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Systemic Rituals & the Shamanic Wheel for Healing and Transformation
In the Four Seasons training we work with Systemic Ritual® and the Wheel of the Four directions as a map to guide us through the cyclical and continuous movement of life, with all its gifts, challenges and possibilities.
Personal & Professional training
The training is designed for supporting your personal development as well as integration into your professional work, where you can apply the understandings, practices and inspiration that you draw from the training into your work with clients, in individual settings as well as in group work.
We work with conscious movement, dance, and voicing, as ways to build energy, ground ourselves, and practice awareness and connection between body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
We 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 by receiving something.
The Four Seasons & the Four directions Wheel
The Wheel is an organic system where we understand each direction in connection to the others. It provides a rhythmic pattern that comes from the natural world. It represents the eternal cyclical movement of life, from creation, manifestation, destruction, and void.
In the cycle of day and night: Following the darkness of night the sun returns and rises in the morning, in the East. In the South, in the middle of the day, the sun is the strongest. In the evening the sun starts going down, in the West. And the sun is gone in the North when we enter the night.
In the cycle of the seasons: The Spring with its increasing light and energy is placed in the East. Summer, with its fullness and warmth, is in the South. In the West is Autumn, when the energy slows down and the strength of the sun gets weaker. In the North, we find the Winter, when solar energy is the weakest.
We receive information and can relate with the wheel through natural facts and the manifestations of nature. And we can also look at the wheel and the characteristics of the four directions translated into energetic qualities, psychological states, and spiritual perspectives.
Four seasons & Four Modules – One year cycle
The training is happening in four modules during the time of the year related to each or the four seasons and 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.
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 Four Directions Wheel is based on observation of nature – the cardinal directions and the natural cycles that happen in a moment, within a day, a month, a year, a lifetime, and beyond life and death.
Module 1: Spring & the East
New beginnings, inspiration, clarity, regeneration, creativity
In Spring the sun start increasing its strength, the light return 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, 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 into what we desire and building resources to support the unfolding of our creative potential.
Module 2: Summer & the South
Embodiment, Manifestation, Abundance, Relationships
In Summer the sun is the strongest, the light is bright and everything matures and grow to their 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 Summer we explore and build 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.
Module 3 : Autumn & the West
Letting go of old patterns, time for reflection, deeper feelings and intuition
In autumn the sun start going down, light slowly fades, leaves are falling and it is harvesting time. This season is related to slowing down, turning inward, evaluating, resting, relaxing, going into meditation and contemplation.
The Autumn rituals and practices support us to reflection into 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.
Module 4: Winter & the North
Silence and open space, Ancestors, Connecting with Light and the Soul
In winter the plants stop growing and go into a state of rest and no doing. In this state it looks like nothing is happening, but nature is potentializing and regenerating. In the darkness of night, there is no sun and the world of forms disappear during our sleep.
In this season we enter the mysterious aspect of timelessness, emptiness, void, the unknown, the ground of being.
The rituals and practices from Winter 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.
This is a work of love, respect, and compassion towards ourselves, others, our human being community, and the whole of life.
In each of the Four Seasons we 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 for you. You will create your wheel using stones and objects as representatives of elements and qualities that are 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 takes the role of a practitioner, making use of 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 as a ritual space, where everybody participates and move through a dynamic and alive constellation – walking, standing, dancing, laying down, interacting, singing, etc. And as we move through the wheel we meet different resources and elements in the field that are ready for being met, seeing, felt, and related with in various ways, creating space for disentanglement, completion, clarity, and healing of specific areas of life.
The magical world of Nature and Animal Spirits
Fundamental elements of shamanic work are Prayer, Journeying and connection with our Spirit guides, helpers and Power Animals.
During the Four Directions training, we will learn and practice the ways of prayer and communicate with our guides, helpers and teachers – Spirits and beings of light that come to us in the form of power animals and elements of nature.
These are powerful resources that remind us that we are part of a magical holographic web of life that is holding, supporting and teaching us with every experience of life, in every moment.