Dates & venue for this 6 day residential workshop tbc

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Working with ancient ways used to heighten connection with nature, to illuminate our own unique and personal beauty, and through acknowledging that, finding our own way with the sacred medicine path.

Time alone in nature has been used in countless traditions as a rite of passage. There are many other ways which have been used for millenia by indigenous communities to enhance individual connection to nature, with the purpose of gaining teachings directly from Earth wisdom. We will explore some of these including:

• following a simplified diet

• direct perception through heart based cognition

• shamanic journey

• medicine walk

• deep nature immersion

• vision questing

Alongside these ancient ways, we will review our connection with the plant spirits and broaden our communications to connect with the wider environment including stones, water bodies and the genius loci (spirit of place).

Throughout the workshop we will be following a cleansing diet, avoiding processed foods and toxins. This will be preparation for a day of questing which will involve a 12 hour water fast (from dawn until dusk), in a nature space on the land. Time will be spent in the preceeding days making relationship with the land and listening for the place that calls to you most strongly. The detoxifying process is intended to go beyond the physical, so that during your 12 hour fast your physical hunger will be filled with a taste of the sacred.

Entering the wildness of the world in this way, separate from human companions, with no food, draws the memory of our own wildness close. We remember our own passionate wild spirit and its sacredness. In these beautiful moments of remembering the sacred vital energy that flows throughout all nature (ourselves included), a glimpse of our own personal destiny is revealed. Be prepared to be deeply touched on a multitude of levels, for the green fingers of Gaia to reach into the deepest recesses of your heart...

Although only a few short days, this worshop will provide a taste, a moment of pause, of withdrawal, from human society to commune with the wild. It will be a journey, a time of connecting to the wisdom of the wild. A time to reconnect with who you are, who you always wanted to be, with where and what you came from, and to where you will return. A time to reclaim your personal destiny. En route a new you will be birthed into the world, essential truths illuminated.

This workshop is as much about deepening your relationship with yourself as it is deepening your relationship with the rest of nature, we are but a microcosm of the macrocosm afterall. As you deepen your relationship with your body, mind, heart, emotions, and spirit your path will become more clear. And as you begin to heal your relationship with yourself by listening so very closely, so you begin to heal the Earth.

You will walk away:

• physically and spiritually renewed and refreshed

• with a deeper bond to Gaia

• with a clearer understanding of, and more compassion for, yourself

• with an idea of how you can embody sacred medicine in your life and work

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Cost: tbc

It is a prerequisite to attending this workshop that you have done at least one day of plant spirit work with me, so that you have a degree of experience communicating with plant spirits, necessary as a background for this deeper level of work.

This week will be quite full and quite full on, so if you have an ongoing medical condition it is essential that you bring it to my attention when you register your interest in the workshop.

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To register your interest or find out more please email info@gatewaystoeden.com or call 07772137719 and speak to me, Rachel Corby.

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"To reestablish a healthy environment on Mother Earth begin with your own piece of Earth, your body. The respect we are willing to show our own body will be reflected back in our relationship to Mother Earth. Going without food heightens our awareness of our body. We begin to feel each breath, the touch of a stone, the slight breeze, our skin, our bones, our hunger."  Trishuwa