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The
Traveller stands at the mouth of the cave, on the
threshold between dark and light, looking towards the
light.
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theme of the workshop is "tending the
body/ tending the land," so bringing renewal to both
body and land. In literature, the erotic beauty of body
and the erotic beauty of land are often explored as metaphors of
each other. This workshop includes the practice of erotic
massage together as a puja, interspersed with working
together on the land, tending one of the wood's sacred circles. |
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A "Second Circle" workshop.
These workshops are normally open only to those
who have completed at least one cycle with us. |
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£215/£240 per person + food to share |
May 4-7,2012 |
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Hazel Hill wood is carpeted
in bluebells. Sexual, generative energy is in
full flow. In this workshop the invitation is to
combine opening to the natural energy
represented in the Celtic tradition by the
Goddess and the Green Man with connecting with
our own inner fires--the God and the Goddess
within. |
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The Summer Solstice is the
year’s Zenith. This is the
time of year when the energy
generated by the dance
between Earth and Sun is at
its height, the point when
the Sun is highest in the
sky and closest to the
Earth, and the Earth itself
teems with multiplicity.
By day it is a time of
innocence and play, by night
a time of wildness and
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Lammas
stands at the midpoint between the summer
Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, in what is
sometimes called the "hush of summer" -- just on
the edge of the beginning of the main harvest.
Lammas is about experiencing what is -- nothing
less, nothing more. The invitation is to allow
the boundaries between inner and outer and self
and other to dissolve, to experience the now of
summer.
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The Traveller stands again at the mouth
of the cave, now facing the dark, but
celebrating the moment of perfect
balance between light and dark at the
end of the harvest. |
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A "Second Circle" workshop.
These workshops are normally open only to those
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Samhain (Halloween) stands at the
threshold of the dark part of the year.
In traditional Celtic society, this was
the time of in-gathering and
recollection. It marks the end of
absorption in the outer, momentary
present, the begin-ning of the time of
inner journeying, of re-connection with
the ancestors, our guides and guardians
underground, and the awakening of the
voices of prophecy.
In the wood, it is the time
when the energy of the trees
withdraws below ground, the time
when next year's seeds lie dormant.
In Tantra, it is time to move
inward, to go deeper, finding in our
core energy the fuel for personal
and planetary transformation. |
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Yuletide,
the celebration of the nadir. Energetically,
Winter is the season of contraction. Yet it is
also the time of exploring inner space,
discovering inner light. The Winter Solstice
celebrates the birth of the magical child of
light on the darkest night of the year. Gifts,
twinkling lights, song and storytelling – all
the things that appeal to the child in us –
belong to the Solstice.
Outside,
there is cold and dark. Inside, there is
community and connectedness, the energy of the
heart, the light that burns within all of us. |
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VALENTINES DAY is not a itself one of the eight great
Gateways in the Celtic Year, but it appears to have
developed partly at least from Imbolc, The calendar
around Imbolc is peppered with days devoted to the
celebration of true love. In Scotland, St Agnes' Eve
(Jan 20) is celebrated as the night of the chaste
maiden's erotic dream of her true love to be; in Wales,
January 25 is dedicated to St Dwynwen, patron saint of
lovers; and of course throughout mediaeval Europe
February14, the day when, according to Chaucer, "every
bird chooses its mate" , is St Valentine's Day. Older
Roman and Greek festivals lie behind these mediaeval
traditions. But the Celtic tradition of honouring and
evoking a blessing on true love is if anything older
than any of these, and is surely rooted in Imbolc
itself, and the prayer for a relationship forged in
Brigid's own creative fire.
At Hazel Hill
Wood we have therefore added to our Celtic celebrations
a Celtic Valentine weekend exclusively for Couples,
which we have named after the immemorial Celtic
tradition of lovers writing their names on a stone, and
casting it into the sea for safekeeping.
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Hazel Hill workshops have a tendency to fill up early.
Please contact us to check availability before sending your
deposit. We cannot hold a place for more than 3 days without
a deposit. Deposits are non-refundable. |
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Facilities at Hazel
Hill:
Sleeping is heated sleeping lofts with mattresses, or you
may bring a tent. There are a limited number of
individual sleeping spaces for couples, including space in
the new building, "The Ark." There are excellent hot
showers, composting loos, and an indoor kitchen. There is an
indoor heated group room, a sauna, and a hot tub. |
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Food:
We ask our participants
to bring bring
food to share for all our Hazel Hill workshops. For the
larger groups, we have a food co-ordinator who will talk
over with you what you might bring. NB If you are on a
special diet, you will need to supply any special foods. |
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