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Wild Pure Heart and Slí An Chroí present
Introduction to the Irish-Celtic Tradition of Natural Spirituality
Featuring Irish Shamans Karen Ward and John Cantwell
July 3-4, Sydney, NSW
Also Coming to Braidwood, NSW:
Irish-Celtic Winter Solstice Gathering: June 18 - 23
Downloads:
Course Brochure (.pdf, 305 kb)
Participant's Information Sheet (.pdf, 69 kb)
Course Registration Form (.doc format, 33 kb)
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| Update: if you can only make one day, then the you can do the Saturday on its own for half price. Email info [at] wildpureheart.com for details. |
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 We are thrilled to be bringing out Irish shamans Karen Ward and John Cantwell, who you may remember from their appearance in This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon.
If you are interested in Irish Celtic spirituality and shamanism, then join John and Karen for a two-day workshop in Sydney which will be perfect for anyone for whom shamanism and Celtic ways are new. This workshop is for beginners and people who would like to tip their toes into the deep, pure waters of Celtic spirituality. |
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Join John Cantwell and Karen Ward, directors of one of Ireland’s foremost shamanic training organisations, Slí An Chroí, (“Pathway Of The Heart”) to immerse yourself in a warm embrace of indigenous Irish mysticism. In these two days, we will open doors to the wisdom tradition of pre-Celtic and Celtic Irish ways into sacred connection. This will be a time for personal sanctuary and for what we refer to in Ireland as “Immrama”, a voyage of wonder. Native Irish ritual and ceremony will call you simultaneously “into yourself” and “into the worlds”, to open your heart, find respite and healing and forge deeper connection to the natural world.
 A keynote of the gathering will be Ancestral Connection. The indigenous heart knows that we cannot truly know who we are and where we are, unless we have located ourselves as “standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before us”. There will be an invitation for you to honour your family, ethnic, cultural, spiritual forefathers and foremothers. John and Karen bring powerful techniques for connecting to Ancestral Energies beyond what is held in our memory or family biography. The subsequent work of looking forward in our lives is therefore grounded and finding personal and world vision is another keynote. We live in times that challenge us to discover new, sustainable personal and collective myth. We are being asked to find resources that challenge our creativity and who/what we believe ourselves to be. The Irish Celtic tradition has long cherished the quest for the visionary state and we will tread along ancient rituals to retrieve what is new and pristine about ourselves.
This gathering is suitable for those who have and have not experienced formal training or previous shamanic gatherings. It is accessible and open to all, irrespective of ethnicity, gender or age and it calls to all who yearn for supportive, sacred community without hierarchy or dogma. There will be tales and poems, plus the unexpected that are all part of the naturally, wild Irish quest to realise the eternal fire within. |
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The Introduction to the Irish-Celtic tradition of natural spirituality will include:
- Traditional creation of sacred space.
- Cleansing ritual.
- Danú, Dagda, Dia – the Celtic Trinity of Spirit.
- Exploring the Sacred Tree, the Celtic map of the soul and cosmos.
- Walking in the footsteps of Fiontan MacBóchna and Cesair, the archetypal First Man and First Woman of Ireland.
- Knowing the “transpersonal essence” of the Irish Celtic path, to step ‘into the Self’ we simultaneously ‘step into the Earth’.
- Immrama – Journeying into deep states of connection and vision on the sound of the bodhrán drum.
- Exploring The Otherworld, a place of wonder, inspiration and magic
- “Stepping Into Our Ancestors” – a technique for insight, honouring and healing.
- Opening up to the myth of the Tuatha de Danann, an early mythological Irish race that lived in deepest harmony with Mother Earth.
- Exploring why the shaman is known as one of the “stone people”.
- Working with Power Animals and Spirit Guides.
- How the Irish tradition holds the reality of ‘non-ordinary presence’, e.g. An Sí (Faerie Kind), the elementals, etc and teachings on how to work with these energies ethically, safely and effectively.
- Making of Prayer Bundles.
- Working with The Cauldron, the great vessel of transformation and alchemy.
- How the “Amhrán Mór” (Great Song of Creation) of the Irish tradition sits with the Songlines and Dreamings of the Australian tradition
- Building of personal shamanic practice for balance, connection and power.
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Course Information
Downloads:
Course Brochure (.pdf, 305 kb)
Participant's Information Sheet (.pdf, 69 kb)
Course Registration Form (.doc format, 33 kb)
Introduction to the Irish-Celtic Tradition of Natural Spirituality |
Dates: July 3 - 4, 2010 from 9:30 to 5:00 |
Venue: Balmain Town Hall, 370 Darling St, Balmain (Sydney), NSW |
Cost: $430.00 |
Bookings: To book for the course,
please email Andrew on andrew [at] wildpureheart.com or phone 0409 609 428. |
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