Thursday 6pm 10th June – Monday 3pm 15th June
Earth Spirit Duddon, Glastonbury
Life is a collection of memories, experiences and knowledge, some of which are positive and some not. These are processed and stored for future reference.
All processing generates some form of waste which accumulates over time. This is carried with us.
Imagine the heart as a furnace where these collectables are processed, providing warmth and nourishment.
This fire produces ash and the charred remains of those that do not burn readily, which accumulate at the base of the fire, under our hearts.
Eventually this debris begins to choke the fire, impeding its passion and ability to process further.
It is in this ash that shadows begin to form, resulting in a toxic waste. Dictionaries define such as that which causes injury or damage to a living organism or its development, progression and activity. The same can be said of our spirits.
Shriving the Shadows is an intensive three-day programme of reprocessing this waste and shadows, clearing the ash beneath our hearts so that our flames can be brighter and more passionate.
Shriving is an archaic word that relates to scraping away adhesions and at the same time forgiving those that create them.
Many of our shadows await forgiveness, completion and resolution.
During these three days, the programme will offer an opportunity through ceremony, hands-on healing and witnessing to finally discard that which no longer serves and perhaps recycle the waste into a more compassionate energy for ourselves and others.
The programme will include:
Sacrifice of the Fetish: the core ceremony, a form of ‘exorcismic’ ritual to witness our shadows that block our destiny, which will be carried from us by a spirit agent.
Ashes in the Heart: an embracing of the shadows in our hearts. From this will be a ritual to create a ‘healing tool’ from ‘holy’ ash.
Shriving of Shadows – Ag Tabhairt Neart: A ritual of giving strength and forgiveness of shadows.
The Shadow Bundle: will be a tulpaic totem to take away and maintain the defence against shadows.
Morning meditations, evening rituals including a fire ceremony and an opportunity to learn and experience hands-on healing specific to shadows.
