The wheel of the year is an ancient Celtic calendar celebrating pivotal points in the year that celebrate our connection with nature. At Winter Solstice we sit in the darkest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. At Embracing Shamanism we are in rhythm with the seasonal changes and explore them through our variety of trainings and professional courses for beginners to the more experienced … Read more about Winter Solstice Blessings
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Multicultural Songs & Chants for Ceremony
In Shamanism your voice is connected to your power. Twobirds has created a resource of her songs for anyone to access for free here. “the Universe is always singing and man must learn to listen so that his heart may join the Universal Chorus” … Read more about Multicultural Songs & Chants for Ceremony
Do you have a connection with nature?
At Embracing Shamanism we offer a unique opportunity to deepen your connection. In this course a journey of opening our perceptual doors awaits through which we can enter another world entirely: we learn to see from an alternative perspective where the other life forms of Earth speak to us on their own terms through which we can begin to find a path to sustainable habitation of this planet. We … Read more about Do you have a connection with nature?
Twobirds Cunningham – Course Leader
Twobirds Cunningham was born in America but spent her formative years in Germany. She left Europe after a successful career in acrobatics and moved to South Africa where she lived for nine years, establishing a shelter for homeless street children in Johannesburg and latterly walking ‘barefoot in the South African bush’. This minimalist lifestyle living in close communication with indigenous … Read more about Twobirds Cunningham – Course Leader
Healing Circle Training
Today we begin healing circle training at The Haven in Stonehaven. In this three-day training course, we will primarily focus on the ‘Circle of Synergy’, also known as the ‘Alchemist Healing Circle’. Within this healing circle, conducted by the ‘Alchemist’, several spirits are called forward to perform a healing on individuals through the medium of their human companions. The potential of this … Read more about Healing Circle Training
What is a Psychic Virus?
It is a thought form, a belief system, a lie perhaps that you believe and that gets into your fields and begins to take over your psyche, just like a virus. Those are real. How do you invite these viruses in and make yourself your own worst enemy? The Codependent for example invites more psychic viruses in than many other Archetypes. Smudging will not do it in the long run. Go to your patterns. We … Read more about What is a Psychic Virus?
The Prostitute as a Survival Archetype
The Prostitute in its shadow you bargain your value and your power. For example you compromise your integrity and your dreams by holding on to a job that does not serve you, but it pays the bills. Where do you have the vulnerability of selling out to survive? This is not about right or wrong – just name it. Here in the disruption stage the bargaining phase is coming on line, it’s a natural part of … Read more about The Prostitute as a Survival Archetype
The Saboteur Archetype
This is often done through another Archetype such as The Addict, The Perfectionist, or The Adult Child. As The Adult Child you had to grow up fast to raise your parents, because they were stuck in addiction and didn’t grow up emotionally. You were on your own. You were the abandoned and the adult child. So now you have The Adult Child that wants to parent everyone, and as you do that you lose … Read more about The Saboteur Archetype
The Victim Archetype
The Victim Archetype tries to blame others and seeks recompense. If you hear yourself say ‘this is fair/isn’t fair – this is just/unjust – this shouldn’t have happened to me’ – that’s your victim talking. ‘Life owes me’. There is a deep driving sense of entitlement in The Victim Archetype. Where in your system do you find The Victim Archetype? We all have it somewhere. We ca help you find it and … Read more about The Victim Archetype
The Child Survival Archetype
There are four Survival Archetypes on Adaptation that we all have as human beings and The Child is one of them. We all have The Child Archetype, it is universal. When you were born, your identity around The Child begins to form. You can easily identify your Child Archetype/s pondering on questions such as: – What would you say your childhood was like? – What experiences did you have? – … Read more about The Child Survival Archetype