Offerings in June:

Clan Mothers Circle

Monday, 5 June 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line

Please note this month there is no afternoon circle for Clan Mothers

This month we work with Story Teller, Clan Mother of the 6th Moon Cycle. In the Seneca Wheel of Truth, she teaches how to SPEAK THE TRUTH. We look to this Clan Mother and her Totem, the Seven Sisters, for guidance – for they hold the teachings of the Seven Directions. By working with the Seven Sisters and the Sacred Directions, holders of energy, we may learn to speak our truth from the heart, saying what we mean with humour and integrity and without pointing fingers.

Storytelling is an ancient art form, and this Clan Mother is the holder of Heyokah Medicine, tricking us into growth through laughter. Let us laugh in ceremony together this month!

Please do bring along your Sacred Braid for this month – your word, Animal Totem and Sacred Path card. If you weren’t with us at the New Year’s Day Ceremony, please pull a card or drum/rattle to discern your energy and Totem for the month. Please also bring rattles and drums, a lap cloth and cushion for floor sitting.

This circle is open to all women over the age of 12.

 

Healing Circles

Wednesday 7, and 28 June, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line

Healing in a shamanic sense is about bringing balance back to the body, mind, emotion and spirit. This circle is an opportunity to heal the Self, other members of the Circle and those in the wider world. This circle meets every Wednesday evening. 

This is a closed Circle. Please feel free to send a healing request at any time. If you are interested in joining this circle, please contact us.

 

 

Vision Quest 2023 with White Star Woman, Speaking Hawk and Spirit Eyes and Dawn Rising

Thursday, 15 June – Sunday, 18 June 2023

Vision Quest is an ancient ceremony to realize our oneness with all things. It is a time to sit in Nature and revitalise our connection with Spirit. Some pray for a vision of their life’s work or an expansion or clarification, some vision to make a request, some to pray or to give gratitude, and some simply use this time to be in the moment, to reconnect to the Earth Mother, the Universe and All Our Relations. The Vision Quest ceremony is offered in the tradition of our teachers, Will Rockingbear and White Star Woman.

The Vision Quest Elder: White Star Woman (visiting from the US)

Vision Quest Chief: Michelle Speaking Hawk

Fire Chief: Tracey Spirit Eyes, an experienced Vision Quest Fire Chief from our sister community in North Carolina. Tracey and I quested together many years ago. Some of you may also remember Tracey from our ceremony in Stonehenge several years ago.

Kitchen Chief: Nina Dawn Rising

Supporters: You can also participate by assisting at base camp. This is a different form of Questing where the fire is held for the entire community. As a Supporter, you will be energetically supporting the Questors – this is an incredibly important part of the ceremony. Supporters at base camp will be in ceremony and can expect teachings, drumming, singing and Storytelling at the Sacred Fire. It takes an entire community to support a quest – please consider joining us for all or part of it! Contact Michelle Speakinghawk directly for more information if you are considering supporting. 

Cost for supporters at base camp: £250 – hold your place with a £100 deposit. 

 

Spirit of the Drum Shamanic Drumming Circle

with Jill Dancing Otter and Michelle Speaking Hawk

Tuesday, 20 Jun 2022, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge

You are invited to join us in celebrating the spirit of the drum! Together, following the heartbeat of our drums, we will connect to the deepest part of our beings, the land, our ancestors and to each other as indigenous peoples all over the world have done for thousands of years. Shamanic drumming helps us heal, gain access to our own inner wisdom and build community.

 All are welcome. Suggested £5-10 exchange.

What to bring: drums and/or rattles (we have a few drums or rattles to borrow), a bottle of water, and something to sit on – a cushion for floor sitting or (compact) lawn chair (there are no chairs available on site). You may wish to bring a notebook and pen.

All men and women over the age of 12 welcome.

 

Teaching Circle – White Star Woman

Wednesday, 21 June, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line

White Star Woman is once again visiting from the US! Please join us for this special occasion – a Teaching Circle where White Star will be talking about the energies of this timing, our growth as divine humans and will do a Q&A afterwards. Please get your thinking cap on if you have questions you would like to ask.

 

Open Creative Afternoons

Usually every Tuesday Afternoon 1:00pm – 7:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge

In community, people used to craft together. These Open Creative times are an opportunity for us to come together in community and create! When we create, we come into alignment with Spirit, our creations come straight from our Orenda and become tangible Spirit in our lives. Dolphin wants us to know that when we are fully absorbed in creation, play, or the wonder and beauty of Nature, we are receiving a healing. This Medicine is offered with Grace – we are worthy of receiving it just by being alive.

We will work in a sociable way but also in Ceremony with Sacred intent.

