Our Ethos: Nurture – Visioning-Growth

 “Where love germinates, peace is harvested!” Israelmore Ayivor

This is a wonderful opportunity for us to come together in unity. Bring your own picnic to relax and meet with friends, make new ones – enjoy the space, the view, and being in nature.

Through a balance of carefully crafted activities, games and ceremonies, you will have ample time to count your blessings and give thanks for all that you are harvesting. This will help your dreams to manifest fully for Autumn Equinox and beyond. This is what we are offering:

• Yoga, Meditation: experiencing a regenerative guided meditation and gentle, restorative Yoga for children and adults.
• Forest School Crafts: Activities to help create natural offerings for Lammas.
• Face painting, music and games,
• Tea and Cake: Foraged herbal teas, and lush vegan cake. (N.B: Please bring a picnic )
• A Traditional Despacho Ceremony ( Honouring the generosity and gifts of Mother Earth) with Q’ero Elder Don Augustine and Santos Machacca Apaz from the High Andes in Peru.

There will be many opportunities to deeply connect to these powerful and joyful Lammas energies and to the heart of our fertile Mother Earth.

A Despacho is an Andean practice of creating ceremonies to the mountains, Mother Earth, and nature spirits in reciprocity and gratitude. The 1st of August is a very special day in the Andean calendar, as it is New Year’s Day for the Q’ero nation. So this is a wonderful time to set your intention for the year ahead and also to make a commitment to your own spiritual practice.

This Despacho or Haywariqui ceremony is to help build a rainbow bridge, an act of Ayni or reciprocity to enable us all to work together in harmony.

This ceremony will help to bring us into alignment with our personal intent, our group intent, and our immense gratitude for the earth. This can help us dream a new world into being for our children’s children.

Lammas is traditionally the first corn harvest and a tribal gathering where communities shared their news, worked, and played together. The corn and barley are turning a beautiful golden colour in the fields, the first fruits are ripening. It’s time to be outdoors as much as we can and to enjoy the sunlight while it lasts.

This magical day is created for us to celebrate the cultivated and wild gifts of the earth, all that we have created together so far this year. We hope that it will help you to feel nurtured, inspired, and ready to continue harvesting the creative energy and potential of Lammas and beyond.

‘This is often a holiday period, and gives us time to take a reflective look at ourselves. In the spring we planted the seeds of our hopes, our dreams, and ourselves. Some things may have manifested and some not. The Lammas assessment helps us to have a deeper understanding of our actions and ourselves at this point in time’.

Glennie Kindred

The Earthship is a  beautiful, sustainably built, peaceful sacred space that’s connected to the land. Here you can share a safe sacred circle with other like-minded souls.  Your day will be gently guided by the following highly skilled and experienced practitioners:

Ali Rabjohns, Victoria Cooper, Caroline Mellor, and Joanna McEwen.

Ali Rabjohns is a Shamanic Practitioner of Andean Energy Medicine, an Arts Counsellor, and an Artist. Ali has been initiated as a Fourth level healer in the Andean Mystical Tradition. Her lineage is from the Q’ero nation in the High Andes. She works 1:1 or in small groups and runs regular creative shamanic workshops, retreats, and events from her eco shamanic lodge near Lewes, East Sussex.

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

Victoria Cooper is a Sussex-based meditation, mindfulness, and yoga teacher, She is a practicing massage therapist, hypnotherapist, and energy worker. She has been working in this field for over 20 years in clinics, studios, and retreats such as Tilton House, Oxonhoath, Platinum Healing, and Unity. Victoria’s approach is to be supportive and non-judgmental. Victoria was drawn to yoga when her life was in chaos, so she aims to teach people tools to enable them to become more grounded and find ways to support themselves. www.mokshatherapies.co.uk

Caroline Mellor is a freelance writer, holistic therapist, forest school assistant and workshop facilitator. Trained and experienced in Shiatsu and Ayurvedic bodywork, reflexology and aromatherapy, her current focus is on finding her voice through her writing. Widely published both online and in print, she writes on her passion for wellness, gentle parenting, sustainable travel, environmental issues and soulful living. Her poetry deals with themes of motherhood, rewilding, life in our times, and her deep love of our shared planetary home, in particular the storied landscape of East Sussex, where she lives with her husband and two young children. www.carolinemellorwriter.com

Joanna McEwen is a qualified and experienced sound therapist. Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing, and Shamanic Ceremony. Through the use of Therapeutic Sound, Andean Energy Medicine, Kundalini Yoga, breathwork, dance, ritual, and silence, Joanna weaves together a moment in time for you to come home to yourself. To hear the whispers of your soul and the guidance on offer to you, if only we allow ourselves to listen. She hopes your inner transformation will leave you refreshed and full of your unique life force, strengthened and connected to yourself, the world around you, and the Abundant and Loving Universe.

https://www.facebook.com/beingofsoundhealth/

We ask for an investment of £30 per adult. All ages welcome!, under-16s go free but must be accompanied by an Adult. Family ticket £50. It’s possible to pay via BACS or Paypal.

Please contact wellbeing@lowcarbon.co.uk for more details.

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N.B: Compost Toilets are available onsite.

In support of the Low Carbon Trust