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awakening to the love and freedom of essence
Are you living your aliveness? Your soul promptings? This workshop invites you to know and embrace who you are and what you have to offer the world.
Are you in touch with your own truth enough to leap into the void with faith and with total trust that you will land on your feet? Where are the longings leading you? What are the stepping stones in your life that ask of you the courage to take a leap of faith into the unknown? Have you played the music of your own soul? To become the co-creator of your life that you are is to become a self-realised being.  
Maybe that will be the result of the clarity that can come from this Quest
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Drop into the essence of things and awaken to the many dimensions of the reality around you. In this stillness you will find wholeness.
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Stop reacting to life and the old stories and begin responding to life, fully present and engaged in the creative process.
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Join us in this shamanic opening to your soul guidance and clarification of your potential or potency.
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You will release the past in structures, meditation and ceremony, with gratitude for the learning and gifts. This brings the freedom to vision quest and deliberately separate from the anchors of everyday life.
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Practically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually you will cast yourself away from all you think you know or own.
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Drop your baggage and rediscover life’s richness and endless abundance.
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Renew respect, appreciation and celebration of the beauty of Nature, of Mother Earth and her plants and animals, her elements and rhythms and the healing they constantly bring you.
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You will see that you are the Dreamer and you are also Dreamed - up by creation. The Dream is everything we experience, it is our life.
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You will rest in The Dreamtime, the energy realm from which the blueprint for the material/incarnate world comes. If desired, fasting can be undertaken but this is not mandatory and will not be facilitated or recommended. That chocie is your responsibility. You will immerse yourself in a time of transition alone in nature.
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Consciousness of who you really are and what you really want arises from being still in nature.
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You will breathe deep, drop into the essence of things and be present to, awaken to the many dimensions of the reality around you. In this stillness you will find wholeness.
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You will embrace yourself and energise your visions.
Learn ....
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that what might feel right for you in any given moment is not life and soul’s deepest intention –knowing the latter requires deep listening
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That empty space and silence in every day are vital support to your natural happiness
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How to trust life enough to give up being the decision maker or trying to carefully control life  - and be real and true now.
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How to trust life enough to give up being the decision maker or trying to carefully control life  - and be real and true now.
In your final ritual there will be a Return to life and community. Symbols of the new dream will be brought back and ceremony will facilitate the commitment to actualise the inspirations on the material plane. There will be a sharing of intentions, a campfire and stories and music.
This is a highly experiential course (with some background principles, diagrams and handouts) that can bring deep self - healing through hakalau, element work with air, earth, fire and water, dream work and shamanic journeying and will certainly give you some insights, shifts and new approaches you can take away and benefit from in your everyday life afterwards.
Huna, Hawaiian shamanism, is an esoteric, shamanic healing approach to life and relating, work, health and manifestation that enables you to live connected with your presence and natural happiness. In harmonious relationship with All that Is - participating rightly in the Universe. The practices this weekend will allow you to be in this right relationship. Joy Hicklin-Bailey has practised Huna for twenty years. In shamanic tradition a student does not become truly open to the truths of the teaching until four years with the kahuna have passed. Then the real work can begin.
If you wish to attend the residential Huna retreat 2010 - a retreat that truly changes lives -this is perfect preparation.
Vision Quest Booking details
How to Book
Venue
Hawkwood College nr Stroud Sat
Mayfaire Sun (see joining info)

You can pay by free

Cheque to Joy Hicklin-Bailey
and post to Mayfaire, Slad Valley, Nr Painswick, Glos GL6 7QD or;

PayPal  (for deposit only).


Please email to confirm transfer date sent & likely arrival, amount, your reference, so that we can match it with your booking. We will then know to make arrangements for you. Please also email when booking form (pdf) is in post.

We will send full joining instructions on receipt by Feb 19.
Dates
Sat  March 6 9 45am- 5pm and Sunday March 7 9 45am-4 30pm
Early booking fee
£129 before 9th Jan 2010
2nd early booking fee
£139 before 9th Feb 2010
Full course fee
£159
Deposit
N/A
Extra 2 person discount
£9 per person (Couples /2 friends not met via SG. Discount to course fee.)
Payment includes  
Course fees
This course is non-residential but  Hawkwood College (course venue) has accommodation too-CONTACT THEM DIRECT re accom please - and your course confirmation provides lists of b and b

What to  bring
Please bring food to share  for lunch each day and plate, mug and cutlery
Very warm clothing, (long johns or whatever!) very warm footwear, cushion and blanket suitable to sit on outdoors, waterproofs, flask with hot drink, whistle if you have one
Cushion, blanket, for indoor work, water bottle, notebook/pen, thick socks or slippers for indoors
 Vision Quest
  Profound Shamanic initiation...Deep listening, right relationship with nature, purpose, envisioning the future
A weekend course near Stroud, Gloucestershire
Sat Mar 6th to Sun Mar 7th

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I am clear about my priorities, my values, how I will spend my time this year, what comes next. Thank you for freeing me from the ifs and buts!

