Oct 26-29, 2023: Medicine Wheel Teaching retreat

Power in Place:

Grounding into our Earth through the Shamanic Medicine Wheel

with Chalice Malcolm

Feeling confused? Stuck? Clogged? Stressed? Grounding is an excellent remedy.

Explore the power, essence and fertile ground that is you, here, walking at this time.

As we begin to soar, we must first put down our anchor. This offering stands alone and will also serve as an entry into Chalice’s Native American and Celtic lineage Shamanic education program which she will be offering at Birdsong in the future.

During this 4 day/3 night event on the Banks Peninsula, we will step into the curious mind, and dance, craft, and journey with the medicine wheel and spend time exploring deeper connection with nature.

Included in this retreat:

* Journeying work to meet your plant spirit ally.

* Sacred crafting will focus on creating your own journal: your communication channel with the Divine. This practice opens the doorway to access the stories, the delight and the potent fierce quality of how our divine mother walks with us.

* A dawn beach cacao ceremony

* Drumming circle (This usually happens very spontaneously – bring your medicine drum if you have one!)

* Six shared meals which we will co-create together.

Coming to Birdsong since early 2020, most notably to offer medicine drum making workshops for which she is known throughout New Zealand, Chalice now brings this new exciting retreat to Birdsong.

If you have worked with her before, you know that Chalice weaves a tapestry of magic as she guides us through the medicine wheel. This weekend retreat will give participants an interactive & dynamic exploration of working with this sacred ground.

Please visit Chalice’s Wildheart website to get to know her better and be sure to check out her free Wildheart guided meditations on Youtube.

From Chalice:

Kia ora Wildhearted humans, I welcome you to my next offering at Birdsong Sanctuary.

This time together will be a journey deep down a very old well worn stone staircase, underneath all the dross and drama of what the walking world is, to explore the power, essence and fertile ground that is you here walking at this time.

As always the foundation of this work is with the medicine wheel. Using this as our map we will look at our relationship to the earth, how she breathes us, allowing ourselves to step into the curious mind, the beginners mind we will dance, craft, journey with the medicine wheel and spend time connecting in nature.

The crafting aspect will involve creating a journal, and writing, drawing in nature. This piece of the work always delights me in what insights, wisdom can come forth as we sit and listen. Such a beautiful practice to spend time with the uniqueness that is you and what the inner voice has to say. We are not alone, and this practice opens the doorway to access the stories, the delight and the potent fierce quality of how our divine mother walks with us.

I am very much looking forward to this journey together.

Much love

Chalice

Details:

Thursday 4 pm – Sunday 3 pm.

Exchange: $484 includes 3 vegetarian lunches & dinners* (bring your own breakfast); camping/residence @Birdsong Retreat & Sanctuary, Wainui, Banks Peninsula  We do have several single & shared rooms available at extra cost.

* Note: We will not have a caterer for this event; instead, we will team up in pairs and each take turns preparing meals for the group (Birdsong will provide all produce/staples)

$84 non refundable deposit to secure your spot. Balance in full by 30 September

Workshop limited to 14 participants; book early to secure your space.  Payment plan available.

Please email birdsongretreat@gmail.com or contact Kathy 021 202 2954 for any enquires and to register