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Athens, Greece 19 - 20 November

Hummingbird: The medicine of Stillness

'Love is movement out of stillness' - Manuel Schoch

Now more than ever we need to be in an ongoing flow of communication with stillness, our out-of-time wisdom and inner guides, to help us keep our balance and safely, heartfully navigate the chaos around us.

We will practise stopping the inner dialogue at will and maintain this inner silence effortlessly with a focused Intent from a space out of reach of the critical mind. In order to accomplish this we will also work on cleansing our connection with Intent.

We will tune into our guides and the wisdom keepers of our lineages in this life and past lives to receive their healing and support. And we will enter the space of stillness through many different doorways to enliven our capacity for flowing observation in any context, dissolving habits of effort, rigidity and separation. On the way we will clear out any remaining shadows of unfinished emotions in the luminous energy of the solar plexus (hummingbird chakra) especially frozen sadness and regrets, so that the flow of energy to the heart is undisturbed. Through stillness the heart naturally communicates our soul wisdom as the atmosphere of love.

'To be in stillness means being in total insecurity with no reaction, no knowing and total observation. Observing something and staying with it is the process of love' – Manuel Schoch

'Simply plunging directly into the moment now, with our whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or excitement, is enlightenment' - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Spirit Flight: the Journey Home

Athens, 4 - 5th June 10.30am - 6pm

'Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity' – Lao Tse

The mystics say that to be truly alive we need to re-learn the ancient art of dying before we die. Shamanic traditions call this coming out of life alive. For shamans the encounter with death as a visionary journey is the pre-requisite to stepping beyond fear and the limitations of the everyday mind. The ‘ego’ can never step outside of time because it only exists in time. To meet the timeless self requires surrender of the controlling mind, a kind of death.

This workshop explores the dying process as a source of ongoing healing, as ‘letting go’, and as an experiential visionary journey. The Spirit Flight involves a shift in consciousness often felt as a literal separation from the physical body, an out of body experience, and entry into a different quality dimension. Many people who have had a 'near death experience' describe a similar state of being: a sense of oneness, bliss, love, peace. Once we have reconnected the luminous pathways of the mind between the worlds there is no more fear of the end of life. The root of fear dissolves into the source of light.

'Death is the side of life that is turned away from us and not illuminated. We must try to achieve the greatest possible consciousness of our existence, which is at home in both these immeasurable realms, and inexhaustibly nourished by both… There is neither a this-world nor another-world, but only the great unity'. - Rilke

The West: Jaguar Medicine: Fearlessness, recapitulation and ‘seeing’

Athens 2 – 3 April, 10.30 – 6pm @ Tune In, Poliklitou 1 (Vissis), Monastiraki

Jaguar cleans up shadow energy and especially fear. In Quechua (the language of the Peruvian Q’ero) this dark heavy energy that hangs around us especially generated by fear or by the unfinished past is called ‘Hoocha’. Jaguar enables us to transform this energy into light or ‘Sami’, awareness and power. The Jaguar sits in the hara and acts as a protector and guardian. We need to do our homework and step beyond our fears and personal history in order to create a strong relationship with Jaguar.

We will train using Jaguar energy to dissolve the shadow vibration of fear, insecurity and self consciousness. We will work from many different angles to clear imprints of old reactions, memories, relationships and unfinished emotions connected with fear. This includes working on current life, past life and ancestral patterns and, always at an energy level, fear-based emotions such as shame, jealousy, guilt, resentment and self pity.

As we experience fearlessness the hara becomes a centre of awareness which has a direct connection with ‘seeing/knowing’ and with the brow chakra (‘third eye’). We will practice techniques to balance these two chakras. We clean our ‘Intent’ so that the everyday mind does not blur our capacity as seers. This leads us towards the work of Hummingbird (the North direction) where we will create inner silence and maintain it at will.

We will practice recapitulation, a shamanic technique for completing personal stories to allow all our energy to be fully up to date and present in the moment. Finally we will learn and practice two transmissions of the Munay Ki, the rites of initiation gifted by the Q’ero. These are the protective Bands of Power and the Seer’s Rite, which opens the neurological networks connecting the brow chakra, brain and heart.

Unravelling Time: Soul Retrieval and Sufi Whirling

'We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance' - Rumi

Soul Retrieval is an ancient shamanic practice for recollecting aspects of our potential that may have become lost through trauma or simply been unsupported over time and unexpressed. When we discover and reclaim these aspects of our own unique wisdom, which are like energy codes of missing information, our sense of completeness returns. This frees us from the fragmentation of time.

Whirling is an ancient Sufi practice for creating inner stillness, ecstasy and communion with the Beloved. Aided by centrifugal force this meditative dance firmly anchors us on the earth and at the same time frees us to empty ourselves into Presence.

Through the journey of soul retrieval we will gather our full energy potential from the past into the moment of creative expression. Through the whirling we create a new axis of stillness. Peeling time away we naturally return to the centre of the cycle of becoming.

'At the still point, there the dance is...
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance' – T S Eliot

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