Shamanic Voices and Cadair Idris Centre for Shamanic Studies:

Seidr Practice
With Shenoah Taylor, Christine Mark & Jane Shutt

Seidr Practice are regular events exploring different aspects of working with Seidr. These experiential online practice events are offered via Zoom on UK time.

Practice events are for those who already work with seidr and have an ongoing shamanic practice.

Seidr Practice – upcoming events
To book for any of the events below please email shenoah@shenoahtaylor.com If you have not done seidr work with us before please confirm who you did your shamanic and seidr training with.

Seidr Stepping the Issue – Via Zoom
3-6pm £20 – UK time
Sunday 29th October 2023
These meetings enable us to go deeper into using seidr for problem solving and healing as a community.  We take issues participants brings to the group – either for themselves or someone who has requested help – and we not be taking the hjel but will explore different ways of working with these issues. There will not be the ‘setting the scene’ as we do with the community seidr days but be stepping straight into agreeing which issue to work with, the form the work should take and then doing the work.

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Community Power Seidr– Via Zoom
3-6pm £20 – UK time
Sunday 10th December 2023
Our final seidr meeting of 2023 will be a power seidr. There are two kinds of community seidr ceremonies. One is for information and the other is for sending power and each has very different qualities. In a power seidr we work together as a community to send power to something the community would like to support. Participants are invited to suggest the intention of the seidr and we agree the intention as part of the process. There is the opportunity for a few people to take their place on the hjel to on behalf of us all. Everyone at the meeting will play an active part in singing the Volvas out and back from their journeys, there will also be an opportunity to ask personal questions of the Spirits.

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Format of meeting TBC – via Zoom
3-6pm UK time Sunday 21st January 2023
The format of our first meeting of 2023 is to be confirmed

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The Song, Staff and Seat – all meetings via Zoom
The song, staff and seat are 3 major components of seidr work. Exploring each of them in more depth supports the deepening and flow of our practice.

The days are best taken as a series but can be taken individually

Exploring the Seat in Seidr – via Zoom
3-6pm UK Time – £20
Next dates tbc
The ritual seat is a major component in Seidr. It is most often used in community seidr but working with the seat for personal as well as community rituals can heighten the magical quality of the work of those that step onto the hjel. During this seidr practice meeting we will explore the use of the ritual seat in seidr.

Exploring the Song in Seidr – Via Zoom
3 – 6pm £20 UK time
Next dates tbc
Song is a major component in Seidr. Song not only provides the power that takes us on the journey but also brings the magical component, the enchantment that is often experienced by others when singing or being sung. The song in Seidr is greater than the sum of its parts and during this seidr practice meeting we will explore the qualities of a seidr song, how the song en-chants and how we can more deeply integrate the gift of song into our work.

Exploring the Staff in Seidr – Via Zoom
3-6pm £20 – UK time
Next dates tbc
The staff is a major component in Seidr. It provides grounding and enables us to travel between the worlds and offers a very different quality than using drums or rattles. How to work with drums and rattles is clear from the outset but how to work with the staff is more of a mystery despite many people having found or been gifted a staff on journeys or in ordinary reality. During this seidr practice meeting we will explore the use of the staff in seidr.

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Community Power Seidr– Via Zoom
3-6pm £20 – UK time
Next dates tbc
There are two kinds of community seidr ceremonies. One is for information and the other is for sending power and each has very different qualities. In a power seidr we work together as a community to send power to something the community would like to support. Participants are invited to suggest the intention of the seidr and we agree the intention as part of the process. There is the opportunity for a few people to take their place on the hjel to on behalf of us all. Everyone at the meeting will play an active part in singing the Volvas out and back from their journeys, there will also be an opportunity to ask personal questions of the Spirits.

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Community Seidr – Via Zoom
3-6pm – UK time
next dates TBC
There are two kinds of community seidr ceremonies. One is for information and the other is for sending power and each has very different qualities. An information seidr is a great opportunity to work together with a joint intention to receive wisdom, insights and advice around a specific question. Participants are invited to suggest the intention of the seidr and we agree the intention as part of the process. There is the opportunity for a few people to take their place on the hjel to on behalf of us all. Everyone at the meeting will play an active part in singing the Volvas out and back from their journeys, there will also be an opportunity to ask personal questions of the Spirits.

Seidr & Ethics
3 – 6 PM – UK time
Next dates tbc
In the course of a day each of us faces numerous choices.  Some are simple, some more difficult, while some may call on us to choose based on our personal ethics. What or who influences our choices and ethics?
Do they come from what we have learned? From our parents, our teachers, our peers or do they come from our spirits?
Are they personal choices, from our own inbuilt sense of what is right? And if so, where does this “inbuilt” sense come from?
What if the spirits we work with in seidr use a different moral compass from the one we live by? What if they lead us to question the ethical stance we would normally take?
This workshop explores some of the ethical dilemmas we may face while working with seidr

Previous Seidr Practice Events
Community Seidr – Sunday 17th September 2023

Exploring the Seat in Seidr Sunday 21st May 2023
Exploring the Staff in Seidr Sunday 30th April 2023
Exploring the Song in Seidr – Sunday 2nd April 2023
Seidr Craft – introduction to Seidr – 4th March 2023
Seidr & Ethics – Sunday 26th February 2023
Seidr Stepping and Issue – Sunday 17th January 2023
Community Power Seidr – Sunday 4th December 2022
Seidr Craft – introduction to Seidr – 16th October 2022
Community Seidr – 2nd October 2022
Community Seidr – 12th June 2022
Singing the Spirits Home – 13th – 18th May 2022 – residential
Exploring the Seat in Seidr – Sunday 24th April 2022
Exploring the Staff in Seidr – Sunday 20th March 2022
Exploring the Song in Seidr – Sunday 27th February 2022
Seidr Craft – introduction to Seidr – 23rd January 2022