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What to expect during a Gong and Drum Puja

• Overnight Immersion:

The ceremony typically begins in the evening and concludes in the early morning,

allowing participants to sleep through most of the night.

Continuous Drum or Gong Sound:

Participants lie down and are surrounded by the continuous, low-frequency

vibrations of the gongs and drums.

Deep Sleep:

The long duration and specific frequencies are intended to induce deep sleep,

which is considered to be a prime state for healing and cellular rejuvenation.

Emotional & Physical Release:

The powerful vibrations are said to unblock physical, mental, and emotional

issues, leading to a cleansing and freeing experience.

Exchange for the experience £ 85 

You will need to bring an eye mask and a mat plus blanket to be snug.

  Four related days which are separate enough to stand

alone.  However a reduction is offered for you if you wish to

attend all four at an exchange of £100 per day, £400 for all

four.  

Alternatively £125 each day.

Why The Elements?  Three reasons really.   

First, as humans our connection with the elements used to be

essential to our survival: fire for heat, water as a highway,

source of food and cleanliness, knowledge of our patch of earth

and respect for her was critical to our survival, and air, from our

first to our last breath, we cannot survive in any other element. 

In the developed world most humans have more or less lost this

relationship with, I believe, disastrous consequences. Water?

Comes from taps, goes down a drain. There’s no space in

there to experience rain, full or empty river beds, dry or lush

farmland.

Second: from this close relationship (I speculate) we humans

saw the elements as live partners in our lives.  Angry fire, angry

rivers, balmy, loving air, loving or hateful earth depending on

abundance or scarcity.  What would our lives be like if we

reconnected with these powerful forces?  Richer? Humbler?  I

invite you to consider this question.

And lastly, it is my belief that our increasing

separation from the elements is a huge engine of our

destruction of our precious and beautiful planet.  And those few

of us who are willing to work at strengthening this connection

could be useful if not critical if our collective destruction is to be

moderated and maybe stopped.  

So acknowledging our relationship with the elements, forging a

connection with them, and finding a daily practise to keep this

alive may all be key parts to a richer life for us as well as our

planet.  

There is no one answer here, so each day will be structured to

allow and encourage us to explore our experiences and beliefs

around each element, and in the course of the day settle into

some kind of dialogue with the spirit of each.  

How will the days be structured?

We will have a ritual beginning, creating and honouring an altar

related to the element of the day, cleansing one another,

reading aloud words to invite and honour that element.

In pairs we will share memories/experiences/stories whether

from our own lives or from movies/others stories/art it doesn’t

matter. These have fed your beliefs about and relationship with

this element.

Then we’ll note in writing the emotions this conversation has

brought up for us, for example Fire for me immediately brings

memories of comfort, fear, frustration, ignorance, anger …..

Then we will journey asking to meet our personal element of

Fire who can act as Guide for the days work.

We will spend the remainder of the day in guided practises of

communication with and deepening of our relationship with this

Guide, asking questions and receiving answers.

The day will end with a fire, and drumming, and an opportunity

to give back to the fire, or receive from the fire whatever your

particular experience requires as an outcome.

Why work with these two together? Shamans have always

consulted with their and their clients ancestors looking for

support and wisdom which comes from a perspective which we

cannot grasp. And our modern lens of archetype is such a

useful way to capture how these ancient patterns can be

playing out in the here and now.

Working with the elements of fire, water, earth and air we will

connect through our familial ancestors back to our ancient

lineages.

Creating a space for a fire in a specific landscape which will be

revealed to us, we will invite two, maybe three, ancestors to sit

round the fire, and talk with us. We will have a conversation: our

aim is to learn from them, to hear what wisdom can be passed

to us, by one of us who has the benefit of uncountable

generations of lived experience.

We will then focus on identifying at least one, maybe more,

archetype(s) which we wish to release in this lifetime, and also

one or more which we wish to enhance the presence of or to

call in as a new one.

Sometimes we meet ancestors whose archetype has been

determined by circumstance, for example living in the archetype

of scarcity can be a direct consequence of starvation. However

maybe we too operate a scarcity lens on material, temporal or

emotional aspects of life, even though we live in a time of plenty

as regards food.

I will provide a comprehensive list of archetype possibilities, and

of course am on hand to discuss this during and after the day.

We will share a the process of this in group and about individual

context in pairs, and we will have private time, whether in the

yurt or outside if you choose, to make sense of this experience

in the context of our current life. And this is just the start of this

kind of deep communication and exploration, if you wish to take

it further.

We will create a ritual for ourselves to give away what we wish

to lose, and call in who we wish to become.

The day will end with a brief soundbath to embed these

practises, and to set you on your way to your future.

Come for a full day of exhilarating drumming. Your drum and our beautiful mother drum will speak to you as never before.

Exchange  for the day including lunch £150 per attendee

If you are interested in participating please register your interest through the contact link below and you will be the first to know when dates are fixed.

This is where you get to experience a Shamanic approach to life and living .  

Please see Sample Day below for more details

Exchange  for the day including lunch £150 per attendee

If you are interested in participating please register your interest through the contact link below and you will be the first to know when dates are fixed.

Over a weekend you will be shown how to journey to meet teachers in Non Ordinary Reality.  Once meeting with them you will be able to ask specific questions of them, they will offer insights and metaphors in response

Exchange  for the two day event including lunch £ 300 per attendee

Let us introduce you to ecstatic dance, a freeing self expression which helps quieten

our busy minds

If you are interested in participating please register your interest through the contact link above and you will be the first to know when dates are fixed.