Module 1: Soul Longing — The Dream of the Earth & the Longing for Connection
We are the Earth dreaming. When we heal ourselves, we heal the Earth; when we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves.
In European Bee Shamanism, we speak of a dreaming weave or web that surrounds the Earth, composed of the dreams of all beings on Earth. This same web of life can be felt during profound and subtle encounters with the more-than-human world. As dreamers, it is our privilege and our calling to dream not only for our own lives, but as dreamers within the web of life, fully aware that as we dream, we are being dreamt. Indeed, we can dream with the very soul of the Earth, or what psychologist Carl Jung called the Anima Mundi.
In this first module, you’ll learn why Earth Dreaming is both your inheritance and your legacy. At a time of such tremendous planetary pain, ecological strife, and uncertainty about our future, you can turn to dreaming and dream activism as potent tools to bring healing, vision, transformation, transmutation, and spiritual knowledge.
Ariella will share some history on the dreaming temples of Ancient Greece and help you prepare for your own dream incubation. You’ll also learn about European Bee Shamanism as the framework for this 7-module journey — why bee shamanism isn’t just about bees, why spirits are viewed as benevolent and tutelary, and how the body is the alchemical laboratory for transformation.
Module 2: Bridge to the Dreamworld — Find Your Dreaming Earth Temple With the Help of Honeybees
There are many ways to encounter Spirit. You may be familiar with static meditation and shamanic journeying, but movement meditation may be new to you. In this session, you’ll learn a practice called the Lemniscate Volatus — or Infinite Flight — which will take you into an altered state where your imagination can commingle with Spirit.
You’ll use the Lemniscate Volatus, the primary pathway of discovery in bee shamanism, to both discover and construct your own Earth Dreaming temple. You’ll also discover how to tend your dreams, work with fallow periods (times without dreams), and address doubts about personal abilities.
Module 3: Enchantment — Courting Nature Spirits for Kinship, Guidance & Healing
The sacred is that which evokes the depths of wonder.
— Thomas Berry
Nature holds the keys to enchantment. Think of any moment of wonder from your life and you will remember what it is to be enchanted. Enchantment is when the song of your soul harmonizes with the song of another living being, landscape, or even a star. Enchantment is when a story holds the mythic thread upon which you too are being woven.
In this module, you’ll lean into wonder and enchantment by connecting with a nature spirit. You’ll learn about nature spirits in myth and the collective psyche — from the fae folk to nymphs, devas, tree guardians, and more. You’ll use dreams and the walk of Infinite Flight to develop a relationship with a nature spirit who will become guardian and guide to your dreaming and shamanic work throughout the rest of the course and beyond. Trust that this spirit has been waiting for you, because your song is a song they too are longing to hear.
You’ll also explore the importance of reciprocity and how to make an offering to the spirits of the land.
Module 4: Encounter — The Maternal & the Magnetic as Templates for Reconnection
At the heart of the course, you’ll pause and turn toward your body as a sacred tool. In this session, you’ll receive the map of your interior roses and stars. The Garden of Interior Roses is a system of energy centers that, when worked with, can bring about physical and spiritual transformation. These roses and stars can also align with, or connect to, different plants, sounds, places, and more.
You’ll work with the roses and stars in two ways. You’ll bathe the roses and stars in sound and find your personal Earth roses located across the planet that mirror your own interior garden. You’ll then work with one of your Earth roses to divine why it has come to you and what specific healing, blessing, or offering supports the wellbeing of you both.
Module 5: The Forest of Desolation — Calling the Exiled Parts of Yourself Back Home
Planetary anguish lifts us onto another systemic level, where we open to collective experience.
— Joanna Macy
True healing happens when we allow the waters of life to flow. In this session, you’ll work with grief as a way to access deeper parts of yourself and find greater unity with all of life. You’ll start to work with dream prescriptions, using previous dreams to discern messages received within your dreaming temple.
You’ll then take your questions and soul queries to the bees and seek their wisdom as keepers of the hidden library. In European Bee Shamanism, we speak of a hidden college of the Melissae, where pure knowing, wisdom, clarity, and forgotten knowledge can be found. In the second part of this session, you’ll learn a technique to retrieve wisdom from the bees and the ancients.
Module 6: Becoming the Ouroboros — Bring Your Personal Medicine Back to the World
Every person contains incredible power within. That power is derived from your inherent gifts, and these gifts become the healing medicine you offer the world.
In this session, you’ll begin the process of bringing the medicine home to your community. This time, however, community is not just the people in your life, but all the beings of the more-than-human world that you interact with, both physically and in the imaginal realms.
You’ll step into a wombic field of healing energy to discover all that’s waiting to emerge from within you. To engage with bringing your gifts home, you’ll work with a form of shapeshifting — seeking to connect with the wisdom of one of the benevolent nature beings who has shown up in your dreaming.
Module 7: Making the Impossible Possible
We can not solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
— Albert Einstein
Every honey bee is an individual, and yet the bee is also part of an entire organism we call a colony. The bee cannot survive without the superorganism, and in many ways, she is an extension of the body of the entire being.
When we consciously dream into the greater field of the dream weave, we are like the hive of bees, creating ambrosia from the gift of the flowers. We can tap into the dream of the Earth and become part of the collective hive dreaming. In doing so, we are capable of transcending the seemingly fixed storylines of our lives and the planetary devastation we’re all facing. We can dream a different reality into being, using the tools of imagination and relationship to spirit.
These tools are what give us the ability to think (or dream) outside the box and to create new neural pathways as we imagine a life and a world that’s vibrant, abundant, and in flow. When we choose to dream with the Earth and with Spirit, we learn that everything is mutable, and even the most rigid, seemingly fixed parts of our lives can miraculously transform. We can make the impossible possible.
In this session, you’ll experiment with collective dream messages from the Earth and learn a dream-weaving technique for divining the messages of your dreams. You’ll walk away with tools for continuing to dream and be in relationship with the beneficial energies and spirits of the more-than-human world.
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