🌿 Creative Shamanic Retreat: Embodying Hummingbird Energy

‘Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage’
— Anaïs Nin

The Hummingbird 📍 Location: Laughton Lodge, East Sussex
🗓 Duration: 2.5 days (Friday 3 PM – Sunday 4:30 PM)
⏳ Schedule:

• Friday: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM
• Saturday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
• Sunday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

What You Need to Bring:

• 3 crystals or stones to work with
• A cushion or anything to help you feel comfortable
• Water container
• Notebook and pen
• Something for the Altar that helps you feel empowered

🌺 Retreat Themes & Intentions

The hummingbird (Siwar Q’enti in Quechuan) is an archetype of joy, perseverance, and soul guidance. This retreat is a beautiful opportunity to develop your awareness, connecting with the natural living cosmos and the sweetness of hummingbird energy. It is also an excellent taster if you are considering the Mystical Path Training.

You Will Experience:

✨ Exploring your divine feminine energy
✨ Experiential and fun energy exercises, fire circle, shamanic journeying, and simple healing techniques
✨ Deep connection to powerful spring energies in the heart of Mother Earth
✨ Working creatively with Hummingbird and the Ñ’ustas, powerful Nature Goddesses from the Q’ero tradition
✨ Nourishing organic meals, prepared especially for you

✨ All materials provided

🕊️ Friday: Opening the Portal to Hummingbird Energy

3:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Arrival, Land Blessing & Intention Setting

• Welcoming Circle – introductions & setting intentions
• Calling in the Four Directions, focusing on the North (Hummingbird’s Direction)
• Guided Meditation: The Flight of the Hummingbird
• Personal Reflection & Journaling

6:30 PM | Early Dinner & Silent Nature Walk

• Observing the land & collecting natural elements for the altar

8:30 PM | Talk ‘Dancing With Hummingbird’

• Hummingbird Medicine: Mythic journey, overcoming blocks, ancestral wisdom

🌿 Saturday: The Dance of the Hummingbird – Creativity & Soul Flight

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Shamanic Journey & Energy Clearing
✨ Breathwork: The Flight of the Hummingbird
✨ Shamanic Drumming Journey: Meeting Your Hummingbird Ally
✨ Energy Clearing & Release with sacred smoke

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch & Nature Meditation

• Silent sitting with a flower or tree
• Collecting objects for sand painting

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Creative Embodiment: Art, Movement & Expression
🧵 Textile & Felting/Weaving Workshop: Creating textile art inspired by hummingbird wings
🪶 Sacred Play & Movement Ritual: Engaging in intuitive dance
🎭 Mythic Storytelling Exercise: Rewriting your personal healing story

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | The Flowering Exercise (Phutuy)
🌺 Andean Practice of Flowering Like a Paqo
🌟 Integration & Reflection through painting or journaling

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Despacho Ceremony

• Creating a hummingbird despacho with flowers, seeds, and sacred materials

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Fire Ceremony

• Releasing what no longer serves you

🌸 Sunday: Integration & Closing Ceremony

Hummingbird

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Integration & Creative Expression
🌀 Finishing sand painting & creating an offering to the Earth
🌿 Writing a gratitude letter to Hummingbird & Pachamama
🎨 Guided visualization: Stepping fully into Hummingbird’s energy

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch & Reflection

• Optional one-on-one check-ins with the facilitator

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Closing Circle & Embodiment Practices
🌿 Stepping into Hummingbird Energy for the Future
🎨 Creative Integration Session: Painting, felting, or journaling reflections
🪶 Felting/Weaving Ritual: Adding final elements to the textiles piece
🔮 Final Meditation: Flying Forward with Hummingbird

4:30 PM | Departure & Goodbyes

• Gathering belongings, gratitude ritual, and farewells

💬 Testimonials

“This course has enabled me to go deeper and learn how to work with place, nature beings, archetypes, and my own energetic processes in an inspiring and experiential way.”
– AG, Online Mystical Path Student, France 2024

“I appreciate your gentle holding of all of us and your authenticity and humility in everything that you do.”
– Second-Year Mystical Path Student

“I participated in the wonderful Lammas celebration/Despacho ceremony at the Earthship, Brighton. It was beautifully and sensitively given. Highly recommended!”
– Lammas Celebration Participant 2021

🌸 Reserve Your Spot 🌸

This transformative weekend is filling up fast! Don’t miss your chance to embark on a soul-expanding journey with us.

🔗 Booking Form

📩 Contact Us: Ali Rabjohns MBACP (Accred) Shamanic Practitioner and Therapeutic Arts Facilitator, Hummingbird

With Facilitator: Ali Rabjohns

Ali Rabjohns MBACP (Accred)

My mission is to assist you in awakening to your authentic self, your unique path. Holding a space of compassion, I intend to facilitate journey experiences that align you with your living energy, inner wisdom, and highest destiny.

I’m a full Mesa carrier in the Q’ero traditions of the Andes and I’ve had the honour of being initiated as a 4th level Priestess of the Inca mystical tradition. I have just returned from leading a retreat in Peru with Pampamesayoqs Don Agustin Machacca Flores, Don Santos Machacca Apaza, and Vilma Pinedo, which was a life-changing experience.

“We dream our world into being through the land of the mythic. Shamanism is about having a foot in both worlds, the reality world, that we live in, and the world of spirit” ~ Ali Rabjohns https://alirabjohns.com/

Earlybird Offer: £550 (until 10th March 2025) and £650 thereafter. A deposit of £50 (payable in advance) is needed to confirm your place. Please get in touch with Ali directly to avoid any extra fees: enquiries@alirabjohns.com. ( N.B: Please note that this includes the cost of accommodation and food, concessions are available, contact Ali to discuss)

What to bring: wet weather gear, notebook and pen, blankets/cushions to be comfortable, and anything else you need to feel good during the day. Teas/coffee/ snacks and lunch will be provided.

The Mystical Path training intends to prepare you to become a fourth-level Paqo (or healer in the Andean tradition). We are looking to create a heaven here on earth. For more info go to https://alirabjohns.com/the-mystical-path-programme/

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