Jilani and Salik invite you to join us for our heart-warming celebration of the returning of the Light, at the Celtic festival of the Winter Solstice. Come together with like-minded friends in the beautiful, welcoming space of Om Yoga Works, from 5-8 pm to include time for a Solstice Feast. (Please bring a contribution of something delicious to share!)
Using chant and movement, ritual and feasting, we invite you to open your hearts to the light and to each other.
The Winter Solstice can be a time to look back and reflect, but also to look ahead, to dream into the coming year, and to rejoice in the light returning. We will feel into and explore the nourishment and regeneration of this time of fertile darkness, and we will rejoice in the rebirth and returning of the light. We will work with simple sacred chants and movements, beautiful live music, powerful breath practices, and sharing; and the power of ritual and ceremony. We offer the opportunity to meet one other, fully embodied, in the heart-space of deep meditation and devotion.
Everything will be clearly guided and held. All are welcome, whether you are new friends or old.
Dancing with Balance and Harmony at the Autumn Equinox.
Dance the Prayers of your Body, Heart and Soul!
Simple sacred chants and movements. Beautiful Live Music. Powerful breath practices, and sharing. Ritual and ceremony. The opportunity to meet ourselves and each other, fully embodied, in the heart-space of deep meditation and devotion.
Everything clearly guided and held. All are welcome, whether you are new friends or old.
These dances could be called body prayers: simple, gentle yet powerful movements with chants drawn from many world traditions, all celebrating Unity. Moving, chanting and breathing in rhythm together we begin to harmonise ourselves as individuals and as a group. Our bodies and hearts can realign with the rhythm of our souls. The results can be wonderful: we may experience sensations of peace and joy, heart-opening connections with others and a sense of oneness with all-that-is.
Everything is taught as we go along, so anyone can join.
If you’d like to join us for a shared meal afterwards, please bring a contribution of something delicious to share.
Time
5.00pm – 8.00pm including a shared feast (please bring a contribution of something delicious to share)
Investment:
£25 (£22 if paid by 14th August)
Contact:
Please use the contact form below to book and for payment details
In the Footsteps of Yeshua and the Great I Am: Exploring the “I Am”, the secret teachings of the Aramaic Jesus.
le Chant du Loup – 2045 Chemin de Chapias 26150 Die, France
Inana: Simple Presence, the I inside the I, connecting one to One, is the food that energises all life.The “I Am” feeds all being with understanding and energy…
Simple Chants and Body Prayers, led by Jilani Cordelia Prescott, with live guitar support from Jilani.
All welcome! Everything will be taught as we go along – no prior knowledge or experience necessary. In French and English.
‘Who danceth not, knows not what is being done.’ (Hymn of Jesus)
Cost: €150 Retreat Fee
Food and Lodging extra, by Donation
Gite, dormitory and camping all possible.
For bookings or further information, contact Manoelle:
Come and immerse yourself in the beautiful Welsh countryside and ‘the Sacred Manuscript of Nature, the only book which can enlighten the reader’ (in the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Sufi mystic). For these days we will live together close to the land and deepen our connection to Mother Earth through many different practices.
There will be opportunities for training for dance leaders, including circles where new or more experienced dancers, dance leaders and musicians can explore the dance leading journey, with guidance and supporting practices held by Jilani, who is a very experienced mentor and trainer of dance leaders.
This event is offered in association with Khankah of the Heart, a UK Sufi community based not in bricks and mortar, but in the loving hearts of everyone who feels part of it. Through Khankah of the Heart we may be able to offer some bursaries for those who would otherwise be prevented from attending this camp by the cost. Please ask!
Rissa of Yew Tree Camps has this to say about the site:
‘Meadow Ground overlooks the gorgeous Welsh Valleys and enjoys dramatic views and spectacular skies from its position on the hillside. The Stone Circle is a formation of English and Welsh stones, which came together serendipitously to create a deep and mystical place for the dances. We are immersed in nature amongst the hedgehogs, owls, buzzards, bluebells, orchids and new and old trees.
The land has been lovingly tended to and developed to create the beautiful and magical setting for these camps. We are blessed by the full range of weather that Wales provides; beautiful sunny days, misty rainy days and everything in between – it is therefore good to pack for all seasons!
We have various sheltered spaces for workshops, lovely compost loos (including a new accessible compost toilet) and a mains water supply for drinking, hand washing, cooking, and basic off-grid showering and bathing. We will maintain an open fire which marks the centre of our camping circle.
Please ask us about alternative accommodation and any other access needs you may require. Our field may not be suitable for everyone as the ground is uneven in places, but we would love to accommodate you as much as we can. We have options available to help you attend more comfortably if you aren’t able to camp or don’t wish to. If you need to travel light, we can help with some basic supplies like tents or bedding, however these are limited.
We have three cats who love the freedom of the field. Therefore we are not able to accommodate other peoples pets on the field.’
This exciting new event is designed to be affordable, and please do enquire if you need further help to be able to attend. Conversely, if you find the price is reasonable or cheap for the value which is being offered, please consider offering a donation to subsidise those who are less well off.
Bring your own plate/bowl/mug and cutlery, plus anything you need to be comfortable, including special food. You might also like to bring teas/coffees and delicious snacks to share. Our meals will be suitable for vegetarians with vegan and gluten free options, and are included in the price you pay. We will all offer our karma yoga or Seva services in turn to chop wood and vegetables, wash up and clear away.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment! Contact Jilani with any questions prior to booking
We are delighted to say that Sue Goodwin will be leading a dream workshop and daily dream weaving sessions at camp.
The old ones knew that life is a dream, that we are both the dreamer and the dreamt. Now more than ever the world needs dreamers. We need to see further than we have seen before, using our creative visioning powers to see all possibilities. Dreaming is an ancient art and practice that is now being reclaimed in the modern world as one of the ways we can shape shift our old realities and become more awake to what we are experiencing, perceiving and co-creating.
Honouring our dreams can offer us glimpses of the subtle direction of our soul’s longing, and open us up to new levels of healing and understanding. Attuning to the mystery of dream worlds can inspire us to show up more fully, and be more aware of how we are co-creating our lives.
In this workshop we will open up the vast territory that is our dreaming intelligence, and how it can support and be an integral part of our spiritual practice. We will touch into the role of dream work in some different traditions and cultures. I will share some of what I have been learning about different types of dreams, the language of dreams, dream interpretation and ways we can enhance our dream recall. There will be a short dream sharing practice with a partner, to help open up our dreaming consciousness.
During the week, we will have the precious opportunity to listen to each other’s dreams as part of our morning practice.
Bio: Sue is a dreamer, a grandmother, retired herbalist, plant spirit healer, ceremonialist and teacher. Her life’s passion has been the reclaiming of ancient wisdom and ways of healing body, mind, heart and soul. In her life walk, Sue has had the blessing and honour to learn from a medicine wheel tradition from the Americas and a number of other spiritual wisdom traditions, and is now happily alchemising what she has gathered in her own ‘Medicine Bundle’. She has been running women’s winter dreaming courses for the last five years, in person and online.
