Join shamanic practitioner and teacher Jane Burns on a fascinating 7-week exploration, in which sheâll share the transformative power of myth and guide you on experiential shamanic journeys that will help you open to the betwixt and between times and emerge renewed and awakened to the awarenesses you need to effectively work through difficult transitions.
In betwixt and between periods, many people feel lost. Shamanic journeying is a way to acknowledge that you donât know where you are, who you are, or whatâs being asked of you. It offers you the opportunity to ask for help and surrender to guidance.
In each of the seven sessions in this new program with Jane, sheâll share with you a different Celtic myth â beautiful, revelatory, and universally relevant stories of renowned mythic characters who entered the betwixt and between to experience profound, life-altering lessons.
Jane will then guide you through journeys into unseen realms, where youâll learn the mythic lessons that will help you cultivate essential skills for walking through your life.
Youâll invoke the wisdom and counsel of helping spirits to lead you out of the pretense of who you thought you were and into the truth and wholeness of your authentic being. And, through this process, you can accelerate prescribed change and arrive more easily and quickly at the insights you need to move beyond your challenges.
Journeys show us what we donât see and tell us what we donât know. And, when the journeying drumming begins, we enter as a different person from the self who emerges when the drumming stops.
Join us to discover that, in liminal space, infinite potential abounds and offers you the chance to go inward, renovate, reacclimate, and embrace a more conscious, meaningful, and easeful life.
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Jane will guide you through the fundamental insights and practices youâll need to embrace the liminal space between loss and opportunity through the wisdom of Celtic myth and shamanic journeying â to gain the extraordinary, life-changing gifts of greater self-knowledge, sovereignty, and freedom.
Shamanic journeys provide you with the navigation skills you require in real life. You can accelerate prescribed change and arrive more easily and quickly at the insights you need to transcend your challenges.
The best approach to journeying is the same as the approach to living â to be a hollow bone and allow yourself to be filled with what you need to know.
In this opening module, youâll learn how to enter the journey in the classic Celtic style â through a mist! Mist itself is a betwixt and between, and when the mist lifts, you know youâve entered another realm. Everything changes, and you acquire new rules, new powers, and new helpers.
For the ancient seafarers, that mist was a seamist that caused unexpected things to happen. Once traversed, questions that had never before been asked came to mind, and curiosities and speculations that had long been asleep were awakened.
Jane will introduce you to the tale of Maelduin, who goes to sea seeking revenge for his fatherâs murder. However, at the journeyâs end, heâs so transformed that he only desires peace with his fatherâs killers.
In this session, Jane will guide you on such a sea journey â called immrama â to unveil the magical islands that old Celtic sea-adventurers, like Maelduin, explored.
In Module 1, youâll have the opportunity to:
As a result of the pandemic, most of us have been feeling the constriction of hibernation rather keenly this past year. However, periods of isolation are neither new nor unnecessary.
The ancients recognized the value of withdrawal from the outer world â from normal routine and demands â to regain a closer and new perspective of the self. Removal of the self from its normal context brings new information and insight, greater self-knowing, and the calm and clarity of sanctuary.
With the din of ongoing âordinaryâ life, and the accompanying chaos, many people have a tendency to lose their sense of self.
Hibernation is a time of reflection and contemplation, integration and processing. Itâs an opportunity to review the freneticism youâre withdrawing from and ask deep and relevant questions about the pace and complexion of your life. In the quiet comes insight, a distillation of ideas, renewed perspective, and vigor.
Periods of hibernation and detachment end when theyâre meant to â no sooner, no later â and reemergence as a changed self into a changed world may feel daunting.
In this module, youâll explore the tale of Mabon ap Modron, a man who was taken as a baby and held hostage in a mysterious, unreachable place â a betwixt and between space â where he cried out, awaiting rescue. Once rescued, he was unseasoned by the world, but his captivity had given him new wisdom and foresight, making him an invaluable member of King Arthurâs war band.
Similarly, your journey this week will reveal the unique, necessary, and invaluable skills and insights youâre gaining during the pandemic, which will help you when you reemerge.
In this session, youâll understand:
Sometimes conflict crashes into the seeming tranquility and balance of our lives quite unexpectedly.
It can take the form of a divorce, a lawsuit, a family feud, political upheaval, or dis-ease at work. Itâs when things suddenly go topsy-turvy, and youâre left to grapple with all the possible implications of this new and uninvited regime.
