SHAMANKA

01/12/2025

🌿✨ The Medicine Wheel — A Map for Healing, Balance and Perspective ✨🌿The Medicine Wheel is one of the most ancient tools of Earth-based spirituality.
It is not a single doctrine or a fixed symbol — it is a living map of harmony, change, and sacred relationship.

Across the world, there are many versions of the Medicine Wheel, each shaped by the land, climate and culture that birthed it.
The Andean wheel is different from the Plains traditions of North America,
the Celtic compass differs from Siberian or Sámi circles.
Every lineage has its own nuances, guardians, animals and teachings.

And yet, there are unifying themes that echo across them all:
✨ The four directions
✨ The cycles of life
✨ The movement of seasons
✨ The elements
✨ The dance of body, mind, heart and spirit

Each wheel teaches us how to find balance — to sit in the centre, the vortex, the catalyst, as life moves around us.

We use the wheel as a way to meditate and gain perspective on many things including:
🌕 a decision or dilemma
🌿 emotional healing
🔥 personal transformation
💧 cycles of loss and renewal
🌬️ questions of purpose and direction

Instead of looking at a problem from one angle,
the Medicine Wheel invites us to walk around it —
to view it through the eyes of the East, South, West and North,
until clarity emerges from many perspectives.

It reminds us that healing is not linear.
It is a spiral — returning again and again to deeper layers of truth.

At Shamanka, we don’t only learn the Medicine Wheel —
we walk it through ceremony, nature connection, journeywork and lived experience.
Its teachings form the foundation of our path, beginning with our Intro Weekend in February,
and continuing through the year-long Healing & the Shamanic Arts main training in spring.

When the Wheel calls you,
it is often because you are ready to see your life in a new way. 🌕🌿

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30/11/2025

🌿✨Workshop Structure🌀🌷
At Shamanka, our training in Women’s Shamanism and the Healing Arts is designed to guide you step by step through a journey of deep personal growth, practical skill-building, and spiritual awakening. 🌈🕊️

💫 The Journey Begins
We start each year with our Introductory Weekend — a gentle yet powerful immersion into the Shamanka Way. From there, you can choose to continue into our Main Training, a one-year programme made up of four weekend workshops (Friday to Sunday) held throughout the year.

Each weekend includes a blend of ceremony, healing techniques, shamanic journeying and sacred practices — and on Sunday mornings, we share one of the Munay-Ki rites, seeds of luminous transformation from the Andean tradition. 🌿

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📖 Between Weekends

Between modules, students deepen their learning through home practice and optional case studies.

✨ If you’re joining for personal development, there’s no pressure to complete case studies — you can simply follow your own pace.

✨ If you wish to receive a Practitioner’s Certificate, enabling you to practise professionally and obtain insurance, you’ll complete around six healing sessions, writing up three to send to the teaching faculty between workshops.

Recording significant visions, dreams and experiences also forms part of your body of work towards certification.

There’s no strict deadline — you can take more than a year to complete your studies and send them in when ready.

Missed weekends? No problem — you can catch up the following year. 🌱

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🕊️ Second Year & Beyond

After completing your first year, you may continue into the Luminous Warrior second year — another series of four weekend workshops leading to an Advanced Practitioner Certificate.

Those who complete both years can go on to earn a Master’s Certificate, join as a Helper, or eventually become part of our teaching team — continuing Eliana Harvey’s beautiful legacy of women’s shamanism.

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💚 However far you choose to go, each stage of the training is a journey of the heart, empowerment and transformation — guided by experienced teachers and held in the nurturing circle of Shamanka.

Discover more or enrol: www.shamanka.com

30/11/2025

🌿 A Prayer to Call You Home 🌿
Come home, beloved one.
Home to the deep root at the centre of your being,
to the stillness beneath your breath,
to the ancient soil of your bones.
to the devine mother in your blood.

Come home among the star nations,
where your spirit wanders in Dreamtime,
where you remember the places you came from
and the journeys yet to come.

Come home to your ancestors,
those who walked before you,
who held the line through sorrow and joy,
and those waiting in the unseen
for the gifts you will pass forward.

Come home to the place of your birth,
to your Nature Parents —
the land that first held you,
the waters that washed you,
the winds that named you,
the fire that sparked your courage.

