Human Nature
Human Nature – A Shamanic Journey with Celtic sweat lodge – 3-9 July 2022
Join us for a week of deep nature immersion, natural movement, breath work, community and exploration of your human essence, all embraced by a serene and beautiful location.
Connect To Your Human / Nature
There is a calling within our hearts to connect deeper to our human nature. A calling to wake up to the sounds of the wild natural world and lightly tread on the soft damp earth at dawn with our bare feet.
To move naturally, breathe deeply and to embrace our own presence, in tune with the lush wilderness of Earth and our hearts.
We invite you to join us on a journey to the simplest form of being we know. A place and space to connect to the playful essence of your human nature.
We’re offering you the opportunity to wake up your body, your senses and your aliveness fully.
This is an immersion into nature where you will learn the foundation of natural movement, how to use your breath to enhance the quality of your life and explore deeper ways of connecting with nature and the elements.
You’ll learn:
- Natural movement techniques such as ground movement, crawling, stalking, barefoot running and how to move more efficiently in nature.
- Breath work and how you can use your breath to enhance the day-to-day quality of your life, come into deeper states of relaxation and create energy, clarity and focus.
- Traditional shamanic practices to open up and deepen your senses, to awaken the animal body and deepen your contact with nature.
- How to experience life from deeper states of consciousness. You will experience a new sense of aliveness and rediscover the ability to play.
Shamanic ceremonies including drum journeys, fire ceremonies and a sweat lodge will be a part of the process. There will also be a storytelling evening. Families are welcome and all of the workshops except the sweat lodge are suitable for children. The week will equip you with new ways of moving, breathing, being and meeting yourself and your life.
Tim Jago is your Shaman guide this very special week.
Tim grew up in the UK, spending a lot of time in the mountains and valleys of Wales. He now lives in the north of Sweden. Most of his life has been spent in nature, learning about plants and animals and finding ways to explore the human animal. About forty years ago, he was taught traditional Celtic shamanism and has followed a path which lead him to teachers among sufis, survival experts and yogis. Tim has been holding workshops and retreats in Scandinavia for the last twenty years. He is also a father, a poet and an ultramarathon runner.
Included in the price:
- Welcome drink (non-alcoholic)
- 6 nights/7 days stay in a stuga with shower/toilet based on 2 persons per room
- 5 days of personal development:
* Movement in and with nature
* Celtic Sweat lodge ceremony
* Meditations
* Mindfulness & awareness exercises
* Evening Jacuzzi
* Fire ceremony
* Various outdoor cooking activities - Breakfast, lunch/picnic and dinner
- Drink with the meal: coffee/tea, milk and lemonade
- Free coffee, tea, spring water, lemonade and fruit available all week
- Bed linen and towels
- Final cleaning
Not included:
- The trip to and from the ranch
- Extra drinks (other than the drinks included with the meals)
- Extra activities (possible to book extra activities during your stay)
Please note:
- Extra fee for a single room: 1.000 SEK
- You don’t have to be a ‘horse person’ or rider to participate in this week
- English Guidad (help with translation in Dutch and Swedish)
Prices:
Adult: 8.600 SEK per person per week based on 2 persons per room
Kids till 13 year: 7.000 SEK
Sleeping in your own caravan, camper or tent: 2.000 SEK discount: 6.600 SEK for adult and 5.000 SEK for kids.
Extra info:
- Free internet access for all guests
- Guides available in the languages Dutch, English and Swedish
- The cottages aren’t equipped with kitchen and living room and you don’t have the possibility to cook a meal in your own cottage. That’s why we offer all the packages including all meals or B&B with breakfast. We have a service house with stove, fridge, freezer, coffee maker, microwave etc. All guests can use this.
- Free use of the different picnic areas such as the tipi tent and the chuck wagon, fire places, anti mosquito tent, play area, etc.
- Would you come alone or with two people then it may be possible that there is another couple in the other bedroom. In that case you share the bathroom together.
Program Human Nature
Sunday
You are welcome at the ranch from 16.00h. We all join for a welcomes drink and you get a tour around the ranch, you meet the herd. We eat around the campfire and we learn to know eachother.
Monday
Barefooting – we let go of shoes and let our feet get comfortable with the earth, exploring different ways of walking, balancing and moving the feet. Then as our feet wake up, they begin to tell us things. At the end of this exercise you will be able to walk blindfold through the forest!