The tension between wanting things to return to their former stasis and the pressing need for havoc to reign runs high until something breaks, and a boiling point is reached. And, although resolution brings new wisdom and perspective, we can also become cynical or lose our innocence.
The story of Emer, Cu Cuchulainn, and Fand is the backdrop for your exploration of conflict in this session, and shows you how the betwixt and between of trial and ordeal can alter you and your relationships forever.
The purpose of the journey is to find resolution and a way to release yourself from the loop of conflict.
This week, Jane will help you:
As you mature and move through life, youâre conditioned by many things â your upbringing, education, socialization, family creed, trauma, disappointment, and loss.
These influences create an identity that may not reflect your authentic self, nor align with your soulâs purpose. The gap between the true self and the conditioned self is where struggle resides â and the wider the gap, the greater the struggle.
This gap is known as the divided self and is, in and of itself, a betwixt and between place.
Largely operating under illusion, the conditioned self keeps you captive in a long-term spell that can both prevent you from being seen for who you are, and prevent you from pursuing the original purpose that brought you into this life.
The girl whoâs told she canât sing or draw. The boy whoâs told heâs clumsy and irresponsible. The child whoâs not permitted to explore wonder, curiosity, imagination, or adventure. These are all examples of conditioning, and the kind of spell that discourages people from investigating their innate gifts and talents.
The stories youâll look at this week, the Children of Lir and the Wooing of Etain, explore the longtime captivity of characters whose jealous rivals have cast spells on them.
In this module, youâll acquire:
Spiritual and contemplative practice tells us that nothing is ever lost â a premise thatâs difficult to believe or embody throughout our daily lives.
Loss is eviscerating and real in a way that feels indisputable. Even where no physical death has actually occurred, the experience of any loss can feel like grieving a death.
Loss requires us to grieve â to enter and set up camp for an undetermined period of time in a world devoid of meaning or comfort. Though we often try to escape or shortcut grief, it canât be avoided.
The Celtic people have long understood the process of mourning and all it requires. According to their tradition, losing something that largely defines and shapes us requires that we leave that identity and existence â just as a dying person does. We must grieve the self that once was, as much as we grieve the loss that took it away.
In this session, youâll examine the story of Finn and Sadbh â two lovers pulled apart and lost to one another by a force greater than themselves.
This week, youâll:
Dismemberment is an archetypal shamanic journey experience in which youâre disassembled and reconfigured in a way that enables you to contend more effectively with ongoing or upcoming challenges.
Dismemberment can be a painful and disorienting betwixt and between process that occurs on this plane in real time. Severe illness, disability, aging, or rejection by oneâs community, for example, are all experiences that can provoke the gruesome, disintegrating process of dismemberment.
The person you once were begins to fall apart. Former status, standing, reputation, and formidability diminish, and you may experience a vulnerable crumbling of your identity. The things you thought you could rely on prove flimsy and demand a new form and integrity moving forward.
In this class, Jane will lead you through the story of the Welsh hero Lleu, a misbegotten boy who gains all he has through trickery and deception â only to be betrayed by his wife and slain by a rival. He turns into an eagle and begins to disintegrate. Lleuâs uncle gathers the pieces and brings them to a magician, enabling him to heal in his own way in his own time.
In this module, youâll discover:
In this closing session, youâll focus on the battles within you, rather than your struggles with the world around you.
Interior challenges can result in puzzling periods of overwhelm, anxiety, or depression that seem endless. Your âinner demonsâ seem to be engineered more by the unseen world, than the seen one, and whether or not you want to work with the unseen world, it lives around and within you, and must be acknowledged and heard.
Your own divine aspect speaks to you through the confounding battles deeply rooted within you.
Once youâve battled enough and start your process of self-examination, your soul releases you, hoping youâll go forward more mindfully. And, if you refuse to change, your inner demons will come calling again.
True triumph canât happen until youâre brave enough to ask the questions youâve never asked before, until youâre willing to accept the answers youâve always been afraid to hear, until you have the courage to claim and stand firmly in your own sovereignty.
In this final week, youâll learn about the Battle of Moytura, where the conflict between two storied races â the Tuatha DĂ© Danaan, who represent order and mastery, and the Fomorians, who represent chaos and destruction â exemplifies the theme of challenge and triumph.
In this session, youâll cultivate:
We feel honored that Jane Burns has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a shamanic practitioner and teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If youâre serious about cultivating your ability to surrender to and embrace the liminal space between loss and opportunity, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If youâre ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button to reserve your space now.
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