Category Archives: Training & Workshops

Just to let everyone know that the drum making workshop is now being held on 23rd-24th June and not as previously advertised.

Here is the syllabus for 2012-

We offer individual workshops or the option of a Shamanic Practitioners Training Programme. All weekend workshops are stand- alone except weekends 4 and 5, these two workshops are compulsory for the completion of the Foundation Module. All weekends will include Journeying and healing practices. You will be fully supported throughout your transformative process. Completion of 8 weekends can be done over a period of time. Once 8 weekends have been attended and all case/ home studies have been verified you will receive your completion certificate for the Foundation Year. You will then be offered a further two years in depth training to complete your ‘Masters’

The weekends costs £100
Sweat lodge weekends £135
Drum making – £285including all materials

To be considered for this training we ask you to write or email us with
your reasons for wishing to undertake the training, your previous
experience of healing including qualifications and any Shamanic practices
or knowledge that you might have. If accepted you will be asked to fill
out medical and disclaimer forms.
The Shamanic Dance of Life
Foundation Year in Ancient Healing Practices 2012

Medicine Wheel Teachings and the Tree of Life
Introduction to the Shamanic Dance of Life with Medicine Wheel Teaching, Drumming and Hands on Healing
Saturday 14th April to Sunday 15th

Sacred Sweat Lodge.
This workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge of how to create a lodge through to completing a sweat. There is a full moon this weekend and we intend to sweat through to the Sunday morning hence a later start to the workshop on Saturday.
Saturday 5th May to Sunday 6th May

Birthing a Drum
Shamanic Drum Making with Sweat Lodge. You will create, decorate and empower your own magical drum and beater. Journey to discover the Spirit and name of your drum. Honour, name and celebrate its creation within the Sweat Lodge. An enjoyable, sociable creative weekend for all. No previous creative skills required. All materials provided.
Saturday 9th June to Sunday 10th June
Wise Woman and Mystical Male
Harmonise the Male/Female aspects within. These workshops are over two weekends, to allow the healing to seep into the deeper levels of the self. On one weekend we will focus on our Divine Feminine and the other weekend our Divine Masculine. To enable these profound healings to harmonise within the self, both weekends should be completed in the same year.
Wise Woman Saturday 14th July to Sunday 15th July
Mystical Male Saturday 11th August to Sunday 12th August

Guiding Spirits
Meet with your Spirit Guides, Crystal Deva and your protective Power Animal. This weekend will also include a sweat lodge.
Saturday 10th November to Sunday 11th November

Song of the Ancestors
Singing with your Soul to reconnect with your Ancestors. This workshop will include Past Life and Soul Retrieval and Extraction techniques.
Saturday 8th December to Sunday 9th December

Munay Ki
A workshop full of Ceremony and Rites The Munay Ki Rites have the ability to transform human consciousness, to assist us on the progressive path to become fully homo luminous beings in our lifetime. For those who have completed the foundation workshops you will receive your Medicine name.
Saturday 12th January to Sunday 13th January 2013

For further information and booking contact:
Anna 07800919150 anneminihane@btinternet.com
Seersha 07809722097 seersha@shamanicplanet.com

Shamanicplanet and The Sacred Sweat Lodge
are offering a Shamanic Practitioners Training starting next year.

The training in Kent takes place on 8 weekends over a year and is available to Men and Women as we work to harmonise the energies of these challenging times. The course includes, personal spiritual practice and soul level healing, Shamanic Healing Techniques including Past Life Regression, Extraction and Soul Retrieval, Totem and Power Animal Work, sweat lodge teachings (how to build and maintain a sweat, fire keep and sweat protocols and ceremony-)and a drum making weekend, tutorials and support. The weekends costs £100- sweat lodge weekends £135 and the drum making – £285. Completion of 8 required modules is necessary to graduate as a Foundation Level Shamanic Practitioner. You will be asked to carry out case studies and ‘homework’ throughout the training. On successful completion of the Foundation year you will be offered a further two years in depth training to complete your ‘Masters’

To be considered for this training we ask you to contact us with
your reasons for wishing to undertake the training, your previous
experience of healing including qualifications and any Shamanic practices or knowledge that you might have. If accepted you will be asked to fill out medical and disclaimer forms.

Please note- So many people make the spurious claim these days to be a Shaman. We work shamanically and accesses information from the Spirit Worlds using shamanic techniques but that does not make us Shamen. Traditional Shaman skills are often handed down within a family or close community. In the Andes, being struck by lightening seems to be a fairly common way of initiation! In the West we have lost our tradition so we can attempt to retrieve and rebirth these lost arts for our community. We use the tools that Shamen and other teachers have taught us and work for the harmonising of individuals and humanity through our workshops and therapies. We are human and fallible, we don’t have all the answers .

If you’d like anymore information please don’t hesitate to call or email.
My number is 07809722097.

Using traditional methods and natural materials, birth your own drum, seeking guidance from the Animal Spirit World to create your own drum being. Dedicate and honour your creation in the arms of Mother Earth within our Sacred Sweatlodge.

The workshop takes place at YogaNature Wootton Canterbury Kent over the weekend 22-23rd October-no previous Shamanic expereince necessary.