Awareness – how many senses does your body have? Five? Or maybe ten? Or fifteen? Most of the time we are in a kind of trance, focused on one or two of our senses. You are going to experience what it is like to be an animal in the forest living in a multidimensional world of sound, touch, scent and light.
Tuesday
Looking at the forest – would you like to know what an animal sees when it looks at the forest? In this workshop you are going to learn how to see the signs and movements in the forest which tell us what’s going on; who is moving and why.
Stalking – moving silently, becoming invisible. Doesn’t matter whether you are the hunter or the hunted or if you just want to be hidden at watch the animals in the forest as they go about their day. Learning how to move and when to move, using your intuition and diving into stillness.
Wednesday
Celtic sweat lodge ceremony – the Celtic sweat lodge ceremony is an ancient ritual of death and rebirth. It gives healing for physical and emotional pain, and often leads to deep personal insight.
The Celtic sweat lodge has existed for over 2000 years and has for generations been passed on to the fact that it is available today in our time.
It is created for mental, emotional and physical healing. As well as for spiritual guidance.
The ceremony is a ritual of death and rebirth. In the Celtic tradition, it is believed that all fear is based on the fear of death. When we are ignorant or deny that fear, different patterns and defense techniques arise within us that in themselves then create problems in our lives.
But if we consciously move towards the constant presence of death and let go of our fear of it, space and freedom are created. We can live more in the present and do it with the life we really dream of deeply.
In the sweat lodge you will be guided through various layers of protection we have created around the fear of death. In that journey, we can heal the trauma, let go of behavior patterns, gain insights, and leave the ceremony with an open heart and new perspectives on ourselves and life.
You can participate as a beginner and experienced.
Thursday
Water meditation. Time to meet the river, to feel the flow and to let ourselves be held. Time for deep relaxation.
Evening – Sacred fire ceremony. This ceremony is a way to share prayers of gratitude, to let go of anything that doesn’t serve us and to offer support to those in need.
Friday
Hide and seek – we put on natural camouflage and disappear into the forest. We put our new found skills to the test, stalking, hiding and hunting. We give permission for the human animal to come out and play
Evening – closing circle. We gather and share stories and songs.
Saturday
After breakfast we have a last little sharing moment and than it’s time to go home again.
Day 1 Arrival
Sunday after 4 pm arrival at the ranch.
Eating together outside around the campfire. Getting to know each other and a tour of the ranch and the horse herd.
Day 2 Barefooting
Barefooting – we let go of shoes and let our feet get comfortable with the earth, exploring different ways of walking, balancing and moving the feet. Then as our feet wake up, they begin to tell us things. At the end of this exercise you will be able to walk blindfold through the forest!
Awareness – how many senses does your body have? Five? Or maybe ten? Or fifteen? Most of the time we are in a kind of trance, focused on one or two of our senses. You are going to experience what it is like to be an animal in the forest living in a multidimensional world of sound, touch, scent and light.
Day 3 Looking at the forest
Looking at the forest – would you like to know what an animal sees when it looks at the forest? In this workshop you are going to learn how to see the signs and movements in the forest which tell us what’s going on; who is moving and why.
Stalking – moving silently, becoming invisible. Doesn’t matter whether you are the hunter or the hunted or if you just want to be hidden at watch the animals in the forest as they go about their day. Learning how to move and when to move, using your intuition and diving into stillness.
Day 4 Celtic sweat lodge ceremony
Celtic sweat lodge ceremony – the Celtic sweat lodge ceremony is an ancient ritual of death and rebirth. It gives healing for physical and emotional pain, and often leads to deep personal insight.
Day 5 Water meditation
Water meditation. Time to meet the river, to feel the flow and to let ourselves be held. Time for deep relaxation.
Evening – Sacred fire ceremony. This ceremony is a way to share prayers of gratitude, to let go of anything that doesn’t serve us and to offer support to those in need.
Day 6 Hide and seek
Hide and seek – we put on natural camouflage and disappear into the forest. We put our new found skills to the test, stalking, hiding and hunting. We give permission for the human animal to come out and play
Evening – closing circle. We gather and share stories and songs
Day 7 Goodbye
After breakfast we have a last little sharing moment and than it’s time to go home again. We wish you a nice journey back!
