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.

Face to face on 8th Nov run by Shenoah & David
Zoom on 9th Nov run by Shenoah

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We have run an annual LODG Seidr day since 1998 to introduce people to the wonderful practice of seidr and to support those already working with it to deepen their practice. There will be two opportunities this year, a face to face meeting on the Saturday and a Zoom meeting on the Sunday. 

Seidr is a nordic shamanic tradition. it is a freer yet focussed and power filled way of working that offers a different experience than journeying with the drum or rattle. Seidr uses the staff, the song and the seat as key elements but being able to sing in tune is not required, it is the power our intention carries not how it sounds that is important. 

Saturday 8th meeting
The face to face meeting on Saturday will take place in the vaulted main room at the Wheatsheaf Hall and will be a mix of working for ourselves, others and a group healing ceremony. This year’s group ceremony is inspired by the spirt boat healing ceremony of the Salish People from the Pacific North West and was traditionally a soul retrieval. The spirit boat is often used as the group healing ceremony in introductory courses as an introduction to power animal retrievals.
We occasionally do group healing ceremonies for LODG members and our spirit boat ceremony will be on behalf of a LODG member who is negotiating a very difficult time in life due to bereavements and health issues. 
Sunday 9th Meeting
The Sunday meeting will take place on Zoom and we will do work for ourselves and for others but we will be doing a different community healing ceremony.

First Journey – with staff journeying on song
Going on a journey to meet the spirit of my staff to ask for a teaching about the autumn at this time in my life

Second Journey – partner work with staff and song
The client sings the seidr worker on the journey at the start and back at the end of the journey then swap. Recipient decides what they want help for and shares this with the seidr worker.
Journey to ask for the help (insert partners name) needs at this time
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3rd Journey – Seidred spirit boat to ask for healing and bring a power animal back for a lodg member
Face to Face meeting on 8th
We created the shape of a canoe with scarfs and put semi precious stones around the boat. The idea was that the person could hold the stones to keep them connected to what had returned and the healing. The person receiving the power animal and the person getting the animal were in the boat and the other seidr workers stood with their staffs inside but around the edges of the boat. We started by asking for healing and singing into the boat over the person and into the semi precious stones. We started the journey and all turned to the East, one person went to find the power animal and everyone else sung us down into the lower world. When the animal had been collected everyone turned around facing the West and sung us back. The power animal was blown into the person.
Zoom meeting on 9th – ask for the resources the person needs for their healing process
As there had been a big healing the day before we did not want to do another healing so the work this day was to ask for the resources the person needed for their healing process. Everyone created their own boat in their own homes with scarfs. They perceived a comfortable place inside of the boat and also the semi precious stones around the boat. Everyone sung resources into the boat and the stones. Afterwards what everyone shared about their experience was sent to the person the resources was for.

With Shenoah via Zoom

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Autumn is a season of giving thanks for the abundance of the harvest but also a huge natural surrender to change as the summer transitions into autumn and then autumn into winter. 

By aligning ourselves with the energy and flow of the autumn season we can come into balance with ourselves, others and the world around us.

This gathering offers the opportunity to work with the spirits of nature to support our own transition into autumn. As we embrace this natural seasonal cycle of release we receive insights, healing and wisdom that will support us to let go of what no longer serves us in our life. 

First Journey
I am going on an acted out middle world journey to merge with a tree I know to experience the seasonal changes of the autumn

Second Journey
I am going on a journey to ask for help to be in the flow of the autumn and surrender to what is ready to be released

Third journey – in pairs – using rattle and song – 2 rounds
I am going on a journey to ask my spirits for the support for (inset partners name) to release (insert what they need to release)
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I am going on a journey to ask my spirits for the support for (inset partners name) to embrace the release they need at this time

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With Shenoah face to face in Vauxhall.

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Gratitude has been proven to have a positive effect on how we perceive and experience life.  Embracing gratitude can significantly enhance our physical and emotional well-being, helping us to recognise and appreciate the abundance in our lives.

As the Harvest festival approaches which celebrates the bounty from the earth we will explore how we can appreciate the bounty in our own lives.  We will ask the spirits how they would like us to express our gratitude for all their support and also work with the spirits of nature in Vauxhall park so come prepared for whatever the weather may be. 

First Journey
Going on a journey to ask my spirits for a teaching about gratitude and how I can express my gratitude to my spirits for their support

Walking Journeys in the Vauxhall Park
1st journey – walking journey to find a plant to ask for a simple daily practice of gratitude to help me appreciate the bounty in my life

2nd journey – find a tree in the orchard to give thanks for its fruit – each tree represents the world tree so you are giving thanks to all trees for everything they are offering – then walking journey to find an object to keep me connected to my gratitude practice.

4th Journey – Pair Work
Ask the spirits to show their gratitude to your partner
Call your spirits, rattle over your partner using their own rattle

With Shenoah via Zoom

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Our lives are shaped by our past experiences and while some experiences allow us to thrive, others limit how we live our lives. This meeting offers a profound opportunity for personal growth by exploring how unresolved past experiences may be impacting our emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.

Through working with the spirits we will identify lingering limitations and seek healing to release what holds us back, enabling us to live more freely and fully in the present and future. 

