Medicine Wheel Teaching weekends
Atworth, Wiltshire
These weekends have been designed for you to get an experience of the magic and power of working with these wheels. It does not matter if you have never done anything like this before, or have missed the first weekend as we will explain each step along the way. If you do know something of the teachings, the weekends will help you build on what you already know.
The teachings of the Medicine Wheel explore different aspects of the human: spirit, body knowing, emotions, heart mind and soul. These wheels hold many keys to enabling us to see our true selves and in these Ceremonies you will have the chance to explore these different aspects of yourself as a Sacred Human.
The pathway we will work with over the next year is our 4 Shields in the cardinal directions. Our Shields hold all the different aspects of ourselves that come together to make us who we are. Often much of this is hidden to us and as a result we can feel unconnected, distant and have a feeling that something is missing in our lives.
By working with and meeting these 4 Shields you will be able to connect to your unique creativity and the spark of life that you carry in the East; to your intuitive self that is held in your body knowing in the West; to your emotional and true child self in the South and to your heart knowing and unconditional love in the North.
You will experience how your Shields are supported by the Elements; Fire, Earth, Water and Air; and the Worlds; Minerals, Plants, Animals and Humans.
You will gain a better knowing of the balance between your 4 Shields and the journey of integrating this into your knowing of Soul.
At the introduction weekend in August people gained a sense of how the Elements best supported them and in which of the 4 Shields they felt strongest.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with those who came, much was seen and expressed in Ceremony and the experience was deeply touching.
In the upcoming series of weekends we will look at each of these aspects of
ourselves; our Shields; in turn.
In December we will explore the East and the east spirit child who brings the capacity for unconditional love, creativity and imagination to our Circle of Self. Our spirit is a bridge between our many lives...a remembering of wisdom carried and the gifts we hold. Such wisdom is much needed in the world today. Here is an opportunity to gather the strands that support our journey as Sacred Human and to nurture the spark of our life force, our vitality and inner flame.
In March we will explore the West and our intuitive self, that part of us that 'knows' and is connected to Mother Earth.
In July we will explore the South and our true child as we came into this life, the child who trusts and is innocent that still lives within us.
Later in the year we will be exploring the North and our heart knowing, that ancient knowing that is deeply connected with spirit, that we have moved away from in our quest for mind knowing.
We are very much in the hands of Spirit and also those who attend as to what we will then work on. We trust that more will be shown as needed, its a great privilege to be part of building a new community here in Wiltshire and the South West.
The dates are as follows
December 12th and 13th 2015 - East Shield
March 5th and 6th 2016 - West Shield
July 30th and 31st 2016 - South Shield
North Shield and further weekends TBC
Venue for all weekends is:
Atworth Village Hall
Bath Road
Atworth Wiltshire SN12 8JY
10am - 5pm daily
Teachers for the weekends are:
Jan Adamson (EAGLE THUNDER) (Dip. Counselling, Dip. Hum. Pysch., M.A.) has completed a 15 year training in the Native American tradition and also trained with Aboriginal teacher and healer, Lorraine Mafi-Williams.
Caroline Sharp (Peace Wolf Dreams the Earth)(Dip. Counselling) has been working with these teachings for 17 years and is now a Journeyer. She has also worked with Hawaiian teacher and singer, Lei'ohu Rider.