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While many people prefer face to face healing during covid times distance healing has sometimes been the only way to offer and receive healing. Distance healing is a powerful way of working and we will explore the ethics, techniques and practicalities of working with distance healing.

Discussion about distance healing / ethics / permission etc

First journey
I am going on a journey to meet my healing teacher to ask what is it important for me to know when I am doing Distance Healing (and if there is anything I should not do)

2nd Journey
Distance healing for someone who had requested healing using a representation

3rd Journey
Half the group receive a healing using tunnel clearing technique

4th Journey
Half the group receive a healing using transfiguration technique

This meeting was cancelled due to Shenoah having Covid, below are the journeys we would have done

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The full Moon is often seen as particularly potent and magical and this months LODG coincides with the April full moon. We will honour the moon with song and explore how the qualities of the moon can deepen our connection to the cycles of nature and support our own cycles. 

1st Journey
Going on a journey to be in the presence of the moon
approach the moon slowly, speak to it lovingly and let it know you would like to be in its presence.  Do not ask for anything specific but let yourself soften and expand and connect with and experience the energy of the moon. What are its qualities, and how this makes you feel, insights etc.

2nd Journey – in partners
merge with the moon and ask it for a blessing for your partner to support them in their life  – it can be something specific they ask for, or a general blessing.

3rd Journey
Going on a journey to ask the moon for a teaching about the cycles of life and how the moon can support my in my personal cycles.

End with a group ceremony to give thanks for what we have received from the moon.

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Ongoing connection with our spirits beyond doing a journey brings a deepening and Integration of the resources and connections that shamanism offers.   At this months meeting we will explore the richness of personal practices and receive inspiration from each other and the spirits of how we can more deeply root these connections into our lives.  We will inspire each other by sharing personal practices. Please have a think of any practices your spirits gave you that you would be willing to share with the group. Many thanks to Nina S for suggesting the theme and format for this months meeting.

Participants shared personal practices that supported them in daily life including daily rituals, nature work, elements, directions, song, lighting incense, greeting the day, feeding animals, giving thanks, greeting the sun, putting feet on the earth, working in the garden, using essential oils …

1st Journey – drum journey – can do as upper world or see where taken
Going on a journey to ask my spirits how can I deepen my connection with the sprits in my daily life / or how can I deepen my connection to life / or how can I deepen connection in my daily life

2nd Journey – merged journey
going on a journey to merge with my power animal / spirit teacher to ask how can I deepen my connection with you
While on the journey ask what gifts and qualities it offers and if it is willing for the form it takes to be shared with others. Ensure unmerge when the callback comes

3rd Journey – rattle journey
Going on a journey to ask how can I nurture and give thanks to the spirits

Discussion on how to collect / record / use information from journeys. How art, craft poetry, creative writing, gardening, can be inspired by the spirits.

End by rattling and singing to give thanks

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Spring is a time of celebration. A time to honour new growth and the abundance to come as the light continues to return. At this meeting we will honour the power of spring with a virtual wassail and explore how we can be in the flow of the season in our own lives

1st Journey- drum journey – middle world journey
I am going on a virtual walking journey to meet something in nature that is returning and ask for a teaching about the power of spring and how I can use it in my life

2nd journey -drum journey – middle world, can be an acted out journey
I am going on a virtual walking journey to ask to merge with …. (insert what you met in the previous journey) to receive the spring power to be able to ….. (insert what you were shown in the previous journey)

ensure you un-merge when the callback comes

3rd Journey – acted out drum journey
I am going on a journey to Wassail… (The Orchard / the apple trees in / on / the spirit of the apple trees if you do not know a specific tree)

Wassailing examples were shared as an introduction. When on the journey ask your spirits for your own wassailing ritual and do it with whoever turns up. The journey was started and ended with the song ‘Who will stand, who will the stand for the Bees and the Trees and the Spirits and the Land’

After the journey each person shared their ritual and ended it with a ‘wassail’ to which everyone else replied ‘wassail’ and took a drink of their cider or whatever they were drinking.

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As the threshold of the solstice passes the light starts to return and the sun rising on a new year is seen as an opportunity to resolve to be in the world in a different way. At the first meeting of the year we will look at what we bring to the lives of ourselves and our communities by becoming more ourselves and honouring the gift and blessings we carry. 

