Nature Circle and Life Wheel
The Shamanic culture can play for many people an important role to connect to our inborn feelings of simplicity and Oneness. Nearby my house in the woods I created, inspired by the deep Wisdom and authenticity of Jon Young’s Shamanic Indigenous Wisdom and Nature education a Nature Cycle which can also be used as a coaching Circle. Jon opened my eyes for a very important truth and message: we, Western people, are hardly aware that we are losing progressively our nature connection. Jon was lucky that he was brought up by people who were deeply nature connected and shares his really deep Gift and Message now through his 8 Shield organization to create awareness for the fact that are lack of nature connection is the ROOT of any of our current problems: environment and social and health problems are deeply connected to our incompetence to connect and our lack of Awareness what this incompetence causes that basic neuro-physiological root-patterns cannot function fully. The fact that the shamanic culture originates from the time that humans lived as hunter gatherers in nature and developed the essential skills to survive and thrive relationally. The found the behavioral pattern that the modern man can thrive. By losing our nature connection we lose our neuro-biological and psychological grounding. It can mean that many ‘new’ psychological and socio-cultural health and relational problems could be healed by letting our children spent freer ‘timeless’ time with peers in nature.
So, my nature program and my cultural emergence programs are related.
The Core routines of Nature connection is an introduction program that can help us to give our lives a more nature connected foundation on which we can re-organize our unhealthy cultural patterns individually and culturally. It is called Nature connection practices, but the indigenous-people were very aware that the human being is himself deeply natural base. So, nature connection really means a 3-fold integration of Self, Others and Nature connection!.
To practice the Core routines of Nature connection can be for us, adults, be a beautiful gift to create healthy habits to reconnect and nurture our natural self and refresh our battery. It could help you to bring these skills to help your own kids to connect to nature by letting them play in the woods, and stimulate them to spent more ‘timeless’ free time with peers. It will help to wake-up those deep natural instinctive patterns that are connected with the deep creative force that creates and will support our individual autonomy and creativity and help us to awaken our social-connection skills. Through the Nature circle is in the first place an instrument to introduce essential nature connection principles and connect people to the importance of mentoring nature connection and core routines of nature. Jon Young and his 8 Shields organization teach to people all over the world and the nature wheel is in their program called the Acorn and represents
a deeply systemic View on nature in its many dimensions and teaching Gifts.
It represents the natural wholeness of our Earth-habitat and shows a deep insight in the different cyclical elements and the principle of circularity in nature as well as in our human life.
The Art of Mentoring
The core routines are also a part of the Art of Mentoring course which is a 9-month course that I like to give next year. This Art of Mentoring course can help you to anchor yourself much deeper in Nature and can be shared with groups or individuals. Getting to know the different energies of the different seasons, the training of deepening our awareness of the cyclical aspect of life and the psycho-spiritual aspect of each of the directions and seasons. I feel that connecting to these cycles and find time to give this a daily attention, even if it is a few times a day for 5-10 minutes can really deeply enrich your live and help it ground in the depth and mystery of life that we have drifted off from too much. Short moments of connecting to one of the core routines nourishes our Being deeply and helps to stay healthy and connect us with the awesome depth of universal intelligence and order that created it. Next year I will myself have more time to create a program that somehow is a more integrated part of my greater vision of ‘the New Naturalness’ of which this program is perhaps also really foundational.
The coaching circle and its connection to the Blueprint
So, through Jon’s I do see the deeply existential meaning and the Need for us, to re-awaken the indigenous Wisdom by showing the evolutionary and developmental aspect of that time-period and the reawakening of those deep connection patterns. It also inspired me to re-energize my attempt to bring the teachings of the 5 Deep Cultures come alive and it also showed how this adequate it is that the human blueprint starts and is founded in the psycho-physical fractal of the 4 solar animals; The bull, the Snake, the Lion and the Bird.
In the Macro-level teaching of the Blueprint we see how important foundational the Shamanic code is also for creating a health Norms for sustainable and thriving community.
By connecting to each of the 8 different developmental stages we see realize more deeply the depth and deeply connected with our inner potential, that wants to awaken in each of us, to share our Gift connected with our inner ‘muse’ with the world. Entering the Wheel of life with the intent to heal and reconnect can be seen as a Unique Self ceremony and is a holistic approach that empower your creativity and helps to re-connect to the inherent wholeness and meaning of your Life. Essential ‘essence-moments’ of each of the life-stages from your past can re-enter and be taken in in a more holistic and more integrated way. In the Magic of the Extended Now the past can show up to be relived, deeper felt into, understood in a new way and create a stronger Life-Narrative that empowers you in the Now. In the MAGIC of the NOW your Unique Self melody [the Muse] can show up. Your Life is promise that wants to show itself, in order to manifest. Ceremonies are the real place in which your Life’s mission and deep aspects of your Being can show up.
The intuitive whispers will help you to create a deeper connection to your own Stage and Phase in Life & Heal & Empower the Inner Silence and Wholeness of your Self-Essence that then is empowered to bring his Live-Mission, – Passion & -Vision in the World.
Prize: 125 euro for a 2-hour session.
Chocolate & Tabaco Ceremonies
This year I’ll invite Marijn & Juanita to give their Chocolate & Tabaco workshop. It is a deep celebration of life and music and helps us to connect to innocence and purity of our Heart. It is a perfect introduction to connect to their deep nature knowledge and their knowledge of the psycho-spiritual effect of natural plants and ceremonial gatherings and is deeply ingrained in the South America shamanic culture. The plants ceremonies help us to reconnect to the mystery & depth of Life and the music and dance are expressions of the power of love that starts to move and makes you join the music, dance and singing and re-activate your own untamed self-less purity.
The simple and pure heartfelt Unity of the Shamanic culture
In the new paradigm of Unity or Oneness, we rediscover that the inner connection with love and wholeness, never really left us. Being in the sacred all-loving space of the cacao ceremony you could even begin to feel that there was nothing lost after all, nothing to find, it was always there, right under your nose, screaming at you: “look, I’m here, I’ve never left you!” It is a fact that our lifestyle does have a deeply fragmented aspect in it. So, the feeling that you have lost something is very common. But in reality it is impossible to lose that which is essential aspect of who we ARE.
I will start to organize the chocolate ceremony in the coming months. For years I searched for ways to recognize and integrate the different spiritual traditions and their world-self views I feel blessed to introduce this beautiful human way to reconnect with the essence of who we are and to embrace our true human nature again.
The real power of this celebration is the force of shared joy, of being ‘together’ without competition without trying to accomplish something, but to let the heart allow to release its tension and melt to what is: joy, warmth, dance, humor and compassion & tenderness for one another. It is the music and the joy of the musicians, who as shamans of the heart transfer in their music the wisdom and the power of the heart to act as the active ingredient that melts all separation amongst a group of people. Slowly in the ceremony the love becomes a river of connected hearts, and our eyes become the mirrors of our heart and all start to connect with each-other in a way that the outer and inner joy brings us in a state of wholeness in which we break though the habit of feeling separated and alone. This is the strong healing power that is the hidden ingredient of our magical cacao-potion.
Prize: 25-30 euro
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