In 2010 we offer the following courses but our programme is often updated and may be added to throughout the year, so please check back frequently for others.

WORKSHOP DATES 2010

 

APRIL

28–May 2: Tribal Spirit.

An introduction to shamanic skills, plant spirit medicine and survival arts including camp building, fire-making and crafting tools from natural materials. For a free information pack email ross@thefourgates.com .

MAY

8-12: Plant Spirit Shamanism and the Vine of Souls.

An introduction to working and healing with plants and nature allies. Two ceremonies with the vine of souls are included. For a free information pack email ross@thefourgates.com .

22-26: The Arts of the Sin Eater.

An introduction to Celtic healing and the shamanic arts of the sin eater, “the first shaman ever born”. For a free information pack email ross@thefourgates.com .

29-June 2: Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing.

An introduction to the shamanic healing art of soul retrieval and working with the energy body. For a free information pack email ross@thefourgates.com .

JUNE

3–11: Available for individual or group bookings.

12–16: Available for individual or group bookings.

19-30: Available for individual or group bookings.

Email gina_holsgrove@hotmail.com for details.

JULY

july 3rd-7th Jenny sessions EARTH~ECHOES

Residential Shamanic Course 3rd - 7th July 2010
THE HUMMINGBIRD RETREAT CENTRE SPAIN
EARTH~ECHOES

You will gather as one tribe in circle, learning how to transmute negative thoughts and emotions into high vibrational frequencies for healing.
Integrating everyday life with soul purpose becoming the change you want to see in the world. Bringing your medicine to the table, bringing your medicine to the earth shining your light.
We will be working to expand consciousness, kick start our radiance and ground it in form through the ancient practice of Shamanism. We will also be using ceremony, visualisation techniques and meditation, sacred song, intuitive art, group process, positive intent, movement, being in nature, expanding self awareness the power of presence and prayer, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Cost including accommodation all meals and workshop along with use of the facilities 550 euro.
Jenny Lynne Sessions
Humanistic Counsellor Practitioner of Shamanic Healing Arts. As a creative catalyst and intuitive channel I have facilitated change and transformation within colleges, organisations, with individuals, couples, groups and on a consultancy basis using, Shamanic tools, voice work, sacred song, storytelling, visualisation, meditation, symbolic art, dance, earth based medicine, ceremony and spiritual guidance. I am a Sundoor Master Firewalk Instructor and facilitate Inner Fire Healings Animal Spirit Medicine, Soul Retrieval, Journey work, Recapitulation and healing through Shamanic Song.

For more info or to book your place contact Jenny on jennysessions@earth-echoes.com
Or look on www.thehummingbird.org

24th– 28th: Healing Retreat.

An opportunity to relax and unwind with a range of therapies available including hot stone massage, Thai herbal massage, Indian head massage, shamanic healing, crystals, aromatherapy and reflexology. Email gina_holsgrove@hotmail.com for details.

AUGUST

August 1st-14th Michelle Journey Through The Senses

Journey Through The Senses

Workshop with Michelle Scott-James from Compass centre

On this workshop we will be on a creative journey using art and movement, sound healing, dance, bubble breath-work. We will use simple tools to express ourselves in a fun & dynamic way, while being aware of our impact on Gaia. To open our creative channels is a like gift.... uplifting & far reaching! We will be looking at diet & super foods for vitality & fitness. I would like to keep the workshop vegan where possible but definitely vegetarian.
The workshop will be organic, so a free day or two subject to Fiesta's and trips to local sites. There will be walks in nature in the glorious mountains, sun gazing, sunsets, love, laughter & healing in abundance!

The programme runs for 14 days but you can book just 7 days 1st - 7th Aug or the 8th - 14th August. Cost of 7 either 7 days is 700 euro including accommodation all meals, workshops and use of all facilities.
If you book the full 14 day programme the cost is 1200 euro giving you a saving of 200 euro. For further info or to book your place contact:
Michelle compasscentre@hotmail.co.uk
Or look on www.thehummingbird.org website.

August 24th - 28th Donna and andy The four elements workshop

The Four Elements Course
Andy Wood & Donna Waugh
5 Day residential workshop at The Hummingbird Retreat Centre Spain
24th -28th August 2010

This Shamanic course is designed to take you on a journey of personal healing using each of the elements of the medicine wheel as healing tools within your life’s story. During this course we will be working both inside the workshop sacred space and with use of ceremony as well as taking this experience out into nature. This transformational work will include:
The art of fire making as our ancestors would have used.
Emotional cleansings and rebirth.
Working at a local waterfall and beauty spot.
Working with the spirits of nature, the plant allies to open our awareness to our world.
Working at a local sacred stone site.
Feather healings and breaking of thought patterns that no longer serve.
On our final day we will perform a mini quest to the mountain to find or rewrite your own personal story.