1st Journey – drum journey
Going on a journey with an open heart to be shown what gifts and blessings I can bring to the world in the coming year

2nd journey – blessing for a partner
I am asking for a Blessing for the gifts and blessings (insert partners name) brings to the world in the coming year
Swap over

3rd Journey – acted out drum journey
Going on a journey to take my next steps to bring my gifts and blessings to the world (and to receive an image to keep me connected to it)

End the day with song and rattle to give thanks to the spirits, ourselves, our partners, the gifts and blessings

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At the final meeting of 2021 we will both receive and offer a spiritual gift to support us in the coming year. We will visit the virtual lodg altar room as part of the annual winter feast festivities which will also include song, dance and ceremony.

1st Journey – Teaching about giving and receiving – 10 mins Freestyle journey 
Going on a journey to ask my spirits for a teaching about the true essence of giving and receiving and what can I give to thank the spirits for their support

2nd Journey – rattle journey to ask for spiritual gift for partner
I am going on a rattle journey to ask my spirits for a spiritual gift for ……..
May be shown how to offer it. Tell partner the gift in a power filled way.

3rd Activity – Gratitude Dance
Simple circe dance of gratitude to give thanks for what has gone before and a thank you to what is to come ad make a commitment to be ourselves in the world using a candle to light our way.

4th Journey – Journey to the lodg Altar
I am going on a Journey to the lodg altar to take part in the winter feast and to receive a gift that will support me through the winter  – to receive something from altar – put something on it

5th Activity – Group blessing – using rattle and song
Half the group in the centre. Ask for the spirits for the gift of those in the centre to be blessed and they receive the resources they need for the winter season. Swap

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November will be our annual meeting working with Seidr.  Seidr is an oracular tradition that uses the staff, the song and a raised seat as key elements in its ritual.  It is a Viking shamanic tradition which was practised in this country so also belongs to the ancestors of this land. 

Journeying on song with a staff is a focussed and power filled way of working that offers a different experience than journeying with the drum.   At this meeting we will explore how to use the song and the staff in our personal practice. We will also work together in a community seidr ceremony. Although the seidr tradition uses song being able to sing in tune is not important.  

First Journey
Asking for help from the spirit of song

Second Journey
If not worked with a staff before
Journey to meet the spirit of my staff to ask how we can work together
If worked with a staff but do not have a seidr teacher
Journey to meet my seidr teacher and ask how we can work together
If you have a seidr teacher
Journey to ask to be shown what was has been previously hidden from me about working with seidr

Third Journey
Working in pairs seidr journey to ask for the help my partner needs at this time

Recipient sings the journeyer on the journey. Once in the journey with their spirits they give a predermined signal and the recipient stops singing. The journeyer sings everything that is happening on the journey. When it is completed they ask to be sung home.

Fourth Journey
Seidr Ceremony to ask the ancestors how the ancient ways can support us in modern times

One person was on the Hjel (raised seat where the seidr work takes place) doing the work with their spirits on behalf of the group. The group sung them on the journey to enable them to do receive the information which they recounted while on the journey. Personal questions were then taken from the group.

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Many traditional cultures honour the earth for the gifts that are offered and received. This reciprocal relationship has been largely lost to us as the earth has become seen more as a commodity rather than a generous being who gives life. At this meeting we will explore how we can nurture a reciprocal relationship of gratitude and balance with the earth.

First Journey
I am going on a journey to ask my spirits how can I speak to all beings from my heart?
drum journey

Second Journey – Group Ceremony to Honour the Earth
song / dance/ drum

Third Journey
I am going on a journey to ask how can I honour the earth and all it gifts me in my everyday life
acted out journey

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At this months lodg we will explore our life path and harvest what we have already reaped and sow seeds for the future

First Journey
Coming on a journey to give thanks and to give thanks and to be shown which part of my life path I can harvest at this time.
free form drum journey

Second Journey
Going on a journey to ask what seeds I need to sow to fully embrace part of my life path (ask which part it is and plant the seed on the journey)
acted out drum journey

Third Journey
Blessing for a partner – asking for a blessing for the seed/s of ….. that (insert partners name) has planted

Nature as a Healing Path run by Shenoah onZoom

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Nature is at the centre of shamanic practice and working with the powers of nature can bring balance, insights and healing. During this meeting we will explore how deepening our relationship with nature can support us on our healing paths.

First journey
I am going on a journey through my healing landscape to receive the healing I need at this time
free form drum journey

Second Journey
I am going on a journey through my healing landscape to receive healing from a plant, tree or flower that can support me on my healing path
Free form drum journey

Third Journey
I am going on a journey through my healing landscape to receive healing from an animal, bird or insect that can support me on my healing path

Fourth Journey
rattle and sing to give thanks for the healing and guidance received