Come home to your true nature and your medicine,
to the gifts you were born carrying,
the ones you are learning to remember.

Come home among the animal nations,
those who walk beside us:
the four-legged and two-legged with their many lessons of nurture, endurance instinct and wisdom,
the finned ones who guide us to navigate with flow,
the winged ones who offer perspective and vision,
and the creeping, crawling ones
who diligently tend to deep renewal in the earth.

Come home to spiral of breath of the sky,
Come home to the many faceted nourishing rays of the sun,
Come home, child,
to sit around the fire with all our relations,
seen and unseen,
past and future,
here and now.

May you remember who you are,
and may you walk gently,
belonging to yourself,
belonging to the land,
belonging to the great web of life.

28/11/2025

🌿✨ Meeting Land Guardians ✨🌿
Wherever you live — whether by sea, forest, moorland, mountains or city stone — there are guardians of the land.
Not human owners, but ancient energetic presences:
spirits of place, ancestors of soil and stone, the older-than-human intelligences that hold memory.

In our work at Shamanka, we approach them with respect, humility and permission — not to claim, but to build relationship.
A simple ceremony you can try:

🌾 1. Walk with intention
Choose a place that calls to you — maybe a tree, riverbank or hilltop.
Before you enter, pause. Find some words from the heart, perhaps
“I come in peace and respect.
I honour the spirit of this land.”

🔥 2. Offer something of gratitude with sincerity. A strand of your hair, a song, fresh water, grains, flowers — something in harmony with nature.

🌬️ 3. Sit and listen
Release any expectations.
Let the wind, birds, roots, shadows speak in their own rhythm.
Guardians rarely arrive in words —
they reveal themselves through feeling, presence, atmosphere.

🕯️ 4. Introduce yourself
Name where you’re from, who your people are, what you wish to learn or heal.
Not seeking power — humbly inviting a mutual relationship in deep gratitude. You may feel called to receive a token of connection, perhaps even something physical like a small stone.

🌱 5. Leave as you arrived — respectfully. Offer thanks out loud or in your heart.
Tread gently, as if leaving someone’s home.

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They are rooted presences of the land,
older than castles, older than kingdoms, older than our languages.

Working with them deepens your sense of belonging, supports healing, and awakens ancient memories.

If this calls to you, you may already be walking your path.
Join us in February for our Introductory Weekend, and in spring for our Healing & the Shamanic Arts main training, where we explore ceremonies of land, lineage and living energy. 🌕

www.shamanka.com

27/11/2025

✨ Calling Our Shamanka Community ✨🌿 Many years ago, a beautiful matching pair of young gull-wing feather smudging fans was gifted to Sandy, who served as a beloved member of our teaching faculty.
The maker of these fans has been in touch, and they are hoping to help them find their way back to Sandy, to whom they were originally entrusted.

At some point, the smudging fans were borrowed by a student, and it has been a long time since they’ve been seen.
We believe they may simply be resting in someone’s safekeeping, stored with ceremonial tools, or passed on in good faith.

If you recognise these fans,
if you have them,
or if you know who may currently be holding guardianship of them,
we would be grateful for any information you can share.

No judgement — just the hope of returning them to their intended keeper.
You can message us privately or email the Shamanka team directly.
All information will of course be treated respectfully.

Thank you for helping the medicine return home. 💚🕊️

25/11/2025

🌿✨ Who are the Indigenous Peoples of the British Isles? ✨🌿 It’s a question many of us ask when we step into shamanic or ancestral work — Who were the original people of this land, and how did they heal?

The British Isles were first home to pre-Celtic hunter-gatherer peoples, then to communities who built the great stone circles, sacred mounds and ceremonial landscapes we still walk today. Later came the Celtic tribes, who wove their knowledge and spirituality into the land — not by conquest, but by relationship.

Their worldview was deeply animist:
🌳 every tree had presence
🌊 every river a guardian
🔥 every fire a prayer
🐾 every animal a teacher

Healing was not a technique — it was relationship.
Wise women and druids worked with plants as living allies, honoured sacred wells and springs, tended seasonal fire rites, and listened to the whisper of ancestors carried through blood and bone.