We, as women, have been stripped of our
birthright as the Source of Life.  We have come
to believe in the superior potency of the
patriarchy.  We have suffered and lost our
connection with our Power, our Beauty and our
Truth.  So we try and survive the modern world
by adopting male attitudes.  This is causing us
great stress and dis-harmony…trying to be all
things for all people.  It’s just not working!

I have just returned from facilitating this wonderful workshop-The Magical Woman-in Dorset

It is a inner journey taken by participants to locate, understand and heal the 5 Sacred Powers of our Divine Feminine.  When these treasures are in harmony and balance it enables and empowers us to be the woman we deserve to be.  It re-connects us with the Divine Feminine within.

It was a weekend of creativity and laughter-shared with our Sisters-honouring our birthrite and re-connecting with ourselves and the Web of Life.

Such a lovely weekend with such wonderful women.

Blessed be

We have 3 scheduled Drum making weekends with Sweat Lodge so far for this year with a possibility of extra dates if necessary. They are:

Beltaine Weekend 30th -1st May – Women only

Solstice 25th-26th June-open

Lammas 6th-7th August-open

The Sweat Lodge is being offered by Cantia Sweats.  This gives us a wonderful opportunity to welcome our new drums with a dedication ceremony.

The Weather Spirits smiled on us this weekend.  A gathering of wonderful women sat in circle in the beautiful Autumn air.  The wind blew gently and the Buzzards caught the thermals as they circled, keening, overhead. This was our weekend for creating drums.  Calling them into being-working with the animal spirits.

As part of the Shamanka Shamanic Practitioner course we strongly encourage our women to make their own drums.  As a  Shamanic Practitioner your drum is probably your most important tool.  It is multi-functional.  The drum can be used for clensing, for healing, for diagnosing and journeying.  Played together they are inspirational and transformational on a personal and global scale.

So together we journeyed to the Spirit of the animal who gifted their hide for the purpose of Drum making.  We asked permission from them to continue the process and what intention they would like the drum to be create for.

Then the journey of creation began.  Feeling the hides and deciding where the drum would be cut from-sometimes having to negotiate with others working on the same hide.  Feeling the energy of the hoops to discover the right one for you and your drum. (Thanks to Young Bear for making the hoops). Measuring and drawing the circle, then taking the first cut-no room for mistakes-with clarity and confidence.  Punching the holes and finally cutting the laces-long enough to wind around your drum 10 times in a continuous strip, being aware of the places the hide is thinner or thicker. Then the slow and meticulous process of threading your drum with awareness and as you weave the laces you weave in the intention of the drums purpose.

When the drum is completed, a beater is made.  Quest for the wood for the handle-call to the trees.  When all is done then an opportunity to decorate both Drum and beater and to introduce one to the other.

A last journey for the name of the new drum being and then to the Sweat Lodge for prayer and an opportunity to dedicate and honour the fruit of your hands and the bounty of Mother Earth and all Her Children.  We are so blessed.

What an amazing year we’ve had in Dorset.  A group of 18 women decided to ‘grasp the nettle’ and sign up for the Shamanka Training. The journey they began last February has taken them places they’d never dared dream off.  Claire said

“Powerfully transformative: through this training, I have changed my life more than I could have believed was possible.”

This training is for women who really want to change themselves, their lives and the World!  To finally make a difference in the personal and global.  This is an era  of great upheaval and often difficulties.  Time appears to be speeding up, as we experience cultural shifts in months that once took centuries.  This training will give you the tools to deal with the changes and to help heal any damage.

It is now we need to stand in the Light and be counted.  Everything we do as individuals DOES MATTER.  Every word we utter, every act, every thought-we are creating our own reality as individuals and as a global consciousness.

There is only now.

Just over a week ago we had the most delightful visitors come to stay at Champlain’s Well.  Eight Tibetan Monks and their translator came for the weekend to run a workshop and give a performance of their world famous masked dances, chanting and mudras.

What wonderful company they were.  They bought their own food and cooked for all of us.  Their energy was so gentle and innocent.  They loved the dogs, were fascinated by BBC Parliament on TV and laughed so loud when the oldest Monk had a turn on the massage chair.
The workshop was fascinating and we learned all about the amazing costumes they wear.  The meaning of some of the Mudras and the plight of the Panchen Lama and the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

This shows two of the monks with the large trumpet like instrument called the Dung Chen.  When this is played any negativity attached to your energy body will be blasted away!

At the workshop everyone had the opportunity to learn a little Tibetan.

We were taught a few steps of the famous Black Hat dance.

At the Monastery the Monks make something called a Dukka.  This is a protective Mandala which promotes good health.  The prayer of Dukka is written onto a piece of paper then wrapped in silks to make a beautiful square small enough to fit into your pocket.  Here the monks are showing interested people how to make them.

Here the Monks are debating on different scriptures.  It got very lively with a bit of pushing and shoving and a lot of laughter!

This is Jane explaining the fabulous costume for the Black Hat Dance.

We also learned to print prayer flags.

We were shown and had a chance to try our hand at making a sand mandala.  Much harder than it looks!

They spent the night in our Sitting room.

They really loved the dogs!

Before the Workshop began we all went for a walk along Deal Pier.  It was a cold and blustery day!

It was a great blessing for us and a priviledge to meet the Monks from Tashi Lhunpo and I will definitely be inviting them to stay again!