Upcoming Workshops

august

01augAll DayFeaturedLammas CelebrationA celebratory family day that includes yoga and meditation for kids and adults, forest school crafts, and a traditional despacho ceremony.

Event Details

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

Lammas Celebration Ticket per Adult.

Time

All Day (Sunday)

Location

Earthship, Stanmer Park, Brighton, BN1 9PZ

Stanmer Park

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september

16sepAll Day20FeaturedMoving Mandala Residential Retreat: The Heart Of The DragonThe intention of this retreat will be to embody your true heart and trust.

Event Details

Brenda Marita Mason and Nancy Dancing Light

Develop a unique set of tools that will allow you to have the confidence to build a powerful community and advance your spiritual development. This is a wild, creative, programme for ourselves and Mother Earth.

The Moving Mandala can be danced anywhere on the earth.

The intention of this retreat will be to embody your true heart and trust.

During this powerful programme, participants will be held within the safe and creative space of the 12 point Mandala.

The programme is held in a beautiful, sustainably built Earthspirit Centre near Glastonbury, considered by many as the heart chakra of the earth.

The Moving Mandala can often be the missing piece to your own practice. This is also one step towards becoming a Moving Mandala Facilitator. You will develop the confidence to use this incredible set of tools in your own daily life, as well as feel welcomed into a reliable community of like-minded souls.

“When we are discouraged or fragmented by what we hear of the outside world, we can get separated and feel isolated or lonely. When we come into the community we have many alignments”.
Nancy Dancing Light

In sacred geometry, the 12 point star (sometimes called the Cosmic Gateway) is referred to as the infinite field of all Creation and is a very powerful tool for awakening and manifesting our creative life purpose. This is a superb opportunity to go within, connecting deeply to the earth, working with goddess archetypes, the chakras, and taking the time we need to listen to ourselves and Mother Earth.
This journey through the seven chakras helps our energy, processing fears efficiently.

Participants will receive 7 shamanic initiations corresponding to each of our 7 Chakras and related elements.
These shamanic initiations are offered through a selection of the following creative and therapeutic processes:

Shamanic journeys, drumming and song Altar work and sacred ceremony
Creative expression: dance, sacred drama, sounding and storytelling
Creative arts: painting, pastel, mask work and clay
Embodying archetypes

On the last day of the 8th Chakra ceremony, we will invite our community to witness as we dance in a 12 point Mandala star on the land with live drumming where possible. This will help us to connect to our sensuality, passion, joy, vitality, and fertility for the festival of the Autumn Equinox.

For more information see the event website:
https://movingmandala.weebly.com/

With experienced shamanic practitioners Sue-Claire Morris, Lorriiii Dragon Dream, and Ali Rabjohns. Assistants will be Jo Oliver and Marie Helene Dalila Boyle.

Loriiii Dragon Dream: Shamanic Practitioner, Sundoor Firewalk Trainer/Instructor, Moving Mandala Steward/Practitioner/Teacher, Body-Centered Coach, Co-Owner of Traveller’s Joy ~ Tours with Spirit and Yoga teacher.
For more than 10 years Lori has been facilitating Intentional Shamanic Drum Circles dedicated to Ceremony, Intentional Drumming, Healing, and building Sacred Community. Studying and practicing shamanism since 2007 has led her on many adventures worldwide including to England, where she received her Teacher Training for The Moving Mandala. In 2020 Lorriiii became the owner of the Moving Mandala Program.
“I feel so very honoured to Steward the Moving Mandala ~ facilitating Moving Mandala Shamanic Retreats has been such powerful and rewarding work”.
For more information on Loriiii Dragon Dream, see her website www.spiritdrumming.com

Sue-Claire Morris has a background in Theatre and Dance. She then trained as a Counsellor and Dance Movement Psychotherapist. Since training with Nancy Dancing Light in 2007, Sue-Claire has facilitated the Moving Mandala in England and Canada with various teachers.
Currently, Sue-Claire is a Supervisor and runs “Alchemy” an ongoing support group for women in transition with Menopause.
For more information on Sue-Claire see her website: www.healingheartsandlandscapes.co.uk/

Ali Rabjohns: Moving Mandala Practitioner/Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner, Therapeutic Arts Facilitator (MBACP). Ali lineage comes from the Q’ero Nation in the High Andes and has been initiated as a fourth-level healer in the Andean mystical tradition. She runs a shamanic training leading to practitioner status and sees clients 1:1. For more info please visit www.alirabjohns.com or contact: enquiries@alirabjohns.com for more details.

