Firebird Afro-Shamanic Trance Dance

August 26th - 29th Friday evening - Monday 4pm

Three day workshop including sweatlodge ceremony

With Leo Rutherford, Doug Blacksmith & Friends

Trance-Dance is a magical catalyst for changes to happen and patterns to shift:

*Develop greater creativity and self-expression
*Develop richer connections to your self, to others and to spirit
*Gain flexibility, vitality, strength, improve body image
*Connect with your soul’s purpose / enjoy greater confidence.

Firebird Trance-Dance is Afro-Brazilian Dance Medicine Magic. It is a unique path into healing and alternate reality. Through the glorious wild abandon and carefully held chaos of the Trance-Dance, we gain a new sense of Self and connection with the Universal order.

Dance is an ancient healing path, perhaps as much as 50,000 years old. Our form is derived from the Afro-Brazilian cultures, specifically the Candomble and Umbanda, and also the Gnawa Moroccan tradition, all of which have their roots in West Africa. We have adapted these traditional ways to suit the needs of western people for healing of the soul, knowledge of the self, and expansion of consciousness.

This workshop will move you profoundly towards the truth of yourself and your life. The Trance-Dance is a magical catalyst for changes to happen and patterns to shift. It enables you to sweep away confusion and delusion and to penetrate to the heart of yourself and with your soul's purpose.

"Being able to express the inexpressable has changed the way I see myself. To have been able to make a noise, scream, rage, grieve, and recognise my Goddess has been invaluable. Instead of victim I am now a person who gave it back where it belongs, finding the beauty they and I denied for so long in the process."

Responses from participants:

“I felt a tremendous freedom and liberation. I was aware and in control and yet it was almost as if the outside world had been shut out of my conscious mind - and even if it was still there, it no longer seemed to matter. I felt free and that I could do anything.”

“Being able to express the inexpressable has changed the way I see myself. To have been able to make a noise, scream, rage, grieve, and recognise my Goddess has been invaluable. Instead of victim I am now a person who gave it back where it belongs, finding the beauty they and I denied for so long in the process.”

“It dawned on me that the conditions my life seemed to impose on me were in fact of my own making -- and that in fact I could be very much freer than I allowed myself to be. I began to realise with great joy that in reality there is no separation between the place I touched in the dance and my daily life. It just depends on the limitations I impose on myself."

“As I came back to this 'me' I felt I brought with me a lot of wholeness and completeness and power of the larger part of the being that is me. It made all the mundane problems of my life dissolve into insignificance.”

Venue: East Sussex

Accommodation will be in an all season Yurt, Dome and bender all with wood burning stoves, carpets and mattresses. There are hot outdoor showers and earth toilets. We also have the use of the facilities of a house and a beautiful converted Barn to work in. In our grounds we have a medicine wheel of trees and stones, a pond and quiet places to be and a hammock between two old Oaks. There are also wonderful walks through woods and fields via the Cuckoo Trail.

Cost including accommodation and food - £295, booking deposit £95
Booking: Leo 01435-810233 Email: leorutherford@eagleswing.co.uk

Please send the deposit (£95 payable to Eagle's Wing) with your name address, phone and email details to:

Leo Rutherford,
Eagle's Wing,
BM Box 7475,
London
WC1N 3XX