Much has been erased by empire, religious conquest and time…
but traces remain in folklore, place names, herbal traditions, seasonal festivals, and the quiet memory of the land itself.

When we walk the healing path here at Shamanka, we honour both our Andean teachings and the ancient wisdom of this soil — approaching it with humility, respect and curiosity.
The question is not “how do we recreate the past?”
but rather:
🌿 how do we remember our belonging to the Earth beneath our feet?

If this resonates, join us for our Intro Weekend in February and begin your own journey of healing, ancestry and connection.
🌐 www.shamanka.com

23/11/2025

🌑✨ The Winter Solstice — A Turning of the Light ✨🌑 🕯️ As we move toward the next great milestone in the wheel of the year, we enter the deepest point of the dark — the still, quiet womb of winter.

This is a moment of profound inner work:
a time to slow down, listen inward, release the old skin, and gather the threads of your spirit back to centre.

Not as an ending, but a sacred pause —
a moment when the Earth rests, the soul dreams, and the light prepares to be reborn. 🌟

If you’re feeling the pull of deeper transformation, if you sense that this winter is inviting you to look within,
to tend the inner flame, to renew your purpose…
then this may be your sign to step onto the path of shamanic practice.

In February, we begin the year with our Introduction Weekend — a gentle, powerful gateway into ceremony, journeying, and women’s sacred wisdom.

And in the spring, as the light returns and the sap rises, we open the circle for our full Healing & the Shamanic Arts main training — a year-long journey of empowerment, connection and transformation. 🌿💫

If the Solstice is stirring something in your heart, perhaps this is your moment to listen.
To follow the call.
To begin.

🌐 Learn more or register: www.shamanka.com

22/11/2025

🌿✨ Take Your First Steps on the Shamanka Path ✨🌿 Are you feeling the call to deepen your connection with yourself, with nature, and with ancient women’s wisdom?

Join us for our Introduction Weekend in February — two inspiring days that open the gateway to our year-long Shamanka Main Training in Healing and the Shamanic Arts for Women. 🕊️

Over the weekend you’ll begin your quest for the devine feminine — a path of power, purpose and heart that leads into realms of mystery and the extraordinary within everyday life.

💫 During these two days you will explore:
🔸 Traditional shamanic tools – drum, rattle & smudging
🔸 Creating sacred space & the ceremonial circle
🔸 The living medicine wheel as a map for your life path
🔸 Techniques of journeying & altered awareness
🔸 Crafting your own sacred mask as an embodiment of your feminine essence
🔸 Meeting the Shamanka Spirit — the essence of Women's Shamanic Practice

This weekend is the perfect way to experience the Shamanka Way and discover if our one-year main training is right for you. Many who attend go on to complete the full course and describe it as liberating and life-changing. 🌈💚

📅 21–22 February 2026
📍 The home of Shamanka Healing, Dorset, UK

Come, step onto this exquisite path, a journey of knowledge, wisdom and empowerment.

🌐 www.shamanka.com

20/11/2025

🌿✨ The Merlin Archetype — Luminous Warrior of These Lands ✨🌿

Eliana often spoke of Merlin not simply as a person of legend, but as an archetype — the Luminous Warrior of these lands.
A guardian of wisdom.
A keeper of the old ways.
A bridge between worlds.

In Celtic tradition, Merlin is more than a single historical figure.
It is a mantle, a role, an energy that can move through many people across time.
A way of being in service to spirit, to the land, and to the unfolding of destiny.

And this archetype is not solely masculine.
Eliana taught that the Merlin energy must walk in balance with the feminine counterpart — the seer, the intuitive, the dreamer, the one who weaves the inner worlds with grace and compassion.

Together, these energies create the full expression of a Luminous Warrior:
clear-sighted yet open-hearted, powerful yet rooted in humility, guided by vision yet anchored in the Earth.

When we connect with the Merlin archetype, we awaken the wild part of ourselves that:
✨ listens to the whispers of the land
✨ holds light in times of darkness
✨ walks with purpose, clarity and courage
✨ honours the wisdom of both masculine and feminine within
✨ stepping into a role of guardianship and responsibility

This is the Merlin Eliana knew —
not a distant legend, but a living energy still present in the forests, mists and stones of these isles…
and in every heart called to serve the path of spirit. 🕊️🌕

20/11/2025