John Sawyer, Cambridge

I appreciate my time much more than I did before, no frittering.....and nature has become vital. No big changes outside, but everything has changed inside. And when change manifests, I will trust that it is right for me because Im so centred

Sally Davids, Norwich

 

 

 

 

 

A  fab weekend...my inner child came out to play!

Oriana Wood, Gerrards Cross

I am in love with the earth again! Thank you!

Julian, Leicester

a big THANK YOU to you both.Tim~ I have a big smiley impression of you striding, through the valley, with your flock following you and gathering them all up again- a pied piper returning home with his children tripping along behind.  Thank you for leading the practicalities of this journey and your help with interpreting wiggly lines on a page :-) It was no mean feat ... impressive!  

Joy~ deep thanks from my heart and from my little girl, who would have loved to climb a tree with your little girl. I deeply rediscovered the magic and the delight of my child in nature this weekend, as well as experiencing a shamanic reality and discovering my ability to create and recreate my dream and to be still and receive deep wisdom and guidance from nature. I clearly experienced the male and female in nature and in myself... the insights still coming........ 

I woke at 5 am on the last day and wrote this as, a child remembering the simple pleasures of her childhood:" I LOVED nature. The simple joy and wonder and delight of a cowslip (especially cowslips), a primrose, old man's beard, cuckoo pint, cuckoo spit, catkins, pussy willow, rose hips, hips n haws, a bird's nest, a bird's egg, climbing a tree, stinging nettles, "doc" leaves, house martins, lambs, cow pats, chewing the sweet end of a blade of grass, sucking the nectar from dead nettle flowers, blackberry picking, crunching through autumn leaves, cob nuts, conkers, frost, snow, spiders, daffodils, those red legged birds on a pond, climbing trees, making dens, baby birds, 'nature walks', tadpoles, bats, lying on my back making pictures with the clouds, rainbows, black skies, thunder storms, swimming in the sea, swimming in a river, horse riding through the fields and lanes, the hedgerow, the views from hills, the smell of summer, the smell of autumn, honeysuckle, midgey bites, catching Daddy Longlegses in the long grass, slow worms, peacocks calling in the school yard, cockadoodledoo, moo, baa, the GLORIOUS smell of sileage, ears of wheat, corn dollies, we plough the fields and scatter, harvest festival, a flock of starlings, a jenny wren, a dormouse, an otter on Exmoor, a kingfisher, going fishing quietly by a lake or noisily for mackerel in a boat, the seals round Dinas Head, pebbles, sand, shells, stones, making things with sticks, starting a fire with a magnifying glass, the warmth of the sun and the earth, wet mud, puddles, sploshing, skidding on ice, shiney quartz, the mountains, woods, forests, waterfalls, the moon, the stars, the Great Bear, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Pole star, shooting stars, the Sun, blue skies, drizzle, torrential rain, the smell of newly mown grass, CATERPILLARS!!, butterflies..............................................................................."  

For me, this was the most delightful Secret Garden journey I have experienced thus far. I am overflowing with gratitude at the simplicity of it all and the spaciousness and the time in silence, in nature, with myself. Perfick!! Please let me know if you do another VQ- a longer one would be FAB!

Karen Scott, Chippenham

amazingly well organised and prepared

Fi Macmillan, Nailsworth

The group felt alive and present to me. Such a surprise for me to see as clear as day what an elaborate game i've been playing out. I value even more the part of me that feels tender and is sensing because that part of me actually wants to serve me incredibly well and I trust her a great deal more now... A re-emphasis of the absolute value in the present, because not only is life here, but i'm here!  

I feel lighter, more in the world,  not too scared to be open to it anymore. I loved the ritualistic/ journeying nature of it all.

 Visiting mother earth and feeling the immense energy and incredible aliveness from her  made me catch my breath

The journeying in nature - I wish we could have gone for days! a beautiful gift to yourself and a profound way to value your life

Susan Sheddan, London