EARTH CHILD.jpg) Transforming The Wounded Child To The Magical Child |
withDawn Russell, Lorraine Grayston and Leo RutherfordThursday eve 29th July to Tuesday 3rd August 2010 Residential East Sussex |
“No harm must come to the Children” This is an ancient saying that comes from a deep knowledge of caretaking for our Earth and for all living creatures ...….. including ourselves. Our childhood is a time when we can learn that we are an integral part of life, part of the community/collective. It is a time when we are at our most sensitive, open, vulnerable, trusting, inquisitive and loving. What happened to these places in you? Over the recent course of our history we have collectively undermined our children, fed them (that includes you and me!) with a sense of fear and scarcity on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This isn’t always in your face; often it is very subtle, eating away at our sense of self worth and self esteem. What are the symptoms of this in us, in our society? Ever felt not good enough? That you’re not up to it? Ever felt unlovable and unloved? Ever stepped back when you wanted to step forward? Withdrawn when really you wanted to be a part of? Or do you fill your life, yourself with doing too much rushing about but you still feel empty? Are you ever at peace? When the here and now is not ok we invariably have to look back to our early years. We call it doing the work of the “South”, “Erasing Personal History,” the South being the place of the Child. The “Work” is to bring the child back to his/her healthy state of trust and innocence, the knowing that we have a right to our place in family/community, where we are loved and respected, a place within our self that is at peace. We invite you to come and do some of this “work” with us. This is an intensive course and will push your “comfort zones” in order to get to a place of much greater freedom within. Some of the practices we will use to help us include: Working close with Nature Story work Sacred enactment Bio- energetics Dance / movement Fire ceremony Sweat Lodge Medicine wheel teachings And many other tools from Shamanic and psychotherapeutic principles
Accommodation will be in an all season Yurt, Dome, long house and bender all with wood burning stoves, carpets and mattresses. There is a hot shower block and earth toilets. We also have the use of the facilities of a house and a beautiful converted Barn to work in. In our grounds we have a Medicine Wheel of trees and stones, a pond, quiet places to be and a hammock between two old Oaks. There are also wonderful walks through woods and fields via the Cuckoo Trail. .JPG)
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