For more information about Marie Helene Dalila Boyle’s practice, please go to https://www.mariehelenedalilaboyle.com/

Space is limited and preregistration is required, so if this calls to you please contact us soon.

”The Moving Mandala programme is a holistic approach to shamanic practice that can involve creativity”
Nancy Dancing Light

” I loved the experience of wisdom in the group and the acceptance or space for individuality. Thank you for creating so much beauty, the space is amazing!”
Participant 2018

“I loved the community wisdom, the reciprocity, and balance. A greater sense of personal power has emerged from my shamanic journey”
Participant 2018

First Earlybird before 31st June is £550 Second Earlybird £575 until 31st July.
Third Earlybird £595.
You can pay Ali directly via BACS, please contact her for bank details.

Earlybird offer before 31st June 2021

Time

september 16 (Thursday) - 20 (Monday)

Location

Earth Spirit Centre

Compton Dundon

Earth Spirit CentreCompton DundonPeak Lane

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july

25jul(jul 25)6:00 pm03aug(aug 3)9:00 amFeaturedTaripaypacha Karpay RetreatIn this ten-day retreat, you will explore and develop a committed, daily spiritual practice through receiving seven energy transmissions called Karpay.

Event Details

25th July-3rd August 2022

In this ten-day retreat, you will explore and develop a committed, daily spiritual practice through receiving seven energy transmissions called Karpay. These sacred rites are experienced through ceremony and will help you to gain perspective on your own sacred path in life. Daily teachings and talks about the Q’ero tradition will be given by the highly respected Q’ero Shaman Don Augustine Machacca Florez and Santos Machacca, in a magical retreat centre near Mayfield, East Sussex. By the end of your time, you will have the confidence to face any life challenges ahead and a deeper insight into this authentic shamanic path. You will have plenty of time to deepen your connection with this divine Andean tradition and Mother Earth.
To keep an intimate feel to the retreat, there are only 14 spaces.

With Pampamesayok Don Augustine Machacca Florez and Santos Machacca Apaza, a paqo from the High Andes, Peru. Also supported by Ali Rabjohns and Ewa Demahina, both practitioners from this tradition.
7 Karpays or initiation rites, deeply heartfelt transmissions of energetic consciousness will be offered around beautiful Avalon, Somerset. This time of emerging consciousness allows us to fully heal ourselves and share that gift with others.

Pampamesayoks source their power and information from the land. The medicine people within the Q’ero nation are known as “paqos,” which means “priest or mystic” in Quechuan, the language of the Inca. Being in the full presence of this ancient wisdom can forever change the way we perceive the world around us. It opens the infinite door into our Llankay (the power of service and body). Yachay (the power of mind, wisdom, and knowledge) and Munay (the power of Love, our willpower, and emotions).

These Karpays are steeped with wisdom and are a wonderful experiential way to embody the secrets of the Andean mystical spiritual path first hand. The retreat will be facilitated by my teacher Pampamesayok Don Augustine and Paqo Santos Machacca Apaza, from the High Andes, Peru.

The seven Karpays are energy transmissions of the highest order, helping us to prepare for the ‘Return of the Inca’. A beautiful and powerful inner alignment and healing process, that helps our human consciousness to blossom into enlightenment. This is known as the Taripaypacha, a period meaning ‘The Golden Age of Human Re-union’.

Dates: July 25th – August 3rd 2022 at the prestigious award-winning Fair Oak Farm, near Mayfield, East Sussex.

