The Four Seasons training & the Shamanic Wheel (one year cycle)
Date
19/04/2024 - 21/04/2024
Location
DRUNA, Trojicka 10, Prague, Czech Republic
Organizer
DRUNA
druna@druna.cz
+420 725 449 409
– Systemic Rituals and the Shamanic Wheel for Healing and Transformation –
In the Four Seasons training, we work with Systemic Ritual® and use the Wheel of the Four directions as a map to guide us through the continuous movement of life, with all its gifts, challenges and possibilities of each season, within a year cycle.
These are powerful and dynamic tools for experiencing, understanding and healing personal day-to-day topics and different aspects of yourself and your life.
The modules are happening at the time of the year related to the seasons with their specific qualities.
As we move through the wheel we learn the basics of shamanic practices, entering light trance states with rattling, drumming and singing, and we meet the power animals connected to each season.
We also work with conscious movement, dance, and Voicing to build energy, ground ourselves, and practice awareness and connection between body, mind, emotions, and spirit. We will create a sense of community and safety amongst everyone present, a conscious sharing space and a field of healing where everyone is welcome to participate by offering and receiving something.
The training will supports your personal development and integration into your professional work, where you can apply the understandings, practices and inspiration that you draw from the training to your work with clients, in individual settings and group work.
Season 1 – SPRING (East) 28 – 30 April / 2023
New beginnings, inspiration, clarity, regeneration, creativity
In Springtime, the sun increases in strength, the light returns, and we can see the world with a more expanded vision. New leaves and flowers are sprouting, animals start mating, and life gets going with new possibilities. This season is related to an upward state of expansion, inspiration, optimism, returning, hope, new ideas, inspiration, growing energy, renewal, and freshness.
The Spring rituals and practices support us to bring fresh energy into our lives and clear our vision for new possibilities. It is time for exploration and inquiry, focusing our energy on what we desire and building resources to support the unfolding of our creative potential.
Season 2 – SUMMER (South) 21 – 23 July / 2023
Embodiment, Manifestation, Abundance, Relationships
In Summertime, the sun is the strongest, the light is bright, and everything matures and grows to its full size.
This season is related to abundance, being active and having the power to act. It is about doing and using our energy for full manifestation. It is about relating and being with people, interacting, building structures and using our physical strength.
With the rituals and practices from the Summer module, we explore and build a deeper connection with our body, our sense of grounding and connection with matter, and we bring awareness into our relationship network and patterns in relating, creating the building blocks for sustainable and abundant inner and outer connections.
Season 3 – AUTUMN (West) 06 – 08 October / 2023
Letting go of old patterns; Time for reflection, deeper feelings and intuition.
In the autumn season, the sun starts going down, the light slowly fades, leaves fall, and it is harvesting time. This season is related to slowing down, turning inward, evaluating, resting, relaxing, and going into meditation and contemplation.
The Autumn rituals and practices support us to reflect on what has passed and to let go of what we no longer need, opening the space for entering the immense richness of our inner world, our feelings and emotions, and our intuition. In this module, we go deeper into basic practices of Shamanic work, developing our natural capacity to see through darkness into non-ordinary realities and to receive information and healing for the world of spirits.
Season 4 – WINTER (North) 16 – 18 February / 2024
Silence and open space; Ancestors; Connecting with Light and the Soul.
In the Winter season, the plants stop growing and go into a state of rest and no doing. In this state of rest, it seems nothing is happening, but nature is potentialising and regenerating. In the darkness of night, there is no sun, and the world of forms disappears during our sleep. In the Winter module, we enter the mysterious aspects of timelessness, emptiness, void, the unknown, and the ground of being.
The rituals and practices from the Winter module will guide us into entering formless states of being, meeting the hidden treasures and gifts present in stillness, and resetting, healing and opening space for something new. When the sun is weak, we take time to connect and receive nourishment from different aspects of light. In this module, we will meet the power of our ancestors in connection with the light of our soul as the ground of our existence.
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In each of the Four Seasons, you will explore, embody, and move through the wheel in various ways:
° Individual exploration. You will use the wheel as a map to constellate certain aspects of your life, relating to questions or topics that are important to you. You will create your wheel using stones and objects as representatives of elements and qualities present in your question.
° As a practitioner. With a partner, you support each other to see and relate to certain aspects of life. The supporting partner will take the role of practitioner and can work with prayers in different ways – through rattling, drumming, singing and the power of words, sentences, and sounds – calling support to create space for movement and healing for the partner.
° Work in small groups. By representing different quadrants and aspects of the wheel you will explore and embody the energy and qualities of the four directions at mental, physical, physiological, emotional, and spiritual levels.
° With Systemic Rituals. We create large wheels in a ritual space. The participants will move through a dynamic and alive constellation during the ritual – walking, standing, dancing, lying down, interacting, singing, etc. As people move through the wheel, they meet different resources and elements in the field that are ready for being met, seen, felt, and related with in various ways, creating space for disentanglement, completion, clarity, and healing of specific areas of life.
