Winter Solstice

Sunday, 18 December 2022

10:30 am 5:00 pm

La Hermitage Gardens Village Hall Jersey channel Islands UK

Winter Solstice is one the most powerful points of the year as the axis of the Earth pauses, shifts and moves in the opposite direction.
The sun standing still is a powerful metaphor for the energy available to us at the Winter Solstice to change the direction of our lives with intention and build on this energy as we enter into the new year.
Often in the west this time of year can be manic & busy in the outer world that we can miss the true gifts that are waiting to be found in the dark.

This Deep winter Journey will reconnect you , plug you back into the river of your soul. An Invitation to create sacred time and space for yourself. Carving out a day to turn inwards and resource yourself within a like minded community looking at what really matters to you and shooting your arrow of Intention into the limitless sky.

This is a deep and powerful day of ceremony combining the transformational work of movement medicine ceremony & shamanic journey with the heart opening plant medicine spirit of Cacao along with an incredible voyage of world music and sound bathing to connect you to your elemental nature, we will also give space for art and creative dream vision boarding & together we will weave the threads of visioning, healing and connection.

A warm welcome to join us as we gather at this Potent time of the year just before winter solstice to pause to let go of the outer world and to be within the deep stillness of this time.

You are so welcome whether this is new territory for you or if you have been on this path many years , take a step into the unknown….

To be within CEREMONY to give space to DREAM is a huge gift we can give ourselves and one of the necessities of life lived by our Ancestors who knew that the health of an individual & community was kept alive by their ceremonies & relationships to one another & the world around them. DANCING the timeline between the PAST cycle and the PRESENT
and FUTURE DREAM.

We listen and pause , turning to the GREAT MYSTERY of the darkness as we welcome and
CELEBRATE The RETURN OF THE SUN.

ABOUT BONNIE -

Bonnie is a Medicine Woman & fully graduated Movement Medicine teacher who has been in a deep shamanic apprenticeship for over 13yr working with this body of work since 2009 and has trained to an advanced level. She is a Ceremonial leader deeply committed to the sacred landscapes of the wild unbroken spirit of life, and to the transformational healing power of dance to reclaim our power that has been lost within the wounds of the past and turn that into medicine to reconnect to our wild self and true heart. She weaves in deep teachings she has gathered from intense Initiations in the Amazon Rainforest with learnings from an ongoing training Bonnie is undertaking with an ancient lineage of Inca Paco shamen of the high Andes mountains in Peru. She is also a Red School Menstruality mentor , shamanic healer-mentor and wife, mother of a beautiful teenage daughter and a baby boy , lover of life and the sacred.

MOVEMENT MEDICINE-

is Shamanic medicine for our times. It gives us direct embodied experience of the dance of life that is going on inside us and all around us.It is a body based Movement Meditation Practice. That will reconnect you to the wisdom of living from the heart.
It will deepen your connection to yourself, your creativity and the integrity and guidance of your own soul.

COST OF WORKSHOP - £85

BOOKING BELOW ( spaces are limited and often get booked so if you feel the call to join us you can save your place now )

You will receive an email a week before our Ceremony with preparations and what to bring ,please bring on the day any extra art materials and images for your vision board that you may have begin to gather on what it is you are dreaming in for the new cycle and return of the Sun. more info about this will be in the email I so look forward to this day of sacred ceremony with you in the Heart of Winter.

LOVE & BLESSINGS

BONNIE..x…

TESTIMONIALS -

"Every so often you come across a body of work that really speaks to you, this happened when I experienced Movement Medicine It had such depth and combined Shamanism, Journey work and Dance which are all of my favourite things !  The depth of the work really spoke to me I love deep work and I would really recommend this work to anyone who wish's to explore more of their inner world. Bonnie has this amazing presence , she is so dedicated to her work. I have many years of experience as a teacher and every now and then you come across an amazing teacher who you can learn a lot from, Bonnie is one of those, I can recommend this work with all of my heart, give yourself this gift and see what happens."

-Malika Love- International teacher, Seer, Shamanic Journey Facilitator- Netherlands

“Movement Medicine work this past year with Bonnie has changed my life".”

-Irene Ischia -Jersey

"Bonnie's presence is so refreshingly and beautifully real. I have found these sacred movement medicine gatherings to be cathartic and profound. She creates a container of permission to deeply sense, explore, connect with body and the elements."

-Alaris Todar- Chicago USA

"I had the fortunate opportunity of attending two of Bonnies workshops in Thailand, for me this work gave me the ability to go really deep into my inner landscapes, dancing for so many hours in ceremony, giving space to what was present and allowing it to come to the surface , I found it as a way I could communicate with the universe and my place within it. I experienced Bonnie as a wild spirit full of love and deeply grounded, this experience  for me truly was medicine."

- Karen Queller- USA

"Wow. What a beautiful, rare, and wonderful gift is was to share an Equinox Ceremony with Bonnie. The medicine of the movement is gentle, playful, and powerful beyond measure. She holds such exquisite, loving space; creating a sacred container for all that arises, within ourselves and within the community of dancers. From the strong magic of the Amazonian plant teachers to the high high clarity of the Andean Mountain spirits, the energies Bonnie brings through are nothing short of miraculous in their transformational power. "

Erin -USA

"As the ceremony began I felt the powerful vibration of the ancient wisdom, Bonnie is very talented at many forms of ancient and modern practices in terms of her exceptional singing and drum playing abilities and in terms of her prodigious skills with DJing equipment. If you have not tried Movement Medicine I highly recommend it Bonnie has the gift of being able to hold a very safe healing environment the dance has been a deeply meaningful place of solace for me. It seems that the more Ceremonies I do, the stronger I become". Dhayle - Jersey UK