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.

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)
or 
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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