Matthew Painton and I are excited to announce the launch of our Wheel of the Year series - eight workshops, which can be attended as a one-off or over the whole year, that incorporate nature intelligence, a return to our awareness, and the Work That Reconnects.
The modern disconnect with nature is apparent all around us. One way that this shows up is as a misalignment with the seasons. We are constrained to try and be the same all year round, and especially in winter this can leave us disaffected and depleted. Modernity requires constant growth and progress, but this linear path is unsustainable, and beginning to unravel all around us.
The wheel of the year is a profound and embodied teaching about cyclical time, about expansion, contraction and rebirth, about constant flux and relentless change. By coming into deeper alignment with the seasons over the course of a year, we can deeply resource ourselves for the dark winter to come, and find new ways to embrace and affect change.
Our workshops can be attended as a one-off, or regularly. There will be a cumulative benefit to attending them all, or several but if you attend just one, it will still be beneficial and insightful.
There is a lot of religious imagery, mythology and folklore both pre-christian (pagan) and Christian around the wheel of the year and the eight festivals, all of which can be interesting and insightful, but we have chosen to strip most of that away. How does the incredible flux in the sun’s available radiation affect us biologically, emotionally, psychologically, culturally? How can calibrating our inner being with seasonal change help us to connect more deeply with our own deeper nature, be more creative and expressive, more appreciative of the dark and the unconscious, and more resourced to meet the constant changes that are coming faster and faster?
Each workshop will be offered on a sliding scale from 30-60 GBP, with the option of a discount if you sign up to the entire year - sign up to all eight, and pay for only six.