resistance is the way to hurting yourself or someone else. Resistance causes pain. Use the energy coming at you to flow into the new configuration. Each movement being an amalgam of your desire and interaction with your environment. Both have necessary constraints which will affect the outcome.

Julian...
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Soul Journeys and Sacred Dances - workshop

Dance expertise is not necessary as we enter our body spaces through movement. We will look at our poetic inner landscapes and protect our spaces. We will use our hearts intelligence as
we encounter The Serpent of our Inner Power :))

The ability to move from our 3D world into an altered state where original healing occurs,
is a valuable skill. Exploring our inner realms with confidence and support, a space appears
where dreams are born and choices made.

$80
- Please put in a deposit by 10th Aug. If you have a problem with payment, let us know and we can make a sliding scale arrangement with pleasure :)

Bring a packed lunch, your journal, something to lay down on and a covering. Wear comfy clothes.

email Susan at [email protected]
or Lyn at [email protected]
or call (203) 623-6026

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Wise Council

“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things acquires a strong habit of desiring others which are necessary neither for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit; whilst things which are necessary are few, and restricted within certain bounds. Lay this well to heart, reflect on it again and again; that which is superfluous is without end (and therefore the desire for it also without limit).

What more can I say? Since I read this piece, it has pervaded my consciousness.

Thus you desire to have your vessels of silver, but golden vessels are better; others even have vessels studded with sapphires, emeralds, or rubies.

I understood the desire for the faster car, and the bigger house and more money. Now I begin to look for it in my life...

Those, therefore, who are ignorant of this truth, that the desire for superfluous things is without limit, are constantly in trouble and pain.

What I understand from this then is that this is one of the existential causes of our discomfort. This gives me a place to look for my own desires for superfluous things.

When they thus meet with the consequences of their course they complain of the judgements of God; they go so far as to say that God’s power is insufficient, because He has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these evils.

Moses Maimonides 1190 from "The Book of Jewish Thoughts"

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