The Cauldrons Of The Soul

Primal Celtic mysticism views the soul as a shapeshifter that can wander through the elements and the natural world.  At the same time, the soul energizes key centers in the body and mind in subtle and mysterious ways that empower us to live fully as human beings.  Together these characteristics of the soul help us to realize our essential oneness with the Divine Consciousness woven throughout Creation.  In this workshop we learn prayers and practices that can be used on a daily basis to stay mindful of our souls and their relationship to both the sacred and secular environment around us.

We use the shamanic journey to discover the mysteries of the three cauldrons of the soul -- the Cauldron of Warming, the Cauldron of Calling, the Cauldron of Knowing.  With these we can live more compassionately and empathize more intimately with others, listen more deeply, connect to animals, pets, the land we live on, and participate more fully in the seasons of the year.

This workshop is an initiation into Celtic mysteries that offers participants the opportunity to learn about and embody dana, a rich Celtic term that can refer to the primal energies of the universe.  It is dana that characterized the People of the Goddess Dana, also known by their ancestral title Tuatha De Danann.  And it is dana that gave certain groups of people such as druids, seers, poets, and healers the power that we today recognize as shamanism.  By allowing our souls to drink from the rich springs of dana, we can become the modern equivalents of those Celtic mystics and shamans known as aois dana and representatives of the "Shining Ones."

Prerequisites: Skill at journeying into nonordinary reality and working with power animals.

(Note:  This is a different workshop from the basic Celtic shamanism workshop, "The Soul.")