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Foundation Course
ONLINE (USA timings): 24th-26th October 2025
IN-PERSON: 10th-12th October 2025 (1 space remaining)
The Foundation Course is a requirement for all other courses that we offer. Over a weekend, from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, we will explore the basic tools of shamanic dreaming and journeying, and the ways they may safely be used to ask the questions that matter most to our lives. We will learn the function and relevance of the medicine wheel in contemporary shamanic practice. The aim is that you will go home with a set of relevant tools that can help you find greater personal authenticity and integrity in your lives and that you will understand how to use them safely. You will be introduced to the outline of future courses. The in-person course will also offer a healing circle.
The online courses are aimed at people who are based outside of the UK and unable to attend an in-person residential course. They are held at USA friendly times – the finer details are within the booking link.
Please read the FAQ page before signing up to this course.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor.
Cost for in person: £400 (deposit £200). Cost for online: £185
Fire Gate
ONLINE: 25th – 27th July
IN PERSON: 13th – 15th June 2025 (Full)
IN PERSON: 15th – 17th August 2025 (Full)
IN PERSON: 12th – 14th June 2026
You must have attended a Foundation Course to come to Fire Gate.
Fire is the first of the Gates. This is the East, the spark, the kindling of new creation, of risk, of joy, of poetry, of sexuality, of new beginnings and sudden endings. Fire brings new life and it destroys.
This weekend is the beginning of a relationship, the opening of a gate into all that fire represents for us: each of us is different, each of us builds a different relationship. This is your chance to deepen your relationship with fire and the east.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
Earth Gate
IN-PERSON: 16th – 18th May 2025
IN-PERSON: 12th – 14th September 2025
ONLINE: 26th – 28th September 2025
You must have attended a Fire Gate before coming to Earth Gate.
Earth is the second gate we meet as we progress around the circle. This is the West, the place of the stone people, of the Earth, of the going down of the sun, of the looks-within. This is the place of the Nurturing Parent within us, place of grounding, of self-compassion and the wisdom that arises from matching our heart beat to the heart beat of the Earth in all its forms. This is also the place of the deepest dreaming – which is death, and all the gifts it brings.
This weekend is the beginning of a relationship, the opening of a gate to the Earth. Each of us is different, each of us builds a different relationship. This is your chance to spark or to deepen your relationship with earth, stone, darkness – all that is the West.
You will be offered the opportunity to sit out on the earth for the duration of darkness (or whatever fraction of this feels right to you) so please come equipped for all weathers and all temperatures.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
North Gate
IN-PERSON: 11th – 13th July 2025
This is the fourth of the sequential gates in which will meet with the north-aspects of warrior, guardian parent and the duality of hunter and hunted. We will explore the element of air and will step more deeply into heart mind that we may come to rest lightly in the moment. This course follows from the East, West and South gates (in that order) and completes the four cardinal directions.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
North East Gate
27th – 29th March 2026
By invitation only.
Course facilitator: Manda Scott
10th Gate
4th – 6th April 2025
By invitation only
Course facilitator: Manda Scott
Elder Gathering
2nd – 5th October 2025
By invitation only.
This course is facilitated by: Manda Scott
Intermediate Healing
In Person: 26th June – 29th June 2025
On this four day healing course we’ll build on the learnings from the Basic Healing weekend and explore more ways we can sense energy and move it in ourselves and each other, further building the capacity to act as a channel for healing. To come, you need to have been on a Basic Healing course, to be confident in your journeying, and have a fluent connection with your healing guide.
This Intermediate course is an essential precursor to the five day Advanced Healing course covering extraction and soul retrieval taking place in 2026.
Course facilitators: Manda Scott and Louise Mayor
Between the Gates
ONLINE: Sunday 21st December 2025, 6-8pm GMT
Booking opens in the summer
Join us at the solstice for a session designed to turn your focus from your current gate, towards your next. This is open to anyone who has done at least a Foundation and will most likely include a Q&A session for anything has been arising in your Dreaming, and a guided journey led by Manda.
Course facilitator: Manda Scott
Contact Louise
If you have any questions, do get in touch with Louise:
louise@dreamingawake.co.uk
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