Here there are great facilities, which include a sauna and beautiful countryside walks locally.
Early bird offers are available now.
For more Info and an itinerary:
07528 614747/ enquiries@alirabjohns.com

Testimonials for the Karpay retreat 2019 in Sweden.

I Joined TariPayPacha in Sweden in 2019. It is hard to describe this experience in words. I will try.
Sitting with Don Augustine and Santos.. listening and learning in-depth the history of the Inca and Pre- Inca times was both heart-opening and gave a real insight into their lives. Their songs.. their weavings that are directly connected to Life and other dimensions.
Don Augustine is a powerful healer and so is Ewa in her own right. Between them, my soul was cleansed and put back together.
Receiving the Karpay’s was beyond my words right now but I feel them. I feel taller stronger… I have a deeper understanding, love, and gratitude for all I am learning and living.
Don Augustine, Santos, Ewa and Nadjia. Thank you all so much for this life-changing retreat

ST, E. Sussex 2019.

I am grateful for the path I walk. I am grateful for the healing that I am blessed to receive. I am grateful for the old wisdom and light that has been held and carried and is now being shared by the Q’ero people of the Andes. The world needs this medicine to help us remember what it can mean to be human. Thank you Thank you Thank you
AB, Sweden 2019.

Itinerary 25th July – 3rd August, Fair Oak Farm, Witherenden Road, Mayfield, East Sussex, England, UK TN20 6RS

25th July – Arrive at 6 pm, Dinner and introductory talk with Don Augustine and Santos.

During this week Don Augustine and Santos will also be open to performing; Individual Healings clearing physical, emotional conditions as well as personal readings.

We have use of a sauna.

26th July – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
Despacho Ceremony in the morning
First Karpay in the afternoon, fire and talk in the evening.

Karpays

These Karpay were given to Don Augustine by his Grandfather Don Francisco Machacca Zamata.
Before we receive each Karpay, Don Augustine gives an explanation of each one. This is a beautiful way to “fall” even deeper into the Andean energy shifts and understanding with our hearts. Within Augustin’s tradition, there are twelve Karpays, we will receive seven, and the other five are reserved for the indigenous Q’ero.

The first Karpay is The Pampomesayoq (The Earthkeepers’ Rite). You will receive the full transmission and connection with Pachamama. The intent is to open up for the ability to perform healing work on living things; people, animals, and the Earth. We will go through the different offerings we can do for Pachamama.

Welcoming Despacho – where we also set the intentions and outcome for this week of ours.
A brief explanation about the seven Karpays (this is a transmission or interchange of energy) we will receive during this week (more will be explained before each karpay).
The History of Q’eros – How Don Augustine became a Paqo, his family history, and how Santos is now being trained in the family thread.
History and how the Despacho is and has been used in the Q’ero tradition. A Despacho is a prayer bundle or offering it’s used for a wide variety of occasions – births, deaths, as an expression of gratitude, to heal physical and emotional ailments, to restore balance and harmony, or when there is a specific request of the spirit world. We will understand what each item represents and how to feel creative in performing one for ourselves.
Mesa, a prayer bundle, your personal “altar”, containing various power objects and stones used for moving energy in service of healing. The mesa is one of the main tools in the Andean healing tradition.

27th July 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch : Killa Karpay
Evening: Healings available with Don Augustine and Santos, free time, also Sauna available

The Killa Karpay; The Moon and also calling in the Chaska (stars). Calling in the four directions; East = ccollasuyo the Apus, mountains, the condors. North= anti suyo, where the hummingbird resides, the Moon, our heart, and our emotions. West= Conti suyo, where the puma resides. South = Chincha suyo, calling in the serpent as in the path of the underworld, Pachamama.

28th July 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch: Ayni Karpay
Evening: Healings available with Don Augustine and Santos, free time, also Sauna available

The Ayni karpay; Ayni is a form of private reciprocity, exchange when someone calls for help and will repay by doing similar work. This also implies to Pachamama, if she assists us, we will assist her and give her what she needs. When we call upon Spirit, people, animals, etc for the support we will also balance this support with “giving” Ayni, with offerings and prayers.

