21/10/2025
A weekend to remember...
WALKING LIGHTLY (AND LAUGHING LOUDLY)
One of the biggest lessons we weave through our 13-month and three-year spiritual empowerment programmes is the importance of walking lightly.
When we step onto the medicine path it can be easy to let the energy get heavy. People take themselves far too seriously, as though walking a spiritual path means leaving behind their humanity. In reality we are just humans - two-leggeds walking a path of learning and discovery. There is a balance to be found.
There is a time to step fully into sacred ceremony, to hold space with humility and respect. There is a time to stand in reverence and remember the weight and responsibility of the teachings we carry. There is also a time to allow ourselves to laugh, to breathe, to remember that we are tiny dots on the landscape of the world and even tinier when we consider the vastness of the universe.
Laughter does not take the sacred away. It brings balance to it. It keeps energy clean, clear and bright. It stops us disappearing into our own seriousness.
Our North Weekend is always a power-full one. It is the time of Air - clarity, wisdom, that Chief energy. Eagle flies highest and closest to Great Spirit and has long been associated with the North. It is an energy of vision and truth. I still remember how humbled I felt when I was first gifted an eagle feather and the weight of what that meant spiritually and energetically. It is something I have never taken lightly.
This work is not about staying solemn. It is about knowing when to bow your head and when to throw it back and laugh.
We hatched a plan to make that teaching live in the bones.
While Ash and I were working with our tribe in one of the top meadows at the Clophill Centre, in Bedfordshire - acres of land, woodlands, a labyrinth and an underground dreaming chamber - I led everyone into a guided outdoor meditation. I invited them to let the wind lift them, to connect with the spirit of the birds and to open themselves to a vision of eagle.
What they did not know was that two of our wisdom keepers, Claire Crockett and Kai Bridges, were on a secret side quest.
I’d had a huge inflatable eagle costume delivered quietly beforehand. As the meditation deepened, Claire helped Kai into it and guided him up a bank so he stood silhouetted against the skyline, majestic in the most gloriously ridiculous way possible.
Right on cue, I asked everyone to open their eyes just a fraction and turn in a slow circle. There he was. The great and mighty eagle. In inflatable comedy form.
For a heartbeat, everyone hesitated. Was this a test? Should they stay serious? Then the ripple came, followed by the roar of laughter. Deep, belly laughter. The kind that clears energy in a way nothing else can. The kind that reminds you what it means to be alive.
One of our wisdom keepers, Sally, asked: “Great Eagle, what can I do for you?” Kai’s answer, through laughter, was simple: “Bury me.”
The sight of him scrambling up the bank in that costume, the way the whole tribe dissolved into laughter, the release of it all - that moment will stay with me forever. It reminded us that sacred does not mean heavy. Sacred is not the absence of joy. It is the integration of it.
Many of the tribe who shared that day will be stepping back into the circle in January, alongside new faces who will join the journey for the first time. There is still space to welcome a few more.
If you feel the pull to walk a path that holds both reverence and laughter, clarity and warmth, power and heart, this might be for you. Over 13 months we travel around the medicine wheel together through five long weekends - blending teachings from shamanism, the medicine wheel, coaching, NLP and extreme empowerment work.
We work closely with the energies of these British lands - the lands we live on, the lands we walk - honouring the spirit of the place we call home. Firewalking, bare-throated arrow breaking, talking therapy, elemental work, spirituality, energy healing, psychic development and more are all part of this power-full journey.
People tell us again and again it is life-changing. I believe them. I see it.
And yes. of course there’s photographic evidence (and video footage) of Kai in that eagle costume. Some lessons deserve to be remembered with a grin. 😉😁💕
What helps you keep your spirit light when the work gets deep?
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Taz
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Claire Crockett - Dove Reflexology Elemental Empowerment Ellen Cook Homeopath, Bowen Therapist & Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
