with Shenoah on Zoom

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No matter where we are in life, we will all have experienced loss in some form. We each respond to it differently, and no matter what type of loss we experience the spirits can help us find acceptance and healing. As autumn arrives — a season of letting go — it offers a gentle opportunity to explore loss and discover how spiritual support can guide us through the process.

1st journey – Drum Journey
I am going on a journey to meet a loss teacher to ask what it is important for me to know about the losses I have experienced in my life

they may bring your attention to one, or a number of them

2nd journey – acted out journey
Going on an acted out journey to ask for a ceremony or process to support me in accepting, processing and releasing the pain of loosing ……..

You can be specific or more general – accepting, processing and releasing the pain of loss in my life

Third activity – healing in pairs
I am asking the spirits for a healing for (insert their name) for the loss of (insert their loss)

It can be a specific loss or more general – ‘healing for the losses in their life’

With David Face to Face

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Making representations of shamanic helpers, sometimes called a fetish, is a practice that goes back many thousands of years. Some fetishes are ornate but they can also be simple and crude. They are not just representations of helpers but also hold their power, energy and offer an ongoing deepening of connection as we create and work with them. 

In this month’s meeting we will ask which of our helpers wants to be created and how they want to be represented. No crafting or artistic ability is needed, it is the intention and energy of how the fetish is made that is important. Journeying, dance and song will be used in the creation and honouring of the fetish. 

We will be using air hardening clay to create the fetish and there will be an additional cost of £2 to cover the cost of the clay. The fetish you make will be no bigger than the palm of your hand. We are hoping to provide two different colours of clay – Terracotta and White. You will be able to paint your fetish at home once it is fully dry if you are show it needs to be different colours.

First Journey – drum journey
I’m going on a journey to meet a helper to ask what to make a fetish of and to be shown what it looks like (may or may not look like your helper)

Second Activity – Making the Fetish in a focussed way,
manifesting what is there already, bringing out the spirit and also creating it
call the sprits to help, sing, use rattle, fill fetish with power and energy of helper being created. 

Third Activity – Journey
I’m going on a journey to ask what to do with my fetish

Fourth Activity – sing and dance to honour the fetish

With Shenoah via Zoom

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here is much talk about living a Heart Centred Life but what does that actually mean? At this meeting we will work with the spirits to understand what ‘heart centred’ means for us, what we are doing that is already heart centred and what steps we can take to live in a more heart centred way.

1st journey – drum journey
Going on a journey to be shown what living in a heart centred way means for me and to be shown what stops me

2nd journey – drum journey to track below.
what are my next steps to manifesting my hearts desires and living a more heart centred life

Journey to the track ‘Manifesting Your Hearts Desires’ from the CD ‘Soul Journeys – music for shamanic practice.

3rd Journey – partner work in breakout room
One person is the client, the other is doing the healing work.
Client shares what they were shown in Journey 1 that would stop them.
intention – asking for the help and healing for what would stop (insert partners name) from manifesting their hearts desires and live a more heart centred life.

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With David and Shenoah face to face in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, London

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Across many shamanic traditions, healing songs are understood to be gifts from the spirits. From the icaros of the Amazon to the joiks of the Sámi to the Medicine Songs from North America the song is used as a bridge between worlds — a way of carrying intention, restoring balance, and allowing healing to unfold.

At this meeting we will receive healing songs from nature for ourselves and others. These songs are not created from ourselves but are received through listening and allowing them to arise from the spirits of the land, the elements, and the living world around us. As we allow the song to sing through us energy begins to move, connection deepens, and the song itself carries what is needed. In this way, healing becomes something that flows—both for the singer and for the one receiving. No singing ability is required.

This meeting is our annual outdoor summer meeting and picnic and will be held in Kensington Gardens in the centre of London.  We meet under a grove of trees which gives protection from the sun and light showers. Please bring food to share, your own drink. We will bring plates, cutlery etc and some fans.

First Journey
I am going on a walking journey to find a plant who is willing to share a healing song for me
Decide before you go what you are asking for healing for. You can instead ask for the healing you need at this time.

Second Journey – partner work
I am going on a walking journey to find a plant who is willing to share a healing song for (insert name) for (insert issue or ‘the healing they need at this time;
Find out what they would like healing for before you go. Walk out together, the person doing the healing work does a walking journey to find a plant that is willing to share a healing song for their partner – both sit with the plant and the healing song is sung to the person

Third Journey
I am going on a walking journey to find a plant and ask what healing song it wants you to sing for the world
Sing the song – the spirits need people to bring the healing on songs into the world

With Shenoah via Zoom

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We may aim to live with integrity but how easy is it to really stay true to ourselves and our principles in difficult times? At this meeting we will explore further what integrity means for us and how we can live our lives with integrity even when it is difficult to do so.