This little medicine bag on the right is one of my creative projects. What’s yours? Come early, come late, or just come have a tea with us and watch the rest of us work but just show up! 

Please bring your ideas, all materials and all tools you will need to work on your project. 

Open to all.

 

Drum Birthing Ceremony and Drum Beater Creation

Saturday, 24 June 2023 – Tayanita Medicine Lodge

Drum Beater Creation – 12:30pm-3:00pm

As part of this Sacred Ceremony, we will create a drum beater for our beautiful Medicine drums. All materials for the beater will be provided. However, you may want to bring your own beater handle if a particular type of wood is calling to you. If so, it should be a tree branch about the diameter than your middle finger and no longer than the length from the tip of your middle finger to the crook of your elbow. This is sacred geometry – using the dimensions of your own physical body for creation work. It can be recently cut or older but make sure it is sound (not rotted) and dry.

Please bring: a Stanley knife/box cutter or other sharp knife, a cutting board. Please note – you may also bring something special you want to incorporate into the head – a swatch of horse or dog or your own hair, for instance (nothing hard). I have cotton/wool wadding, glue, sandpaper, cloth or leather for the head, needles and sinew for sewing.

Please note: anyone is welcome to join us to create a drum beater – you needn’t have made a drum with us. Please contact me if you wish to do so.

Suggested minimum Gifting for this Ceremony is £25.

Drum Birthing Ceremony – 3:00pm-5:00pm

In this Sacred Ceremony, we will birth our beautiful drums that we created in September 2022. Working in ceremony with the Ancestors, these Drum Beings will be birthed into Medicine Drums, ready to be played with a drum beater. Teachings on the traditional use of the drum, drum Medicine and drum care will be shared.

To bring for the birthing ceremony: one gift for each participating drum – handmade or acquired from leather, feathers, ribbons, hair, bone, antler or other natural components, either to be tied onto the drum or drum bag.  Please note the gift should NOT be made of metal or anything sharp as it may damage the drum face. 

These gifts, made from natural components, may be unfashioned items, for instance, someone gifted my drum a red tail hawk feather which I later fashioned and hung on my drum OR you may bring something completely ready for someone to hang on their drum, for instance, someone else gifted my drum two very small ceramic totem animals hanging on a bright ribbon or someone else gave me a length of braided horse hair. I have attached some pictures as examples – the simplicity or elaborateness of the gift is limited only by your imagination. These can be hung off the drum itself or the drum bag, or on the wall where you hang your drum – that is between your drum and you!

If you are coming to the Drum Birthing only and not making a beater, the ceremony is done on a gifting basis. If you are making a beater and coming to the Birthing, the suggested donation is still £25.

RSVPs by 24 May are a must so people have time to acquire/make their drum gifts.

 

Offerings throughout the year:

Clan Mothers Circles 2023, Mondays

Join us for sharing and an exploration of Self with the 13 archetypal principles of the Feminine through these ancient Native teachings. Discover your talents, gifts and abilities with others of the Sacred Sisterhood. This is an open Circle is for women over 12.

There are two circles being offered this year, one on Monday evening and one on Monday afternoon.

9 January 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 16 January 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

6 February 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 13 February 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

6 March 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 13 March 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

3 April 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm or 3 April 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm 

8 May 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 15 May 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

5 June 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm

3 July 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 10 July 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

7 Aug 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 14 August 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

11 September 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm or 11 Sept 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm 

2 October 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 9 October 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

6 November 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm or 13 November 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm

4 December 2023, 12:00pm-2:30pm or 4 December 2023, 6:30pm-9:00pm

 

Spirit of the Drum Shamanic Drumming Circle 2023

with Jill Dancing Otter and Speaking Hawk

When: Circle is normally held on the third Tuesday of each month 7:00pm – 9:00pm at Tayanita Medicine Lodge

You are invited to join us in celebrating the spirit of the drum! Together, following the heartbeat of our drums, we will connect to the deepest part of our beings, the land, our ancestors and to each other as indigenous peoples all over the world have done for thousands of years. Shamanic drumming helps us heal, gain access to our own inner wisdom and build community.

 All are welcome. £5-10 exchange. If you are interested, please contact Jill on jillparker1@aol.com or Michelle at speakinghawk.uk@gmail.com or find us on Facebook ‘Spirit of the Drum – Shamanic Drumming Circle’.

What to bring: drums and/or rattles (we have a few drums or rattles to borrow), a bottle of water, and something to sit on – a cushion for floor sitting or (compact) lawn chair (there are no chairs available on site). You may wish to bring a notebook and pen

17 January 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

21 February 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

21 March 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

18 April 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

16 May 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

20 June 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

18 July 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

15 August 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

19 September 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

17 October 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

21 November 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm

12 December 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm (second Tuesday)