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Foundation Course
ONLINE (USA timings): 15th – 17th November 2024
IN-PERSON: 29th November – 1st December 2024 (full)
IN-PERSON: 7th – 9th March 2025
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 the opportunity to experience 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 – more information will be within the booking link.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
Between the Gates
ONLINE: Sunday 22nd December 2024, 6-8pm GMT
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
Fire Gate
ONLINE: 13th – 15th September 2024
IN PERSON: 13th – 15th June 2025
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 spark of to deepen your relationship with fire and the east.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
Earth Gate
IN-PERSON: 16th – 18th May 2025
IN-PERSON: 3rd – 5th October 2025 (booking soon)
ONLINE: Dates TBC. Please 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.
PLEASE NOTE – The online version of this course will be scheduled when there is a critical mass on the waiting list. Email louise@dreamingawake.co.uk to be added.
Course facilitator: Louise Mayor
South Gate
ONLINE: 27th – 29th September 2024
You must have attended Earth Gate before coming to South Gate.
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
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 West Gate
21st – 23rd March 2025 (Booking Soon)
By invitation only.
Course facilitator: Manda Scott
10th Gate
4th – 6th April 2025 (Booking soon)
By invitation only
Course facilitator: Manda Scott
Elder Gathering
3rd – 6th October 2024
By invitation only.
This course is facilitated by: Manda Scott
Basic Healing
In Person: 18th Oct – 20th Oct 2024
On this foundational healing weekend, we’ll explore the ways we can sense energy and move it in ourselves and each other, building the capacity to act as a channel for healing. To come, you need to have been on a foundation dreaming course, to be confident in your journeying and to have a strong, trusted bond with at least one core guide.
This is an essential precursor to the more advanced work of extraction and soul retrieval and will lead to an advanced healing course in 2025
Course facilitator: Manda Scott and Louise Mayor
Contact Louise
If you have any questions, do get in touch with Louise:
louise@dreamingawake.co.uk
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