Donna Waugh: I have always been on a healing path training as a Therapist in 1981, a teacher in 1990 and working with Shamanism since 2000. I have
been privileged to work with traditions from native American Indian, Haitian Vodou, Amazonian Indian, Peruvian Andean and Celtic traditions. My Shamanic teachers have included visionaries in this field, such as Ross Heaven, Leo Rutherford, Howard Charring, Dawn Russell, Leticia Palmer, Loes Rainmaker, Georgien Wybega, Wananechi alongside many indigenous shamans.
Andy Wood: I have worked with many different traditions including trips to Mexico, Mongolia Nepal and India to work with indigenous teachers and the land. Shamanism has been a way of life since 2000 and taken me to work with Nature in the form of Survival skills from our ancestors. I am an inspirational healer and teacher after working with many of the best teachers the west has to offer.

The cost of this course is 550 euro including accommodation all meals and use of the facilities.
For further info or to book a place contact andy@theshamansart.com or
Info@donnwaugh.com

SEPTEMBER

September 1st - 5th Andy The shamans art

The Shamans Art with Andy Wood
5 day residential workshop at the hummingbird centre Spain.

The shaman may be an artist in the traditional sense of the word – a musician, dramatist, painter, singer, dancer or ceremonialist - or all of those things at once. More than that, however, the shaman is touched by the creative energies of the universe and his entire life becomes a work of art as he touches the infinite and shapes it into a new way of being. This is expressed not just in ‘art forms', but in The Art of Living.
In this workshop we explore the shaman's philosophy and meet the creative forces through which he transforms and is transformed. We work with shamanic techniques including journeying, dreaming, ritual and oracular practices delivered in works of art and as spiritual poetry and power song. By so doing we step outside of time so that the creative universe finds its expression through us and our lives themselves can become our art

About Andy: "My passion is to create art that helps people reconnect to the inner nature."
After formal art training travel has always been an Inspiration for my art, visiting and living in places with different customs and beliefs. Travelling brought me to the ancient healing practice of shamanism which has taken me to India, Nepal, Mexico and Mongolia.

The paintings are influenced by the shamanastic training I have undergone, using colour and shapes they express the experiences and feelings that I have gone through

Cost: 550 Euro including accommodation and all meals as well as use of the facilities.

For more info or to book a place contact andy@theshamansart.com

September 8th -12th David & Lynne Journey to the soul through creative expression

Journey to the soul through creative expression

David has been working as a professional dancer and actor with some of the most prolific theatre companies in the world for the past 15 years spanning a cannon of work from West End musicals to Shakespeare, he has enjoyed carrying this experience into the teaching of many aspects of the performing arts. His teaching work couples with his passion for the healing arts and spirit, has guided him to leading those he works with towards a sense of purpose and empowerment through self expression. David trained with Ross Heaven in Shamanic Healing.

The seeker of the truth, Lynne has been following a path to live and experience life in love, by transcending fear. This journey has led to training, practising and teaching shamanic holistic energy therapies, such as Tai Chi, Chi Kung, NLP, Breath and movement work, along with a variety of therapies. From a long line of ancestral Shamans, Lynne connects and works with spirit to aid the journey of her clients and students to build a deep sense of purpose and self empowerment and joy of living through self exploration using a wide range of mediums, such as dance, movement, art, writing, breath and sound work.

Join Lynne and David
On this fun packed and energising retreat which will lead you on a journey of self awareness through a variety of creative expressions. Become enlivened and empowered as you connect with your spirit. “ Get out of the head and into the heart guided by the spirit of love”
Course content will include but is not limited to :
- Dance, individual, partner and group work
- Chi Kung
- Breath and voice work
- Shamanic journeying through movement
- Individual expressive art such as Singing, Painting, Poetry and Storytelling
- Rebalancing and revitalizing the four elements of energy body.

Workshop cost is 700€ inc accommodation and all meals along with use of facilities. To book your place of for more info contact David davidshaw@f2s.com Or Lynne lynneinbalance@yahoo.co.uk

 

DATES 15TH TO THE 19TH OF SEPT 2010

Colleen Brider and Jaqui Luxton have incorporated their combined knowledge to launch their

HOLISTIC URBAN DETOX PROGRAMME - 'The Holistic Urban Detox Programme, bringing a rural way of living into an urban lifestyle.'