29th July 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch: Altomesayoq Karpay
Evening: Healings available with Don Augustine and Santos.

The Altomesayoq karpay; a High-level healers rite; Means being “Hit by Lightning”. It is the highest level of connection with the Spirit / Wiraccocha, Apus – the mountain Spirits, with all the elements, it is the psychic level of a Paqo. You will seek contact with your “personal” mountain which teachings will go through you. Here the work is focused on energy and working with the Mesa.

30th July – Free Day to explore the surrounding area.

31st July – 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch : Feminine N’usta Karpay
Evening: Healings available with Don Augustine and Santos.

The N’usta karpay; where the day will circle around our feminine energy, we will talk and receive a Female rite; the womb rite. Receive the feminine spirit and the representing spirit of a feminine mountain. Calling back our ancestral feminine bloodlines. Each mountain has a N’usta. It is a very hearty karpay that “pushes” us to move our heart’s energy forward and expand.

1st August- 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch: Taytanchis Karpay
Evening: Healings available with Don Augustine and Santos and free time.

The Taytanchis Karpay; The transmission of the Wiraccocha “the creator of all things”, father Sun, and Pacha Mama. This is the calling where the paqo is using their hands to give forth the energy. For instance, after a despacho is created you always get blessed on the head, shoulders, heart, stomach, feet and also receive this transmission to deepen your contact with the despacho and your prayers.

2nd August – 10.30 am – Sharing circle, morning teachings with Don Augustine and Santos.
After Lunch : Kuraq Akulleq Karpay
Evening: Bonfire and final celebration

The Kuraq Akulleq; If Lightning didn’t strike you (Altomesayoq) but you still have the calling to become a Paqo, you might have been chosen to be a Kuraq Akulleq. This is deeply connected to the ancestral people (the forefathers and mothers) as well as the Apus and Pacha Mama, and through them, while chewing coca leaves (instead of doing a reading) the Kuraq Akulleq opened themselves up to receive the information sought for.

3rd August – 9.30 am – Home.

Personal Investment :
£350 non-refundable deposit to secure your place.
The following prices include the deposit.

Until June 1st, 2022 – £1450

Until July 1st, 2022 – £1550

This retreat was a dynamic, powerful, and penetrating experience. Each day included a Karpay/Initiation which opened my heart and mind to a whole different level of consciousness and brought me back into the essential experience of being.
I was plunged to the depths of my body and soul and then elevated to the higher realms of the cosmos. At one time I felt I was caught in the emotional backwash and riptides of the ocean – pain, sadness, and grief erupted from every cell of my body to be released and washed away. Everything felt shiny and new – smells, taste, and moving my body was at first strange, then I realised how disconnected I had been. I was finally at one with myself and united with the energetic Multiverse.
We had the privilege of meeting Don Augustine and his son Santos who are Q’eros from the Andes near Cusco Peru. Don Augustine is a master working with living energies. His power, knowledge, and wisdom shine through his twinkling eyes and his spontaneous laughter. During the 8 days, Don Augustine offered personal healings which had a deep and profound effect.
I feel very lucky and humbled to have had the opportunity to meet one of the last Q’ero elders to be working in this way. This practice is alive, grounded, and very real.

Brightest Blessings

SL, E. Sussex

For me, it was fantastic magic to meet the Andean spiritual tradition. It feels like I’ve found a home, found what I’ve been looking for. So grateful and happy about the initiations. I feel their energies spin in my body. I feel even more at peace of mind and body. The condor (white) is with me and gives me an even greater understanding of my task in this life. I see even more clearly. Have even more understanding in the heart. All knowledge needs to be integrated into my heart, in order to be integrated into life. I feel the connection with Peru, Augustin & Santos & the twelve mountains in my heart. I connect with love and the energy flows. The relationship with my mesa has deepened considerably. We’re talking.

J – Sweden 2019.

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