The word stems from the Latin integer, which translates to “wholeness” or “completeness”. Definitions of Integrity include honesty, ethical and strong moral principles, aligning our actions with our values, reliability, being authentic and doing the right thing. 

1st Journey
I am going on a Journey to meet an integrity teacher to ask them for a personal teaching about integrity

2nd journey
I am going on a Journey to ask my integrity spirit what gets in the way of me remaining in integrity with myself

3rd Journey
I am going on a journey to be shown when I have not been in integrity and ask for a healing so I can stay with integrity in the future
(healing includes a healing for what gets in the way)

4th Journey – Acted out journey
I am going on an acted out journey to be shown how to move into a place integrity in myself (to experience how it feels to be in integrity)

Face to Face with Jutta

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At this meeting we will be working with a healing technique inspired by the Shipibo-Conibo of the Amazon Rainforest. The Shipibo-Conibo use patterns and sacred songs – know asIcaros – to support physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing as well as offering spiritual protection and guidance.

The Shipibo-Conobo work the patterns they are given into everyday objects such as textiles, fabrics, bags, pictures, and other items allowing the intentions, meanings and vibrations they convey to be carried into every day life.

Using a core-shamanic approach inspired by this technique we will journey to meet a new healing teacher who will show the healing pattern and teach the healing song needed at this time. The pattern and song received can be used for further healing, journeys and creative work.

We will also perform a healing ceremony for the earth that builds on the Shipibo-Conibo technique.

1st journey – drum journey
I am journeying to the Upper World to ask my spirit helper to take me to a teacher of the Shipibo-Conibo way of healing through pattern and song, who will work with me and show me what I need to know about this practice.

2nd Journey – pairs work drum is in the background, people use their rattles to take them on the journey
part 1 – I am journeying to the Upper World to the same teacher, to receive the healing pattern that _____ needs at this time.
once you have the pattern come part way back and draw it

part 2 – I go back into the journey to receive the song that goes with the healing pattern and its place on the body. 

Part 3 – come back, place the pattern on the body where you were shown and sing the song through the pattern into the body

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3rd Journey Community healing ceremony – drum is in the background, people use their rattles to take them on the journey
part 1 I journey to the Upper World to the same teacher to receive the healing pattern the Earth needs at this time.
come part way back and draw the pattern

part 2 – I go back into the journey to receive the song that goes with the healing pattern

part 3 – everyone sits in a circle and perceives the earth in the centre, places their picture in front of them and sings the healing song through it into the world.

7th March with David & Shenoah face to face, 11th April with Shenoah via zoom

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Merging with spirits is a common practice in some shamanic traditions. Merging can offer a different experience and perspective of a situation and can be a profound, enriching and power filled experience. During this meeting we will explore different ways of merging with our spirits to receive help and deepen our connection.

1st journey – Information journey
Going on a journey to meet one of my spirits who is willing to merge with me to ask what is important for me to know about merging, and un merging with them

2nd journey – Merging Journey
I am going on a journey to see (insert a situation) through the eyes of my teacher / Power animal
Go to to the spirit you met in the previous journey
It needs to be an issue that is a bit sticky or has been an issue for a while
Ask to merge with your teacher – can step into them, or they come into you

3rd Journey – Divination in pairs
Practitioner Intention – I’m going on a journey to merge with my teacher / PA to answer questions from (insert partner’s name) about their situation

In the face to face meting we drummed, in the zoom meeting the Practitioner rattles themself on the journey. Practitioner merges with the spirit you have been working with. – When doing work for others can help to use a fringy mask, eye covering or scarf over your head. This distinguishes you from the spirit for both the client and yourself

Client intention – tell them briefly and simply your situation from your personal journey once they are merged

Client can ask a number of questions – either until they run out or questions, or until the spirit says they have answered enough.
drum calls practitioner home or they rattle themselves home

4th Activity – Power Animal / teacher dancing to drums / rattles
Invite the teacher / P/A you have been working with to come into you and dance / move together to give thanks for their help

With Shenoah via zoom

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Imbolc has just passed and Chinese new year is fast approaching, both signalling new beginnings in the cycles of nature. In our first online meeting of 2026 we will be embodying our future selves. We will dream a new future and release the old asking for transformation and rebirth. As the planet begins a new cycle so our embodied journeys will align in perfect harmony with the movement of the earth. Many thanks to Christina for suggesting the theme and focus of this meeting.

