The theme of sexuality within shamanism is rarely discussed, encouraged or taught, despite the vital role it can play in unlocking deeper aspects of the work, creating an uncommon level of well-being and a communing with life in the most profound of fashions and forms.
Within certain shamanic traditions it is known that the sexual centre of the universe is the Earth and furthermore, the sexual centre of the Earth is the human being. This workshop explores this knowing, specifically drawing upon the rich body of teachings from the Path of Pollen, the shamanic tradition which works with the honey-bee and the hive in an alchemical-sexual formula, known as The Serpent Flight of The Honeybee.
Within this tradition women and men are considered to be of equal metaphysical status, with the emphasis on co-empowerment rather than co-dependency. The Grail - The Chalice - The Creatrix - The Hive - The Flower - The Life Givers and Life Bringers: Woman is seen as a bodily manifestation of all of these things and within this tradition she identifies with specific divine female role models, through which is awakened her innate divinity; free from shame and fear, fully empowered and openly rejoicing in their femaleness. The male energy is solar-phallic; the blast of lightning, the sting of venom, the priapic, forest-dwelling horned Pan, Guardian of the Animals and keeper of the sacred fires who knows the mystery of being both hunter and hunted. He is also the Magician and King, where magic and courtly love are tempered with the primal urge that commenced with the Big Bang.
The Path of Pollen holds a focus of work on ‘endocrine alchemy’, being a rejuvenative programme that draws upon the intelligence and wisdom of the body-vessel and stimulates the interior stars and hidden veins within the subtle-body, liberating and circulating psycho-sexual elixirs known as ‘nektars’ which are utilised for shamanic practices including healing, visioning, shamanic flight and the lost art of shape-shifting. Other work involves circle-ceremonies, ritual gestures and dances of infinite flight, breathing exercises,dream-work and other techniques to harness the powerful psycho-physical energies which course through the body and reach fruition through polarisation and appropriate mystical exchanges, ever moving in honeyed circuits of force.
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DATES: Thursday 13th - Monday 17th May, 2010
VENUE: The Sacred Trust Centre, Dorset
FEE £496
(fully residential; fee includes accommodation, food and all tuition) Book Here
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PLEASE NOTE:
This workshop is concerned with exploring the dynamics polaric energies and does not
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The Way of the Melissae is a well-trodden path for distaff members of the European shamanic tradition known as The Path of Pollen. This workshop offers a rare opportunity to work directly with women from The Path of Pollen who will be sharing teachings that have traditionally been passed down ‘from mouth to ear’. Central to the tradition is the magical formula known as Six-Hex-Sex which is embodied and expressed by the Melissae in her role as Priestess and as Pythoness – a specific oracular mode of magnetic trance – and training in the veiled ways of the Priestess and Pythoness will be emphasised during this teaching event.
The Melissae utilise little-known arcane methodologies to move into limenal zones, in-between places of ‘neither-niether’ – where the three-fold structure of sisterhood ‘cells’ can be encountered and its denizens met, namely the Sisterhood of the Spinners, the Sisterhood of the Wise Maidens and the Sisterhood of the Fey. Each of these sisterhoods holds a particular body of teaching, orientated towards encouraging the student to become both the flower, the flow-er and the pollinator of honeyed wisdoms. Participants will also be introduced to the apis-codex, being a guide to living the fullest of lives in accordance with the Path of Pollen.
Men will be our guests and 'clients' for one night of our work, during which time they will be the recipients of the healing honey-flow that will have been gathered, to then be released.
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DATES:
The next three opportunities to undertake this workshop are:
(1) Thursday 1st - Monday 5th October, 2009 (Fully Booked)
(2) Thursday 4th – Monday 8th March, 2010
(3) Friday 1st – Tuesday 5th October, 2010
VENUE: The Sacred Trust Centre, Dorset
FEE £496 (fully residential; fee includes accommodation, food and all tuition) Book Here |
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Arte Triptych Melissae is a private, three-part training for women in the ways of the distaff members of The Path of Pollen, the Melissae. The Melissae draw their inspiration from a different spring than most: it is an arcane discipline, a vein, an underground working – difficult to trace but easy to recognise once encountered. The training itself is imparted in three folds, each educating the participant in the ways and wiles of one of the three sisterhoods associated with the Pollen Way. Here, specific meditations and ceremonial practices that revolve around the Lemniscatic Volatus – the Dance of Infinite Flight - are imparted and utilised to move between worlds and step outside and beyond the circles of time. Student will be stretched so that they might reach through the surface of the tradition, accessing practical applications of the work to be applied to themselves and others. Within these practices and accompanying ceremonial work and ritual action, a path is laid leading to physical and metaphysical health and simultaneously a pilgrimage is made towards a vital and radiant life and the tableaux of honey and sting.
This training is being led by the Educational Director of The Sacred Trust, Naomi Lewis and her colleague from The Path of Pollen, Kate Shela.
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Arte Triptych Melissae is open by application and interested parties should contact Naomi Lewis at The Sacred Trust expressing their interest in this work. Please note that this training is fully subscribed for 2009, but applications for the training commencing 2010 are welcomed |
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The Pollen Method Practitioner Training is a two-year training in a remarkably potent hands-on healing method from The Path of Pollen, designed for use within professional private practice for life changing client-practitioner work. The Pollen Method itself is a technique offering the client the opportunity to arrive at a rare totality of well-being, wherein physical and emotional ailments are addressed and healed, kinks in the psyche are ironed out and a profound harmony is restored, leading to the revelation of the True Countenance and the opportunity to be remembered and reconnected into the greater hidden universe once again, a state that is experienced before birth, but rarely so after. Vastly different from other healing methods, there are a number of distinguishing features to the Pollen Method that set it apart it from other therapeutic modalities. Firstly, its practitioners are exclusively female, due to the importance that the womb plays in the method, being an agent of healing and a vessel of awesome intelligence, able to sense, scan, witness and inform the practitioner. Secondly, the majority of each Pollen Method session takes place in complete darkness, darkness being an important ally and teacher in the workings of this holistic practice, better able to reveal the luminosity of the client to the practitioner and the client alike. The starting premise of this training is that within the Path of Pollen it is recognised that the human being is a system of energy and this energy circulates in channels known as the invisible veins, which in turn are connected to the energy veins of the Earth which connect to the invisible veins of the universe, creating a vast web of life, in which everything is connected to everything else.
This training is open to a maximum of twelve (12) students and is made up of 6 residential components, taught at The Sacred Trust centre. The training commencing in 2009 is fully subscribed, and those women interested in being considered for the training commencing in 2010 should contact Naomi Lewis at The Sacred Trust, who is one of the four tutors on this training.
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