MANY HANDS

Sometimes when we feel small or not enough, we can reach out a hand and feel connection. As we touch another human, a tree, a paw, a leaf, soft moss or fresh water, we remember that we are not alone, and that we are not meant to be alone. We are part of an ecosystem, living and thriving together. We find our place and feel what it is to be part of something bigger.

When we work in community there are many hands that hold the whole. Many hands that together take responsibility and take turns in helping. Sometimes I am the one holding, something I am the one being held. When I need it, I can feel how many hands weave a strong container that I can rest in for a while. I can feel how Spirit hands are there for me and keep me standing, keep me moving.

For those of you who have been on courses with us, you know we give plenty of time to hold hands in the Circle. We invite you to feel the Power of the Circle and the energy flowing through your hands into the hands next to you. When we stand in this way, we are connected and in a bigger movement. We are no longer one part of the Circle, we are the Circle and the Circle is in us.

Today, as we and the World face huge challenges - whether related to health, money, relations, politics, environment - we need to keep holding each others’ hands. We need to remember that we are many. We need to learn more about what it means to be connected to the more-than-human World and how to walk together with them in Power.

The World is waiting for us and we are here. Feel the Power in your Hands. This is not just your power: this is the power of the Great Circle, the Universe. All of us carry it. Feel how it is with you. 

This Spring we offer not only courses but Circles - these are spaces where you can sit with likeminded souls and feel inspired. You can show up, just as you are, and help you to remember what is important to you. Feel how it can be enough to simply come together, together in held space. As this nourishes us, we can expand and notice how we also sit in Circle with the Spirits, with Trees, in a park, by a river or lake - with Life.

You can go outside right now and open your hands - let the air touch them, let your hands be open and receiving. Know there are many standing in the same way, waiting to connect, and be connected. Know there are many, wanting to help and be helped. There are many, wanting to support and to be supported.

Community is here in many different ways. Be open to it showing itself, not only with humans but also as invitations from the world around you. If you are interested in shamanic community and have trained with the SCSS in shamanic journeying, you can join the ISC, an online community for people who have been on our shamanic courses. Read more: https://shamaniccommunity.org/ and contact Zara if you are interested.