Colleen is South African, living in London and Jaqui is British, living in South Africa. Together they bring to the retreat healing modalities across the spectrum from Aromatherapy, Massage, La Stone, Reiki, Body Alignment and Yoga.

The Holistic Urban Detox a programme specifically designed to assist people
living in an urban environment to create change and lead a healthier, balanced
lifestyle, holistically meaning the mind, body and spirit
connection. Escaping from the fast pace urban environment into a
relaxing rural setting, surrounded by the natural beautiful surroundings
of the Spanish contryside. The retreat is located in a peaceful, tranquil
landscape surrounded by acres of unspoilt land, olive trees and
mountains, reconnecting with ourselves and nature.

This retreat aims to combine the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of our being, offering a whole or complete apprach to wellness, aimed at anyone who feels they have lost touch with what really matters in their lives, for whatever reason.

The retreats are to be ongoing for those who wish to find the true cause of their distress and find out how to help oneself through erroneous behaviour patterns, belief systems and perceptions of life that do not serve us. We will have group sessions of Body Alignment, creative visualisation and discussion, along with individual therapies and private time for reflection.

With our various modalities, we can nuture and uplift you on the physical, with wonderfully prepared veggie dishes, massage, facials, reflexology, various blends of aromatherapy essential oils, while gentle yoga classes are aimed at the individual capability in a non competitive environment.

The "All About Energy" section of the retreat includes group body alignment and life coaching or alignment and takes a lighthearted look at some of our "gremlins". these take the form of age old questions like:- Why aren't I getting what I want from life? Or, Why am I stuck?

With the help of kineseology techniques, reiki and body alignment's energetic healing, we are able to move towards inner peace and healing on a deeper level.

Nearby, we have Malaga, a seaside town perfect for a little sighseeing or retail therapy and fun on the beach.

Colleen is an artist and a qualified complementary practitioner. Born in South Africa, Colleen's initial influence derives from her experiences involving the traditions of the Zulu African tribe and the San Bushman's way of life, mainly by integrating the healing powers of mother nature through dance, rhythm, creativity, plants and animals. Since emigrating to the U.K.10 years ago, she has practised, researched and studied the methods of massage and
meditation from various cultural backgrounds.

Having spent 15 years working within a corporate environment she noticed
the impact high levels of stress has on the body and mind, and decided to
change the direction of her life, moving towards holistic healing.

Through various studies and treating many clients from various backgrounds within the U.K. and internationally, Colleen discovered the positive effects of massage and meditation and how this has massive benefits to our health and well being. Living in a fast pace, sometimes stressful environment such as London, she noticed a common trend during her treatments, clients asking questions such as - How do I maintain a healthy, balanced life style, holistically? How do I keep my stress levels down? What techniques can I learn which can fit into my urban lifestyle?

Welcome to the Holistic Urban Detox Programme! Decreasing of stress levels, increased energy levels and overall improved health and well being!

Colleen is a qualified aromatherapist, a member of the IFA (International
Federation of Aromatherapists), qualified in anatomy and physiology, swedish
massage, reiki, EFT (emotional freedom technique), la stone treatment (traditional Native American technique), Indian head massage, the dorn method, deep tissue massage, sports massage. Also shamanism, trained with Ross Heaven. Colleen practises in Knightsbridge and in Mayfair London. Her website: www.himalayaholistics.com

 

Jaqui has been teaching Hatha yoga, Sivananda style for over 25 years,
during this time she has also practised and taught Iyengar, Ashtanga and
yoga dance. Her classes focus on each individual's capability in a relaxed
easy going atmosphere and incorporate breathing and visualisation.in a
flowing medative manner.

Jaqui is also an energetic practitioner of Body Alignment technique,
Kinesiology, Reiki, Thai Yoga Massage, Reflexology and Bowen. She is mainly
focussed on the emotional, mental or spiritual cause of disease and having
also studied Psychology her individual and group sessions bring her clients
into an awareness of the feelings that could be causing
physicalmis-alignment with the person as a whole.

Being able to live in harmony with oneself and surroundings and to be able
to change from within the erroneous belief systems or perceptions of
reality, thus releasing the emotional distress that could be standing in the
way of your highest potential, is top priority in this work for ourselves
and our society at this crucial time in our evolution.

Jaqui is also a video producer and author. Please see her web site for more
information www.jaquiluxton.co.uk

 

We are delighted to welcome other healers and teachers to The Hummingbird Retreat Centre, which is an ideal venue for yoga, tai chi, meditation, dance, holistic therapies and other courses, as well as relaxation, celebration and renewal. Our prices include accommodation and three meals a day plus the use of all our facilities. Please see our 'Hire Us' page or contact us for further details.