This is a collaboration with Awakening the Wild & Nature Wisdom
In this 11 day ceremony you will experience a rare opportunity to dive deeply into the underworld through dance and movement, as well as other preparatory and integrating practices with the land and the other-than-humans. This, we hope, will serve as a catalyst for the shift in consciousness needed for the human-to-earth awakening ~ something greatly missing in the dominant culture from which most of us come. It will provide a space to travel to the depths of yourself and has the potential for something more authentic and unique to be unearthed through 4 days and nights in ceremony with the land and Mystery.
During this journey you will be working alongside two experienced Guides - Rebecca Card and Keef Wesolowski-Miles. Rebecca is deeply immersed in the body of work developed by Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute and Keef lives and breathes the core practices and advanced processes of Movement Medicine. Medicine Quest is a meeting of two powerful bodies of work, merging together to support deep soul immersion in nature and authentic human transformation
Throughout our time together we will explore the core Movement Medicine practices with the intention of deeply resourcing ourselves for the Medicine Quest. This will enable us to travel what Keef calls ‘the arc of integrity’ - from preparation through process and into integration - with grounded focus and embodied awareness. In addition to this we will work with the Awakening The Wild practice WILD MOVEMENT, to bring somatic aliveness to the Wild Mind Map, deepening our embodiment and capacity to live the landscape of our being through the lens of these maps. Wild Movement is an embodiment practice, specifically designed for exploring the landscape of our being and the world in which we walk through the lens of the Wild Mind map(s).
The Quest
Often called Vision Quest, this Medicine Quest invites a descent to support participants to die to an old way of life, necessary for the shift in consciousness to find the new. It is a rare opportunity to cross a threshold and mark a transition. These ceremonies are often enacted when we find ourselves at a crossroads in our lives. The life we have been living no longer fits, it’s time to move on but we don’t yet know what we are moving towards or who will be moving towards it.
These quest ceremonies require that you move out of the realm of comfort and familiarity. For the 4 days and nights you will be invited to go without food, though this is not prescriptive. Drinking water and having a simple shelter is part of the ceremony as a way of supporting this psycho-spiritual death process as it allows us to become more permeable to the elements and the cycles of life and death within the natural world. It also creates the conditions through which we empty out and get to the bare bones of ourselves, to unearth more of who we really are beneath the everyday layers of conditioning. Thus, we become more available to Mystery and soul, and what wants to be revealed to us at this time.
Many of our roles, relationships and social groups will need to be let go of in order to inhabit the liminal realm for a time - and often beyond and outside of the focused time in ceremony. In many instances this will be a ‘leaving home’ moment, or a dying to the psycho-spiritually adolescent life stage (which persists for many of us way beyond our teens) so that we can mature more fully and be in service to Life from that place.
There is a necessary undoing that’s needed in order for the habitual self and our ‘parts’, who’ve been running the show, to come to a different perspective inwardly. Often much healing and wholing is needed, as well as enactment of powerful dream images or beings from the deep imagination. Encounters with the wild others, or connecting with your deepest longing can all support this undoing.
This offering is designed to support modern humans to leave behind our conditioning with modernity that encourages a quick fix and a short process that conveniently fits into our busy lives. Rather, it is an invitation into a long process that starts when you say ‘yes’. Our experience tells us that starting the process as early as possible gives the initiate maximum time to prepare for the threshold crossing. How you prepare is everything and the time given to preparation is commensurate to what you will likely get out of it. The ceremony starts when you commit.
In addition, the ceremonies we are offering are not following any particular tradition and, whilst following a particular arc is followed in order for participants to prepare for the solo time and back out again the other side, we are always listening-in for what is needed given the participants present, the actual, real-time circumstances, the weather and the place and beings we’re relating with.
Through this intimate journey you will gather fundamental embodiment tools and resources from Movement Medicine and many other shamanic, somatic, nature based and soul-centric practices. You will work, play and pray with the raw materials of your life that are emergent for you each step of the way.
Please join one of our FREE discovery calls. VISION (MEDICINE) QUEST: Discovery Call FREE - Thursday 6th March 1900-2000 (GMT) and Thursday 29th May 1900-2000 (GMT)
The purpose of this DISCOVERY CALL is to meet the guides and to have a Q&A with Keef and Rebecca to discover what is involved in this deep immersion into nature and your own nature.
