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Foundation Course
IN-PERSON: 9th – 11th October 2026
ONLINE: 6th – 8th November 2026
Online and 2027 residential course dates coming soon
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. Max. 15 places per course.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor.
Cost for in person: £420 (deposit £200). Cost for online: £200
Fire Gate
IN PERSON: 10th – 12th July 2026 (full)
IN PERSON: 4th – 6th June 2027
ONLINE: 18th – 20th September 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: 4th – 6th September 2026
Online and in-person 2027 dates coming soon – email to be added to the waiting list
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
South Gate
IN PERSON: 14th-16th August 2026
ONLINE: 7th-9th August 2026
This is the third of the sequential gates in which we begin to meet the south of the wheel, the place of boundless and flowing movement, the place of finding the boundaries that support us.
South is the place of the trust child, also known as the wisdom child – in our culture sometimes the wounded child.
In this course we will immerse ourselves in the element of water whose place is in the South. We will let go of the boundaries that restrict and confine us so that as we step out of the water we can gather to ourselves boundaries that are appropriate to where we are now.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
North Gate
ONLINE: 31st July – 2nd August 2026
IN PERSON: 16th – 18th July 2027 (Booking soon)
In this gate we will meet with the north-aspects of warrior, guardian parent and the duality of hunter and hunted. We will explore the element of Wind 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.
This course is facilitated by Louise Mayor
Strengthening Your Intuition
IN-PERSON: 25th – 27th September 2026
Everything we do as shamanic practitioners is rooted in Heart Mind knowing. From trusting the lessons of a journey, to following the instructions of our healing guides, to sifting the meaning from dreams, to listening to the voices of our guides through the days, to hearing the wisdom of trees, the rivers, the red kites…all of these arise from our Heart Minds.
In consensus reality, this is called Intuition, but it has many other names: psychic connection, mediumship, psychometry, remote viewing, astral travel, animal communication, past life explorations, future life explorations, they all arise from our Heart Mind/Intuition. The tools are all the clairs: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and claircognisance – we all have them, we just need to practice using them until we learn to trust the moments when they’re active and to let go of the moments when our fears/egos/projections are taking over.
Over the course of this weekend we’ll explore the many ways to strengthen our trust in our Heart Mind in the company of our guides and the altar, building our tool kit so that we can deepen our personal practice in service to life.
Course facilitators: Manda Scott and Louise Mayor
10th Gate
1st – 4th April 2027
By invitation only.
This course is facilitated by: Manda Scott and Louise Mayor
Between the Gates
ONLINE: December 2026. Dates TBC.
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. Co-host: Louise Mayor
Contact Louise
If you have any questions, do get in touch with Louise:
louise@dreamingawake.co.uk
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