1st Journey – drum journey
I am going on a journey to ask my spirits to show me an experience that has limited my well being and what effect it will have in my future if it is not healed

2nd Journey – acted out journey
Going on a journey to ask my spirits what needs to happen to heal (insert what shown needs healing) so I can be free from any negative effects on my wellbeing

3rd journey – healing journey in pairs
Asking my spirits for a healing for (insert partners name) to help them be free from the effects from (insert what needs healing)
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With Shenoah & David Face to Face in Kensington Gardens, London

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Many cultures recognise the deep wisdom that is held by plants. At our annual outdoor summer meeting we will seek guidance from the plants and trees in Kensington Gardens.  Through the wisdom they share we will receive the resilience and growth we need at this time as they support us in our lives and offer us strength and clarity as we plant seeds of hope for the future.  

Our annual outdoor summer meeting and picnic will be held Kensington Gardens in the centre of London.  We meet under a grove of trees which gives protection from the sun and light showers, we have an alternative sheltered place to work if it is very wet. Please bring food to share.  

1st Journey – Walking Journey
 I am going on a walking journey to find a tree to ask to be shown what seed/s of hope it is important for me to plant at this time in my life

2nd Journey – Walking Journey
I am going on a walking journey to ask to be shown how to support and nurture the growth of the seed of hope and to find a song to help me keep connected

3rd Journey – Walking Journey for a partner
I am going on a walking journey to find an object to help (insert partners name) keep connected to their seed of hope

With Shenoah via Zoom

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This month’s meeting will be on “The Power of Blessings” and offers an opportunity to explore the often-overlooked energy and significance of blessings, emphasizing their transformative potential for both giver and receiver. By deepening our understanding and experience of blessings, we can harness their power to foster healing, gratitude, and connection, enriching our spiritual practice and personal growth. Engaging in this exploration invites us to recognise blessings as a potent force that nurtures positive energy and strengthens our bonds with others and ourselves

1st Journey
I an going on a journey to ask my spirits to show me the effects of giving and receiving a blessing
Could be effects on mind, body, energy, how the energy moves, is something activated when a blessing is given or received. Can ask to be shown first the giving and then the receiving.

2nd Journey
I am going on a journey to ask the spirit of blessings what needs to happen for the blessings I give and receive to be more empowered
May be shown a personal gesture that draws down the energy (arms open to the heavens). 
Can ask to be shown first the giving and then the receiving.

3rd journey – in pairs
Blessing for a partner
Find out what partner wants a blessing for. Offer it in the way shown in the previous journey. Partner to receive it in the way shown in the previous journey. Swap over.

with Shenoah & David face to face

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Words have spiritual force and transformative power and are potent forces that shape our spiritual and daily lives.  When used with intention words can alter our perception, influence our actions and have profound effects on our well-being through how we receive and use them. 

At this meeting we will work with our spirits and the spirts of nature in Vauxhall Park to gain a deeper understanding of how words can uplift or diminish us and how we can consciously use them to support our spiritual practice and empower our life.

We will be doing some work in Vauxhall Park so come prepared for whatever the weather may be. 

1st Journey – drum journey
Part 1 – Journey to ask my spirits to show me the effects of words I receive negatively on my mind, body and spirit

Part 2 – Journey to ask my spirits to show me the effects of words I receive positively on my mind, body and spirit

2nd journey – walking journey in Vauxhall Park
1st to to find a plant and ask it for some words that will bring you comfort / healing / grounding

3rd journey – walking journey in Vauxhall Park
2nd journey – Ask another plant for insights on how to deliver words of power to others, and ask for the words you must never say to yourself or others

4th Journey – in pairs – do it one way then swap over
Find out what your partner needs at present – healing / grounding / comfort / inspiration / etc
Get them comfortable and journey to ask your spirits for the powerful words they need to hear at this time – can also use the rattle to support the work or sing the words but the main focus is on saying the words and the quality of how you say the words so they can hear them

With Shenoah via Zoom

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The theme of this months meeting is ‘finding the light’. Just as the spring growth is coming out of the darkness and reaching for the light in this meeting we will explore how we can shift from the areas of darkness within ourselves and bring ourselves nourishment and hope.  Whether the ‘darkness’ is difficult emotions, negative patterns or a sense that something is not as it should be we will work with the season to support a shift into a different relationship with ourselves. 

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Emerging from the dark is a natural movement for nature in the spring and there is a huge amount of power at this time of year to enable it to happen. If we see ourselves as part of nature as opposed to separate from it, our natural movement is also to emerge from the dark and move through into a different state of being. Our life experience may in some way hinder this movement but to emerge into the light is our natural movement. 

1st Journey – I am going on a journey to ask my spirits what area in my life needs to ‘find the light’ and to introduce me to a ‘spring ally’ who can support me.

2nd journey – I am going on a journey to ask my spring ally to show me a vision of myself when I am beyond (name what you were shown needed to find the light) and in the flow of life

3rd journey – Partner work
One partner calls the energy of their spring ally to them and does the work from that place. It may be singing, or rattling, or sharing what the spring ally is showing them.
‘I am merging with and sharing the energy of my spring ally to support (insert partner’s name) to be in the flow of life
Other partner opens themselves to receive the energy of the spring.
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