First Journey
I am going on an acted out middle world journey to embody the dream of my future self

Second Journey
I am going on an acted out journey to release the old that stands in the way of my transformation

Third Journey
I am going on an acted out journey to allow the death and transformation of my old self

Fourth Journey
I am going on an acted out journey to rebirth into my future self

With Shenoah & David face to face

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As if by magic the weather on Saturday is predicted to be fine and sunny which is perfect for our wassailing rituals. It will be cold though so wear your woolies. 
At this first gathering of 2026 we will not only be offering blessing to the fruit trees in the park put also be asking for Blessings for our own lives in the coming year. 
Our annual Wassailing ceremony to bless the fruit trees in Vauxhall Park is a beloved tradition filled with song, cider-soaked toast, joy and the wassailing, ensuring a bountiful harvest ahead.
join us in this spirit of celebration and reciprocity!
We will visiting the park during the meeting so please come prepared for whatever the weather may offer.

First Journey
‘going on a journey to ask my spirits for blessings for the coming year’ 
Everyone wrote the blessings received on long ribbons and attach them to the Wassail hat. 

2nd activity – Wassailing Ceremony – blessing the fruit trees in Vauxhall Park
You had to be there but there was the wearing of the wassailing hat with ribbons flowing from it, singing, rattling, blessings, waking up the trees and putting cider soaked toast in the branches, nuts for the squirrels and apple juice and warm mulled cider for us to drink. The song we used was Who Will Stand.
“Who will stand, who will stand for the bees and the trees and the spirits and the land?
We will stand, we will stand for the bees and the trees and the spirits and the land!”

3rd Activity – group healing
One person sat in the centre of the circle and shared the blessings that were offered by the spirits in their first journey. Everyone else asked their spirits to allow the blessings to flow through them to the person in the centre with song and rattle. Each person went in to deliver the blessing when the time felt right.
This was repeated until everyone had received the blessings

With Shenoah via Zoom

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Join us for a magical year-end gathering where we will step out of the consumerism that has taken over this season and delve into the essence of gratitude and generosity – as suggested by Nina 🎁🙏🏼❄️

Our annual winter feast will also feature a journey to the LODG altar room for an end of year party. Filled with singing, dancing, and ceremony to celebrate our community we will also give and receive spiritual gifts. Feel free to don your shiniest holiday attire, santa hats, and reindeer ears to enhance the festive spirit! 🎉✨

First Journey – drum journey
Going on a Journey to ask my spirits to show me the true nature of generosity and gratitude and how I can integrate them more into my life

2nd activity – Celebration Singing and Dancing to Giving Thanks for this Life we are Living Together – tune and full lyrics can be found by searching Rainbow Spirit Oregon on YouTube. 
The Song 
1st line – Giving thanks for this life we’re living togethe
2nd line – Giving thanks for the gifts were able to share
repeat lines 1&2
5th line – I just want to thank you for my ….(insert what you want to give thanks for)
repeat line 5 3 more times

The Dance 
1st line – perceive everyone holding hands in circle, as go in raise hands giving thanks
2nd line As walk out lower hands offering gifts
repeat above for lines 3&4
5th line – bring arms in a big circle to sides and down the front ending in prayer or freestyle movement

3rd Journey – freestyle or acted out drum journey
Journey to the lodg altar room to take part in the winter feast and to receive a gift to keep connected to gratitude and generosity and to leave a gift for lodg members.

Many years ago a seidr ceremony asked how members of a shamanic group could keep connected. One of the answers was to hold Winter Feasts. Since that time there have been annual winter feasts in different shamanic groups. Before lockdown we used to meet in person and everyone brought food to share so it was an actual feast. Since lockdown it happens online and it is a time for celebrating the group, each other and the spirits. 
 
The lodg altar room is a place in the spirit world we all journey to.  In the spirit of the season giving and receiving is encouraged when there, as well as enjoying the party. It has to be said the experiences of the virtual winter feasts in the lodg altar room are sometimes a bit more raucous than they ever were in person 

4th journey – in pairs
I am going on a journey to ask my spirits for a gift for (insert partners name)
Rattle self onto the journey and auto describe it as it is happening. The gift can be an image, the experience of the journey, a song, the rattling. Ask spirits how to deliver the gift.