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Alchemy in Movement – Trance Dance
With Leo Rutherford & team. One weekend – Fri eve until Sun eve.
Embark on a journey of profound transformation as Alchemy in Movement present a weekend of Trance Dance At Laughton Lodge, East Sussex.
The Enchantress
The Enchantress, forgotten and misunderstood, lies within each of us..
With Lorraine Grayston & Dawn Russell
Autumn Oct 4th & 5th 2025
The Enchantress has been banished from our archetypal understanding of the feminine – Maiden, Mother, Crone.
The Shamanic Drum Journey of Self Discovery, Healing & Soul Retrieval 2025
A Course for Women & Men
With Lorraine Grayston & Dawn Russell
November to December 2025
Nov 1st & 2nd, Nov 22nd & 23rd, Dec 13th & 14th 2025
The sound of the beat of the drum is ancient and touches us deep in our bones (our psyche), it is the heart beat of the Earth and can bring us back into health and balance, not just within ourselves but with the Earth and all of nature.
Medicine Woman, Medicine Ways 2026 – On Becoming the Medicine Woman Within
An Experiential Training/Apprenticeship into the Roots of Holding Healing Spaces
With Lorraine & Dawn
March to October 2026 – 6 meetings
Shamanic Studies Open Evenings
Sussex Open Evenings | FREE
With Leo Rutherford.
The shaman’s path is as relevant today as it has ever been. We need strength, knowledge and support of a family of like minded people to maintain our harmony and balance is this ever crazier world.
Soul Retrieval Practices for Wholeness, Connection and Wellbeing
To understand how recapitulation practices work, we need to look at the multidimensional nature of reality and move away from a linear sequential perspective.
Individual Sessions for Healing and Wellbeing
Leo, Lorraine and Dawn offer individual sessions using eclectic approaches to healing and wellbeing. We bring many years of experience and our own unique view of the world and what it means to be human and healthy to our practices!
Contemporary Shamanism
Shamanism is a path to wisdom which is gained through experience of many facets of life, through rituals, ceremonies, prayer and meditation, trials and tests. It is not a belief system, it is a way of knowledge – that which is known from inside – that which stands up to tests and to the test of time, something that is proven to work, unlike beliefs which are something taken on from outside and not personally tested in the laboratory of life.
Taming Your Dragons
How to release the influence of ‘Dragons’ and retrieve your power. With Leo Rutherford & Juanita Puddifoot
Shamanic Sound Journeys and Trance Dance
With Sika Deer & Leo Rutherford
A magical day – let yourself be carried away into bliss with the fabulous didge and drum of Sika
Trance Dance – a Path to Inner Knowing
A woman dancer wrote to me of her experience at one of my workshops:
“I remember nothing of the trance dance and was quite surprised when my friend told me i had danced for a long time (over a hour). I thought it was only two minutes. I now realise I was dancing the abuse out, no wonder my head was burning. No wonder i was excited. I knew the
next day was going to be even more amazing!!
Shamanic Sound Journeys & Trance Dance
To help people connect their inner and outer worlds, to heal old wounds within, to enable us to bring dreams from the world of spirit into matter and thus enjoy a creative and fruitful life, to ‘dance their dreams awake’.
Further Journeys: Shamanic Journeying and Soul Retrieval
Module 3: How to access and guide healing energy.
With Howard Malpas & Leo Rutherford.
How to free yourself and others from old Ancestral patterns and bring healing to your Bloodline.
Leo Rutherford
Leo Rutherford is both author and shaman, with a deep knowledge of the ancient wisdom. In this interview he talks among other things about the shamanic journey, trance dance and vision quest and how we as individuals might enter this state of being.
Shamanic Path Workbook
A Revised and Updated version of ‘Your Shamanic Path’
by Leo Rutherford
The View Through the Medicine Wheel
Shamanic Maps of How the Universe Works.
The View through the Medicine Wheel is a magnificent reflection on how to live creative, healthy and happy lives. We are all on a great journey -but how different life would be if you had a good map?
The Book of Games and Warm Ups for Group Leaders
By Leo Rutherford.
Based on Shamanic principles and the philosophy that laughter and play are basic human needs that feed the soul and unleash natural creativity, the tried, tested and proven activities in this book can be used with all ages.
Spirituality vs. Religion: Freedom vs. Control
For all who seek truth beyond church/bible dogma….
A stark expose of the problems we humans have brought upon ourselves with the adoption of the Abrahamic male-monotheist separate ‘God’ and the abandonment of the more ancient and balanced animist/shamanist holistic knowledge.
Forty Four Chants – Words and Music CD
A teaching CD for learning chants ‘Ancient and Modern’ – the CD comes complete with the book of words.
By Leo Rutherford and friends.