carriers of the wheel

A comprehensive metaphor for and dialogue with all of creation, we can see the Medicine Wheel present in one form or another in earth-based knowledge systems across the world. Stone Medicine Wheels have been created and used for ceremonies for millennia - most well known today within the Native American traditions, and present but well buried in our own Celtic lands, with structures and cardinal direction (Airts) placements pointing to structured paths of self-inquiry within the cyclical whole. As practitioners, many of us will have come into contact with the Medicine Wheel within ceremonial space. Unless we have been initiated into its teachings ourselves, we will have wondered where it is leading us, and what function it serves.

Concurrent to the wheel in my own path as a women’s shamanic practitioner is an intimate relationship to the Spirit animal realms, where archetypal guides become tremendously supportive allies as we walk our human path. Drawing on the years of teachings I have received and live out day-to-day, I humbly offer Carriers of the Wheel as an embodied shamanism-informed immersion for all practitioners, healers and women who hear its call to deepen their relationship to, and understanding of, the space they hold.

More than anything, this is a path of love, remembering and belonging.

It is for those of us who sense the call back home of the elements and of Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird and Eagle/Condor medicine as invaluable guides and beings for these times, and are hungry to step into structured and fluent relationship with them.

It is for those who seek energetic safety in their practice in a form that is consistent, creative and tangible.

It is for those who open their communities to heart-centered healing work, whether through the shadow or the light, and are looking for the missing piece in their vision of a strong, vibrant and cohesive field.

It is for all women on earth now who remember that the earth is their body, the water their blood, the air their breath and the fire their Spirit.

Most importantly, in an age where so much spiritual work is adopted without the necessary understanding of its energetics and scope, the medicine wheel provides a protective, alive container that maintains a clear energetic and psychic field for healing work, in reciprocal co-creation with Spirit.

In this immersion, I share a combined wheel - one of the many that have emerged across cultures and generations - that has been evolved for modern day use, containing the cardinal directions, corresponding elements and animal guides that can offer us a contemporary map to Spirit-oriented space within and without.

In it we draw primarily on the teachings of my shamanic elder Eliana Harvey and the lineages they carry, applied through my own lens of women’s embodiment work, in which I have been holding space for over a decade.

Within the course we clearly acknowledge and honour each lineage and indigenous understanding we draw upon. We also give back to these via the reciprocity donation (see below). You may, in turn, begin to work with this or your own wheel: the practice itself is a highly personal and intimate co-creation with Spirit.